Words that rhyme with cater

• fetor 5
  n 1: a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant [syn: malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor, mephitis]
• narrator 4
  n 1: someone who tells a story [syn: narrator, storyteller, teller]
• lachrymator 1
  n 1: a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds [syn: tear gas, teargas, lacrimator, lachrymator]
• abdicator 0
  n 1: one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility
• abnegator 0
  n 1: one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something
• abominator 0
  n 1: one who hates or loathes [syn: abominator, loather]
• accelerator 0
  n 1: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun] 2: a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine [syn: accelerator, throttle, throttle valve] 3: (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected [syn: catalyst, accelerator] [ant: anticatalyst] 4: a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles [syn: accelerator, particle accelerator, atom smasher]
• activator 0
  n 1: (biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription [ant: inhibitor]
• actuator 0
  n 1: a mechanism that puts something into automatic action
• adder 0
  n 1: a person who adds numbers 2: a machine that adds numbers 3: small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia [syn: adder, common viper, Vipera berus]
• adjudicator 0
  n 1: a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes
• administrator 0
  n 1: someone who administers a business [syn: administrator, decision maker] 2: the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor 3: someone who manages a government agency or department [syn: administrator, executive]
• adulterator 0
  n 1: any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance; "it is necessary to remove the adulterants before use" [syn: adulterant, adulterator] 2: a changer who lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance
• advocator 0
  n 1: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent]
• aerator 0
  n 1: an apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage)
• agitator 0
  n 1: one who agitates; a political troublemaker [syn: agitator, fomenter]
• alienator 0
  n 1: an unpleasant person who causes friendly people to become indifferent or unfriendly or hostile
• alleviator 0
  n 1: a therapist who makes suffering more endurable 2: remedy that alleviates pain without curing [syn: palliative, alleviant, alleviator]
• alligator 0
  n 1: leather made from alligator's hide 2: either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts [syn: alligator, gator] v 1: crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes
• alternator 0
  n 1: an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles)
• amphitheatre 0
  n 1: a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) [syn: amphitheater, amphitheatre] 2: an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held [syn: amphitheater, amphitheatre, coliseum]
• animator 0
  n 1: someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people [syn: energizer, energiser, vitalizer, vitaliser, animator] 2: the technician who produces animated cartoons
• annihilator 0
  n 1: a total destroyer
• annotator 0
  n 1: a commentator who writes notes to a text
• anticipator 0
  n 1: one who anticipates [syn: anticipator, anticipant]
• antimatter 0
  n 1: matter consisting of elementary particles that are the antiparticles of those making up normal substances
• applicator 0
  n 1: a device for applying a substance [syn: applicator, applier]
• appreciator 0
  n 1: a person who is fully aware of something and understands it; "he is not an appreciator of our dilemma"
• appropriator 0
  n 1: someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission)
• arbitrator 0
  n 1: 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]
• are 0
  n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]
• articulator 0
  n 1: someone who pronounces words 2: a movable speech organ
• aspirator 0
  n 1: a pump that draws air or another gas through a liquid
• assassinator 0
  n 1: a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors" [syn: assassin, assassinator, bravo]
• attacker 0
  n 1: someone who attacks [syn: attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter]
• attar 0
  n 1: essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers [syn: attar, atar, athar, ottar]
• attenuator 0
  n 1: an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal
• authenticator 0
  n 1: one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity [syn: appraiser, authenticator]
• aviator 0
  n 1: someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer]
• backer 0
  n 1: invests in a theatrical production [syn: angel, backer]
• baker 0
  n 1: someone who bakes commercially 2: someone who bakes bread or cake [syn: baker, bread maker]
• batter 0
  n 1: (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting [syn: batter, hitter, slugger, batsman] 2: a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking v 1: strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" [syn: buffet, knock about, batter] 2: strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" [syn: clobber, baste, batter] 3: make a dent or impression in; "dinge a soft hat" [syn: dinge, batter]
• bespatter 0
  v 1: spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food" [syn: spatter, bespatter]
• blabber 0
  n 1: one who reveals confidential information in return for money [syn: informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
• bladder 0
  n 1: a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) [syn: bladder, vesica] 2: a bag that fills with air
• blotter 0
  n 1: absorbent paper used to dry ink [syn: blotting paper, blotter] 2: the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station [syn: blotter, day book, police blotter, rap sheet, charge sheet]
• bookmaker 0
  n 1: a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books 2: a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) [syn: bookmaker, bookie]
• bragger 0
  n 1: a very boastful and talkative person [syn: bragger, braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter, vaunter]
• breaker 0
  n 1: a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone [syn: breaker, ledgeman] 2: waves breaking on the shore [syn: surf, breaker, breakers] 3: a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded [syn: circuit breaker, breaker]
• bushwhacker 0
  n 1: a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person [syn: hillbilly, bushwhacker] 2: a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War
• cabinetmaker 0
  n 1: a woodworker who specializes in making furniture [syn: cabinetmaker, furniture maker]
• calculator 0
  n 1: an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) [syn: calculator, reckoner, figurer, estimator, computer] 2: a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations [syn: calculator, calculating machine]
• caper 0
  n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis 2: pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces 3: a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" [syn: caper, job] 4: a playful leap or hop [syn: caper, capriole] 5: gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly" [syn: play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper] 6: a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement [syn: antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on] v 1: jump about playfully
• caretaker 0
  n 1: a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person) 2: an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily; "he acted as a caretaker until a new president could be elected"
• carpetbagger 0
  n 1: an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"
• catcher 0
  n 1: (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher [syn: catcher, backstop] 2: the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "a catcher plays behind the plate"
• caterer 0
  n 1: someone who provides food and service (as for a party)
• celebrator 0
  n 1: a person who is celebrating [syn: celebrant, celebrator, celebrater]
• chatter 0
  n 1: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle] 2: the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine [syn: chatter, chattering] 3: the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) [syn: chatter, chattering] v 1: click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth" [syn: chatter, click] 2: cut unevenly with a chattering tool 3: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit] 4: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble] 5: make noise as if chattering away; "The magpies were chattering in the trees"
• clabber 0
  n 1: raw milk that has soured and thickened v 1: turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clabber, clot] [ant: homogenise, homogenize]
• clapper 0
  n 1: someone who applauds [syn: clapper, applauder] 2: a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity [syn: tongue, lingua, glossa, clapper] 3: metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side [syn: clapper, tongue]
• clatter 0
  n 1: a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement); "the shutters clattered against the house"; "the clatter of iron wheels on cobblestones" v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter, clack, brattle]
• collaborator 0
  n 1: someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate, collaborator, henchman, partner in crime] 2: someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force [syn: collaborator, collaborationist, quisling] 3: an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; "sexual partners" [syn: collaborator, cooperator, partner, pardner]
• collimator 0
  n 1: a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one 2: optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam
• commentator 0
  n 1: an expert who observes and comments on something [syn: observer, commentator] 2: a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day [syn: commentator, reviewer]
• communicator 0
  n 1: a person who communicates with others
• conciliator 0
  n 1: someone who tries to bring peace [syn: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler]
• conservator 0
  n 1: the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) [syn: curator, conservator] 2: someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
• coordinator 0
  n 1: someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously
• cowcatcher 0
  n 1: an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track [syn: fender, buffer, cowcatcher, pilot]
• cracker 0
  n 1: a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet 2: a poor White person in the southern United States [syn: redneck, cracker] 3: a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; "crackers are often mistakenly called hackers" 4: firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing [syn: firecracker, cracker, banger] 5: a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends [syn: cracker, snapper, cracker bonbon]
• crater 0
  n 1: a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano [syn: volcanic crater, crater] 2: a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus 3: a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb
• creator 0
  n 1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah] 2: a person who grows or makes or invents things
• crusader 0
  n 1: a disputant who advocates reform [syn: reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist] 2: a warrior who engages in a holy war; "the Crusaders tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims"
• cultivator 0
  n 1: someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil [syn: agriculturist, agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser] 2: a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) [syn: cultivator, tiller]
• curator 0
  n 1: the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) [syn: curator, conservator]
• dagger 0
  n 1: a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing [syn: dagger, sticker] 2: a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote [syn: dagger, obelisk]
• dapper 0
  adj 1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce]
• data 0
  n 1: a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data" [syn: data, information]
• debater 0
  n 1: someone who engages in debate [syn: debater, arguer]
• decorator 0
  n 1: a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings [syn: interior designer, designer, interior decorator, house decorator, room decorator, decorator] 2: someone who decorates [syn: decorator, ornamentalist]
• defalcator 0
  n 1: someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use [syn: embezzler, defalcator, peculator]
• deflator 0
  n 1: a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation; inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars
• defoliator 0
  n 1: an insect that strips the leaves from plants
• demonstrator 0
  n 1: a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught 2: someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer [syn: demonstrator, sales demonstrator] 3: someone who participates in a public display of group feeling [syn: demonstrator, protester]
• denominator 0
  n 1: the divisor of a fraction
• detonator 0
  n 1: a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive [syn: detonator, detonating device, cap]
• dictator 0
  n 1: a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine 2: a ruler who is unconstrained by law [syn: dictator, potentate] 3: a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime" [syn: authoritarian, dictator]
• differentiator 0
  n 1: a person who (or that which) differentiates [syn: differentiator, discriminator]
• dilator 0
  n 1: a muscle or nerve that dilates or widens a body part 2: a drug that causes dilation 3: a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ [syn: dilator, dilater]
• discriminator 0
  n 1: a person who (or that which) differentiates [syn: differentiator, discriminator]
• dispatcher 0
  n 1: the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition [syn: starter, dispatcher] 2: employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service
• disseminator 0
  n 1: someone who spreads the news [syn: propagator, disseminator]
• dragger 0
  n 1: someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something [syn: puller, tugger, dragger] 2: a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish [syn: trawler, dragger]
• draper 0
  n 1: a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)
• dressmaker 0
  n 1: someone who makes or mends dresses [syn: dressmaker, modiste, needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress]
• dumbwaiter 0
  n 1: a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another [syn: dumbwaiter, food elevator]
• duplicator 0
  n 1: apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material [syn: duplicator, copier]
• educator 0
  n 1: someone who educates young people [syn: educator, pedagogue, pedagog]
• elevator 0
  n 1: lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building [syn: elevator, lift] 2: the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend

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