| ameer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: amir, emeer, emir |
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| auctioneer | (noun) an agent who conducts an auction | - |
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| (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
| balladeer | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: crooner |
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| bandoleer | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandolier |
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| basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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| beer | (noun) a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops | - |
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| buccaneer | (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: pirate, sea robber, sea rover |
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| (verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
| cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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| carabineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabinier, carbineer |
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| carbineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carabinier |
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| career | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, vocation |
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| (noun) the general progression of your working or professional life | Synonyms: life history |
| (verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
| charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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| cheer | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine |
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| (noun) a cry or shout of approval | - |
| (verb) become cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting | - |
| (verb) cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
| (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
| commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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| compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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| conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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| deer | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: cervid |
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| domineer | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: tyrannise, tyrannize |
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| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| emeer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, amir, emir |
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| engineer | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, technologist |
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| (noun) the operator of a railway locomotive | Synonyms: engine driver, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| (verb) design as an engineer | - |
| fakeer | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakir, faqir, faquir |
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| fleer | (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fugitive, runaway |
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| (noun) contempt expressed by mockery in looks or words | - |
| (verb) to smirk contemptuously | - |
| gadgeteer | (noun) a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets | - |
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| gazetteer | (noun) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas) | - |
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| (noun) a journalist who writes for a gazette | - |
| harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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| jeer | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
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| (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, scoff |
| junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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| kildeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, killdeer, killdeer plover |
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| killdeer | (noun) American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry | Synonyms: Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer plover |
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| leer | (noun) a suggestive or sneering look or grin | - |
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| (noun) a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls | Synonyms: sneer |
| (verb) look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression | - |
| mountaineer | (noun) someone who climbs mountains | Synonyms: mountain climber |
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| (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
| muleteer | (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, skinner |
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| musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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| mutineer | (noun) someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers) | - |
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| overseer | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: superintendent |
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| oversteer | (noun) when a car turns (steers) by more than (over) the amount commanded by the driver. | - |
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| pamphleteer | (noun) a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) | - |
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| patrioteer | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist |
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| peer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, equal, match |
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| (noun) a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage | - |
| (verb) look searchingly | - |
| pioneer | (noun) one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory | - |
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| (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, innovator, trailblazer |
| (verb) open up and explore a new area | - |
| (verb) open up an area or prepare a way | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: initiate |
| pistoleer | (noun) someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed) | - |
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| privateer | (noun) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation | - |
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| (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateersman |
| profiteer | (noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) | - |
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| (verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
| puppeteer | (noun) one who operates puppets or marionettes | - |
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| queer | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, homophile |
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| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, rum, rummy, singular |
| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen |
| (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, scupper |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| racketeer | (noun) someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) | - |
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| (verb) carry on illegal business activities involving crime | - |
| reindeer | (noun) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | Synonyms: caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus |
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| schmeer | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmear, shmear |
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| scrutineer | (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: canvasser |
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| seer | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, visionary |
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| (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophesier, prophet, vaticinator |
| (noun) an observer who perceives visually | - |
| sheer | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down |
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| (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: plain, unmingled, unmixed |
| (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bluff, bold |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| (adverb) completely | - |
| (adverb) straight up or down without a break | Synonyms: perpendicularly |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) cause to sheer | - |
| sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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| sloganeer | (noun) someone who coins and uses slogans to promote a cause | - |
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| (verb) coin new slogans | - |
| sneer | (noun) a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls | Synonyms: leer |
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| (noun) a contemptuous or scornful remark | - |
| (verb) smile contemptuously | - |
| (verb) express through a scornful smile | - |
| sonneteer | (noun) a poet who writes sonnets | - |
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| steer | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: bullock |
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| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, tip, wind |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point |
| (verb) direct (oneself) somewhere | - |
| (verb) be a guiding or motivating force or drive | Synonyms: guide |
| supermarketeer | (noun) an operator of a supermarket | Synonyms: supermarketer |
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| understeer | (noun) when a car steers less than (under) the amount commanded by the driver. | - |
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| veer | (verb) shift to a clockwise direction | - |
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| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend |
| veneer | (noun) an ornamental coating to a building | Synonyms: facing |
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| (noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneering |
| (verb) cover with veneer | - |
| volunteer | (adjective) without payment | Synonyms: unpaid |
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| (noun) a person who performs voluntary work | Synonyms: unpaid worker |
| (noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, voluntary |
| (verb) tell voluntarily | - |
| (verb) do volunteer work | - |
| (verb) agree freely | Synonyms: offer |