Words that rhyme with beater

  • steeper
    n 1: a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping
  • altimeter
    n 1: an instrument that measures the height above ground; used in navigation
  • amanita
    n 1: genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions [syn: Amanita, genus Amanita]
  • ammeter
    n 1: a meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes
  • anteater
    n 1: toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites [syn: pangolin, scaly anteater, anteater] 2: any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites [syn: anteater, New World anteater] 3: nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata [syn: aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer] 4: small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct [syn: numbat, banded anteater, anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus] 5: a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea [syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater] 6: a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia [syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater]
  • are
    n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]
  • barkeeper
    n 1: an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar [syn: bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist]
  • beaker
    n 1: a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry 2: a cup (usually without a handle)
  • beefeater
    n 1: officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch [syn: yeoman, yeoman of the guard, beefeater]
  • beekeeper
    n 1: a farmer who keeps bees for their honey [syn: beekeeper, apiarist, apiculturist]
  • beeper
    n 1: an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged [syn: beeper, pager]
  • beleaguer
    v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer] 2: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent]
  • beta
    adj 1: second in order of importance; "the candidate, considered a beta male, was perceived to be unable to lead his party to victory" 2: preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product; "a beta version"; "beta software" n 1: the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet 2: beets [syn: Beta, genus Beta]
  • bleacher
    n 1: a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.)
  • bleeder
    n 1: someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding [syn: hemophiliac, haemophiliac, bleeder, hemophile, haemophile]
  • bookkeeper
    n 1: someone who records the transactions of a business
  • breeder
    n 1: a person who breeds animals [syn: breeder, stock breeder]
  • cedar
    n 1: any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars [syn: cedar, cedar tree] 2: durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests [syn: cedar, cedarwood] 3: any cedar of the genus Cedrus [syn: cedar, cedar tree, true cedar]
  • centilitre
    n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter [syn: centiliter, centilitre, cl]
  • centimetre
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter [syn: centimeter, centimetre, cm]
  • cheater
    n 1: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker]
  • cheerleader
    n 1: an enthusiastic and vocal supporter; "he has become a cheerleader for therapeutic cloning" 2: someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event
  • cheetah
    n 1: long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game [syn: cheetah, chetah, Acinonyx jubatus]
  • copyreader
    n 1: an editor who prepares text for publication [syn: copy editor, copyreader, text editor]
  • counterfeiter
    n 1: someone who makes copies illegally [syn: forger, counterfeiter]
  • creeper
    n 1: any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping 2: a person who crawls or creeps along the ground [syn: crawler, creeper] 3: any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet [syn: creeper, tree creeper]
  • decametre
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: decameter, dekameter, decametre, dekametre, dam, dkm]
  • decilitre
    n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter [syn: deciliter, decilitre, dl]
  • decimetre
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter [syn: decimeter, decimetre, dm]
  • dieter
    n 1: a person who diets
  • doorkeeper
    n 1: an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber [syn: usher, doorkeeper] 2: the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church [syn: doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius] 3: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]
  • drumbeater
    n 1: a fervent and even militant proponent of something [syn: partisan, zealot, drumbeater] [ant: nonpartisan, nonpartizan]
  • eater
    n 1: someone who consumes food for nourishment [syn: eater, feeder] 2: any green goods that are good to eat; "these apples are good eaters"
  • eggbeater
    n 1: an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades [syn: helicopter, chopper, whirlybird, eggbeater] 2: a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream [syn: eggbeater, eggwhisk]
  • excreta
    n 1: waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body [syn: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product]
  • feature
    n 1: a prominent attribute or aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics" [syn: feature, characteristic] 2: the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular" [syn: feature, lineament] 3: the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'" [syn: feature, feature film] 4: a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine; "they ran a feature on retirement planning" [syn: feature, feature article] 5: (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind [syn: feature of speech, feature] 6: an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles v 1: have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France" [syn: have, feature] [ant: lack, miss] 2: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat" [syn: sport, feature, boast]
  • feeder
    n 1: an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening 2: someone who consumes food for nourishment [syn: eater, feeder] 3: a branch that flows into the main stream [syn: feeder, tributary, confluent, affluent] [ant: distributary] 4: a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material; "the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock" [syn: self-feeder, feeder] 5: an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds [syn: bird feeder, birdfeeder, feeder] 6: an animal that feeds on a particular source of food; "a bark feeder"; "a mud feeder"
  • fetor
    n 1: a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant [syn: malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor, mephitis]
  • glitter
    n 1: the quality of shining with a bright reflected light [syn: glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle] 2: the occurrence of a small flash or spark [syn: glitter, sparkle, coruscation] v 1: be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening" [syn: glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine]
  • goldbeater
    n 1: an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf [syn: goldbeater, gold-beater]
  • greeter
    n 1: a person who greets; "the newcomers were met by smiling greeters" [syn: greeter, saluter, welcomer]
  • hatter
    n 1: someone who makes and sells hats [syn: hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modiste]
  • heater
    n 1: device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room [syn: heater, warmer] 2: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" [syn: fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet]
  • hectolitre
    n 1: a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters [syn: hectoliter, hectolitre, hl]
  • hectometre
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters [syn: hectometer, hectometre, hm]
  • keeper
    n 1: someone in charge of other people; "am I my brother's keeper?" 2: one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn: custodian, keeper, steward]
  • kilolitre
    n 1: a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters [syn: kiloliter, kilolitre, cubic meter, cubic metre]
  • kilometre
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) [syn: kilometer, kilometre, km, klick]
  • leader
    n 1: a person who rules or guides or inspires others [ant: follower] 2: a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers [syn: drawing card, loss leader, leader]
  • leaper
    n 1: someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) [syn: bounder, leaper]
  • litre
    n 1: a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) [syn: liter, litre, l, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre]
  • margarita
    n 1: a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice
  • matter
    n 1: a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well" [syn: matter, affair, thing] 2: some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" [syn: topic, subject, issue, matter] 3: that which has mass and occupies space; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it" 4: a problem; "is anything the matter?" 5: (used with negation) having consequence; "they were friends and it was no matter who won the games" 6: written works (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane" v 1: have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much" [syn: count, matter, weigh]
  • meter
    n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn: meter, metre, m] 2: any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity 3: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence] 4: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration [syn: meter, metre, time] v 1: measure with a meter; "meter the flow of water" 2: stamp with a meter indicating the postage; "meter the mail"
  • metre
    n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn: meter, metre, m] 2: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence] 3: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration [syn: meter, metre, time]
  • millilitre
    n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter [syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]
  • millimetre
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter [syn: millimeter, millimetre, mm]
  • nanometre
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter [syn: nanometer, nanometre, nm, millimicron, micromillimeter, micromillimetre]
  • ohmmeter
    n 1: a meter for measuring electrical resistance in ohms
  • peter
    n 1: disciple of Jesus and leader of the Apostles; regarded by Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope [syn: Peter, Simon Peter, Saint Peter, St. Peter, Saint Peter the Apostle, St. Peter the Apostle] 2: obscene terms for penis [syn: cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz]
  • pita
    n 1: usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling [syn: pita, pocket bread]
  • pleader
    n 1: a lawyer who pleads cases in court [syn: advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader]
  • praetor
    n 1: an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic [syn: praetor, pretor]
  • preacher
    n 1: someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel [syn: preacher, preacher man, sermonizer, sermoniser]
  • reader
    n 1: a person who enjoys reading 2: someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication [syn: subscriber, reader] 3: a person who can read; a literate person 4: someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication [syn: reviewer, referee, reader] 5: someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections [syn: proofreader, reader] 6: someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: lector, reader] 7: a public lecturer at certain universities [syn: lector, lecturer, reader] 8: one of a series of texts for students learning to read
  • reaper
    n 1: someone who helps to gather the harvest [syn: harvester, reaper] 2: Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe [syn: Grim Reaper, Reaper] 3: farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields [syn: harvester, reaper]
  • repeater
    n 1: a person who repeats; "the audience consisted largely of repeaters who had seen the movie many times" 2: someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) [syn: recidivist, repeater, habitual criminal] 3: a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading [syn: repeating firearm, repeater] 4: (electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again; "repeaters can be used in computer networks to extend cabling distances"
  • ripper
    n 1: a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the Ripper was probably a madman"
  • saltpetre
    n 1: (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive [syn: potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre, niter, nitre]
  • secretor
    n 1: any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream [syn: gland, secretory organ, secretor, secreter]
  • seeker
    n 1: someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth" [syn: seeker, searcher, quester] 2: a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
  • senorita
    n 1: a Spanish title or form of address used to or of an unmarried girl or woman; similar to the English `Miss'
  • seta
    n 1: stalk of a moss capsule 2: a stiff hair or bristle
  • sleeper
    n 1: a rester who is sleeping [syn: sleeper, slumberer] 2: a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal 3: an unexpected achiever of success; "the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it" 4: one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper" [syn: tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper] 5: a passenger car that has berths for sleeping [syn: sleeping car, sleeper, wagon-lit] 6: pajamas with feet; worn by children 7: a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed 8: tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water [syn: sleeper, sleeper goby] 9: an unexpected hit; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer"
  • sneaker
    n 1: a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole [syn: gym shoe, sneaker, tennis shoe] 2: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary]
  • speaker
    n 1: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims" [syn: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser] 2: electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: loudspeaker, speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system] 3: the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives"
  • speeder
    n 1: a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit [syn: speeder, speed demon]
  • sweeper
    n 1: an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) 2: a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet [syn: carpet sweeper, sweeper] 3: little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
  • taximeter
    n 1: a meter in a taxi that registers the fare (based on the length of the ride)
  • teacher
    n 1: a person whose occupation is teaching [syn: teacher, instructor] 2: a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"
  • teeter
    n 1: a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end [syn: seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teetertotter, teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board] v 1: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter, seesaw, totter]
  • telemeter
    n 1: any scientific instrument for observing events at a distance and transmitting the information back to the observer
  • theta
    n 1: the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet
  • tweeter
    n 1: a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency sounds; "the sound system had both tweeters and woofers"
  • voltmeter
    n 1: meter that measures the potential difference between two points
  • wattmeter
    n 1: an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in an electrical circuit
  • windcheater
    n 1: a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term) [syn: parka, windbreaker, windcheater, anorak]
  • zeta
    n 1: the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet
  • leaker
    n 1: a surreptitious informant; "the president wanted to know who the leakers were"
  • liter
    n 1: a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) [syn: liter, litre, l, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre]
  • peeper
    n 1: a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others [syn: voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper] 2: an informal term referring to the eye 3: an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds
  • seeder
    n 1: a person who seeds clouds [syn: seeder, cloud seeder] 2: a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground 3: a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit
  • streaker
    n 1: someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place
  • treater
    n 1: someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) [syn: negotiator, negotiant, treater]
  • weeder
    n 1: a farmhand hired to remove weeds 2: a hand tool for removing weeds [syn: weeder, weed- whacker]
  • weeper
    n 1: a person who weeps [syn: weeper, crier] 2: a hired mourner
  • eta
    n 1: a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees; "in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials" [syn: Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, ETA] 2: the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet
  • demeter
    n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of fertility and protector of marriage in ancient mythology; counterpart of Roman Ceres
  • sita
    n 1: wife of the Hindu god Rama; regarded as an ideal of womanhood
  • lolita
    n 1: a sexually precocious young girl

See also beater definition and beater synonyms