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