WHEAL

PRONUNCIATION: (hweel, weel) Listen to pronunciation

MEANING: noun: A small swelling on the skin, as from an insect bite, an allergic reaction, or a blow.

ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps an alteration of wale, from Old English walu (ridge). Earliest documented use: before 1390.
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WHEAZL - an animal that goes "Pop!" when you chase it all around the mulberry bush

WHE-ALL - first person plural subjective case pronoun in Biloxi

RHEAL - like a small three-toed ostrich-like bird that can't fly