| 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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| 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 |
| avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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| 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 | - |
| binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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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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| 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 |
| cheesemonger | (noun) someone who sells cheese | - |
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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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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| doppelganger | (noun) a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
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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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| 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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| fingermark | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingerprint |
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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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| fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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| fingerpost | (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerboard |
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| fingerprint | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingermark |
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| (noun) a generic term for any identifying characteristic | - |
| (noun) a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations | - |
| (verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
| fingerprinting | (noun) the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification | - |
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| fingerroot | (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, fingerflower |
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| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| fingerstall | (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: cot |
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| fingertip | (noun) the end (tip) of a finger | - |
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| fishmonger | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishwife |
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| forefinger | (noun) the finger next to the thumb | Synonyms: index, index finger |
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| ganger | (noun) the foreman of a work gang | - |
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| ginger | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: gingery |
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| (noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: pep, peppiness |
| (noun) dried ground gingerroot | Synonyms: powdered ginger |
| (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: gingerroot |
| (noun) perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems | - |
| (verb) add ginger to in order to add flavor | - |
| gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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| gingerly | (adjective) with extreme care or delicacy | - |
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| (adverb) in a gingerly manner | - |
| gingerol | (noun) derived from ginger; source of the hotness of ginger | - |
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| gingerroot | (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: ginger |
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| gingersnap | (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, snap |
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| gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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| (adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
| gossipmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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| gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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| granger | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, husbandman, sodbuster |
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| gunslinger | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| hanger | (noun) anything from which something can be hung | - |
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| (noun) a worker who hangs something | - |
| harbinger | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
| hatemonger | (noun) one who arouses hatred for others | - |
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| humdinger | (noun) someone of remarkable excellence | - |
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| hunger | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hungriness, thirst, thirstiness |
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| (noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hungriness |
| (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, starve |
| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, lust, starve, thirst |
| (verb) feel the need to eat | - |
| ironmonger | (noun) a store selling hardware | Synonyms: hardware store, ironmonger's shop |
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| (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: hardwareman |
| ironmongery | (noun) the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop | - |
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| ladyfinger | (noun) small finger-shaped sponge cake | - |
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| linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
| (verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
| lingerer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: loiterer |
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| lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| lingeringly | (adverb) in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way | Synonyms: protractedly |
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| longer | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: thirster, yearner |
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| (adverb) for more time | - |
| lounger | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: recliner, reclining chair |
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| (noun) an article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear | - |
| (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, mope |
| lunger | (noun) someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing) | - |
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| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, tubercular |
| malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: skulk |
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| malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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| malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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| manger | (noun) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed | Synonyms: trough |
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| messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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| monger | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, trader |
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| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, peddle, pitch, vend |
| mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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| mudspringer | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudskipper |
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| newsmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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| orangery | (noun) a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas | - |
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| paperhanger | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperer |
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| (noun) someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money | - |
| passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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| phalanger | (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, possum |
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| pinger | (noun) a pulse generator used for echo sounding in sonar | - |
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| plunger | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: piston |
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| (noun) hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains | Synonyms: plumber's helper |
| (noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: speculator |
| (noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: diver |
| porringer | (noun) a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) | - |
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| ranger | (noun) an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest | Synonyms: fire warden, forest fire fighter |
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| (noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: commando |
| ringer | (noun) (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg | - |
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| (noun) a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses | - |
| (noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: clone, dead ringer |
| (noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, toller |
| rumormonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumourmonger |
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| rumourmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger |
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| scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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| scandalmongering | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: sensationalistic, yellow |
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| (noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |