twitter | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: chirrup |
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typesetter | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, setter, typographer |
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typewriter | (noun) hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time | - |
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udometer | (noun) gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation | Synonyms: pluviometer, rain gage, rain gauge |
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ulster | (noun) loose long overcoat of heavy fabric; usually belted | - |
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underwriter | (noun) a financial institution that sells insurance | Synonyms: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, insurer |
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(noun) a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities | Synonyms: investment banker |
(noun) an agent who sells insurance | Synonyms: general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker |
uprooter | (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster |
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upsetter | (noun) an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor | - |
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ureter | (noun) either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder | - |
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variometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in a magnetic field | - |
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vaulter | (noun) an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole | Synonyms: pole jumper, pole vaulter |
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vaunter | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter |
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venter | (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, stomach |
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(noun) a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle) | - |
(noun) the womb | - |
(noun) a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance | - |
viscometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring viscosity | Synonyms: viscosimeter |
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viscosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring viscosity | Synonyms: viscometer |
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voltmeter | (noun) meter that measures the potential difference between two points | - |
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volumeter | (noun) a meter to measure the volume of gases, liquids, or solids (either directly or by displacement) | - |
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vomiter | (noun) a person who vomits | Synonyms: spewer |
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voter | (noun) a citizen who has a legal right to vote | Synonyms: elector |
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waiter | (noun) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | Synonyms: server |
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(noun) a person who waits or awaits | - |
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 |
wanter | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: needer |
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warranter | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warrantor |
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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 |
wastewater | (noun) water mixed with waste matter | Synonyms: effluent, sewer water |
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water | (noun) a facility that provides a source of water | Synonyms: water supply, water system |
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(noun) a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants | - |
(noun) the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) | Synonyms: body of water |
(noun) binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent | Synonyms: H2O |
(noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piddle, piss, urine, weewee |
(noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour phlegm | - |
wattmeter | (noun) an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in an electrical circuit | - |
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webmaster | (noun) a technician who designs or maintains a website | - |
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weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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welter | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother |
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wester | (noun) wind that blows from west to east | Synonyms: west wind |
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wetter | (noun) a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process | - |
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(noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, bedwetter |
(noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, surfactant, wetting agent |
whitewater | (noun) frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls | Synonyms: white water |
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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 |
wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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windcheater | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windbreaker |
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winter | (noun) the coldest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox | Synonyms: wintertime |
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woodcutter | (noun) cuts down trees and chops wood as a job | - |
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woolsorter | (noun) a person who sorts wool into different grades | Synonyms: wool stapler |
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wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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writer | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: author |
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(noun) a person who is able to write and has written something | - |
xylometer | (noun) an instrument used to determine the specific gravity of wood | - |
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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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