Words that rhyme with derbyshire

n 1: a coffin along with its stand; "we followed the bier to the graveyard" 2: a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial

n 1: someone whose occupation is catching fish [syn: fisherman, fisher] 2: large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal [syn: fisher, pekan, fisher cat, black cat, Martes pennanti]

n 1: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap] 2: a long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure] 3: (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes v 1: break into fissures or fine cracks

n 1: someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops" [syn: fugitive, runaway, fleer] 2: contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words v 1: to smirk contemptuously

n 1: nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish

n 1: civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army [syn: militia, reserves] 2: the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service; "their troops were untrained militia"; "Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia"--United States Constitution

n 1: a person who is of equal standing with another in a group [syn: peer, equal, match, compeer] 2: a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage v 1: look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around"

adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular] 2: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [syn: gay, queer, homophile(a)] n 1: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf] v 1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk] 2: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position [syn: queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril]

adj 1: located in or toward the back or rear; "the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward side" [syn: rear(a), rearward(a)] n 1: the back of a military formation or procession; "infantrymen were in the rear" [ant: head] 2: the side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel" [syn: rear, backside, back end] [ant: forepart, front, front end] 3: the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant: front] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back] [ant: front] v 1: stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; "The horse reared in terror" [syn: rear, rise up] 2: bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent] 3: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise, lift, rear] 4: cause to rise up [syn: rear, erect] 5: construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise, erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down]

adj 1: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines" [syn: dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered] v 1: make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside" [syn: sear, scorch] 2: become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames" [syn: scorch, sear, singe] 3: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch] 4: cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth" [syn: parch, sear]

n 1: a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: visionary, illusionist, seer] 2: an observer who perceives visually; "an incurable seer of movies" 3: an authoritative person who divines the future [syn: prophet, prophesier, oracle, seer, vaticinator]

adj 1: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines" [syn: dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered]

n 1: (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram" 2: a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it v 1: cut with shears; "shear hedges" 2: shear the wool from; "shear sheep" [syn: fleece, shear] 3: cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb" 4: become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

adv 1: straight up or down without a break [syn: sheer, perpendicularly] 2: directly; "he fell sheer into the water" adj 1: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out- and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)] 2: not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" [syn: plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed] 3: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock" [syn: bluff, bold, sheer] 4: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby] v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut] 2: cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"

n 1: slanderous defamation [syn: smear, vilification, malignment] 2: a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope [syn: smear, cytologic smear, cytosmear] 3: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur] 4: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain] v 1: stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance 2: make a smudge on; soil by smudging [syn: smear, blur, smudge, smutch] 3: cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster" [syn: daub, smear] 4: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn: defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch]

n 1: a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls [syn: sneer, leer] 2: a contemptuous or scornful remark v 1: express through a scornful smile; "she sneered her contempt" 2: smile contemptuously; "she sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano"

n 1: a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon [syn: spear, lance, shaft] 2: an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish [syn: spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance] v 1: pierce with a spear; "spear fish" 2: thrust up like a spear; "The branch speared up into the air" [syn: spear, spear up]

n 1: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena] 2: any spherically shaped artifact 3: the geographical area in which one nation is very influential [syn: sphere, sphere of influence] 4: a particular aspect of life or activity; "he was helpless in an important sector of his life" [syn: sector, sphere] 5: a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses) 6: a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center 7: the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected [syn: celestial sphere, sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin]

n 1: an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint] 2: castrated bull [syn: bullock, steer] v 1: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise] 2: direct (oneself) somewhere; "Steer clear of him" 3: be a guiding or motivating force or drive; "The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses" [syn: guide, steer]

n 1: a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; "lumber of the highest grade" [syn: grade, level, tier] 2: any one of two or more competitors who tie one another 3: a worker who ties something [syn: tier, tier up] 4: something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers" 5: one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake"

v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut] 2: shift to a clockwise direction; "the wind veered" [ant: back]

n 1: a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow 2: a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish

n 1: someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful [syn: sympathizer, sympathiser, well-wisher]

n 1: a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920" [syn: year, twelvemonth, yr] 2: a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year" 3: the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; "a Martian year takes 687 of our days" 4: a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn: class, year]

n 1: one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case 2: one who tries [syn: trier, attempter, essayer]

n 1: British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888) [syn: Lear, Edward Lear] 2: the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters [syn: Lear, King Lear]

n 1: an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean [syn: Phoenicia, Phenicia]

n 1: the fleshy, waxy covering at the base of the upper beak of some birds v 1: wrap up in a cerecloth; "cere a corpse"

n 1: (Norse mythology) god of war and strife and son of Odin; identified with Anglo-Saxon Tiu [syn: Tyr, Tyrr]

n 1: someone who examines votes at an election [syn: scrutineer, canvasser]

n 1: a region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay

n 1: German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945) [syn: Fischer, Hans Fischer] 2: German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919) [syn: Fischer, Emil Hermann Fischer] 3: United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943) [syn: Fischer, Bobby Fischer, Robert James Fischer]