backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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cider | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cyder |
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collider | (noun) an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on | - |
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divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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(noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
(noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
(noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
eider | (noun) duck of the Northern Hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females | Synonyms: eider duck |
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glider | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: sailplane |
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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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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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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 | - |
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 |
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) | - |
roughrider | (noun) a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle | - |
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slider | (noun) a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown | - |
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(noun) freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets | Synonyms: Pseudemys scripta, yellow-bellied terrapin |
(noun) someone who races the luge | Synonyms: luger |
(noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slipper |
spider | (noun) predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey | - |
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(noun) a skillet made of cast iron | - |
(noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: wanderer |
strider | (noun) a person who walks rapidly with long steps | - |
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subdivider | (noun) someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites) | - |
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upbraider | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, reprover |
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voider | (noun) a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried | Synonyms: clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket |
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(noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: gusset |
(noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, nullifier |
(noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, shitter |