| anticholinesterase | (noun) a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect | - |
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| arrester | (noun) a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier | Synonyms: arrester hook |
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| attester | (noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attestant |
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| bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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| bluestem | (noun) tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States | Synonyms: Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii, blue stem |
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| chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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| (noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
| cholesterin | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterol |
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| cholesterol | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterin |
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| cholinesterase | (noun) an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine (into choline and acetic acid) | - |
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| contestee | (noun) a winner (of a race or an election etc.) whose victory is contested | - |
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| contester | (noun) someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.) | - |
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| corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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| digester | (noun) autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested | - |
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| disesteem | (noun) the state in which esteem has been lost | - |
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| disinterestedness | (noun) freedom from bias or from selfish motives | - |
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| esteem | (noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: regard, respect |
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| (noun) a feeling of delighted approval and liking | Synonyms: admiration |
| (noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: regard, respect |
| ester | (noun) organic compound formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water | - |
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| fenestella | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: lunette |
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| fester | (noun) a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus | Synonyms: suppurating sore |
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| festering | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: maturation, suppuration |
| forester | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: arboriculturist, tree farmer |
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| harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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| (noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
| homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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| (noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
| (noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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| hypercholesteremia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesterolemia |
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| hypercholesterolemia | (noun) the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the cells and plasma of the blood; associated with the risk of atherosclerosis | Synonyms: hypercholesteremia |
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| interestedness | (noun) the state of being interested | - |
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| jester | (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: fool, motley fool |
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| jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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| medroxyprogesterone | (noun) a progestin compound (trade name Provera) used to treat menstrual disorders | Synonyms: Provera |
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| molester | (noun) someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities | - |
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| nester | (noun) a bird that has built (or is building) a nest | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, squatter |
| northwester | (noun) a wind from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest wind |
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| pesterer | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, cuss, gadfly, pest |
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| polyester | (noun) any of a large class of synthetic fabrics | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant | - |
| (noun) a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer | - |
| priestess | (noun) a woman priest | - |
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| progesterone | (noun) a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy | Synonyms: Lipo-Lutin |
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| protester | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: demonstrator |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector |
| quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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| requester | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant |
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| rester | (noun) a person who rests | - |
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| rhymester | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, versifier |
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| semester | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | - |
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| (noun) half a year; a period of 6 months | - |
| sestet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
| sidestep | (noun) a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing) | - |
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| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| stilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbesterol |
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| suggester | (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: proposer |
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| testee | (noun) someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination) | Synonyms: examinee |
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| tester | (noun) a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed) | - |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, quizzer |
| trimester | (noun) a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
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| (noun) one of three divisions of an academic year | - |
| wester | (noun) wind that blows from west to east | Synonyms: west wind |
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| westerly | (noun) the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth | Synonyms: prevailing westerly |
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| western | (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet | Synonyms: western sandwich |
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| westerner | (noun) an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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| yesterday | (noun) the recent past | - |
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| (noun) the day immediately before today | - |
| yesteryear | (noun) the time that has elapsed | Synonyms: past, past times |
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