Words that rhyme with belcher

n 1: a large-scale farming enterprise [syn: agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm] 2: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn: farming, agriculture, husbandry] 3: the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 [syn: Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDA] 4: the class of people engaged in growing food

n 1: the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey [syn: beekeeping, apiculture]

n 1: rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food

n 1: a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients [syn: hydroponics, aquiculture, tank farming]

n 1: the cultivation of tree for the production of timber [syn: arboriculture, tree farming]

n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]

n 1: a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture

n 1: a particular society at a particular time and place; "early Mayan civilization" [syn: culture, civilization, civilisation] 2: the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group 3: all the knowledge and values shared by a society [syn: acculturation, culture] 4: (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a Petri dish" 5: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad [syn: polish, refinement, culture, cultivation, finish] 6: the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization; "the developing drug culture"; "the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture" 7: the raising of plants or animals; "the culture of oysters" v 1: grow in a special preparation; "the biologist grows microorganisms"

n 1: the cultivation of flowering plants [syn: flower gardening, floriculture]

n 1: the cultivation of plants [syn: gardening, horticulture]

n 1: the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)

n 1: raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk 2: the production of raw silk by raising silkworms

n 1: a crushing remark [syn: put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown] 2: an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise [syn: squelch circuit, squelch, squelcher]

n 1: a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs

n 1: the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing [syn: viticulture, viniculture]

n 1: the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing [syn: viticulture, viniculture]

n 1: any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion 2: someone who attacks in search of booty [syn: marauder, predator, vulture, piranha]

n 1: someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager [syn: welcher, welsher]

n 1: the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests

n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture] 2: a chamber that is used as a grave [syn: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture]