Words that rhyme with quaere

  • aerie
    n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
  • apiary
    n 1: a shed containing a number of beehives [syn: apiary, bee house]
  • auxiliary
    adj 1: functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary] 2: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other" [syn: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary] n 1: someone who acts as assistant [syn: aide, auxiliary]
  • aviary
    n 1: a building where birds are kept [syn: aviary, bird sanctuary, volary]
  • beery
    adj 1: smelling of beer
  • beneficiary
    adj 1: having or arising from a benefice; "a beneficiary baron" n 1: the recipient of funds or other benefits [syn: beneficiary, donee] 2: the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause [syn: benefactive role, beneficiary]
  • bestiary
    n 1: a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals
  • bier
    n 1: a coffin along with its stand; "we followed the bier to the graveyard" 2: a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial
  • bleary
    adj 1: tired to the point of exhaustion [syn: bleary, blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed] 2: indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy]
  • breviary
    n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily certain priests and members of religious orders
  • buccaneer
    n 1: someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation [syn: pirate, buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover] v 1: live like a buccaneer
  • cheery
    adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: cheery, gay, sunny]
  • domiciliary
    adj 1: of or relating to or provided in a domicile; "domiciliary medical care"; "domiciliary caves"
  • dreary
    adj 1: lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties" [syn: drab, dreary] 2: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
  • eerie
    adj 1: suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu" 2: inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" [syn: eerie, eery]
  • eyrie
    n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
  • fiduciary
    adj 1: relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another); "a fiduciary contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity"; "fiducial power" [syn: fiduciary, fiducial] n 1: a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; "it is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for personal gain"
  • hosiery
    n 1: socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) [syn: hosiery, hose]
  • incendiary
    adj 1: involving deliberate burning of property; "an incendiary fire" 2: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious] 3: capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily; "an incendiary agent"; "incendiary bombs" n 1: a criminal who illegally sets fire to property [syn: arsonist, incendiary, firebug] 2: a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) [syn: incendiary bomb, incendiary, firebomb]
  • intermediary
    n 1: a negotiator who acts as a link between parties [syn: mediator, go-between, intermediator, intermediary, intercessor]
  • laniary
    adj 1: of or relating to a pointed conical tooth [syn: canine, laniary]
  • leery
    adj 1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary]
  • musketeer
    n 1: a foot soldier armed with a musket
  • overhear
    v 1: hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers; "We overheard the conversation at the next table" [syn: catch, take in, overhear]
  • overseer
    n 1: a person who directs and manages an organization [syn: overseer, superintendent]
  • query
    n 1: an instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present" [syn: question, inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation] [ant: answer] v 1: pose a question [syn: question, query]
  • rehear
    v 1: hear or try a court case anew [syn: rehear, retry]
  • seer
    n 1: a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: visionary, illusionist, seer] 2: an observer who perceives visually; "an incurable seer of movies" 3: an authoritative person who divines the future [syn: prophet, prophesier, oracle, seer, vaticinator]
  • sightseer
    n 1: a tourist who is visiting sights of interest [syn: sightseer, excursionist, tripper, rubberneck]
  • skier
    n 1: someone who skis
  • subsidiary
    adj 1: functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary] n 1: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another [syn: subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier] 2: a company that is completely controlled by another company [syn: subsidiary company, subsidiary]
  • teary
    adj 1: with eyes full of tears [syn: teary, teary-eyed, watery-eyed]
  • theory
    n 1: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory" 2: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices" [syn: hypothesis, possibility, theory] 3: a belief that can guide behavior; "the architect has a theory that more is less"; "they killed him on the theory that dead men tell no tales"
  • tier
    n 1: a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; "lumber of the highest grade" [syn: grade, level, tier] 2: any one of two or more competitors who tie one another 3: a worker who ties something [syn: tier, tier up] 4: something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers" 5: one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake"
  • topiary
    n 1: a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals 2: making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees
  • weary
    adj 1: physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic" [syn: aweary, weary] v 1: exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant: freshen, refresh, refreshen] 2: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade]
  • weir
    n 1: a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow 2: a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish
  • dearie
    n 1: a special loved one [syn: darling, favorite, favourite, pet, dearie, deary, ducky]
  • erie
    n 1: a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York 2: the 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal [syn: Lake Erie, Erie] 3: a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania
  • melchior
    n 1: United States operatic tenor (born in Denmark) noted for his Wagnerian roles (1890-1973) [syn: Melchior, Lauritz Melchior, Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior] 2: (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus; usually represented as a king of Nubia
  • vestiary
    adj 1: relating to clothing (especially vestments)
  • cere
    n 1: the fleshy, waxy covering at the base of the upper beak of some birds v 1: wrap up in a cerecloth; "cere a corpse"
  • biliary
    adj 1: relating to or containing bile [syn: bilious, biliary] 2: relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder
  • ciliary
    adj 1: relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye 2: of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell [syn: ciliary, ciliate, cilial] 3: of or relating to the human eyelash [syn: ciliary, ciliate]
  • justiciary
    n 1: formerly a high judicial officer [syn: justiciar, justiciary] 2: the jurisdiction of a justiciar
  • peri
    n 1: a beautiful and graceful girl 2: (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
  • peary
    n 1: United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920) [syn: Peary, Robert Peary, Robert E. Peary, Robert Edwin Peary]
  • kashmiri
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Kashmir or its people or culture; "the Kashmiri mountains"; "Kashmiri love poems" n 1: a member of the people of Kashmir 2: the official state language of Kashmir
  • aweary
    adj 1: physically and mentally fatigued; "`aweary' is archaic" [syn: aweary, weary]
  • unweary
    adj 1: with unreduced energy [syn: untired, unwearied, unweary]
  • farriery
  • freer
  • furriery
  • smeary
  • baehr
  • keneer
  • manteer
  • saffir
  • sampere
  • savir
  • blogosphere
  • comandeer
  • multiyear
  • cleary
  • dier
  • greear
  • heer
  • kia
  • meer
  • nier
  • prieur
  • farrior
  • kendzior
  • geary
  • keir
  • arquebusier
  • miliary
  • miserere
  • retiary
  • vespiary
  • presidiary
  • nobiliary