hoarder | (noun) a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use | - |
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holder | (noun) a holding device | - |
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(noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: bearer |
(noun) a person who holds something | - |
homebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, house-builder, housebuilder |
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homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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housebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder |
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householder | (noun) someone who owns a home | Synonyms: homeowner |
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hypodermal | (adjective) of or relating to the hypodermis | - |
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hypodermic | (adjective) relating to or located below the epidermis | Synonyms: subcutaneous |
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(noun) a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections | Synonyms: hypo, hypodermic syringe |
hypodermis | (noun) layer of cells that secretes the chitinous cuticle in e.g. arthropods | - |
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immoderate | (adjective) beyond reasonable limits | - |
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immoderately | (adverb) without moderation; in an immoderate manner | - |
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(adverb) to a degree that exceeds the bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: unreasonably |
immoderateness | (noun) the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation | Synonyms: immoderation |
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immoderation | (noun) the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation | Synonyms: immoderateness |
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imponderable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision | - |
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(noun) a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed | - |
inconsiderable | (adjective) too small or unimportant to merit attention | - |
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inconsiderate | (adjective) lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others | - |
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(adjective) without proper consideration or reflection | Synonyms: unconsidered |
inconsiderately | (adverb) without consideration; in an inconsiderate manner | - |
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inconsiderateness | (noun) the quality of failing to be considerate of others | Synonyms: inconsideration, thoughtlessness |
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inconsideration | (noun) the quality of failing to be considerate of others | Synonyms: inconsiderateness, thoughtlessness |
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infielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield | - |
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insider | (noun) an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations | - |
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intradermal | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermic |
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intradermally | (adverb) into the skin | - |
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intradermic | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermal |
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intruder | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, trespasser |
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invader | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: encroacher |
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islander | (noun) an inhabitant of an island | Synonyms: island-dweller |
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jobholder | (noun) an employee who holds a regular job | - |
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judder | (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: shake |
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keratoderma | (noun) any skin disorder consisting of a growth that appears horny | Synonyms: keratodermia |
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keratodermia | (noun) any skin disorder consisting of a growth that appears horny | Synonyms: keratoderma |
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kilderkin | (noun) an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons | - |
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kindergarten | (noun) a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school | - |
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kindergartener | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartner, preschooler |
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kindergartner | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, preschooler |
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ladder | (noun) steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down | - |
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(noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ravel, run |
(noun) ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress | - |
(verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
lander | (noun) a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet | - |
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landholder | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landowner, property owner |
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larder | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, pantry |
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(noun) a supply of food especially for a household | - |
lauder | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, laudator |
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launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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(verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
launderette | (noun) a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers | Synonyms: Laundromat |
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laundering | (noun) washing clothes and bed linens | - |
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lavender | (adjective) of a pale purple color | Synonyms: lilac-colored, lilac |
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(noun) a pale purple color | - |
(noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated | - |
leader | (noun) a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers | Synonyms: drawing card, loss leader |
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(noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others | - |
leaders | (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leadership |
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leadership | (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leading |
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(noun) the ability to lead | - |
(noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leaders |
(noun) the status of a leader | - |
leaseholder | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: lessee |
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lederhosen | (noun) leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria | - |
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lefthander | (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefty, southpaw |
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lemanderin | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, rangpur, rangpur lime |
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lender | (noun) someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters | Synonyms: loaner |
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leukoderma | (noun) a congenital skin condition characterized by spots or bands of unpigmented skin | - |
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loader | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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(noun) an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game | - |
madder | (noun) Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin | Synonyms: Rubia tinctorum |
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(verb) color a moderate to strong red | - |
madderwort | (noun) any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae | Synonyms: rubiaceous plant |
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marauder | (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: piranha, predator, vulture |
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masquerader | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquer |
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maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
(verb) wander aimlessly | - |
meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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(noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
meandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: rambling, wandering, winding |
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meanderingly | (adverb) in a meandering manner | - |
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melanoderma | (noun) abnormally dark skin caused by increased deposits of melatonin | - |
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mender | (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: fixer, repairer |
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mesoderm | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoblast |
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mesodermal | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesoblastic |
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minder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, babyminder |
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(noun) someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors | - |
misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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misunderstanding | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: misapprehension, mistake |
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(noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, mistaking |
misunderstood | (adjective) wrongly understood | - |
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moderate | (adjective) being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme | - |
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(adjective) not extreme | Synonyms: temperate |
(adjective) marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes | Synonyms: restrained |
(noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderationist |
(verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: mollify, season, temper |
(verb) make less fast or intense | - |
(verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, lead |
(verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: tame, tone down |
(verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: mince, soften |
(verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in |
moderately | (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
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(adverb) with moderation; in a moderate manner | - |
moderateness | (noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes | Synonyms: moderation |
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(noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures | Synonyms: modestness, reasonableness |
moderating | (adjective) lessening in intensity or strength | - |
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moderation | (noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: mitigation |
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(noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes | Synonyms: moderateness |
(noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: temperance |
(noun) a change for the better | Synonyms: easing, relief |
moderationism | (noun) the policy of being moderate or acting with moderation | - |
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moderationist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate |
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(noun) a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) | - |
moderatism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: centrism |
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moderato | (adjective) (of tempo) moderate | - |
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moderator | (noun) someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence | - |
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(noun) someone who presides over a forum or debate | - |
(noun) in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly | - |
(noun) any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors | - |
moderatorship | (noun) the position of moderator | - |
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modern | (adjective) belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages | - |
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(adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modernistic |
(adjective) characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture | - |
(adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, innovative |
(noun) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes | Synonyms: Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern font |
(noun) a contemporary person | - |
moderne | (adjective) of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes | - |
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modernisation | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernization |
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modernise | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernize, overhaul |
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(verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernize |
modernised | (adjective) brought up to date | Synonyms: modernized |
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modernism | (noun) practices typical of contemporary life or thought | - |
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(noun) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres | - |
(noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness |
modernist | (noun) an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles | - |
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modernistic | (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modern |
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modernity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernness |
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modernization | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernisation |
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(noun) a modernized version (as of a play) | - |
modernize | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, overhaul |
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(verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernise |
modernized | (adjective) brought up to date | Synonyms: modernised |
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modernness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity |
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molder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, moulder, rot |
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moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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moulder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, rot |
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mouthbreeder | (noun) any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths | - |
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mudder | (noun) a racehorse that runs well on a muddy racetrack | - |
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