Words that rhyme with steeper

  • barkeeper
    n 1: an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar [syn: bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist]
  • beaker
    n 1: a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry 2: a cup (usually without a handle)
  • beater
    n 1: a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter 2: an implement for beating
  • beekeeper
    n 1: a farmer who keeps bees for their honey [syn: beekeeper, apiarist, apiculturist]
  • beeper
    n 1: an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged [syn: beeper, pager]
  • beleaguer
    v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer] 2: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent]
  • bleacher
    n 1: a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.)
  • bookkeeper
    n 1: someone who records the transactions of a business
  • breeder
    n 1: a person who breeds animals [syn: breeder, stock breeder]
  • cheater
    n 1: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker]
  • creeper
    n 1: any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping 2: a person who crawls or creeps along the ground [syn: crawler, creeper] 3: any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet [syn: creeper, tree creeper]
  • doorkeeper
    n 1: an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber [syn: usher, doorkeeper] 2: the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church [syn: doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius] 3: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]
  • gamekeeper
    n 1: a person employed to take care of game and wildlife [syn: gamekeeper, game warden]
  • gatekeeper
    n 1: someone who controls access to something; "there are too many gatekeepers between the field officers and the chief" 2: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]
  • goalkeeper
    n 1: the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal [syn: goalkeeper, goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder] 2: the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring [syn: goalkeeper, goalie, goaltender, netkeeper]
  • housekeeper
    n 1: a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household
  • innkeeper
    n 1: the owner or manager of an inn [syn: host, innkeeper, boniface]
  • keeper
    n 1: someone in charge of other people; "am I my brother's keeper?" 2: one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn: custodian, keeper, steward]
  • leaper
    n 1: someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) [syn: bounder, leaper]
  • minesweeper
    n 1: ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines
  • peacekeeper
    n 1: a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area 2: someone who keeps peace; "she's the peacekeeper in that family" 3: the pistol of a law officer in the old West
  • reaper
    n 1: someone who helps to gather the harvest [syn: harvester, reaper] 2: Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe [syn: Grim Reaper, Reaper] 3: farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields [syn: harvester, reaper]
  • scorekeeper
    n 1: an official who records the score during the progress of a game [syn: scorekeeper, scorer]
  • shopkeeper
    n 1: a merchant who owns or manages a shop [syn: shopkeeper, tradesman, storekeeper, market keeper]
  • sleeper
    n 1: a rester who is sleeping [syn: sleeper, slumberer] 2: a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal 3: an unexpected achiever of success; "the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it" 4: one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper" [syn: tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper] 5: a passenger car that has berths for sleeping [syn: sleeping car, sleeper, wagon-lit] 6: pajamas with feet; worn by children 7: a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed 8: tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water [syn: sleeper, sleeper goby] 9: an unexpected hit; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer"
  • storekeeper
    n 1: a merchant who owns or manages a shop [syn: shopkeeper, tradesman, storekeeper, market keeper]
  • sweeper
    n 1: an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) 2: a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet [syn: carpet sweeper, sweeper] 3: little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
  • timekeeper
    n 1: (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed [syn: timekeeper, timer] 2: a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees 3: a measuring instrument or device for keeping time [syn: timepiece, timekeeper, horologe]
  • peeper
    n 1: a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others [syn: voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper] 2: an informal term referring to the eye 3: an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds
  • weeper
    n 1: a person who weeps [syn: weeper, crier] 2: a hired mourner
  • greenskeeper
    n 1: someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course
  • hotelkeeper
    n 1: an owner or manager of hotels [syn: hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotel manager, hotelman, hosteller]
  • cheaper
  • deeper
  • wicketkeeper
  • bleaker
  • cheeper
  • schlieper
  • keiper
  • kieper
  • leeper
  • leiper
  • neeper
  • pieper
  • scheper
  • treecreeper

See also steeper definition