CALE
First name CALE's origin is English. CALE means "bold: surname derived from charles". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CALE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cale.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with CALE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CALE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CALE AS A WHOLE:
crocale caleigh caley pascale calebNAMES RHYMING WITH CALE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ale) - Names That Ends with ale:
tale omphale chibale zale kale abbigale dale gale aglarale cordale kendale kordale makale mckale neale odale pasquale randale sahale udale vale truesdale hale brale madale royale caindale yale beale wendaleRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (le) - Names That Ends with le:
kifle njemile udele naile nile adele cybele eriphyle eurayle helle hypsipyle myrtle nephele odele semele kiele rachele akinwole bekele kelile roble sule tekle stille bankole kafele tearle michelle neville scoville maoltuile murthuile somhairle aristotle ercole theophile daniele emmanuele gamble vasile abegayle adelle afrodille anabelle angelle annabelle aprille ardelle areille ariele arielle arnelle audrielle belle bernelle bonnibelle brielle camile camille carole cecile cecille chamyle chanelle channelle chantalle chantelle chavelle chenelle cherelleNAMES RHYMING WITH CALE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cal) - Names That Begins with cal:
cal cala caladh calais calan calandra calandre calandria calantha calanthe calbert calbex calbhach calchas calder caldre caldwell caldwiella calfhie calfhierde calhoun cali caliana calibom calibome calibor caliborne calibum calibumus caliburn calico calida calidan calin calinda calissa calista calix callaghan callahan calldwr callee calleigh calleigha callel calles calli callia calliah callie calliegha calligenia calliope callista calliste callisto callough callum cally callyr calogrenant calum calvagh calvert calvex calvina calvino caly calynda calypso calystaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ca) - Names That Begins with ca:
cabal cabe cable cacamwri cacanisius cace cacey cachamwri caci cacia cadabyr cadan cadassi cadby cadda caddaham caddari caddaric caddarik caddawyc cade cadee cadell caden cadena cadence cadencia cadenza cadeoNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CALE:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'e':
cadie caesare caflice caidance cailie caine cairbre caitie cambrie camdene came canace candace candance candice candide candie candyce canice caoimhe caolaidhe caprice capucine caree caresse carilynne carine carlene carlie carlisle carlyle carme carmelide carmeline carmine carolanne caroline carolyne carree carrie cartere carthage case casee casidhe casie cassadee cassie catarine cate cateline catharine catherine cathie cathmore catlee catline catrice cattee catti-brie caycee caydence cayle ceire celandine celene celesse celeste celestine celidone celie celine cerise cesare chace chadburne chadbyrne chalise chance chane channe chantae chante chardae chardanae charee charise chariste charlaine charlayne charlee charlene charlette charlie charline charlique charlise charlize charlotte charmaineEnglish Words Rhyming CALE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CALE AS A WHOLE:
acaleph | noun (n.) Alt. of Acalephan |
acalephan | noun (n.) One of the Acalephae. |
acalephae | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles. |
acalephoid | adjective (a.) Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or jellyfishes. |
caleche | noun (n.) See Calash. |
caledonia | noun (n.) The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry. |
caledonian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Caledonia or Scotland. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch. |
caledonite | noun (n.) A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland. |
calefacient | noun (n.) A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard. |
adjective (a.) Making warm; heating. |
calefaction | noun (n.) The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies. |
noun (n.) The state of being heated. |
calefactive | adjective (a.) See Calefactory. |
calefactor | noun (n.) A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc. |
calefactory | noun (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room. |
noun (n.) A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with. | |
adjective (a.) Making hot; producing or communicating heat. |
calefying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calefy |
calembour | noun (n.) A pun. |
calendar | noun (n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac. |
noun (n.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter. | |
noun (n.) An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy. | |
verb (v. t.) To enter or write in a calendar; to register. |
calendaring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calendar |
calendarial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar. |
calendary | adjective (a.) Calendarial. |
calender | noun (n.) A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating. |
noun (n.) One who pursues the business of calendering. | |
noun (n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc. | |
noun (n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes. |
calendering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calender |
calendographer | noun (n.) One who makes calendars. |
calendrer | noun (n.) A person who calenders cloth; a calender. |
calendric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calendrical |
calendrical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a calendar. |
calends | noun (n. pl.) The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. |
calendula | noun (n.) A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name. |
calendulin | noun (n.) A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin. |
calenture | noun (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it. |
verb (v. i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. |
calescence | noun (n.) Growing warmth; increasing heat. |
counterscale | noun (n.) Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another. |
eccaleobion | noun (n.) A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat. |
incalescence | noun (n.) The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm. |
incalescency | noun (n.) Incalescence. |
incalescent | adjective (a.) Growing warm; increasing in heat. |
intranscalent | adjective (a.) Impervious to heat; adiathermic. |
locale | noun (n.) A place, spot, or location. |
noun (n.) A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality. |
muscales | noun (n. pl.) An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna. |
musicale | noun (n.) A social musical party. |
percale | noun (n.) A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear. |
rascaless | noun (n.) A female rascal. |
scale | noun (n.) The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively. |
noun (n.) The sign or constellation Libra. | |
noun (n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. | |
noun (n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc. | |
noun (n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera. | |
noun (n.) A scale insect. (See below.) | |
noun (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns. | |
noun (n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife. | |
noun (n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler. | |
noun (n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals. | |
noun (n.) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. | |
noun (n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. | |
noun (n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale. | |
noun (n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan. | |
noun (n.) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc. | |
noun (n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor. | |
noun (n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being. | |
noun (n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile. | |
verb (v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system. | |
verb (v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler. | |
verb (v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface. | |
verb (v. t.) To scatter; to spread. | |
verb (v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. | |
verb (v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure. | |
verb (v. i.) To separate; to scatter. | |
verb (v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort. | |
verb (v. i.) To lead up by steps; to ascend. |
scaleback | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda. |
scalebeam | noun (n.) The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. |
noun (n.) A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard. |
scaleboard | noun (n.) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. |
noun (n.) A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like. |
scaled | adjective (a.) Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc. |
adjective (a.) Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring. | |
adjective (a.) Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Scale |
scaleless | adjective (a.) Destitute of scales. |
scalene | noun (n.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal. |
adjective (a.) Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle. | |
adjective (a.) Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone. | |
adjective (a.) Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles. |
scalenohedral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CALE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ale) - English Words That Ends with ale:
ale | noun (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops. |
noun (n.) A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. |
bale | noun (n.) A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation. |
noun (n.) Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow. | |
noun (n.) Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury. | |
verb (v. t.) To make up in a bale. | |
verb (v. t.) See Bail, v. t., to lade. |
bidale | noun (n.) An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief. |
bubale | noun (n.) A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible. |
carpale | noun (n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals. |
carrytale | noun (n.) A talebearer. |
centrale | noun (n.) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular. |
cetewale | noun (n.) Same as Zedoary. |
corporale | adjective (a.) A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth. |
chippendale | adjective (a.) Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. |
clydesdale | noun (n.) One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay. |
dale | noun (n.) A low place between hills; a vale or valley. |
noun (n.) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. |
dorsale | noun (n.) Same as Dorsal, n. |
dwale | adjective (a.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities. |
adjective (a.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures. | |
adjective (a.) A sleeping potion; an opiate. |
eale | noun (n.) Ale. |
epipodiale | noun (n.) One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula. |
euryale | noun (n.) A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food. |
noun (n.) A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms. |
fardingdale | noun (n.) A farthingale. |
farthingale | noun (n.) A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat. |
female | noun (n.) An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. |
noun (n.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. | |
adjective (a.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. |
finale | noun (n.) Close; termination |
noun (n.) The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition. | |
noun (n.) The last composition performed in any act of an opera. | |
noun (n.) The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition. |
gale | noun (n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests. |
noun (n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze. | |
noun (n.) A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity. | |
noun (n.) A song or story. | |
noun (n.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America. | |
noun (n.) The payment of a rent or annuity. | |
verb (v. i.) To sale, or sail fast. | |
verb (v. i.) To sing. |
galingale | noun (n.) A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. |
gunwale | noun (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. |
hale | noun (n.) Welfare. |
adjective (a.) Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body. | |
verb (v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul. |
heartyhale | adjective (a.) Good for the heart. |
intervale | noun (n.) A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. |
kale | noun (n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species. |
noun (n.) See Kail, 2. |
lambale | noun (n.) A feast at the time of shearing lambs. |
lichwale | noun (n.) The gromwell. |
maidpale | adjective (a.) Pale, like a sick girl. |
male | noun (n.) Same as Mail, a bag. |
noun (n.) An animal of the male sex. | |
noun (n.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers. | |
adjective (a.) Evil; wicked; bad. | |
verb (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs. | |
verb (v. t.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them. | |
verb (v. t.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage. | |
verb (v. t.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir. | |
verb (v. t.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc. |
maritimale | adjective (a.) See Maritime. |
martingale | noun (n.) Alt. of Martingal |
mesopodiale | noun (n.) One of the bones of either the carpus or tarsus. |
metapodiale | noun (n.) One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus. |
morale | adjective (a.) The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like. |
mygale | noun (n.) A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii). |
nale | noun (n.) Ale; also, an alehouse. |
nightertale | noun (n.) period of night; nighttime. |
nightingale | noun (n.) A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song. |
noun (n.) A larger species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species. |
pale | noun (n.) Paleness; pallor. |
noun (n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. | |
noun (n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. | |
noun (n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. | |
noun (n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment. | |
noun (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it. | |
noun (n.) A cheese scoop. | |
noun (n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. | |
verb (v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. | |
verb (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. | |
verb (v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster. | |
verb (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. | |
verb (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off. |
pardale | noun (n.) A leopard. |
pastorale | noun (n.) A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time. |
noun (n.) A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance. |
petrogale | noun (n.) Any Australian kangaroo of the genus Petrogale, as the rock wallaby (P. penicillata). |
portsale | noun (n.) Public or open sale; auction. |
potale | noun (n.) The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine. |
propodiale | noun (n.) The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur. |
radiale | noun (n.) The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man. |
noun (n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid. |
rakestale | noun (n.) The handle of a rake. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CALE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cal) - Words That Begins with cal:
cal | noun (n.) Wolfram, an ore of tungsten. |
calabar | noun (n.) A district on the west coast of Africa. |
calabarine | noun (n.) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean. |
calabash | noun (n.) The common gourd (plant or fruit). |
noun (n.) The fruit of the calabash tree. | |
noun (n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. |
calaboose | noun (n.) A prison; a jail. |
calade | noun (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches. |
caladium | noun (n.) A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food. |
calaite | noun (n.) A mineral. See Turquoise. |
calamanco | noun (n.) A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. |
calamar | noun (n.) Alt. of Calamary |
calamary | noun (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid. |
calambac | noun (n.) A fragrant wood; agalloch. |
calambour | noun (n.) A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers. |
calamiferous | adjective (a.) Producing reeds; reedy. |
calamine | noun (n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc. |
calamint | noun (n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme. |
calamist | noun (n.) One who plays upon a reed or pipe. |
calamistration | noun (n.) The act or process of curling the hair. |
calamistrum | noun (n.) A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs. |
calamite | noun (n.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite. |
calamitous | adjective (a.) Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. |
adjective (a.) Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. |
calamity | noun (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. |
noun (n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery. |
calamus | noun (n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood. |
noun (n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors. | |
noun (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill. |
calando | adjective (a.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness. |
calash | noun (n.) A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. |
noun (n.) In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front. | |
noun (n.) A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure. | |
noun (n.) A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage. |
calaverite | noun (n.) A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California. |
calcaneal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries. |
calcaneum | noun (n.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare. |
calcar | noun (n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. |
noun (n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. | |
noun (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. | |
noun (n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence. | |
noun (n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot. |
calcarate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calcarated |
calcarated | adjective (a.) Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. |
adjective (a.) Armed with a spur. |
calcareous | adjective (a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. |
calcareousness | noun (n.) Quality of being calcareous. |
calcariferous | adjective (a.) Lime-yielding; calciferous |
calcarine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain. |
calcavella | noun (n.) A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. |
calceated | adjective (a.) Fitted with, or wearing, shoes. |
calced | adjective (a.) Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites. |
calcedon | noun (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones. |
calcedonic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calcedonian |
calcedonian | adjective (a.) See Chalcedonic. |
calceiform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate. |
calceolaria | noun (n.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name. |
calceolate | adjective (a.) Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform. |
calces | noun (n. pl.) See Calx. |
(pl. ) of Calx |
calcic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime. |
calciferous | adjective (a.) Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime. |
calcific | adjective (a.) Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles. |
calcification | noun (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue. |
calcified | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Calcify |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CALE:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'e':
caballine | noun (n.) Caballine aloes. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a horse. |
cabbage | noun (n.) An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages. |
noun (n.) The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below. | |
noun (n.) The cabbage palmetto. See below. | |
noun (n.) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments. | |
verb (v. i.) To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage. | |
verb (v. i.) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. |
cabesse | noun (n.) The finest kind of silk received from India. |
cable | noun (n.) A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links. |
noun (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable. | |
noun (n.) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten with a cable. | |
verb (v. t.) To ornament with cabling. See Cabling. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To telegraph by a submarine cable |
caboodle | noun (n.) The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. |
caboose | noun (n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley. |
noun (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car. |
cabotage | noun (n.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage. |
cabree | noun (n.) The pronghorn antelope. |
cabrerite | noun (n.) An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain. |
cabriole | noun (n.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole. |
cacaine | noun (n.) The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine. |
cache | noun (n.) A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. |
cachunde | noun (n.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic. |
cacique | noun (n.) See Cazique. |
cackle | noun (n.) The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg. |
noun (n.) Idle talk; silly prattle. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. | |
verb (v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle. | |
verb (v. i.) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. |
cacomixle | noun (n.) Alt. of Cacomixl |
cacomixtle | noun (n.) Alt. of Cacomixl |
cacoxene | noun (n.) Alt. of Cacoxenite |
cacoxenite | noun (n.) A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore. |
cadastre | noun (n.) Alt. of Cadaster |
caddice | noun (n.) Alt. of Caddis |
cade | noun (n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish. |
noun (n.) A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries. | |
adjective (a.) Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. |
cadence | noun (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking. |
noun (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. | |
noun (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet. | |
noun (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. | |
noun (n.) See Cadency. | |
noun (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse. | |
noun (n.) A uniform time and place in marching. | |
noun (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord. | |
noun (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. | |
verb (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure. |
cadene | noun (n.) A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant. |
cadge | noun (n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale. |
verb (v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. |
cadie | noun (n.) Alt. of Caddie |
caddie | noun (n.) A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. |
noun (n.) A cadet. | |
noun (n.) A lad; young fellow. | |
noun (n.) One who does errands or other odd jobs. | |
noun (n.) An attendant who carries a golf player's clubs, tees his ball, etc. |
cadre | noun (n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. |
caducibranchiate | adjective (a.) With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life. |
caduke | adjective (a.) Perishable; frail; transitory. |
caespitose | adjective (a.) Same as Cespitose. |
cafe | noun (n.) A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served. |
caffeine | noun (n.) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana. |
caffre | noun (n.) See Kaffir. |
cage | noun (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. |
noun (n.) A place of confinement for malefactors | |
noun (n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase. | |
noun (n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve. | |
noun (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. | |
noun (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft. | |
noun (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. | |
noun (n.) The catcher's wire mask. | |
verb (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. |
caique | noun (n.) A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size. |
cajuputene | noun (n.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput. |
cake | noun (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. |
noun (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. | |
noun (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. | |
noun (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. | |
verb (v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass. | |
verb (v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. | |
verb (v. i.) To cackle as a goose. |
calcimine | noun (n.) A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water. |
verb (v. t.) To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls. |
calcinable | adjective (a.) That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil. |
calcispongiae | noun (n. pl.) An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera. |
calcite | noun (n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar. |
calculable | adjective (a.) That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation. |
calculative | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation. |
calcule | noun (n.) Reckoning; computation. |
verb (v. i.) To calculate |
calibre | noun (n.) The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber. |
noun (n.) The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind. |
calice | noun (n.) See Chalice. |
calicle | noun (n.) One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian. |
caliculate | adjective (a.) Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate. |
califate | noun (n.) Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc. |
calipee | noun (n.) A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy. |
caliphate | noun (n.) The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs. |
calle | noun (n.) A kind of head covering; a caul. |
calliope | noun (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. |
noun (n.) One of the asteroids. See Solar. | |
noun (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers. | |
noun (n.) A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions. |
callipee | noun (n.) See Calipee. |
callose | adjective (a.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots. |
calorescence | noun (n.) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. |
calorie | noun (n.) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0¡ to 1¡. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound. |
calorifere | noun (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes. |
calotte | noun (n.) Alt. of Callot |
calotype | noun (n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot. |
calycine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx. |
calycle | noun (n.) A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside. |
calyculate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calyculated |
calymene | noun (n.) A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age. |
camboge | noun (n.) See Gamboge. |
camboose | noun (n.) See Caboose. |
cambrasine | noun (n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric. |
came | noun (n.) A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass. |
() imp. of Come. | |
(imp.) of Come |
camerade | noun (n.) See Comrade. |
camisade | noun (n.) Alt. of Camisado |
camisole | noun (n.) A short dressing jacket for women. |
noun (n.) A kind of straitjacket. |
camomile | noun (n.) Alt. of Chamomile |
chamomile | noun (n.) A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative. |
noun (n.) See Camomile. |
campanile | noun (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. |
campanulate | adjective (a.) Bell-shaped. |
campbellite | noun (n.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3. |
camphene | noun (n.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes. |
camphine | noun (n.) Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes. |
camphire | noun (n.) An old spelling of Camphor. |
camphorate | noun (n.) A salt of camphoric acid. |
verb (v. t.) To impregnate or treat with camphor. | |
() Alt. of Camporated |
canaanite | noun (n.) A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah. |
noun (n.) A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. | |
noun (n.) A zealot. |
canaille | noun (n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. |
noun (n.) Shorts or inferior flour. |
canaliculate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Canaliculated |
canarese | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India. |
cancerite | noun (n.) Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. |
cancrine | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of a crab; crablike. |
cancrinite | noun (n.) A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide. |
candescence | noun (n.) See Incandescence. |
candidate | noun (n.) One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors. |
candidature | noun (n.) Candidacy. |
candite | noun (n.) A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon. |
candle | noun (n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. |
noun (n.) That which gives light; a luminary. |
cane | noun (n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. |
noun (n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. | |
noun (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. | |
noun (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane. | |
noun (n.) A lance or dart made of cane. | |
noun (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat with a cane. | |
verb (v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs. |
canebrake | noun (n.) A thicket of canes. |
canicule | noun (n.) Canicula. |
canine | noun (n.) A canine tooth. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors. |
cannabene | noun (n.) A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties. |
cannabine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to hemp; hempen. |
cannonade | noun (n.) The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. |
noun (n.) Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. | |
verb (v. t.) To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot. | |
verb (v. i.) To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Cannonade |