Words that rhyme with botha

n 1: type genus of the family Accipitridae [syn: Accipiter, genus Accipiter]

n 1: someone with the power to settle matters at will; "she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion" [syn: arbiter, supreme authority] 2: someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue; "the critic was considered to be an arbiter of modern literature"; "the arbitrator's authority derived from the consent of the disputants"; "an umpire was appointed to settle the tax case" [syn: arbiter, arbitrator, umpire]

n 1: someone who listens attentively [syn: hearer, listener, auditor, attender] 2: a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit 3: a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization

n 1: all the plant and animal life of a particular region [syn: biota, biology]

n 1: large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked

n 1: a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown [syn: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat] 2: someone who drives or rides in a boat [syn: boatman, boater, waterman]

n 1: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender]

n 1: a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists [ant: debitor, debtor]

n 1: an athlete who plays cricket

n 1: a person who diets

n 1: a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) [syn: editor, editor in chief] 2: (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data [syn: editor program, editor]

n 1: someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see [syn: exhibitor, exhibitioner, shower]

n 1: spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens; "floaters seem to drift through the field of vision" [syn: musca volitans, muscae volitantes, floater, spots] 2: a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills) 3: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond] 4: an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed 5: a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election 6: a swimmer who floats in the water 7: an object that floats or is capable of floating 8: an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location [syn: floater, floating policy]

n 1: a substance that retards or stops an activity [ant: activator]

n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge] 2: the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet

n 1: someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money [syn: seller, marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker]

adj 1: conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; "motor nerves" [syn: centrifugal, motor(a)] 2: causing or able to cause motion; "a motive force"; "motive power"; "motor energy" [syn: motive(a), motor] n 1: machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion 2: a nonspecific agent that imparts motion; "happiness is the aim of all men and the motor of all action" v 1: travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater" [syn: drive, motor]

n 1: man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon [syn: satellite, artificial satellite, orbiter]

n 1: someone who attacks in search of booty [syn: marauder, predator, vulture, piranha] 2: any animal that lives by preying on other animals [syn: predator, predatory animal]

n 1: an elder in the Presbyterian Church

n 1: someone who is an active supporter and advocate [syn: promoter, booster, plugger] 2: a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments [syn: showman, promoter, impresario]

n 1: (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" [syn: owner, proprietor]

adj 1: indicating the first or earliest or original; "`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages"

adj 1: of or relating to or characterizing mental events that have motor consequences or vice versa

n 1: a prescribed number; "all the salesmen met their quota for the month" 2: a proportional share assigned to each participant 3: a limitation on imports; "the quota for Japanese imports was negotiated"

n 1: troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority

n 1: the rotating armature of a motor or generator [syn: rotor, rotor coil] [ant: stator, stator coil] 2: the revolving bar of a distributor 3: rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils; "there are horizontal rotors on a helicopter or compressor rotors in a jet engine"

n 1: large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere [syn: scoter, scooter]

n 1: a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet [syn: trumpeter, cornetist] 2: (formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet" [syn: herald, trumpeter] 3: large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated 4: large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry [syn: trumpeter, trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator]

adj 1: relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate

n 1: a citizen who has a legal right to vote [syn: voter, elector]

n 1: someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" [syn: carrier, bearer, toter]

n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts 2: a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties

adj 1: of or relating to locomotion [syn: locomotive, locomotor]

n 1: a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux 2: the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota 3: the Siouan language spoken by the Dakota

n 1: a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains [syn: Teton, Lakota, Teton Sioux, Teton Dakota]

n 1: an industrial city of Japan in southern Honshu

n 1: a Native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century)

n 1: a midwestern state [syn: Minnesota, Gopher State, North Star State, MN]

n 1: a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico

n 1: a Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket [syn: jai alai, pelota]

n 1: the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky 2: (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus [syn: Jupiter, Jove]

n 1: an assistant editor