putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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recoverer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: rescuer, saver |
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repairer | (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: fixer, mender |
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reread | (verb) read anew; read again | - |
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rerebrace | (noun) cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm | Synonyms: upper cannon |
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reredos | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: altarpiece |
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rerun | (noun) a program that is broadcast again | - |
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(verb) cause to perform again | - |
(verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rebroadcast |
(verb) run again for office | - |
(verb) rerun a performance of a play, for example | - |
restorer | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, refinisher, renovator |
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roarer | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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roisterer | (noun) an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker | - |
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saunterer | (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, stroller |
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scarer | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, straw man, strawman |
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schnorrer | (noun) (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others | Synonyms: shnorrer |
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scorer | (noun) a player who makes a score in a game or contest | - |
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(noun) a logger who marks trees to be felled | - |
(noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorekeeper |
scourer | (noun) someone who cleanses by scouring | - |
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(noun) someone who travels widely and energetically | - |
sculpturer | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: carver, sculptor, statue maker |
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seafarer | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seaman, tar |
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securer | (noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: procurer |
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sharer | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: partaker |
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shearer | (noun) a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals | - |
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(noun) a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles | - |
shnorrer | (noun) (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others | Synonyms: schnorrer |
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simperer | (noun) a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy | - |
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slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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slaughterer | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: butcher |
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slobberer | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, drooler |
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slumberer | (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: sleeper |
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smotherer | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: stifler |
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snarer | (noun) someone who sets snares for birds or small animals | - |
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sneerer | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: scorner |
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snorer | (noun) someone who snores while sleeping | - |
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solderer | (noun) a worker who joins or mends with solder | - |
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sombrero | (noun) a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico | - |
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sorcerer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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sparer | (noun) someone who refrains from injuring or destroying | - |
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sparerib | (noun) a cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off | - |
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spareribs | (noun) cut of pork from the rib section with most of the meat trimmed off | - |
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(noun) baked or roasted with a spicy sauce | Synonyms: barbecued spareribs |
squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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staggerer | (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: reeler, totterer |
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stammerer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stutterer |
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starer | (noun) a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility) | - |
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steerer | (noun) a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) | Synonyms: decoy |
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(noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steersman |
stirrer | (noun) an implement used for stirring | - |
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(noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: scaremonger |
storeroom | (noun) a room in which things are stored | Synonyms: storage room, stowage |
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stutterer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stammerer |
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succorer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succourer |
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succourer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succorer |
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sufferer | (noun) a person suffering from an illness | Synonyms: diseased person, sick person |
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(noun) one who suffers for the sake of principle | Synonyms: martyr |
supererogation | (noun) an effort above and beyond the call of duty | - |
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supererogatory | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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surrenderer | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: yielder |
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swaggerer | (noun) someone who walks in an arrogant manner | - |
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swearer | (noun) someone who takes a solemn oath | - |
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(noun) someone who uses profanity | - |
talebearer | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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thunderer | (noun) a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder | - |
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tinkerer | (noun) an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend | Synonyms: fiddler |
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(noun) a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts | Synonyms: tinker |
titterer | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: giggler |
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tollgatherer | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollkeeper, tollman |
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torchbearer | (noun) a leader in a campaign or movement | - |
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torero | (noun) a matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight | - |
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torturer | (noun) someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion) | - |
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totterer | (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: reeler, staggerer |
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tourer | (noun) large open car seating four with folding top | Synonyms: phaeton, touring car |
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(noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: holidaymaker, tourist |
trainbearer | (noun) one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion | - |
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transferer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferrer |
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transferrer | (noun) someone who transfers something | Synonyms: transferer |
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treasurer | (noun) an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds | Synonyms: financial officer |
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treasurership | (noun) the position of treasurer | - |
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twitterer | (noun) a bird that twitters | - |
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upholsterer | (noun) a craftsman who upholsters furniture | - |
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usurer | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, moneylender, shylock |
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utterer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer |
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(noun) someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins | - |
(noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalizer |
venturer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: adventurer |
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(noun) a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas) | Synonyms: merchant-venturer |
wagerer | (noun) someone who bets | Synonyms: better, bettor, punter |
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wallpaperer | (noun) a worker who papers walls | Synonyms: wall-paperer |
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wanderer | (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: spider |
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(noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, rover |
waterer | (noun) an assistant who supplies drinking water | Synonyms: water boy |
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(noun) someone who waters plants or crops | - |
waverer | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, hesitator, vacillator |
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wayfarer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: journeyer |
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(noun) a pedestrian who walks from place to place | - |
wearer | (noun) a person who wears or carries or displays something as a body covering or accessory | - |
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whisperer | (noun) one who speaks in a whisper | - |
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wirer | (noun) a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring | Synonyms: wireman |
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(noun) someone who sends a telegram | - |
wonderer | (noun) someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something | Synonyms: marveller |
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(noun) someone who is curious about something | - |
woodborer | (noun) any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood | Synonyms: borer |
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woolgatherer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: daydreamer |
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