Words that rhyme with acumen

• bookman 4
  n 1: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines [syn: scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student]
• spokesman 4
  n 1: a male spokesperson
• turkoman 2
  n 1: a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas [syn: Turkoman, Turkmen, Turcoman] 2: the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman [syn: Turkmen, Turkoman, Turcoman]
• determine 2
  v 1: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" [syn: determine, find, find out, ascertain] 2: shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion" [syn: determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate] 3: fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules" [syn: determine, set] 4: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters" [syn: specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit] 5: reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations" [syn: decide, make up one's mind, determine] 6: fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; "the tree determines the border of the property" 7: settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument" [syn: settle, square off, square up, determine] 8: find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" [syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn]
• aircraftman 0
  n 1: a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force [syn: aircraftsman, aircraftman]
• albumen 0
  n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen] 2: the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs" [syn: egg white, white, albumen, ovalbumin]
• albumin 0
  n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen]
• backwoodsman 0
  n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man]
• bandsman 0
  n 1: a player in a band (especially a military band)
• bargeman 0
  n 1: someone who operates a barge [syn: lighterman, bargeman, bargee]
• batman 0
  n 1: an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
• batsman 0
  n 1: (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting [syn: batter, hitter, slugger, batsman]
• beadsman 0
  n 1: a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another [syn: beadsman, bedesman]
• bellman 0
  n 1: someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels [syn: bellboy, bellman, bellhop]
• bitumen 0
  n 1: any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons
• boatman 0
  n 1: someone who drives or rides in a boat [syn: boatman, boater, waterman]
• bondman 0
  n 1: a male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman, bondsman] 2: a male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman]
• bondsman 0
  n 1: a male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman] 2: someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else [syn: bondsman, bondswoman] 3: a male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman, bondsman]
• brakeman 0
  n 1: a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes
• bushman 0
  n 1: a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa 2: a dweller in the Australian bush country
• businessman 0
  n 1: a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) [syn: businessman, man of affairs]
• cameraman 0
  n 1: a photographer who operates a movie camera [syn: cameraman, camera operator, cinematographer]
• catechumen 0
  n 1: a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist [syn: catechumen, neophyte]
• cattleman 0
  n 1: a man who raises (or tends) cattle [syn: cattleman, cow man, beef man] 2: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd]
• chessman 0
  n 1: any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess [syn: chessman, chess piece]
• churchman 0
  n 1: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic]
• clansman 0
  n 1: a member of a clan [syn: clansman, clanswoman, clan member]
• coachman 0
  n 1: a man who drives a coach (or carriage)
• coastguardsman 0
  n 1: a member of a coastguard
• cognomen 0
  n 1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname] 2: the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) [syn: surname, family name, cognomen, last name]
• congressman 0
  n 1: a member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: congressman, congresswoman, representative]
• councilman 0
  n 1: a man who is a council member
• cracksman 0
  n 1: a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents [syn: safebreaker, safecracker, cracksman]
• craftsman 0
  n 1: a professional whose work is consistently of high quality; "as an actor he was a consummate craftsman" 2: a creator of great skill in the manual arts; "the jewelry was made by internationally famous craftsmen" [syn: craftsman, crafter] 3: a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn: craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer]
• cragsman 0
  n 1: a climber of vertical rock faces [syn: rock climber, cragsman]
• crewman 0
  n 1: any member of a ship's crew [syn: sailor, crewman] 2: a member of a flight crew [syn: crewman, crew member] 3: a member of a work crew
• cumin 0
  n 1: dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds [syn: cumin, Cuminum cyminum] 2: aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family [syn: cumin, cumin seed]
• cyclamen 0
  n 1: Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals [syn: cyclamen, Cyclamen purpurascens]
• dairyman 0
  n 1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: dairyman, dairy farmer] 2: a man who works in a dairy
• demon 0
  n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 2: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre] 3: someone extremely diligent or skillful; "he worked like a demon to finish the job on time"; "she's a demon at math"
• doorman 0
  n 1: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]
• dragoman 0
  n 1: an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)
• draughtsman 0
  n 1: a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines [syn: draftsman, draughtsman, draftsperson]
• dustman 0
  n 1: someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse [syn: garbage man, garbageman, garbage collector, garbage carter, garbage hauler, refuse collector, dustman]
• fieldsman 0
  n 1: a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting [syn: fielder, fieldsman]
• fisherman 0
  n 1: someone whose occupation is catching fish [syn: fisherman, fisher]
• foeman 0
  n 1: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition]
• footman 0
  n 1: a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores
• foreman 0
  n 1: a person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" [syn: foreman, chief, gaffer, honcho, boss] 2: a man who is foreperson of a jury
• freeman 0
  n 1: a person who is not a serf or a slave [syn: freeman, freewoman]
• freshman 0
  adj 1: used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college" [syn: freshman, first-year] n 1: a first-year undergraduate [syn: freshman, fresher] 2: any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant]
• frogman 0
  n 1: someone who works underwater [syn: diver, frogman, underwater diver]
• frontiersman 0
  n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man]
• gentleman 0
  n 1: a man of refinement 2: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man]
• groomsman 0
  n 1: a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
• groundsman 0
  n 1: someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) [syn: groundsman, groundskeeper, groundkeeper]
• guardsman 0
  n 1: a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards'
• gunman 0
  n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter] 2: a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn: gunman, gun]
• hangman 0
  n 1: an executioner who hangs the condemned person
• harvestman 0
  n 1: spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs [syn: harvestman, daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio]
• headman 0
  n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn: headsman, headman] 2: the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief, chieftain, chief]
• headsman 0
  n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn: headsman, headman]
• helmsman 0
  n 1: the person who steers a ship [syn: helmsman, steersman, steerer]
• henchman 0
  n 1: someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate, collaborator, henchman, partner in crime]
• herdsman 0
  n 1: someone who drives a herd [syn: herder, herdsman, drover]
• horseman 0
  n 1: a man skilled in equitation [syn: horseman, equestrian, horseback rider] 2: a person who breeds and cares for horses [syn: horseman, horse fancier]
• houseman 0
  n 1: an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) [syn: intern, interne, houseman, medical intern]
• human 0
  adj 1: characteristic of humanity; "human nature" 2: relating to a person; "the experiment was conducted on 6 monkeys and 2 human subjects" 3: having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings; "human beings"; "the human body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty" [ant: nonhuman] n 1: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being, human]
• huntsman 0
  n 1: someone who hunts game [syn: hunter, huntsman]
• husbandman 0
  n 1: a person who operates a farm [syn: farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbuster]
• hymen 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the god of marriage 2: a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin [syn: hymen, maidenhead, virginal membrane]
• inhuman 0
  adj 1: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate] 2: belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
• kinsman 0
  n 1: a male relative
• landsman 0
  n 1: a person who lives and works on land [syn: landlubber, landsman, landman] 2: an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage [syn: landlubber, lubber, landsman]
• layman 0
  n 1: someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person [syn: layman, layperson, secular] [ant: clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend]
• liegeman 0
  n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]
• lineman 0
  n 1: one of the players on the line of scrimmage 2: the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole 3: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman] 4: (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage
• linesman 0
  n 1: official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside) 2: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman]
• lumen 0
  n 1: a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions [syn: lumen, lm] 2: a cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the intestine"
• madman 0
  n 1: an insane person [syn: lunatic, madman, maniac]
• marksman 0
  n 1: someone skilled in shooting [syn: marksman, sharpshooter, crack shot]
• merchantman 0
  n 1: a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship]
• midshipman 0
  n 1: a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training
• militiaman 0
  n 1: a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies
• milkman 0
  n 1: someone who delivers milk
• nobleman 0
  n 1: a titled peer of the realm [syn: Lord, noble, nobleman] [ant: Lady, noblewoman, peeress]
• nonhuman 0
  adj 1: not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings; "nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees" [ant: human]
• oarsman 0
  n 1: someone who rows a boat [syn: oarsman, rower]
• ombudsman 0
  n 1: a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government
• omen 0
  n 1: a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy] v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]
• outdoorsman 0
  n 1: a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing)
• packman 0
  n 1: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar, packman, hawker, pitchman]
• patrolman 0
  n 1: a policeman who patrols a given region [syn: flatfoot, patrolman]
• penman 0
  n 1: informal terms for journalists [syn: scribe, scribbler, penman]
• pitchman 0
  n 1: an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something 2: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar, packman, hawker, pitchman]
• pitman 0
  n 1: English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897) [syn: Pitman, Sir Isaac Pitman] 2: someone who works in a coal mine [syn: coal miner, collier, pitman]
• plainsman 0
  n 1: an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America)
• policeman 0
  n 1: a member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer" [syn: policeman, police officer, officer]
• postman 0
  n 1: a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier]
• predetermine 0
  v 1: determine beforehand 2: cause to be biased [syn: bias, predetermine]

See also acumen definition and acumen synonyms