barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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beeper | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: pager |
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bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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(noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
(noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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(noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
(noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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(noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
goalkeeper | (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, goaltender, netkeeper |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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(noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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housekeeper | (noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household | - |
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innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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keeper | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, steward |
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(noun) someone in charge of other people | - |
leper | (noun) a pariah who is avoided by others | - |
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(noun) a person afflicted with leprosy | Synonyms: lazar |
lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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netkeeper | (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, goaltender |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netminder |
peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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(noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
(noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
peeper | (noun) an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds | - |
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(noun) an informal term referring to the eye | - |
(noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: Peeping Tom, voyeur |
scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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sleeper | (noun) an unexpected hit | - |
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(noun) tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water | Synonyms: sleeper goby |
(noun) a passenger car that has berths for sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping car, wagon-lit |
(noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, tie |
(noun) a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed | - |
(noun) pajamas with feet; worn by children | - |
(noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: slumberer |
(noun) an unexpected achiever of success | - |
(noun) a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal | - |
steeper | (noun) a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping | - |
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storekeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, tradesman |
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sweeper | (noun) little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body | - |
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(noun) a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet | Synonyms: carpet sweeper |
(noun) an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) | - |
timekeeper | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timepiece |
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(noun) a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees | - |
(noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timer |
tollkeeper | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollman |
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weeper | (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: crier |
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(noun) a hired mourner | - |
woodcreeper | (noun) any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers | Synonyms: tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodhewer |
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