| affenpinscher | (noun) European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle | Synonyms: monkey dog, monkey pinscher |
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| archer | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: bowman |
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| archerfish | (noun) any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia | Synonyms: Toxotes jaculatrix |
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| archery | (noun) the sport of shooting arrows with a bow | - |
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| backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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| backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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| (noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
| bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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| bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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| bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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| bleachers | (noun) (used in the plural) an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached | - |
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| blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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| botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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| (noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
| (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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| (noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
| cherimolla | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimoya |
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| cherimoya | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimolla |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit | Synonyms: Annona cherimola, cherimoya tree |
| cheroot | (noun) a cigar with both ends cut flat | - |
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| cherry | (noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cerise, cherry red |
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| (noun) a red fruit with a single hard stone | - |
| (noun) any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood | Synonyms: cherry tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry | - |
| cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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| (noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
| chert | (noun) variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz | - |
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| cherub | (noun) an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child | - |
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| (noun) a sweet innocent baby | - |
| chervil | (noun) fresh ferny parsley-like leaves used as a garnish with chicken and veal and omelets and green salads and spinach | - |
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| (noun) aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads | Synonyms: Anthriscus cereifolium, beaked parsley |
| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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| chokecherry | (noun) a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds | Synonyms: chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana |
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| (noun) the fruit of the chokecherry tree | - |
| clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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| (noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
| cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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| cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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| crossbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| encroacher | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: invader |
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| escherichia | (noun) a genus of enteric bacteria | - |
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| etcher | (noun) someone who etches | - |
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| flycatcher | (noun) any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing | Synonyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher |
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| (noun) large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing | Synonyms: New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher |
| frontbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is a minister in the government or who holds an official position in an opposition party | - |
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| gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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| (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |
| gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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| hatchery | (noun) a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs) | - |
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| hauncher | (noun) a machine for making shaped cuts in the end or along the edge of a board. | Synonyms: haunching machine |
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| launcher | (noun) armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket | Synonyms: rocket launcher |
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| (noun) a device that launches aircraft from a warship | Synonyms: catapult |
| lecher | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, letch, satyr |
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| lecherousness | (noun) a strong sexual desire | Synonyms: lust, lustfulness |
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| lechery | (noun) unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| luncher | (noun) someone who is eating lunch | - |
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| lurcher | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurker, skulker |
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| marcher | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, footslogger, infantryman |
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| (noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: parader |
| (noun) an inhabitant of a border district | - |
| matcher | (noun) someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others | Synonyms: marriage broker, matchmaker |
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| milcher | (noun) cattle that are reared for their milk | Synonyms: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milk cow, milker |
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| moocher | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, scrounger |
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| muncher | (noun) a chewer who makes a munching noise | - |
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| ocher | (noun) a moderate yellow-orange to orange color | Synonyms: ochre |
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| (noun) any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment | Synonyms: ochre |
| oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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| percher | (noun) a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists | Synonyms: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird |
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| (noun) a person situated on a perch | - |
| pinscher | (noun) any of three breeds of dogs whose ears and tail are usually cropped | - |
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| pitcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: mound |
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| (noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: ewer |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, twirler |
| (noun) (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcherful |
| pitcherful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcher |
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| poacher | (noun) small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters | Synonyms: sea poacher, sea poker |
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| (noun) a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs) | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another | - |
| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
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| puncher | (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: punch |
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| (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher |
| (noun) someone who delivers punches | - |
| rancher | (noun) a person who owns or operates a ranch | - |
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| reproacher | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reprover, upbraider |
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| researcher | (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: investigator, research worker |
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| scherzo | (noun) a fast movement (usually in triple time) | - |
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| schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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| scorcher | (noun) a very hard hit ball | Synonyms: screamer |
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| (noun) an extremely hot day | - |
| scratcher | (noun) a device used for scratching | - |
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| (noun) a person who scratches to relieve an itch | - |
| (noun) a workman who uses a tool for scratching | - |
| screecher | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, shouter, yeller |
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| searcher | (noun) large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America | Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle |
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| (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, seeker |
| (noun) a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items | - |
| sepulcher | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulchre, sepulture |
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| sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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| (noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
| sloucher | (noun) a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage | - |
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| snatcher | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper |
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| (noun) a thief who grabs and runs | - |
| snitcher | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| (noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: pilferer, sneak thief |
| squelcher | (noun) an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise | Synonyms: squelch, squelch circuit |
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| (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, takedown |
| stitcher | (noun) a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps | - |
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| stitchery | (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stomacher | (noun) garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century | - |
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| stretcher | (noun) a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles | - |
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| (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, copestone, coping stone |
| (noun) a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it | - |
| (noun) a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting | - |
| switcher | (noun) a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip | Synonyms: whipper |
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| switcheroo | (noun) a sudden unexpected switch | - |
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| teacher | (noun) a personified abstraction that teaches | - |
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| (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: instructor |
| teachership | (noun) the position of teacher | - |
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| thatcher | (noun) someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage | - |
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| toucher | (noun) a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something | - |
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| treacherousness | (noun) The characteristic of providing insecure footing or support; of being marked by hidden dangers, hazards, or perils. | - |
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| treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treason |
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| (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, perfidy |
| trencher | (noun) a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved | - |
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| (noun) someone who digs trenches | - |
| trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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| voucher | (noun) a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed | Synonyms: coupon |
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| (noun) a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure | - |
| (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: verifier |
| watcher | (noun) a guard who keeps watch | Synonyms: security guard, watchman |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, witness |
| (noun) a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body | - |
| welcher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welsher |
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| wencher | (noun) someone who patronizes prostitutes | - |
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| witchery | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchcraft |
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