CATER
First name CATER's origin is Other. CATER means "pure". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CATER below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cater.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with CATER and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CATER
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CATER AS A WHOLE:
caterina ecaterinaNAMES RHYMING WITH CATER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (ater) - Names That Ends with ater:
usk-water attewater fitzwater atwaterRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ter) - Names That Ends with ter:
brewster witter dexter auster kester easter ester eszter hester alister allister ceaster chester colter coulter dieter fitzwalter forester forrester foster holter hunter lester macalister peter sutter sylvester thaxter webster wireceaster worcester wynter walter alaster porter winter carter baxter demeter ritter caster dempster leicester alter silvester rossiterRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (er) - Names That Ends with er:
clover hesper gauthier iskinder fajer mountakaber nader saber shaker taher abdul-nasser kadeer kyner vortimer yder ager ander iker xabier fleischaker kusner molner bleecker devisser schuyler vanderveer an-her djoser narmer neb-er-tcher acker archer bridger camber denver gardner jasper miller parker taburer tanner tucker turner wheeler symer jesper ogier oliver fearcher kellerNAMES RHYMING WITH CATER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (cate) - Names That Begins with cate:
cate cateline catelynRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cat) - Names That Begins with cat:
cat catalin catalina catarina catarine cath cathair cathal cathao cathaoir catharine cathasach cathbad cathenna catherine catheryn cathi cathia cathie cathleen cathlin cathly cathmor cathmore cathryn cathy catia catlee catlin catline catlyn catori catrell catri catrice catriona cattee catterick catterik catti-brieRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ca) - Names That Begins with ca:
cabal cabe cable cacamwri cacanisius cace cacey cachamwri caci cacia cadabyr cadan cadassi cadby cadda caddaham caddari caddaric caddarik caddawyc cade cadee cadell caden cadena cadence cadencia cadenza cadeo cadha cadhla cadi cadie cadis cadman cadmon cadmus cador cadwallon cady cadyna caedmon caedon caedwalla caelan caeli caellum caeneus caerleon caerlion caersewiella caesar caesare cafall caffar caffara caffariaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CATER:
First Names which starts with 'ca' and ends with 'er':
calder carver casperFirst Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'r':
cahir calibor calldwr callyr car carr castor caylor cesar cestmir cezar chalmer chancellor chandler chanler char chaunceler cher chevalier christofer christoffer christofor christopher ciar claefer clair codier codyr colier collier collyer colver colvyr colyer conchobar conchobhar conner connor conor cooper cougar cour criostoir cristofer cristofor crogher culver cur curr cutler cuyler cynyr cyrEnglish Words Rhyming CATER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CATER AS A WHOLE:
acater | noun (n.) See Caterer. |
cater | noun (n.) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. |
noun (n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions. | |
noun (n.) By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to. | |
noun (n.) The four of cards or dice. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut diagonally. |
catering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cater |
cateran | noun (n.) A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. |
caterer | noun (n.) One who caters. |
cateress | noun (n.) A woman who caters. |
caterpillar | noun (n.) The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm. |
noun (n.) A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars. |
caterwauling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caterwaul |
noun (n.) The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats. |
caterwaul | noun (n.) A caterwauling. |
verb (v. i.) To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. |
catery | noun (n.) The place where provisions are deposited. |
masticater | noun (n.) One who masticates. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CATER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ater) - English Words That Ends with ater:
abater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, abates. |
amphitheater | noun (n.) Alt. of Amphitheatre |
animater | noun (n.) One who animates. |
archiater | noun (n.) Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities. |
astrolater | noun (n.) A worshiper of the stars. |
backwater | noun (n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar. |
noun (n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction. | |
noun (n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer. |
beater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, beats. |
noun (n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters. |
beefeater | noun (n.) One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person. |
noun (n.) One of the yeomen of the guard, in England. | |
noun (n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known. |
bibliolater | noun (n.) Alt. of Bibliolatrist |
bleater | noun (n.) One who bleats; a sheep. |
blendwater | noun (n.) A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. |
bloater | noun (n.) The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring. |
breakwater | noun (n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence. |
catchwater | noun (n.) A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain. |
cheater | noun (n.) One who cheats. |
noun (n.) An escheator. |
combater | noun (n.) One who combats. |
confederater | noun (n.) A confederate. |
consecrater | noun (n.) Consecrator. |
crabeater | noun (n.) The cobia. |
noun (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). | |
noun (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species). |
crater | noun (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. |
noun (n.) The pit left by the explosion of a mine. | |
noun (n.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup. |
cutwater | noun (n.) The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water. |
noun (n.) A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself. | |
noun (n.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer. |
dater | noun (n.) One who dates. |
debater | noun (n.) One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist. |
demonstrater | noun (n.) See Demonstrator. |
desecrater | noun (n.) One who desecrates; a profaner. |
desolater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. |
dilater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges. |
dishwater | noun (n.) Water in which dishes have been washed. |
divulgater | noun (n.) A divulger. |
eater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, eats. |
elater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, elates. |
noun (n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts. | |
noun (n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle. | |
noun (n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola. | |
noun (n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative. |
electroplater | noun (n.) One who electroplates. |
entreater | noun (n.) One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher. |
exasperater | noun (n.) One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence. |
eyewater | noun (n.) A wash or lotion for application to the eyes. |
figeater | noun (n.) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders. |
noun (n.) A bird. See Figpecker. |
floater | noun (n.) One who floats or swims. |
noun (n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface. | |
() A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable. | |
() A person, as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own. | |
() A person who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted. |
frater | noun (n.) A monk; also, a frater house. |
grater | adjective (a.) One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs. |
hater | noun (n.) One who hates. |
heater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, heats. |
noun (n.) Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated. |
heliolater | noun (n.) A worshiper of the sun. |
headwater | noun (n.) The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural; as, the headwaters of the Missouri. |
iconolater | noun (n.) One who worships images. |
idolater | noun (n.) A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan. |
noun (n.) An adorer; a great admirer. |
imitater | noun (n.) One who imitates. |
inflater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange. |
later | noun (n.) A brick or tile. |
adverb (a.) Compar. of Late, a. & adv. |
limewater | noun (n.) Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes. |
macerater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ter) - English Words That Ends with ter:
abetter | noun (n.) Alt. of Abettor |
absenter | noun (n.) One who absents one's self. |
abstracter | noun (n.) One who abstracts, or makes an abstract. |
abutter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river. |
accelerometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder. |
accepter | noun (n.) A person who accepts; a taker. |
noun (n.) A respecter; a viewer with partiality. | |
noun (n.) An acceptor. |
accipiter | noun (n.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores. |
noun (n.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk. |
acetimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid. |
acetometer | noun (n.) Same as Acetimeter. |
acidimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. |
acoumeter | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. |
acquitter | noun (n.) One who acquits or releases. |
acroter | noun (n.) Same as Acroterium. |
actinometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays. |
noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light. |
adapter | noun (n.) One who adapts. |
noun (n.) A connecting tube; an adopter. |
adelaster | noun (n.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus. |
adjuster | noun (n.) One who, or that which, adjusts. |
administer | noun (n.) Administrator. |
verb (v. t.) To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state. | |
verb (v. t.) To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament. | |
verb (v. t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To tender, as an oath. | |
verb (v. t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. | |
verb (v. i.) To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister. | |
verb (v. i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B. |
admitter | noun (n.) One who admits. |
adopter | noun (n.) One who adopts. |
noun (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. |
aerometer | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases. |
aesthesiometer | noun (n.) Alt. of Esthesiometer |
affecter | noun (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. |
afflicter | noun (n.) One who afflicts. |
affreighter | noun (n.) One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. |
affrighter | noun (n.) One who frightens. |
affronter | noun (n.) One who affronts, or insults to the face. |
after | adjective (a.) Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life. |
adjective (a.) Hinder; nearer the rear. | |
adjective (a.) To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. | |
adverb (adv.) Subsequently in time or place; behind; afterward; as, he follows after. | |
prep (prep.) Behind in place; as, men in line one after another. | |
prep (prep.) Below in rank; next to in order. | |
prep (prep.) Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause. | |
prep (prep.) Subsequent to and in consequence of; as, after what you have said, I shall be careful. | |
prep (prep.) Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course. | |
prep (prep.) Moving toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of. | |
prep (prep.) Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness. | |
prep (prep.) In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. | |
prep (prep.) According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind. | |
prep (prep.) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. |
agister | noun (n.) Alt. of Agistor |
airometer | noun (n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water. |
alabaster | noun (n.) A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc. |
noun (n.) A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster. | |
noun (n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. |
albuminimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid. |
alcalimeter | noun (n.) See Alkalimeter. |
alcoholometer | noun (n.) Alt. of Alcoholmeter |
alcoholmeter | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale. |
alcohometer | adjective (a.) Alt. of Alcohometric |
aletaster | noun (n.) See Aleconner. |
aleurometer | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. |
alkalimeter | noun (n.) An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture. |
allotter | noun (n.) One who allots. |
altimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. |
altometer | noun (n.) A theodolite. |
ambidexter | noun (n.) A person who uses both hands with equal facility. |
noun (n.) A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. | |
noun (n.) A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict. | |
adjective (a.) Using both hands with equal ease. |
ammeter | noun (n.) A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter. |
amperemeter | noun (n.) Alt. of Amperometer |
amperometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in amperes. |
amphiaster | noun (n.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle. |
amylobacter | noun (n.) A microorganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. |
anemometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge. |
anglemeter | noun (n.) An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CATER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (cate) - Words That Begins with cate:
cate | noun (n.) Food. [Obs.] See Cates. |
catechetic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Catechetical |
catechetical | adjective (a.) Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. |
catechetics | noun (n.) The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers. |
catechin | noun (n.) One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin. |
catechisation | noun (n.) The act of catechising. |
catechising | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catechise |
catechiser | noun (n.) One who catechises. |
catechism | noun (n.) A form of instruction by means of questions and answers. |
noun (n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers. |
catechismal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical. |
catechist | noun (n.) One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters. |
catechistic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Catechistical |
catechistical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism. |
catechu | noun (n.) A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. |
catechuic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin. |
catechumenate | noun (n.) The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen. |
catechumenical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions. |
catechumenist | noun (n.) A catechumen. |
categorematic | adjective (a.) Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word. |
categorical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a category. |
adjective (a.) Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. |
categoricalness | noun (n.) The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. |
categorist | noun (n.) One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. |
category | noun (n.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. |
noun (n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. |
catel | noun (n.) Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income. |
catelectrode | noun (n.) The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. |
catelectrotonic | adjective (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus. |
catelectrotonus | noun (n.) The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it. |
catena | noun (n.) A chain or series of things connected with each other. |
catenary | noun (n.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Catenarian |
catenarian | adjective (a.) Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve. |
catenating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catenate |
catenation | noun (n.) Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. |
catenulate | adjective (a.) Consisting of little links or chains. |
adjective (a.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc. |
cates | noun (n.) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cat) - Words That Begins with cat:
cat | noun (n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat. |
noun (n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade. | |
noun (n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship. | |
noun (n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed. | |
noun (n.) An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc. | |
noun (n.) A cat o' nine tails. See below. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor. |
catting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cat |
catabaptist | noun (n.) One who opposes baptism, especially of infants. |
catabasion | noun (n.) A vault under altar of a Greek church. |
catabiotic | adjective (a.) See under Force. |
catacaustic | noun (n.) A caustic curve formed by reflection of light. |
adjective (a.) Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. |
catachresis | noun (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young. |
catachrestic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Catachrestical |
catachrestical | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched. |
cataclysm | noun (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge. |
noun (n.) Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface. |
cataclysmal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cataclysmic |
cataclysmic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a cataclysm. |
cataclysmist | noun (n.) One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms. |
catacomb | noun (n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural. |
catacoustic | noun (n.) That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics. |
catadioptric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Catadioptrical |
catadioptrical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light. |
catadioptrics | noun (n.) The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments. |
catadrome | noun (n.) A race course. |
noun (n.) A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights. |
catadromous | adjective (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous. |
adjective (a.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel. |
catafalco | noun (n.) See Catafalque. |
catafalque | noun (n.) A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial. |
catagmatic | adjective (a.) Having the quality of consolidating broken bones. |
cataian | noun (n.) A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach. |
catalan | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Catalonia. |
catalectic | adjective (a.) Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse. |
adjective (a.) Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance. |
catalepsy | noun (n.) Alt. of Catalepsis |
catalepsis | noun (n.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues. |
cataleptic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit. |
catallacta | noun (n. pl.) A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies. |
catallactics | noun (n.) The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy. |
catalog | noun (n. & v.) Catalogue. |
catalogue | noun (n.) A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. |
verb (v. t.) To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue. |
cataloguing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catalogue |
cataloguer | noun (n.) A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues. |
catalpa | noun (n.) A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean. |
catalysis | noun (n.) Dissolution; degeneration; decay. |
noun (n.) A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyalin) on starch. | |
noun (n.) The catalytic force. |
catalytic | noun (n.) An agent employed in catalysis, as platinum black, aluminium chloride, etc. |
adjective (a.) Relating to, or causing, catalysis. |
catamaran | noun (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations. |
noun (n.) Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed. | |
noun (n.) A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat. | |
noun (n.) A quarrelsome woman; a scold. |
catamenia | noun (n. pl.) The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses. |
catamenial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges. |
catamite | noun (n.) A boy kept for unnatural purposes. |
catamount | noun (n.) The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx. |
catanadromous | adjective (a.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. |
catapasm | noun (n.) A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. |
catapeltic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a catapult. |
catapetalous | adjective (a.) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow. |
cataphonic | adjective (a.) Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic. |
cataphonics | noun (n.) That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds; catacoustics. |
cataphract | noun (n.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations. |
noun (n.) A horseman covered with a cataphract. | |
noun (n.) The armor or plate covering some fishes. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CATER:
English Words which starts with 'ca' and ends with 'er':
caballer | noun (n.) One who cabals. |
cabbler | noun (n.) One who works at cabbling. |
caber | noun (n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength. |
noun (n.) A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength. |
cabinetmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc. |
cackler | noun (n.) A fowl that cackles. |
noun (n.) One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler. |
cadaster | noun (n.) An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property. |
cadaver | noun (n.) A dead human body; a corpse. |
cader | noun (n.) See Cadre. |
cadger | noun (n.) One who carries hawks on a cadge. |
verb (v. t.) A packman or itinerant huckster. | |
verb (v. t.) One who gets his living by trickery or begging. |
cadilesker | noun (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers. |
cahier | noun (n.) A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers. |
noun (n.) A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc. |
cajoler | noun (n.) A flatterer; a wheedler. |
calciminer | noun (n.) One who calcimines. |
calciner | noun (n.) One who, or that which, calcines. |
calcographer | noun (n.) One who practices calcography. |
calender | noun (n.) A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating. |
noun (n.) One who pursues the business of calendering. | |
noun (n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc. | |
noun (n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes. |
calendographer | noun (n.) One who makes calendars. |
calendrer | noun (n.) A person who calenders cloth; a calender. |
caliber | noun (n.) Alt. of Calibre |
caliver | noun (n.) An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. |
calker | noun (n.) One who calks. |
noun (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1. |
caller | noun (n.) One who calls. |
adjective (a.) Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. | |
adjective (a.) Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings. |
calligrapher | noun (n.) One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman. |
calmer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, makes calm. |
calorimeter | noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. |
noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam. |
caloyer | noun (n.) A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos. |
camber | noun (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck). |
noun (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve. | |
verb (v. i.) To curve upward. |
campaigner | noun (n.) One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran. |
camper | noun (n.) One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp. |
canaster | noun (n.) A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. |
cancelier | noun (n.) Alt. of Canceleer |
verb (v. i.) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. |
canceleer | noun (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. |
cancer | noun (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab. |
noun (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic. | |
noun (n.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo. | |
noun (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework. |
candleholder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. |
candlewaster | noun (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. |
canister | noun (n.) A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc. |
noun (n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc. | |
noun (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot. |
canker | noun (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma. |
noun (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. | |
noun (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. | |
noun (n.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. | |
noun (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. | |
verb (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. | |
verb (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt. | |
verb (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. | |
verb (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. |
cannoneer | noun (n.) Alt. of Cannonier |
cannonier | noun (n.) A man who manages, or fires, cannon. |
cantalever | noun (n.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like. |
noun (n.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs. |
canter | noun (n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding. |
noun (n.) A rapid or easy passing over. | |
noun (n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar. | |
noun (n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. | |
verb (v. i.) To move in a canter. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. |
cantilever | noun (n.) Same as Cantalever. |
canvasser | noun (n.) One who canvasses. |
capellmeister | noun (n.) The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master. |
caper | noun (n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank. |
noun (n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer. | |
noun (n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles. | |
noun (n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree. | |
verb (v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. |
caperer | noun (n.) One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. |
capper | noun (n.) One whose business is to make or sell caps. |
noun (n.) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.]. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge. |
carabineer | noun (n.) A carbineer. |
caravaneer | noun (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan. |
carbineer | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a carbine. |
carbonometer | noun (n.) An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means. |
carder | noun (n.) One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc. |
career | noun (n.) A race course: the ground run over. |
noun (n.) A running; full speed; a rapid course. | |
noun (n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. | |
noun (n.) The flight of a hawk. | |
verb (v. i.) To move or run rapidly. |
carouser | noun (n.) One who carouses; a reveler. |
carpenter | noun (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc. |
carper | noun (n.) One who carps; a caviler. |
carpetbagger | noun (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). |
carpetmonger | noun (n.) One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets. |
noun (n.) One fond of pleasure; a gallant. |
carrier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. |
noun (n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. | |
noun (n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. |
carter | noun (n.) A charioteer. |
noun (n.) A man who drives a cart; a teamster. | |
noun (n.) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman | |
noun (n.) A British fish; the whiff. |
cartographer | noun (n.) One who makes charts or maps. |
carver | noun (n.) One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. |
noun (n.) One who carves or divides meat at table. | |
noun (n.) A large knife for carving. |
cashier | noun (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company. |
verb (v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. | |
verb (v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard. |
cashierer | noun (n.) One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. |
caster | noun (n.) One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts. |
noun (n.) A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters. | |
noun (n.) A stand to hold a set of cruets. | |
noun (n.) A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved. |
castlebuilder | noun (n.) Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. |
catcher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, catches. |
noun (n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. |
catheter | noun (n.) The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine. |
cathetometer | noun (n.) An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard. |
catopter | noun (n.) Alt. of Catoptron |
cauker | noun (n.) See Cawk, Calker. |
cauliflower | noun (n.) An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. |
noun (n.) The edible head or "curd" of a cauliflower plant. |
causer | noun (n.) One who or that which causes. |
cauter | noun (n.) A hot iron for searing or cauterizing. |
cautioner | noun (n.) One who cautions or advises. |
noun (n.) A surety or sponsor. |
cavalier | noun (n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight. |
noun (n.) A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant. | |
noun (n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. | |
noun (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts. | |
adjective (a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank. | |
adjective (a.) High-spirited. | |
adjective (a.) Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. |
caviler | noun (n.) Alt. of Caviller |
caviller | noun (n.) One who cavils. |
cawker | noun (n.) See Calker. |