abrader | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abradant |
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absconder | (noun) a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution | - |
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adder | (noun) small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia | Synonyms: common viper, Vipera berus |
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(noun) a machine that adds numbers | - |
(noun) a person who adds numbers | - |
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 | - |
applauder | (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: clapper |
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apprehender | (noun) a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) | - |
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(noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: knower |
ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who ascends | - |
attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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attender | (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, tender |
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(noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attendee, meeter |
(noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: auditor, hearer, listener |
autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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bedder | (noun) an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed | Synonyms: bedding plant |
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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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bender | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot |
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(noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: breaking ball, curve, curve ball |
(noun) a tool for bending | - |
bidder | (noun) someone who makes an offer | - |
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(noun) someone who makes a bid at cards | - |
binder | (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: ligature |
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(noun) holds loose papers or magazines | Synonyms: ring-binder |
(noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves | Synonyms: reaper binder |
(noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface | - |
birder | (noun) a person who identifies and studies birds in their natural habitats | Synonyms: bird watcher |
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birdfeeder | (noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, feeder |
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bladder | (noun) a bag that fills with air | - |
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(noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: vesica |
bleeder | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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blender | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: liquidiser, liquidizer |
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blinder | (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: blinker, winker |
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blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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boarder | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: lodger, roomer |
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(noun) a pupil who lives at school during term time | - |
(noun) someone who forces their way aboard ship | - |
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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bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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border | (noun) a strip forming the outer edge of something | - |
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(noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: molding, moulding |
(noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: borderline, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
(noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: edge |
(noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: margin, perimeter |
boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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bounder | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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(noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: leaper |
bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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breeder | (noun) a person who breeds animals | Synonyms: stock breeder |
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brooder | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: incubator |
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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 |
bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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camcorder | (noun) a portable television camera and videocassette recorder | - |
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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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cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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(noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
chowder | (noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes | - |
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cider | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cyder |
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cinder | (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: clinker |
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clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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coder | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: computer programmer, programmer, software engineer |
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cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
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colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
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collider | (noun) an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on | - |
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commander | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commandant, commanding officer |
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(noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain | - |
(noun) an officer in the airforce | Synonyms: air force officer |
(noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others | - |
compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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contender | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, rival |
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copyholder | (noun) mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor | - |
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copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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(noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
(noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
crusader | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform | Synonyms: meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer |
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cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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cyder | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cider |
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cylinder | (noun) a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | - |
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(noun) a chamber within which piston moves | Synonyms: piston chamber |
(noun) a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | - |
(noun) a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) | - |
dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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(noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
decoder | (noun) a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language | - |
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(noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decipherer |
defender | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: guardian, protector, shielder |
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(noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: withstander |
defrauder | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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degrader | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: debaser |
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demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who descends | - |
disorder | (noun) a disturbance of the peace or of public order | - |
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(noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places | Synonyms: disorderliness |
(noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning | Synonyms: upset |
divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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(noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
(noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
(noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
dodder | (noun) a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria | - |
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doubleheader | (noun) two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) | Synonyms: double feature, twin bill |
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eider | (noun) duck of the Northern Hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females | Synonyms: eider duck |
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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 |
escalader | (noun) someone who gains access by the use of ladders | - |
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expander | (noun) an electronic device that increases the dynamic range of the audio signal. | - |
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expender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, spender |
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expounder | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expositor |
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faultfinder | (noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others | Synonyms: cynic |
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feeder | (noun) an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening | - |
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(noun) an animal that feeds on a particular source of food | - |
(noun) a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material | Synonyms: self-feeder |
(noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, birdfeeder |
(noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, tributary |
(noun) someone who consumes food for nourishment | Synonyms: eater |
fender | (noun) a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact | Synonyms: buffer |
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(noun) a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud | Synonyms: wing |
(noun) a low metal guard to confine falling coals to a hearth | - |
(noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, cowcatcher, pilot |
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 |
finder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: view finder, viewfinder |
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(noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: discoverer, spotter |
(noun) someone who comes upon something after searching | - |
flounder | (noun) any of various European and non-European marine flatfish | - |
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(noun) flesh of any of various American and European flatfish | - |
fodder | (noun) coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop | - |
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(noun) soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire | Synonyms: cannon fodder, fresh fish |
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 |
founder | (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, father, founding father |
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(noun) a worker who makes metal castings | - |
(noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: laminitis |
freeholder | (noun) the owner of a freehold | - |
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freeloader | (noun) someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others | - |
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gallbladder | (noun) a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion | Synonyms: gall bladder |
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gander | (noun) mature male goose | - |
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gender | (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: sex, sexuality |
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(noun) a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | Synonyms: grammatical gender |
germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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gerrymander | (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | - |
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gilder | (noun) someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt | - |
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