Words that rhyme with maher

adv 1: (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far; "we traveled afar"; "we could see the ship afar off"; "the Magi came from afar"

adj 1: slightly open; "the door was ajar"

v 1: make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off" [syn: let, allow, permit] [ant: keep, prevent] 2: consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: permit, allow, let, countenance] [ant: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto] 3: let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison" [syn: allow, grant] [ant: deny, refuse] 4: give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" [syn: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve] 5: make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway" [syn: leave, allow for, allow, provide] 6: allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash" [syn: allow, take into account] 7: afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" [syn: admit, allow] 8: allow the other (baseball) team to score; "give up a run" [syn: give up, allow] 9: grant as a discount or in exchange; "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera" 10: allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital" [syn: allow, permit, tolerate]

n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]

n 1: the cry made by sheep v 1: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: bleat, blate, blat, baa]

n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" 3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" 4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: measure, bar] 5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" 6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention, bar] 7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" 8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" 9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" [syn: legal profession, bar, legal community] 10: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe, streak, bar] 11: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake, bar] 12: a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle, BAR] 13: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises 14: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" 15: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude] 2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar] 3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: banish, relegate, bar] 4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant: unbar]

n 1: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar, bazar] 2: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn: bazaar, bazar] 3: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar" [syn: bazaar, fair]

adj 1: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off- the-wall, outlandish, outre]

n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]

n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]

n 1: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" [syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar] 2: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway car, railroad car] 3: the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant [syn: car, gondola] 4: where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top floor" [syn: car, elevator car] 5: a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway; "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain" [syn: cable car, car]

n 1: a charred substance 2: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman] 3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr] v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]

n 1: a roll of tobacco for smoking

n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar] 2: a person having great power

v 1: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix] [ant: allow, countenance, let, permit]

v 1: remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action; "The corrupt lawyer was disbarred"

adv 1: to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together" 2: at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other" 3: at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?" 4: remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past" 5: to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far" adj 1: located at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" [ant: close, near, nigh] 2: being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek" 3: being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse" 4: beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right" n 1: a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists" [syn: Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe]

n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus] 2: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish, gar, billfish]

n 1: a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

n 1: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day [syn: hour angle, HA]

n 1: a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles 2: the quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer" [syn: jar, jarful] 3: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock] v 1: be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash, jar, collide] 2: move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt, jar] 3: shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: jar, shake up, bump around] 4: affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience" 5: place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"

n 1: large brownish-green New Zealand parrot [syn: kea, Nestor notabilis]

n 1: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57] 2: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Louisiana, Pelican State, LA] 3: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]

n 1: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: layer, bed] 2: a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another 3: an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously" [syn: level, layer, stratum] 4: a hen that lays eggs 5: thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells v 1: make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"

n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy] 2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM] 3: one thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA] 4: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA]

n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: March, Mar] 2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish, defect, mar] v 1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate] 2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate, mar]

n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop] 2: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead [syn: protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number 91] 3: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn: pascal, Pa] 4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Pennsylvania, Keystone State, PA] 5: an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas [syn: public address system, P.A. system, PA system, P.A., PA]

n 1: (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72" 2: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par] v 1: make a score (on a hole) equal to par

n 1: (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)

n 1: a person who pays money for something [syn: payer, remunerator]

n 1: a person who participates in or is skilled at some game [syn: player, participant] 2: someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession) [syn: musician, instrumentalist, player] 3: a theatrical performer [syn: actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player] 4: a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously 5: an important participant (as in a business deal); "he was a major player in setting up the corporation"

n 1: the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving); "the priest sank to his knees in prayer" [syn: prayer, supplication] 2: reverent petition to a deity [syn: prayer, petition, orison] 3: earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm" [syn: entreaty, prayer, appeal] 4: a fixed text used in praying 5: someone who prays to God [syn: prayer, supplicant]

n 1: a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice] 2: an indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, scar, mark] v 1: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit]

n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]

n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn: Shah, Shah of Iran]

n 1: a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings

n 1: someone who causes the death of a person or animal [syn: killer, slayer]

n 1: a vehicle used to push snow from roads [syn: snowplow, snowplough]

n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: watering place, watering hole, spa] 2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort hotel, spa] 3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa, spa, health club]

n 1: any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable 2: a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging 3: making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer [syn: spar, sparring] v 1: furnish with spars 2: fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring" 3: box lightly 4: fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"

n 1: a worker who applies spray to a surface 2: a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist [syn: atomizer, atomiser, spray, sprayer, nebulizer, nebuliser]

adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)] n 1: (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior 2: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] 3: any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night 4: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal, lead] 5: a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem 6: a performer who receives prominent billing [syn: headliner, star] 7: a star-shaped character * used in printing [syn: asterisk, star] 8: the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub [syn: star topology, star] v 1: feature as the star; "The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man" 2: be the star in a performance 3: mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences" [syn: star, asterisk]

n 1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]

n 1: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue [syn: pitch, tar] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog] v 1: coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"

n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar]

n 1: someone who strays or falls behind [syn: straggler, strayer]

n 1: an official who weighs and records the weight

n 1: a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere [syn: argon, Ar, atomic number 18] 2: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar] 3: a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR]

n 1: Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548) [syn: Parr, Catherine Parr] 2: a young salmon up to 2 years old 3: the young of various fishes

n 1: a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air [syn: roentgen, R] 2: (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole [syn: gas constant, universal gas constant, R] 3: the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: R, r] 4: the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere [syn: radius, r]

n 1: rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) [syn: Starr, Ringo Starr, Starkey, Richard Starkey]

n 1: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn: bazaar, bazar] 2: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar, bazar]

n 1: the capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal [syn: Dakar, capital of Senegal]

n 1: 100 dinars equal 1 rial in Iran [syn: Iranian dinar, dinar] 2: the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia [syn: Yugoslavian dinar, dinar] 3: the basic unit of money in Tunisia [syn: Tunisian dinar, dinar] 4: the basic unit of money in Libya [syn: Libyan dinar, dinar] 5: the basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils [syn: Kuwaiti dinar, dinar] 6: the basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Jordanian dinar, dinar] 7: the basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Iraqi dinar, dinar] 8: the basic unit of money in Bahrain; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Bahrain dinar, dinar] 9: the basic unit of money in Algeria [syn: Algerian dinar, dinar]

n 1: a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal; "much opium is grown in Myanmar" [syn: Myanmar, Union of Burma, Burma]

n 1: an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil [syn: Qatar, State of Qatar, Katar, State of Katar] 2: a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf [syn: Qatar, Qatar Peninsula, Katar, Katar Peninsula]

n 1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma

n 1: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite [syn: tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73]

n 1: the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and March)

n 1: Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends (1965-2000) [syn: Jaffar, Jafar, Jaffar Umar Thalib, Jafar Umar Thalib]

n 1: the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code [syn: dash, dah]

n 1: the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization

n 1: a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria

n 1: 100 pyas equal 1 kyat in Myanmar

n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]

adj 1: (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern [syn: moire, watered] n 1: silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern [syn: moire, watered-silk]

n 1: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr]

n 1: drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material [syn: guar, cluster bean, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, Cyamopsis psoraloides]

n 1: a flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion; often filled with water

n 1: a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar" [syn: Mayan, Maya] 2: a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya [syn: Maya, Mayan, Mayan language]

n 1: the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets [syn: aspirin, acetylsalicylic acid, Bayer, Empirin, St. Joseph]

n 1: United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for her research on the structure of the atom (1906-1972) [syn: Mayer, Marie Goeppert Mayer] 2: United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957) [syn: Mayer, Louis B. Mayer, Louis Burt Mayer]

n 1: a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer"

n 1: type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: Maja, genus Maja, Maia, genus Maia]

n 1: rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes [syn: pilaf, pilaff, pilau, pilaw]

n 1: (Norse mythology) goddess of love and fecundity; daughter of Njorth and sister of Frey [syn: Freya, Freyja]

n 1: (Norse mythology) god of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity; son of Njorth and brother of Freya; originally of the Vanir; later with the Aesir [syn: Frey, Freyr]

n 1: a city in southwestern Poland on the Oder [syn: Wroclaw, Breslau]

n 1: a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States [syn: Palau, Republic of Palau, TT] 2: a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean [syn: Palau, Palau Islands, Belau, Pelew]

n 1: the longest French river; rises in the Massif Central and flows north and west to the Atlantic Ocean [syn: Loire, Loire River]

n 1: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]

v 1: express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'; "They oohed and aahed when they unwrapped the presents" [syn: ooh, aah]