Words that rhyme with officer

  • ambassador
    n 1: a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another [syn: ambassador, embassador] 2: an informal representative; "an ambassador of good will"
  • auditor
    n 1: someone who listens attentively [syn: hearer, listener, auditor, attender] 2: a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit 3: a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
  • author
    n 1: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) [syn: writer, author] 2: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" [syn: generator, source, author] v 1: be the author of; "She authored this play"
  • awful
    adv 1: used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry" [syn: terribly, awfully, awful, frightfully] adj 1: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn: atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable] 2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] 3: offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound [syn: nasty, awful] [ant: nice] 4: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads" [syn: awed, awful] 5: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn: frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous] 6: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]
  • binocular
    adj 1: relating to both eyes; "binocular vision"
  • binoculars
    n 1: an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes [syn: binoculars, field glasses, opera glasses]
  • boxer
    n 1: someone who fights with his fists for sport [syn: boxer, pugilist] 2: a workman employed to pack things into containers [syn: packer, bagger, boxer] 3: a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China 4: a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany
  • conifer
    n 1: any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones [syn: conifer, coniferous tree]
  • connoisseur
    n 1: an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts [syn: connoisseur, cognoscente]
  • coroner
    n 1: a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes [syn: coroner, medical examiner]
  • enforcer
    n 1: one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior [syn: hatchet man, enforcer]
  • father
    n 1: a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta" [syn: father, male parent, begetter] [ant: female parent, mother] 2: the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers" [syn: forefather, father, sire] 3: `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military [syn: Father, Padre] 4: (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom [syn: Church Father, Father of the Church, Father] 5: a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; "the tennis fathers ruled in her favor"; "the city fathers endorsed the proposal" 6: God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father" [syn: Father, Father-God, Fatherhood] 7: a person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country" [syn: founder, beginner, founding father, father] 8: the head of an organized crime family [syn: don, father] v 1: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth]
  • foreigner
    n 1: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country [syn: foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander] [ant: citizen] 2: someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group [syn: foreigner, outsider]
  • gossamer
    adj 1: characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing" [syn: ethereal, gossamer] 2: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby] n 1: a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture 2: filaments from a web that was spun by a spider [syn: cobweb, gossamer]
  • kilometre
    n 1: a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) [syn: kilometer, kilometre, km, klick]
  • masseur
    n 1: a male massager
  • monitor
    n 1: someone who supervises (an examination) [syn: proctor, monitor] 2: someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided [syn: admonisher, monitor, reminder] 3: an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac 4: display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor [syn: monitor, monitoring device] 5: electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions 6: a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble 7: any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles [syn: monitor, monitor lizard, varan] v 1: keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance; "we are monitoring the air quality"; "the police monitor the suspect's moves" [syn: monitor, supervise] 2: check, track, or observe by means of a receiver
  • offer
    n 1: the verbal act of offering; "a generous offer of assistance" [syn: offer, offering] 2: something offered (as a proposal or bid); "noteworthy new offerings for investors included several index funds" [syn: offer, offering] 3: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer] v 1: make available or accessible, provide or furnish; "The conference center offers a health spa"; "The hotel offers private meeting rooms" 2: present for acceptance or rejection; "She offered us all a cold drink" [syn: offer, proffer] 3: agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it" [syn: volunteer, offer] 4: put forward for consideration; "He offered his opinion" 5: offer verbally; "extend my greetings"; "He offered his sympathy" [syn: offer, extend] 6: make available for sale; "The stores are offering specials on sweaters this week" 7: propose a payment; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting" [syn: offer, bid, tender] 8: produce or introduce on the stage; "The Shakespeare Company is offering `King Lear' this month" 9: present as an act of worship; "offer prayers to the gods" [syn: offer, offer up] 10: mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance" [syn: put up, provide, offer] 11: make available; provide; "extend a loan"; "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages" [syn: extend, offer] 12: ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman" [syn: propose, declare oneself, offer, pop the question] 13: threaten to do something; "I offered to leave the committee if they did not accept my proposal"
  • often
    adv 1: many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee" [syn: frequently, often, oftentimes, oft, ofttimes] [ant: infrequently, rarely, seldom] 2: frequently or in great quantities; "I don't drink much"; "I don't travel much" [syn: much, a great deal, often] 3: in many cases or instances
  • philosopher
    n 1: a specialist in philosophy 2: a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
  • popular
    adj 1: regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public; "a popular tourist attraction"; "a popular girl"; "cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular" [ant: unpopular] 2: carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large; "the popular vote"; "popular representation"; "institutions of popular government" 3: representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large; "democratic art forms"; "a democratic or popular movement"; "popular thought"; "popular science"; "popular fiction" [syn: democratic, popular] 4: (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) [syn: popular, pop]
  • posture
    n 1: the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: position, posture, attitude] 2: characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" [syn: carriage, bearing, posture] 3: a rationalized mental attitude [syn: position, stance, posture] 4: capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war; "we faced an army of great strength"; "politicians have neglected our military posture" [syn: military capability, military strength, strength, military posture, posture] v 1: behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself" [syn: pose, posture] 2: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: model, pose, sit, posture]
  • saucer
    n 1: something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky" [syn: disk, disc, saucer] 2: a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table 3: directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation [syn: dish, dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer] 4: a disk used in throwing competitions [syn: discus, saucer]
  • sir
    n 1: term of address for a man 2: a title used before the name of knight or baronet
  • softener
    n 1: a substance added to another to make it less hard
  • thermometer
    n 1: measuring instrument for measuring temperature
  • torture
    n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment, torture] 2: unbearable physical pain [syn: torture, torment] 3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment, torture] 4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting] 5: the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" [syn: torture, torturing] v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack] 2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate, torment]
  • baltimore
    n 1: the largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center
  • offerer
    n 1: someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection [syn: offerer, offeror]
  • oliver
    n 1: United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938) [syn: Oliver, Joseph Oliver, King Oliver]

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