almoner | (noun) an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients | Synonyms: medical social worker |
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bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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boner | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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commissioner | (noun) a government administrator | - |
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(noun) a member of a commission | - |
commoner | (noun) a person who holds no title | Synonyms: common man, common person |
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concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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conditioner | (noun) exercise that conditions the body | - |
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(noun) a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer | - |
(noun) a trainer of athletes | - |
confectioner | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: candymaker |
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confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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(noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
(noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
coroner | (noun) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes | Synonyms: medical examiner |
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crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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executioner | (noun) an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant | Synonyms: public executioner |
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exhibitioner | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitor, shower |
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exonerate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate |
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exonerated | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, vindicated |
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exoneration | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: vindication |
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(noun) the condition of being relieved from blame or obligation | - |
exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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extortioner | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortionist |
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falconer | (noun) a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry | Synonyms: hawker |
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festoonery | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoon |
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goner | (noun) a person in desperate straits; someone doomed | Synonyms: toast |
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harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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lampooner | (noun) mimics literary or musical style for comic effect | Synonyms: parodist |
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loner | (noun) a person who avoids the company or assistance of others | Synonyms: lone hand, lone wolf |
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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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mentioner | (noun) a speaker who refers to something briefly or incidentally | - |
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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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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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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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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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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 |
phoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, telephoner |
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poisoner | (noun) someone who kills with poison | - |
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poltroonery | (noun) abject pusillanimity | - |
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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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questioner | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier |
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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 |
reversioner | (noun) (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion | - |
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schooner | (noun) sailing vessel used in former times | - |
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(noun) a large beer glass | - |
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 |
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 | - |
sooner | (adverb) comparatives of `soon' or `early' | Synonyms: earlier |
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(adverb) more readily or willingly | Synonyms: preferably, rather |
spoonerism | (noun) transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words | - |
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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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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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telephoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, phoner |
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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 | - |
vacationer | (noun) someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work | Synonyms: vacationist |
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waggoner | (noun) the driver of a wagon | Synonyms: wagoner |
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wagoner | (noun) the driver of a wagon | Synonyms: waggoner |
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