| backslapper | (noun) someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality | - |
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| chopper | (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chop |
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| (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver |
| (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird |
| (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: pearly |
| clapper | (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: tongue |
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| (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: glossa, lingua, tongue |
| (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: applauder |
| clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
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| (noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
| (noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
| (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
| clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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| copper | (noun) any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings | - |
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| (noun) a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper | Synonyms: copper color |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, fuzz, pig |
| (noun) a copper penny | - |
| (noun) a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor | Synonyms: atomic number 29, Cu |
| crapper | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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| cropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: sharecrop farmer, sharecropper |
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| crupper | (noun) a strap from the back of a saddle passing under the horse's tail; prevents saddle from slipping forward | - |
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| cupper | (noun) a cup of tea | Synonyms: cuppa |
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| dipper | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball |
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| (noun) small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom | Synonyms: water ouzel |
| (noun) a ladle that has a cup with a long handle | - |
| doorstopper | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstop |
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| dropper | (noun) pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time | Synonyms: eye dropper |
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| eavesdropper | (noun) a secret listener to private conversations | - |
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| flapper | (noun) a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress | - |
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| flipper | (noun) the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming | - |
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| (noun) a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) | Synonyms: fin |
| froghopper | (noun) a variety of spittlebug | - |
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| grasshopper | (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: hopper |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) | - |
| handicapper | (noun) someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race) | Synonyms: odds-maker |
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| hopper | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, grounder |
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| (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: grasshopper |
| (noun) funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below | - |
| (noun) a machine used for picking hops | Synonyms: hop-picker |
| (noun) someone who hops | - |
| kidnapper | (noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, snatcher |
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| kipper | (noun) salted and smoked herring | Synonyms: kippered herring |
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| leafhopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants | - |
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| lopper | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: pruner, pruning hook |
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| mapper | (noun) a clerk who marks data on a chart | Synonyms: plotter |
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| mopper | (noun) a worker who uses a mop to clean a surface | - |
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| mudskipper | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudspringer |
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| nipper | (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, claw, pincer |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| pepper | (noun) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground | Synonyms: peppercorn |
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| (noun) sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum | - |
| (noun) any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers | Synonyms: capsicum, capsicum pepper plant |
| (noun) climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam | Synonyms: black pepper, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepper |
| planthopper | (noun) related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants | Synonyms: plant hopper |
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| 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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| 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 | - |
| ripper | (noun) a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife | - |
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| sandhopper | (noun) small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches | Synonyms: beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper |
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| sapper | (noun) a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications) | - |
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| schlepper | (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, shlep, shlepper |
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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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| sharecropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: cropper, sharecrop farmer |
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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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| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| slapper | (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: spanker |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| strapper | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, bull, Samson |
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| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| wiretapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, tapper |
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| 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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