ameer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: amir, emeer, emir |
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auctioneer | (noun) an agent who conducts an auction | - |
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balladeer | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: crooner |
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bandoleer | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandolier |
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basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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beer | (noun) a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops | - |
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bioengineering | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: biotechnology, ergonomics |
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buccaneer | (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: pirate, sea robber, sea rover |
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buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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carabineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabinier, carbineer |
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carbineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carabinier |
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career | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, vocation |
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(noun) the general progression of your working or professional life | Synonyms: life history |
careerism | (noun) the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity | - |
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careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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cheer | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine |
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(noun) a cry or shout of approval | - |
cheerer | (noun) a spectator who shouts encouragement | - |
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cheerfulness | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, sunniness, sunshine |
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(noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: blitheness |
cheering | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: shouting |
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cheerio | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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(noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
cheerlessness | (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: uncheerfulness |
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compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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deer | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: cervid |
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deerberry | (noun) small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer | Synonyms: squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum |
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deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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deerskin | (noun) leather from the hide of a deer | - |
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deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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domineeringness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: imperiousness, overbearingness |
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eeriness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: ghostliness |
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electioneering | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, political campaign |
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(noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, canvassing |
emeer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, amir, emir |
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engineer | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, technologist |
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(noun) the operator of a railway locomotive | Synonyms: engine driver, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer |
engineering | (noun) the practical application of technical and scientific knowledge to commerce or industry | - |
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(noun) a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located | Synonyms: engine room |
(noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering science, technology |
fakeer | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakir, faqir, faquir |
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fleer | (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fugitive, runaway |
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(noun) contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words | - |
gadgeteer | (noun) a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets | - |
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gazetteer | (noun) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas) | - |
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(noun) a journalist who writes for a gazette | - |
harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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jeer | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
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jeerer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, mocker, scoffer |
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jeering | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
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keteleeria | (noun) Asiatic conifers resembling firs | - |
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kildeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, killdeer, killdeer plover |
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killdeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer plover |
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leer | (noun) a suggestive or sneering look or grin | - |
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(noun) a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls | Synonyms: sneer |
meerestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, merestone |
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meerkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: mierkat |
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meerschaum | (noun) a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum | - |
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(noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: sepiolite |
mountaineer | (noun) someone who climbs mountains | Synonyms: mountain climber |
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mountaineering | (noun) the activity of climbing a mountain | Synonyms: mountain climbing |
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muleteer | (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, skinner |
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musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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mutineer | (noun) someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers) | - |
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overseer | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: superintendent |
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oversteer | (noun) when a car turns (steers) by more than (over) the amount commanded by the driver. | - |
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pamphleteer | (noun) a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) | - |
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patrioteer | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist |
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peer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, equal, match |
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(noun) a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage | - |
peerage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: baronage |
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peeress | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, noblewoman |
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peerlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being matchless, of having no equal. | Synonyms: matchlessness |
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pioneer | (noun) one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory | - |
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(noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, innovator, trailblazer |
pistoleer | (noun) someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed) | - |
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privateer | (noun) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation | - |
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(noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateersman |
privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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profiteer | (noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) | - |
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puppeteer | (noun) one who operates puppets or marionettes | - |
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queer | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen |
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queerness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality |
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(noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness |
racketeer | (noun) someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) | - |
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racketeering | (noun) engaging in a racket | - |
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reindeer | (noun) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | Synonyms: caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus |
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schmeer | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmear, shmear |
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scrutineer | (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: canvasser |
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seer | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, visionary |
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(noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophesier, prophet, vaticinator |
(noun) an observer who perceives visually | - |
seersucker | (noun) a light puckered fabric (usually striped) | - |
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sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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sloganeer | (noun) someone who coins and uses slogans to promote a cause | - |
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sloganeering | (noun) persuasion by means of empty slogans | - |
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sneer | (noun) a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls | Synonyms: leer |
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(noun) a contemptuous or scornful remark | - |
sneerer | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: scorner |
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sonneteer | (noun) a poet who writes sonnets | - |
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steer | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: bullock |
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(noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, tip, wind |
steerage | (noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steering |
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(noun) the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship | - |
steerageway | (noun) (nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered | - |
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steerer | (noun) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) | Synonyms: decoy |
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(noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steersman |
steering | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, guidance |
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(noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: guidance |
(noun) the act of steering a ship | Synonyms: steerage |
steersman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steerer |
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supermarketeer | (noun) an operator of a supermarket | Synonyms: supermarketer |
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uncheerfulness | (noun) not conducive to cheer or good spirits | - |
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(noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: cheerlessness |
understeer | (noun) when a car steers less than (under) the amount commanded by the driver. | - |
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veering | (noun) the act of turning aside suddenly | Synonyms: swerve, swerving |
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veery | (noun) tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: Hylocichla fuscescens, Wilson's thrush |
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veneer | (noun) an ornamental coating to a building | Synonyms: facing |
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(noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneering |
veneering | (noun) the act of applying veneer | - |
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(noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneer |
volunteer | (noun) a person who performs voluntary work | Synonyms: unpaid worker |
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(noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, voluntary |