Words that rhyme with tracor

n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]

n 1: a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports [syn: bracer, armguard] 2: a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) [syn: bracer, pick-me-up]

n 1: a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture; "always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers" [syn: pursuer, chaser] 2: a drink to follow immediately after another drink

n 1: an attendant who checks coats or baggage 2: one who checks the correctness of something 3: one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers [syn: checker, chequer] v 1: mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on [syn: check, checker, chequer] 2: variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns [syn: checker, chequer]

n 1: a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" [syn: core, nucleus, core group] 2: the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core" 3: the central part of the Earth 4: 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] 5: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill 6: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality, CORE] 7: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 8: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core] 9: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place 10: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil v 1: remove the core or center from; "core an apple"

n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support [syn: corps, army corps] 2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"

n 1: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur, mongrel, mutt] 2: a cowardly and despicable person

n 1: a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) [syn: debaser, degrader]

n 1: decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior [syn: interior decoration, decor]

n 1: an implement used to erase something

n 1: (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced

n 1: a workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding)

n 1: flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water" [syn: mesa, table] 2: a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix

n 1: a horse used to set the pace in racing [syn: pacer, pacemaker, pacesetter] 2: a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together

n 1: an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral

n 1: someone who drives racing cars at high speeds [syn: racer, race driver, automobile driver] 2: a fast car that competes in races [syn: racer, race car, racing car] 3: an animal that races 4: slender fast-moving North American snakes

n 1: a horse trained to run in steeplechases

n 1: an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods 2: an instrument used to make tracings 3: (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes 4: ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke [syn: tracer, tracer bullet]

n 1: someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job 2: someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks [syn: saboteur, wrecker, diversionist] 3: a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck, tow car, wrecker]

n 1: English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632) [syn: Dekker, Decker, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Decker] 2: (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels; "they rode in a double-decker bus"

n 1: type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit [syn: Acer, genus Acer]

n 1: Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997) [syn: Teresa, Mother Teresa, Theresa, Mother Theresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu]

n 1: an official who carries a mace of office [syn: macebearer, mace, macer]