| arguer | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: debater |
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| beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
| beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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| cataloguer | (noun) a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system | Synonyms: cataloger |
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| chequer | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: checker |
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| (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: checker |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, checker |
| chequerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, checkerboard |
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| chequered | (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checked, checkered |
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| churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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| churrigueresque | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresco |
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| conquer | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: stamp down, subdue, suppress |
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| (verb) overcome by conquest | - |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, seize |
| conquerable | (adjective) subject to being conquered or overcome | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being surmounted or excelled | Synonyms: superable |
| conquering | (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquest, subjection, subjugation |
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| conqueror | (noun) someone who is victorious by force of arms | Synonyms: vanquisher |
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| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| equerry | (noun) an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles | - |
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| (noun) a personal attendant of the British royal family | - |
| exchequer | (noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: treasury |
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| grotesquerie | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquery |
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| grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
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| guerdon | (noun) a reward or payment | - |
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| guereza | (noun) a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body | Synonyms: Colobus guereza |
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| gueridon | (noun) a small round table | - |
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| guerilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerrilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| guerrilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| haranguer | (noun) a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech | - |
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| intriguer | (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: designer |
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| issuer | (noun) an institution that issues something (securities or publications or currency etc.) | - |
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| lacquer | (noun) a hard glossy coating | - |
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| (noun) a black resinous substance obtained from certain trees and used as a natural varnish | - |
| (verb) coat with lacquer | - |
| lacquerware | (noun) a decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals | - |
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| marguerite | (noun) tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, Leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Argyranthemum frutescens, Chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy |
| masquer | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquerader |
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| masquerade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: charade |
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| (noun) a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party | Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume |
| (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party |
| (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| masquerader | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquer |
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| puerile | (adjective) of or characteristic of a child | - |
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| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, juvenile |
| puerility | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: childishness |
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| (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: childhood |
| puerpera | (noun) a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter | - |
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| puerperal | (adjective) relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth | - |
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| puerperium | (noun) time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved | - |
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| pursuer | (noun) a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chaser |
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| (noun) a person who pursues some plan or goal | - |
| quercitron | (noun) medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped | Synonyms: black oak, quercitron oak, Quercus velutina, yellow oak |
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| (noun) a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree | - |
| querier | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, questioner |
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| quern | (noun) a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand | - |
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| querulous | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, whiney, whiny |
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| querulously | (adverb) in a peevish manner | Synonyms: fractiously, peevishly |
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| querulousness | (noun) the quality of being given to complaining | - |
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| query | (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, question |
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| (verb) pose a question | Synonyms: question |
| reconquer | (verb) conquer anew | - |
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| rescuer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, saver |
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| (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, savior, saviour |
| revenuer | (noun) a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging) | - |
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| roguery | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| sauerbraten | (noun) pot roast marinated several days in seasoned vinegar before cooking; usually served with potato dumplings | - |
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| sauerkraut | (noun) shredded cabbage fermented in brine | - |
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| subduer | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: overcomer, surmounter |
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| suer | (noun) someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right | Synonyms: petitioner |
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| (noun) a man who courts a woman | Synonyms: suitor, wooer |
| unconquerable | (adjective) not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome | - |
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| (adjective) incapable of being surmounted or excelled | Synonyms: insuperable |
| unconquered | (adjective) not conquered | Synonyms: unbeaten, unvanquished |
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| valuer | (noun) someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions | - |
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| vaquero | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckaroo, buckeroo |
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