| needer | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: wanter |
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| netminder | (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| neurodermatitis | (noun) dermatitis in which localized areas (especially the forearms or back of the neck or outer part of the ankle) itch persistently; cause is unknown | - |
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| newsreader | (noun) someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin | Synonyms: news reader |
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| nightrider | (noun) member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge | Synonyms: night rider |
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| nonattender | (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, truant |
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| nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |
| offender | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: wrongdoer |
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| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| oleander | (noun) an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Nerium oleander, rose bay |
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| order | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: ordering |
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| (noun) (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans | - |
| (noun) a degree in a continuum of size or quantity | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
| (noun) a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities | Synonyms: purchase order |
| (noun) a body of rules followed by an assembly | Synonyms: parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order |
| (noun) (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed | - |
| (noun) a request for something to be made, supplied, or served | - |
| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: ordering, ordination |
| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, social club, society |
| (noun) a group of person living under a religious rule | Synonyms: monastic order |
| (noun) established customary state (especially of society) | - |
| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: orderliness |
| orderer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| (noun) someone who places an order to buy | - |
| ordering | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: order |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordination |
| orderliness | (noun) the quality of appreciating method and system | Synonyms: methodicalness |
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| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: order |
| orderly | (noun) a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients | Synonyms: hospital attendant |
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| (noun) a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer | - |
| ostracoderm | (noun) extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic | - |
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| outfielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield | - |
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| (noun) a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield | - |
| outlander | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, foreigner, noncitizen |
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| outrider | (noun) an escort who rides ahead (as a member of the vanguard) | - |
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| outsider | (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: foreigner |
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| (noun) a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win | - |
| pachyderm | (noun) any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus | - |
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| pachyderma | (noun) thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction | Synonyms: nevoid elephantiasis |
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| padder | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: footpad |
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| paederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, pederast |
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| paederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: pederasty |
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| pander | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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| panderer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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| (noun) a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money) | - |
| parader | (noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: marcher |
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| pathfinder | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, scout |
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| pederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, paederast |
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| pederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: paederasty |
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| persuader | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: inducer |
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| philanderer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: womaniser, womanizer |
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| placeholder | (noun) a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: procurator, proxy |
| placoderm | (noun) fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws | - |
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| pleader | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor |
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| plodder | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud |
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| (noun) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | Synonyms: slogger |
| (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: slogger, trudger |
| plunder | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
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| plunderage | (noun) the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) | - |
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| plunderer | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, raider, spoiler |
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| plundering | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, pillaging |
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| polder | (noun) low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands) | - |
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| policyholder | (noun) a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written | - |
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| ponderer | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, muser, ruminator |
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| ponderosa | (noun) common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature | Synonyms: bull pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine |
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| ponderosity | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness |
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| ponderousness | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity |
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| (noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: heaviness |
| postmodernism | (noun) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism | - |
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| potholder | (noun) an insulated pad for holding hot pots | - |
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| pounder | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pestle |
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| (noun) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds | - |
| powder | (noun) any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a pulverized powder | - |
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| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: pulverisation, pulverization |
| (noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: gunpowder |
| powderer | (noun) someone who applies or scatters powder | - |
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| powderiness | (noun) having a very fine texture | Synonyms: fineness |
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| powderpuff | (noun) a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin | Synonyms: puff |
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| preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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| (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
| (noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
| pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
| proofreader | (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: reader |
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| provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| (noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
| provider | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: supplier |
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| (noun) someone who provides the means for subsistence | - |
| prudery | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudishness |
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| raider | (noun) a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, spoiler |
| railroader | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railway man, railwayman, trainman |
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| rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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| reader | (noun) one of a series of texts for students learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys reading | - |
| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, lecturer |
| (noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: subscriber |
| (noun) a person who can read; a literate person | - |
| (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: proofreader |
| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: referee, reviewer |
| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: lector |
| readership | (noun) the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) | - |
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| reconsideration | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, rethink, second thought |
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| (noun) a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision | - |
| recorder | (noun) a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | Synonyms: fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute |
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| (noun) equipment for making records | Synonyms: recording equipment, recording machine |
| (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, registrar |
| (noun) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs | - |
| redheader | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redhead |
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| rejoinder | (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication | - |
| remainder | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant |
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| (noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: difference |
| (noun) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
| reminder | (noun) an experience that causes you to remember something | - |
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| (noun) a message that helps you remember something | - |
| (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, monitor |
| render | (noun) a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls | - |
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| rendering | (noun) giving in acknowledgment of obligation | - |
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| (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendition |
| (noun) perspective drawing of an architect's design | - |
| (noun) a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall | - |
| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendition |
| (noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendition |
| (noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, translation, version |
| reorder | (noun) a repeated order for the same merchandise | - |
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| reordering | (noun) a rearrangement in a different order | - |
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| responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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| rider | (noun) a clause that is appended to a legislative bill | - |
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| (noun) a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel) | - |
| (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: passenger |
| (noun) a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle) | - |
| righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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| rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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| roughrider | (noun) a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle | - |
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| rounder | (noun) a tool for rounding corners or edges | - |
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| (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, libertine |
| rounders | (noun) an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
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| rudder | (noun) (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes | - |
| rudderfish | (noun) fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters | Synonyms: banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata |
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| (noun) food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships | Synonyms: Bermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrix |
| rudderpost | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderstock |
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| rudderstock | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderpost |
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| salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
| (noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
| sander | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, smoother |
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| sanderling | (noun) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | Synonyms: Crocethia alba |
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| scleroderma | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: dermatosclerosis |
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| scolder | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scold |
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| seconder | (noun) someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote | - |
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| seeder | (noun) a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground | - |
| (noun) a person who seeds clouds | Synonyms: cloud seeder |
| sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shedder | (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: spiller |
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| sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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