absolver | (noun) someone who grants absolution | - |
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achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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almsgiver | (noun) a person who gives alms | - |
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approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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(noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
(noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
(noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
(noun) a full beard | - |
(noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
bedcover | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedspread, counterpane, spread |
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believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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(noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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(noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
carver | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: sculptor, sculpturer, statue maker |
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(noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: cutter |
(noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: woodcarver |
changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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cleaver | (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: chopper, meat cleaver |
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clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
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conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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cover | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: covering, masking, screening |
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(noun) fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations | Synonyms: covering fire |
(noun) a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent) | - |
(noun) a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else | Synonyms: cover song, cover version |
(noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: blanket |
(noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, covert, screen |
(noun) covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container) | Synonyms: top |
(noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, binding, book binding |
(noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: covering, natural covering |
(noun) a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink | Synonyms: cover charge |
crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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(noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
(noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
(noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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diver | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: loon |
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(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: plunger |
(noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver |
driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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(noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
(noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
(noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
(noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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(noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |
engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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(noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
fever | (noun) a state of nervous excitement | - |
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(noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, feverishness, pyrexia |
fiver | (noun) a United States bill worth 5 dollars | Synonyms: five-spot, five dollar bill |
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flashover | (noun) an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator) | - |
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flyover | (noun) a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground | Synonyms: fly-by, flypast |
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(noun) bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | Synonyms: overpass |
forgiver | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, pardoner |
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giver | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, presenter |
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(noun) someone who devotes himself completely | - |
graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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groundcover | (noun) small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor | Synonyms: ground cover |
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(noun) low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow | Synonyms: ground cover |
handover | (noun) act of relinquishing property or authority etc | - |
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hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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(noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
(noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
hardcover | (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
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heaver | (noun) a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | - |
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(noun) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard) | - |
hemidemisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixty-fourth note |
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holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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(noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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(noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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laver | (noun) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions | - |
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(noun) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds | Synonyms: sea lettuce |
(noun) edible red seaweeds | Synonyms: red laver |
lawgiver | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawmaker |
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layover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: stop, stopover |
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leaver | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, goer |
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leftover | (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
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lever | (noun) a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum | - |
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(noun) a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock | Synonyms: lever tumbler |
(noun) a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum | - |
lifesaver | (noun) a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material | Synonyms: life belt, life buoy, life ring |
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(noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifeguard |
liver | (noun) large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes | - |
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(noun) liver of an animal used as meat | - |
(noun) someone who lives in a place | - |
(noun) a person who has a special life style | - |
louver | (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: fin, louvre |
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lover | (noun) a person who loves someone or is loved by someone | - |
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(noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, fan |
(noun) a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage | - |
makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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(noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
maneuver | (noun) a move made to gain a tactical end | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre |
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(noun) an action aimed at evading an opponent | Synonyms: evasive action, manoeuvre |
(noun) a military training exercise | Synonyms: manoeuvre, simulated military operation |
(noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: manoeuvre, play |
(noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactic, tactics |
miniver | (noun) trimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur | - |
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misbeliever | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: heretic, religious outcast |
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mover | (noun) a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another | Synonyms: moving company, public mover, removal company, removal firm |
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(noun) someone who moves | - |
(noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: proposer |
(noun) workman employed by a moving company | - |
nonachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: underachiever, underperformer |
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nonbeliever | (noun) someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) | - |
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nondriver | (noun) a person who is not a driver | - |
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observer | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, perceiver, percipient |
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(noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: commentator |
over | (noun) (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch | - |
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overachiever | (noun) a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated | - |
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palaver | (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, rhetoric |
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(noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, cajolery |
perceiver | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, percipient |
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plover | (noun) any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers | - |
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popover | (noun) light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup | - |
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preserver | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning | Synonyms: flotation device, life preserver |
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(noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: refinisher, renovator, restorer |
(noun) someone who keeps safe from harm or danger | - |
(noun) a cook who preserves fruits or meat | - |
pullover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: slipover |
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pushover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover |
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(noun) someone who is easily taken advantage of | - |
quaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note | Synonyms: eighth note |
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(noun) a tremulous sound | - |
quicksilver | (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury |
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quiver | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quivering, vibration |
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(noun) case for holding arrows | - |
(noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
raver | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: ranter |
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(noun) a participant in a rave dancing party | - |
receiver | (noun) set that receives radio or tv signals | Synonyms: receiving system |
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(noun) earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds | Synonyms: telephone receiver |
(noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: recipient |
(noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: liquidator |
(noun) a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass | Synonyms: pass catcher, pass receiver |
(noun) the tennis player who receives the serve | - |
reliever | (noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: fireman, relief pitcher |
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(noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, stand-in, substitute |
(noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: allayer, comforter |
remover | (noun) someone who works for a company that moves furniture | - |
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(noun) a solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface) | - |
reprover | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, upbraider |
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retriever | (noun) a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
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revolver | (noun) a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) | Synonyms: six-gun, six-shooter |
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(noun) a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings | Synonyms: revolving door |
river | (noun) a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) | - |
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rollover | (noun) the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty | - |
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rover | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, wanderer |
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(noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: scouter |
salver | (noun) a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver | - |
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saver | (noun) someone who saves (especially money) | - |
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(noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, rescuer |
screwdriver | (noun) a hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw | - |
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(noun) a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice | - |
semiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixteenth note |
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server | (noun) utensil used in serving food or drink | - |
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(noun) (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network | Synonyms: host |
(noun) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | Synonyms: waiter |
(noun) (court games) the player who serves to start a point | - |
shaver | (noun) a razor powered by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric razor, electric shaver |
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(noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
(noun) an adult male who shaves | - |
shelver | (noun) a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves | - |
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shiver | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shake, tremble |
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(noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
shover | (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: pusher |
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silver | (noun) silverware eating utensils | Synonyms: flatware |
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(noun) a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition | Synonyms: silver medal |
(noun) a light shade of grey | Synonyms: ash gray, ash grey, silver gray, silver grey |
(noun) coins made of silver | - |
(noun) a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography | Synonyms: Ag, atomic number 47 |