advertiser | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertizer |
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adviser | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: advisor, consultant |
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alkaliser | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkalizer, antacid, antiacid, gastric antacid |
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allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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alphabetiser | (noun) a literate person who can arrange items in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetizer |
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antiserum | (noun) blood serum containing antibodies against specific antigens; provides immunity to a disease | - |
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appetiser | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetizer, starter |
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appraiser | (noun) one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things | Synonyms: valuator |
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(noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: authenticator |
atomiser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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biserrate | (adjective) having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched | - |
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bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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bruiser | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bull, Samson, strapper |
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chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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coloniser | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: colonizer |
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commiserate | (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: sympathise, sympathize |
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commiseration | (noun) an expression of sympathy with another's grief | Synonyms: condolence |
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(noun) a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others | Synonyms: pathos, pity, ruth |
commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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compromiser | (noun) a negotiator willing to compromise | - |
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cruiser | (noun) a large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer | - |
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(noun) a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board | Synonyms: cabin cruiser, pleasure boat, pleasure craft |
(noun) a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters | Synonyms: patrol car, police car, police cruiser, prowl car, squad car |
cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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digitiser | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitizer |
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economiser | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economizer |
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energiser | (noun) a device that supplies electrical energy | Synonyms: energizer |
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(noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer |
enterpriser | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: entrepreneur |
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equaliser | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equalizer |
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(noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equalizer |
exerciser | (noun) sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises | Synonyms: gymnastic apparatus |
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exorciser | (noun) someone who practices exorcism | Synonyms: exorcist |
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fertiliser | (noun) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | Synonyms: fertilizer, plant food |
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fundraiser | (noun) a social function that is held for the purpose of raising money | - |
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(noun) someone who solicits financial contributions | - |
galvaniser | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvanizer, inspirer |
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(noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvanizer |
gyrostabiliser | (noun) a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane | Synonyms: gyrostabilizer |
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harmoniser | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmonizer |
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(noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmonizer |
hypnotiser | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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idoliser | (noun) a person who worships idols | Synonyms: idol worshiper, idolater, idolizer |
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(noun) a lover blind with admiration and devotion | Synonyms: idolizer |
liquidiser | (noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods | Synonyms: blender, liquidizer |
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memoriser | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memorizer |
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merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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miser | (noun) a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably) | - |
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miserabilism | (noun) mid-20th century French art movement. | - |
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miserable | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, low, scummy, scurvy |
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(adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched |
(adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: measly, paltry |
(adjective) characterized by physical misery | Synonyms: wretched |
(adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
(adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: suffering, wretched |
miserableness | (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: misery, wretchedness |
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miserably | (adverb) in a miserable manner | - |
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miserliness | (noun) total lack of generosity with money | - |
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miserly | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, mingy, tight |
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misery | (noun) a feeling of intense unhappiness | - |
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(noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, wretchedness |
monopoliser | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopolist, monopolizer |
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nebuliser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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normaliser | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normalizer |
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organiser | (noun) a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc. | Synonyms: organizer, PDA, personal digital assistant, personal organiser, personal organizer |
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(noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: arranger, organizer |
(noun) someone who enlists workers to join a union | Synonyms: labor organizer, organizer |
oxidiser | (noun) a substance that oxidizes another substance | Synonyms: oxidant, oxidizer, oxidizing agent |
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pasteuriser | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteurizer |
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philosophiser | (noun) someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view | Synonyms: philosophizer |
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plagiariser | (noun) someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | Synonyms: literary pirate, pirate, plagiarist, plagiarizer |
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plasticiser | (noun) a substance added to plastics or other materials to make them more pliable | Synonyms: plasticizer |
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poetiser | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetizer, rhymer, rhymester, versifier |
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populariser | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularizer, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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promiser | (noun) a person who makes a promise | Synonyms: promisor |
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publiciser | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publicist, publicizer |
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raiser | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower |
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(noun) a bridge partner who increases the partner's bid | - |
reviser | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, rewrite man, rewriter |
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riser | (noun) structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step | - |
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(noun) a vertical pipe in a building | Synonyms: riser main, riser pipe, riser pipeline |
(noun) a person who rises (especially from bed) | - |
scrutiniser | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutinizer |
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sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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sermoniser | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher, preacher man, sermonizer |
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socialiser | (noun) a person who takes part in social activities | Synonyms: socializer |
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specialiser | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialist, specializer |
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stabiliser | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabilizer |
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standardiser | (noun) a person who sets a standard for things to conform to | Synonyms: standardizer |
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steriliser | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: autoclave, sterilizer |
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subsidiser | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidizer |
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subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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surpriser | (noun) a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim | - |
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syllogiser | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogist, syllogizer |
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symboliser | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symbolist, symbolizer |
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sympathiser | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathizer, well-wisher |
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(noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathizer |
synchroniser | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchronizer, synchronoscope, synchroscope |
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synthesiser | (noun) (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments | Synonyms: synthesizer |
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(noun) an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods | Synonyms: synthesist, synthesizer |
systematiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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systemiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemizer |
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tantaliser | (noun) someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach | Synonyms: tantalizer |
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temporiser | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporizer |
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tenderiser | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderizer |
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theologiser | (noun) someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology | Synonyms: theologian, theologist, theologizer |
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theoriser | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: idealogue, theoretician, theorist, theorizer |
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totaliser | (noun) a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions | Synonyms: adding machine, totalizer |
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(noun) computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won | Synonyms: pari-mutuel machine, totalisator, totalizator, totalizer |
tranquilliser | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquillizer |
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utiliser | (noun) someone who puts to good use | Synonyms: utilizer |
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vaporiser | (noun) a device that puts out a substance in the form of a vapor (especially for medicinal inhalation) | Synonyms: vaporizer |
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verbaliser | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer |
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victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
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visualiser | (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery is visual | Synonyms: visualizer |
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vitaliser | (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, energizer, vitalizer |
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vocaliser | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: singer, vocalist, vocalizer |
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(noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: utterer, vocalizer |
vulcaniser | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
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(noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
vulgariser | (noun) someone who makes something vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarizer |
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(noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, popularizer, vulgarizer |
womaniser | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womanizer |
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