Words that rhyme with ifor

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 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]

n 1: a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; "terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb" 2: any animal that feeds on flesh; "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores"

n 1: a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid

n 1: a person who makes plans [syn: planner, contriver, deviser]

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

n 1: someone who works underwater [syn: diver, frogman, underwater diver] 2: someone who dives (into water) [syn: diver, plunger] 3: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes [syn: loon, diver]

n 1: the operator of a motor vehicle [ant: nondriver] 2: someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle 3: a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver 4: (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device [syn: driver, device driver] 5: a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee [syn: driver, number one wood]

n 1: a United States bill worth 5 dollars [syn: fiver, five- spot, five dollar bill]

n 1: small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals 2: any organism that feeds mainly on insects

adj 1: having a reddish-brown color [syn: liver-colored, liver] n 1: large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes 2: liver of an animal used as meat 3: a person who has a special life style; "a high liver" 4: someone who lives in a place; "a liver in cities"

n 1: a person who eats all kinds of foods 2: an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances

n 1: a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles"

n 1: a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches [syn: saliva, spit, spittle]

n 1: a hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw 2: a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice

n 1: a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers" [syn: splinter, sliver] 2: a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something [syn: paring, sliver, shaving] v 1: divide into slivers or splinters [syn: sliver, splinter] 2: break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered" [syn: splinter, sliver] 3: form into slivers; "sliver wood"

n 1: one who lives through affliction; "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital" [syn: survivor, subsister] 2: one who outlives another; "he left his farm to his survivors" 3: an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"

n 1: an examination conducted by spoken communication [syn: oral, oral exam, oral examination, viva voce, viva]

n 1: someone who works as hard as a slave [syn: slave, striver, hard worker]

n 1: according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080) [syn: Godiva, Lady Godiva]