abetter | (noun) one who helps or encourages or incites another | Synonyms: abettor |
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abhorrer | (noun) a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred | - |
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abjurer | (noun) a person who abjures | - |
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abrader | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abradant |
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abridger | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abbreviator |
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absconder | (noun) a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution | - |
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abseiler | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: rappeller |
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absolver | (noun) someone who grants absolution | - |
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absorber | (noun) (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation | - |
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abstainer | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker |
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(noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
abstracter | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstractor |
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abuser | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: maltreater |
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abutter | (noun) the owner of contiguous property | - |
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accelerometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the acceleration of aircraft or rockets | - |
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accuser | (noun) someone who imputes guilt or blame | - |
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achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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acquirer | (noun) a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock | - |
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(noun) the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card | - |
(noun) a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee | Synonyms: merchant bank |
(noun) a person who acquires something (usually permanently) | - |
actinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (usually by the photochemical effect) | - |
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adapter | (noun) device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible | Synonyms: adaptor |
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(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: arranger, transcriber |
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 | - |
adducer | (noun) a discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof | - |
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adjuster | (noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement | Synonyms: adjustor, claim agent, claims adjuster, claims adjustor |
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admirer | (noun) someone who admires a young woman | Synonyms: adorer |
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(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
(noun) a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves | - |
admonisher | (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: monitor, reminder |
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adopter | (noun) a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child | Synonyms: adoptive parent |
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adorer | (noun) someone who admires a young woman | Synonyms: admirer |
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adsorber | (noun) an apparatus used in the adhesion of atoms, ions, or molecules from a gas, liquid, or dissolved solid to a surface. | - |
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adulterer | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: fornicator |
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advancer | (noun) someone who advances | - |
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adventurer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: venturer |
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(noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) | Synonyms: explorer |
advertiser | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertizer |
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advertizer | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertiser |
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adviser | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: advisor, consultant |
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aether | (noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: ether |
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affenpinscher | (noun) European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle | Synonyms: monkey dog, monkey pinscher |
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affirmer | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: asserter, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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airliner | (noun) a commercial airplane that carries passengers | - |
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airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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alabaster | (noun) a very light white | - |
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(noun) a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving | - |
(noun) a hard compact kind of calcite | Synonyms: Mexican onyx, onyx marble, oriental alabaster |
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 | - |
algometer | (noun) device for measuring pain caused by pressure | - |
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alkaliser | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkalizer, antacid, antiacid, gastric antacid |
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alkalizer | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkaliser, antacid, antiacid, gastric antacid |
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allayer | (noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: comforter, reliever |
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allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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almoner | (noun) an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients | Synonyms: medical social worker |
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almsgiver | (noun) a person who gives alms | - |
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alphabetiser | (noun) a literate person who can arrange items in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetizer |
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alphabetizer | (noun) a literate person who can arrange items in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetiser |
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altimeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the height above ground; used in navigation | - |
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altogether | (noun) informal terms for nakedness | Synonyms: birthday suit, raw |
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amber | (noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: gold |
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(noun) a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry | - |
ambler | (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: saunterer, stroller |
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ambusher | (noun) an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack | - |
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ameer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: amir, emeer, emir |
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ammeter | (noun) a meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes | - |
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amphitheater | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheatre, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheatre |
amplifier | (noun) electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it | - |
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analyser | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyzer |
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analyzer | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyser |
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anemoclinometer | (noun) A type of instrument which measures the inclination of the wind to the horizontal plane. | - |
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anemometer | (noun) a gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind | Synonyms: wind gage, wind gauge |
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anger | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: ira, ire, wrath |
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(noun) a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance | Synonyms: choler, ire |
(noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: angriness |
angledozer | (noun) a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side | - |
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angler | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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(noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: troller |
(noun) a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage | - |
announcer | (noun) reads news, commercials on radio or television | - |
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(noun) someone who proclaims a message publicly | - |
annoyer | (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: tease, teaser, vexer |
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anointer | (noun) one who anoints as a religious ceremony | - |
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answer | (noun) a nonverbal reaction | - |
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(noun) the speech act of replying to a question | - |
(noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: reply, response |
(noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: resolution, result, solution, solvent |
(noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims | - |
answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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anteater | (noun) any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites | Synonyms: New World anteater |
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(noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer |
(noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
(noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
(noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites | Synonyms: pangolin, scaly anteater |
(noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat |
antechamber | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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anther | (noun) the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk | - |
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antimatter | (noun) matter consisting of elementary particles that are the antiparticles of those making up normal substances | - |
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antler | (noun) deciduous horn of a member of the deer family | - |
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aper | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, copycat, emulator, imitator |
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appeaser | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands | - |
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appetiser | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetizer, starter |
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appetizer | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetiser, starter |
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applauder | (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: clapper |
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applier | (noun) a device for applying a substance | Synonyms: applicator |
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(noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applicant |
appraiser | (noun) one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things | Synonyms: valuator |
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(noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: authenticator |
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 |
approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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aquifer | (noun) underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc | - |
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arbiter | (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbitrator, umpire |
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(noun) someone with the power to settle matters at will | Synonyms: supreme authority |
arbitrager | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrageur |
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archer | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: bowman |
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arguer | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: debater |
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armiger | (noun) a squire carrying the armor of a knight | Synonyms: armor-bearer |
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(noun) a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms | - |
armorer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armourer |
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(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armourer, artificer |
(noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armourer |
armourer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armorer |
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(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, artificer |
(noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armorer |
arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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arranger | (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: organiser, organizer |
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(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, transcriber |
arrester | (noun) a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier | Synonyms: arrester hook |
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arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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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 |
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 | - |