| asker | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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| asper | (noun) 20 aspers equal 1 kurus in Turkey | - |
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| aspirer | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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| assaulter | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, attacker |
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| assayer | (noun) an analyst who assays (performs chemical tests on) metals | - |
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| assembler | (noun) a program to convert assembly language into machine language | Synonyms: assembly program |
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| assenter | (noun) a person who assents | - |
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| asserter | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| aster | (noun) star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis | - |
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| (noun) any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers | - |
| astrologer | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologist |
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| astronomer | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: stargazer, uranologist |
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| atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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| atmometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: evaporometer |
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| atomiser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| atomizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| attacker | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, assaulter |
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| attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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| attempter | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: essayer, trier |
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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 |
| attester | (noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attestant |
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| attracter | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magnet |
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| (noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attractor |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attraction, attractor, draw, drawing card |
| auctioneer | (noun) an agent who conducts an auction | - |
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| audiometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing | Synonyms: sonometer |
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| auger | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: gimlet, screw auger, wimble |
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| (noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: plumber's snake, snake |
| authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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| authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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| autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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| autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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| automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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| avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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| avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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| (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
| babbler | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: cackler |
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| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
| 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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| babysitter | (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, sitter |
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| backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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| backbiter | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| backer | (noun) someone who provides financial support for some venture | Synonyms: angel |
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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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| backpacker | (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: packer |
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| backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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| (noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
| backslapper | (noun) someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality | - |
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| backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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| backspacer | (noun) the typewriter key used for back spacing | Synonyms: backspace, backspace key |
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| backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
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| backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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| backwater | (noun) a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring | - |
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| (noun) a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam | - |
| badger | (noun) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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| badgerer | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: heckler |
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| baedeker | (noun) any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker | - |
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| bagger | (noun) a machine for putting objects or substances into bags | - |
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| (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: boxer, packer |
| bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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| baker | (noun) someone who bakes bread or cake | Synonyms: bread maker |
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| (noun) someone who bakes commercially | - |
| 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 | - |
| balker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: baulker, noncompliant |
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| balladeer | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: crooner |
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| ballplayer | (noun) an athlete who plays baseball | Synonyms: baseball player |
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| baluster | (noun) one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing | - |
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| bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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| bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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| bandoleer | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandolier |
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| bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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| banger | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: cracker, firecracker |
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| (noun) (British informal) pork sausage | - |
| banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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| banker | (noun) a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank | - |
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| (noun) the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game | - |
| banner | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: streamer |
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| (noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: standard |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: streamer |
| bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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| banter | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: backchat, give-and-take, raillery |
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| barber | (noun) a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade | - |
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| bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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| (noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
| barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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| barker | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch |
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| (noun) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers | - |
| barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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| (noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| barometer | (noun) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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| barretter | (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast, ballast resistor |
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| barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
| (noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
| barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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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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| barter | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
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| barterer | (noun) a trader who exchanges goods and not money | - |
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| barycenter | (noun) (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve | - |
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| basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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| basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| baster | (noun) a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat | - |
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| (noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: tacker |
| (noun) a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy | - |
| bather | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: natator, swimmer |
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| (noun) a person who takes a bath | - |
| bathometer | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathymeter |
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| bathymeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathometer |
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| batter | (noun) a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, hitter, slugger |
| battler | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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| baulker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, noncompliant |
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| bawler | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| (noun) a loud weeper | - |
| beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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| beaker | (noun) a cup (usually without a handle) | - |
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| (noun) a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry | - |
| beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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| bearer | (noun) a messenger who bears or presents | - |
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| (noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: pallbearer |
| (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: holder |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: carrier, toter |
| beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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| (noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
| beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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| (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
| (noun) a full beard | - |
| (noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |