Words that rhyme with pressman
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acumen
n 1: a tapering point 2: shrewdness shown by keen insight [syn: insightfulness, acumen] -
adman
n 1: someone whose business is advertising [syn: advertiser, advertizer, adman] -
aircraftman
n 1: a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force [syn: aircraftsman, aircraftman] -
albumen
n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen] 2: the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs" [syn: egg white, white, albumen, ovalbumin] -
albumin
n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen] -
anchorman
n 1: a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute [syn: anchor, anchorman, anchorperson] -
backwoodsman
n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man] -
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 -
bandsman
n 1: a player in a band (especially a military band) -
bargeman
n 1: someone who operates a barge [syn: lighterman, bargeman, bargee] -
batman
n 1: an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer -
batsman
n 1: (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting [syn: batter, hitter, slugger, batsman] -
beadsman
n 1: a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another [syn: beadsman, bedesman] -
bellman
n 1: someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels [syn: bellboy, bellman, bellhop] -
bitumen
n 1: any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons -
boatman
n 1: someone who drives or rides in a boat [syn: boatman, boater, waterman] -
bogeyman
n 1: an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn: bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger] -
bondman
n 1: a male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman, bondsman] 2: a male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman] -
bondsman
n 1: a male slave [syn: bondman, bondsman] 2: someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else [syn: bondsman, bondswoman] 3: a male bound to serve without wages [syn: bondman, bondsman] -
bookman
n 1: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines [syn: scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student] -
brakeman
n 1: a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes -
bushman
n 1: a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa 2: a dweller in the Australian bush country -
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] -
cattleman
n 1: a man who raises (or tends) cattle [syn: cattleman, cow man, beef man] 2: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd] -
caveman
n 1: someone who lives in a cave [syn: caveman, cave man, cave dweller, troglodyte] -
chessman
n 1: any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess [syn: chessman, chess piece] -
churchman
n 1: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic] -
clansman
n 1: a member of a clan [syn: clansman, clanswoman, clan member] -
coachman
n 1: a man who drives a coach (or carriage) -
coastguardsman
n 1: a member of a coastguard -
cognomen
n 1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname] 2: the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) [syn: surname, family name, cognomen, last name] -
committeeman
n 1: a man who is a member of committee -
congressman
n 1: a member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: congressman, congresswoman, representative] -
councilman
n 1: a man who is a council member -
cracksman
n 1: a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents [syn: safebreaker, safecracker, cracksman] -
craftsman
n 1: a professional whose work is consistently of high quality; "as an actor he was a consummate craftsman" 2: a creator of great skill in the manual arts; "the jewelry was made by internationally famous craftsmen" [syn: craftsman, crafter] 3: a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn: craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer] -
cragsman
n 1: a climber of vertical rock faces [syn: rock climber, cragsman] -
cyclamen
n 1: Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals [syn: cyclamen, Cyclamen purpurascens] -
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] -
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] -
dragoman
n 1: an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government) -
draughtsman
n 1: a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines [syn: draftsman, draughtsman, draftsperson] -
dustman
n 1: someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse [syn: garbage man, garbageman, garbage collector, garbage carter, garbage hauler, refuse collector, dustman] -
earthman
n 1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: tellurian, earthling, earthman, worldling] -
everyman
n 1: the ordinary person -
fieldsman
n 1: a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting [syn: fielder, fieldsman] -
fisherman
n 1: someone whose occupation is catching fish [syn: fisherman, fisher] -
foeman
n 1: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition] -
footman
n 1: a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores -
freedman
n 1: a person who has been freed from slavery [syn: freedman, freedwoman] -
freshman
adj 1: used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college" [syn: freshman, first-year] n 1: a first-year undergraduate [syn: freshman, fresher] 2: any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant] -
frogman
n 1: someone who works underwater [syn: diver, frogman, underwater diver] -
frontiersman
n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man] -
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 -
gentleman
n 1: a man of refinement 2: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man] -
groomsman
n 1: a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding -
groundsman
n 1: someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) [syn: groundsman, groundskeeper, groundkeeper] -
guardsman
n 1: a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards' -
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 -
harvestman
n 1: spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs [syn: harvestman, daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio] -
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] -
headsman
n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn: headsman, headman] -
helmsman
n 1: the person who steers a ship [syn: helmsman, steersman, steerer] -
henchman
n 1: someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate, collaborator, henchman, partner in crime] -
herdsman
n 1: someone who drives a herd [syn: herder, herdsman, drover] -
horseman
n 1: a man skilled in equitation [syn: horseman, equestrian, horseback rider] 2: a person who breeds and cares for horses [syn: horseman, horse fancier] -
houseman
n 1: an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) [syn: intern, interne, houseman, medical intern] -
huntsman
n 1: someone who hunts game [syn: hunter, huntsman] -
husbandman
n 1: a person who operates a farm [syn: farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbuster] -
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] -
kinsman
n 1: a male relative -
landsman
n 1: a person who lives and works on land [syn: landlubber, landsman, landman] 2: an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage [syn: landlubber, lubber, landsman] -
lawman
n 1: an officer of the law [syn: lawman, law officer, peace officer] -
liegeman
n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory] -
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] -
lineman
n 1: one of the players on the line of scrimmage 2: the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole 3: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman] 4: (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage -
linesman
n 1: official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside) 2: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman] -
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] -
madman
n 1: an insane person [syn: lunatic, madman, maniac] -
mailman
n 1: a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier] -
marksman
n 1: someone skilled in shooting [syn: marksman, sharpshooter, crack shot] -
merchantman
n 1: a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship] -
merman
n 1: United States singer who appeared in several musical comedies (1909-1984) [syn: Merman, Ethel Merman] 2: half man and half fish; lives in the sea -
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] -
midshipman
n 1: a temporary rank held by young naval officers in training -
militiaman
n 1: a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies -
milkman
n 1: someone who delivers milk -
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] -
nobleman
n 1: a titled peer of the realm [syn: Lord, noble, nobleman] [ant: Lady, noblewoman, peeress] -
oarsman
n 1: someone who rows a boat [syn: oarsman, rower]
See also pressman definition and pressman synonyms
