Words that rhyme with semester
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ester
n 1: formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water -
fester
n 1: a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus [syn: fester, suppurating sore] v 1: ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate] -
investor
n 1: someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns -
jester
n 1: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley fool] -
molester
n 1: someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities -
nester
n 1: someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter, homesteader, nester] 2: a bird that has built (or is building) a nest -
pester
v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer] -
polyester
n 1: any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant 2: a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer 3: any of a large class of synthetic fabrics -
protester
n 1: a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant] 2: someone who participates in a public display of group feeling [syn: demonstrator, protester] -
register
n 1: an official written record of names or events or transactions [syn: register, registry] 2: (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments 3: a book in which names and transactions are listed 4: (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind 5: an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room 6: a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device 7: a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill [syn: cash register, register] v 1: record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions 2: record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint" [syn: file, register] 3: enroll to vote; "register for an election" 4: be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?" [syn: record, register] 5: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'" [syn: read, register, show, record] 6: have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties [syn: cross-file, register] 7: show in one's face; "Her surprise did not register" 8: manipulate the registers of an organ 9: send by registered mail; "I'd like to register this letter" 10: enter into someone's consciousness; "Did this event register in your parents' minds?" -
requester
n 1: one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors" [syn: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant, requester] -
sequester
v 1: requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered" 2: take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork" [syn: impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seize] 3: undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered" 4: keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw] 5: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" [syn: sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate] -
tester
n 1: someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications [syn: examiner, tester, quizzer] 2: a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed) -
trimester
n 1: a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided 2: one of three divisions of an academic year -
rester
n 1: a person who rests -
wester
n 1: wind that blows from west to east [syn: west wind, wester] -
chester
n 1: a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia) -
esther
n 1: (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim) 2: an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre [syn: Esther, Book of Esther] -
leicester
n 1: a largely agricultural county in central England [syn: Leicestershire, Leicester] 2: an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement -
nestor
n 1: (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy 2: a genus of Psittacidae [syn: Nestor, genus Nestor] -
bester
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questar
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trester
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amvestor
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ivester
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mclester
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silvester
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sylvester
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sylvestre
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brester
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hester
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kester
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lester
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mester
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mestre
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testor
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vestar
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vester
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metzger
See also semester definition
