| aquifer | (noun) underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc | - |
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| bluffer | (noun) a person who tries to bluff other people | Synonyms: four-flusher |
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| buffer | (noun) a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact | Synonyms: fender |
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| (noun) a power tool used to buff surfaces | Synonyms: polisher |
| (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: cowcatcher, fender, pilot |
| (noun) (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system | Synonyms: buffer storage, buffer store |
| (noun) an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring) | Synonyms: buff |
| (noun) a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict | Synonyms: buffer zone |
| (noun) (chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH | - |
| (verb) add a buffer (a solution) | - |
| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: cushion, soften |
| caffer | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffre, kaffir, kafir |
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| candlesnuffer | (noun) an implement with a small cup at the end of a handle; used to extinguish the flame of a candle | - |
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| chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
| chamfer | (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: bevel, cant |
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| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chase, furrow |
| (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: bevel |
| cockchafer | (noun) any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult | Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha |
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| coffer | (noun) a chest especially for storing valuables | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: caisson, lacunar |
| confer | (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confabulate, consult |
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| (verb) present | Synonyms: bestow |
| conifer | (noun) any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones | Synonyms: coniferous tree |
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| counteroffer | (noun) an offer made by someone who has rejected a prior offer | - |
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| crucifer | (noun) any of various plants of the family Cruciferae | Synonyms: cruciferous plant |
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| defer | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, give in, submit |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
| differ | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: disagree, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different | - |
| duffer | (noun) an incompetent or clumsy person | - |
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| foraminifer | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foram |
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| gaffer | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, foreman, honcho |
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| (noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: antique, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer |
| (noun) an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set | - |
| gauffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: goffer |
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| (noun) an iron used to press pleats and ridges | Synonyms: gauffering iron, goffer, goffering iron |
| (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: goffer |
| gofer | (noun) an employee whose duties include running errands | - |
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| goffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: gauffer |
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| (noun) an iron used to press pleats and ridges | Synonyms: gauffer, gauffering iron, goffering iron |
| (noun) a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | Synonyms: gopher |
| (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: gauffer |
| golfer | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, linksman |
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| heifer | (noun) young cow | - |
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| hoofer | (noun) a professional dancer | Synonyms: stepper |
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| infer | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, deduct, derive |
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| (verb) believe to be the case | Synonyms: understand |
| (verb) guess correctly; solve by guessing | Synonyms: guess |
| (verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: deduce |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, generalize |
| langlaufer | (noun) a cross-country skier | - |
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| laticifer | (noun) a plant duct containing latex | - |
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| lifer | (noun) a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment | - |
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| loafer | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout |
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| lucifer | (noun) lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction | Synonyms: friction match, match |
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| offer | (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offering |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offering |
| (verb) put forward for consideration | - |
| (verb) threaten to do something | - |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, pop the question, propose |
| (verb) produce or introduce on the stage | - |
| (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, tender |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, provide, render, supply |
| (verb) make available for sale | - |
| (verb) offer verbally | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) make available; provide | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) agree freely | Synonyms: volunteer |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: provide, put up |
| (verb) present as an act of worship | Synonyms: offer up |
| pilfer | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| prefer | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, opt |
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| (verb) like better; value more highly | - |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| (verb) give preference to one creditor over another | - |
| proffer | (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proposition, suggestion |
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| (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
| puffer | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, pufferfish |
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| (noun) delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver | Synonyms: blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab |
| quaffer | (noun) a person who drinks heartily | - |
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| reefer | (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, spliff, stick |
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| refer | (verb) think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another | - |
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| (verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: denote |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, name |
| (verb) use a name to designate | - |
| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: consult, look up |
| (verb) send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, relate, touch, touch on |
| roofer | (noun) a craftsman who lays or repairs roofs | - |
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| rotifer | (noun) minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion; constituents of freshwater plankton | - |
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| scoffer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, mocker |
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| (noun) someone who eats food rapidly and greedily | Synonyms: gorger |
| scuffer | (noun) a lightweight flexible sandal with a sturdy sole; worn as play shoes by children and as sportswear by adults | - |
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| sniffer | (noun) a person who sniffs | - |
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| snuffer | (noun) a cone-shaped implement with a handle; for extinguishing candles | - |
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| (noun) a person who uses snuff | Synonyms: snuff user |
| (noun) a person who snuffs out candles | - |
| staffer | (noun) an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States) | Synonyms: staff member |
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| strafer | (noun) a combat pilot who strafes the enemy | - |
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| stuffer | (noun) an advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display | Synonyms: animal stuffer, taxidermist |
| subwoofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies | - |
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| suffer | (verb) be in pain | Synonyms: hurt |
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| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, have, sustain |
| (verb) feel unwell or uncomfortable | - |
| (verb) get worse in quality | - |
| (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: lose |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, support, tolerate |
| (verb) experience (emotional) pain | - |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: ache, hurt |
| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: endure |
| (verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) be given to | - |
| surfer | (noun) someone who engages in surfboarding | Synonyms: surfboarder |
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| telfer | (noun) one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage | Synonyms: telpher |
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| thurifer | (noun) an acolyte who carries a thurible | - |
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| titfer | (noun) a hat (Cockney rhyming slang: `tit for tat' rhymes with `hat') | - |
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| transfer | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transferral, transport, transportation |
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| (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transference |
| (noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transference |
| (noun) application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation | Synonyms: carry-over, transfer of training |
| (noun) a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances | - |
| (noun) someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another | Synonyms: transferee |
| (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transplant, transpose |
| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: shift |
| (verb) shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes | Synonyms: remove |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transplant |
| (verb) cause to change ownership | - |
| (verb) move from one place to another | - |
| (verb) transfer somebody to a different position or location of work | Synonyms: reassign |
| twofer | (noun) an offer of two for the price of one | - |
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| (noun) a coupon that allows the holder to purchase two items (as two tickets to a play) for the price of one | - |
| umbellifer | (noun) any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae | Synonyms: umbelliferous plant |
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| wafer | (noun) a small thin crisp cake or cookie | - |
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| (noun) thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist) | - |
| (noun) a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters | - |
| whiffer | (noun) a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike | - |
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| woofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that reproduces lower audio frequency sounds | - |
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