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Rhymes with entail

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One-syllable rhymes

  • ail — If something ails a group or area of activity, it is a problem or source of trouble for that group or for people involved in that activity.
  • ale — Ale is a kind of strong beer.
  • bail — Bail is a sum of money that an arrested person or someone else puts forward as a guarantee that the arrested person will attend their trial in a law court. If the arrested person does not attend it, the money will be lost.
  • baile — (in the southwestern US and parts of Central and South America) a gathering for dancing.
  • bale — A bale is a large quantity of something such as hay, cloth, or paper, tied together tightly.
  • bayle — Pierre (pjɛr). 1647–1706, French philosopher and critic, noted for his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697), which profoundly influenced Voltaire and the French Encyclopedists
  • braille — Braille is a system of printing for blind people. The letters are printed as groups of raised dots that you can feel with your fingers.
  • dale — A dale is a valley.
  • fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • flail — an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar.
  • frail — having delicate health; not robust; weak: My grandfather is rather frail now.
  • gael — a Scottish Celt or Highlander.
  • gail — a female or male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “joy.”.
  • gale — Zona [zoh-nuh] /ˈzoʊ nə/ (Show IPA), 1874–1938, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet.
  • galle — a seaport in SW Sri Lanka.
  • gayle — a female or male given name.
  • grail — (usually initial capital letter). Also called Holy Grail. a cup or chalice that in medieval legend was associated with unusual powers, especially the regeneration of life and, later, Christian purity, and was much sought after by medieval knights: identified with the cup used at the Last Supper and given to Joseph of Arimathea.
  • hail — to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
  • hale — free from disease or infirmity; robust; vigorous: hale and hearty men in the prime of life.
  • jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
  • kaelPauline, 1919–2001, U.S. film critic.
  • kail — Also called borecole. a cabbagelike cultivated plant, Brassica oleracea acephala, of the mustard family, having curled or wrinkled leaves: used as a vegetable.
  • kale — Also called borecole. a cabbagelike cultivated plant, Brassica oleracea acephala, of the mustard family, having curled or wrinkled leaves: used as a vegetable.
  • mail — monetary payment or tribute, especially rent or tax.
  • maile — a vine, Alyxia olivaeformis, of Hawaii, having small yellowish flowers and fragrant foliage: a traditional lei plant of Hawaii.
  • male — a republic in the Indian Ocean, SW of India, consisting of about 2000 islands: British protectorate 1887–1965. 115 sq. mi. (298 sq. km). Capital: Male.
  • nail — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • pail — bucket.
  • pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
  • quail — a small, migratory, gallinaceous game bird, Coturnix coturnix, of the Old World.
  • quale — a quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
  • quayleJames Danforth ("Dan") born 1947, vice president of the U.S. 1989–93.
  • rail — any of numerous birds of the family Rallidae, that have short wings, a narrow body, long toes, and a harsh cry and inhabit grasslands, forests, and marshes in most parts of the world.
  • sail — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
  • sale — the act of selling.
  • scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
  • shale — a rock of fissile or laminated structure formed by the consolidation of clay or argillaceous material.
  • smail — snail mail.
  • snail — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
  • stale — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
  • tail — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
  • tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
  • they'll — They'll is the usual spoken form of 'they will'.
  • trail — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
  • vail — to veil.
  • vale — a valley.
  • veil — a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
  • wail — to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
  • wale — something that is selected as the best; choice.
  • weyl — Hermann [hur-muh n;; German her-mahn] /ˈhɜr mən;; German ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1885–1955, German mathematician, in the U.S. after 1933.
  • whale — any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
  • yaleElihu, 1648–1721, English colonial official, born in America: governor of Madras 1687–92; principal benefactor of the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Connecticut (now Yale University).

Two-syllable rhymes

  • air mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by airplane.
  • assail — If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly.
  • avail — If you avail yourself of an offer or an opportunity, you accept the offer or make use of the opportunity.
  • black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
  • blue whale — the largest mammal: a widely distributed bluish-grey whalebone whale, Sibbaldus (or Balaenoptera) musculus, closely related and similar to the rorquals: family Balaenopteridae
  • brix scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the concentration and density of sugar solutions at a given temperature
  • carrell — Also called cubicle, stall. a small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual study or reading.
  • chain mail — Chain mail is a kind of armour made from small metal rings joined together so that they look like cloth.
  • curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
  • derail — To derail something such as a plan or a series of negotiations means to prevent it from continuing as planned.
  • detail — The details of something are its individual features or elements.
  • email — (obsolete, circa 13th century) a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document.
  • fee tail — a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
  • fife rail — a rail surrounding or next to the mast of a sailing vessel for use in holding the pins to which some of the running rigging is belayed.
  • fin whale — finback.
  • fire sale — a special sale of merchandise actually or supposedly damaged by fire.
  • forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
  • fresh gale — a wind of 39–46 miles per hour (17–33 m/sec). Compare gale1 (def 2).
  • gray whale — a grayish-black whalebone whale, Eschrichtius robustus, of the North Pacific, growing to a length of 50 feet (15.2 meters): now rare.
  • impale — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
  • inhale — to breathe in; draw in by breathing: to inhale the polluted air.
  • jarrellRandall, 1914–65, U.S. poet and critic.
  • jumble sale — rummage sale.
  • land rail — corn crake.
  • minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
  • near gale — a wind of force seven on the Beaufort scale or from 32–38 mph
  • oil shale — a black or dark-brown shale or siltstone rich in bitumens, from which shale oil is obtained by destructive distillation.
  • plate rail — a rail or narrow shelf fixed along a wall to hold plates, especially for ornament or display.
  • prevail — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • sea kale — a European broad-leaved maritime plant, Crambe maritima, of the mustard family, having fleshy, blue basal leaves, used as a pot plant.
  • sea snail — any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
  • short sale — an act or instance of selling short.
  • slop pail — a pail for conveying slop in feeding livestock, especially pigs.
  • soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
  • sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
  • split rail — a wooden rail split lengthwise from a log and commonly used in rustic rail and post fencing.
  • square sail — a sail set beneath a horizontal yard, the normal position of which, when not trimmed to the wind, is directly athwartships.
  • strong gale — a wind of 47–54 miles per hour (21–24 m/sec).
  • stub nail — a short, thick nail.
  • surveil — to place under surveillance.
  • tall tale — far-fetched story
  • third rail — Railroads. a rail laid parallel and adjacent to the running rails of an electrified railroad to provide electric current to the motors of a car or locomotive through contact shoes. an additional running rail laid on the same ties as the two regular rails of a railroad track to provide a multigauge capability.
  • toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
  • travail — painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
  • turn tail — the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
  • unveil — to remove a veil or other covering from; display; reveal: The woman unveiled herself.
  • wage scale — a schedule of wages paid workers performing related tasks in an industry or shop.
  • white sale — a sale of sheets, pillowcases, and other white goods.
  • white whale — beluga (def 2).
  • whole gale — a wind of 55–63 miles per hour (24–28 m/sec).
  • wiggle nail — a fastener consisting of a piece of corrugated sheet steel with one wavy edge sharpened, for uniting two pieces of wood, as in a miter joint.
  • wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.

Three-syllable rhymes

  • armored scale — any of a family (Diaspididae) of scale insects characterized by a hard, waxy secretion that covers the body: many armored scales are serious pests of trees and shrubs
  • baleen whale — any of an order (Mysticeta) of whales with toothless jaws, baleen in the mouth, and a symmetrical skull, consisting of the gray whale, the right whales, and rorquals
  • balloon sail — a large light bellying sail used in light winds
  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • bill of sale — a deed transferring personal property, either outright or as security for a loan or debt
  • bustard quail — button quail.
  • button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
  • celsius scale — a scale of temperature in which 0° represents the melting point of ice and 100° represents the boiling point of water
  • coat of mail — a protective garment made of linked metal rings (mail) or of overlapping metal plates; hauberk
  • coffin nail — a cigarette
  • garden snail — Zoology
  • ginger ale — a carbonated soft drink flavored with ginger extract.
  • holy grail — grail (def 1).
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • killer whale — any of several predatory dolphins, especially the black-and-white Orcinus orca, found in all seas.
  • major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
  • minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
  • pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • rummage sale — a sale of miscellaneous articles, old or new, as items contributed to raise money for charity, of unclaimed goods at a wharf or warehouse, or of odds and ends of merchandise at a shop.
  • san jose scale — a scale insect, Aspidiotus perniciosus, that is highly destructive to fruit trees and shrubs throughout the U.S.
  • sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
  • surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
  • towel rail — a rail or frame in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
  • vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
  • moderate gale — a wind of 32–38 miles per hour (14–17 m/sec).
  • old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
  • priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
  • santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • california quail — a quail, Callipepla californica, of the western coast of the U.S., having grayish-brown plumage with black, white, and chestnut markings.
  • condensation trail — contrail.
  • conditional sale — a sale in which the title of a property remains with the seller until some condition is met, as the payment of the full purchase price.
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