| alder | (noun) north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant | Synonyms: alder tree |
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| (noun) wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc | - |
| alderfly | (noun) dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae | Synonyms: alder fly, Sialis lutaria |
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| alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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| balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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| beholder | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: observer, perceiver, percipient |
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| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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| boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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| bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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| builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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| (noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
| (noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
| caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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| cardholder | (noun) a player who holds a card or cards in a card game | - |
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| (noun) a person who holds a credit card or debit card | - |
| centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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| coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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| copyholder | (noun) mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor | - |
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| elder | (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: senior |
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| (noun) any of various church officers | - |
| (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit | Synonyms: elderberry bush |
| elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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| (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
| elderly | (noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: aged |
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| eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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| falderol | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| fielder | (noun) a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat | - |
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| (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fieldsman |
| folder | (noun) covering that is folded over to protect the contents | - |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, leaflet, pamphlet |
| folderal | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| folderol | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| freeholder | (noun) the owner of a freehold | - |
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| gilder | (noun) someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt | - |
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| guilder | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, gulden |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, gulden |
| holder | (noun) a holding device | - |
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| (noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: bearer |
| (noun) a person who holds something | - |
| homebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, house-builder, housebuilder |
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| housebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder |
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| householder | (noun) someone who owns a home | Synonyms: homeowner |
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| infielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield | - |
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| jobholder | (noun) an employee who holds a regular job | - |
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| kilderkin | (noun) an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons | - |
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| landholder | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landowner, property owner |
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| leaseholder | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: lessee |
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| musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| outfielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield | - |
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| (noun) a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield | - |
| placeholder | (noun) a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: procurator, proxy |
| polder | (noun) low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands) | - |
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| policyholder | (noun) a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written | - |
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| potholder | (noun) an insulated pad for holding hot pots | - |
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| scolder | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scold |
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| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
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| (noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
| (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
| shoulder | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: berm |
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| (noun) the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder | - |
| (noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | - |
| (noun) a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint |
| (noun) a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg | - |
| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| smallholder | (noun) a person owning or renting a smallholding | - |
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| smolder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
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| smoulder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| solder | (noun) an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces | - |
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| solderer | (noun) a worker who joins or mends with solder | - |
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| soldering | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: bonding |
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| stakeholder | (noun) someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner | - |
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| stockholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, shareowner |
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| upholder | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, sustainer |
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| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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| wilderness | (noun) a bewildering profusion | - |
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| (noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wild |
| (noun) (politics) a state of disfavor | - |
| withholder | (noun) a person who restrains or checks or holds back | - |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from granting | - |
| yielder | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: surrenderer |
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