milcher | (noun) cattle that are reared for their milk | Synonyms: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milk cow, milker |
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moocher | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, scrounger |
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mother | (noun) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation | - |
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(noun) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) | Synonyms: female parent |
(noun) a term of address for a mother superior | - |
(noun) a term of address for an elderly woman | - |
(noun) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar | - |
muncher | (noun) a chewer who makes a munching noise | - |
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musher | (noun) a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team | - |
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norther | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, northerly |
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nosher | (noun) someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals | Synonyms: snacker |
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oceanographer | (noun) a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas | - |
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ocher | (noun) a moderate yellow-orange to orange color | Synonyms: ochre |
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(noun) any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment | Synonyms: ochre |
oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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paleographer | (noun) an archeologist skilled in paleography | Synonyms: paleographist |
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panther | (noun) a leopard in the black color phase | - |
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(noun) a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis | Synonyms: Felis onca, jaguar, Panthera onca |
(noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, puma |
paragrapher | (noun) a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper) | - |
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penpusher | (noun) a clerk who does boring paperwork | Synonyms: pencil pusher |
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percher | (noun) a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists | Synonyms: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird |
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(noun) a person situated on a perch | - |
perisher | (noun) bounder | - |
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philosopher | (noun) a specialist in philosophy | - |
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(noun) a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity | - |
photographer | (noun) someone who takes photographs professionally | Synonyms: lensman |
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pinscher | (noun) any of three breeds of dogs whose ears and tail are usually cropped | - |
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pitcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: mound |
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(noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: ewer |
(noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, twirler |
(noun) (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer | - |
(noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcherful |
poacher | (noun) small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters | Synonyms: sea poacher, sea poker |
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(noun) a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs) | - |
(noun) someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another | - |
polisher | (noun) a power tool used to buff surfaces | Synonyms: buffer |
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pornographer | (noun) someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores | Synonyms: porn merchant |
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portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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pother | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, tizzy |
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preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
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publisher | (noun) a firm in the publishing business | Synonyms: publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house |
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(noun) a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music | - |
(noun) the proprietor of a newspaper | Synonyms: newspaper publisher |
puncher | (noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: punch |
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(noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher |
(noun) someone who delivers punches | - |
pusher | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, stroller |
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(noun) a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes | Synonyms: zori |
(noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: shover |
(noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler |
(noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: thruster |
pyrographer | (noun) an artist who practices pyrography | - |
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radiographer | (noun) a person who makes radiographs | - |
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rancher | (noun) a person who owns or operates a ranch | - |
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rasher | (noun) a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: Sebastes miniatus, vermillion rockfish |
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ravisher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: debaucher, violator |
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(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
refinisher | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, renovator, restorer |
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refresher | (noun) a course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments | Synonyms: refresher course |
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(noun) a drink that refreshes | - |
(noun) a fee (in addition to that marked on the brief) paid to counsel in a case that lasts more than one day | - |
reproacher | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reprover, upbraider |
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researcher | (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: investigator, research worker |
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rusher | (noun) a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously | - |
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(noun) someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory | - |
(noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball | - |
schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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scorcher | (noun) a very hard hit ball | Synonyms: screamer |
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(noun) an extremely hot day | - |
scratcher | (noun) a device used for scratching | - |
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(noun) a person who scratches to relieve an itch | - |
(noun) a workman who uses a tool for scratching | - |
screecher | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, shouter, yeller |
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searcher | (noun) large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America | Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle |
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(noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, seeker |
(noun) a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items | - |
sepulcher | (noun) a chamber that is used as a grave | Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulchre, sepulture |
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sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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(noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
skirmisher | (noun) someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party) | - |
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slasher | (noun) a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing | - |
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(noun) someone who slashes another person | - |
sloucher | (noun) a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage | - |
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smasher | (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, hit, smash, strike |
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(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, stunner, sweetheart |
(noun) a person who smashes something | - |
smoother | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, sander |
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smother | (noun) a stifling cloud of smoke | - |
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(noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, welter |
snatcher | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper |
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(noun) a thief who grabs and runs | - |
snitcher | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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(noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: pilferer, sneak thief |
souther | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, southerly |
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splasher | (noun) a protective covering over or beside a wheel to protect the upper part of a vehicle from splashes of mud | - |
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(noun) protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | Synonyms: dashboard, splashboard |
squelcher | (noun) an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise | Synonyms: squelch, squelch circuit |
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(noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, takedown |
stenographer | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: amanuensis, shorthand typist |
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stepbrother | (noun) a brother who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-brother, half brother |
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stepfather | (noun) the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage | - |
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stepmother | (noun) the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage | - |
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stitcher | (noun) a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps | - |
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stomacher | (noun) garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century | - |
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stretcher | (noun) a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles | - |
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(noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, copestone, coping stone |
(noun) a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it | - |
(noun) a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting | - |
sunbather | (noun) someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan | - |
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superslasher | (noun) large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot; early Cretaceous | Synonyms: utahraptor |
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switcher | (noun) a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip | Synonyms: whipper |
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swither | (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, sweat |
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teacher | (noun) a personified abstraction that teaches | - |
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(noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: instructor |
telegrapher | (noun) someone who transmits messages by telegraph | Synonyms: telegraph operator, telegraphist |
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telpher | (noun) one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage | Synonyms: telfer |
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tether | (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, leash |
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thatcher | (noun) someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage | - |
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thrasher | (noun) thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs | Synonyms: mocking thrush |
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(noun) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thresher, thresher shark |
(noun) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | Synonyms: thresher, threshing machine |
thresher | (noun) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thrasher, thresher shark |
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(noun) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | Synonyms: thrasher, threshing machine |
tither | (noun) someone who pays tithes | - |
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toucher | (noun) a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something | - |
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trencher | (noun) a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved | - |
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(noun) someone who digs trenches | - |
typographer | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, setter, typesetter |
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usher | (noun) someone employed to conduct others | Synonyms: guide |
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(noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: doorkeeper |
vanisher | (noun) a person who disappears | - |
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vanquisher | (noun) someone who is victorious by force of arms | Synonyms: conqueror |
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varnisher | (noun) someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish | - |
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voucher | (noun) a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed | Synonyms: coupon |
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(noun) a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure | - |
(noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: verifier |
washer | (noun) a home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically | Synonyms: automatic washer, washing machine |
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(noun) seal consisting of a flat disk placed to prevent leakage | - |
(noun) someone who washes things for a living | - |
watcher | (noun) a guard who keeps watch | Synonyms: security guard, watchman |
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(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, witness |
(noun) a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body | - |
weather | (noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, conditions, weather condition |
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weigher | (noun) an official who weighs and records the weight | - |
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welcher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welsher |
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welsher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welcher |
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wencher | (noun) someone who patronizes prostitutes | - |
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wether | (noun) male sheep especially a castrated one | - |
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zither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: cither, zithern |
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