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 | - |
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 |
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 | - |
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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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 |
conker | (noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: buckeye, horse chestnut |
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diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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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 | - |
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 | - |
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 |
freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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honker | (noun) common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call | Synonyms: Branta canadensis, Canada goose, Canadian goose |
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(noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
(noun) a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound | - |
nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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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 | - |
scrimshanker | (noun) a shirker | - |
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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 |
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 |
spelunker | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist |
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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 |
supertanker | (noun) the largest class of oil tankers | - |
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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 |
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) | - |
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 |
wanker | (noun) terms of abuse for a masturbator | Synonyms: jerk-off, tosser |
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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 | - |
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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