| 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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| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| guesser | (noun) a person who guesses | - |
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| hairdresser | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairstylist, styler, stylist |
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| harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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| (noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
| hisser | (noun) someone who communicates disapproval by hissing | - |
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| kisser | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
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| (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: osculator |
| lesser | (adjective) of less size or importance | - |
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| (adjective) smaller in size or amount or value | - |
| nonassertive | (adjective) not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence | - |
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| nonpasserine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds | - |
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| passer | (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass | Synonyms: forward passer |
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| (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passerby |
| (noun) a student who passes an examination | - |
| (noun) a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group | - |
| passerby | (noun) a person who passes by casually or by chance | Synonyms: passer-by, passer |
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| passerine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | - |
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| (noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
| patisserie | (noun) a bakery specializing in French pastry | - |
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| pisser | (noun) a very disagreeable difficulty | - |
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| (noun) a person who urinates | Synonyms: urinator |
| reassert | (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: confirm |
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| reassertion | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reaffirmation |
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| represser | (noun) an agent that represses | Synonyms: repressor |
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| rotisserie | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats | - |
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| (noun) an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns | - |
| suppresser | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppressor |
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| (noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser gene, suppressor, suppressor gene |
| (noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppressor |
| tessera | (noun) a small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics | - |
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| tesseract | (noun) the four-dimensional analogue of a cube | - |
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| tosser | (noun) someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward) | - |
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| (noun) terms of abuse for a masturbator | Synonyms: jerk-off, wanker |
| trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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| tusser | (noun) oriental moth that produces brownish silk | Synonyms: Antheraea mylitta, tussah, tusseh, tussore, tussur |
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| unassertive | (adjective) inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence | - |
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| unassertively | (adverb) in an unassertive manner | - |
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| unassertiveness | (noun) diffidence about self promotion | - |
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| witnesser | (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witness |
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