| protester | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: demonstrator |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector |
| punster | (noun) someone overly fond of making puns | - |
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| quartermaster | (noun) an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops | - |
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| quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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| quizmaster | (noun) the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game | Synonyms: question master |
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| raster | (noun) the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor | - |
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| register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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| (noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
| (noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
| (noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
| (noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
| (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
| (noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
| requester | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant |
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| resister | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, thwarter |
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| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer |
| rester | (noun) a person who rests | - |
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| rhymester | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, versifier |
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| ringmaster | (noun) the person in charge of performances in a circus ring | - |
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| roadster | (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: buggy |
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| (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: runabout, two-seater |
| roaster | (noun) a special cooking pan for roasting | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting | - |
| (noun) a cook who roasts food | - |
| (noun) a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment) | - |
| rooster | (noun) adult male chicken | Synonyms: cock |
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| roster | (noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roll |
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| sandblaster | (noun) a tool that throws out a blast of steam laden with sand; used to clean or grind hard surfaces | - |
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| schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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| schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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| (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
| (noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
| scoutmaster | (noun) the leader of a troop of Scouts | - |
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| seamster | (noun) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments | Synonyms: sartor, tailor |
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| semester | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | - |
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| (noun) half a year; a period of 6 months | - |
| shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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| shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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| shlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: schlockmeister |
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| shyster | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: pettifogger |
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| sister | (noun) a female person who has the same parents as another person | Synonyms: sis |
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| (noun) a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group | - |
| sodbuster | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, granger, husbandman |
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| solenogaster | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: aplacophoran |
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| songster | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songbird |
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| (noun) a person who sings with skill | - |
| (noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songwriter |
| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| spinmeister | (noun) a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person | Synonyms: spin doctor |
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| spinster | (noun) an elderly unmarried woman | Synonyms: old maid |
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| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinner, thread maker |
| sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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| spymaster | (noun) someone who directs clandestine intelligence activities | - |
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| stationmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a railway station | Synonyms: station agent |
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| stepsister | (noun) a sister who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-sister, half sister |
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| subsister | (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: survivor |
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| suggester | (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: proposer |
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| supertwister | (noun) the most powerful tornado which can create enormously devastating damage | - |
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| tapster | (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapper |
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| taskmaster | (noun) someone who imposes hard or continuous work | - |
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| taster | (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: sampler, taste-tester, taste tester |
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| teamster | (noun) someone who drives a truck as an occupation | Synonyms: truck driver, trucker |
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| (noun) the driver of a team of horses doing hauling | - |
| telecaster | (noun) a television broadcaster | - |
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| tester | (noun) a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed) | - |
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| (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, quizzer |
| thirster | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, yearner |
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| throwster | (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: thrower |
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| thruster | (noun) a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft | - |
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| (noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: pusher |
| tipster | (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tout |
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| toaster | (noun) a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread | - |
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| (noun) someone who who drinks to the health of someone or the success of some venture | Synonyms: wassailer |
| toastmaster | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: symposiarch |
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| trainmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, yardmaster |
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| trickster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker |
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| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker |
| (noun) a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts | - |
| trimester | (noun) a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
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| (noun) one of three divisions of an academic year | - |
| trustbuster | (noun) a federal agent who engages in trust busting | - |
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| truster | (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: believer |
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| twister | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: cruller |
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| (noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: tornado |
| ulster | (noun) loose long overcoat of heavy fabric; usually belted | - |
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| waldmeister | (noun) fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine | Synonyms: sweet woodruff |
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| (noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, woodruff |
| waster | (noun) someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | Synonyms: wastrel |
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| (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter |
| webmaster | (noun) a technician who designs or maintains a website | - |
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| wester | (noun) wind that blows from west to east | Synonyms: west wind |
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| whoremaster | (noun) a pimp who procures whores | Synonyms: whoremonger |
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| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, trick, whoremonger |
| wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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| yardmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, trainmaster |
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| youngster | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke |
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| zoster | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, shingles |
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