| milliner | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, modiste |
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| miner | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: mineworker |
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| missioner | (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missionary |
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| moaner | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| moistener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: dampener |
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| moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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| mourner | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, sorrower |
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| niner | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, ennead, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine |
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| opener | (noun) a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans) | - |
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| (noun) the first event in a series | - |
| (noun) a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens | Synonyms: undoer, unfastener, untier |
| ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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| owner | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: proprietor |
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| (noun) a person who owns something | Synonyms: possessor |
| pardner | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, cooperator, partner |
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| pardoner | (noun) a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences | - |
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| (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, forgiver |
| parishioner | (noun) a member of a parish | - |
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| partner | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, cooperator, pardner |
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| (noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, mate, spouse |
| (noun) a person who is a member of a partnership | - |
| pensioner | (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| petitioner | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: requester, suppliant, supplicant |
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| (noun) someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right | Synonyms: suer |
| phoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, telephoner |
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| pinner | (noun) a woman's cap with two long flaps pinned on | - |
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| planer | (noun) a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: plane, planing machine |
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| planner | (noun) a notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc. | - |
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| (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, deviser |
| poisoner | (noun) someone who kills with poison | - |
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| positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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| (noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
| postponer | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, procrastinator |
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| practitioner | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practician |
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| prisoner | (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: captive |
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| probationer | (noun) someone released on probation or on parole | Synonyms: parolee |
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| (noun) a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period | Synonyms: student nurse |
| provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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| pruner | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: lopper, pruning hook |
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| (noun) a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs | Synonyms: trimmer |
| questioner | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier |
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| quickener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: enlivener, invigorator |
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| racerunner | (noun) very swift lizard of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, race runner, six-lined racerunner |
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| reasoner | (noun) someone who reasons logically | Synonyms: ratiocinator |
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| reckoner | (noun) a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation | Synonyms: ready reckoner |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, figurer |
| recliner | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: lounger, reclining chair |
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| refiner | (noun) one whose work is to refine a specific thing | - |
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| restrainer | (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: controller |
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| (noun) a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film | - |
| retainer | (noun) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment | - |
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| (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: servant |
| (noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: consideration |
| reversioner | (noun) (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion | - |
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| roadrunner | (noun) speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas | Synonyms: chaparral cock, Geococcyx californianus |
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| ruiner | (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, undoer, uprooter, waster |
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| rumrunner | (noun) someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border | - |
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| runner | (noun) fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil | Synonyms: blue runner, Caranx crysos |
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| (noun) device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along | - |
| (noun) a long narrow carpet | - |
| (noun) a trained athlete who competes in foot races | - |
| (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, smuggler |
| (noun) a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) | Synonyms: base runner |
| (noun) someone who travels on foot by running | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents | - |
| (noun) (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play | Synonyms: ball carrier |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: offset, stolon |
| scanner | (noun) a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | Synonyms: electronic scanner |
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| (noun) a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | - |
| (noun) an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer | Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner |
| (noun) someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | - |
| schooner | (noun) sailing vessel used in former times | - |
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| (noun) a large beer glass | - |
| scintiscanner | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintigraph |
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| scorner | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: sneerer |
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| screener | (noun) a guard at an airport who checks passengers or their luggage at a security checkpoint | - |
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| scrivener | (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scribe |
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| scunner | (noun) a strong dislike | - |
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| seasoner | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoning |
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| (noun) a cook who uses seasonings | - |
| sevener | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septenary, septet, seven, VII |
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| shareowner | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, stockholder |
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| sharpener | (noun) any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper | - |
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| shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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| (noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
| (noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
| (noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
| shipowner | (noun) someone who owns a ship or a share in a ship | - |
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| shortener | (noun) any agent that shortens | - |
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| signer | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signatory |
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| (noun) someone who can use sign language to communicate | - |
| sinner | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: evildoer |
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| skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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| (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
| softener | (noun) a substance added to another to make it less hard | - |
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| sojourner | (noun) a temporary resident | - |
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| spanner | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: wrench |
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| spawner | (noun) a female fish at spawning time | - |
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| spinner | (noun) fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water | - |
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| (noun) board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game | - |
| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinster, thread maker |
| spurner | (noun) a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt | - |
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| stainer | (noun) a worker who stains (wood or fabric) | - |
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| stationer | (noun) a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies | Synonyms: stationery seller |
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| stiffener | (noun) a member attached to a beam web to prevent loss of strength due to web buckling. | - |
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| (noun) material used for stiffening something | - |
| stoner | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: lapidator |
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| straightener | (noun) a device for straightening | - |
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| strainer | (noun) a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through | - |
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| streamliner | (noun) a streamlined train | - |
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| strengthener | (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: reinforcement |
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| stunner | (noun) an unexpected and amazing event | - |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, sweetheart |
| submariner | (noun) a member of the crew of a submarine | - |
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| suborner | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: briber |
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| sundowner | (noun) a drink taken at sundown | - |
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| (noun) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown | - |
| sustainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, upholder |
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| sweetener | (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, hook, lure |
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| (noun) something added to foods to make them taste sweeter | Synonyms: sweetening |
| tanner | (noun) a craftsman who tans skins and hides | - |
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| (noun) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 | Synonyms: sixpence |
| telephoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, phoner |
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| tenner | (noun) a United States bill worth 10 dollars | Synonyms: ten dollar bill |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, decade, ten, X |
| thickener | (noun) any material used to thicken | Synonyms: thickening |
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| thinner | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, dilutant |
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| tinner | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tinware | Synonyms: tinsmith |
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| toner | (noun) a lotion for cleansing the skin and contracting the pores | - |
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| (noun) a black or colored powder used in a printer to develop a xerographic image | - |
| (noun) a solution containing chemicals that can change the color of a photographic print | - |
| towner | (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: townsman |
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| trainer | (noun) simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane | Synonyms: flight simulator |
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| (noun) one who trains other persons or animals | - |
| tuner | (noun) an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, wireless |
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| (noun) someone who tunes a musical instrument | - |
| turner | (noun) cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food | Synonyms: food turner |
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| (noun) one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope | - |
| (noun) a lathe operator | - |
| (noun) a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein | - |
| twiner | (noun) someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing | - |
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| unfastener | (noun) a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens | Synonyms: opener, undoer, untier |
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| vacationer | (noun) someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work | Synonyms: vacationist |
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| vintner | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: wine maker, winemaker |
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| (noun) someone who sells wine | Synonyms: wine merchant |
| waggoner | (noun) the driver of a wagon | Synonyms: wagoner |
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| wagoner | (noun) the driver of a wagon | Synonyms: waggoner |
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| warner | (noun) someone who gives a warning to others | - |
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| warrener | (noun) maintains a rabbit warren | - |
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| weakener | (noun) that which weakens or causes a loss of strength | - |
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