Words that rhyme with merman

  • adman
    n 1: someone whose business is advertising [syn: advertiser, advertizer, adman]
  • ain
    adj 1: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" [syn: own(a), ain]
  • alderman
    n 1: a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); "aldermen usually represent city wards"
  • anchorman
    n 1: a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute [syn: anchor, anchorman, anchorperson]
  • bagman
    n 1: a salesman who travels to call on customers [syn: traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman] 2: a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money
  • barman
    n 1: an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar [syn: bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist]
  • batman
    n 1: an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
  • bogeyman
    n 1: an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn: bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger]
  • businessman
    n 1: a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) [syn: businessman, man of affairs]
  • cameraman
    n 1: a photographer who operates a movie camera [syn: cameraman, camera operator, cinematographer]
  • caveman
    n 1: someone who lives in a cave [syn: caveman, cave man, cave dweller, troglodyte]
  • chairman
    n 1: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson] v 1: act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years" [syn: chair, chairman]
  • chessman
    n 1: any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess [syn: chessman, chess piece]
  • committeeman
    n 1: a man who is a member of committee
  • common
    adj 1: belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community" [ant: individual, single] 2: having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" [ant: uncommon] 3: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" [syn: common, mutual] 4: commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual] 5: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: common, vernacular, vulgar] 6: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed] 7: of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: coarse, common] 8: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar] 9: to be expected; standard; "common decency" n 1: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons, common, green]
  • counterman
    n 1: someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) [syn: counterperson, counterwoman, counterman]
  • cousin
    n 1: the child of your aunt or uncle [syn: cousin, first cousin, cousin-german, full cousin]
  • cowman
    n 1: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd]
  • crewman
    n 1: any member of a ship's crew [syn: sailor, crewman] 2: a member of a flight crew [syn: crewman, crew member] 3: a member of a work crew
  • dairyman
    n 1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: dairyman, dairy farmer] 2: a man who works in a dairy
  • deliveryman
    n 1: someone employed to make deliveries [syn: deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer]
  • demon
    n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 2: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre] 3: someone extremely diligent or skillful; "he worked like a demon to finish the job on time"; "she's a demon at math"
  • determine
    v 1: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" [syn: determine, find, find out, ascertain] 2: shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion" [syn: determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate] 3: fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules" [syn: determine, set] 4: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters" [syn: specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit] 5: reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations" [syn: decide, make up one's mind, determine] 6: fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; "the tree determines the border of the property" 7: settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument" [syn: settle, square off, square up, determine] 8: find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" [syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn]
  • doorman
    n 1: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]
  • earthman
    n 1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: tellurian, earthling, earthman, worldling]
  • everyman
    n 1: the ordinary person
  • fireman
    n 1: play in which children pretend to put out a fire 2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) [syn: stoker, fireman] 3: a pitcher who does not start the game [syn: reliever, relief pitcher, fireman] 4: a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires [syn: fireman, firefighter, fire fighter, fire-eater]
  • foreman
    n 1: a person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" [syn: foreman, chief, gaffer, honcho, boss] 2: a man who is foreperson of a jury
  • freedman
    n 1: a person who has been freed from slavery [syn: freedman, freedwoman]
  • freeman
    n 1: a person who is not a serf or a slave [syn: freeman, freewoman]
  • gagman
    n 1: a comedian who uses gags [syn: gagman, standup comedian] 2: someone who writes comic material for public performers [syn: gagman, gagster, gagwriter]
  • gasman
    n 1: someone employed by a gas company
  • gunman
    n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter] 2: a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn: gunman, gun]
  • handyman
    n 1: a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks [syn: handyman, jack of all trades, odd-job man]
  • hangman
    n 1: an executioner who hangs the condemned person
  • headman
    n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn: headsman, headman] 2: the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief, chieftain, chief]
  • iceman
    n 1: someone who cuts and delivers ice 2: a professional killer [syn: hatchet man, iceman]
  • jazzman
    n 1: a musician who plays or composes jazz music [syn: jazz musician, jazzman]
  • lawman
    n 1: an officer of the law [syn: lawman, law officer, peace officer]
  • liftman
    n 1: a man employed to operate an elevator; "in England they call an elevator man a liftman" [syn: elevator man, elevator boy, liftman]
  • linkman
    n 1: (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets [syn: linkboy, linkman]
  • lumberman
    n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller]
  • lumen
    n 1: a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions [syn: lumen, lm] 2: a cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the intestine"
  • mailman
    n 1: a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier]
  • middleman
    n 1: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn: jobber, middleman, wholesaler] 2: the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk [syn: interlocutor, middleman] 3: a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor" [syn: contact, middleman]
  • minuteman
    n 1: an American militiaman prior to and during the American Revolution 2: a strategic weapon system using a guided missile of intercontinental range; missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads and dispersed in hardened silos
  • motorman
    n 1: the operator of streetcar
  • newsman
    n 1: a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories [syn: reporter, newsman, newsperson]
  • newspaperman
    n 1: a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]
  • oilman
    n 1: a person who owns or operates oil wells 2: a worker who produces or sells petroleum
  • packman
    n 1: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar, packman, hawker, pitchman]
  • patrolman
    n 1: a policeman who patrols a given region [syn: flatfoot, patrolman]
  • ploughman
    n 1: a man who plows [syn: plowman, ploughman, plower]
  • pressman
    n 1: someone whose occupation is printing [syn: printer, pressman] 2: a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]
  • repairman
    n 1: a skilled worker whose job is to repair things [syn: repairman, maintenance man, service man]
  • sandman
    n 1: an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy
  • schoolman
    n 1: a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism [syn: Schoolman, medieval Schoolman] 2: a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation [syn: academician, schoolman]
  • seaman
    n 1: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog] 2: muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922) [syn: Seaman, Elizabeth Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, Nellie Bly]
  • selectman
    n 1: an elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns
  • semen
    n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]
  • shaman
    n 1: in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination [syn: shaman, priest-doctor]
  • snowman
    n 1: a figure of a person made of packed snow
  • spaceman
    n 1: a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts" [syn: astronaut, spaceman, cosmonaut]
  • stableman
    n 1: someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses [syn: stableman, stableboy, groom, hostler, ostler]
  • strongman
    n 1: a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus 2: a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence; "he is determined to bring down the Iraqi strongman"
  • superman
    n 1: a person with great powers and abilities [syn: demigod, superman, Ubermensch] 2: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen]
  • tallyman
    n 1: one who sells goods on the installment plan 2: one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received [syn: tallyman, tally clerk]
  • trainman
    n 1: an employee of a railroad [syn: trainman, railroader, railroad man, railwayman, railway man]
  • unman
    v 1: cause to lose one's nerve; "an unmanning experience"
  • weatherman
    n 1: predicts the weather [syn: weatherman, weather forecaster]
  • wingman
    n 1: the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on the wing of) the leader of a flying formation
  • wireman
    n 1: a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring [syn: wireman, wirer]
  • yardman
    n 1: worker in a railway yard 2: a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)
  • brahman
    n 1: a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston brahman" [syn: brahman, brahmin] 2: a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas; "originally all brahmans were priests" [syn: brahman, brahmin] 3: the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category [syn: brahman, brahmin] 4: any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding [syn: Brahman, Brahma, Brahmin, Bos indicus]
  • limen
    n 1: the smallest detectable sensation [syn: threshold, limen]
  • mormon
    adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Mormon Church; "Mormon leaders"; "the former Mormon practice of polygamy" n 1: the ancient prophet whose writings were revealed to Joseph Smith who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 2: a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [syn: Latter-Day Saint, Mormon]
  • norman
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Normandy; "Norman beaches" 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the Normans; "the Norman Invasion in 1066" n 1: United States operatic soprano (born in 1945) [syn: Norman, Jessye Norman] 2: Australian golfer (born in 1955) [syn: Norman, Greg Norman, Gregory John Norman] 3: an inhabitant of Normandy
  • simon
    n 1: one of the twelve Apostles (first century) [syn: Simon, St. Simon, Simon Zelotes, Simon the Zealot, Simon the Canaanite] 2: United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942) [syn: Simon, Paul Simon] 3: United States playwright noted for light comedies (born in 1927) [syn: Simon, Neil Simon, Marvin Neil Simon] 4: United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (1916-2001) [syn: Simon, Herb Simon, Herbert A. Simon, Herbert Alexander Simon]
  • amman
    n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman, capital of Jordan]
  • anne
    n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
  • telemann
    n 1: German baroque composer (1681-1767) [syn: Telemann, Georg Philipp Telemann]
  • taxman
    n 1: someone who collects taxes for the government [syn: tax collector, taxman, exciseman, collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent]
  • turkoman
    n 1: a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and neighboring areas [syn: Turkoman, Turkmen, Turcoman] 2: the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman [syn: Turkmen, Turkoman, Turcoman]
  • indiaman
    n 1: a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India
  • doberman
    n 1: medium large breed of dog of German origin with a glossy black and tan coat; used as a watchdog [syn: Doberman, Doberman pinscher]
  • roadman
    n 1: a salesman who travels to call on customers [syn: traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman] 2: a workman who is employed to repair roads [syn: roadman, road mender]
  • dogman
  • legman
  • safetyman
  • sideman
  • trackman
  • wheelman
  • nightman
  • gateman
  • ahn
  • ann
  • reman
  • subman
  • hammerman
  • spiderman

See also merman definition