| freeholder | (noun) the owner of a freehold | - |
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| freeloader | (noun) someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others | - |
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| gallbladder | (noun) a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion | Synonyms: gall bladder |
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| gander | (noun) mature male goose | - |
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| gender | (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: sex, sexuality |
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| (noun) a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | Synonyms: grammatical gender |
| germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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| gerrymander | (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | - |
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| (verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
| gilder | (noun) someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt | - |
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| girder | (noun) a beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure | - |
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| glider | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: sailplane |
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| goaltender | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper, netminder |
| goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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| grader | (noun) a judge who assigns grades to something | - |
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| grandstander | (noun) someone who performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand | - |
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| grinder | (noun) a machine tool that polishes metal | - |
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| (noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: mill, milling machinery |
| (noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: molar |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| grounder | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, hopper |
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| guilder | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, gulden |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, gulden |
| gunpowder | (noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: powder |
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| header | (noun) (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head | - |
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| (noun) a headlong jump (or fall) | - |
| (noun) a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon | - |
| (noun) a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters | - |
| (noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | Synonyms: cope, coping |
| (noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: lintel |
| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, heading |
| hellbender | (noun) large salamander of North American rivers and streams | Synonyms: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, mud puppy |
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| herder | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: drover, herdsman |
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| hereunder | (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereafter, hereinafter |
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| (adverb) under the terms of this agreement | - |
| highbinder | (noun) a corrupt politician | - |
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| hinder | (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: back, hind |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, handicap |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: impede |
| hoarder | (noun) a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use | - |
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| holder | (noun) a holding device | - |
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| (noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: bearer |
| (noun) a person who holds something | - |
| homebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, house-builder, housebuilder |
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| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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| housebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder |
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| householder | (noun) someone who owns a home | Synonyms: homeowner |
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| infielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield | - |
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| insider | (noun) an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations | - |
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| intruder | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, trespasser |
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| invader | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: encroacher |
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| islander | (noun) an inhabitant of an island | Synonyms: island-dweller |
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| jobholder | (noun) an employee who holds a regular job | - |
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| judder | (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: shake |
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| ladder | (noun) steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down | - |
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| (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ravel, run |
| (noun) ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress | - |
| (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
| lander | (noun) a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet | - |
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| landholder | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landowner, property owner |
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| larder | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, pantry |
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| (noun) a supply of food especially for a household | - |
| lauder | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, laudator |
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| launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
| lavender | (adjective) of a pale purple color | Synonyms: lilac-colored, lilac |
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| (noun) a pale purple color | - |
| (noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated | - |
| leader | (noun) a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers | Synonyms: drawing card, loss leader |
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| (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others | - |
| leaseholder | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: lessee |
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| lefthander | (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefty, southpaw |
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| lender | (noun) someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters | Synonyms: loaner |
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| loader | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| (noun) an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game | - |
| madder | (noun) Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin | Synonyms: Rubia tinctorum |
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| (verb) color a moderate to strong red | - |
| marauder | (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: piranha, predator, vulture |
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| masquerader | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masker, masquer |
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| maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) wander aimlessly | - |
| meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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| (noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
| mender | (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: fixer, repairer |
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| minder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, babyminder |
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| (noun) someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors | - |
| misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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| molder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, moulder, rot |
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| moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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| moulder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, rot |
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| mouthbreeder | (noun) any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths | - |
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| mudder | (noun) a racehorse that runs well on a muddy racetrack | - |
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| murder | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, slaying |
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| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, mutilate |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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| needer | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: wanter |
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| netminder | (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| newsreader | (noun) someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin | Synonyms: news reader |
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| nightrider | (noun) member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge | Synonyms: night rider |
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| nonattender | (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, truant |
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| nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |
| offender | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: wrongdoer |
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| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| older | (adjective) skilled through long experience | Synonyms: old |
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| (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, elderly, senior |
| (adjective) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | Synonyms: elder, sr. |
| oleander | (noun) an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Nerium oleander, rose bay |
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| order | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: ordering |
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| (noun) (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans | - |
| (noun) a degree in a continuum of size or quantity | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, rescript |
| (noun) a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities | Synonyms: purchase order |
| (noun) a body of rules followed by an assembly | Synonyms: parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order |
| (noun) (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed | - |
| (noun) a request for something to be made, supplied, or served | - |
| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: ordering, ordination |
| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, lodge, social club, society |
| (noun) a group of person living under a religious rule | Synonyms: monastic order |
| (noun) established customary state (especially of society) | - |
| (noun) a condition of regular or proper arrangement | Synonyms: orderliness |
| (verb) bring order to or into | - |
| (verb) place in a certain order | - |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, put, set up |
| (verb) make a request for something | - |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, say, tell |
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, prescribe |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, ordinate |
| outfielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield | - |
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| (noun) a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield | - |
| outlander | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, foreigner, noncitizen |
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| outrider | (noun) an escort who rides ahead (as a member of the vanguard) | - |
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| outsider | (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: foreigner |
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| (noun) a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win | - |
| padder | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: footpad |
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| pander | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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| (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pimp, procure |
| (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, indulge |
| parader | (noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: marcher |
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| pathfinder | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, scout |
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| persuader | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: inducer |
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| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| placeholder | (noun) a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: procurator, proxy |
| pleader | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor |
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| plodder | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud |
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| (noun) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | Synonyms: slogger |
| (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: slogger, trudger |
| plunder | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
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| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
| polder | (noun) low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands) | - |
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| policyholder | (noun) a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written | - |
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| ponder | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| potholder | (noun) an insulated pad for holding hot pots | - |
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| pounder | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pestle |
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| (noun) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds | - |
| powder | (noun) any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a pulverized powder | - |
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| (noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: pulverisation, pulverization |
| (noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: gunpowder |
| (verb) apply powder to | - |
| (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
| pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
| proofreader | (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: reader |
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| provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| (noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
| provider | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: supplier |
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| (noun) someone who provides the means for subsistence | - |
| raider | (noun) a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, spoiler |