| spelunker | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist |
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| spinnaker | (noun) a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind | - |
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| squawker | (noun) the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system | Synonyms: intercom speaker, squawk box |
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| (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, whiner |
| squeaker | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeak |
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| (noun) any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used | - |
| stacker | (noun) a laborer who builds up a stack or pile | - |
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| stalker | (noun) someone who stalks game | - |
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| (noun) someone who walks with long stiff strides | - |
| (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: prowler, sneak |
| steelmaker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelman, steelworker |
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| steelworker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelman |
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| sticker | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: dagger |
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| (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, paster |
| (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, stumper, toughie |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, thorn |
| stinker | (noun) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | Synonyms: lemon |
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| (noun) anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar) | - |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinkpot |
| stockbroker | (noun) an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds | - |
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| stocker | (noun) a domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a breeding establishment | - |
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| stocktaker | (noun) an employee whose job is to take inventory | Synonyms: stock-taker |
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| stoker | (noun) a mechanical device for stoking a furnace | - |
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| (noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: fireman |
| streaker | (noun) someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place | - |
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| streetwalker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| striker | (noun) the part of a mechanical device that strikes something | - |
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| (noun) an employee on strike against an employer | - |
| (noun) someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating | - |
| (noun) a forward on a soccer team | - |
| (noun) someone who hits | Synonyms: hitter |
| stumpknocker | (noun) inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish | Synonyms: Lepomis punctatus, spotted sunfish |
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| sucker | (noun) mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps | - |
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| (noun) an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction | - |
| (noun) hard candy on a stick | Synonyms: all-day sucker, lollipop |
| (noun) flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws | - |
| (noun) a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw) | - |
| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch |
| (noun) a shoot arising from a plant's roots | - |
| suckerfish | (noun) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | Synonyms: remora, sucking fish |
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| supertanker | (noun) the largest class of oil tankers | - |
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| tacker | (noun) a hand-held machine for driving staples home | Synonyms: staple gun, staplegun |
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| (noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: baster |
| (noun) a worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding) | - |
| taker | (noun) one who takes a bet or wager | - |
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| (noun) one who accepts an offer | - |
| talker | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer |
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| tanker | (noun) a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk | Synonyms: oil tanker, oiler, tank ship |
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| (noun) a motor vehicle designed to carry liquefied loads, dry bulk cargo or gases on roads. | Synonyms: tank truck, tanker truck |
| (noun) a soldier who drives a tank | Synonyms: tank driver |
| tearjerker | (noun) an excessively sentimental narrative | - |
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| tentmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tents | - |
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| thinker | (noun) an important intellectual | Synonyms: creative thinker, mind |
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| (noun) someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision) | - |
| ticker | (noun) a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape | Synonyms: stock ticker |
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| (noun) a small portable timepiece | Synonyms: watch |
| (noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: heart, pump |
| tiebreaker | (noun) overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer | - |
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| tinker | (noun) small mackerel found nearly worldwide | Synonyms: chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus |
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| (noun) formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living | - |
| (noun) a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts | Synonyms: tinkerer |
| tinkerer | (noun) an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend | Synonyms: fiddler |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts | Synonyms: tinker |
| toolmaker | (noun) someone skilled in making or repairing tools | - |
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| tracker | (noun) someone who tracks down game | - |
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| trafficker | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, vender, vendor |
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| trekker | (noun) a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country) | - |
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| tricker | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, trickster |
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| trickery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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| (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
| troublemaker | (noun) someone who deliberately stirs up trouble | Synonyms: bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troubler |
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| trucker | (noun) someone who drives a truck as an occupation | Synonyms: teamster, truck driver |
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| tucker | (noun) a detachable yoke of linen or lace worn over the breast of a low-cut dress | - |
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| (noun) a sewer who tucks | - |
| tuckerbag | (noun) a bag used for carrying food | Synonyms: tucker-bag |
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| tusker | (noun) any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar) | - |
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| undertaker | (noun) one whose business is the management of funerals | Synonyms: funeral director, funeral undertaker, mortician |
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| waker | (noun) a person who awakes | - |
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| (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: arouser, rouser |
| walker | (noun) an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk | Synonyms: baby-walker, go-cart |
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| (noun) a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk | Synonyms: Zimmer, Zimmer frame |
| (noun) a shoe designed for comfortable walking | - |
| (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, pedestrian |
| wanker | (noun) terms of abuse for a masturbator | Synonyms: jerk-off, tosser |
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| watchmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologer, horologist |
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| whacker | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whopper |
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| whalesucker | (noun) large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins | Synonyms: Remilegia australis, whale sucker |
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| whicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whinny |
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| whisker | (noun) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat | Synonyms: sensory hair, vibrissa |
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| (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, hairsbreadth |
| whiskers | (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: beard, face fungus |
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| wicker | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wickerwork |
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| (noun) slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork | - |
| wickerwork | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wicker |
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| wigmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells wigs | - |
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| windbreaker | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windcheater |
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| windtalker | (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: codetalker |
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| winemaker | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: vintner, wine maker |
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| winker | (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, blinker |
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| (noun) a person who winks | - |
| woodpecker | (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, peckerwood |
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| woodworker | (noun) makes things out of wood | Synonyms: woodman, woodsman |
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| worker | (noun) sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae | - |
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| (noun) a person who works at a specific occupation | - |
| (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, proletarian |
| (noun) a person who acts and gets things done | Synonyms: actor, doer |
| wrecker | (noun) a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) | Synonyms: tow car, tow truck |
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| (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, saboteur |
| (noun) someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job | - |
| yanker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: jerker |
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| younker | (noun) a young person (especially a young man or boy) | Synonyms: spring chicken, young person, youth |
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