adducer | (noun) a discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof | - |
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advancer | (noun) someone who advances | - |
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announcer | (noun) reads news, commercials on radio or television | - |
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(noun) someone who proclaims a message publicly | - |
artificer | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artisan, craftsman, journeyman |
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(noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: discoverer, inventor |
(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, armourer |
backspacer | (noun) the typewriter key used for back spacing | Synonyms: backspace, backspace key |
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balancer | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: halter, haltere |
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(noun) an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions | - |
bouncer | (noun) a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting | Synonyms: chucker-out |
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bracer | (noun) a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
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(noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: armguard |
cancer | (noun) any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream | Synonyms: malignant neoplastic disease |
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chiromancer | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: palmist, palmister |
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conveyancer | (noun) a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties | - |
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dancer | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: professional dancer, terpsichorean |
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(noun) a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball) | Synonyms: social dancer |
deicer | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: defroster |
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dicer | (noun) a mechanical device used for dicing food | - |
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enforcer | (noun) one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior | Synonyms: hatchet man |
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enhancer | (noun) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | Synonyms: foil |
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facer | (noun) (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced | - |
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fencer | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: swordsman |
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freelancer | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, independent, self-employed person |
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geomancer | (noun) one who practices geomancy | - |
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greengrocer | (noun) a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables | - |
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grocer | (noun) a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies) | - |
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hydromancer | (noun) one who practices hydromancy | - |
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inducer | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: persuader |
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(noun) an agent capable of activating specific genes | - |
influencer | (noun) a person who has a large following on one or more social media platform that works to generate interest in contemporary social issues and/or advertise consumer products | - |
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juicer | (noun) a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit | Synonyms: juice reamer, reamer |
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(noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, imbiber, toper |
lacer | (noun) a workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding) | - |
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lancer | (noun) (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance | - |
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lithomancer | (noun) one who practices lithomancy | - |
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macer | (noun) an official who carries a mace of office | Synonyms: mace, macebearer |
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mercer | (noun) a dealer in textiles (especially silks) | - |
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mincer | (noun) a kitchen utensil that cuts or chops food (especially meat) into small pieces | Synonyms: mincing machine |
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necromancer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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(noun) one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead | - |
noticer | (noun) someone who gives formal notice | - |
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(noun) someone who takes notice | - |
officer | (noun) a member of a police force | Synonyms: police officer |
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(noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officeholder |
(noun) any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command | Synonyms: military officer |
(noun) a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel | Synonyms: ship's officer |
oneiromancer | (noun) someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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onomancer | (noun) one who practices onomancy | - |
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pacer | (noun) a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together | - |
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(noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacesetter |
pincer | (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, claw, nipper |
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(noun) a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping | Synonyms: pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, tweezer |
placer | (noun) an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral | - |
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prancer | (noun) a mettlesome or fiery horse | - |
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producer | (noun) something that produces | - |
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(noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: manufacturer |
(noun) someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work) | - |
pyromancer | (noun) one who practices pyromancy | - |
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racer | (noun) an animal that races | - |
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(noun) slender fast-moving North American snakes | - |
(noun) a fast car that competes in races | Synonyms: race car, racing car |
(noun) someone who drives racing cars at high speeds | Synonyms: automobile driver, race driver |
reducer | (noun) pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter | - |
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(noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducing agent, reductant |
reinforcer | (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcement, reinforcing stimulus |
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reproducer | (noun) an audio system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound | - |
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rhabdomancer | (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: dowser, water witch |
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ricer | (noun) a kitchen utensil used for ricing soft foods by extruding them through small holes | - |
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ropedancer | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropewalker |
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sacrificer | (noun) a religious person who offers up a sacrifice | - |
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saucer | (noun) a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table | - |
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(noun) a disk used in throwing competitions | Synonyms: discus |
(noun) directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation | Synonyms: dish, dish aerial, dish antenna |
(noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc, disk |
seducer | (noun) a man who takes advantage of women | Synonyms: ladies' man, lady killer |
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(noun) a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing | - |
sequencer | (noun) computer hardware that sorts data or programs into a predetermined sequence | - |
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(noun) (chemistry) an apparatus that can determine the sequence of monomers in a polymer | Synonyms: sequenator |
silencer | (noun) a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise | Synonyms: muffler |
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(noun) short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing | - |
slicer | (noun) knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese | - |
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(noun) a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade | - |
(noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers) | - |
soccer | (noun) a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal | Synonyms: association football |
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splicer | (noun) a mechanical device for joining two pieces of paper or film or magnetic tape | - |
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(noun) a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands | - |
(noun) a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice | - |
tracer | (noun) ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke | Synonyms: tracer bullet |
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(noun) (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes | - |
(noun) an instrument used to make tracings | - |
(noun) an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods | - |
traducer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, vilifier |
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transducer | (noun) an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another | - |
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ulcer | (noun) a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue | Synonyms: ulceration |
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voicer | (noun) a speaker who voices an opinion | - |
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(noun) someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes | - |