| popper | (noun) a container for cooking popcorn | - |
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| (noun) a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite) | - |
| prepper | (noun) someone who prepares for a disaster | - |
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| raper | (noun) someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: rapist |
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| rapper | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: doorknocker, knocker |
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| (noun) someone who performs rap music | - |
| reaper | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: harvester |
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| (noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: harvester |
| ripper | (noun) a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife | - |
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| romper | (noun) a one-piece garment for children to wear at play; the lower part is shaped like bloomers | Synonyms: romper suit |
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| (noun) a person who romps or frolics | - |
| roper | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, ropemaker |
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| (noun) a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses | - |
| (noun) a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game) | - |
| sandhopper | (noun) small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches | Synonyms: beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper |
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| sandpaper | (noun) stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand | Synonyms: emery paper |
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| sandpiper | (noun) any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers | - |
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| sapper | (noun) a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications) | - |
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| scalper | (noun) someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost | - |
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| scamper | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scramble, scurry |
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| scauper | (noun) a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal | Synonyms: scorper |
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| schlepper | (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, shlep, shlepper |
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| scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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| scorper | (noun) a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal | Synonyms: scauper |
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| scraper | (noun) any of various hand tools for scraping | - |
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| scrapper | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter |
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| scupper | (noun) drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard | - |
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| shaper | (noun) a machine tool for shaping metal or wood | Synonyms: shaping machine |
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| (noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: maker |
| sharecropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: cropper, sharecrop farmer |
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| sharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| shipper | (noun) a company in the business of shipping freight | - |
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| (noun) someone who ships goods | - |
| shlepper | (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, schlepper, shlep |
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| shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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| shopper | (noun) someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy | - |
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| (noun) a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her | - |
| showstopper | (noun) something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal | Synonyms: show-stopper |
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| (noun) an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down | Synonyms: show-stopper, stopper |
| shrimper | (noun) a vessel engaged in shrimping | - |
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| simper | (noun) a silly self-conscious smile | - |
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| sinoper | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinopia, sinopis |
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| sipper | (noun) a drinker who sips | - |
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| skipper | (noun) the naval officer in command of a military ship | Synonyms: captain |
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| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, master, sea captain |
| (noun) a student who fails to attend classes | - |
| skyscraper | (noun) a very tall building with many stories | - |
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| slapper | (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: spanker |
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| sleeper | (noun) an unexpected hit | - |
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| (noun) tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water | Synonyms: sleeper goby |
| (noun) a passenger car that has berths for sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping car, wagon-lit |
| (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, tie |
| (noun) a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed | - |
| (noun) pajamas with feet; worn by children | - |
| (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: slumberer |
| (noun) an unexpected achiever of success | - |
| (noun) a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal | - |
| slipper | (noun) low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors | Synonyms: carpet slipper |
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| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slider |
| snapper | (noun) large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite | Synonyms: Chelydra serpentina, common snapping turtle |
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| (noun) any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters | - |
| (noun) Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots | Synonyms: Chrysophrys auratus |
| (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker, cracker bonbon |
| (noun) flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas | - |
| (noun) (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback | Synonyms: center, centre |
| sniper | (noun) a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place | - |
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| snooper | (noun) a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others | Synonyms: snoop |
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| stamper | (noun) a power tool that stamps | Synonyms: stamping machine |
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| (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stomper, tramper, trampler |
| (noun) a workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine) | - |
| steeper | (noun) a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping | - |
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| stepper | (noun) a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting | Synonyms: high stepper |
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| (noun) a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps | Synonyms: stepping motor |
| (noun) a professional dancer | Synonyms: hoofer |
| stomper | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, tramper, trampler |
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| stooper | (noun) a person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward | - |
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| (noun) a person at a racetrack who searches for winning parimutuel tickets that have been carelessly discarded by others | - |
| stopper | (noun) blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly | Synonyms: plug, stopple |
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| (noun) (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit | - |
| (noun) an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down | Synonyms: show-stopper, showstopper |
| (noun) a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply | Synonyms: conversation stopper |
| storekeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, tradesman |
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| strapper | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, bull, Samson |
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| striper | (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass |
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| (noun) caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: striped bass |
| (noun) a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service | - |
| stripper | (noun) an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day | Synonyms: stripper well |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: sprigger, stemmer |
| (noun) a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish | - |
| stumper | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, toughie |
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| super | (noun) a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector | Synonyms: superintendent |
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| supper | (noun) a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering where a light evening meal is served | - |
| sweeper | (noun) little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body | - |
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| (noun) a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet | Synonyms: carpet sweeper |
| (noun) an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) | - |
| tamper | (noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | Synonyms: tamp, tamping bar |
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| taper | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: candle, wax light |
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| (noun) a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame | Synonyms: wick |
| (noun) the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone) | - |
| (noun) a convex shape that narrows toward a point | - |
| tapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, wiretapper |
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| (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapster |
| (noun) a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads | - |
| (noun) a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes | Synonyms: tap dancer |
| (noun) a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly | - |
| temper | (noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: toughness |
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| (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness |
| (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, mood |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: irritation, pique |
| timekeeper | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timepiece |
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| (noun) a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees | - |
| (noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timer |
| tipper | (noun) truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity | Synonyms: dump truck, dumper, tip truck, tipper lorry, tipper truck |
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| (noun) a person who leaves a tip | - |
| tollkeeper | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollman |
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| toper | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, imbiber, juicer |
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| topper | (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat |
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| (noun) a woman's short coat | - |
| (noun) an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before | - |
| (noun) a worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.) | - |
| (noun) a worker who makes or adds the top to something | - |
| (noun) the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others | Synonyms: best |
| tramper | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, stomper, trampler |
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| (noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: hiker, tramp |
| trapper | (noun) someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs) | - |
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| treehopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs | - |
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| tripper | (noun) a catch mechanism that acts as a switch | Synonyms: trip |
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| (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, sightseer |
| (noun) a walker or runner who trips and almost falls | Synonyms: stumbler |
| (noun) (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations | - |
| trooper | (noun) a mounted police officer | - |
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| (noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: cavalryman |
| (noun) a state police officer | Synonyms: state trooper |
| (noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: cavalryman |
| trouper | (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: barnstormer, play-actor, playactor |
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| (noun) a person who is reliable and uncomplaining and hard working | - |
| upper | (noun) piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot | - |
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| (noun) a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression | Synonyms: amphetamine, pep pill, speed |
| (noun) the higher of two berths | Synonyms: upper berth |
| usurper | (noun) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another | Synonyms: supplanter |
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| vamper | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp |
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| vesper | (noun) a late afternoon or evening worship service | - |
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| viper | (noun) venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw | - |
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| walloper | (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: whopper |
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| (noun) a winner by a wide margin | - |
| (noun) a very hard hitter | - |
| wallpaper | (noun) a decorative paper for the walls of rooms | - |
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| warper | (noun) a textile machine used for warping any natural or manmade yarns. | Synonyms: warping machine |
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| weeper | (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: crier |
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| (noun) a hired mourner | - |
| whimper | (noun) a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way | Synonyms: whine |
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| whipper | (noun) a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip | Synonyms: switcher |
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| whippersnapper | (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, lightweight |
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| whisper | (noun) speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: susurration, voicelessness, whispering |
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| (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustle, rustling, whispering |
| whooper | (noun) common Old World swan noted for its whooping call | Synonyms: Cygnus cygnus, whooper swan |
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| (noun) rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call | Synonyms: Grus americana, whooping crane |
| whopper | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whacker |
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| (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: walloper |
| wiper | (noun) a mechanical device that cleans the windshield | Synonyms: windscreen wiper, windshield wiper, wiper blade |
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| (noun) contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet | Synonyms: contact arm, wiper arm |
| (noun) a worker who wipes | - |
| wiretapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, tapper |
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| woodcreeper | (noun) any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers | Synonyms: tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodhewer |
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| worshiper | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: believer, worshipper |
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| (noun) someone who admires too much to recognize faults | Synonyms: worshipper |
| worshipper | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: believer, worshiper |
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| (noun) someone who admires too much to recognize faults | Synonyms: worshiper |
| wrapper | (noun) cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person | Synonyms: wrap |
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| (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, peignoir |
| (noun) the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped | Synonyms: wrap, wrapping |
| zapper | (noun) an electrical device that can injure or kill by means of electric currents | - |
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| zipper | (noun) a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab | Synonyms: slide fastener, zip, zip fastener |
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