Words that rhyme with humidifier

adj 1: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "houses on fire" [syn: ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), on fire(p)]

n 1: electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it

n 1: the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired [syn: blowback, backfire] 2: a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine 3: a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path 4: a miscalculation that recoils on its maker [syn: backfire, boomerang] v 1: come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble" [syn: backfire, backlash, recoil] 2: emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire; "My old car backfires all the time" 3: set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire

n 1: a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration [syn: bonfire, balefire]

n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria] 2: a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries [syn: bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia] 3: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes [syn: tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea] 4: a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath [syn: briar, briar pipe]

n 1: tangled mass of prickly plants [syn: brier, brierpatch, brier patch] 2: a thorny stem or twig 3: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria] 4: a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries [syn: bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia] 5: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes [syn: tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea]

n 1: a person who buys [syn: buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee]

n 1: a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp)

n 1: a person who creates classifications 2: a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs

n 1: a person who weeps [syn: weeper, crier] 2: (formerly) an official who made public announcements [syn: town crier, crier] 3: a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells

n 1: a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions 2: fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross

n 1: a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) [syn: desiccant, drying agent, drier, siccative] 2: an appliance that removes moisture [syn: dryer, drier]

n 1: intense and continuous artillery fire [syn: cannonade, drumfire]

n 1: an appliance that removes moisture [syn: dryer, drier]

n 1: someone whose job is to dye cloth

n 1: a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion

n 1: the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire" 2: the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" [syn: fire, firing] 3: the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" [syn: fire, flame, flaming] 4: a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked" 5: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) 6: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" [syn: ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness] 7: fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking; "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire" 8: a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation" 9: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] v 1: start firing a weapon [syn: open fire, fire] 2: cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet" [syn: fire, discharge] 3: bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery" 4: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire] 5: go off or discharge; "The gun fired" [syn: fire, discharge, go off] 6: drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism" 7: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke] 8: destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries" [syn: burn, fire, burn down] 9: provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace" [syn: fuel, fire]

n 1: someone who travels by air [syn: flier, flyer] 2: someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer] 3: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers" [syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway]

n 1: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers" [syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway] 2: someone who travels by air [syn: flier, flyer] 3: someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer]

n 1: a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms [syn: friar, mendicant]

n 1: flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying [syn: fryer, frier, pullet]

n 1: the act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" [syn: gunfire, gunshot]

n 1: a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned [syn: hellfire, red region]

adj 1: advanced in complexity or elaboration; "higher finance"; "higher mathematics" 2: of education beyond the secondary level; "higher education"; "higher learning"

n 1: a newly hired employee; "the new hires need special training" 2: the act of hiring something or someone; "he signed up for a week's car hire" v 1: engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?" [syn: hire, engage, employ] [ant: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate] 2: hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services [syn: rent, hire, charter, lease] 3: engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take]

n 1: a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" [syn: intensifier, intensive]

n 1: a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment" [syn: apologist, vindicator, justifier]

n 1: a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly [syn: liar, prevaricator] [ant: square shooter, straight arrow, straight shooter]

n 1: a scientific instrument that magnifies an image

n 1: an explosion that fails to occur [syn: misfire, dud] 2: a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) [syn: miss, misfire] v 1: fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"

n 1: a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb [syn: modifier, qualifier] 2: a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising 3: a person who changes something; "an inveterate changer of the menu" [syn: changer, modifier] 4: a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene [syn: modifier, modifier gene]

n 1: an advocate of nullification; someone who believes that a state can resist federal laws 2: an official who can invalidate or nullify; "my bank check was voided and I wanted to know who the invalidator was" [syn: invalidator, voider, nullifier]

n 1: someone who tries to bring peace [syn: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler] 2: anything that serves to pacify 3: device used for an infant to suck or bite on [syn: comforter, pacifier, baby's dummy, teething ring]

adj 1: earlier in time [syn: anterior, prior(a)] n 1: the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot

n 1: an apparatus for removing impurities

n 1: wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite [syn: pyre, funeral pyre]

n 1: a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition; "the tournament was won by a late qualifier" 2: a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb [syn: modifier, qualifier]

n 1: (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition [syn: quantifier, logical quantifier] 2: (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many')

n 1: electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current 2: a person who corrects or sets right; "a rectifier of prejudices"

adj 1: of something having the color of a blue sapphire; "sapphire eyes" n 1: a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone 2: a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem 3: a light shade of blue [syn: azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue]

n 1: shooting artillery shells

n 1: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" [syn: form, word form, signifier, descriptor]

n 1: a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman)

n 1: a person who testifies or gives a deposition [syn: testifier, deponent, deposer]

n 1: someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement [syn: voucher, verifier]

n 1: a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) [syn: rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser]

n 1: a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration

adv 1: (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance; "come closer, my dear!"; "they drew nearer"; "getting nearer to the true explanation" [syn: nearer, nigher, closer]

n 1: someone who plies a trade [syn: plier, plyer]

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

n 1: fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass [syn: glasswort, samphire, Salicornia europaea]