Words that rhyme with skelter

n 1: one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement [syn: adjuster, adjustor, claims adjuster, claims adjustor, claim agent]

n 1: the table in Christian churches where communion is given [syn: altar, communion table, Lord's table] 2: a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

v 1: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" [syn: change, alter, modify] 2: become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" [syn: change, alter, vary] 3: make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered" 4: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate, alter, falsify] 5: remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" [syn: alter, neuter, spay, castrate]

n 1: someone who attacks [syn: attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter]

n 1: noisy confusion and turbulence; "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations" 2: a swaggering show of courage [syn: bravado, bluster] 3: a violent gusty wind 4: vain and empty boasting [syn: braggadocio, bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade] v 1: blow hard; be gusty, as of wind; "A southeaster blustered onshore"; "The flames blustered" 2: show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade] 3: act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner [syn: swagger, bluster, swash]

n 1: an informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" [syn: fellow, dude, buster] 2: a robust child 3: a person who breaks horses [syn: buster, bronco buster, broncobuster] 4: a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; "dam buster"; "sanction buster"; "crime buster" 5: a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically [syn: baby buster, buster]

n 1: a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch, clump, cluster, clustering] v 1: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: cluster, constellate, flock, clump] 2: gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" [syn: bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clump]

n 1: someone who fails to make a required appearance in court 2: someone who fails to meet a financial obligation [syn: defaulter, deadbeat] 3: a contestant who forfeits a match

n 1: the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech" [syn: hesitation, waver, falter, faltering] v 1: be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering" [syn: falter, waver] 2: move hesitatingly, as if about to give way [syn: falter, waver] 3: walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about" [syn: stumble, falter, bumble] 4: speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room" [syn: bumble, stutter, stammer, falter]

n 1: a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger 2: protective covering that provides protection from the weather 3: the condition of being protected; "they were huddled together for protection"; "he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home" [syn: protection, shelter] 4: a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings [syn: tax shelter, shelter] 5: temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons v 1: provide shelter for; "After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people" 2: invest (money) so that it is not taxable

n 1: an industrial plant for smelting [syn: smelter, smeltery]

v 1: be uncomfortably hot 2: suffer from intense heat; "we were sweltering at the beach"

n 1: a confused multitude of things [syn: clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother] v 1: toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way; "The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours" 2: roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud" [syn: wallow, welter] 3: be immersed in; "welter in work"

n 1: a heavy rain [syn: downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker] 2: a thrower of missiles; "the police were too busy to chase the pelters"

n 1: location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules [syn: Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe]

n 1: a republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 [syn: Malta, Republic of Malta] 2: a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea

n 1: Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827) [syn: Volta, Count Alessandro Volta, Conte Alessandro Volta, Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta] 2: a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin

n 1: German conductor (1876-1962) [syn: Walter, Bruno Walter]

n 1: a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945

n 1: a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil [syn: colter, coulter]

n 1: a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil [syn: colter, coulter]

n 1: in working order; "out of kilter"; "in good kilter" [syn: kilter, kelter]

n 1: a worker who melts substances (metal or wax etc.)