anger | (noun) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: ira, ire, wrath |
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(noun) a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance | Synonyms: choler, ire |
(noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: angriness |
(verb) make angry | - |
(verb) become angry | Synonyms: see red |
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 |
avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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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 | - |
binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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challenger | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: competition, competitor, contender, rival |
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changer | (noun) an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention | Synonyms: auto-changer, record changer |
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(noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: modifier |
cheesemonger | (noun) someone who sells cheese | - |
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clanger | (noun) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate | - |
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cliffhanger | (noun) an episode that ends in suspense | - |
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(noun) a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end | - |
conger | (noun) large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food | Synonyms: conger eel |
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costermonger | (noun) a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow | Synonyms: barrow-boy, barrow-man |
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danger | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: peril, risk |
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(noun) a dangerous place | - |
(noun) the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury | - |
(noun) a cause of pain or injury or loss | - |
derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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doppelganger | (noun) a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
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endanger | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: expose, peril, queer, scupper |
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(verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
exchanger | (noun) one whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country | Synonyms: money changer |
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fashionmonger | (noun) someone who advises you about fashionable clothing | Synonyms: fashion consultant |
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finger | (noun) one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb | - |
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(noun) any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb) | - |
(noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth |
(verb) indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments | - |
(verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: thumb |
(verb) search for on the computer | - |
(verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: feel |
fishmonger | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishwife |
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forefinger | (noun) the finger next to the thumb | Synonyms: index, index finger |
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ganger | (noun) the foreman of a work gang | - |
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ginger | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: gingery |
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(noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: pep, peppiness |
(noun) dried ground gingerroot | Synonyms: powdered ginger |
(noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: gingerroot |
(noun) perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems | - |
(verb) add ginger to in order to add flavor | - |
gossipmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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granger | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, husbandman, sodbuster |
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gunslinger | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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hanger | (noun) anything from which something can be hung | - |
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(noun) a worker who hangs something | - |
harbinger | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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(verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
hatemonger | (noun) one who arouses hatred for others | - |
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humdinger | (noun) someone of remarkable excellence | - |
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hunger | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hungriness, thirst, thirstiness |
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(noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hungriness |
(verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, starve |
(verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, lust, starve, thirst |
(verb) feel the need to eat | - |
ironmonger | (noun) a store selling hardware | Synonyms: hardware store, ironmonger's shop |
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(noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: hardwareman |
ladyfinger | (noun) small finger-shaped sponge cake | - |
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linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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(verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
(verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
(verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
(verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
longer | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: thirster, yearner |
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(adverb) for more time | - |
lounger | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: recliner, reclining chair |
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(noun) an article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear | - |
(noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, mope |
lunger | (noun) someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing) | - |
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(noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, tubercular |
malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: skulk |
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manger | (noun) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed | Synonyms: trough |
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messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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monger | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, trader |
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(verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, peddle, pitch, vend |
mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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mudspringer | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudskipper |
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newsmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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paperhanger | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperer |
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(noun) someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money | - |
passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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phalanger | (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, possum |
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pinger | (noun) a pulse generator used for echo sounding in sonar | - |
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plunger | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: piston |
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(noun) hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains | Synonyms: plumber's helper |
(noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: speculator |
(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: diver |
porringer | (noun) a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) | - |
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ranger | (noun) an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest | Synonyms: fire warden, forest fire fighter |
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(noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: commando |
ringer | (noun) (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg | - |
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(noun) a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses | - |
(noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: clone, dead ringer |
(noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, toller |
rumormonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumourmonger |
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rumourmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger |
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scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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scaremonger | (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: stirrer |
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scavenger | (noun) any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter | - |
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(noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: magpie, pack rat |
(noun) a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities | - |
scrounger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, moocher |
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singer | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer |
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slinger | (noun) a person who uses a sling to throw something | - |
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sponger | (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponge |
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(noun) a workman employed to collect sponges | - |
springer | (noun) a cow about to give birth | Synonyms: springing cow |
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(noun) a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white | Synonyms: springer spaniel |
(noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: impost |
stinger | (noun) a sharp stinging blow | - |
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(noun) a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | - |
(noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: cut |
(noun) a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy | - |
stranger | (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, unknown |
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(noun) an individual that one is not acquainted with | - |
straphanger | (noun) a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support | - |
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(noun) a commuter who uses public transportation | - |
stringer | (noun) a long horizontal timber to connect uprights | - |
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(noun) brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull | - |
(noun) a worker who strings | - |
(noun) a member of a squad on a team | - |
swinger | (noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex | Synonyms: tramp |
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(noun) someone who swings sports implements | - |
warmonger | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: militarist |
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whoremonger | (noun) a pimp who procures whores | Synonyms: whoremaster |
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(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, trick, whoremaster |
winger | (noun) (sports) player in wing position | - |
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wordmonger | (noun) a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning | - |
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wringer | (noun) a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed | - |
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younger | (adjective) used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father | Synonyms: jr., Junior |
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zinger | (noun) a striking or amusing or caustic remark | - |
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