arguer | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: debater |
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armiger | (noun) a squire carrying the armor of a knight | Synonyms: armor-bearer |
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(noun) a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms | - |
armorer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armourer |
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(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armourer, artificer |
(noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armourer |
armourer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armorer |
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(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, artificer |
(noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armorer |
arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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arranger | (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: organiser, organizer |
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(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, transcriber |
arrester | (noun) a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier | Synonyms: arrester hook |
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arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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artificer | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artisan, craftsman, journeyman |
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(noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: discoverer, inventor |
(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, armourer |
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 | - |
asker | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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asper | (noun) 20 aspers equal 1 kurus in Turkey | - |
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aspirer | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee |
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assaulter | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, attacker |
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assayer | (noun) an analyst who assays (performs chemical tests on) metals | - |
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assembler | (noun) a program to convert assembly language into machine language | Synonyms: assembly program |
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assenter | (noun) a person who assents | - |
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asserter | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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aster | (noun) star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis | - |
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(noun) any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers | - |
astrologer | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologist |
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astronomer | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: stargazer, uranologist |
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asunder | (adjective) widely separated especially in space | - |
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(adverb) into parts or pieces | Synonyms: apart |
atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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atmometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: evaporometer |
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atomiser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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atomizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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attacker | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, assaulter |
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attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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attemper | (verb) modify the temperature of | - |
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attempter | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: essayer, trier |
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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 |
attester | (noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attestant |
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attracter | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magnet |
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(noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attractor |
(noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attraction, attractor, draw, drawing card |
auctioneer | (noun) an agent who conducts an auction | - |
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(verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
audiometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing | Synonyms: sonometer |
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auger | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: gimlet, screw auger, wimble |
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(noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: plumber's snake, snake |
authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
babbler | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: cackler |
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(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
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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babysitter | (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, sitter |
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backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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backbiter | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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backer | (noun) someone who provides financial support for some venture | Synonyms: angel |
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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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backpacker | (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: packer |
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backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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(noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
backslapper | (noun) someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality | - |
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backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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backspacer | (noun) the typewriter key used for back spacing | Synonyms: backspace, backspace key |
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backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
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backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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backwater | (noun) a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring | - |
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(noun) a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam | - |
badger | (noun) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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(verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
badgerer | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: heckler |
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baedeker | (noun) any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker | - |
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bagger | (noun) a machine for putting objects or substances into bags | - |
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(noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: boxer, packer |
bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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baker | (noun) someone who bakes bread or cake | Synonyms: bread maker |
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(noun) someone who bakes commercially | - |
balancer | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: halter, haltere |
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(noun) an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions | - |
balker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: baulker, noncompliant |
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balladeer | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: crooner |
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ballplayer | (noun) an athlete who plays baseball | Synonyms: baseball player |
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baluster | (noun) one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing | - |
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bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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bandoleer | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandolier |
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bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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banger | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: cracker, firecracker |
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(noun) (British informal) pork sausage | - |
banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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banker | (noun) a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank | - |
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(noun) the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game | - |
banner | (adjective) unusually good; outstanding | - |
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(noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: streamer |
(noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: standard |
(noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: streamer |
bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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banter | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: backchat, give-and-take, raillery |
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(verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: chaff, jolly, josh, kid |
barber | (noun) a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade | - |
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(verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of | - |
bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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(noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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barker | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch |
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(noun) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers | - |
barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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(noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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(noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
barometer | (noun) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure | - |
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barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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barretter | (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast, ballast resistor |
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barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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(noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
(noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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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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barter | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
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(verb) exchange goods without involving money | - |
barterer | (noun) a trader who exchanges goods and not money | - |
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barycenter | (noun) (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve | - |
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basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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