Words that rhyme with tener

n 1: a person who dissents from some established policy [syn: dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant]

v 1: to come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes" [syn: enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into] [ant: exit, get out, go out, leave] 2: become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations" [syn: enter, participate] [ant: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, quit, throw in, throw in the towel] 3: register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruit] 4: be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?" [syn: figure, enter] 5: make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: record, enter, put down] 6: come on stage 7: take on duties or office; "accede to the throne" [syn: accede, enter] 8: put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text" [syn: insert, infix, enter, introduce] 9: set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked upon a new career" [syn: embark, enter]

n 1: someone who is the first to think of or make something [syn: inventor, discoverer, artificer]

n 1: a wise and trusted guide and advisor [syn: mentor, wise man] v 1: serve as a teacher or trusted counselor; "The famous professor mentored him during his years in graduate school"; "She is a fine lecturer but she doesn't like mentoring"

n 1: someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.) 2: an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.) [syn: presenter, sponsor] 3: person who makes a gift of property [syn: donor, giver, presenter, bestower, conferrer]

n 1: someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent" [syn: tenant, renter] 2: an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person

n 1: a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers" [syn: splinter, sliver] v 1: withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" [syn: secede, splinter, break away] 2: divide into slivers or splinters [syn: sliver, splinter] 3: break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered" [syn: splinter, sliver]

adj 1: (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass; "a tenor sax" 2: of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice; "tenor voice" n 1: the adult male singing voice above baritone [syn: tenor, tenor voice] 2: the pitch range of the highest male voice 3: an adult male with a tenor voice 4: a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life; "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways" 5: the general meaning or substance of an utterance; "although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument" [syn: tenor, strain]

n 1: the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox [syn: winter, wintertime] v 1: spend the winter; "We wintered on the Riviera"; "Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island" [syn: winter, overwinter]

adj 1: equally distant from the extremes [syn: center(a), halfway, middle(a), midway] 2: of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually [ant: left, right] n 1: an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm" [syn: center, centre, middle, heart, eye] 2: the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher; "he hit the ball to deep center" [syn: center field, centerfield, center] 3: a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research" [syn: center, centre] 4: a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure [syn: center, centre, midpoint] 5: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty] 6: the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party" [syn: center, centre, center of attention, centre of attention] 7: a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere" [syn: center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre] 8: the middle of a military or naval formation; "they had to reinforce the center" 9: (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team 10: (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff" [syn: center, snapper] 11: a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers" [syn: center, centre] 12: politically moderate persons; centrists 13: (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team 14: the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering [syn: center, centre] 15: mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls" [syn: plaza, mall, center, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centre] 16: the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game 17: (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play; "it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback" 18: a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game v 1: center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" [syn: focus on, center on, revolve around, revolve about, concentrate on, center] 2: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet] 3: move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered" [syn: center, centre]

n 1: a speaker with an unusually loud voice 2: the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes 3: any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system [syn: ten, 10, X, tenner, decade] 2: a United States bill worth 10 dollars [syn: tenner, ten dollar bill]

n 1: a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth

n 1: a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance 2: the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly] 3: the womb; "`in venter' is legal terminology for `conceived but not yet born'" 4: a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle)