Words that rhyme with doubleheader

• better 2
  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]
• beggar 0
  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]
• bettor 0
  n 1: someone who bets [syn: bettor, better, wagerer, punter]
• bonesetter 0
  n 1: someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones
• checker 0
  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]
• cheddar 0
  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]
• debtor 0
  n 1: a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt [syn: debtor, debitor] [ant: creditor]
• fetter 0
  n 1: a shackle for the ankles or feet [syn: fetter, hobble] v 1: restrain with fetters [syn: fetter, shackle]
• fletcher 0
  n 1: prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625) [syn: Fletcher, John Fletcher]
• header 0
  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"
• homesteader 0
  n 1: someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter, homesteader, nester]
• setter 0
  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
• shedder 0
  n 1: an attacker who sheds or spills blood; "a great hunter and spiller of blood" [syn: shedder, spiller]
• shredder 0
  n 1: a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them)
• spreader 0
  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]
• stepper 0
  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]
• sweater 0
  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]
• wrecker 0
  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]
• bedder 0
  n 1: an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed [syn: bedder, bedding plant]
• decker 0
  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"
• sledder 0
  n 1: someone who rides a sled
• threader 0
  n 1: a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops [syn: bodkin, threader]
• edda 0
  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
• bobsledder 0
• getter 0
• redder 0
• deader 0
• vedder 0
• vedda 0
• kedah 0
• tedder 0

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