| mangler | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mutilator |
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| marveller | (noun) someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something | Synonyms: wonderer |
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| mauler | (noun) a fighter who batters the opponent | - |
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| maulers | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: hooks, meat hooks |
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| meddler | (noun) an officious annoying person who interferes with others | - |
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| miler | (noun) a runner in a one-mile race | - |
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| (noun) (used only in combinations) the length of something in miles | - |
| miller | (noun) any of various moths that have powdery wings | Synonyms: moth miller |
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| (noun) machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it | Synonyms: milling machine |
| (noun) someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill) | - |
| millerite | (noun) a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel | - |
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| modeler | (noun) a person who creates models | Synonyms: modeller |
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| modeller | (noun) a person who creates models | Synonyms: modeler |
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| mollycoddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| muffler | (noun) a scarf worn around the neck | - |
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| (noun) a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise | Synonyms: silencer |
| (noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: damper |
| muller | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: pestle, pounder |
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| (noun) a vessel in which wine is mulled | - |
| (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muser, ponderer, ruminator |
| mumbler | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: murmurer, mutterer |
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| muzzler | (noun) someone who muzzles animals | - |
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| nailer | (noun) a worker who attaches something by nailing it | - |
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| nephroangiosclerosis | (noun) kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure | Synonyms: nephrosclerosis |
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| nephrosclerosis | (noun) kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure | Synonyms: nephroangiosclerosis |
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| newsdealer | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsagent, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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| nibbler | (noun) a biter who takes dainty repeated bites | - |
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| niggler | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: carper |
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| nightcrawler | (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, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| novillero | (noun) a bullfighter who is required to fight bulls less than four years of age | - |
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| ogler | (noun) a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person | - |
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| oiler | (noun) a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk | Synonyms: oil tanker, tank ship, tanker |
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| (noun) a well that yields or has yielded oil | Synonyms: oil well |
| (noun) a worker who oils engines or machinery | - |
| osteosclerosis | (noun) abnormal hardening or eburnation of bone | - |
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| ostler | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, stableboy, stableman |
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| otosclerosis | (noun) hereditary disorder in which ossification of the labyrinth of the inner ear causes tinnitus and eventual deafness | - |
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| overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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| paddler | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: canoeist |
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| painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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| panhandler | (noun) a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money | - |
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| patroller | (noun) someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area | - |
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| pearler | (noun) a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls | Synonyms: pearl diver |
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| pedaler | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaller |
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| pedaller | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaler |
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| peddler | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman |
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| (noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher |
| peeler | (noun) a device for peeling vegetables or fruits | - |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| (noun) a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables | - |
| poler | (noun) a draft horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle | Synonyms: pole horse |
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| pooler | (noun) someone who shares in and contributes to a general fund for use by all | - |
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| potboiler | (noun) a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot) | - |
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| potholer | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker |
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| prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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| preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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| proaccelerin | (noun) a coagulation factor | Synonyms: accelerator factor, factor V, prothrombin accelerator |
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| propeller | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propellor |
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| prowler | (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: sneak, stalker |
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| puddler | (noun) a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling | - |
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| puller | (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: dragger, tugger |
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| (noun) someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself | - |
| puzzler | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, teaser |
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| quarreler | (noun) a disputant who quarrels | Synonyms: quarreller |
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| quarreller | (noun) a disputant who quarrels | Synonyms: quarreler |
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| quibbler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, pettifogger |
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| raillery | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: backchat, banter, give-and-take |
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| rambler | (noun) a person who takes long walks in the country | - |
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| (noun) a person whose speech or writing is not well organized | - |
| rappeller | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: abseiler |
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| rathskeller | (noun) a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall | - |
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| rattler | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattlesnake |
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| (noun) a railroad train consisting of freight cars | Synonyms: freight train |
| reconciler | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker |
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| reeler | (noun) a dancer of reels | - |
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| (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: staggerer, totterer |
| retailer | (noun) a merchant who sells goods at retail | Synonyms: retail merchant |
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| reveler | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveller |
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| reveller | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveler |
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| ridiculer | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, satirist |
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| roller | (noun) a grounder that rolls along the infield | - |
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| (noun) Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers | - |
| (noun) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | Synonyms: tumbler, tumbler pigeon |
| (noun) a cylinder that revolves | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, curler, hair curler |
| (noun) a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate) | - |
| (noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roll, rolling wave |
| rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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| rollerblading | (noun) skating using Rollerblades | - |
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| ruler | (noun) measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths | Synonyms: rule |
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| (noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: swayer |
| rulership | (noun) the position of ruler | - |
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| rustler | (noun) someone who steals livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle thief |
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| saddler | (noun) a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses | - |
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| saddlery | (noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: stable gear, tack |
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| (noun) workshop where a saddler works | - |
| saleratus | (noun) a white soluble compound (NaHCO3) used in effervescent drinks and in baking powders and as an antacid | Synonyms: baking soda, bicarbonate of soda, sodium bicarbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate |
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| saleroom | (noun) an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed | Synonyms: salesroom, showroom |
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| salesclerk | (noun) a salesperson in a store | Synonyms: clerk, shop assistant, shop clerk |
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| sampler | (noun) a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches | - |
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| (noun) an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something | Synonyms: sampling station |
| (noun) an assortment of various samples | - |
| (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: taste-tester, taste tester, taster |
| scaler | (noun) an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually | - |
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| scheduler | (noun) computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order | - |
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| sclera | (noun) the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball | Synonyms: sclerotic coat |
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| scleredema | (noun) a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face | - |
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| sclerite | (noun) hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods | - |
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| scleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera | - |
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| scleroderma | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: dermatosclerosis |
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| sclerometer | (noun) a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point | - |
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| scleroprotein | (noun) a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye | Synonyms: albuminoid |
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| sclerosis | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: induration |
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| sclerotinia | (noun) any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants | - |
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| sclerotium | (noun) compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth | - |
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| sclerotomy | (noun) surgical incision of the sclerotic coat of the eye | - |
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| scrambler | (noun) electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception | - |
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| (noun) a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tires and suspension; an off-road motorcycle designed for riding cross country or over unpaved ground | Synonyms: dirt bike, trail bike |
| (noun) a rapid mover; someone who scrambles | - |
| scrawler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scribbler |
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| screwballer | (noun) (baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs | - |
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| scribbler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scrawler |
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| (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribe |
| sculler | (noun) someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) | - |
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| scullery | (noun) a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done | - |
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| sealer | (noun) an official who affixes a seal to a document | - |
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| (noun) a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) | Synonyms: sealant |
| seller | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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| semitrailer | (noun) a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle | Synonyms: semi |
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| settler | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: colonist |
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| (noun) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who settles disputes | - |
| sheller | (noun) a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters) | - |
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