| positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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| (noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
| postponer | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, procrastinator |
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| practitioner | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practician |
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| prisoner | (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: captive |
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| probationer | (noun) someone released on probation or on parole | Synonyms: parolee |
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| (noun) a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period | Synonyms: student nurse |
| provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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| pruner | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: lopper, pruning hook |
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| (noun) a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs | Synonyms: trimmer |
| questioner | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier |
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| quickener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: enlivener, invigorator |
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| racerunner | (noun) very swift lizard of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, race runner, six-lined racerunner |
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| reasoner | (noun) someone who reasons logically | Synonyms: ratiocinator |
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| reckoner | (noun) a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation | Synonyms: ready reckoner |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, figurer |
| recliner | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: lounger, reclining chair |
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| refiner | (noun) one whose work is to refine a specific thing | - |
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| refinery | (noun) an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance | - |
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| regenerate | (adjective) reformed spiritually or morally | - |
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| (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: revitalize |
| (verb) undergo regeneration | - |
| (verb) form or produce anew | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore |
| (verb) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue | - |
| (verb) be formed or shaped anew | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform |
| (verb) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit | - |
| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: renew |
| regenerating | (adjective) that are generating anew | - |
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| regeneration | (noun) the activity of spiritual or physical renewal | - |
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| (noun) forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting | Synonyms: re-formation |
| (noun) (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs | - |
| (noun) feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input | Synonyms: positive feedback |
| remunerate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, recompense |
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| remunerated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, salaried, stipendiary |
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| remuneration | (noun) the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses | - |
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| (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, pay, salary, wage |
| remunerative | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, salaried, stipendiary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, moneymaking |
| remunerator | (noun) a person who pays money for something | Synonyms: payer |
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| restrainer | (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: controller |
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| (noun) a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film | - |
| retainer | (noun) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment | - |
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| (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: servant |
| (noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: consideration |
| reversioner | (noun) (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion | - |
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| roadrunner | (noun) speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas | Synonyms: chaparral cock, Geococcyx californianus |
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| ruiner | (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, undoer, uprooter, waster |
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| rumrunner | (noun) someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border | - |
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| runner | (noun) fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil | Synonyms: blue runner, Caranx crysos |
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| (noun) device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along | - |
| (noun) a long narrow carpet | - |
| (noun) a trained athlete who competes in foot races | - |
| (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, smuggler |
| (noun) a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) | Synonyms: base runner |
| (noun) someone who travels on foot by running | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents | - |
| (noun) (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play | Synonyms: ball carrier |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: offset, stolon |
| scanner | (noun) a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | Synonyms: electronic scanner |
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| (noun) a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | - |
| (noun) an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer | Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner |
| (noun) someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | - |
| scenery | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | Synonyms: scene |
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| (noun) the appearance of a place | - |
| schooner | (noun) sailing vessel used in former times | - |
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| (noun) a large beer glass | - |
| scintiscanner | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintigraph |
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| scorner | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: sneerer |
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| scorzonera | (noun) long black salsify | Synonyms: black salsify |
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| (noun) perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots | Synonyms: black salsify, Scorzonera hispanica, viper's grass |
| screener | (noun) a guard at an airport who checks passengers or their luggage at a security checkpoint | - |
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| scrivener | (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scribe |
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| scunner | (noun) a strong dislike | - |
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| seasoner | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoning |
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| (noun) a cook who uses seasonings | - |
| sevener | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septenary, septet, seven, VII |
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| shareowner | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, stockholder |
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| sharpener | (noun) any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper | - |
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| shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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| (noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
| (noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
| (noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
| shipowner | (noun) someone who owns a ship or a share in a ship | - |
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| shortener | (noun) any agent that shortens | - |
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| signer | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signatory |
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| (noun) someone who can use sign language to communicate | - |
| sinner | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: evildoer |
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| skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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| (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
| softener | (noun) a substance added to another to make it less hard | - |
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| sojourner | (noun) a temporary resident | - |
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| sooner | (adverb) comparatives of `soon' or `early' | Synonyms: earlier |
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| (adverb) more readily or willingly | Synonyms: preferably, rather |
| spanner | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: wrench |
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| spawner | (noun) a female fish at spawning time | - |
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| spinner | (noun) fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water | - |
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| (noun) board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game | - |
| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinster, thread maker |
| spoonerism | (noun) transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words | - |
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| spurner | (noun) a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt | - |
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| stainer | (noun) a worker who stains (wood or fabric) | - |
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| stationer | (noun) a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies | Synonyms: stationery seller |
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| stationery | (noun) paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes | Synonyms: letter paper |
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| stiffener | (noun) a member attached to a beam web to prevent loss of strength due to web buckling. | - |
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| (noun) material used for stiffening something | - |
| stoner | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: lapidator |
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| stoneroot | (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, richweed, stone-root, stone root |
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| straightener | (noun) a device for straightening | - |
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| strainer | (noun) a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through | - |
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| streamliner | (noun) a streamlined train | - |
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| strengthener | (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: reinforcement |
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| stunner | (noun) an unexpected and amazing event | - |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, sweetheart |
| submariner | (noun) a member of the crew of a submarine | - |
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| suborner | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: briber |
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| sundowner | (noun) a drink taken at sundown | - |
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| (noun) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown | - |
| sustainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, upholder |
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| sweetener | (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, hook, lure |
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| (noun) something added to foods to make them taste sweeter | Synonyms: sweetening |
| syneresis | (noun) the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making) | Synonyms: synaeresis |
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| (noun) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong | Synonyms: synaeresis |
| synergetic | (adjective) working together; used especially of groups, as subsidiaries of a corporation, cooperating for an enhanced effect | Synonyms: synergistic |
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| synergism | (noun) the theological doctrine that salvation results from the interaction of human will and divine grace | - |
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| (noun) the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects | Synonyms: synergy |
| synergist | (noun) a drug that augments the activity of another drug | - |
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| synergistic | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) | Synonyms: interactive |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the theological doctrine of synergism | - |
| (adjective) working together; used especially of groups, as subsidiaries of a corporation, cooperating for an enhanced effect | Synonyms: synergetic |
| synergistically | (adverb) (of drugs or muscles) in a synergistic or interactive manner | - |
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| (adverb) (of group) in a synergistic or cooperative manner | - |
| synergy | (noun) the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects | Synonyms: synergism |
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| tanner | (noun) a craftsman who tans skins and hides | - |
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| (noun) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 | Synonyms: sixpence |
| tannery | (noun) workplace where skins and hides are tanned | - |
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| telephoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, phoner |
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| tenner | (noun) a United States bill worth 10 dollars | Synonyms: ten dollar bill |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, decade, ten, X |
| thickener | (noun) any material used to thicken | Synonyms: thickening |
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| thinner | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, dilutant |
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| tinner | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tinware | Synonyms: tinsmith |
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| toner | (noun) a lotion for cleansing the skin and contracting the pores | - |
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| (noun) a black or colored powder used in a printer to develop a xerographic image | - |
| (noun) a solution containing chemicals that can change the color of a photographic print | - |
| towner | (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: townsman |
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| trainer | (noun) simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane | Synonyms: flight simulator |
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| (noun) one who trains other persons or animals | - |
| tuner | (noun) an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, wireless |
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| (noun) someone who tunes a musical instrument | - |
| turbogenerator | (noun) generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power | - |
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| turner | (noun) cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food | Synonyms: food turner |
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| (noun) one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope | - |
| (noun) a lathe operator | - |
| (noun) a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein | - |
| turnery | (noun) products made on a lathe | - |
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| (noun) workshop where objects are made on a lathe | - |
| twiner | (noun) someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing | - |
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| unenergetic | (adjective) deficient in alertness or activity | Synonyms: lethargic |
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| (adjective) not inclined to be enterprising | Synonyms: slowgoing |
| unenergetically | (adverb) without energy; in a lethargic manner | Synonyms: lethargically |
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| unerasable | (adjective) cannot be removed or erased | Synonyms: indelible |
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| unerect | (adjective) not upright in position or posture | - |
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| unerring | (adjective) not liable to error | Synonyms: inerrable, inerrant |
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