| purchaser | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, vendee |
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| purser | (noun) an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare | - |
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| raiser | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower |
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| (noun) a bridge partner who increases the partner's bid | - |
| represser | (noun) an agent that represses | Synonyms: repressor |
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| reviser | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, rewrite man, rewriter |
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| riser | (noun) structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step | - |
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| (noun) a vertical pipe in a building | Synonyms: riser main, riser pipe, riser pipeline |
| (noun) a person who rises (especially from bed) | - |
| rouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: arouser, waker |
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| scrutiniser | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutinizer |
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| sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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| sermoniser | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher, preacher man, sermonizer |
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| socialiser | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socializer |
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| specialiser | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialist, specializer |
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| stabiliser | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabilizer |
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| standardiser | (noun) a person who sets a standard for things to conform to | Synonyms: standardizer |
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| steeplechaser | (noun) a horse trained to run in steeplechases | - |
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| steriliser | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: autoclave, sterilizer |
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| stripteaser | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist |
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| subsidiser | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidizer |
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| subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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| suppresser | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppressor |
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| (noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser gene, suppressor, suppressor gene |
| (noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppressor |
| surpriser | (noun) a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim | - |
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| syllogiser | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogist, syllogizer |
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| symboliser | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symbolist, symbolizer |
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| sympathiser | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathizer, well-wisher |
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| (noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathizer |
| synchroniser | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchronizer, synchronoscope, synchroscope |
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| synthesiser | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesizer |
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| (noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesist, synthesizer |
| systematiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| systemiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemizer |
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| tantaliser | (noun) someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach | Synonyms: tantalizer |
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| teaser | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor |
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| (noun) a device for teasing wool | - |
| (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, puzzler |
| (noun) an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest | - |
| (noun) an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show | - |
| (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: annoyer, tease, vexer |
| (noun) a worker who teases wool | - |
| temporiser | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporizer |
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| tenderiser | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderizer |
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| theologiser | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologian, theologist, theologizer |
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| theoriser | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoretician, theorist, theorizer |
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| tosser | (noun) someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward) | - |
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| (noun) terms of abuse for a masturbator | Synonyms: jerk-off, wanker |
| totaliser | (noun) a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions | Synonyms: adding machine, totalizer |
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| (noun) computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won | Synonyms: pari-mutuel machine, totalisator, totalizator, totalizer |
| tranquilliser | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquillizer |
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| traverser | (noun) someone who moves or passes across | - |
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| trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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| trouser | (noun) a garment (or part of a garment) designed for or relating to trousers | - |
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| tusser | (noun) oriental moth that produces brownish silk | Synonyms: Antheraea mylitta, tussah, tusseh, tussore, tussur |
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| user | (noun) a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something | - |
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| (noun) a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically | Synonyms: exploiter |
| (noun) a person who takes drugs | Synonyms: drug user, substance abuser |
| utiliser | (noun) someone who puts to good use | Synonyms: utilizer |
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| vaporiser | (noun) a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation) | Synonyms: vaporizer |
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| verbaliser | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer |
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| victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
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| visualiser | (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery is visual | Synonyms: visualizer |
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| vitaliser | (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, energizer, vitalizer |
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| vocaliser | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocalist, vocalizer |
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| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocalizer |
| vulcaniser | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
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| (noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
| vulgariser | (noun) someone who makes something vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarizer |
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| (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, popularizer, vulgarizer |
| warehouser | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouseman |
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| witnesser | (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witness |
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| womaniser | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womanizer |
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