| asker | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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| attacker | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, assaulter |
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| automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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| backer | (noun) someone who provides financial support for some venture | Synonyms: angel |
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| backpacker | (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: packer |
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| backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
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| baedeker | (noun) any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker | - |
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| baker | (noun) someone who bakes bread or cake | Synonyms: bread maker |
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| (noun) someone who bakes commercially | - |
| bakery | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakeshop |
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| balker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: baulker, noncompliant |
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| banker | (noun) a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank | - |
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| (noun) the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game | - |
| barker | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch |
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| (noun) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers | - |
| basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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| baulker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, noncompliant |
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| beaker | (noun) a cup (usually without a handle) | - |
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| (noun) a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry | - |
| berserker | (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserk |
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| bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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| bicker | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| biker | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bikers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: rockers |
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| blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
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| (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
| (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
| blocker | (noun) a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process | Synonyms: blocking agent |
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| (noun) a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play | - |
| bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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| boneshaker | (noun) any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable | - |
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| booker | (noun) someone who engages a person or company for performances | Synonyms: booking agent |
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| bookmaker | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookie |
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| (noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books | - |
| bookmarker | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmark |
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| bootlicker | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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| bootmaker | (noun) a maker of boots | Synonyms: boot maker |
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| brainworker | (noun) someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems | Synonyms: brain-worker |
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| breaker | (noun) a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded | Synonyms: circuit breaker |
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| (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breakers, surf |
| (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: ledgeman |
| breakers | (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breaker, surf |
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| breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
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| broker | (noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: agent, factor |
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| brokerage | (noun) place where a broker conducts his business | Synonyms: brokerage house |
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| (noun) a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller | Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm |
| (noun) the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties | - |
| buckeroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckaroo, vaquero |
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| bunker | (noun) a hazard on a golf course | Synonyms: sand trap, trap |
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| (noun) a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground | Synonyms: dugout |
| (noun) a large container for storing fuel | - |
| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
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| cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
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| candlemaker | (noun) a person who makes or sells candles | - |
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| candymaker | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: confectioner |
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| canker | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: pestilence |
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| (noun) an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth) | Synonyms: canker sore |
| (noun) a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark | - |
| cankerweed | (noun) herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes | Synonyms: Nabalus alba, Prenanthes alba, white lettuce |
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| cankerworm | (noun) green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees | - |
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| caretaker | (noun) a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person) | - |
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| (noun) an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily | - |
| carmaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, automaker, car maker, car manufacturer |
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| caseworker | (noun) someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) | Synonyms: social worker, welfare worker |
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| checker | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (noun) one who checks the correctness of something | - |
| (noun) an attendant who checks coats or baggage | - |
| checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
| checkerbloom | (noun) perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | Synonyms: Sidalcea malviflora, wild hollyhock |
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| checkerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, chequerboard |
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| checkers | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: draughts |
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| chickeree | (noun) far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel | Synonyms: Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi |
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| choker | (noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: neck ruff, ruff, ruffle |
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| (noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: collar, dog collar, neckband |
| (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler |
| (noun) an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation | - |
| chukker | (noun) (polo) one of six divisions into which a polo match is divided | Synonyms: chukka |
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| clanker | (noun) something that makes a clanking noise. | - |
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| clinker | (noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone | Synonyms: clinker brick |
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| (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: cinder |
| cloakmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: furrier |
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| clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
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| cocker | (noun) a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England | Synonyms: cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel |
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| cockerel | (noun) a young domestic cock; not older than one year | - |
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| cocksucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| (noun) a person who performs fellatio | - |
| codetalker | (noun) a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II | Synonyms: windtalker |
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| conker | (noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: buckeye, horse chestnut |
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| cooker | (noun) a utensil for cooking | - |
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| cookery | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cooking, preparation |
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| corker | (noun) a machine that is used to put corks in bottles | - |
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| (noun) (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person | - |
| cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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| cracker | (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper |
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| (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, firecracker |
| (noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet | - |
| (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: redneck |
| (noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things | - |
| crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| crackerjack | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
| croaker | (noun) any of several fishes that make a croaking noise | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S. | - |
| crockery | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: dishware |
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| decker | (noun) (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels | - |
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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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| docker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| doorknocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: knocker, rapper |
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| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| dropkicker | (noun) a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground | - |
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| dunker | (noun) a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots | - |
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| (noun) an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it | - |
| epikeratophakia | (noun) using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed | - |
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| esker | (noun) (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets | - |
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| faker | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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| fieldworker | (noun) a researcher who works in the field | - |
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| filmmaker | (noun) a producer of motion pictures | Synonyms: film maker, film producer, movie maker |
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| firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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| flanker | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation | - |
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| (noun) a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver | Synonyms: flanker back |
| flicker | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flutter, waver |
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| (noun) North American woodpecker | - |
| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: glint, spark |
| flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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| floorwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: shopwalker |
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| footlocker | (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: locker |
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| freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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| fucker | (noun) a stupid despised man | - |
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