Big Huge Thesaurus

palaver

noun

• blandishment
• cajolery
• hot air
• empty words
• empty talk
• rhetoric
• bunk
• flattery
• hokum
• meaninglessness
• nonsense
• nonsensicality

verb

• chatter
• piffle
• prate
• tittle-tattle
• twaddle
• clack
• maunder
• prattle
• blab
• gibber
• tattle
• blabber
• gabble
• wheedle
• cajole
• blarney
• coax
• sweet-talk
• inveigle
• mouth
• parley
• persuade
• speak
• talk
• utter
• verbalise
• verbalize

sounds kind of like

• palfrey
• pallbearer
• palpebra
• pilfer
• pilferer
• plover
• polypore
• pull over
• pullover