Words that rhyme with belvoir

n 1: a person with a record of successes; "his son would never be the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success" [syn: achiever, winner, success, succeeder] [ant: failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person]

adv 1: (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far; "we traveled afar"; "we could see the ship afar off"; "the Magi came from afar"

adj 1: slightly open; "the door was ajar"

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

n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" 3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" 4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: measure, bar] 5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" 6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention, bar] 7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" 8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" 9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" [syn: legal profession, bar, legal community] 10: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe, streak, bar] 11: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake, bar] 12: a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle, BAR] 13: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises 14: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" 15: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude] 2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar] 3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: banish, relegate, bar] 4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant: unbar]

n 1: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar, bazar] 2: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn: bazaar, bazar] 3: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar" [syn: bazaar, fair]

n 1: the soft brown fur of the beaver [syn: beaver, beaver fur] 2: a native or resident of Oregon [syn: Oregonian, Beaver] 3: a full beard 4: a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur [syn: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper, beaver] 5: a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face 6: a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) [syn: beaver, castor] 7: large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges v 1: work hard on something [syn: beaver, beaver away]

n 1: a supporter who accepts something as true [syn: believer, truster] 2: a person who has religious faith [syn: believer, worshiper, worshipper]

adj 1: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off- the-wall, outlandish, outre]

n 1: projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only v 1: project as a cantilever 2: construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed; "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings"

n 1: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" [syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar] 2: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway car, railroad car] 3: the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant [syn: car, gondola] 4: where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top floor" [syn: car, elevator car] 5: a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway; "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain" [syn: cable car, car]

n 1: a charred substance 2: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman] 3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr] v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]

n 1: a roll of tobacco for smoking

n 1: a butcher's knife having a large square blade [syn: cleaver, meat cleaver, chopper]

n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar] 2: a person having great power

n 1: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker]

v 1: remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action; "The corrupt lawyer was disbarred"

n 1: someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) [syn: disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever]

adv 1: to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together" 2: at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other" 3: at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?" 4: remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past" 5: to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far" adj 1: located at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" [ant: close, near, nigh] 2: being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek" 3: being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse" 4: beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right" n 1: a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists" [syn: Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe]

n 1: a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection [syn: fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness] 2: intense nervous anticipation; "in a fever of resentment"

n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus] 2: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish, gar, billfish]

n 1: a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) [syn: mourner, griever, sorrower, lamenter]

n 1: a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

n 1: a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) 2: a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)

n 1: a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles 2: the quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer" [syn: jar, jarful] 3: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock] v 1: be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash, jar, collide] 2: move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt, jar] 3: shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: jar, shake up, bump around] 4: affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience" 5: place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"

n 1: someone who leaves [syn: departer, leaver, goer]

n 1: a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum 2: a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum 3: a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock [syn: lever, lever tumbler] v 1: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prise, prize, lever, jimmy]

n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: March, Mar] 2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish, defect, mar] v 1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate] 2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate, mar]

n 1: a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated

n 1: (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72" 2: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par] v 1: make a score (on a hole) equal to par

n 1: a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses [syn: perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder]

n 1: set that receives radio or tv signals [syn: receiver, receiving system] 2: (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties [syn: liquidator, receiver] 3: earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds [syn: telephone receiver, receiver] 4: a person who receives something [syn: recipient, receiver] 5: the tennis player who receives the serve 6: a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass [syn: receiver, pass receiver, pass catcher]

n 1: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult); "the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes"; "we need extra employees for summer fill-ins" [syn: stand-in, substitute, relief, reliever, backup, backup man, fill-in] 2: a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies; "a reliever of anxiety"; "an allayer of fears" [syn: reliever, allayer, comforter] 3: a pitcher who does not start the game [syn: reliever, relief pitcher, fireman]

n 1: a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game

n 1: a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice] 2: an indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, scar, mark] v 1: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit]

n 1: a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings

n 1: any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable 2: a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging 3: making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer [syn: spar, sparring] v 1: furnish with spars 2: fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring" 3: box lightly 4: fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"

adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)] n 1: (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior 2: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] 3: any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night 4: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal, lead] 5: a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem 6: a performer who receives prominent billing [syn: headliner, star] 7: a star-shaped character * used in printing [syn: asterisk, star] 8: the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub [syn: star topology, star] v 1: feature as the star; "The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man" 2: be the star in a performance 3: mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences" [syn: star, asterisk]

n 1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]

n 1: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue [syn: pitch, tar] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog] v 1: coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"

n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar]

n 1: someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) [syn: disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever]

n 1: an examination conducted by spoken communication [syn: oral, oral exam, oral examination, viva voce, viva]

n 1: a craftsman who weaves cloth 2: finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests [syn: weaver, weaverbird, weaver finch]

n 1: an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud) [syn: yeshiva, yeshivah]

n 1: a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere [syn: argon, Ar, atomic number 18] 2: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar] 3: a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR]

n 1: Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548) [syn: Parr, Catherine Parr] 2: a young salmon up to 2 years old 3: the young of various fishes

n 1: rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) [syn: Starr, Ringo Starr, Starkey, Richard Starkey]

n 1: the capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal [syn: Dakar, capital of Senegal]

n 1: 100 dinars equal 1 rial in Iran [syn: Iranian dinar, dinar] 2: the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia [syn: Yugoslavian dinar, dinar] 3: the basic unit of money in Tunisia [syn: Tunisian dinar, dinar] 4: the basic unit of money in Libya [syn: Libyan dinar, dinar] 5: the basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils [syn: Kuwaiti dinar, dinar] 6: the basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Jordanian dinar, dinar] 7: the basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Iraqi dinar, dinar] 8: the basic unit of money in Bahrain; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Bahrain dinar, dinar] 9: the basic unit of money in Algeria [syn: Algerian dinar, dinar]

n 1: a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal; "much opium is grown in Myanmar" [syn: Myanmar, Union of Burma, Burma]

n 1: an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil [syn: Qatar, State of Qatar, Katar, State of Katar] 2: a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf [syn: Qatar, Qatar Peninsula, Katar, Katar Peninsula]

n 1: the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and March)

n 1: (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative; "the family is sitting shiva" [syn: shiva, shivah, shibah] 2: the destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon [syn: Siva, Shiva]

n 1: a river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland [syn: Neva, Neva River]

n 1: a city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva; it is the headquarters of various international organizations [syn: Geneva, Geneve, Genf] 2: gin made in the Netherlands [syn: geneva, Holland gin, Hollands]