Words that rhyme with bleaker

n 1: someone who records the transactions of a business

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]

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

n 1: a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry 2: a cup (usually without a handle)

n 1: a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter 2: an implement for beating

n 1: officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch [syn: yeoman, yeoman of the guard, beefeater]

n 1: a farmer who keeps bees for their honey [syn: beekeeper, apiarist, apiculturist]

n 1: an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged [syn: beeper, pager]

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]

n 1: a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.)

n 1: a person who breeds animals [syn: breeder, stock breeder]

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

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

n 1: an editor who prepares text for publication [syn: copy editor, copyreader, text editor]

n 1: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur, mongrel, mutt] 2: a cowardly and despicable person

n 1: a person who diets

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]

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"

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]

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"

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]

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]

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]

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"

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]

n 1: someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel [syn: preacher, preacher man, sermonizer, sermoniser]

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

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]

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)

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"

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]

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"

n 1: a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit [syn: speeder, speed demon]

n 1: any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used; "those sneakers are squeakers"; "which hinge is the squeaker?" 2: something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin [syn: close call, close shave, squeak, squeaker, narrow escape]

n 1: a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping

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

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"

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]

n 1: a surreptitious informant; "the president wanted to know who the leakers were"

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]

n 1: someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place

n 1: someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) [syn: negotiator, negotiant, treater]

n 1: the longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley [syn: Lake Tanganyika, Tanganyika] 2: a former state in East Africa; united with Zanzibar in 1964 to form Tanzania

n 1: small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America [syn: pika, mouse hare, rock rabbit, coney, cony]

n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter [syn: centimeter, centimetre, cm]

n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter [syn: deciliter, decilitre, dl]