| abrader
|
(noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing |
Synonyms:
abradant |
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| absconder
|
(noun) a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution |
- |
|---|
| adder
|
(noun) a person who adds numbers |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a machine that adds numbers |
- |
| (noun) small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia |
Synonyms:
Vipera berus,
common viper |
| alder
|
(noun) wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc |
- |
|---|
| (noun) north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant |
Synonyms:
alder tree |
| applauder
|
(noun) someone who applauds |
Synonyms:
clapper |
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| apprehender
|
(noun) a person who knows or apprehends |
Synonyms:
knower |
|---|
| (noun) a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) |
- |
| ascender
|
(noun) someone who ascends |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters |
- |
| (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters |
- |
| asunder
|
(adverb) into parts or pieces |
Synonyms:
apart |
|---|
| (adjective) widely separated especially in space |
- |
| attainder
|
(noun) cancellation of civil rights |
Synonyms:
civil death |
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| attender
|
(noun) someone who listens attentively |
Synonyms:
hearer,
auditor,
listener |
|---|
| (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another |
Synonyms:
tender,
attendant |
| (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting |
Synonyms:
attendant,
meeter,
attendee |
| autoloader
|
(noun) a firearm that reloads itself |
Synonyms:
self-loader |
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| babyminder
|
(noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working |
Synonyms:
minder,
baby minder |
|---|
| backgrounder
|
(noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy |
- |
|---|
| backhander
|
(noun) a backhanded blow |
- |
|---|
| backslider
|
(noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior |
Synonyms:
recidivist,
reversionist |
|---|
| bandleader
|
(noun) the leader of a dance band |
- |
|---|
| bartender
|
(noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar |
Synonyms:
mixologist,
barkeep,
barkeeper,
barman |
|---|
| bedder
|
(noun) an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed |
Synonyms:
bedding plant |
|---|
| beholder
|
(noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses |
Synonyms:
perceiver,
percipient,
observer |
|---|
| bender
|
(noun) a tool for bending |
- |
|---|
| (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party |
Synonyms:
carousal,
carouse,
booze-up,
toot |
| (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
Synonyms:
curve,
curve ball,
breaking ball |
| bewilder
|
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to |
Synonyms:
nonplus,
mystify,
dumbfound,
perplex,
pose,
puzzle,
get,
gravel,
stick,
stupefy,
vex,
amaze,
baffle,
beat,
flummox |
|---|
| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally |
Synonyms:
discombobulate,
throw,
bemuse |
| bidder
|
(noun) someone who makes an offer |
- |
|---|
| (noun) someone who makes a bid at cards |
- |
| binder
|
(noun) a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves |
Synonyms:
reaper binder |
|---|
| (noun) something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface |
- |
| (noun) holds loose papers or magazines |
Synonyms:
ring-binder |
| (noun) something used to tie or bind |
Synonyms:
ligature |
| birder
|
(noun) a person who identifies and studies birds in their natural habitats |
Synonyms:
bird watcher |
|---|
| birdfeeder
|
(noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds |
Synonyms:
bird feeder,
feeder |
|---|
| bladder
|
(noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) |
Synonyms:
vesica |
|---|
| (noun) a bag that fills with air |
- |
| bleeder
|
(noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding |
Synonyms:
haemophile,
haemophiliac,
hemophile,
hemophiliac |
|---|
| blender
|
(noun) an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods |
Synonyms:
liquidiser,
liquidizer |
|---|
| blinder
|
(noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side |
Synonyms:
winker,
blinker |
|---|
| blunder
|
(verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake |
Synonyms:
drop the ball,
goof,
sin,
boob |
|---|
| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly |
Synonyms:
fumble |
| (verb) utter impulsively |
Synonyms:
ejaculate,
blunder out,
blurt,
blurt out |
| (noun) an embarrassing mistake |
Synonyms:
pratfall,
bloomer,
blooper,
boner,
boo-boo,
botch,
bungle,
flub,
foul-up,
fuckup |
| boarder
|
(noun) a tenant in someone's house |
Synonyms:
roomer,
lodger |
|---|
| (noun) someone who forces their way aboard ship |
- |
| (noun) a pupil who lives at school during term time |
- |
| boatbuilder
|
(noun) a person who builds boats |
- |
|---|
| bodybuilder
|
(noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature |
Synonyms:
muscle builder,
muscle-builder,
musclebuilder,
muscleman |
|---|
| bondholder
|
(noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation |
- |
|---|
| bookbinder
|
(noun) a worker whose trade is binding books |
- |
|---|
| border
|
(noun) a line that indicates a boundary |
Synonyms:
mete,
delimitation,
borderline,
boundary line |
|---|
| (noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary |
Synonyms:
margin,
perimeter |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface |
Synonyms:
edge |
| (noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge |
Synonyms:
molding,
moulding |
| (noun) a strip forming the outer edge of something |
- |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle |
Synonyms:
skirt,
surround,
ring,
environ |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to |
Synonyms:
bound |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame |
Synonyms:
frame,
frame in |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge |
Synonyms:
edge |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary |
Synonyms:
march,
edge,
adjoin,
abut,
butt,
butt against,
butt on |
| boulder
|
(noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin |
Synonyms:
bowlder |
|---|
| bounder
|
(noun) someone who is morally reprehensible |
Synonyms:
heel,
dog,
hound,
cad,
blackguard |
|---|
| (noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) |
Synonyms:
leaper |
| bowlder
|
(noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin |
Synonyms:
boulder |
|---|
| breechloader
|
(noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech |
- |
|---|
| breeder
|
(noun) a person who breeds animals |
Synonyms:
stock breeder |
|---|
| broider
|
(verb) decorate with needlework |
Synonyms:
embroider |
|---|
| brooder
|
(noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants |
Synonyms:
incubator |
|---|
| builder
|
(noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action |
Synonyms:
detergent builder |
|---|
| (noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country |
- |
| (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) |
Synonyms:
constructor |
| bystander
|
(noun) a nonparticipant spectator |
- |
|---|
| calender
|
(noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers |
- |
|---|
| (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets |
- |
| camcorder
|
(noun) a portable television camera and videocassette recorder |
- |
|---|
| cardholder
|
(noun) a person who holds a credit card or debit card |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a player who holds a card or cards in a card game |
- |
| centerfielder
|
(noun) the person who plays center field |
Synonyms:
center fielder |
|---|
| cheerleader
|
(noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter |
- |
|---|
| (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event |
- |
| chowder
|
(noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes |
- |
|---|
| cider
|
(noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples |
Synonyms:
cyder |
|---|
| cinder
|
(noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire |
Synonyms:
clinker |
|---|
| clowder
|
(noun) a group of cats |
- |
|---|
| coachbuilder
|
(noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles |
- |
|---|
| coder
|
(noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs |
Synonyms:
programmer,
software engineer,
computer programmer |
|---|
| cofounder
|
(noun) one of a group of founders |
- |
|---|
| colander
|
(noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods |
Synonyms:
cullender |
|---|
| collider
|
(noun) an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on |
- |
|---|
| commander
|
(noun) an officer in command of a military unit |
Synonyms:
commandant,
commanding officer |
|---|
| (noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others |
- |
| (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain |
- |
| (noun) an officer in the airforce |
Synonyms:
air force officer |
| compander
|
(noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. |
- |
|---|
| consider
|
(verb) deem to be |
Synonyms:
reckon,
regard,
see,
view |
|---|
| (verb) give careful consideration to |
Synonyms:
study |
| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes |
Synonyms:
deal,
take,
look at |
| (verb) show consideration for; take into account |
Synonyms:
count,
weigh |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh |
Synonyms:
debate,
turn over,
moot,
deliberate |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge |
Synonyms:
conceive,
believe,
think |
| (verb) look at attentively |
Synonyms:
regard |
| (verb) look at carefully; study mentally |
Synonyms:
view,
look at |
| (verb) regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem |
- |
| contender
|
(noun) the contestant you hope to defeat |
Synonyms:
competition,
rival,
challenger,
competitor |
|---|
| copyholder
|
(noun) mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor |
- |
|---|
| copyreader
|
(noun) an editor who prepares text for publication |
Synonyms:
copy editor,
text editor |
|---|
| coriander
|
(noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley |
Synonyms:
Chinese parsley,
cilantro,
Coriandrum sativum,
coriander plant |
|---|
| (noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground |
Synonyms:
coriander seed |
| (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish |
Synonyms:
Chinese parsley,
cilantro |
| crusader
|
(noun) a disputant who advocates reform |
Synonyms:
reformer,
reformist,
meliorist,
social reformer |
|---|
| cullender
|
(noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods |
Synonyms:
colander |
|---|
| cyder
|
(noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples |
Synonyms:
cider |
|---|
| cylinder
|
(noun) a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line |
- |
| (noun) a chamber within which piston moves |
Synonyms:
piston chamber |
| (noun) a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air |
- |
| dander
|
(noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity |
Synonyms:
hackles |
| decoder
|
(noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text |
Synonyms:
decipherer |
|---|
| (noun) a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language |
- |
| defender
|
(noun) a person who cares for persons or property |
Synonyms:
protector,
guardian,
shielder |
|---|
| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack |
Synonyms:
withstander |
| defrauder
|
(noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud |
Synonyms:
gouger,
grifter,
scammer,
swindler,
chiseler,
chiseller |
|---|
| degrader
|
(noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) |
Synonyms:
debaser |
|---|
| demander
|
(noun) a person who makes demands |
- |
|---|
| descender
|
(noun) someone who descends |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters |
- |
| (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters |
- |
| didder
|
(verb) move with or as if with a tremor |
Synonyms:
shake |
|---|
| disorder
|
(verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed |
Synonyms:
perturb,
trouble,
unhinge,
disquiet,
distract,
cark |
|---|
| (verb) bring disorder to |
Synonyms:
disarray |
| (noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning |
Synonyms:
upset |
| (noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places |
Synonyms:
disorderliness |
| (noun) a disturbance of the peace or of public order |
- |
| divider
|
(noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics |
Synonyms:
splitter |
|---|
| (noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups |
- |
| (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) |
Synonyms:
partition |
| (noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements |
- |
| dodder
|
(verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps |
Synonyms:
paddle,
waddle,
coggle,
toddle,
totter |
|---|
| (noun) a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria |
- |
| doubleheader
|
(noun) two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
Synonyms:
double feature,
twin bill |
|---|
| eider
|
(noun) duck of the Northern Hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females |
Synonyms:
eider duck |
|---|
| elder
|
(adjective) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son |
Synonyms:
older,
sr. |
|---|
| (noun) a person who is older than you are |
Synonyms:
senior |
| (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit |
Synonyms:
elderberry bush |
| (noun) any of various church officers |
- |
| embroider
|
(verb) decorate with needlework |
Synonyms:
broider |
|---|
| (verb) add details to |
Synonyms:
pad,
embellish,
blow up,
dramatise,
dramatize,
aggrandise,
aggrandize,
lard |
| engender
|
(verb) call forth |
Synonyms:
spawn,
breed |
|---|
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction |
Synonyms:
get,
mother,
generate,
sire,
beget,
bring forth,
father |
| escalader
|
(noun) someone who gains access by the use of ladders |
- |
|---|
| expander
|
(noun) an electronic device that increases the dynamic range of the audio signal. |
- |
|---|
| expender
|
(noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services |
Synonyms:
disburser,
spender |
|---|
| expounder
|
(noun) a person who explains |
Synonyms:
expositor |
|---|
| faultfinder
|
(noun) someone who is critical of the motives of others |
Synonyms:
cynic |
|---|
| feeder
|
(noun) an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening |
- |
|---|
| (noun) someone who consumes food for nourishment |
Synonyms:
eater |
| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream |
Synonyms:
confluent,
affluent,
tributary |
| (noun) a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material |
Synonyms:
self-feeder |
| (noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds |
Synonyms:
bird feeder,
birdfeeder |
| (noun) an animal that feeds on a particular source of food |
- |
| fender
|
(noun) a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud |
Synonyms:
wing |
|---|
| (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track |
Synonyms:
buffer,
pilot,
cowcatcher |
| (noun) a low metal guard to confine falling coals to a hearth |
- |
| (noun) a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact |
Synonyms:
buffer |
| fielder
|
(noun) a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting |
Synonyms:
fieldsman |
| finder
|
(noun) someone who comes upon something after searching |
- |
|---|
| (noun) someone who is the first to observe something |
Synonyms:
discoverer,
spotter |
| (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest |
Synonyms:
view finder,
viewfinder |
| flounder
|
(verb) walk with great difficulty |
Synonyms:
stagger |
|---|
| (verb) behave awkwardly; have difficulties |
- |
| (noun) flesh of any of various American and European flatfish |
- |
| (noun) any of various European and non-European marine flatfish |
- |
| fodder
|
(verb) give fodder (to domesticated animals) |
- |
|---|
| (noun) soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire |
Synonyms:
cannon fodder,
fresh fish |
| (noun) coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop |
- |
| folder
|
(noun) a small book usually having a paper cover |
Synonyms:
leaflet,
pamphlet,
booklet,
brochure |
|---|
| (noun) covering that is folded over to protect the contents |
- |
| forrader
|
(adverb) in a forward direction |
Synonyms:
onward,
onwards,
ahead,
forward,
forwards |
|---|
| founder
|
(verb) fail utterly; collapse |
Synonyms:
flop,
fall flat,
fall through |
|---|
| (verb) sink below the surface |
- |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically |
Synonyms:
give,
break,
give way,
cave in,
collapse,
fall in |
| (verb) stumble and nearly fall |
- |
| (noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse |
Synonyms:
laminitis |
| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution |
Synonyms:
beginner,
father,
founding father |
| (noun) a worker who makes metal castings |
- |