Rhymes for RATALS

• fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense

• prepare for battle or conflict

• the leaf of a conifer

• a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

• a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

• a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

• annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism

• prick with a needle

• a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped

• the quantity contained in a bottle

• a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children

• store (liquids or gases) in bottles

• put into bottles

• a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)

• the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception

• eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia

• bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream

• (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision

• of or relating to a wedding

• of or pertaining to a bride

• archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast

• A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.

• A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.

• A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle.

• (furry subculture) A character in furry art or literature which has the physical characteristics (body) of a regular animal (typically quadripedal), that may or may not be able to communicate with humans or anthros (contrasts anthro)

• of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode

• relating to or expressing the mood of a verb

• an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality

• relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution

• of or in or relating to the nose

• a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed

• an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose

• sounding as if the nose were pinched

• a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound; equal to 0.1382 newtons

• A light silk cloth.

• a plant fiber used for making rope

• Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope

• the basic unit of money in Thailand

• a large number or amount

• the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)

• sniff or smell inquiringly

• snuff up mucus through the nose

• cry or whine with snuffling

• a judgment of not guilty

• the act of arousing

• a state of heightened physiological activity

• awakening from sleep

• mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse

• an act of deliberate betrayal

• the quality of aiding an enemy

• the act of paying money

• the act of devising something

• a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial

• official notice that you have been fired from your job

• permission to go; the sending away of someone

• the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

• relating to or being an element

• relating to severe atmospheric conditions

• of or being the essential or basic part

• on or outside the dura mater

• regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery

• happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface

• outward features

• coming from the outside

• from or between other countries

• purely outward or superficial

• a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated

• relating to or articulated in the throat

• a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat

• like the sounds of frogs and crows

• of or relating to a coastal or shore region

• the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean

• using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices

• relating to or concerned with machinery or tools

• relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics

• the basic unit of money in Mozambique; equal to 100 centavos

• relating to minerals

• solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition

• composed of matter other than plant or animal

• in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature

• existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation

• existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical

• (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone

• (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related

• someone regarded as certain to succeed

• a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

• (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

• functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies

• unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct

• (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

• being talented through inherited qualities

• free from artificiality

• surpass in generalship

• of or relating to a pastor

• relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

• a musical composition that evokes rural life

• a letter from a pastor to the congregation

• a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)

• (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

• A sound that is articulated with the pharynx.