Words that rhyme with humidor

n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard] 2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager] 3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge, caliber, calibre] 4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole] v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest] 2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]

v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]

v 1: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"

adv 1: towards the shore from the water; "we invited them ashore"

adv 1: earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before"; "as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier" [syn: earlier, before] 2: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross of Jesus marching on before" [syn: ahead, in front, before]

n 1: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States [syn: wild boar, boar, Sus scrofa] 2: an uncastrated male hog

n 1: a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral

n 1: an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)

n 1: a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" [syn: core, nucleus, core group] 2: the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core" 3: the central part of the Earth 4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty] 5: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill 6: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality, CORE] 7: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 8: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core] 9: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place 10: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil v 1: remove the core or center from; "core an apple"

n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support [syn: corps, army corps] 2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"

n 1: an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it

n 1: a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) [syn: spittoon, cuspidor]

n 1: decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior [syn: interior decoration, decor]

n 1: the principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull

n 1: the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low

n 1: French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764) [syn: Pompadour, Marquise de Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson] 2: a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead v 1: style women's hair in a pompadour

n 1: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper]

n 1: a singer of folk songs [syn: folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour]

n 1: a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes [syn: Ecuador, Republic of Ecuador]

n 1: the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada

n 1: a republic on the Pacific coast of Central America [syn: El Salvador, Republic of El Salvador, Salvador]

n 1: eleventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (July and August); the month of heat