| ameer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: amir, emeer, emir |
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| auctioneer | (noun) an agent who conducts an auction | - |
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| (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
| balladeer | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: crooner |
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| bandoleer | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandolier |
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| basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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| beer | (noun) a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops | - |
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| beery | (adjective) smelling of beer | - |
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| bioengineering | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: biotechnology, ergonomics |
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| buccaneer | (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: pirate, sea robber, sea rover |
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| (verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
| buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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| cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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| carabineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabinier, carbineer |
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| carbineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carabinier |
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| career | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, vocation |
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| (noun) the general progression of your working or professional life | Synonyms: life history |
| (verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
| careerism | (noun) the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity | - |
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| careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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| charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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| cheer | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine |
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| (noun) a cry or shout of approval | - |
| (verb) become cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting | - |
| (verb) cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
| (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
| cheerer | (noun) a spectator who shouts encouragement | - |
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| cheerful | (adjective) being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits | - |
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| (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: pollyannaish, upbeat |
| cheerfully | (adverb) in a cheerful manner | - |
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| cheerfulness | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, sunniness, sunshine |
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| (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: blitheness |
| cheerily | (adverb) in a good-humoured manner | Synonyms: pleasantly, sunnily |
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| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: shouting |
| cheerio | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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| cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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| (noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
| cheerless | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: depressing, uncheerful |
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| cheerlessly | (adverb) in an unhappy manner | - |
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| cheerlessness | (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: uncheerfulness |
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| cheery | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: gay, sunny |
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| commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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| compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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| conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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| deer | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: cervid |
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| deerberry | (noun) small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer | Synonyms: squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum |
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| deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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| deerskin | (noun) leather from the hide of a deer | - |
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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| domineer | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: tyrannise, tyrannize |
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| domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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| domineeringly | (adverb) in a domineering manner | - |
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| domineeringness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: imperiousness, overbearingness |
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| eerie | (adjective) inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening | Synonyms: eery |
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| (adjective) suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious | - |
| eerily | (adverb) in an unnatural eery manner | Synonyms: spookily |
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| eeriness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: ghostliness |
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| eery | (adjective) inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening | Synonyms: eerie |
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| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| electioneering | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, political campaign |
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| (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, canvassing |
| emeer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, amir, emir |
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| engineer | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, technologist |
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| (noun) the operator of a railway locomotive | Synonyms: engine driver, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| (verb) design as an engineer | - |
| engineering | (noun) the practical application of technical and scientific knowledge to commerce or industry | - |
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| (noun) a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located | Synonyms: engine room |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering science, technology |
| fakeer | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakir, faqir, faquir |
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| fleer | (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fugitive, runaway |
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| (noun) contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words | - |
| (verb) to smirk contemptuously | - |
| gadgeteer | (noun) a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets | - |
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| gazetteer | (noun) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas) | - |
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| (noun) a journalist who writes for a gazette | - |
| harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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| jeer | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
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| (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, scoff |
| jeerer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, mocker, scoffer |
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| jeering | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, mocking, taunting |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
| jeeringly | (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: gibingly, mockingly |
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| junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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| keteleeria | (noun) Asiatic conifers resembling firs | - |
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| kildeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, killdeer, killdeer plover |
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| killdeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer plover |
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| leer | (noun) a suggestive or sneering look or grin | - |
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| (noun) a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls | Synonyms: sneer |
| (verb) look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression | - |
| leering | (adjective) showing sly or knowing malice in a glance | - |
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| (adjective) (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious | - |
| leery | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary |
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| meerestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, merestone |
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| meerkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: mierkat |
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| meerschaum | (noun) a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum | - |
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| (noun) a white clayey mineral | Synonyms: sepiolite |
| mountaineer | (noun) someone who climbs mountains | Synonyms: mountain climber |
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| (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
| mountaineering | (noun) the activity of climbing a mountain | Synonyms: mountain climbing |
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| muleteer | (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, skinner |
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| musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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| mutineer | (noun) someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers) | - |
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| overseer | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: superintendent |
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| oversteer | (noun) when a car turns (steers) by more than (over) the amount commanded by the driver. | - |
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| pamphleteer | (noun) a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) | - |
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| patrioteer | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist |
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| peer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, equal, match |
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| (noun) a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage | - |
| (verb) look searchingly | - |
| peerage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: baronage |
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| peeress | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, noblewoman |
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| peerless | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
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| peerlessness | (noun) The state or condition of being matchless, of having no equal. | Synonyms: matchlessness |
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| pioneer | (noun) one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory | - |
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| (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, innovator, trailblazer |
| (verb) open up and explore a new area | - |
| (verb) open up an area or prepare a way | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: initiate |
| pistoleer | (noun) someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed) | - |
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| privateer | (noun) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation | - |
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| (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateersman |
| privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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| profiteer | (noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) | - |
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| (verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
| puppeteer | (noun) one who operates puppets or marionettes | - |
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| queer | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, homophile |
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| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, rum, rummy, singular |
| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen |
| (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, scupper |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| queerly | (adverb) in a questionably unusual manner | Synonyms: fishily |
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| (adverb) in a strange manner | Synonyms: funnily, oddly, strangely |
| queerness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness |
| racketeer | (noun) someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) | - |
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| (verb) carry on illegal business activities involving crime | - |
| racketeering | (noun) engaging in a racket | - |
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| reindeer | (noun) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | Synonyms: caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus |
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| schmeer | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmear, shmear |
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| scrutineer | (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: canvasser |
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