Rhymes for SOFT-PEDAL

• a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid

• the quantity a kettle will hold

• (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits

• a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it

• any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)

• sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation

• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

• a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

• a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken

• loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail

• make short successive sounds

• shake and cause to make a rattling noise

• containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal

• any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

• a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten

• cover with metal

• a long wooden bench with a back

• settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground

• bring to an end; settle conclusively

• settle conclusively; come to terms

• take up residence and become established

• come to terms

• go under

• become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

• become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet

• establish or develop as a residence

• come to rest

• arrange or fix in the desired order

• accept despite lack of complete satisfaction

• end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement

• dispose of; make a financial settlement

• become clear by the sinking of particles

• cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)

• sink down or precipitate

• fix firmly

• get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury

• make final; put the last touches on; put into final form

• form a community

• come as if by falling

• an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

• the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament

• an examination administered at the end of an academic term

• occurring at or forming an end or termination

• conclusive in a process or progression

• not to be altered or undone

• established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

• of or relating to jurisprudence

• relating to or characteristic of the profession of law

• having legal efficacy or force

• allowed by official rules

• relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area

• of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood

• affecting only a restricted part or area of the body

• public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops

• anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body

• conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal

• in accordance with scientific laws

• being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development

• something regarded as a normative example

• forming a right angle

• part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored

• any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

• any incitement to action

• an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes

• notably out of the ordinary

• communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs

• be a signal for or a symptom of

• domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• marked by the appetites and passions of the body

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

• a health facility where patients receive treatment

• a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care

• relating to the study or practice of medicine

• requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery

• of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art

• a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person

• of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country

• limited to or in the interests of a particular nation

• concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country

• characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation

• of or relating to nationality

• a person who owes allegiance to that nation

• owned or maintained for the public by the national government

• inside the country

• 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

• being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of

• an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

• something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

• preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

• (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary

• not derived or copied or translated from something else

• concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality

• of or arising from personality

• indicating grammatical person

• a short newspaper article about a particular person or group

• intimately concerning a person's body or physical being

• involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians

• of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power

• of or relating to the profession of governing

• engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood

• of or relating to or suitable as a profession

• characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession

• of or relating to a profession

• a person engaged in one of the learned professions

• an athlete who plays for pay

• an authority qualified to teach apprentices

• engaged in by members of a profession

• (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many

• considered individually

• distinct and individual

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• punishingly harsh

• resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

• disagreeably direct and precise

• in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area

• a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

• serving as an essential component

• a variable color averaging a deep pink

• the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry

• unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces

• marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs

• of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color

• of or relating to the teeth

• of or relating to dentistry

• a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge

• being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)

• (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

• a lavish dance requiring formal attire

• a gown for evening wear

• characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• logically deductive

• refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

• involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope

• having the shape of a sphere or ball

• a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

• a periodical dedicated to a particular subject

• a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred

• a record book as a physical object

• the part of the axle contained by a bearing

• of an instrument of certain death

• steadfast in allegiance or duty

• inspired by love for your country

• unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause

• a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law

• (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank

• place in proper rank

• arrange in logical order

• make ready for action or use

• lead ceremoniously, as in a procession

• involving the mind or an intellectual process

• of or relating to the mind

• of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks

• of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw

• affected by a disorder of the mind

• connected with or belonging to or used in a navy

• possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics

• having no hue

• one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute

• having no personal preference

• having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive

• not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest

• lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics

• having no net electric charge

• a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)

• a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet

• a short vein that carries blood into the liver

• a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

• one who is playfully mischievous

• available to rent or lease

• of or relating to rent

• property that is leased or rented out or let

• the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car)

• as a rival in a competition

• the contestant you hope to defeat

• be equal to in quality or ability

• be the rival of, be in competition with

• of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch

• established or chartered or authorized by royalty

• a sail set next above the topgallant on a royal mast

• stag with antlers of 12 or more branches

• being of the rank of a monarch

• belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

• invested with royal power as symbolized by a crown

• relating to or designed for or using the singing voice

• having or using the power to produce speech or sound

• music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment

• a short musical composition with words

• given to expressing yourself freely or insistently

• full of the sound of voices

• intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly

• not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm

• departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development

• much greater than the normal

• further or added

• the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral

• any of several brightly colored butterflies

• the formal act of approving

• a feeling of liking something or someone good

• acceptance as satisfactory

• a message expressing a favorable opinion

• accomplishment of an objective

• the act of arriving at a certain place

• someone who arrives (or has arrived)