Words that rhyme with pelota

  • biota
    n 1: all the plant and animal life of a particular region [syn: biota, biology]
  • bloater
    n 1: large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
  • blotter
    n 1: absorbent paper used to dry ink [syn: blotting paper, blotter] 2: the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station [syn: blotter, day book, police blotter, rap sheet, charge sheet]
  • boater
    n 1: a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown [syn: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat] 2: someone who drives or rides in a boat [syn: boatman, boater, waterman]
  • cotter
    n 1: a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands [syn: cotter, cottar] 2: a medieval English villein [syn: cotter, cottier] 3: fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together [syn: cotter, cottar]
  • floater
    n 1: spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens; "floaters seem to drift through the field of vision" [syn: musca volitans, muscae volitantes, floater, spots] 2: a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills) 3: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond] 4: an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed 5: a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election 6: a swimmer who floats in the water 7: an object that floats or is capable of floating 8: an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location [syn: floater, floating policy]
  • flyswatter
    n 1: an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects [syn: swatter, flyswatter, flyswat]
  • garrotter
    n 1: someone who kills by strangling [syn: garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler, choker]
  • globetrotter
    n 1: someone who travels widely and often [syn: globetrotter, world traveler]
  • iota
    n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge] 2: the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet
  • jotter
    n 1: a small notebook for rough notes
  • motor
    adj 1: conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; "motor nerves" [syn: centrifugal, motor(a)] 2: causing or able to cause motion; "a motive force"; "motive power"; "motor energy" [syn: motive(a), motor] n 1: machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion 2: a nonspecific agent that imparts motion; "happiness is the aim of all men and the motor of all action" v 1: travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater" [syn: drive, motor]
  • otter
    n 1: the fur of an otter 2: freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur
  • plotter
    n 1: a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action [syn: schemer, plotter] 2: a clerk who marks data on a chart [syn: plotter, mapper] 3: a member of a conspiracy [syn: conspirator, coconspirator, plotter, machinator] 4: an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures
  • potter
    n 1: a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln [syn: potter, thrower, ceramicist, ceramist] v 1: do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house" [syn: putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around] 2: work lightly; "The old lady is pottering around in the garden" [syn: potter, putter] 3: move around aimlessly [syn: putter, potter, potter around, putter around]
  • promoter
    n 1: someone who is an active supporter and advocate [syn: promoter, booster, plugger] 2: a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments [syn: showman, promoter, impresario]
  • psychomotor
    adj 1: of or relating to or characterizing mental events that have motor consequences or vice versa
  • quota
    n 1: a prescribed number; "all the salesmen met their quota for the month" 2: a proportional share assigned to each participant 3: a limitation on imports; "the quota for Japanese imports was negotiated"
  • ricotta
    n 1: soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese
  • rotor
    n 1: the rotating armature of a motor or generator [syn: rotor, rotor coil] [ant: stator, stator coil] 2: the revolving bar of a distributor 3: rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils; "there are horizontal rotors on a helicopter or compressor rotors in a jet engine"
  • scoter
    n 1: large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere [syn: scoter, scooter]
  • spotter
    n 1: a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots 2: a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers) 3: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event [syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket] 4: someone who is the first to observe something [syn: finder, discoverer, spotter]
  • squatter
    n 1: someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter, homesteader, nester] 2: someone who settles on land without right or title
  • swatter
    n 1: an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects [syn: swatter, flyswatter, flyswat] v 1: splash and flutter about in or as if in water; "She swattered about in the pool"
  • totter
    v 1: move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The drunk man tottered over to our table" 2: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle] 3: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter, seesaw, totter]
  • trotter
    n 1: foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food 2: a horse trained to trot; especially a horse trained for harness racing [syn: trotting horse, trotter]
  • vasomotor
    adj 1: relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate
  • voter
    n 1: a citizen who has a legal right to vote [syn: voter, elector]
  • rotter
    n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
  • toter
    n 1: someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" [syn: carrier, bearer, toter]
  • rota
    n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts 2: a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties
  • locomotor
    adj 1: of or relating to locomotion [syn: locomotive, locomotor]
  • dakota
    n 1: a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux 2: the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota 3: the Siouan language spoken by the Dakota
  • lakota
    n 1: a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains [syn: Teton, Lakota, Teton Sioux, Teton Dakota]
  • toyota
    n 1: an industrial city of Japan in southern Honshu
  • minnesota
    n 1: a midwestern state [syn: Minnesota, Gopher State, North Star State, MN]
  • sarasota
    n 1: a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico
  • cottar
    n 1: a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands [syn: cotter, cottar] 2: fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together [syn: cotter, cottar]
  • ottar
    n 1: essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers [syn: attar, atar, athar, ottar]
  • cotta
  • doter
  • dotter
  • gloater
  • hotter
  • jota
  • scrota
  • flotta
  • gotta
  • lotta
  • botha
  • lamotta
  • lasota
  • liotta
  • margiotta
  • mazzotta
  • pagnotta
  • parrotta
  • perrotta
  • piechota
  • pisciotta
  • serota
  • sirota
  • sobota
  • sobotta
  • velotta
  • yokota
  • cammarota
  • cota
  • tota
  • terracotta
  • gotha
  • knotter
  • swotter
  • pinspotter
  • chota

See also pelota definition and pelota synonyms