Words that rhyme with boulder

• alder 0
  n 1: wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc 2: north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant [syn: alder, alder tree]
• are 0
  n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]
• balder 0
  n 1: (Norse mythology) god of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature; son of Odin and Frigg and husband of Nanna; killed by Hoth [syn: Balder, Baldr]
• beholder 0
  n 1: a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses [syn: perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder]
• bewilder 0
  v 1: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] 2: cause to be confused emotionally [syn: bewilder, bemuse, discombobulate, throw]
• bodybuilder 0
  n 1: someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature [syn: bodybuilder, muscle builder, muscle- builder, musclebuilder, muscleman]
• bondholder 0
  n 1: a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation
• border 0
  n 1: a line that indicates a boundary [syn: boundary line, border, borderline, delimitation, mete] 2: the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary [syn: margin, border, perimeter] 3: the boundary of a surface [syn: edge, border] 4: a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge [syn: molding, moulding, border] 5: a strip forming the outer edge of something; "the rug had a wide blue border" v 1: extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" [syn: surround, environ, ring, skirt, border] 2: form the boundary of; be contiguous to [syn: bound, border] 3: enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture" [syn: frame, frame in, border] 4: provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery" [syn: border, edge] 5: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on]
• builder 0
  n 1: a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action [syn: builder, detergent builder] 2: a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country; "empire builder" 3: someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) [syn: builder, constructor]
• copyholder 0
  n 1: mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor
• fielder 0
  n 1: a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat 2: a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting [syn: fielder, fieldsman]
• folder 0
  n 1: a small book usually having a paper cover [syn: booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet] 2: covering that is folded over to protect the contents
• freeholder 0
  n 1: the owner of a freehold
• gilder 0
  n 1: someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt
• grinder 0
  n 1: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep] 2: grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars [syn: molar, grinder] 3: machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing [syn: mill, grinder, milling machinery] 4: a machine tool that polishes metal
• guilder 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder, gulden, florin] 2: formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder, gulden, florin, Dutch florin]
• holder 0
  n 1: a holding device; "a towel holder"; "a cigarette holder"; "an umbrella holder" 2: a person who holds something; "they held two hostages"; "he holds the trophy"; "she holds a United States passport" 3: the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it; "the bond was marked `payable to bearer'" [syn: holder, bearer]
• householder 0
  n 1: someone who owns a home [syn: homeowner, householder]
• infielder 0
  n 1: (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield
• jobholder 0
  n 1: an employee who holds a regular job
• landholder 0
  n 1: a holder or proprietor of land [syn: landowner, landholder, property owner]
• leaseholder 0
  n 1: a tenant who holds a lease [syn: leaseholder, lessee]
• moulder 0
  v 1: break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" [syn: decompose, rot, molder, moulder]
• officeholder 0
  n 1: someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year" [syn: officeholder, officer] 2: the official who holds an office [syn: incumbent, officeholder]
• older 0
  adj 1: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: aged, elderly, older, senior] 2: used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr." [syn: elder, older, sr.] 3: skilled through long experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers" [syn: old, older]
• order 0
  n 1: (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed; "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London" 2: a degree in a continuum of size or quantity; "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude" [syn: order, order of magnitude] 3: established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" [ant: disorder] 4: logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" [syn: ordering, order, ordination] 5: a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" [syn: orderliness, order] [ant: disorder, disorderliness] 6: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" [syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript] 7: a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers" [syn: order, purchase order] 8: a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order] 9: a body of rules followed by an assembly [syn: order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure] 10: (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order" [syn: Holy Order, Order] 11: a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict" [syn: order, monastic order] 12: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families 13: a request for something to be made, supplied, or served; "I gave the waiter my order"; "the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle" 14: (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans 15: the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" [syn: order, ordering] v 1: give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" [syn: order, tell, enjoin, say] 2: make a request for something; "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage" 3: issue commands or orders for [syn: order, prescribe, dictate] 4: bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" [syn: regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern] [ant: deregulate] 5: bring order to or into; "Order these files" [ant: disarray, disorder] 6: place in a certain order; "order the photos chronologically" 7: appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order] 8: arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" [syn: arrange, set up, put, order] 9: assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" [syn: rate, rank, range, order, grade, place]
• outfielder 0
  n 1: (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield 2: a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield
• placeholder 0
  n 1: a person authorized to act for another [syn: proxy, placeholder, procurator] 2: a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set
• polder 0
  n 1: low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands)
• policyholder 0
  n 1: a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written
• shareholder 0
  n 1: someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation [syn: stockholder, shareholder, shareowner]
• shipbuilder 0
  n 1: a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels [syn: shipwright, shipbuilder, ship builder] 2: a person who builds ships as a business [syn: shipbuilder, ship builder] 3: a business that builds and repairs ships
• shoulder 0
  n 1: the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm 2: a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg 3: a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula [syn: shoulder, shoulder joint, articulatio humeri] 4: the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder; "an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform" 5: a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road; "the car pulled off onto the shoulder" [syn: shoulder, berm] v 1: lift onto one's shoulders 2: push with the shoulders; "He shouldered his way into the crowd" 3: carry a burden, either real or metaphoric; "shoulder the burden"
• slaveholder 0
  n 1: someone who holds slaves [syn: slaveholder, slave owner, slaver]
• smoulder 0
  n 1: a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame; "the smoulder suddenly became a blaze" [syn: smoulder, smolder] v 1: have strong suppressed feelings [syn: smolder, smoulder] 2: burn slowly and without a flame; "a smoldering fire" [syn: smolder, smoulder]
• solder 0
  n 1: an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces v 1: join or fuse with solder; "solder these two pipes together"
• stakeholder 0
  n 1: someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner
• stockholder 0
  n 1: someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation [syn: stockholder, shareholder, shareowner]
• tilde 0
  n 1: a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization
• unsolder 0
  v 1: remove the soldering from
• upholder 0
  n 1: someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy" [syn: upholder, maintainer, sustainer]
• wilder 0
  n 1: United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975) [syn: Wilder, Thornton Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder] 2: United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002) [syn: Wilder, Billy Wilder, Samuel Wilder]
• withholder 0
  n 1: a person who refrains from granting; "a withholder of payments" [ant: granter] 2: a person who restrains or checks or holds back
• yielder 0
  n 1: a person who yields or surrenders [syn: surrenderer, yielder]
• molder 0
  v 1: break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" [syn: decompose, rot, molder, moulder]
• scolder 0
  n 1: someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault [syn: scold, scolder, nag, nagger, common scold]
• smolder 0
  n 1: a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame; "the smoulder suddenly became a blaze" [syn: smoulder, smolder] v 1: burn slowly and without a flame; "a smoldering fire" [syn: smolder, smoulder] 2: have strong suppressed feelings [syn: smolder, smoulder]
• calder 0
  n 1: United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976) [syn: Calder, Alexander Calder]
• isolde 0
  n 1: (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other [syn: Iseult, Isolde]
• cardholder 0
  n 1: a person who holds a credit card or debit card 2: a player who holds a card or cards in a card game
• boatbuilder 0
  n 1: a person who builds boats
• bowlder 0
  n 1: a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin [syn: boulder, bowlder]
• smallholder 0
  n 1: a person owning or renting a smallholding
• bolder 0
• candleholder 0
• colder 0
• gasholder 0
• midfielder 0
• titleholder 0
• wielder 0
• dolder 0
• golder 0
• nolder 0
• rebuilder 0
• esmeralda 0
• valda 0
• golda 0
• hilda 0
• unitholder 0
• griselda 0
• mathilda 0
• tilda 0
• cupholder 0
• impolder 0
• loanholder 0
• stadtholder 0
• stallholder 0

See also boulder definition and boulder synonyms