Words that rhyme with curr

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]

n 1: a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving [syn: anchor, ground tackle] 2: a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" [syn: anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin] 3: a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute [syn: anchor, anchorman, anchorperson] v 1: fix firmly and stably; "anchor the lamppost in concrete" [syn: anchor, ground] 2: secure a vessel with an anchor; "We anchored at Baltimore" [syn: anchor, cast anchor, drop anchor]

n 1: invests in a theatrical production [syn: angel, backer]

n 1: someone who bakes commercially 2: someone who bakes bread or cake [syn: baker, bread maker]

n 1: a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank 2: the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game

n 1: someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers 2: informal terms for dogs [syn: pooch, doggie, doggy, barker, bow-wow]

n 1: a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry 2: a cup (usually without a handle)

n 1: one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury [syn: berserker, berserk]

n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss] v 1: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble]

n 1: a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages [syn: blinker, flasher] 2: a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn [syn: blinker, turn signal, turn indicator, trafficator] 3: blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side [syn: winker, blinker, blinder] v 1: put blinders on (a horse)

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: carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end [syn: leech, bloodsucker, hirudinean]

n 1: Prussian general who is remembered for his leadership in the wars against Napoleon (1742-1819) [syn: Blucher, von Blucher, G. L. von Blucher, Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher] 2: a high shoe with laces over the tongue

n 1: any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable; "that old bike without rubber tires was a real boneshaker"

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]

n 1: someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect [syn: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler, truckler]

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]

n 1: a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission [syn: agent, factor, broker] v 1: act as a broker

n 1: a hazard on a golf course [syn: bunker, sand trap, trap] 2: a large container for storing fuel; "the ship's bunkers were full of coal" 3: a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground [syn: bunker, dugout] v 1: hit a golf ball into a bunker 2: fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil 3: transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse

n 1: a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person [syn: hillbilly, bushwhacker] 2: a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War

n 1: a woodworker who specializes in making furniture [syn: cabinetmaker, furniture maker]

n 1: a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark 2: an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth) [syn: canker, canker sore] 3: a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst" [syn: pestilence, canker] v 1: become infected with a canker 2: infect with a canker

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"

n 1: someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) [syn: social worker, caseworker, welfare worker]

n 1: a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)

n 1: an attendant who checks coats or baggage 2: one who checks the correctness of something 3: one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers [syn: checker, chequer] v 1: mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on [syn: check, checker, chequer] 2: variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns [syn: checker, chequer]

n 1: one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers [syn: checker, chequer] v 1: mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on [syn: check, checker, chequer] 2: variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns [syn: checker, chequer]

n 1: someone who kills by strangling [syn: garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler, choker] 2: an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation; "he could win if he wasn't a choker" 3: necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck [syn: choker, collar, dog collar, neckband] 4: a high tight collar [syn: choker, ruff, ruffle, neck ruff]

n 1: a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [syn: cinder, clinker] 2: a hard brick used as a paving stone [syn: clinker, clinker brick] v 1: clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the fire frequently" 2: turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning

n 1: someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches [syn: clocksmith, clockmaker]

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: the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut [syn: buckeye, horse chestnut, conker]

v 1: to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" [syn: suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb] 2: take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle" [syn: appropriate, capture, seize, conquer] 3: overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country"

n 1: a utensil for cooking

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: 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]

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

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

v 1: negotiate the terms of an exchange; "We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar" [syn: dicker, bargain]

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 makes or mends dresses [syn: dressmaker, modiste, needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress]

n 1: a person who drinks liquids 2: a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) [syn: drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer] [ant: abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker]

n 1: an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it; "he was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup of coffee to dunk it in" 2: a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots 3: an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion) [syn: Dunker, Dunkard, Tunker]

n 1: (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets

n 1: a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand [syn: euchre, five hundred]

n 1: the funds of a government or institution or individual [syn: treasury, exchequer]

n 1: firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing [syn: firecracker, cracker, banger]

n 1: a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver [syn: flanker back, flanker] 2: a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation

n 1: a momentary flash of light [syn: flicker, spark, glint] 2: North American woodpecker 3: the act of moving back and forth [syn: waver, flutter, flicker] v 1: move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered" [syn: flicker, waver, flitter, flutter, quiver] 2: shine unsteadily; "The candle flickered" [syn: flicker, flick] 3: flash intermittently; "The lights flicked on and off" [syn: flicker, flick]

n 1: an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems; "a floorwalker is called a shopwalker in Britain" [syn: floorwalker, shopwalker]

n 1: 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 believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it [syn: deist, freethinker]

n 1: someone who cuts flat glass to size [syn: glass cutter, glass-cutter, glassworker, glazier, glazer]

n 1: mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects [syn: goatsucker, nightjar, caprimulgid]

n 1: someone who plays golf poorly 2: a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber- terrorism [syn: hacker, cyber-terrorist, cyberpunk] 3: a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm; "true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers" 4: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge, hacker]

v 1: desire strongly or persistently [syn: hanker, long, yearn]

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: a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying [syn: haymaker, hay conditioner] 2: a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing [syn: haymaker, knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch]

n 1: a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it [syn: highjacker, highwayman, hijacker, road agent] 2: someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination [syn: highjacker, hijacker]

n 1: a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income [syn: housewife, homemaker, lady of the house, woman of the house]

n 1: United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879) [syn: Hooker, Joseph Hooker, Fighting Joe Hooker] 2: English theologian (1554-1600) [syn: Hooker, Richard Hooker] 3: a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets [syn: streetwalker, street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern] 4: a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) 5: (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot

n 1: a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house [syn: housebreaker, cat burglar] 2: a wrecker of houses; "in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker" [syn: housewrecker, housebreaker]

v 1: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down]

n 1: a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation [syn: icebreaker, iceboat] 2: a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere; "he told jokes as an icebreaker"

v 1: make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to; "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health" 2: receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive, get, find, obtain, incur]

n 1: a person who makes articles of iron

n 1: a large round hard candy 2: a word that is hard to pronounce

n 1: a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes [syn: joker, jokester] 2: a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway" [syn: joker, turkey] 3: an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent; "when I demanded my money he showed me the joker in the contract" 4: a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester

n 1: a player who kicks the football

n 1: English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471) [syn: Warwick, Earl of Warwick, Richard Neville, Kingmaker] 2: an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence; "the Earl of Warwick was the first kingmaker"

n 1: someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them 2: someone who buys up old horses for slaughter

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 black resinous substance obtained from certain trees and used as a natural varnish 2: a hard glossy coating v 1: coat with lacquer; "A lacquered box from China"

n 1: an East Indian sailor 2: a volcano in the Andes in Chile

n 1: someone who violates the law [syn: violator, lawbreaker, law offender]

n 1: a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws [syn: lawgiver, lawmaker]

n 1: a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen [syn: linebacker, line backer] 2: (American football) the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage [syn: linebacker, line backer]

n 1: an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented [syn: liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink] 2: a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; "waste liquors" 3: the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked [syn: liquor, pot liquor, pot likker]

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: electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: loudspeaker, speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system]

n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 2: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) [syn: net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings]

n 1: a person who makes things [syn: maker, shaper] 2: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah] 3: a business engaged in manufacturing some product [syn: manufacturer, maker, manufacturing business]

n 1: some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something; "the buoys were markers for the channel" 2: a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep" [syn: marker, marking, mark] 3: a writing implement for making a mark

n 1: a participant in a masquerade [syn: masquerader, masker, masquer]

n 1: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery] v 1: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: massacre, slaughter, mow down]

n 1: someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others [syn: matchmaker, matcher, marriage broker]

n 1: a celebrant who shares in a noisy party; "the clubs attract revelers as young as thirteen" [syn: reveler, reveller, merrymaker]

n 1: cattle that are reared for their milk [syn: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milk cow, milcher, milker]

n 1: laborer who works in a mine [syn: miner, mineworker]

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: someone who is successful in accumulating wealth 2: a project that generates a continuous flow of money [syn: moneymaker, money-spinner, cash cow]

n 1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]

n 1: the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell [syn: mother-of-pearl, nacre]

n 1: terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers [syn: earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, crawler, dew worm, red worm]

n 1: a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration

n 1: a compound lever used to crack nuts open 2: any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects [syn: nuthatch, nutcracker] 3: speckled birds that feed on nuts

v 1: come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" [syn: happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place] 2: come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her" [syn: occur, come] 3: to be found to exist; "sexism occurs in many workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"

adj 1: of a moderate orange-yellow color [syn: ocher, ochre] n 1: any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment [syn: ocher, ochre] 2: a moderate yellow-orange to orange color [syn: ocher, ochre]

n 1: a leading instance in its field; "the new policy will be a pacesetter in community relations" [syn: pacesetter, pacemaker] 2: a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat [syn: pacemaker, cardiac pacemaker, sinoatrial node, SA node] 3: an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker [syn: pacemaker, artificial pacemaker] 4: a horse used to set the pace in racing [syn: pacer, pacemaker, pacesetter]

n 1: a workman employed to pack things into containers [syn: packer, bagger, boxer] 2: a wholesaler in the meat-packing business [syn: meat packer, packer] 3: a hiker who wears a backpack [syn: backpacker, packer]