| railroader | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railway man, railwayman, trainman |
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| rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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| reader | (noun) one of a series of texts for students learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys reading | - |
| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, lecturer |
| (noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: subscriber |
| (noun) a person who can read; a literate person | - |
| (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: proofreader |
| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: referee, reviewer |
| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: lector |
| reconsider | (verb) consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing | - |
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| (verb) consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it | - |
| recorder | (noun) a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | Synonyms: fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute |
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| (noun) equipment for making records | Synonyms: recording equipment, recording machine |
| (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, registrar |
| (noun) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs | - |
| redheader | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redhead |
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| rejoinder | (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte |
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| (noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication | - |
| remainder | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant |
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| (noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: difference |
| (noun) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
| (verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
| reminder | (noun) an experience that causes you to remember something | - |
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| (noun) a message that helps you remember something | - |
| (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, monitor |
| render | (noun) a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls | - |
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| (verb) cause to become | - |
| (verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: try |
| (verb) bestow | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, return |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, translate |
| (verb) coat with plastic or cement | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, return, yield |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, show |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: return |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, supply |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in |
| reorder | (noun) a repeated order for the same merchandise | - |
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| (verb) assign a new order to | - |
| (verb) make a new request to be supplied with | - |
| responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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| rider | (noun) a clause that is appended to a legislative bill | - |
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| (noun) a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel) | - |
| (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: passenger |
| (noun) a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle) | - |
| righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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| roughrider | (noun) a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle | - |
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| rounder | (noun) a tool for rounding corners or edges | - |
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| (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, libertine |
| rudder | (noun) (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) a hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes | - |
| salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
| (noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
| sander | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, smoother |
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| scolder | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scold |
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| seconder | (noun) someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote | - |
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| seeder | (noun) a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground | - |
| (noun) a person who seeds clouds | Synonyms: cloud seeder |
| sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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| (noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shedder | (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: spiller |
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| sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
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| (noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
| (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
| shoulder | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: berm |
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| (noun) the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder | - |
| (noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | - |
| (noun) a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint |
| (noun) a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg | - |
| (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| shredder | (noun) a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them) | - |
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| shudder | (noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) | Synonyms: tremor |
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| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, thrill, tingle |
| (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shiver |
| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, thrill, throb |
| sidewinder | (noun) small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve | Synonyms: Crotalus cerastes, horned rattlesnake |
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| (noun) air-to-air missile with infrared homing device | - |
| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| skateboarder | (noun) someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
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| skidder | (noun) a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain | - |
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| (noun) a worker who uses a skid to move logs | - |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: slider, slipper |
| slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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| (noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, smear, smirch, sully |
| slaveholder | (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaver |
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| sledder | (noun) someone who rides a sled | - |
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| slender | (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: thin |
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| (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slim |
| (adjective) having little width in proportion to the length or height | - |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slight, slim, svelte |
| slider | (noun) a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown | - |
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| (noun) freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets | Synonyms: Pseudemys scripta, yellow-bellied terrapin |
| (noun) someone who races the luge | Synonyms: luger |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slipper |
| smallholder | (noun) a person owning or renting a smallholding | - |
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| smolder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
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| (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smoulder |
| smoulder | (noun) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smolder |
| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smolder |
| snowboarder | (noun) someone who slides down snow-covered slopes while standing on a snowboard | - |
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| solder | (noun) an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces | - |
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| (verb) join or fuse with solder | - |
| sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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| speeder | (noun) a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit | Synonyms: speed demon |
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| spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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| spender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, expender |
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| (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift |
| spider | (noun) predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey | - |
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| (noun) a skillet made of cast iron | - |
| (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: wanderer |
| spreader | (noun) a hand tool for spreading something | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: broadcaster |
| squander | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, ware, waste |
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| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, waste |
| stakeholder | (noun) someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner | - |
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| stander | (noun) an organism (person or animal) that stands | - |
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| stepladder | (noun) a folding portable ladder hinged at the top | Synonyms: step ladder |
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| stockholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, shareowner |
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| strider | (noun) a person who walks rapidly with long steps | - |
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| subdivider | (noun) someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites) | - |
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| suborder | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order | - |
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| succeeder | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, success, winner |
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| sunder | (verb) break apart or in two, using violence | - |
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| superorder | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass | - |
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| surfboarder | (noun) someone who engages in surfboarding | Synonyms: surfer |
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| surrejoinder | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder | - |
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| surrender | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, fall |
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| (noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | - |
| (noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, yielding |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: resignation |
| (verb) give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, deliver, give up |
| suspender | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, gallus |
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| tender | (adjective) easy to cut or chew | - |
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| (adjective) physically untoughened | Synonyms: untoughened |
| (adjective) given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality | - |
| (adjective) (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition | - |
| (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, lovesome |
| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sensitive, sore |
| (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, cranky, tippy |
| (adjective) young and immature | - |
| (noun) ship that usually provides supplies to other ships | Synonyms: supply ship |
| (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, pinnace, ship's boat |
| (noun) car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water | - |
| (noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, attender |
| (noun) something that can be used as an official medium of payment | Synonyms: legal tender, stamp |
| (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tenderise, tenderize |
| (verb) make a tender of; in legal settlements | - |
| (verb) offer or present for acceptance | - |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, offer |
| tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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| threader | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| thunder | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack |
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| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring |
| (noun) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning | - |
| (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: roar |
| (verb) to make or produce a loud noise | - |
| (verb) move fast, noisily, and heavily | - |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: boom |
| tinder | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, touchwood |
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| toothpowder | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a powder | Synonyms: tooth powder |
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| trader | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, monger |
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| transgender | (adjective) involving a partial or full reversal of gender | Synonyms: transgendered |
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| transponder | (noun) electrical device designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply | - |
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| udder | (noun) mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) | Synonyms: bag |
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| under | (adjective) located below or beneath something else | Synonyms: nether |
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| (adjective) lower in rank, power, or authority | - |
| (adverb) further down | Synonyms: below |
| (adverb) down below | - |
| (adverb) below the horizon | - |
| (adverb) below some quantity or limit | - |
| (adverb) in or into a state of subordination or subjugation | - |
| (adverb) down to defeat, death, or ruin | - |
| (adverb) into unconsciousness | - |
| (adverb) through a range downward | - |
| unsolder | (verb) remove the soldering from | - |
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| upbraider | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, reprover |
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| upholder | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, sustainer |
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| vender | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vendor |
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| viewfinder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: finder, view finder |
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| voider | (noun) a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried | Synonyms: clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket |
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| (noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: gusset |
| (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, nullifier |
| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, shitter |
| wader | (noun) any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food | Synonyms: wading bird |
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| wander | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, stray |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind |
| (verb) go via an indirect route or at no set pace | - |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold |
| warder | (noun) a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners | - |
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| waterfinder | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowser, dowsing rod, water finder |
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| weeder | (noun) a hand tool for removing weeds | Synonyms: weed-whacker |
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| (noun) a farmhand hired to remove weeds | - |
| weekender | (noun) a small suitcase to carry clothing and accessories for a weekend trip | - |
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| (noun) someone who vacations on a weekend | - |
| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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| winder | (noun) mechanical device around which something can be wound | - |
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| (noun) mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) | Synonyms: key |
| (noun) a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism) | - |
| withholder | (noun) a person who restrains or checks or holds back | - |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from granting | - |
| withstander | (noun) an opponent who resists with force or resolution | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: defender |
| wonder | (noun) a state in which you want to learn more about something | Synonyms: curiosity |
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| (noun) something that causes feelings of wonder | Synonyms: marvel |
| (noun) the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising | Synonyms: admiration, wonderment |
| (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| (verb) place in doubt or express doubtful speculation | Synonyms: question |
| (verb) be amazed at | Synonyms: marvel |
| wordfinder | (noun) a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of | Synonyms: word finder |
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| yarder | (noun) a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road | Synonyms: yard donkey |
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| (noun) (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards | - |
| yielder | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: surrenderer |
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| yonder | (adjective) distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal) | Synonyms: yon |
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| (adverb) at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal) | Synonyms: yon |