abseiler | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: rappeller |
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airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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ambler | (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: saunterer, stroller |
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angler | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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(noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: troller |
(noun) a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage | - |
antler | (noun) deciduous horn of a member of the deer family | - |
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assembler | (noun) a program to convert assembly language into machine language | Synonyms: assembly program |
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babbler | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: cackler |
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(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
battler | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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bawler | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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(noun) a loud weeper | - |
beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
bestseller | (noun) a book that has had a large and rapid sale | Synonyms: best seller |
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bicycler | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicyclist, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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boiler | (noun) sealed vessel where water is converted to steam | Synonyms: steam boiler |
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(noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: kettle |
bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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bottler | (noun) a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages | - |
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bowler | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hat |
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(noun) a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins | - |
(noun) a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket | - |
brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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broiler | (noun) an oven or part of a stove used for broiling | - |
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(noun) flesh of a small young chicken not over 2 1/2 lb suitable for broiling | - |
bubbler | (noun) a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water | Synonyms: drinking fountain, water fountain |
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(noun) any of various devices in which air or some other gas is bubbled through a liquid | - |
buckler | (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: shield |
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bugler | (noun) someone who plays a bugle | - |
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bumbler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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bungler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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butler | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | Synonyms: pantryman |
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cackler | (noun) a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk | - |
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(noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: babbler |
caller | (noun) a social or business visitor | Synonyms: company |
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(noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, phoner, telephoner |
(noun) the person who convenes a meeting | - |
(noun) someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice | - |
(noun) a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance | Synonyms: caller-out |
(noun) the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands | - |
(noun) an investor who buys a call option | - |
caroler | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroller |
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caroller | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroler |
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caviler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviller, pettifogger, quibbler |
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caviller | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, pettifogger, quibbler |
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chandler | (noun) a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints | - |
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(noun) a retail dealer in provisions and supplies | - |
chiller | (noun) excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones | Synonyms: hair-raiser |
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chiseler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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chiseller | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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choler | (noun) a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger | Synonyms: yellow bile |
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(noun) a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance | Synonyms: anger, ire |
(noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
chronicler | (noun) someone who writes chronicles | - |
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cobbler | (noun) a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit | Synonyms: deep-dish pie |
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(noun) tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit | - |
(noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: shoemaker |
coddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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compiler | (noun) (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program | Synonyms: compiling program |
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(noun) a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) | - |
comptroller | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, controller |
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controller | (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: control |
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(noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, comptroller |
(noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: restrainer |
cooler | (noun) a refrigerator for cooling liquids | Synonyms: ice chest |
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(noun) a cell for violent prisoners | Synonyms: tank |
(noun) an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice | - |
coupler | (noun) a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects | Synonyms: coupling |
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crawler | (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, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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(noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
(noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
cruller | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: twister |
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curler | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, hair curler, roller |
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cutler | (noun) a dealer in cutlery | - |
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dabbler | (noun) any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling | Synonyms: dabbling duck |
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(noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dilettante, sciolist |
dawdler | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
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dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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(noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
(noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
(noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
(noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
defiler | (noun) a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment | Synonyms: polluter |
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despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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disentangler | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: unraveler, unraveller |
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dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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distiller | (noun) someone who distills alcoholic liquors | - |
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doubler | (noun) an electronic device that doubles the voltage or the frequency of an input signal | - |
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drawler | (noun) someone who speaks with a drawl | - |
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dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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(noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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(noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
drooler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, slobberer |
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dueler | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: duelist, dueller, duellist |
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dueller | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, duelist, duellist |
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dweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, habitant, indweller, inhabitant |
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embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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extoller | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: laudator, lauder |
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faller | (noun) a person who falls | - |
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(noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman |
feeler | (noun) one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste | Synonyms: antenna |
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(noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: barbel |
(noun) sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ | Synonyms: antenna |
(noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, approach, overture |
feller | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, fellow, gent, lad |
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(noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman |
fiddler | (noun) a musician who plays the violin | Synonyms: violinist |
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(noun) an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinkerer |
(noun) someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: twiddler |
filer | (noun) a party who files a notice with a law court | - |
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(noun) a clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization | Synonyms: file clerk, filing clerk |
filler | (noun) the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar | - |
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(noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: makeweight |
(noun) copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper | - |
(noun) 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary | - |
(noun) used for filling cracks or holes in a surface | - |
finagler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: wangler |
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fondler | (noun) a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one | Synonyms: petter |
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(noun) a molester who touches the intimate parts of the victim | - |
footballer | (noun) an athlete who plays American football | Synonyms: football player |
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fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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fowler | (noun) someone who hunts wild birds for food | - |
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freewheeler | (noun) someone acting freely or even irresponsibly | Synonyms: free agent, free spirit |
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fuller | (noun) a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living | - |
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fumbler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, sad sack, stumbler |
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gambler | (noun) a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events | - |
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(noun) someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement | Synonyms: risk taker |
gaoler | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: jailer, jailor, prison guard, screw, turnkey |
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giggler | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: titterer |
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gobbler | (noun) male turkey | Synonyms: tom, tom turkey, turkey cock |
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(noun) a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls | - |
gospeler | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeller, revivalist |
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gospeller | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, revivalist |
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grappler | (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grapple, grappling hook, grappling iron |
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(noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: matman, wrestler |
groveler | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, truckler |
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groveller | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, truckler |
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growler | (noun) a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping | - |
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(noun) a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl | - |
grumbler | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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guzzler | (noun) someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages) | - |
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(noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: gulper |
haggler | (noun) an intense bargainer | - |
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haler | (noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna in Czech Republic | Synonyms: heller |
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(noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna Slovakia | Synonyms: heller |
handler | (noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: coach, manager |
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(noun) one who trains or exhibits animals | Synonyms: animal trainer |
(noun) an agent who handles something or someone | - |
hauler | (noun) a haulage contractor | Synonyms: haulier |
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healer | (noun) a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | Synonyms: therapist |
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heckler | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: badgerer |
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heller | (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: devil, hellion |
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(noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna in Czech Republic | Synonyms: haler |
(noun) 100 halers equal 1 koruna Slovakia | Synonyms: haler |