Words that rhyme with calker

n 1: a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos" 2: a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring; "the country is an economic backwater"

n 1: a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play 2: a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process [syn: blocker, blocking agent]

n 1: a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away [syn: breakwater, groin, groyne, mole, bulwark, seawall, jetty]

n 1: a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds [syn: cauliflower, Brassica oleracea botrytis] 2: compact head of white undeveloped flowers

n 1: a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England [syn: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel, cocker] v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]

n 1: (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person; "that story was a corker" 2: a machine that is used to put corks in bottles

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

n 1: a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her old age" [syn: daughter, girl] [ant: boy, son]

n 1: a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters

n 1: water in which dishes and cooking utensils are washed

n 1: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper]

n 1: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar, packman, hawker, pitchman] 2: a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry [syn: falconer, hawker]

n 1: (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person 2: a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open the door and see who the knocker is" 3: one who disparages or belittles the worth of something [syn: detractor, disparager, depreciator, knocker] 4: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman [syn: breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty] 5: a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door [syn: knocker, doorknocker, rapper]

n 1: a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock [syn: cabinet, locker, storage locker] 2: a fastener that locks or closes 3: a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) [syn: footlocker, locker]

n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller]

n 1: someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision [syn: scoffer, flouter, mocker, jeerer] 2: long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds [syn: mockingbird, mocker, Mimus polyglotktos]

n 1: a pig fattened to provide meat

n 1: an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle 2: a performer or composer or fan of rock music [syn: rocker, rock 'n' roll musician] 3: a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles 4: a chair mounted on rockers [syn: rocking chair, rocker] 5: a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold [syn: rocker, cradle] 6: an ice skate with a curved blade 7: a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro

n 1: a shockingly bad person 2: a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)

n 1: the killing of animals (as for food) 2: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping] 3: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery] v 1: kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" [syn: butcher, slaughter] 2: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: massacre, slaughter, mow down]

n 1: a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal [syn: soccer, association football]

n 1: someone who walks with long stiff strides 2: someone who stalks game 3: someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions [syn: prowler, sneak, stalker]

n 1: a domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a breeding establishment

n 1: a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets [syn: streetwalker, street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern]

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]

n 1: New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952) [syn: Walker, John Walker] 2: United States writer (born in 1944) [syn: Walker, Alice Walker, Alice Malsenior Walker] 3: a person who travels by foot [syn: pedestrian, walker, footer] 4: a shoe designed for comfortable walking 5: a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk [syn: walker, Zimmer, Zimmer frame] 6: an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk [syn: walker, baby-walker, go-cart]

n 1: binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent [syn: water, H2O] 2: the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" [syn: body of water, water] 3: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) 4: a facility that provides a source of water; "the town debated the purification of the water supply"; "first you have to cut off the water" [syn: water system, water supply, water] 5: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water] 6: a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water" v 1: supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields" [syn: water, irrigate] 2: provide with water; "We watered the buffalo" 3: secrete or form water, as tears or saliva; "My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner"; "His eyes watered" 4: fill with tears; "His eyes were watering"

n 1: a person who refuses to comply [syn: balker, baulker, noncompliant]

n 1: Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936) [syn: Garcia Lorca, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Lorca]

n 1: the largest of the Balearic Islands