Words that rhyme with tabor

  • abhor
    v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
  • belabour
    v 1: to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious" [syn: belabor, belabour] 2: beat soundly [syn: belabour, belabor] 3: attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students" [syn: belabor, belabour]
  • birr
    n 1: the basic unit of money in Ethiopia; equal to 100 cents 2: sound of something in rapid motion; "whir of a bird's wings"; "the whir of the propellers" [syn: whir, whirr, whirring, birr] v 1: make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car engine purred" [syn: whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr]
  • bore
    n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard] 2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager] 3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge, caliber, calibre] 4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole] v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest] 2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]
  • bur
    n 1: seed vessel having hooks or prickles [syn: bur, burr] 2: small bit used in dentistry or surgery [syn: bur, burr] v 1: remove the burrs from [syn: bur, burr]
  • burr
    n 1: seed vessel having hooks or prickles [syn: bur, burr] 2: rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting 3: United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836) [syn: Burr, Aaron Burr] 4: rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece 5: small bit used in dentistry or surgery [syn: bur, burr] v 1: remove the burrs from [syn: bur, burr]
  • caber
    n 1: a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland)
  • hellebore
    n 1: perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes [syn: hellebore, false hellebore] 2: any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus
  • labour
    n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" [syn: labor, labour, working class, proletariat] 2: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed] 3: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries [syn: British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour, Labor] 4: productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn: labor, labour, toil] v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil] 2: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis" [syn: tug, labor, labour, push, drive] 3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [syn: labor, labour]
  • neighbour
    n 1: a person who lives (or is located) near another [syn: neighbor, neighbour] 2: a nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?" [syn: neighbor, neighbour] v 1: live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house" [syn: neighbor, neighbour] 2: be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India" [syn: neighbor, neighbour]
  • sabre
    n 1: a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle [syn: saber, sabre] 2: a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back [syn: cavalry sword, saber, sabre] v 1: cut or injure with a saber [syn: sabre, saber] 2: kill with a saber [syn: saber, sabre]
  • smooth
    adj 1: having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror" [ant: rough, unsmooth] 2: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error" [syn: politic, smooth, suave, bland] 3: of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth [ant: rough] 4: smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina" [syn: fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth] 5: (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; "a legato passage" [syn: legato, smooth] [ant: disconnected, staccato] 6: of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence; "a smooth ride" [ant: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough] 7: lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly" 8: (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves; "a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay"; "the quiet waters of a lagoon"; "a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"; "a smooth channel crossing"; "scarcely a ripple on the still water"; "unruffled water" [syn: placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled] n 1: the act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth" v 1: make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood" [syn: smooth, smoothen] [ant: roughen] 2: make (a surface) shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes" [syn: polish, smooth, smoothen, shine] 3: free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negotiations" [syn: smooth, smooth out]
  • tambour
    n 1: a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering [syn: tambour, embroidery frame, embroidery hoop] 2: a drum
  • neighbor
    n 1: a person who lives (or is located) near another [syn: neighbor, neighbour] 2: a nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?" [syn: neighbor, neighbour] v 1: live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house" [syn: neighbor, neighbour] 2: be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India" [syn: neighbor, neighbour]
  • saber
    n 1: a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle [syn: saber, sabre] 2: a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back [syn: cavalry sword, saber, sabre] v 1: cut or injure with a saber [syn: sabre, saber] 2: kill with a saber [syn: saber, sabre]
  • gabor
    n 1: British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979) [syn: Gabor, Dennis Gabor]
  • haber
    n 1: German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934) [syn: Haber, Fritz Haber]
  • belabor
    v 1: to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious" [syn: belabor, belabour] 2: attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students" [syn: belabor, belabour] 3: beat soundly [syn: belabour, belabor]
  • weber
    n 1: a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells [syn: weber, Wb] 2: German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891) [syn: Weber, Wilhelm Eduard Weber] 3: United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961) [syn: Weber, Max Weber] 4: German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920) [syn: Weber, Max Weber] 5: German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826) [syn: Weber, Carl Maria von Weber, Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber] 6: German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878) [syn: Weber, E. H. Weber, Ernst Heinrich Weber]
  • forbore
  • sabir
  • aber
  • aybar
  • baber
  • faber
  • fabre
  • gaber
  • graber
  • jaber
  • klaiber
  • taber
  • lefeber
  • lefebre
  • lefebvre
  • lesabre
  • bir
  • buhr
  • libor
  • bour

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