Words that rhyme with brighter

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

n 1: one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel [syn: defamer, maligner, slanderer, vilifier, libeler, backbiter, traducer]

n 1: someone who plays the bagpipe [syn: piper, bagpiper]

adv 1: comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.; "She had never sung better"; "a deed better left undone"; "better suited to the job" 2: from a position of superiority or authority; "father knows best"; "I know better." [syn: better, best] adj 1: (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another; "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"; "a better coat"; "a better type of car"; "a suit with a better fit"; "a better chance of success"; "produced a better mousetrap"; "she's better in math than in history" [ant: worse] 2: (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness; "her health is better now"; "I feel better" [ant: worse, worsened] 3: (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be better to speak to him"; "the White House thought it best not to respond" [syn: better(p), best(p)] 4: more than half; "argued for the better part of an hour" n 1: something superior in quality or condition or effect; "a change for the better" 2: someone who bets [syn: bettor, better, wagerer, punter] 3: a superior person having claim to precedence; "the common man has been kept in his place by his betters" 4: the superior one of two alternatives; "chose the better of the two" v 1: surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record" [syn: better, break] 2: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen] 3: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: decline, worsen]

n 1: someone who bites

n 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly] 2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke]

n 1: someone who fights bulls [syn: bullfighter, toreador]

n 1: a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy

n 1: a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics [syn: splitter, divider] [ant: lumper] 2: a person who separates something into parts or groups 3: a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) [syn: partition, divider] 4: a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements

n 1: someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper] 2: a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air [syn: fighter, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft] 3: someone who fights for a cause [syn: champion, fighter, hero, paladin]

n 1: aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces [syn: glider, sailplane]

n 1: a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) [syn: hiker, tramp, tramper]

n 1: a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire [syn: igniter, ignitor, lighter] 2: a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires; "do you have a light?" [syn: lighter, light, igniter, ignitor] 3: a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) [syn: barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter] v 1: transport in a flatbottom boat

n 1: joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner [syn: miter joint, mitre joint, miter, mitre] 2: the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made; "he covered the miter with glue before making the joint" [syn: miter, mitre] 3: a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions [syn: miter, mitre]

n 1: (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive [syn: potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre, niter, nitre]

n 1: a guest who stays overnight 2: a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight [syn: overnighter, overnight bag, overnight case]

n 1: a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel) 2: a clause that is appended to a legislative bill 3: a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle) 4: a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it [syn: passenger, rider]

n 1: a person who walks rapidly with long steps; "he was such a strider that she couldn't keep up without running"

n 1: a forward on a soccer team 2: someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating 3: an employee on strike against an employer 4: someone who hits; "a hard hitter"; "a fine striker of the ball"; "blacksmiths are good hitters" [syn: hitter, striker] 5: the part of a mechanical device that strikes something

n 1: a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service; "he's a four-striper" 2: caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States [syn: striped bass, striper] 3: marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone [syn: striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis, rockfish]

n 1: a fierce or audacious person; "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me" 2: large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered [syn: tiger, Panthera tigris]

n 1: the concentration of a solution as determined by titration [syn: titer, titre]

n 1: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) [syn: writer, author] 2: a person who is able to write and has written something

n 1: joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner [syn: miter joint, mitre joint, miter, mitre] 2: the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made; "he covered the miter with glue before making the joint" [syn: miter, mitre] 3: a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions [syn: miter, mitre] v 1: bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint 2: confer a miter on (a bishop) 3: fit together in a miter joint

n 1: (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive [syn: potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre, niter, nitre]

n 1: the concentration of a solution as determined by titration [syn: titer, titre]

n 1: German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969) [syn: Reiter, Hans Conrad Julius Reiter]