Words that rhyme with bridgeman

  • acumen
    n 1: a tapering point 2: shrewdness shown by keen insight [syn: insightfulness, acumen]
  • aircraftman
    n 1: a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force [syn: aircraftsman, aircraftman]
  • albumen
    n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen] 2: the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs" [syn: egg white, white, albumen, ovalbumin]
  • albumin
    n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen]
  • an
    n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]
  • backwoodsman
    n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man]
  • ban
    n 1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition, ban, proscription] 2: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova 3: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania 4: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding] 5: a bachelor's degree in nursing [syn: Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, BAN] v 1: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper) [syn: ban, censor] 2: prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure; "Smoking is banned in this building" 3: ban from a place of residence, as for punishment [syn: banish, ban] 4: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]
  • bandsman
    n 1: a player in a band (especially a military band)
  • bargeman
    n 1: someone who operates a barge [syn: lighterman, bargeman, bargee]
  • batman
    n 1: an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
  • batsman
    n 1: (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting [syn: batter, hitter, slugger, batsman]
  • beadsman
    n 1: a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another [syn: beadsman, bedesman]
  • bellman
    n 1: someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels [syn: bellboy, bellman, bellhop]
  • bitumen
    n 1: any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons
  • boatman
    n 1: someone who drives or rides in a boat [syn: boatman, boater, waterman]
  • bondman
    n 1: a male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman, bondsman] 2: a male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman]
  • bondsman
    n 1: a male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman] 2: someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else [syn: bondsman, bondswoman] 3: a male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman, bondsman]
  • bookman
    n 1: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines [syn: scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student]
  • brakeman
    n 1: a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes
  • bran
    n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting 2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
  • bushman
    n 1: a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa 2: a dweller in the Australian bush country
  • businessman
    n 1: a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) [syn: businessman, man of affairs]
  • cameraman
    n 1: a photographer who operates a movie camera [syn: cameraman, camera operator, cinematographer]
  • can
    n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can] 2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful] 3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can buoy] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] 6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty" [syn: can, tin, put up] 2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire]
  • cattleman
    n 1: a man who raises (or tends) cattle [syn: cattleman, cow man, beef man] 2: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd]
  • chessman
    n 1: any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess [syn: chessman, chess piece]
  • churchman
    n 1: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic]
  • clan
    n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]
  • clansman
    n 1: a member of a clan [syn: clansman, clanswoman, clan member]
  • coachman
    n 1: a man who drives a coach (or carriage)
  • coastguardsman
    n 1: a member of a coastguard
  • cognomen
    n 1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname] 2: the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) [syn: surname, family name, cognomen, last name]
  • congressman
    n 1: a member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: congressman, congresswoman, representative]
  • councilman
    n 1: a man who is a council member
  • cracksman
    n 1: a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents [syn: safebreaker, safecracker, cracksman]
  • craftsman
    n 1: a professional whose work is consistently of high quality; "as an actor he was a consummate craftsman" 2: a creator of great skill in the manual arts; "the jewelry was made by internationally famous craftsmen" [syn: craftsman, crafter] 3: a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn: craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer]
  • cragsman
    n 1: a climber of vertical rock faces [syn: rock climber, cragsman]
  • cyclamen
    n 1: Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals [syn: cyclamen, Cyclamen purpurascens]
  • determine
    v 1: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" [syn: determine, find, find out, ascertain] 2: shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion" [syn: determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate] 3: fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules" [syn: determine, set] 4: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters" [syn: specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit] 5: reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations" [syn: decide, make up one's mind, determine] 6: fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; "the tree determines the border of the property" 7: settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument" [syn: settle, square off, square up, determine] 8: find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" [syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn]
  • dragoman
    n 1: an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)
  • draughtsman
    n 1: a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines [syn: draftsman, draughtsman, draftsperson]
  • dustman
    n 1: someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse [syn: garbage man, garbageman, garbage collector, garbage carter, garbage hauler, refuse collector, dustman]
  • fan
    n 1: a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces 2: an enthusiastic devotee of sports [syn: sports fan, fan, rooter] 3: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff, devotee, lover] v 1: strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher) 2: make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred" 3: agitate the air 4: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [syn: winnow, fan]
  • fieldsman
    n 1: a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting [syn: fielder, fieldsman]
  • fisherman
    n 1: someone whose occupation is catching fish [syn: fisherman, fisher]
  • flan
    n 1: open pastry filled with fruit or custard
  • foeman
    n 1: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition]
  • footman
    n 1: a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores
  • freshman
    adj 1: used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college" [syn: freshman, first-year] n 1: a first-year undergraduate [syn: freshman, fresher] 2: any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant]
  • frogman
    n 1: someone who works underwater [syn: diver, frogman, underwater diver]
  • frontiersman
    n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man]
  • gentleman
    n 1: a man of refinement 2: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man]
  • groomsman
    n 1: a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
  • groundsman
    n 1: someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) [syn: groundsman, groundskeeper, groundkeeper]
  • guardsman
    n 1: a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards'
  • gunman
    n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter] 2: a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn: gunman, gun]
  • hangman
    n 1: an executioner who hangs the condemned person
  • harvestman
    n 1: spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs [syn: harvestman, daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio]
  • headman
    n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn: headsman, headman] 2: the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief, chieftain, chief]
  • headsman
    n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn: headsman, headman]
  • helmsman
    n 1: the person who steers a ship [syn: helmsman, steersman, steerer]
  • henchman
    n 1: someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate, collaborator, henchman, partner in crime]
  • herdsman
    n 1: someone who drives a herd [syn: herder, herdsman, drover]
  • horseman
    n 1: a man skilled in equitation [syn: horseman, equestrian, horseback rider] 2: a person who breeds and cares for horses [syn: horseman, horse fancier]
  • houseman
    n 1: an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) [syn: intern, interne, houseman, medical intern]
  • huntsman
    n 1: someone who hunts game [syn: hunter, huntsman]
  • husbandman
    n 1: a person who operates a farm [syn: farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbuster]
  • kinsman
    n 1: a male relative
  • landsman
    n 1: a person who lives and works on land [syn: landlubber, landsman, landman] 2: an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage [syn: landlubber, lubber, landsman]
  • liegeman
    n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]
  • lineman
    n 1: one of the players on the line of scrimmage 2: the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole 3: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman] 4: (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage
  • linesman
    n 1: official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside) 2: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman]
  • madman
    n 1: an insane person [syn: lunatic, madman, maniac]
  • man
    n 1: an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: man, adult male] [ant: adult female, woman] 2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn: serviceman, military man, man, military personnel] [ant: civilian] 3: the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself" 4: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being, human] 5: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana" 6: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you" 7: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man] 8: a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man" [ant: woman] 9: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Man, Isle of Man] 10: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" [syn: man, piece] 11: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man] v 1: take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning" 2: provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks"; "Students were manning the booths"
  • marksman
    n 1: someone skilled in shooting [syn: marksman, sharpshooter, crack shot]
  • merchantman
    n 1: a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship]
  • midshipman
    n 1: a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training
  • militiaman
    n 1: a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies
  • milkman
    n 1: someone who delivers milk
  • nobleman
    n 1: a titled peer of the realm [syn: Lord, noble, nobleman] [ant: Lady, noblewoman, peeress]
  • oarsman
    n 1: someone who rows a boat [syn: oarsman, rower]
  • ombudsman
    n 1: a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government
  • omen
    n 1: a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy] v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]
  • outdoorsman
    n 1: a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing)
  • packman
    n 1: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar, packman, hawker, pitchman]
  • pan
    n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn: pan, cooking pan] 2: (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn: Pan, goat god] 3: shallow container made of metal 4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids [syn: Pan, genus Pan] v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room" 2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals [syn: pan, pan out, pan off] 3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance" [syn: pan, tear apart, trash]
  • patrolman
    n 1: a policeman who patrols a given region [syn: flatfoot, patrolman]
  • penman
    n 1: informal terms for journalists [syn: scribe, scribbler, penman]
  • pitchman
    n 1: an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something 2: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar, packman, hawker, pitchman]
  • pitman
    n 1: English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897) [syn: Pitman, Sir Isaac Pitman] 2: someone who works in a coal mine [syn: coal miner, collier, pitman]
  • plainsman
    n 1: an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America)
  • plan
    n 1: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan, program, programme] 2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design, plan] 3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were on file" [syn: plan, architectural plan] v 1: have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" [syn: plan, be after] 2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his family" 3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design] 4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum" [syn: design, plan]
  • policeman
    n 1: a member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer" [syn: policeman, police officer, officer]
  • postman
    n 1: a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier]
  • predetermine
    v 1: determine beforehand 2: cause to be biased [syn: bias, predetermine]
  • pressman
    n 1: someone whose occupation is printing [syn: printer, pressman] 2: a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]
  • regimen
    n 1: (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) [syn: regimen, regime]
  • rifleman
    n 1: someone skilled in the use of a rifle 2: a soldier whose weapon is a rifle
  • roundsman
    n 1: a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on)
  • salesman
    n 1: a man salesperson