| abridger | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abbreviator |
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| agerasia | (noun) youthful appearance in an old person | - |
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| ageratum | (noun) any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers | - |
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| (noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum, mist-flower, mistflower |
| anger | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: ira, ire, wrath |
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| (noun) a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance | Synonyms: choler, ire |
| (noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: angriness |
| (verb) make angry | - |
| (verb) become angry | Synonyms: see red |
| angered | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: enraged, furious, infuriated, maddened |
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| arbitrager | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrageur |
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| armiger | (noun) a squire carrying the armor of a knight | Synonyms: armor-bearer |
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| (noun) a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms | - |
| arranger | (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: organiser, organizer |
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| (noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, transcriber |
| astrologer | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologist |
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| auger | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: gimlet, screw auger, wimble |
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| (noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: plumber's snake, snake |
| avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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| badger | (noun) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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| (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
| badgerer | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: heckler |
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| badgering | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: bedevilment, torment, worrying |
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| bagger | (noun) a machine for putting objects or substances into bags | - |
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| (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: boxer, packer |
| banger | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: cracker, firecracker |
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| (noun) (British informal) pork sausage | - |
| beefburger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: burger, hamburger |
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| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
| belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
| belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
| belligerently | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: hostilely |
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| besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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| (noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
| bigger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: larger |
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| binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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| blogger | (noun) a person who keeps and updates a blog | - |
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| booger | (noun) dried nasal mucus | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
| bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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| bragger | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| bugger | (noun) someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) | Synonyms: sod, sodomist, sodomite |
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| (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: sodomise, sodomize |
| buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
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| burger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, hamburger |
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| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| cadger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: mooch, moocher, scrounger |
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| cager | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, basketeer |
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| carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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| cataloger | (noun) a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system | Synonyms: cataloguer |
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| challenger | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: competition, competitor, contender, rival |
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| changer | (noun) an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention | Synonyms: auto-changer, record changer |
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| (noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: modifier |
| charger | (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: courser |
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| (noun) a device that can hold a rechargeable battery by means of an electrical cable | Synonyms: battery charger |
| cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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| cheesemonger | (noun) someone who sells cheese | - |
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| chemosurgery | (noun) use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer | - |
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| chigger | (noun) larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation | Synonyms: harvest mite, jigger, redbug |
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| (noun) small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans | Synonyms: chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans |
| chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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| clanger | (noun) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate | - |
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| cliffhanger | (noun) an episode that ends in suspense | - |
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| (noun) a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end | - |
| codger | (noun) used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man | Synonyms: old codger |
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| conger | (noun) large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food | Synonyms: conger eel |
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| congeries | (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: aggregate, conglomeration |
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| costermonger | (noun) a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow | Synonyms: barrow-boy, barrow-man |
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| cottager | (noun) someone who lives in a cottage | Synonyms: cottage dweller |
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| cryosurgery | (noun) the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) | - |
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| dagger | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: sticker |
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| (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: obelisk |
| daggerboard | (noun) a removable centerboard on a small sailboat that can be lowered into the water to serve as a keel | - |
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| danger | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: peril, risk |
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| (noun) a dangerous place | - |
| (noun) the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury | - |
| (noun) a cause of pain or injury or loss | - |
| dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
| dangerously | (adverb) in a dangerous manner | Synonyms: hazardously, perilously |
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| dangerousness | (noun) the quality of not being safe | - |
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| debugger | (noun) a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors | - |
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| derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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| digger | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: excavator, power shovel, shovel |
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| (noun) a laborer who digs | - |
| disparager | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, knocker |
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| dodger | (noun) small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) | Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger |
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| (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: fox, slyboots |
| doggerel | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel verse, jingle |
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| dojigger | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| doppelganger | (noun) a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
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| dowager | (noun) a widow holding property received from her deceased husband | - |
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| dragger | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: trawler |
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| (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: puller, tugger |
| dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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| drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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| eager | (adjective) having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy | - |
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| (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, bore, eagre, tidal bore |
| eagerly | (adverb) with eagerness; in an eager manner | Synonyms: thirstily |
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| eagerness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: forwardness, readiness, zeal |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, keenness |
| edger | (noun) garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard | - |
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| (noun) a person who puts finishing edges on a garment | - |
| egger | (noun) moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons | Synonyms: eggar |
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| electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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| endanger | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: expose, peril, queer, scupper |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
| endangered | (adjective) (of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction | - |
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| endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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| enlarger | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph | - |
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| etagere | (noun) a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments | - |
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| exaggerate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: overdo |
| exaggerated | (adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: overdone, overstated |
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| (adjective) enlarged to an abnormal degree | Synonyms: enlarged, magnified |
| exaggeratedly | (adverb) in an exaggerated manner | Synonyms: hyperbolically |
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| exaggeration | (noun) the act of making something more noticeable than usual | - |
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| (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: magnification, overstatement |
| (noun) extravagant exaggeration | Synonyms: hyperbole |
| exchanger | (noun) one whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country | Synonyms: money changer |
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| fashionmonger | (noun) someone who advises you about fashionable clothing | Synonyms: fashion consultant |
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| finger | (noun) one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb | - |
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| (noun) any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb) | - |
| (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth |
| (verb) indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments | - |
| (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: thumb |
| (verb) search for on the computer | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: feel |
| fingerboard | (noun) a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: clavier, piano keyboard |
| (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerpost |
| fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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| fingered | (adjective) having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in combination | - |
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| fingerflower | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerroot |
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| fingering | (noun) touching something with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument | - |
| fingerless | (adjective) not having or having lost fingers | - |
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| fingerlike | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: digitate |
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| fingerling | (noun) a young or small fish | - |
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