abridger | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abbreviator |
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agerasia | (noun) youthful appearance in an old person | - |
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ageratum | (noun) any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers | - |
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(noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum, mist-flower, mistflower |
anger | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: ira, ire, wrath |
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(noun) a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance | Synonyms: choler, ire |
(noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: angriness |
arbitrager | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrageur |
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armiger | (noun) a squire carrying the armor of a knight | Synonyms: armor-bearer |
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(noun) a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms | - |
arranger | (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: organiser, organizer |
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(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, transcriber |
astrologer | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologist |
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auger | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: gimlet, screw auger, wimble |
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(noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: plumber's snake, snake |
avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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badger | (noun) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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badgerer | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: heckler |
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badgering | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: bedevilment, torment, worrying |
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bagger | (noun) a machine for putting objects or substances into bags | - |
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(noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: boxer, packer |
banger | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: cracker, firecracker |
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(noun) (British informal) pork sausage | - |
beefburger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: burger, hamburger |
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belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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(noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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blogger | (noun) a person who keeps and updates a blog | - |
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booger | (noun) dried nasal mucus | - |
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(noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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bragger | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, vaunter |
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budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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bugger | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: sod, sodomist, sodomite |
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buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
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burger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, hamburger |
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butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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cadger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: mooch, moocher, scrounger |
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cager | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, basketeer |
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carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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cataloger | (noun) a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system | Synonyms: cataloguer |
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challenger | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: competition, competitor, contender, rival |
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changer | (noun) an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention | Synonyms: auto-changer, record changer |
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(noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: modifier |
charger | (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: courser |
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(noun) a device that can hold a rechargeable battery by means of an electrical cable | Synonyms: battery charger |
cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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cheesemonger | (noun) someone who sells cheese | - |
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chemosurgery | (noun) use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer | - |
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chigger | (noun) larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation | Synonyms: harvest mite, jigger, redbug |
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(noun) small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans | Synonyms: chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans |
chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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clanger | (noun) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate | - |
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cliffhanger | (noun) an episode that ends in suspense | - |
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(noun) a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end | - |
codger | (noun) used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man | Synonyms: old codger |
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conger | (noun) large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food | Synonyms: conger eel |
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congeries | (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: aggregate, conglomeration |
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costermonger | (noun) a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow | Synonyms: barrow-boy, barrow-man |
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cottager | (noun) someone who lives in a cottage | Synonyms: cottage dweller |
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cryosurgery | (noun) the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) | - |
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dagger | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: sticker |
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(noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: obelisk |
daggerboard | (noun) a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel | - |
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danger | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: peril, risk |
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(noun) a dangerous place | - |
(noun) the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury | - |
(noun) a cause of pain or injury or loss | - |
dangerousness | (noun) the quality of not being safe | - |
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debugger | (noun) a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors | - |
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derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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digger | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: excavator, power shovel, shovel |
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(noun) a laborer who digs | - |
disparager | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, knocker |
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dodger | (noun) small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) | Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger |
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(noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: fox, slyboots |
doggerel | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel verse, jingle |
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dojigger | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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doppelganger | (noun) a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
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dowager | (noun) a widow holding property received from her deceased husband | - |
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dragger | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: trawler |
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(noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: puller, tugger |
dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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eager | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, bore, eagre, tidal bore |
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eagerness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: forwardness, readiness, zeal |
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(noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, keenness |
edger | (noun) garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard | - |
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(noun) a person who puts finishing edges on a garment | - |
egger | (noun) moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons | Synonyms: eggar |
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electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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enlarger | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph | - |
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etagere | (noun) a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments | - |
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exaggeration | (noun) the act of making something more noticeable than usual | - |
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(noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: magnification, overstatement |
(noun) extravagant exaggeration | Synonyms: hyperbole |
exchanger | (noun) one whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country | Synonyms: money changer |
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fashionmonger | (noun) someone who advises you about fashionable clothing | Synonyms: fashion consultant |
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finger | (noun) one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb | - |
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(noun) any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb) | - |
(noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth |
fingerboard | (noun) a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers | - |
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(noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: clavier, piano keyboard |
(noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerpost |
fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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fingerflower | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerroot |
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fingering | (noun) touching something with the fingers | - |
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(noun) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument | - |
fingerling | (noun) a young or small fish | - |
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fingermark | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingerprint |
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fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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fingerpost | (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerboard |
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fingerprint | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingermark |
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(noun) a generic term for any identifying characteristic | - |
(noun) a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations | - |
fingerprinting | (noun) the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification | - |
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fingerroot | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerflower |
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fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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fingerstall | (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: cot |
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fingertip | (noun) the end (tip) of a finger | - |
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fishmonger | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishwife |
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flogger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: scourger |
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footslogger | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, infantryman, marcher |
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forager | (noun) someone who hunts for food and provisions | - |
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