Words that rhyme with schlichter

n 1: someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) [syn: kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher] 2: a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line [syn: abductor, abductor muscle]

n 1: one who makes abstracts or summarizes information [syn: abstractor, abstracter]

n 1: a theatrical performer [syn: actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player] 2: a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker" [syn: actor, doer, worker]

n 1: a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) [syn: benefactor, helper]

n 1: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel" [syn: fictional character, fictitious character, character] 2: a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" [syn: quality, character, lineament] 3: the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer [syn: character, fiber, fibre] 4: an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" [syn: character, role, theatrical role, part, persona] 5: a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" [syn: character, eccentric, type, case] 6: good repute; "he is a man of character" 7: a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively" [syn: character, reference, character reference] 8: a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" [syn: character, grapheme, graphic symbol] 9: (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes v 1: engrave or inscribe characters on

n 1: a therapist who practices chiropractic

n 1: a person who collects things [syn: collector, aggregator] 2: a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) [syn: collector, gatherer, accumulator] 3: a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth 4: the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes

n 1: the person who leads a musical group [syn: conductor, music director, director] 2: a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat [ant: dielectric, insulator, nonconductor] 3: the person who collects fares on a public conveyance 4: a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.

n 1: an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers" [syn: connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective]

n 1: any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils

n 1: someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things 2: the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps [syn: contractor, declarer] 3: (law) a party to a contract 4: a bodily organ that contracts [syn: contractile organ, contractor]

n 1: a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) [syn: deserter, defector]

n 1: a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc)

n 1: any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner [syn: detector, sensor, sensing element] 2: rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave [syn: detector, demodulator] 3: electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity

n 1: one who disparages or belittles the worth of something [syn: detractor, disparager, depreciator, knocker]

n 1: someone who controls resources and expenditures [syn: director, manager, managing director] 2: member of a board of directors 3: someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show [syn: director, theater director, theatre director] 4: the person who directs the making of a film [syn: film director, director] 5: the person who leads a musical group [syn: conductor, music director, director]

n 1: someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) [syn: forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer] 2: information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events; "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance" 3: a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival

n 1: a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches" [syn: curate, minister of religion, minister, parson, pastor, rector]

n 1: someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication [syn: redact, redactor, reviser, rewriter, rewrite man]

n 1: device that reflects radiation 2: optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece; "Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668" [syn: reflecting telescope, reflector]

n 1: someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor

n 1: a combatant who is able to defeat rivals [syn: victor, master, superior] 2: the contestant who wins the contest [syn: winner, victor] [ant: also-ran, loser]