Words that rhyme with crossfire

• admire 0
  v 1: feel admiration for [syn: admire, look up to] [ant: look down on] 2: look at with admiration
• afire 0
  adj 1: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "houses on fire" [syn: ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), on fire(p)]
• amplifier 0
  n 1: electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it
• aspire 0
  v 1: have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal [syn: draw a bead on, aspire, aim, shoot for]
• backfire 0
  n 1: the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired [syn: blowback, backfire] 2: a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine 3: a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path 4: a miscalculation that recoils on its maker [syn: backfire, boomerang] v 1: come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble" [syn: backfire, backlash, recoil] 2: emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire; "My old car backfires all the time" 3: set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire
• bonfire 0
  n 1: a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration [syn: bonfire, balefire]
• campfire 0
  n 1: a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp)
• classifier 0
  n 1: a person who creates classifications 2: a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
• dire 0
  adj 1: fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency" [syn: desperate, dire] 2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
• drumfire 0
  n 1: intense and continuous artillery fire [syn: cannonade, drumfire]
• emulsifier 0
  n 1: a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion
• expire 0
  v 1: lose validity; "My passports expired last month" [syn: run out, expire] 2: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born] 3: expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" [syn: exhale, expire, breathe out] [ant: breathe in, inhale, inspire]
• fire 0
  n 1: the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire" 2: the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" [syn: fire, firing] 3: the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" [syn: fire, flame, flaming] 4: a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked" 5: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) 6: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" [syn: ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness] 7: fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking; "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire" 8: a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation" 9: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] v 1: start firing a weapon [syn: open fire, fire] 2: cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet" [syn: fire, discharge] 3: bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery" 4: 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] 5: go off or discharge; "The gun fired" [syn: fire, discharge, go off] 6: drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism" 7: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke] 8: destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries" [syn: burn, fire, burn down] 9: provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace" [syn: fuel, fire]
• gunfire 0
  n 1: the act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" [syn: gunfire, gunshot]
• hellfire 0
  n 1: a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned [syn: hellfire, red region]
• hire 0
  n 1: a newly hired employee; "the new hires need special training" 2: the act of hiring something or someone; "he signed up for a week's car hire" v 1: engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?" [syn: hire, engage, employ] [ant: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate] 2: hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services [syn: rent, hire, charter, lease] 3: engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take]
• inquire 0
  v 1: inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times" [syn: ask, inquire, enquire] 2: have a wish or desire to know something; "He wondered who had built this beautiful church" [syn: wonder, inquire, enquire] 3: conduct an inquiry or investigation of; "The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities"; "inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady" [syn: investigate, inquire, enquire]
• inspire 0
  v 1: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt] 2: supply the inspiration for; "The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work" 3: serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives" [syn: prompt, inspire, instigate] 4: spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" [syn: cheer, root on, inspire, urge, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep up] 5: fill with revolutionary ideas [syn: revolutionize, revolutionise, inspire] 6: draw in (air); "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well" [syn: inhale, inspire, breathe in] [ant: breathe out, exhale, expire]
• intensifier 0
  n 1: a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" [syn: intensifier, intensive]
• ire 0
  n 1: a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance [syn: anger, choler, ire] 2: belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: wrath, anger, ire, ira]
• justifier 0
  n 1: a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment" [syn: apologist, vindicator, justifier]
• lyre 0
  n 1: a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
• magnifier 0
  n 1: a scientific instrument that magnifies an image
• mire 0
  n 1: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack] 2: deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop" [syn: slop, mire] 3: a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty" v 1: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: entangle, mire] 2: cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" [syn: mire, bog down] 3: be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" [syn: grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire] 4: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" [syn: mire, muck, mud, muck up]
• misfire 0
  n 1: an explosion that fails to occur [syn: misfire, dud] 2: a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) [syn: miss, misfire] v 1: fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"
• modifier 0
  n 1: a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb [syn: modifier, qualifier] 2: a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising 3: a person who changes something; "an inveterate changer of the menu" [syn: changer, modifier] 4: a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene [syn: modifier, modifier gene]
• nullifier 0
  n 1: an advocate of nullification; someone who believes that a state can resist federal laws 2: an official who can invalidate or nullify; "my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was" [syn: invalidator, voider, nullifier]
• pacifier 0
  n 1: someone who tries to bring peace [syn: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler] 2: anything that serves to pacify 3: device used for an infant to suck or bite on [syn: comforter, pacifier, baby's dummy, teething ring]
• perspire 0
  v 1: excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat" [syn: sweat, sudate, perspire]
• purifier 0
  n 1: an apparatus for removing impurities
• qualifier 0
  n 1: a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition; "the tournament was won by a late qualifier" 2: a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb [syn: modifier, qualifier]
• quantifier 0
  n 1: (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition [syn: quantifier, logical quantifier] 2: (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many')
• quire 0
  n 1: a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets
• rectifier 0
  n 1: electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current 2: a person who corrects or sets right; "a rectifier of prejudices"
• retire 0
  v 1: go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; "He retired at age 68" 2: withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess" [syn: retire, withdraw] 3: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back] [ant: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress] 4: withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds 5: break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" [syn: adjourn, withdraw, retire] 6: make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal" 7: dispose of (something no longer useful or needed); "She finally retired that old coat" 8: lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died" [syn: retire, withdraw] 9: cause to be out on a fielding play [syn: put out, retire] 10: cause to get out; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base" [syn: retire, strike out] 11: prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire] [ant: arise, get up, rise, turn out, uprise]
• sapphire 0
  adj 1: of something having the color of a blue sapphire; "sapphire eyes" n 1: a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone 2: a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem 3: a light shade of blue [syn: azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue]
• shellfire 0
  n 1: shooting artillery shells
• shire 0
  n 1: a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county 2: British breed of large heavy draft horse [syn: shire, shire horse]
• signifier 0
  n 1: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" [syn: form, word form, signifier, descriptor]
• spire 0
  n 1: a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top [syn: steeple, spire]
• spitfire 0
  n 1: a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman)
• squire 0
  n 1: young nobleman attendant on a knight 2: an English country landowner 3: a man who attends or escorts a woman [syn: squire, gallant] v 1: attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire
• testifier 0
  n 1: a person who testifies or gives a deposition [syn: testifier, deponent, deposer]
• tyre 0
  n 1: a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks [syn: Sur, Tyre] 2: hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air" [syn: tire, tyre]
• verifier 0
  n 1: someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement [syn: voucher, verifier]
• versifier 0
  n 1: a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) [syn: rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser]
• wildfire 0
  n 1: a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
• wire 0
  n 1: ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc 2: a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance [syn: wire, conducting wire] 3: the finishing line on a racetrack 4: a message transmitted by telegraph [syn: telegram, wire] v 1: provide with electrical circuits; "wire the addition to the house" 2: send cables, wires, or telegrams [syn: cable, telegraph, wire] 3: fasten with wire; "The columns were wired to the beams for support" [ant: unwire] 4: string on a wire; "wire beads" 5: equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance" [syn: electrify, wire]
• samphire 0
  n 1: fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass [syn: glasswort, samphire, Salicornia europaea]
• beautifier 0
• brushfire 0
• ceasefire 0
• clarifier 0
• codifier 0
• dehumidifier 0
• fortifier 0
• foxfire 0
• glorifier 0
• humidifier 0
• indemnifier 0
• liquefier 0
• preamplifier 0
• sanctifier 0
• unifier 0
• sophia 0
• surefire 0
• rimfire 0
• granophyre 0
• defier 0
• portfire 0
• scarifier 0
• electrifier 0

See also crossfire definition