| honker | (noun) common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call | Synonyms: Branta canadensis, Canada goose, Canadian goose |
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| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| (noun) a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound | - |
| hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| (noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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| (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
| housewrecker | (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housebreaker |
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| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| ironworker | (noun) a person who makes articles of iron | - |
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| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| jaywalker | (noun) a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally | - |
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| jerker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: yanker |
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| joker | (noun) a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester | - |
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| (noun) an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent | - |
| (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: jokester |
| (noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: turkey |
| kicker | (noun) a player who kicks the football | - |
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| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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| knacker | (noun) someone who buys up old horses for slaughter | - |
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| (noun) someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them | - |
| knocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: doorknocker, rapper |
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| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, bosom, breast, tit, titty |
| (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, disparager |
| (noun) a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance) | - |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person | - |
| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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| lawmaker | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawgiver |
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| leaker | (noun) a surreptitious informant | - |
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| linebacker | (noun) (American football) the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: line backer |
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| (noun) a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen | Synonyms: line backer |
| locker | (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: cabinet, storage locker |
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| (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: footlocker |
| (noun) a fastener that locks or closes | - |
| looker | (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: spectator, viewer, watcher, witness |
| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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| lurker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, skulker |
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| maker | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: manufacturer, manufacturing business |
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| (noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: shaper |
| marker | (noun) some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something | - |
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| (noun) a writing implement for making a mark | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: mark, marking |
| masker | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masquer, masquerader |
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| matchmaker | (noun) someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others | Synonyms: marriage broker, matcher |
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| merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
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| metalworker | (noun) someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) | Synonyms: smith |
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| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| milker | (noun) cattle that are reared for their milk | Synonyms: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milcher, milk cow |
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| mimicker | (noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimic |
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| mineworker | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: miner |
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| mocker | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mockingbird |
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| (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, scoffer |
| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| moniker | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
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| necker | (noun) a lover who necks | - |
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| needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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| nicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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| nightwalker | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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| nitpicker | (noun) someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms | - |
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| noisemaker | (noun) a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration | - |
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| nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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| nonsmoker | (noun) a passenger car for passengers who want to avoid tobacco smoke | Synonyms: nonsmoking car |
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| (noun) a person who does not smoke tobacco | - |
| nonworker | (noun) a person who does nothing | - |
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| nutcracker | (noun) speckled birds that feed on nuts | - |
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| (noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | Synonyms: nuthatch |
| (noun) a compound lever used to crack nuts open | - |
| onlooker | (noun) someone who looks on | Synonyms: looker-on |
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| pacemaker | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacer, pacesetter |
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| (noun) an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker | Synonyms: artificial pacemaker |
| (noun) a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat | Synonyms: cardiac pacemaker, SA node, sinoatrial node |
| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacesetter |
| packer | (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: bagger, boxer |
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| (noun) a wholesaler in the meat-packing business | Synonyms: meat packer |
| (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: backpacker |
| partaker | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: sharer |
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| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| pawnbroker | (noun) a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security | - |
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| peacemaker | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler |
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| pecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: peckerwood, woodpecker |
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| (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, nib |
| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
| picker | (noun) someone who gathers crops or fruits etc. | - |
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| (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: chooser, selector |
| picknicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picnicker |
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| picnicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picknicker |
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| placekicker | (noun) (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal | Synonyms: place-kicker |
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| placeseeker | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeman |
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| playmaker | (noun) a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
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| plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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| poker | (noun) any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand | Synonyms: poker game |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, salamander, stove poker |
| porker | (noun) a pig fattened to provide meat | - |
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| powerbroker | (noun) a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control | Synonyms: power broker |
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| pricker | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: bradawl |
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| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
| printmaker | (noun) an artist who designs and makes prints | Synonyms: graphic artist |
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| provoker | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, instigator |
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| pucker | (noun) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) | Synonyms: ruck |
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| quaker | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: trembler |
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| racker | (noun) an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack | - |
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| ragpicker | (noun) an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood | - |
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| rainmaker | (noun) American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain | - |
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| (noun) executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm | - |
| ranker | (noun) an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces | - |
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| (noun) a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status | - |
| rebuker | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: reproacher, reprover, upbraider |
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| rocker | (noun) a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro | - |
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| (noun) a chair mounted on rockers | Synonyms: rocking chair |
| (noun) an ice skate with a curved blade | - |
| (noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: cradle |
| (noun) a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles | - |
| (noun) a performer or composer or fan of rock music | Synonyms: rock 'n' roll musician |
| (noun) an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle | - |
| ropemaker | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, roper |
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| ropewalker | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropedancer |
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| rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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| safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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| safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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| sailmaker | (noun) a maker of sails | - |
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| saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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| sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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| scrimshanker | (noun) a shirker | - |
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| seeker | (noun) a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) | - |
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| (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, searcher |
| seersucker | (noun) a light puckered fabric (usually striped) | - |
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| shaker | (noun) a container in which something can be shaken | - |
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| (noun) a person who wields power and influence | Synonyms: mover and shaker |
| sharksucker | (noun) remoras found attached to sharks | Synonyms: Echeneis naucrates |
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| shirker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: slacker |
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| shirtmaker | (noun) a maker of shirts | - |
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| shocker | (noun) a sensational message (in a film or play or novel) | - |
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| (noun) a shockingly bad person | - |
| shoemaker | (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: cobbler |
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| shopwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: floorwalker |
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| silverworker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silversmith |
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| sinker | (noun) a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate | - |
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| (noun) a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water) | - |
| (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, doughnut |
| skulker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, lurker |
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| (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, shammer |
| slacker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: shirker |
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| sleepwalker | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, somnambulist |
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