| automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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| baker | (noun) someone who bakes bread or cake | Synonyms: bread maker |
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| (noun) someone who bakes commercially | - |
| basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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| beaker | (noun) a cup (usually without a handle) | - |
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| (noun) a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry | - |
| boneshaker | (noun) any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable | - |
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| bookmaker | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookie |
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| (noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books | - |
| bootmaker | (noun) a maker of boots | Synonyms: boot maker |
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| breaker | (noun) a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded | Synonyms: circuit breaker |
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| (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breakers, surf |
| (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: ledgeman |
| cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
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| candlemaker | (noun) a person who makes or sells candles | - |
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| candymaker | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: confectioner |
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| caretaker | (noun) a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person) | - |
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| (noun) an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily | - |
| carmaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, automaker, car maker, car manufacturer |
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| cloakmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: furrier |
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| clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
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| croaker | (noun) any of several fishes that make a croaking noise | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S. | - |
| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| faker | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| filmmaker | (noun) a producer of motion pictures | Synonyms: film maker, film producer, movie maker |
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| garmentmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: dressmaker, garment-worker, garment worker |
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| glassmaker | (noun) someone who makes glass | - |
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| groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| hatmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatter, milliner, modiste |
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| haymaker | (noun) a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing | Synonyms: knockout punch, KO punch, Sunday punch |
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| (noun) a farm machine that treats hay to cause more rapid and even drying | Synonyms: hay conditioner |
| heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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| (noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
| holidaymaker | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: tourer, tourist |
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| homemaker | (noun) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income | Synonyms: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house |
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| housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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| (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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| lawmaker | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawgiver |
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| leaker | (noun) a surreptitious informant | - |
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| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| maker | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: manufacturer, manufacturing business |
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| (noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: shaper |
| matchmaker | (noun) someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others | Synonyms: marriage broker, matcher |
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| merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
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| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
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| noisemaker | (noun) a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration | - |
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| pacemaker | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacer, pacesetter |
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| (noun) an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker | Synonyms: artificial pacemaker |
| (noun) a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat | Synonyms: cardiac pacemaker, SA node, sinoatrial node |
| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacesetter |
| partaker | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: sharer |
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| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| peacemaker | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler |
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| playmaker | (noun) a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
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| printmaker | (noun) an artist who designs and makes prints | Synonyms: graphic artist |
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| quaker | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: trembler |
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| rainmaker | (noun) American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain | - |
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| (noun) executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm | - |
| ropemaker | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, roper |
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| safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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| sailmaker | (noun) a maker of sails | - |
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| saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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| shaker | (noun) a container in which something can be shaken | - |
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| (noun) a person who wields power and influence | Synonyms: mover and shaker |
| shirtmaker | (noun) a maker of shirts | - |
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| shoemaker | (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: cobbler |
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| sneaker | (noun) a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole | Synonyms: gym shoe, tennis shoe |
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| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| soaker | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, souse |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, torrent, waterspout |
| speaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer |
| speechmaker | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier |
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| spinnaker | (noun) a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind | - |
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| squeaker | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeak |
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| (noun) any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used | - |
| steelmaker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelman, steelworker |
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| stocktaker | (noun) an employee whose job is to take inventory | Synonyms: stock-taker |
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| streaker | (noun) someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place | - |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| taker | (noun) one who takes a bet or wager | - |
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| (noun) one who accepts an offer | - |
| tentmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tents | - |
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| tiebreaker | (noun) overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer | - |
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| toolmaker | (noun) someone skilled in making or repairing tools | - |
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| troublemaker | (noun) someone who deliberately stirs up trouble | Synonyms: bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troubler |
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| undertaker | (noun) one whose business is the management of funerals | Synonyms: funeral director, funeral undertaker, mortician |
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| waker | (noun) a person who awakes | - |
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| (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: arouser, rouser |
| watchmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologer, horologist |
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| wigmaker | (noun) someone who makes and sells wigs | - |
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| windbreaker | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windcheater |
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| winemaker | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: vintner, wine maker |
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