hobbler | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: limper |
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holler | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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(noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: hollow |
hospitaller | (noun) title of the member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals. | - |
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hosteller | (noun) a traveler who lodges in hostels | - |
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(noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
hostler | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, ostler, stableboy, stableman |
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howler | (noun) a glaring blunder | - |
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(noun) monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry | Synonyms: howler monkey |
(noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow |
huddler | (noun) a member of a huddle | - |
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(noun) a person who crouches | - |
hurdler | (noun) an athlete who runs the hurdles | - |
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hurler | (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: pitcher, twirler |
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hustler | (noun) a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties | Synonyms: operator, wheeler dealer |
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(noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
idler | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, layabout, loafer |
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impeller | (noun) the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine) | - |
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indweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant |
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(noun) activation by an inner spirit or force or principle | - |
inhaler | (noun) a dispenser that produces a chemical vapor to be inhaled in order to relieve nasal congestion | Synonyms: inhalator |
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jailer | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailor, prison guard, screw, turnkey |
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jeweler | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller |
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(noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller, jewelry maker |
jeweller | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler |
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(noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler, jewelry maker |
juggler | (noun) a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity | - |
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killer | (noun) predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | Synonyms: grampus, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf |
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(noun) a difficulty that is hard to deal with | - |
(noun) someone who causes the death of a person or animal | Synonyms: slayer |
(noun) the causal agent resulting in death | Synonyms: cause of death |
kneeler | (noun) a board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on | - |
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(noun) a person in a kneeling position | - |
knuckler | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckleball |
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landler | (noun) a moderately slow Austrian country dance in triple time; involves spinning and clapping | - |
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(noun) music in triple time for dancing the landler | - |
leveler | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveller |
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leveller | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveler |
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libeler | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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mailer | (noun) a container for something to be mailed | - |
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(noun) an advertisement that is sent by mail | - |
(noun) a person who mails something | - |
mangler | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mutilator |
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marveller | (noun) someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something | Synonyms: wonderer |
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mauler | (noun) a fighter who batters the opponent | - |
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meddler | (noun) an officious annoying person who interferes with others | - |
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miler | (noun) a runner in a one-mile race | - |
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(noun) (used only in combinations) the length of something in miles | - |
miller | (noun) any of various moths that have powdery wings | Synonyms: moth miller |
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(noun) machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it | Synonyms: milling machine |
(noun) someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill) | - |
modeler | (noun) a person who creates models | Synonyms: modeller |
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modeller | (noun) a person who creates models | Synonyms: modeler |
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mollycoddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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muffler | (noun) a scarf worn around the neck | - |
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(noun) a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise | Synonyms: silencer |
(noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: damper |
muller | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: pestle, pounder |
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(noun) a vessel in which wine is mulled | - |
(noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muser, ponderer, ruminator |
mumbler | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: murmurer, mutterer |
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muzzler | (noun) someone who muzzles animals | - |
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nailer | (noun) a worker who attaches something by nailing it | - |
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newsdealer | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsagent, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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nibbler | (noun) a biter who takes dainty repeated bites | - |
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niggler | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: carper |
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nightcrawler | (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, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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ogler | (noun) a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person | - |
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oiler | (noun) a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk | Synonyms: oil tanker, tank ship, tanker |
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(noun) a well that yields or has yielded oil | Synonyms: oil well |
(noun) a worker who oils engines or machinery | - |
ostler | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, stableboy, stableman |
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paddler | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: canoeist |
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painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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panhandler | (noun) a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money | - |
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patroller | (noun) someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area | - |
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pearler | (noun) a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls | Synonyms: pearl diver |
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pedaler | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaller |
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pedaller | (noun) a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle) | Synonyms: pedaler |
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peddler | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman |
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(noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher |
peeler | (noun) a device for peeling vegetables or fruits | - |
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(noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
(noun) a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables | - |
poler | (noun) a draft horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle | Synonyms: pole horse |
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pooler | (noun) someone who shares in and contributes to a general fund for use by all | - |
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potboiler | (noun) a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot) | - |
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potholer | (noun) a person who explores caves | Synonyms: spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker |
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prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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propeller | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propellor |
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prowler | (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: sneak, stalker |
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puddler | (noun) a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling | - |
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puller | (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: dragger, tugger |
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(noun) someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself | - |
puzzler | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, teaser |
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quarreler | (noun) a disputant who quarrels | Synonyms: quarreller |
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quarreller | (noun) a disputant who quarrels | Synonyms: quarreler |
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quibbler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, pettifogger |
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rambler | (noun) a person who takes long walks in the country | - |
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(noun) a person whose speech or writing is not well organized | - |
rappeller | (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: abseiler |
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rathskeller | (noun) a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall | - |
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rattler | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattlesnake |
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(noun) a railroad train consisting of freight cars | Synonyms: freight train |
reconciler | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker |
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reeler | (noun) a dancer of reels | - |
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(noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: staggerer, totterer |
retailer | (noun) a merchant who sells goods at retail | Synonyms: retail merchant |
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reveler | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveller |
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reveller | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveler |
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ridiculer | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, satirist |
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roller | (noun) a grounder that rolls along the infield | - |
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(noun) Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers | - |
(noun) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | Synonyms: tumbler, tumbler pigeon |
(noun) a cylinder that revolves | - |
(noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, curler, hair curler |
(noun) a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate) | - |
(noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roll, rolling wave |
ruler | (noun) measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths | Synonyms: rule |
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(noun) a person who rules or commands | Synonyms: swayer |
rustler | (noun) someone who steals livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle thief |
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saddler | (noun) a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses | - |
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sampler | (noun) a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches | - |
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(noun) an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something | Synonyms: sampling station |
(noun) an assortment of various samples | - |
(noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: taste-tester, taste tester, taster |
scaler | (noun) an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually | - |
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scheduler | (noun) computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order | - |
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scrambler | (noun) electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception | - |
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(noun) a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tires and suspension; an off-road motorcycle designed for riding cross country or over unpaved ground | Synonyms: dirt bike, trail bike |
(noun) a rapid mover; someone who scrambles | - |
scrawler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scribbler |
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screwballer | (noun) (baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs | - |
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scribbler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scrawler |
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(noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribe |
sculler | (noun) someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) | - |
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sealer | (noun) an official who affixes a seal to a document | - |
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(noun) a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) | Synonyms: sealant |
seller | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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semitrailer | (noun) a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle | Synonyms: semi |
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settler | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: colonist |
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(noun) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings | - |
(noun) a negotiator who settles disputes | - |
sheller | (noun) a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters) | - |
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shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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shoveler | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveller |
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(noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveller |
shoveller | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler |
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(noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveler |