Words that rhyme with commentator

  • resuscitator
    n 1: a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration
  • administrator
    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]
  • abdicator
    n 1: one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility
  • abnegator
    n 1: one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something
  • abominator
    n 1: one who hates or loathes [syn: abominator, loather]
  • accelerator
    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]
  • acre
    n 1: a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries 2: a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru 3: a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean [syn: Acre, Akko, Akka, Accho]
  • actuator
    n 1: a mechanism that puts something into automatic action
  • adder
    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
    n 1: a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes
  • adulterator
    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
  • aerator
    n 1: an apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage)
  • agitator
    n 1: one who agitates; a political troublemaker [syn: agitator, fomenter]
  • alienator
    n 1: an unpleasant person who causes friendly people to become indifferent or unfriendly or hostile
  • alleviator
    n 1: a therapist who makes suffering more endurable 2: remedy that alleviates pain without curing [syn: palliative, alleviant, alleviator]
  • alligator
    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
    n 1: an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles)
  • animator
    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
  • annotator
    n 1: a commentator who writes notes to a text
  • anticipator
    n 1: one who anticipates [syn: anticipator, anticipant]
  • applicator
    n 1: a device for applying a substance [syn: applicator, applier]
  • appreciator
    n 1: a person who is fully aware of something and understands it; "he is not an appreciator of our dilemma"
  • appropriator
    n 1: someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission)
  • arbitrator
    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]
  • aspirator
    n 1: a pump that draws air or another gas through a liquid
  • assassinator
    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]
  • attenuator
    n 1: an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal
  • authenticator
    n 1: one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity [syn: appraiser, authenticator]
  • aviator
    n 1: someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer]
  • backer
    n 1: invests in a theatrical production [syn: angel, backer]
  • baker
    n 1: someone who bakes commercially 2: someone who bakes bread or cake [syn: baker, bread maker]
  • batter
    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]
  • blabber
    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
    n 1: a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) [syn: bladder, vesica] 2: a bag that fills with air
  • bragger
    n 1: a very boastful and talkative person [syn: bragger, braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter, vaunter]
  • breaker
    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]
  • caper
    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
  • catcher
    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"
  • cater
    v 1: give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" [syn: provide, supply, ply, cater] 2: supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets
  • celebrator
    n 1: a person who is celebrating [syn: celebrant, celebrator, celebrater]
  • chatter
    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
    n 1: raw milk that has soured and thickened v 1: turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clabber, clot] [ant: homogenise, homogenize]
  • clapper
    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
    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]
  • collimator
    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
  • communicator
    n 1: a person who communicates with others
  • conciliator
    n 1: someone who tries to bring peace [syn: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler]
  • conservator
    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
    n 1: someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously
  • cracker
    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
    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
    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
  • cultivator
    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
    n 1: the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) [syn: curator, conservator]
  • dagger
    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
    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
    n 1: a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data" [syn: data, information]
  • debater
    n 1: someone who engages in debate [syn: debater, arguer]
  • decorator
    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
    n 1: someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use [syn: embezzler, defalcator, peculator]
  • deflator
    n 1: a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation; inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars
  • defoliator
    n 1: an insect that strips the leaves from plants
  • demonstrator
    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
    n 1: the divisor of a fraction
  • detonator
    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
    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
    n 1: a person who (or that which) differentiates [syn: differentiator, discriminator]
  • discriminator
    n 1: a person who (or that which) differentiates [syn: differentiator, discriminator]
  • disseminator
    n 1: someone who spreads the news [syn: propagator, disseminator]
  • dumbwaiter
    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
    n 1: apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material [syn: duplicator, copier]
  • educator
    n 1: someone who educates young people [syn: educator, pedagogue, pedagog]
  • elevator
    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
  • eliminator
    n 1: an agent that eliminates something
  • emancipator
    n 1: someone who frees others from bondage; "Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator" [syn: emancipator, manumitter]
  • equivocator
    n 1: a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer [syn: hedger, equivocator, tergiversator]
  • eradicator
    n 1: someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) [syn: exterminator, terminator, eradicator]
  • estimator
    n 1: an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) [syn: calculator, reckoner, figurer, estimator, computer]
  • evaluator
    n 1: an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality [syn: evaluator, judge]
  • excavator
    n 1: a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying 2: a machine for excavating [syn: power shovel, excavator, digger, shovel]
  • expurgator
    n 1: a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages; "Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator" [syn: expurgator, bowdlerizer, bowdleriser]
  • exterminator
    n 1: someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) [syn: exterminator, terminator, eradicator]
  • fabricator
    n 1: someone who tells lies [syn: storyteller, fibber, fabricator]
  • facilitator
    n 1: someone who makes progress easier
  • fornicator
    n 1: someone who commits adultery or fornication [syn: adulterer, fornicator]
  • freighter
    n 1: a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship]
  • fumigator
    n 1: someone whose job is to fumigate 2: a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests
  • gaiter
    n 1: a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles [syn: spat, gaiter] 2: a shoe covering the ankle with elastic gores in the sides 3: legging consisting of a cloth or leather covering for the leg from the knee to the ankle
  • gator
    n 1: either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts [syn: alligator, gator]
  • generator
    n 1: an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas 2: engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction 3: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" [syn: generator, source, author] 4: an electronic device for producing a signal voltage
  • gladiator
    n 1: (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat 2: a professional boxer [syn: prizefighter, gladiator]
  • grater
    n 1: utensil with sharp perforations for shredding foods (as vegetables or cheese)
  • greater
    adj 1: greater in size or importance or degree; "for the greater good of the community"; "the greater Antilles" [ant: lesser]
  • hater
    n 1: a person who hates
  • illustrator
    n 1: an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.)
  • imitator
    n 1: someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another [syn: impersonator, imitator] 2: someone who copies the words or behavior of another [syn: copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, aper]
  • impersonator
    n 1: someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another [syn: impersonator, imitator]
  • imprimatur
    n 1: formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement, indorsement, warrant, imprimatur]
  • incinerator
    n 1: a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse)
  • incubator
    n 1: apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants [syn: incubator, brooder]

See also commentator definition and commentator synonyms