Words that rhyme with bircher

n 1: a device that controls amount of light admitted 2: a natural opening in something 3: an man-made opening; usually small

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

n 1: United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by Richard Nixon (1907-1995) [syn: Burger, Warren Burger, Warren E. Burger, Warren Earl Burger] 2: a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients [syn: hamburger, beefburger, burger]

n 1: a citizen of an English borough [syn: burgess, burgher] 2: a member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]

n 1: someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) [syn: social worker, caseworker, welfare worker]

n 1: a hamburger with melted cheese on it

n 1: a device for changing one substance or form or state into another [syn: converter, convertor]

n 1: a beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure

n 1: German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803) [syn: Herder, Johann Gottfried von Herder] 2: someone who drives a herd [syn: herder, herdsman, drover]

n 1: someone waiting in concealment [syn: lurker, skulker, lurcher]

n 1: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child [syn: raising, rearing, nurture] 2: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing] v 1: help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents" [syn: foster, nurture] 2: bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent] 3: provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children" [syn: nourish, nurture, sustain]

n 1: a scientist who devotes himself to doing research [syn: research worker, researcher, investigator]

n 1: someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth" [syn: seeker, searcher, quester] 2: a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items 3: large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America [syn: searcher, searcher beetle, Calosoma scrutator]

n 1: a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" [ant: nonworker] 2: a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!" [syn: proletarian, prole, worker] 3: sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae 4: a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker" [syn: actor, doer, worker]

n 1: a person situated on a perch 2: a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists [syn: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird, percher]

n 1: a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) [syn: slacker, shirker]

v 1: make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas

v 1: make a vibrant sound, as of some birds [syn: churr, whirr]