| milker | (noun) cattle that are reared for their milk | Synonyms: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milcher, milk cow |
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| mimicker | (noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimic |
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| mineworker | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: miner |
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| mocker | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mockingbird |
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| (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, scoffer |
| mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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| mockery | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: parody, takeoff |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| moniker | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
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| necker | (noun) a lover who necks | - |
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| neckerchief | (noun) a kerchief worn around the neck | - |
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| needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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| nicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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| nightwalker | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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| nitpicker | (noun) someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms | - |
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| noisemaker | (noun) a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration | - |
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| nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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| nonsmoker | (noun) a passenger car for passengers who want to avoid tobacco smoke | Synonyms: nonsmoking car |
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| (noun) a person who does not smoke tobacco | - |
| nonworker | (noun) a person who does nothing | - |
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| nutcracker | (noun) speckled birds that feed on nuts | - |
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| (noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nuthatch |
| (noun) a compound lever used to crack nuts open | - |
| onlooker | (noun) someone who looks on | Synonyms: looker-on |
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| ozokerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozocerite |
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| pacemaker | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacer, pacesetter |
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| (noun) an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker | Synonyms: artificial pacemaker |
| (noun) a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat | Synonyms: cardiac pacemaker, SA node, sinoatrial node |
| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacesetter |
| packer | (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, boxer |
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| (noun) a wholesaler in the meat-packing business | Synonyms: meat packer |
| (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: backpacker |
| partaker | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: sharer |
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| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| pawnbroker | (noun) a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security | - |
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| peacemaker | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler |
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| pecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: peckerwood, woodpecker |
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| (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, nib |
| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
| peckerwood | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, woodpecker |
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| picker | (noun) someone who gathers crops or fruits etc. | - |
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| (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: chooser, selector |
| pickerel | (noun) any of several North American species of small pike | - |
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| (noun) flesh of young or small pike | - |
| pickerelweed | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, wampee |
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| picknicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picnicker |
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| picnicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picknicker |
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| placekicker | (noun) (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal | Synonyms: place-kicker |
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| placeseeker | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeman |
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| playmaker | (noun) a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
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| plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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| poker | (noun) any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand | Synonyms: poker game |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, salamander, stove poker |
| porker | (noun) a pig fattened to provide meat | - |
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| powerbroker | (noun) a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control | Synonyms: power broker |
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| pricker | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: bradawl |
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| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
| printmaker | (noun) an artist who designs and makes prints | Synonyms: graphic artist |
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| provoker | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, instigator |
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| pucker | (noun) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) | Synonyms: ruck |
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| puckerbush | (noun) evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles | Synonyms: bay myrtle, Myrica cerifera |
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| quackery | (noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: empiricism |
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| (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: charlatanism |
| quaker | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: trembler |
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| racker | (noun) an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack | - |
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| ragpicker | (noun) an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood | - |
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| rainmaker | (noun) American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain | - |
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| (noun) executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm | - |
| ranker | (noun) an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces | - |
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| (noun) a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status | - |
| rebuker | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: reproacher, reprover, upbraider |
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| rocker | (noun) a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro | - |
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| (noun) a chair mounted on rockers | Synonyms: rocking chair |
| (noun) an ice skate with a curved blade | - |
| (noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: cradle |
| (noun) a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles | - |
| (noun) a performer or composer or fan of rock music | Synonyms: rock 'n' roll musician |
| (noun) an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle | - |
| rockers | (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: bikers |
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| rockery | (noun) a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants | Synonyms: rock garden |
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| rookery | (noun) a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks) | - |
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| ropemaker | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, roper |
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| ropewalker | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropedancer |
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| rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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| safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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| safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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| sailmaker | (noun) a maker of sails | - |
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| saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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| sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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| scrimshanker | (noun) a shirker | - |
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| seeker | (noun) a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) | - |
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| (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, searcher |
| seersucker | (noun) a light puckered fabric (usually striped) | - |
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| shaker | (noun) a container in which something can be shaken | - |
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| (noun) a person who wields power and influence | Synonyms: mover and shaker |
| sharksucker | (noun) remoras found attached to sharks | Synonyms: Echeneis naucrates |
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| shirker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: slacker |
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| shirtmaker | (noun) a maker of shirts | - |
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| shocker | (noun) a sensational message (in a film or play or novel) | - |
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| (noun) a shockingly bad person | - |
| shoemaker | (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: cobbler |
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| shopwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: floorwalker |
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| silverworker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silversmith |
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| sinker | (noun) a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate | - |
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| (noun) a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water) | - |
| (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, doughnut |
| skulker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, lurker |
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| (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, shammer |
| slacker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: shirker |
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| sleepwalker | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, somnambulist |
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| slicker | (noun) a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof | Synonyms: oilskin |
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| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, trickster |
| (noun) a person with good manners and stylish clothing | - |
| smacker | (noun) a loud kiss | - |
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| (noun) a very powerful blow with the fist | - |
| smirker | (noun) a smiler whose smile is offensively self-satisfied | - |
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| smoker | (noun) a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke | Synonyms: smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment |
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| (noun) a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only) | Synonyms: stag party |
| (noun) a person who smokes tobacco | Synonyms: tobacco user |
| snacker | (noun) someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals | Synonyms: nosher |
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| snakeroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers | Synonyms: sanicle |
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| (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather |
| sneaker | (noun) a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole | Synonyms: gym shoe, tennis shoe |
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| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| snicker | (noun) a disrespectful laugh | Synonyms: snigger, snort |
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| snickersnee | (noun) fighting with knives | Synonyms: cut-and-thrust, knife fight |
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| snooker | (noun) a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball | - |
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| soaker | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, souse |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, torrent, waterspout |
| spacewalker | (noun) an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space | - |
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| spanker | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: slapper |
| sparker | (noun) a wire net to stop sparks from an open fireplace or smokestack | Synonyms: spark arrester |
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| speaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer |
| speakerphone | (noun) a telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker; can be used without picking up a handset; several people can participate in a call at the same time | - |
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| speakership | (noun) the position of Speaker | - |
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| speechmaker | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier |
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