| abuser | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: maltreater |
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| accuser | (noun) someone who imputes guilt or blame | - |
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| advertiser | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertizer |
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| adviser | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: advisor, consultant |
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| alkaliser | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkalizer, antacid, antiacid, gastric antacid |
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| allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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| alphabetiser | (noun) a literate person who can arrange items in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetizer |
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| analyser | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyzer |
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| anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| antiserum | (noun) blood serum containing antibodies against specific antigens; provides immunity to a disease | - |
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| appeaser | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands | - |
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| appetiser | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetizer, starter |
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| appraiser | (noun) one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things | Synonyms: valuator |
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| (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: authenticator |
| arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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| assert | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: insist |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: asseverate, maintain |
| (verb) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized | Synonyms: put forward |
| assertable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: affirmable |
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| asserted | (adjective) confidently declared to be so | - |
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| asserter | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| asserting | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: declarative, declaratory |
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| assertion | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: asseveration, averment |
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| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: affirmation, statement |
| assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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| assertively | (adverb) in an assertive manner | - |
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| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| atomiser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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| berserk | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserker |
| berserker | (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserk |
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| biserrate | (adjective) having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched | - |
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| bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| breathalyser | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyzer |
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| browser | (noun) a program used to view HTML documents | Synonyms: web browser |
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| (noun) a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular | - |
| bruiser | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bull, Samson, strapper |
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| canvasser | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster |
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| (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: scrutineer |
| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: solicitor |
| (noun) a person who takes or counts votes | - |
| caravanserai | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, khan |
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| carouser | (noun) someone who enjoys riotous drinking | Synonyms: wassailer |
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| casern | (noun) military barracks in a garrison town | - |
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| casserole | (noun) large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) food cooked and served in a casserole | - |
| causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| censer | (noun) a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual) | Synonyms: thurible |
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| chaser | (noun) a drink to follow immediately after another drink | - |
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| (noun) a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture | Synonyms: pursuer |
| chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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| chooser | (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: picker, selector |
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| cleanser | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleaner, cleansing agent |
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| closer | (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: finisher |
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| (noun) a person who closes something | - |
| (adverb) (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance | Synonyms: nearer, nigher |
| coloniser | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: colonizer |
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| commiserate | (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: sympathise, sympathize |
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| commiseration | (noun) an expression of sympathy with another's grief | Synonyms: condolence |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others | Synonyms: pathos, pity, ruth |
| commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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| composer | (noun) someone who composes music, usually as a profession | - |
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| compromiser | (noun) a negotiator willing to compromise | - |
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| condenser | (noun) lens used to concentrate light on an object | Synonyms: optical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, capacitor, electrical condenser |
| (noun) a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat | - |
| (noun) an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid | - |
| conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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| (noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
| conservation | (noun) the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources | - |
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| (noun) (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations | - |
| (noun) an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change | Synonyms: preservation |
| conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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| conservatism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservativism |
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| conservative | (adjective) resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginatively conventional | Synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down |
| (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic |
| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: cautious |
| (adjective) having social or political views favoring conservatism | - |
| (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
| conservatively | (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: cautiously, guardedly |
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| conservativism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservatism |
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| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| conservator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: curator |
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| (noun) someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person | - |
| conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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| (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
| (noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
| conserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves |
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| (verb) preserve with sugar | - |
| (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: economise, economize, husband |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve |
| (verb) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change | - |
| conserved | (adjective) protected from harm or loss | - |
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| conserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, preserve, preserves |
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| courser | (noun) swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles | - |
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| (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: charger |
| (noun) a dog trained for coursing | - |
| (noun) a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey | - |
| cruiser | (noun) a large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer | - |
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| (noun) a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board | Synonyms: cabin cruiser, pleasure boat, pleasure craft |
| (noun) a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters | Synonyms: patrol car, police car, police cruiser, prowl car, squad car |
| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| cycloserine | (noun) an antibiotic that is especially active against the tubercle bacillus | - |
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| debaser | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: degrader |
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| degreaser | (noun) a chemical substance that dissolves water-insoluble substances, such as greases and oils. | - |
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| deposer | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, testifier |
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| desert | (noun) arid land with little or no vegetation | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment | - |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desolate, forsake |
| (verb) leave behind | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: defect |
| deserted | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, derelict |
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| deserter | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: defector |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| desertification | (noun) the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land | - |
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| desertion | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: abandonment, defection |
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| (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, forsaking |
| deserve | (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: merit |
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| deserved | (adjective) properly deserved | Synonyms: merited |
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| deservedly | (adverb) as deserved | - |
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| deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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| deservingness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: merit, meritoriousness |
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| dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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| dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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| diffuser | (noun) optical device that distributes the light of a lamp evenly | Synonyms: diffusor |
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| (noun) baffle that distributes sound waves evenly | Synonyms: diffusor |
| digitiser | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitizer |
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| disburser | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: expender, spender |
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| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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| disservice | (noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly | Synonyms: ill service, ill turn |
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| dosser | (noun) someone who sleeps in any convenient place | Synonyms: street person |
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| dowser | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowsing rod, water finder, waterfinder |
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| (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: rhabdomancer, water witch |
| dresser | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest, chest of drawers |
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| (noun) a cabinet with shelves | - |
| (noun) low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup | Synonyms: dressing table, toilet table, vanity |
| (noun) a wardrobe assistant for an actor | Synonyms: actor's assistant |
| (noun) a person who dresses in a particular way | - |
| economiser | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economizer |
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| endorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: indorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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| (noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: indorser |
| energiser | (noun) a device that supplies electrical energy | Synonyms: energizer |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer |