rectifier | (noun) electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current | - |
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(noun) a person who corrects or sets right | - |
rentier | (noun) someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments | - |
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ribier | (noun) dark reddish-purple table grape of California | - |
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satisfier | (noun) any agent capable of producing satisfaction | - |
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shanghaier | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: seizer |
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signifier | (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, form, word form |
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skier | (noun) someone who skis | - |
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soldier | (noun) a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony | - |
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(noun) an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army | - |
sommelier | (noun) a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant | Synonyms: wine steward, wine waiter |
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specifier | (noun) someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent) | - |
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speechifier | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechmaker |
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supplier | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: provider |
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sweetbrier | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar |
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tarsier | (noun) nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates | - |
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terrier | (noun) any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground | - |
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testifier | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, deposer |
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tier | (noun) one of two or more layers one atop another | - |
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(noun) any one of two or more competitors who tie one another | - |
(noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: grade, level |
(noun) something that is used for tying | - |
(noun) a worker who ties something | Synonyms: tier up |
trier | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: attempter, essayer |
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(noun) one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case | - |
untier | (noun) a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens | Synonyms: opener, undoer, unfastener |
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verifier | (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: voucher |
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vernier | (noun) a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale | Synonyms: vernier scale |
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versifier | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester |
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vilifier | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer |
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vizier | (noun) a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire) | - |
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witbier | (noun) a top-fermented barley/wheat beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands. | - |
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worrier | (noun) thinks about unfortunate things that might happen | Synonyms: fuss-budget, fusspot, worrywart |
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