| alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay |
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| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: change, vary |
| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: change, modify |
| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: falsify, interpolate |
| (verb) make an alteration to | - |
| assaulter | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, attacker |
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| colter | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil | Synonyms: coulter |
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| coulter | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil | Synonyms: colter |
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| defaulter | (noun) a contestant who forfeits a match | - |
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| (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: deadbeat |
| (noun) someone who fails to make a required appearance in court | - |
| falter | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: faltering, hesitation, waver |
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| (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, stammer, stutter |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, stumble |
| (verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: waver |
| (verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: waver |
| filter | (noun) device that removes something from whatever passes through it | - |
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| (noun) an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it | - |
| (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter out, filtrate, separate out, strain |
| (verb) pass through | Synonyms: percolate, permeate, sink in |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| halter | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: balancer, haltere |
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| (noun) a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered | - |
| (noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: hackamore |
| (noun) a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging | Synonyms: hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hemp, hempen necktie |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle |
| (verb) hang with a halter | - |
| kelter | (noun) in working order | Synonyms: kilter |
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| kilter | (noun) in working order | Synonyms: kelter |
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| melter | (noun) a worker who melts substances (metal or wax etc.) | - |
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| molter | (noun) an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | Synonyms: moulter |
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| moulter | (noun) an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | Synonyms: molter |
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| palter | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| pelter | (noun) a thrower of missiles | - |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
| philter | (noun) a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it | Synonyms: love-philter, love-philtre, love-potion, philtre |
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| salter | (noun) someone who makes or deals in salt | Synonyms: salt merchant |
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| (noun) someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods | - |
| shelter | (noun) a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger | - |
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| (noun) protective covering that provides protection from the weather | - |
| (noun) temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons | - |
| (noun) a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings | Synonyms: tax shelter |
| (noun) the condition of being protected | Synonyms: protection |
| (verb) invest (money) so that it is not taxable | - |
| (verb) provide shelter for | - |
| smelter | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smeltery |
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| spelter | (noun) impure zinc containing about three percent lead and other impurities (especially in the form of ingots) | - |
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| swelter | (verb) suffer from intense heat | - |
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| (verb) be uncomfortably hot | - |
| tilter | (noun) a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs | - |
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| (noun) someone who engages in a tilt or joust | - |
| vaulter | (noun) an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole | Synonyms: pole jumper, pole vaulter |
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| welter | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother |
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| (verb) be immersed in | - |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way | - |