Words that rhyme with deader

n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]

n 1: a pauper who lives by begging [syn: beggar, mendicant] v 1: be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!" 2: reduce to beggary [syn: beggar, pauperize, pauperise]

adv 1: comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.; "She had never sung better"; "a deed better left undone"; "better suited to the job" 2: from a position of superiority or authority; "father knows best"; "I know better." [syn: better, best] adj 1: (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another; "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"; "a better coat"; "a better type of car"; "a suit with a better fit"; "a better chance of success"; "produced a better mousetrap"; "she's better in math than in history" [ant: worse] 2: (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness; "her health is better now"; "I feel better" [ant: worse, worsened] 3: (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be better to speak to him"; "the White House thought it best not to respond" [syn: better(p), best(p)] 4: more than half; "argued for the better part of an hour" n 1: something superior in quality or condition or effect; "a change for the better" 2: someone who bets [syn: bettor, better, wagerer, punter] 3: a superior person having claim to precedence; "the common man has been kept in his place by his betters" 4: the superior one of two alternatives; "chose the better of the two" v 1: surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record" [syn: better, break] 2: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen] 3: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: decline, worsen]

n 1: someone who bets [syn: bettor, better, wagerer, punter]

n 1: someone who makes or sells illegal liquor [syn: bootlegger, moonshiner]

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: a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made 2: hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England [syn: cheddar, cheddar cheese, Armerican cheddar, American cheese]

n 1: a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt [syn: debtor, debitor] [ant: creditor]

n 1: two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) [syn: twin bill, doubleheader, double feature]

n 1: a shackle for the ankles or feet [syn: fetter, hobble] v 1: restrain with fetters [syn: fetter, shackle]

n 1: prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625) [syn: Fletcher, John Fletcher]

n 1: a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" [syn: heading, header, head] 2: horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window [syn: header, lintel] 3: brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall [syn: header, coping, cope] 4: a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters 5: a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon 6: (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head 7: a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery"

n 1: man with strong sexual desires [syn: satyr, lecher, lech, letch]

n 1: a person afflicted with leprosy [syn: leper, lazar] 2: a pariah who is avoided by others

n 1: a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor" [syn: letter, missive] 2: the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" [syn: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character] 3: owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire 4: a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention); "he followed instructions to the letter"; "he obeyed the letter of the law" 5: an award earned by participation in a school sport; "he won letters in three sports" [syn: letter, varsity letter] v 1: win an athletic letter 2: set down or print with letters 3: mark letters on or mark with letters

n 1: climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam [syn: pepper, common pepper, black pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum] 2: any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers [syn: capsicum, pepper, capsicum pepper plant] 3: pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground [syn: pepper, peppercorn] 4: sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum v 1: add pepper to; "pepper the soup" 2: attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions" [syn: pepper, pelt]

n 1: one who sets written material into type [syn: compositor, typesetter, setter, typographer] 2: a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point

n 1: an attacker who sheds or spills blood; "a great hunter and spiller of blood" [syn: shedder, spiller]

n 1: a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them)

n 1: a hand tool for spreading something; "he used his knife as a spreader" 2: a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions [syn: broadcaster, spreader]

n 1: a professional dancer [syn: hoofer, stepper] 2: a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps [syn: stepper, stepping motor] 3: a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting [syn: stepper, high stepper]

n 1: a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting 2: a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it 3: a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles 4: a stone that forms the top of wall or building [syn: capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher]

n 1: a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body [syn: sweater, jumper] 2: a person who perspires [syn: perspirer, sweater]

n 1: a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved [syn: wetting agent, wetter, surfactant, surface-active agent] 2: a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process 3: someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed [syn: bedwetter, bed wetter, wetter]

n 1: someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job 2: someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks [syn: saboteur, wrecker, diversionist] 3: a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck, tow car, wrecker]

n 1: an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed [syn: bedder, bedding plant]

n 1: English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632) [syn: Dekker, Decker, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Decker] 2: (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels; "they rode in a double-decker bus"

n 1: a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one; "they are heavy petters" [syn: petter, fondler]

n 1: someone who rides a sled

n 1: a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops [syn: bodkin, threader]

n 1: tropical starchy tuberous root [syn: taro, taro root, cocoyam, dasheen, edda] 2: either of two distinct works in Old Icelandic dating from the late 13th century and consisting of 34 mythological and heroic ballads composed between 800 and 1200; the primary source for Scandinavian mythology