| girder | (noun) a beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure | - |
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| glider | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: sailplane |
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| goaltender | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper, netminder |
| goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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| grader | (noun) a judge who assigns grades to something | - |
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| grandstander | (noun) someone who performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand | - |
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| grinder | (noun) a machine tool that polishes metal | - |
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| (noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: mill, milling machinery |
| (noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: molar |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| grounder | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, hopper |
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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 |
| gunpowder | (noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: powder |
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| header | (noun) (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head | - |
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| (noun) a headlong jump (or fall) | - |
| (noun) a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon | - |
| (noun) a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters | - |
| (noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | Synonyms: cope, coping |
| (noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: lintel |
| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, heading |
| hellbender | (noun) large salamander of North American rivers and streams | Synonyms: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, mud puppy |
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| herder | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herdsman |
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| highbinder | (noun) a corrupt politician | - |
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| hoarder | (noun) a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use | - |
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| 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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| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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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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| insider | (noun) an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations | - |
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| intruder | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, trespasser |
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| invader | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: encroacher |
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| islander | (noun) an inhabitant of an island | Synonyms: island-dweller |
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| jobholder | (noun) an employee who holds a regular job | - |
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| ladder | (noun) steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down | - |
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| (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ravel, run |
| (noun) ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress | - |
| lander | (noun) a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet | - |
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| landholder | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landowner, property owner |
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| larder | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, pantry |
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| (noun) a supply of food especially for a household | - |
| lauder | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, laudator |
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| lavender | (noun) a pale purple color | - |
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| (noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated | - |
| leader | (noun) a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers | Synonyms: drawing card, loss leader |
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| (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others | - |
| leaseholder | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: lessee |
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| lefthander | (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefty, southpaw |
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| lender | (noun) someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters | Synonyms: loaner |
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| loader | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| (noun) an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game | - |
| madder | (noun) Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin | Synonyms: Rubia tinctorum |
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| marauder | (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: piranha, predator, vulture |
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| masquerader | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquer |
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| meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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| (noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
| mender | (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: fixer, repairer |
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| minder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, babyminder |
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| (noun) someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors | - |
| misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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| moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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| mouthbreeder | (noun) any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths | - |
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| mudder | (noun) a racehorse that runs well on a muddy racetrack | - |
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| murder | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, slaying |
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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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| needer | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: wanter |
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| netminder | (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| newsreader | (noun) someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin | Synonyms: news reader |
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| nightrider | (noun) member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge | Synonyms: night rider |
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| nonattender | (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, truant |
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| nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |
| offender | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: wrongdoer |
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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 |
| oleander | (noun) an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Nerium oleander, rose bay |
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| order | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: ordering |
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| (noun) (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans | - |
| (noun) a degree in a continuum of size or quantity | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
| (noun) a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities | Synonyms: purchase order |
| (noun) a body of rules followed by an assembly | Synonyms: parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order |
| (noun) (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed | - |
| (noun) a request for something to be made, supplied, or served | - |
| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: ordering, ordination |
| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, social club, society |
| (noun) a group of person living under a religious rule | Synonyms: monastic order |
| (noun) established customary state (especially of society) | - |
| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: orderliness |
| 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 | - |
| outlander | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, foreigner, noncitizen |
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| outrider | (noun) an escort who rides ahead (as a member of the vanguard) | - |
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| outsider | (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: foreigner |
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| (noun) a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win | - |
| padder | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: footpad |
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| pander | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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| parader | (noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: marcher |
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| pathfinder | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, scout |
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| persuader | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: inducer |
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| 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 |
| pleader | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor |
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| plodder | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud |
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| (noun) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | Synonyms: slogger |
| (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: slogger, trudger |
| plunder | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
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| 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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| pounder | (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: muller, pestle |
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| (noun) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds | - |
| powder | (noun) any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a pulverized powder | - |
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| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: pulverisation, pulverization |
| (noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: gunpowder |
| pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
| proofreader | (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: reader |
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| provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| (noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
| provider | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: supplier |
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| (noun) someone who provides the means for subsistence | - |
| raider | (noun) a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, spoiler |
| railroader | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railway man, railwayman, trainman |
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| rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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| reader | (noun) one of a series of texts for students learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys reading | - |
| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, lecturer |
| (noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: subscriber |
| (noun) a person who can read; a literate person | - |
| (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: proofreader |
| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: referee, reviewer |
| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: lector |
| recorder | (noun) a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | Synonyms: fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute |
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| (noun) equipment for making records | Synonyms: recording equipment, recording machine |
| (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, registrar |
| (noun) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs | - |
| redheader | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redhead |
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| rejoinder | (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication | - |
| remainder | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant |
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| (noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: difference |
| (noun) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
| reminder | (noun) an experience that causes you to remember something | - |
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| (noun) a message that helps you remember something | - |
| (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, monitor |
| render | (noun) a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls | - |
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| reorder | (noun) a repeated order for the same merchandise | - |
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| responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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| rider | (noun) a clause that is appended to a legislative bill | - |
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| (noun) a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel) | - |
| (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: passenger |
| (noun) a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle) | - |
| righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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| roughrider | (noun) a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle | - |
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| rounder | (noun) a tool for rounding corners or edges | - |
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| (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, libertine |
| rudder | (noun) (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes | - |