| barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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| beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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| beeper | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: pager |
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| bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
| (noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
| depersonalisation | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalization, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalization |
| depersonalise | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalize, objectify |
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| depersonalization | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalisation, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalisation |
| depersonalize | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, objectify |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| epergne | (noun) a large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers | - |
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| foreperson | (noun) the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf | - |
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| freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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| gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
| goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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| groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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| honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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| (noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
| hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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| housekeeper | (noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household | - |
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| innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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| keeper | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, steward |
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| (noun) someone in charge of other people | - |
| leper | (noun) a pariah who is avoided by others | - |
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| (noun) a person afflicted with leprosy | Synonyms: lazar |
| lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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| meperidine | (noun) a synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain | Synonyms: Demerol, meperidine hydrochloride |
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| minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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| netkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netminder |
| obstreperous | (adjective) boisterously and noisily aggressive | - |
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| (adjective) noisily and stubbornly defiant | - |
| obstreperously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: clamorously, loudly |
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| obstreperousness | (noun) noisy defiance | - |
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| peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
| (noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
| peeper | (noun) an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds | - |
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| (noun) an informal term referring to the eye | - |
| (noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: Peeping Tom, voyeur |
| peperomia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Peperomia; grown primarily for their often succulent foliage | - |
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| repercuss | (verb) cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect | - |
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| repercussion | (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, rebound, recoil |
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| (noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: reverberation |
| repertoire | (noun) a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | Synonyms: repertory |
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| (noun) the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation | Synonyms: repertory |
| repertory | (noun) a storehouse where a stock of things is kept | - |
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| (noun) the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation | Synonyms: repertoire |
| (noun) a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule | Synonyms: repertoire |
| (noun) a theatrical company that performs plays from a repertoire | Synonyms: repertory company, stock company |
| scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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| shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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| sleeper | (noun) an unexpected hit | - |
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| (noun) tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water | Synonyms: sleeper goby |
| (noun) a passenger car that has berths for sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping car, wagon-lit |
| (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, tie |
| (noun) a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed | - |
| (noun) pajamas with feet; worn by children | - |
| (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: slumberer |
| (noun) an unexpected achiever of success | - |
| (noun) a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal | - |
| steeper | (noun) a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping | - |
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| storekeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, tradesman |
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| sweeper | (noun) little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body | - |
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| (noun) a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet | Synonyms: carpet sweeper |
| (noun) an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) | - |
| timekeeper | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timepiece |
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| (noun) a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees | - |
| (noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timer |
| tollkeeper | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollman |
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| weeper | (noun) a person who weeps | Synonyms: crier |
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| (noun) a hired mourner | - |
| woodcreeper | (noun) any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers | Synonyms: tree creeper, wood-creeper, woodhewer |
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