Words that rhyme with phosphor

  • assignor
    n 1: (law) the party who makes an assignment
  • diner
    n 1: a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant) 2: a passenger car where food is served in transit [syn: dining car, diner, dining compartment, buffet car] 3: a restaurant that resembles a dining car
  • drawer
    n 1: a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out 2: the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else 3: an artist skilled at drawing [syn: draftsman, drawer]
  • finer
    adj 1: (comparative of `fine') greater in quality or excellence; "a finer wine"; "a finer musician"
  • liner
    n 1: (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter; "the batter hit a liner to the shortstop" [syn: liner, line drive] 2: a protective covering that protects an inside surface [syn: lining, liner] 3: a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment [syn: liner, lining] 4: a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule) [syn: liner, ocean liner]
  • miner
    n 1: laborer who works in a mine [syn: miner, mineworker]
  • minor
    adj 1: of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads" [ant: major] 2: lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance" [ant: major] 3: inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor" [ant: major] 4: of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor" [ant: major] 5: not of legal age; "minor children" [syn: minor, nonaged, underage] [ant: major] 6: of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance" [ant: major] 7: of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization [ant: major] 8: of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones minor" 9: warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin" [syn: minor, venial] 10: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket- size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, small- scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized] n 1: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling]
  • shiner
    n 1: a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye [syn: shiner, black eye, mouse] 2: something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) 3: important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales [syn: common mackerel, shiner, Scomber scombrus] 4: any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
  • signer
    n 1: someone who can use sign language to communicate 2: someone who signs and is bound by a document [syn: signer, signatory]
  • whiner
    n 1: a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining [syn: whiner, complainer, moaner, sniveller, crybaby, bellyacher, grumbler, squawker]
  • boer
    n 1: a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans [syn: Afrikaner, Afrikander, Boer]
  • twiner
    n 1: someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing
  • medina
    n 1: a city in western Saudi Arabia; site of the tomb of Muhammad; the second most holy city of Islam [syn: Medina, Al Madinah] 2: the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa
  • carolina
    n 1: the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina [syn: Carolina, Carolinas]
  • regina
    n 1: the provincial capital of Saskatchewan
  • salina
    n 1: a town in central Kansas
  • mina
    n 1: tropical Asian starlings [syn: myna, mynah, mina, minah, myna bird, mynah bird]
  • casuarina
    n 1: any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood
  • steiner
    n 1: Austrian philosopher who founded anthroposophy (1861-1925) [syn: Steiner, Rudolf Steiner]
  • recliner
    n 1: an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it [syn: recliner, reclining chair, lounger]
  • globigerina
    n 1: marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes
  • hardliner
    n 1: a conservative who is uncompromising
  • landsteiner
    n 1: United States pathologist (born in Austria) who discovered human blood groups (1868-1943) [syn: Landsteiner, Karl Landsteiner]
  • moonshiner
    n 1: someone who makes or sells illegal liquor [syn: bootlegger, moonshiner]
  • mainliner
  • shriner
  • heine
  • dinah
  • ina
  • viner
  • weiner

See also phosphor definition