itinerate | (verb) travel from place to place, as for work | - |
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itineration | (noun) journeying from place to place preaching or lecturing; a preaching tour or lecturing tour | - |
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jetliner | (noun) a large jet plane that carries passengers | - |
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joiner | (noun) a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood | - |
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(noun) a person who likes to join groups | - |
joinery | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: cabinetmaking |
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(noun) fine woodwork done by a joiner | - |
karabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: carabiner, snap ring |
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kindergartener | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartner, preschooler |
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kindergartner | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, preschooler |
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krennerite | (noun) an orthorhombic gold telluride mineral which can contain a relatively small amount of silver in the structure. | - |
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lampooner | (noun) mimics literary or musical style for comic effect | Synonyms: parodist |
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landowner | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landholder, property owner |
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larcener | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcenist |
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leaner | (noun) (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake | - |
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learner | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, scholar, student |
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(noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, prentice |
lightener | (noun) any type of lightening agent that can be used to brighten the appearance of hair, skin, wood and other surfaces. | - |
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limner | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer |
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liner | (noun) (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter | Synonyms: line drive |
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(noun) a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule) | Synonyms: ocean liner |
(noun) a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment | Synonyms: lining |
(noun) a protective covering that protects an inside surface | Synonyms: lining |
listener | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, hearer |
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listenership | (noun) all the listeners collectively of a particular radio programme, station, or broadcaster. | - |
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loaner | (noun) a car that is lent as a replacement for one that is under repair | - |
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(noun) someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters | Synonyms: lender |
loner | (noun) a person who avoids the company or assistance of others | Synonyms: lone hand, lone wolf |
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machinery | (noun) machines or machine systems collectively | - |
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(noun) a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions | - |
maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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maligner | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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manner | (noun) a way of acting or behaving | Synonyms: personal manner |
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(noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, mode, style, way |
(noun) a kind | - |
mannered | (adjective) having unnatural mannerisms | - |
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mannerism | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, pose |
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(noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, idiosyncrasy |
mannerly | (adjective) socially correct in behavior | Synonyms: well-mannered |
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manners | (noun) social deportment | - |
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marathoner | (noun) someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) | Synonyms: long-distance runner, marathon runner, road runner |
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mariner | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar |
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meitnerium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 109 | Synonyms: atomic number 109, element 109, Mt |
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mentioner | (noun) a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally | - |
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meshuggener | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggeneh |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a crazy fool | Synonyms: meshuggeneh |
milliner | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, modiste |
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millinery | (noun) hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner | Synonyms: woman's hat |
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(noun) shop selling women's hats | Synonyms: hat shop |
miner | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: mineworker |
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mineral | (adjective) relating to minerals | - |
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(adjective) composed of matter other than plant or animal | - |
(noun) solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition | - |
mineralize | (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore | - |
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(verb) convert into a mineral substance | - |
mineralocorticoid | (noun) hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium | - |
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mineralogist | (noun) a scientist trained in mineralogy | - |
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mineralogy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them | - |
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missioner | (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missionary |
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moaner | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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moistener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: dampener |
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moneran | (adjective) of or relating to the Monera | - |
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(noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneron |
moneron | (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneran |
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moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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mourner | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, sorrower |
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nerd | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, grind, swot, wonk |
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(noun) an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession | - |
nerita | (noun) a neritid gastropod having a short smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum | - |
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neritic | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep | - |
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(adjective) relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast | - |
neritid | (noun) operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell | Synonyms: neritid gastropod |
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neritina | (noun) ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters | - |
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nerve | (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: heart, mettle, spunk |
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(noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, cheek, face |
(noun) any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body | Synonyms: nervus |
(verb) get ready for something difficult or unpleasant | Synonyms: steel |
nerveless | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, coolheaded |
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(adjective) lacking strength | Synonyms: feeble |
nervelessly | (adverb) in a composed and unconcerned manner | Synonyms: coolly, nonchalantly |
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nervelessness | (noun) fearless self-possession in the face of danger | Synonyms: coolness |
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nerveroot | (noun) once common rose pink woodland orchid of eastern North America | Synonyms: Cypripedium acaule, moccasin flower |
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nerves | (noun) control of your emotions | - |
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(noun) an uneasy psychological state | Synonyms: nervousness |
nervily | (adverb) in a brash cheeky manner | Synonyms: brashly, cheekily |
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nervism | (noun) the philosophical position adopted by Pavlov that all behavioral and physiological processes are regulated by the nervous system. | - |
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nervous | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous system | Synonyms: neural |
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(adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, skittish, spooky |
(adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: aflutter |
(adjective) easily agitated | - |
(adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
nervously | (adverb) in an anxiously nervous manner | - |
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(adverb) with nervous excitement | - |
nervousness | (noun) a sensitive or highly strung temperament | - |
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(noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, jumpiness, restiveness |
(noun) an uneasy psychological state | Synonyms: nerves |
nervure | (noun) one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect | Synonyms: vein |
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(noun) any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ | Synonyms: vein |
nervus | (noun) any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body | Synonyms: nerve |
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nervy | (adjective) showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger | - |
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(adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, cheeky |
(adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
niner | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, ennead, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine |
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nunnery | (noun) the convent of a community of nuns | - |
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oftener | (adverb) more often or more frequently | - |
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onerous | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: burdensome, taxing |
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onerously | (adverb) in an onerous manner | - |
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onerousness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, heaviness, oppressiveness |
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opener | (noun) a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans) | - |
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(noun) the first event in a series | - |
(noun) a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens | Synonyms: undoer, unfastener, untier |
ordainer | (noun) a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders | - |
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orneriness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: cussedness |
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ornery | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety |
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outgeneral | (verb) surpass in generalship | - |
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overgeneralise | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralize |
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overgeneralize | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralise |
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overgenerous | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, munificent, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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owner | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: proprietor |
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(noun) a person who owns something | Synonyms: possessor |
ownerless | (adjective) having no owner | Synonyms: unowned |
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ownership | (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: possession |
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(noun) the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others | - |
(noun) the state or fact of being an owner | - |
pardner | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, cooperator, partner |
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pardoner | (noun) a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences | - |
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(noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, forgiver |
parishioner | (noun) a member of a parish | - |
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partner | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, cooperator, pardner |
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(noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, mate, spouse |
(noun) a person who is a member of a partnership | - |
(verb) provide with a partner | - |
(verb) act as a partner | - |
partnership | (noun) a contract between two or more persons who agree to pool talent and money and share profits or losses | - |
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(noun) the members of a business venture created by contract | - |
(noun) a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal | - |
pensioner | (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensionary |
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petitioner | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: requester, suppliant, supplicant |
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(noun) someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right | Synonyms: suer |
phanerogam | (noun) plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores | Synonyms: seed plant, spermatophyte |
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phaneromania | (noun) an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) | - |
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phoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, telephoner |
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pinner | (noun) a woman's cap with two long flaps pinned on | - |
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planer | (noun) a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: plane, planing machine |
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planner | (noun) a notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc. | - |
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(noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, deviser |
poisoner | (noun) someone who kills with poison | - |
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poltroonery | (noun) abject pusillanimity | - |
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