| hieratic | (adjective) written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing | - |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal |
| (adjective) adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal | - |
| (noun) a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests | Synonyms: hieratic script |
| hieratical | (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, priestly, sacerdotal |
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| hierocracy | (noun) a ruling body composed of clergy | - |
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| hieroglyph | (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
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| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
| hieroglyphic | (adjective) written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols | Synonyms: hieroglyphical |
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| (adjective) resembling hieroglyphic writing | Synonyms: hieroglyphical |
| (noun) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
| (noun) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) | Synonyms: hieroglyph |
| hieroglyphical | (adjective) written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
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| (adjective) resembling hieroglyphic writing | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
| hieroglyphically | (adverb) by means of hieroglyphs | - |
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| hierolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hagiolatry |
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| highflier | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflyer |
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| hosier | (noun) a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear | - |
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| hosiery | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hose |
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| hotelier | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
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| humidifier | (noun) an appliance designed to add moisture to the air in a building | - |
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| identifier | (noun) a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it | - |
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| intensifier | (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensive |
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| justifier | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, vindicator |
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| lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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| latanier | (noun) fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region | Synonyms: latanier palm |
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| lavalier | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavaliere, lavalliere |
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| lavaliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavalliere |
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| lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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| lechatelierite | (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
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| luthier | (noun) a craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins) | - |
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| magnifier | (noun) a scientific instrument that magnifies an image | - |
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| metier | (noun) an occupation for which you are especially well suited | Synonyms: medium |
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| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, speciality, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| mierkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: meerkat |
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| modifier | (noun) a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene | Synonyms: modifier gene |
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| (noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb | Synonyms: qualifier |
| (noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: changer |
| (noun) a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising | - |
| multiplier | (noun) the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied | Synonyms: multiplier factor |
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| mystifier | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: puzzle, puzzler, teaser |
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| nierembergia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cupflower |
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| nonhierarchic | (adjective) not classified hierarchically | Synonyms: nonhierarchical |
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| nonhierarchical | (adjective) not classified hierarchically | Synonyms: nonhierarchic |
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| nullifier | (noun) an advocate of nullification; someone who believes that a state can resist federal laws | - |
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| (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, voider |
| occupier | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, resident |
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| (noun) a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country | - |
| osier | (noun) any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture | - |
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| (noun) flexible twig of a willow tree | - |
| outlier | (noun) an extreme deviation from the mean | - |
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| (noun) a person who lives away from his place of work | - |
| pacifier | (noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on | Synonyms: baby's dummy, comforter, teething ring |
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| (noun) anything that serves to pacify | - |
| (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, peacemaker, reconciler |
| pannier | (noun) set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips | - |
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| (noun) a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person | - |
| (noun) either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle) | - |
| photocopier | (noun) a copier that uses photographic methods of making copies | - |
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| pier | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, wharf, wharfage |
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| (noun) a support for two adjacent bridge spans | - |
| (noun) (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) | - |
| pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cut or make a way through | - |
| (verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
| (verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
| pierced | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, punctured |
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| piercing | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, stabbing |
| piercingly | (adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitter, bitterly |
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| (adverb) in a shrill voice | Synonyms: shrilly |
| pierid | (noun) any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs | Synonyms: pierid butterfly |
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| plier | (noun) someone who plies a trade | Synonyms: plyer |
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| pliers | (noun) a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws | Synonyms: pair of pliers, plyers |
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| portiere | (noun) a heavy curtain hung across a doorway | - |
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| premier | (adjective) preceding all others in time | Synonyms: premiere |
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| (adjective) first in rank or degree | Synonyms: prime |
| (noun) the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom | Synonyms: PM, Prime Minister |
| (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: chancellor, prime minister |
| (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
| premiere | (adjective) preceding all others in time | Synonyms: premier |
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| (noun) the first public performance of a play or movie | - |
| (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
| premiership | (noun) the office of premier | - |
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| prophesier | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophet, seer, vaticinator |
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| purifier | (noun) an apparatus for removing impurities | - |
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| qualifier | (noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb | Synonyms: modifier |
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| (noun) a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition | - |
| quantifier | (noun) (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many') | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition | Synonyms: logical quantifier |
| quarrier | (noun) a man who works in a quarry | Synonyms: quarryman |
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| querier | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, questioner |
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| rapier | (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: tuck |
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| ratifier | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, subscriber |
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| rectifier | (noun) electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current | - |
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| (noun) a person who corrects or sets right | - |
| rentier | (noun) someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments | - |
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| ribier | (noun) dark reddish-purple table grape of California | - |
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| sansevieria | (noun) grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber | Synonyms: bowstring hemp |
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| satisfier | (noun) any agent capable of producing satisfaction | - |
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| shanghaier | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: seizer |
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| sierra | (noun) a Spanish mackerel of western North America | Synonyms: Scomberomorus sierra |
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| (noun) a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline) | - |
| signifier | (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, form, word form |
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| skier | (noun) someone who skis | - |
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| soldier | (noun) a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony | - |
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| (noun) an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army | - |
| (verb) serve as a soldier in the military | - |
| soldierfish | (noun) the larger squirrelfishes | Synonyms: soldier-fish |
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| soldiering | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking |
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| (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiership |
| soldierlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierly, warriorlike |
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| soldierly | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, warriorlike |
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| soldiership | (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiering |
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| soldiery | (noun) soldiers collectively | Synonyms: military personnel, troops |
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| sommelier | (noun) a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant | Synonyms: wine steward, wine waiter |
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| specifier | (noun) someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent) | - |
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| speechifier | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechmaker |
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| supplier | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: provider |
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| sweetbrier | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar |
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| tarsier | (noun) nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates | - |
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| terrier | (noun) any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground | - |
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| testiere | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, frontstall |
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| testifier | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, deposer |
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| tier | (noun) one of two or more layers one atop another | - |
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| (noun) any one of two or more competitors who tie one another | - |
| (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: grade, level |
| (noun) something that is used for tying | - |
| (noun) a worker who ties something | Synonyms: tier up |
| tierce | (noun) one of three equal parts of a divisible whole | Synonyms: one-third, third |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| (noun) the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. | Synonyms: terce |
| tiercel | (noun) male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon | Synonyms: tercel, tercelet |
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| tiered | (adjective) having or arranged in tiers | - |
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| tourtiere | (noun) a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec | - |
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| trier | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: attempter, essayer |
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| (noun) one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case | - |
| unpierced | (adjective) not pierced | - |
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| unsoldierly | (adjective) not conforming to military standards | - |
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| untier | (noun) a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens | Synonyms: opener, undoer, unfastener |
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| verifier | (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: voucher |
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| vernier | (noun) a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale | Synonyms: vernier scale |
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| versifier | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester |
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| vilifier | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer |
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| vizier | (noun) a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire) | - |
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| viziership | (noun) the position of vizier | - |
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| witbier | (noun) a top-fermented barley/wheat beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands. | - |
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