| abstainer | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker |
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| (noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
| afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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| airliner | (noun) a commercial airplane that carries passengers | - |
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| almoner | (noun) an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients | Synonyms: medical social worker |
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| banner | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: streamer |
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| (noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: standard |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: streamer |
| bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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| (noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
| barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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| (noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
| beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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| beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| boner | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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| burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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| (noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
| campaigner | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: candidate, nominee |
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| carabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: karabiner, snap ring |
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| centner | (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, cwt, hundredweight, quintal, short hundredweight |
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| (noun) in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms | - |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: doppelzentner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
| cleaner | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleanser, cleansing agent |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is cleaning | - |
| (noun) the operator of dry-cleaning establishment | Synonyms: dry cleaner |
| coiner | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: minter, moneyer |
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| (noun) someone who is a source of new words or new expressions | - |
| (noun) a maker of counterfeit coins | - |
| commissioner | (noun) a government administrator | - |
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| (noun) a member of a commission | - |
| commoner | (noun) a person who holds no title | Synonyms: common man, common person |
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| complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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| conditioner | (noun) exercise that conditions the body | - |
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| (noun) a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer | - |
| (noun) a trainer of athletes | - |
| confectioner | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: candymaker |
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| congener | (noun) a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another | - |
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| (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congeneric, relative |
| (noun) a minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character | - |
| consigner | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consignor |
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| container | (noun) any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
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| convener | (noun) the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings | - |
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| copartner | (noun) a joint partner (as in a business enterprise) | - |
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| corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
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| (noun) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone | Synonyms: quoin |
| (noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: nook |
| (noun) the point where two lines meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) a place off to the side of an area | - |
| (noun) a remote area | - |
| (noun) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet | - |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: niche, recess, recession |
| (noun) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade | - |
| (noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: box |
| coroner | (noun) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes | Synonyms: medical examiner |
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| cosigner | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosignatory |
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| (noun) a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety) | - |
| crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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| cunner | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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| dampener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: moistener |
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| darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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| dejeuner | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: lunch, luncheon, tiffin |
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| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
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| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
| diner | (noun) a passenger car where food is served in transit | Synonyms: buffet car, dining car, dining compartment |
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| (noun) a restaurant that resembles a dining car | - |
| (noun) a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant) | - |
| dinner | (noun) the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday | - |
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| (noun) a party of people assembled to have dinner together | Synonyms: dinner party |
| directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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| diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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| doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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| downer | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug |
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| earner | (noun) someone who earn wages in return for their labor | Synonyms: wage earner |
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| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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| enlivener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: invigorator, quickener |
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| entertainer | (noun) a person who tries to please or amuse | - |
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| examiner | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: inspector |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: quizzer, tester |
| executioner | (noun) an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant | Synonyms: public executioner |
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| exhibitioner | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitor, shower |
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| extortioner | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortionist |
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| eyeliner | (noun) makeup applied to emphasize the shape of the eyes | - |
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| falconer | (noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: hawker |
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| fastener | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastening, fixing, holdfast |
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| (noun) a person who fastens or makes fast | - |
| fawner | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, groveler, groveller, truckler |
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| fineliner | (noun) A felt-tip pen with a thin tip that produces thin lines. | Synonyms: fineliner pen |
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| foreigner | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, noncitizen, outlander |
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| (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: outsider |
| forerunner | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| (noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: precursor |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: antecedent |
| freshener | (noun) anything that freshens | - |
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| gainer | (noun) a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board | Synonyms: full gainer |
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| (noun) a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits) | - |
| (noun) a person who gains weight | Synonyms: weight gainer |
| gardener | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: nurseryman |
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| (noun) someone employed to work in a garden | - |
| garner | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: granary |
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| gleaner | (noun) someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters | - |
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| (noun) someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully | - |
| goner | (noun) a person in desperate straits; someone doomed | Synonyms: toast |
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| grinner | (noun) a person who grins | - |
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| groaner | (noun) a person who groans | - |
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| gunner | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, cannoneer, machine gunner |
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| gunrunner | (noun) a smuggler of guns | Synonyms: arms-runner |
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| hardener | (noun) one that hardens, especially a substance added to varnish or paint to give it a harder surface or finish. | - |
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| hardliner | (noun) a conservative who is uncompromising | - |
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| harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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| headliner | (noun) a performer who receives prominent billing | Synonyms: star |
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| homeowner | (noun) someone who owns a home | Synonyms: householder |
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| honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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| jetliner | (noun) a large jet plane that carries passengers | - |
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| joiner | (noun) a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood | - |
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| (noun) a person who likes to join groups | - |
| karabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: carabiner, snap ring |
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| kindergartener | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartner, preschooler |
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| kindergartner | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, preschooler |
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| lampooner | (noun) mimics literary or musical style for comic effect | Synonyms: parodist |
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| landowner | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landholder, property owner |
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| larcener | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcenist |
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| leaner | (noun) (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake | - |
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| learner | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, scholar, student |
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| (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, prentice |
| lightener | (noun) any type of lightening agent that can be used to brighten the appearance of hair, skin, wood and other surfaces. | - |
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| limner | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer |
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| liner | (noun) (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter | Synonyms: line drive |
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| (noun) a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule) | Synonyms: ocean liner |
| (noun) a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment | Synonyms: lining |
| (noun) a protective covering that protects an inside surface | Synonyms: lining |
| listener | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, hearer |
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| loaner | (noun) a car that is lent as a replacement for one that is under repair | - |
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| (noun) someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters | Synonyms: lender |
| loner | (noun) a person who avoids the company or assistance of others | Synonyms: lone hand, lone wolf |
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| maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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| maligner | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| manner | (noun) a way of acting or behaving | Synonyms: personal manner |
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| (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, mode, style, way |
| (noun) a kind | - |
| marathoner | (noun) someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) | Synonyms: long-distance runner, marathon runner, road runner |
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| mariner | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar |
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| mentioner | (noun) a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally | - |
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| meshuggener | (noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggeneh |
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