Words that rhyme with derecktor

n 1: a person who collects things [syn: collector, aggregator] 2: a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) [syn: collector, gatherer, accumulator] 3: a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth 4: the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes

n 1: an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers" [syn: connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective]

n 1: an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers" [syn: connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective]

n 1: a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection

n 1: a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) [syn: deserter, defector]

n 1: any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner [syn: detector, sensor, sensing element] 2: rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave [syn: detector, demodulator] 3: electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity

n 1: someone who controls resources and expenditures [syn: director, manager, managing director] 2: member of a board of directors 3: someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show [syn: director, theater director, theatre director] 4: the person who directs the making of a film [syn: film director, director] 5: the person who leads a musical group [syn: conductor, music director, director]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a mythical Trojan who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War v 1: be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young" [syn: strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag, boss around, hector, push around]

n 1: a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.)

n 1: a high ranking police officer 2: an investigator who observes carefully; "the examiner searched for clues" [syn: examiner, inspector]

n 1: someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: lector, reader] 2: a public lecturer at certain universities [syn: lector, lecturer, reader]

n 1: a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators 2: fruit juice especially when undiluted 3: (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal [syn: ambrosia, nectar]

n 1: a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant]

n 1: an optical device for projecting a beam of light 2: an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen

n 1: a person who cares for persons or property [syn: defender, guardian, protector, shielder]

n 1: a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches" [syn: curate, minister of religion, minister, parson, pastor, rector]

n 1: device that reflects radiation 2: optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece; "Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668" [syn: reflecting telescope, reflector]

n 1: a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle 2: a social group that forms part of the society or the economy; "the public sector" 3: a particular aspect of life or activity; "he was helpless in an important sector of his life" [syn: sector, sphere] 4: the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes 5: a portion of a military position 6: measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end

n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre] 2: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre]

n 1: a variable quantity that can be resolved into components 2: a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction 3: any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects" [syn: vector, transmitter] 4: (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell

n 1: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre] 2: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre]