| abetter
|
(noun) one who helps or encourages or incites another |
Synonyms:
abettor |
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| abhorrer
|
(noun) a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred |
- |
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| abjurer
|
(noun) a person who abjures |
- |
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| abrader
|
(noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing |
Synonyms:
abradant |
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| abridger
|
(noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work |
Synonyms:
abbreviator |
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| absconder
|
(noun) a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution |
- |
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| abseiler
|
(noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point |
Synonyms:
rappeller |
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| absolver
|
(noun) someone who grants absolution |
- |
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| absorber
|
(noun) (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation |
- |
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| abstainer
|
(noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline |
Synonyms:
ascetic |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages |
Synonyms:
nondrinker,
abstinent |
| abstracter
|
(noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information |
Synonyms:
abstractor |
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| abuser
|
(noun) someone who abuses |
Synonyms:
maltreater |
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| abutter
|
(noun) the owner of contiguous property |
- |
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| accelerometer
|
(noun) an instrument for measuring the acceleration of aircraft or rockets |
- |
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| accouter
|
(verb) provide with military equipment |
Synonyms:
accoutre |
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| accuser
|
(noun) someone who imputes guilt or blame |
- |
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| achiever
|
(noun) a person with a record of successes |
Synonyms:
success,
winner,
succeeder |
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| acquirer
|
(noun) a person who acquires something (usually permanently) |
- |
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| (noun) a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock |
- |
| (noun) the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card |
- |
| (noun) a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee |
Synonyms:
merchant bank |
| actinometer
|
(noun) an instrument for measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (usually by the photochemical effect) |
- |
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| adapter
|
(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance |
Synonyms:
arranger,
transcriber |
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| (noun) device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible |
Synonyms:
adaptor |
| adder
|
(noun) a person who adds numbers |
- |
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| (noun) a machine that adds numbers |
- |
| (noun) small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia |
Synonyms:
Vipera berus,
common viper |
| adducer
|
(noun) a discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof |
- |
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| adjuster
|
(noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement |
Synonyms:
claim agent,
claims adjuster,
claims adjustor,
adjustor |
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| administer
|
(verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of |
Synonyms:
administrate |
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| (verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually |
- |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions |
Synonyms:
deal,
distribute,
mete out,
deal out,
dish out,
dispense,
dole out,
parcel out,
shell out,
allot,
lot |
| (verb) give or apply (medications) |
Synonyms:
dispense |
| (verb) direct the taking of |
- |
| admirer
|
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. |
Synonyms:
supporter,
booster,
protagonist,
champion,
friend |
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| (noun) a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves |
- |
| (noun) someone who admires a young woman |
Synonyms:
adorer |
| admonisher
|
(noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided |
Synonyms:
reminder,
monitor |
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| adopter
|
(noun) a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child |
Synonyms:
adoptive parent |
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| adorer
|
(noun) someone who admires a young woman |
Synonyms:
admirer |
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| adsorber
|
(noun) an apparatus used in the adhesion of atoms, ions, or molecules from a gas, liquid, or dissolved solid to a surface. |
- |
|---|
| adulterer
|
(noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication |
Synonyms:
fornicator |
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| advancer
|
(noun) someone who advances |
- |
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| adventurer
|
(noun) a person who enjoys taking risks |
Synonyms:
venturer |
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| (noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) |
Synonyms:
explorer |
| advertiser
|
(noun) someone whose business is advertising |
Synonyms:
adman,
advertizer |
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| advertizer
|
(noun) someone whose business is advertising |
Synonyms:
adman,
advertiser |
|---|
| adviser
|
(noun) an expert who gives advice |
Synonyms:
consultant,
advisor |
|---|
| aether
|
(noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves |
Synonyms:
ether |
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| affenpinscher
|
(noun) European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle |
Synonyms:
monkey dog,
monkey pinscher |
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| affirmer
|
(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth |
Synonyms:
declarer,
asserter,
asseverator,
avower |
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| aflicker
|
(adjective) shining unsteadily |
Synonyms:
flickering |
|---|
| aflutter
|
(adjective) excited in anticipation |
Synonyms:
nervous |
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| after
|
(adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time |
Synonyms:
subsequently,
afterward,
afterwards,
later,
later on |
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| (adverb) behind or in the rear |
- |
| (adjective) located farther aft |
- |
| afterburner
|
(noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust |
- |
|---|
| aglitter
|
(adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light |
Synonyms:
glinting,
glistering,
glittering,
glittery,
scintillant,
scintillating,
sparkly,
coruscant,
fulgid |
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| airliner
|
(noun) a commercial airplane that carries passengers |
- |
|---|
| airmailer
|
(noun) a mailer for airmail |
- |
|---|
| alabaster
|
(noun) a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a hard compact kind of calcite |
Synonyms:
Mexican onyx,
onyx marble,
oriental alabaster |
| (noun) a very light white |
- |
| (adjective) of or resembling alabaster |
Synonyms:
alabastrine |
| 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 |
| algometer
|
(noun) device for measuring pain caused by pressure |
- |
|---|
| alkaliser
|
(noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) |
Synonyms:
gastric antacid,
alkalizer,
antacid,
antiacid |
|---|
| alkalizer
|
(noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) |
Synonyms:
gastric antacid,
alkaliser,
antacid,
antiacid |
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| allayer
|
(noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies |
Synonyms:
comforter,
reliever |
|---|
| allegoriser
|
(noun) someone who communicates in allegories |
Synonyms:
allegorizer |
|---|
| allegorizer
|
(noun) someone who communicates in allegories |
Synonyms:
allegoriser |
|---|
| allover
|
(adjective) covering the entire surface |
- |
|---|
| almoner
|
(noun) an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients |
Synonyms:
medical social worker |
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| almsgiver
|
(noun) a person who gives alms |
- |
|---|
| alphabetiser
|
(noun) a literate person who can arrange items in alphabetical order |
Synonyms:
alphabetizer |
|---|
| alphabetizer
|
(noun) a literate person who can arrange items in alphabetical order |
Synonyms:
alphabetiser |
|---|
| alter
|
(verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
Synonyms:
change,
modify |
|---|
| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence |
Synonyms:
change,
vary |
| (verb) make an alteration to |
- |
| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby |
Synonyms:
interpolate,
falsify |
| (verb) remove the ovaries of |
Synonyms:
castrate,
neuter,
spay |
| altimeter
|
(noun) an instrument that measures the height above ground; used in navigation |
- |
|---|
| altogether
|
(adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely |
Synonyms:
right,
entirely,
whole,
wholly,
completely,
all,
totally |
|---|
| (adverb) with everything included or counted |
Synonyms:
in all,
all told |
| (adverb) with everything considered (and neglecting details) |
Synonyms:
on the whole,
all in all,
tout ensemble |
| (noun) informal terms for nakedness |
Synonyms:
raw,
birthday suit |
| amber
|
(noun) a deep yellow color |
Synonyms:
gold |
|---|
| (noun) a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry |
- |
| (adjective) of a medium to dark brownish yellow color |
Synonyms:
brownish-yellow,
yellow-brown |
| ambler
|
(noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace |
Synonyms:
stroller,
saunterer |
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| ambusher
|
(noun) an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack |
- |
|---|
| ameer
|
(noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) |
Synonyms:
emeer,
emir,
amir |
|---|
| ammeter
|
(noun) a meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes |
- |
|---|
| amphitheater
|
(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) |
Synonyms:
amphitheatre |
|---|
| (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held |
Synonyms:
coliseum,
amphitheatre |
| amplifier
|
(noun) electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it |
- |
|---|
| analyser
|
(noun) an instrument that performs analyses |
Synonyms:
analyzer |
|---|
| analyzer
|
(noun) an instrument that performs analyses |
Synonyms:
analyser |
|---|
| anemoclinometer
|
(noun) A type of instrument which measures the inclination of the wind to the horizontal plane. |
- |
|---|
| anemometer
|
(noun) a gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind |
Synonyms:
wind gage,
wind gauge |
|---|
| anger
|
(noun) a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance |
Synonyms:
ire,
choler |
|---|
| (noun) the state of being angry |
Synonyms:
angriness |
| (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
Synonyms:
ira,
ire,
wrath |
| (verb) make angry |
- |
| (verb) become angry |
Synonyms:
see red |
| angledozer
|
(noun) a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side |
- |
|---|
| angler
|
(noun) a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line |
Synonyms:
troller |
| (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey |
Synonyms:
monkfish,
goosefish,
allmouth,
angler fish,
anglerfish,
Lophius Americanus,
lotte |
| announcer
|
(noun) someone who proclaims a message publicly |
- |
|---|
| (noun) reads news, commercials on radio or television |
- |
| annoyer
|
(noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) |
Synonyms:
tease,
teaser,
vexer |
|---|
| anointer
|
(noun) one who anoints as a religious ceremony |
- |
|---|
| another
|
(adjective) any of various alternatives; some other; entity, singular, other pronoun; quantifier, singular, another |
Synonyms:
some other |
|---|
| answer
|
(verb) react verbally |
Synonyms:
respond,
reply |
|---|
| (verb) respond to a signal |
- |
| (verb) give the correct answer or solution to |
- |
| (verb) understand the meaning of |
Synonyms:
resolve |
| (verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) |
- |
| (verb) be liable or accountable |
- |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity |
Synonyms:
do,
serve,
suffice |
| (verb) match or correspond |
- |
| (verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of |
- |
| (verb) react to a stimulus or command |
- |
| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation |
Synonyms:
response,
reply |
| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem |
Synonyms:
resolution,
result,
solution,
solvent |
| (noun) the speech act of replying to a question |
- |
| (noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims |
- |
| (noun) a nonverbal reaction |
- |
| answerer
|
(noun) someone who responds |
Synonyms:
respondent,
responder |
|---|
| anteater
|
(noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites |
Synonyms:
pangolin,
scaly anteater |
|---|
| (noun) any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites |
Synonyms:
New World anteater |
| (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata |
Synonyms:
Orycteropus afer,
aardvark,
ant bear |
| (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct |
Synonyms:
numbat,
Myrmecobius fasciatus,
banded anteater |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea |
Synonyms:
echidna,
spiny anteater |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia |
Synonyms:
echidna,
spiny anteater |
| antechamber
|
(noun) a large entrance or reception room or area |
Synonyms:
lobby,
hall,
entrance hall,
vestibule,
anteroom,
foyer |
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| anther
|
(noun) the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk |
- |
|---|
| anticancer
|
(adjective) used in the treatment of cancer |
Synonyms:
antineoplastic,
antitumor,
antitumour |
|---|
| antimatter
|
(noun) matter consisting of elementary particles that are the antiparticles of those making up normal substances |
- |
|---|
| antler
|
(noun) deciduous horn of a member of the deer family |
- |
|---|
| aper
|
(noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another |
Synonyms:
ape,
imitator,
emulator,
copycat |
|---|
| appeaser
|
(noun) someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands |
- |
|---|
| appetiser
|
(noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) |
Synonyms:
starter,
appetizer |
|---|
| appetizer
|
(noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) |
Synonyms:
starter,
appetiser |
|---|
| applauder
|
(noun) someone who applauds |
Synonyms:
clapper |
|---|
| applier
|
(noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission |
Synonyms:
applicant |
|---|
| (noun) a device for applying a substance |
Synonyms:
applicator |
| appraiser
|
(noun) one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things |
Synonyms:
valuator |
|---|
| (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity |
Synonyms:
authenticator |
| 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) |
- |
| approver
|
(noun) an authority with power to approve |
- |
|---|
| aquifer
|
(noun) underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc |
- |
|---|
| arbiter
|
(noun) someone with the power to settle matters at will |
Synonyms:
supreme authority |
|---|
| (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue |
Synonyms:
umpire,
arbitrator |
| arbitrager
|
(noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) |
Synonyms:
arb,
arbitrageur |
|---|
| archer
|
(noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow |
Synonyms:
bowman |
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