| admonisher | (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: monitor, reminder |
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| 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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| altogether | (noun) informal terms for nakedness | Synonyms: birthday suit, raw |
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| (adverb) with everything included or counted | Synonyms: all told, in all |
| (adverb) with everything considered (and neglecting details) | Synonyms: all in all, on the whole, tout ensemble |
| (adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, completely, entirely, right, totally, whole, wholly |
| ambusher | (noun) an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack | - |
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| another | (adjective) any of various alternatives; some other; entity, singular, other pronoun; quantifier, singular, another | Synonyms: some other |
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| anther | (noun) the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk | - |
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| archer | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: bowman |
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| autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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| backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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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 | - |
| bather | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: natator, swimmer |
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| (noun) a person who takes a bath | - |
| bellwether | (noun) sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell | - |
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| (noun) someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity | - |
| bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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| biographer | (noun) someone who writes an account of a person's life | - |
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| blather | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blatherskite |
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| (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blether, blither, smatter |
| bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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| blether | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle |
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| (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blither, smatter |
| blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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| blucher | (noun) a high shoe with laces over the tongue | - |
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| blusher | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, paint, rouge |
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| (noun) yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched | Synonyms: Amanita rubescens, blushing mushroom |
| botcher | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| bother | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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| (noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) make confused or perplexed or puzzled | - |
| (verb) make nervous or agitated | - |
| (verb) intrude or enter uninvited | - |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| brother | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | Synonyms: blood brother |
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| (noun) a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) | - |
| (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
| (noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: comrade |
| burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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| (noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
| (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
| calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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| cartographer | (noun) a person who makes maps | Synonyms: map maker |
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| catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
| choreographer | (noun) someone who creates new dances | - |
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| cinematographer | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cameraman |
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| cipher | (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cryptograph, cypher, secret code |
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| (noun) a message written in a secret code | Synonyms: cypher |
| (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cypher, nobody, nonentity |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cypher, nought, zero |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| cither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: zither, zithern |
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| (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cithern, citole, cittern, gittern |
| clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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| (noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
| cosher | (adjective) conforming to Jewish dietary laws | Synonyms: kosher |
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| cosmographer | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographist |
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| cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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| cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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| crasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: gatecrasher, unwelcome guest |
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| crossbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| crusher | (noun) a device that crushes something | - |
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| cryptographer | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalyst, cryptologist |
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| crystallographer | (noun) a specialist in crystallography | - |
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| cypher | (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cipher, cryptograph, secret code |
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| (noun) a message written in a secret code | Synonyms: cipher |
| (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, nobody, nonentity |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, nought, zero |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, figure, reckon, work out |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| decipher | (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: trace |
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| (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decode, decrypt |
| demographer | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographist, population scientist |
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| dishwasher | (noun) a machine for washing dishes | Synonyms: dish washer, dishwashing machine |
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| (noun) someone who washes dishes | - |
| dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
| dither | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: flap, fuss, pother, tizzy |
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| (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: flap, pother |
| (verb) act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain | - |
| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| either | (adverb) after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also' | - |
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| encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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| encroacher | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: invader |
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| etcher | (noun) someone who etches | - |
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| ether | (noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic | Synonyms: diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ethoxyethane, ethyl ether, vinyl ether |
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| (noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: aether |
| (noun) any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom | - |
| (noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: quintessence |
| ethnographer | (noun) an anthropologist who does ethnography | - |
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| extinguisher | (noun) a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires | Synonyms: asphyxiator, fire extinguisher |
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| farther | (adjective) more distant in especially space or time | - |
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| (adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: further |
| (adverb) to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: further |
| (adverb) to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: further |
| father | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: begetter, male parent |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: forefather, sire |
| (noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization | - |
| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father |
| (noun) the head of an organized crime family | Synonyms: don |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
| feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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| (noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
| (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
| (verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
| finisher | (noun) an animal that wins in a contest of speed | - |
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| (noun) a race car that finishes a race | - |
| (noun) a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process | - |
| (noun) a painter who applies a finishing coat | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: closer |
| (noun) a racing driver who finishes a race | - |
| fisher | (noun) large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: black cat, fisher cat, Martes pennanti, pekan |
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| (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisherman |
| flasher | (noun) an electrical device that automatically turns a lamp on and off (as for an advertising display) | - |
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| (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: blinker |
| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: exhibitionist |
| flycatcher | (noun) any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing | Synonyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher |
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| (noun) large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing | Synonyms: New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher |
| forefather | (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, sire |
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| (noun) person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group | - |
| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| foremother | (noun) a female ancestor | - |
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| forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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| fresher | (noun) a first-year undergraduate | Synonyms: freshman |
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| frontbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is a minister in the government or who holds an official position in an opposition party | - |
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| further | (adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: farther |
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| (adverb) to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: farther |
| (adverb) to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: farther |
| (adverb) in addition or furthermore | - |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, promote |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, foster |
| gatecrasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: crasher, unwelcome guest |
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| gather | (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gathering |
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| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gathering |
| (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up |
| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) conclude from evidence | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: pucker, tuck |
| (verb) look for (food) in nature | - |
| (verb) draw and bring closer | - |
| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: assemble, get together |
| gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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| geographer | (noun) an expert on geography | - |
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| gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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| godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| (noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
| godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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| gopher | (noun) burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America | Synonyms: pocket gopher, pouched rat |
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| (noun) burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America | Synonyms: gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus polypemus |
| (noun) any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops | Synonyms: ground squirrel, spermophile |
| (noun) a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | Synonyms: goffer |
| grandfather | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandpa |
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| grandmother | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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| gusher | (noun) an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary | - |
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| haberdasher | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: clothier |
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| hagiographer | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographist, hagiologist |
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| hauncher | (noun) a machine for making shaped cuts in the end or along the edge of a board. | Synonyms: haunching machine |
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| heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
| higher | (adjective) of education beyond the secondary level | - |
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| (adjective) advanced in complexity or elaboration | - |
| historiographer | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historian |
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| hither | (adverb) to this place (especially toward the speaker) | Synonyms: here |
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| housefather | (noun) a man in charge of children in an institution | - |
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| housemother | (noun) a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people | - |
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| kingfisher | (noun) nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish | - |
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| kosher | (adjective) conforming to Jewish dietary laws | Synonyms: cosher |
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| (adjective) proper or legitimate | - |
| (noun) food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law | - |
| languisher | (noun) a person who languishes | - |
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| lasher | (noun) a driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip | - |
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| lather | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: soapsuds, suds |
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| (noun) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) | - |
| (noun) a workman who puts up laths | - |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, stew, sweat, swither |
| (verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: soap |
| (verb) exude sweat or lather | - |
| (verb) form a lather | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |