| amplifier | (noun) electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it | - |
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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 |
| atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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| bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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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 | - |
| bier | (noun) a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial | - |
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| (noun) a coffin along with its stand | - |
| bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
| boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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| brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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| brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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| brier | (noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briar, Erica arborea, tree heath |
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| (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
| (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
| (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch |
| (noun) a thorny stem or twig | - |
| brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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| bullbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| carabinier | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carbineer |
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| carrier | (noun) (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | - |
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| (noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop |
| (noun) a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like | - |
| (noun) a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something | - |
| (noun) a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages | Synonyms: common carrier |
| (noun) (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others | Synonyms: immune carrier |
| (noun) a boy who delivers newspapers | Synonyms: newsboy |
| (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, toter |
| (noun) a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal | Synonyms: carrier wave |
| (noun) an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction | - |
| cashier | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, teller |
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| (noun) a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant) | - |
| catbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| cavalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: chevalier |
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| chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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| chevalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: cavalier |
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| chiffonier | (noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: commode |
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| classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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| (noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
| (noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
| clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
| clothier | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: haberdasher |
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| collier | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, pitman |
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| complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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| copier | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: duplicator |
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| costumier | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumer |
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| cottier | (noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cotter |
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| courier | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: messenger |
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| courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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| couturier | (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, designer, fashion designer |
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| crier | (noun) (formerly) an official who made public announcements | Synonyms: town crier |
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| (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: weeper |
| (noun) a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells | - |
| crosier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crozier |
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| croupier | (noun) someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table | - |
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| crozier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crosier |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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| dallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope |
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| dehumidifier | (noun) an appliance to extract moisture from the air and make the environment more comfortable | - |
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| denier | (noun) any of various former European coins of different denominations | - |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon | - |
| (noun) one who denies | - |
| dillydallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, lounger, mope |
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| dossier | (noun) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) | - |
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| drier | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: dryer |
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| (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drying agent, siccative |
| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| espalier | (noun) a trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat | - |
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| falsifier | (noun) someone who falsifies | - |
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| fancier | (noun) a person having a strong liking for something | Synonyms: enthusiast |
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| farrier | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: horseshoer |
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| financier | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: moneyman |
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| flier | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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| (noun) someone who travels by air | Synonyms: flyer |
| (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, aviator, flyer |
| frier | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, fryer, fryolator |
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| (noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: fryer, pullet |
| frontier | (noun) an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development | - |
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| (noun) a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country | - |
| (noun) an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary | - |
| furrier | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: cloakmaker |
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| fusilier | (noun) (formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket | - |
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| glacier | (noun) a slowly moving mass of ice | - |
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| glazier | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazer |
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| gondolier | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondoliere |
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| grazier | (noun) a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market | - |
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| greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| grenadier | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: rattail, rattail fish |
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| (noun) an infantryman equipped with grenades | Synonyms: grenade thrower |
| halberdier | (noun) a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty) | - |
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| harrier | (noun) hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals | - |
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| (noun) a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits | - |
| (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harasser |
| haulier | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: hauler |
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| highflier | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflyer |
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| hosier | (noun) a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear | - |
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| hotelier | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
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| humidifier | (noun) an appliance designed to add moisture to the air in a building | - |
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| identifier | (noun) a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it | - |
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| intensifier | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensive |
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| justifier | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, vindicator |
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| lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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| latanier | (noun) fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region | Synonyms: latanier palm |
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| lavalier | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavaliere, lavalliere |
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| luthier | (noun) a craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins) | - |
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| magnifier | (noun) a scientific instrument that magnifies an image | - |
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| metier | (noun) an occupation for which you are especially well suited | Synonyms: medium |
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| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, speciality, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| modifier | (noun) a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene | Synonyms: modifier gene |
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| (noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb | Synonyms: qualifier |
| (noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: changer |
| (noun) a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising | - |
| multiplier | (noun) the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied | Synonyms: multiplier factor |
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| mystifier | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: puzzle, puzzler, teaser |
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| nullifier | (noun) an advocate of nullification; someone who believes that a state can resist federal laws | - |
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| (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, voider |
| occupier | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, resident |
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| (noun) a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country | - |
| osier | (noun) any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture | - |
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| (noun) flexible twig of a willow tree | - |
| outlier | (noun) an extreme deviation from the mean | - |
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| (noun) a person who lives away from his place of work | - |
| pacifier | (noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on | Synonyms: baby's dummy, comforter, teething ring |
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| (noun) anything that serves to pacify | - |
| (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, peacemaker, reconciler |
| pannier | (noun) set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips | - |
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| (noun) a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person | - |
| (noun) either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle) | - |
| photocopier | (noun) a copier that uses photographic methods of making copies | - |
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| pier | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, wharf, wharfage |
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| (noun) a support for two adjacent bridge spans | - |
| (noun) (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) | - |
| plier | (noun) someone who plies a trade | Synonyms: plyer |
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| premier | (noun) the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom | Synonyms: PM, Prime Minister |
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| (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: chancellor, prime minister |
| prophesier | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophet, seer, vaticinator |
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| purifier | (noun) an apparatus for removing impurities | - |
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| qualifier | (noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb | Synonyms: modifier |
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| (noun) a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition | - |
| quantifier | (noun) (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many') | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition | Synonyms: logical quantifier |
| quarrier | (noun) a man who works in a quarry | Synonyms: quarryman |
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| querier | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, questioner |
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| rapier | (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: tuck |
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| ratifier | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, subscriber |
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