| ombudsman | (noun) a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government | - |
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| ottoman | (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, pouf, pouffe, puff |
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| (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, footstool, tuffet |
| outdoorsman | (noun) a male person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing) | - |
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| outdoorswoman | (noun) a woman who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting and fishing) | - |
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| packman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, peddler, pedlar, pitchman |
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| pantryman | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | Synonyms: butler |
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| patrolman | (noun) a policeman who patrols a given region | Synonyms: flatfoot |
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| penman | (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: scribbler, scribe |
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| pigman | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: swineherd |
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| pitchman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar |
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| (noun) an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something | - |
| pitman | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, collier |
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| placeman | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeseeker |
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| plainclothesman | (noun) a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty | - |
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| plainsman | (noun) an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America) | - |
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| plantsman | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: horticulturist |
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| ploughman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: plower, plowman |
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| plowman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: ploughman, plower |
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| pointsman | (noun) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic | - |
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| policeman | (noun) a male member of a police force | - |
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| policewoman | (noun) a woman policeman | Synonyms: police matron |
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| posseman | (noun) an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse | - |
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| postman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman |
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| potman | (noun) a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores | Synonyms: potboy |
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| poultryman | (noun) a dealer in poultry and poultry products | Synonyms: poulterer |
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| pressman | (noun) someone whose occupation is printing | Synonyms: printer |
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| (noun) a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newspaperman |
| privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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| propman | (noun) member of the stage crew in charge of properties | Synonyms: property man, property master |
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| quarryman | (noun) a man who works in a quarry | Synonyms: quarrier |
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| raftman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftsman |
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| raftsman | (noun) someone who travels by raft | Synonyms: rafter, raftman |
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| railwayman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, trainman |
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| repairman | (noun) a skilled worker whose job is to repair things | Synonyms: maintenance man, service man |
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| rifleman | (noun) a soldier whose weapon is a rifle | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in the use of a rifle | - |
| roadman | (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: bagman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
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| (noun) a workman who is employed to repair roads | Synonyms: road mender |
| roman | (noun) a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions | Synonyms: roman letters, roman print, roman type |
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| roundsman | (noun) a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on) | - |
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| salesman | (noun) a man salesperson | - |
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| saleswoman | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleslady |
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| saman | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, monkeypod, rain tree, zaman, zamang |
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| sandman | (noun) an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy | - |
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| sandwichman | (noun) a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders | - |
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| schoolman | (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: academician |
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| seaman | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, tar |
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| seedman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedsman |
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| seedsman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedman |
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| selectman | (noun) a male elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| selectwoman | (noun) a female elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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| serviceman | (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: man, military man, military personnel |
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| shaman | (noun) in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination | Synonyms: priest-doctor |
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| sheepman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) sheep | - |
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| (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, shepherd |
| showman | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: impresario, promoter |
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| (noun) a person skilled at making effective presentations | - |
| sidesman | (noun) (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church | - |
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| signalman | (noun) a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard | - |
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| snowman | (noun) a figure of a person made of packed snow | - |
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| soman | (noun) a nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled | Synonyms: GD |
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| soundman | (noun) a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
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| spaceman | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, cosmonaut |
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| spokesman | (noun) a male spokesperson | - |
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| spokeswoman | (noun) a female spokesperson | - |
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| sportsman | (noun) a male who engages in sports | - |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| stableman | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableboy |
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| statesman | (noun) a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs | - |
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| stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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| steelman | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelmaker, steelworker |
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| steersman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steerer |
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| stockman | (noun) farmer who breed or raises livestock | Synonyms: stock farmer, stock raiser |
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| strawman | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man |
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| (noun) a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted | Synonyms: straw man |
| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man |
| strongman | (noun) a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence | - |
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| (noun) a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus | - |
| subhuman | (adjective) less than human or not worthy of a human being | - |
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| (adjective) unfit for human beings | - |
| superhuman | (adjective) above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance | - |
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| superman | (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, window pane, Zen |
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| (noun) a person with great powers and abilities | Synonyms: demigod, Ubermensch |
| swagman | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swaggie |
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| switchman | (noun) a man who operates railroad switches | - |
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| swordsman | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: fencer |
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| talisman | (noun) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | Synonyms: amulet |
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| tallyman | (noun) one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | Synonyms: tally clerk |
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| (noun) one who sells goods on the installment plan | - |
| taximan | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver |
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| taxman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, exciseman, internal revenue agent, tax collector |
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| timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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| tollman | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollkeeper |
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| townsman | (noun) a person from the same town as yourself | - |
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| (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: towner |
| tradesman | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper |
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| trainbandsman | (noun) a member of a trainband | - |
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| trainman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman |
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| trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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| tribesman | (noun) someone who lives in a tribe | - |
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| triggerman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo |
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| underclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: lowerclassman |
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| unhuman | (adjective) divested of human qualities or attributes | Synonyms: dehumanised, dehumanized |
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| unman | (verb) cause to lose one's nerve | - |
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| vestryman | (noun) a man who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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| vestrywoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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| warehouseman | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouser |
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| washerman | (noun) a man who operates an industrial washing machine | Synonyms: laundryman |
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| washerwoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, laundrywoman, washwoman |
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| washman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | - |
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| washwoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, laundrywoman, washerwoman |
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| watchman | (noun) a guard who keeps watch | Synonyms: security guard, watcher |
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| waterman | (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boater, boatman |
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