| adjuster | (noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement | Synonyms: adjustor, claim agent, claims adjuster, claims adjustor |
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| administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
| (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
| (verb) direct the taking of | - |
| alabaster | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabastrine |
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| (noun) a very light white | - |
| (noun) a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving | - |
| (noun) a hard compact kind of calcite | Synonyms: Mexican onyx, onyx marble, oriental alabaster |
| arrester | (noun) a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier | Synonyms: arrester hook |
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| aster | (noun) star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis | - |
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| (noun) any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers | - |
| attester | (noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attestant |
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| baluster | (noun) one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing | - |
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| bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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| banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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| bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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| barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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| baster | (noun) a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat | - |
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| (noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: tacker |
| (noun) a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy | - |
| beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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| bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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| bister | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bistre |
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| blaster | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: chargeman |
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| blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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| (noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
| (noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
| (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
| (verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
| blockbuster | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: megahit, smash hit |
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| (noun) a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block) | - |
| bluster | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bravado |
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| (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: braggadocio, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
| (noun) a violent gusty wind | - |
| (noun) noisy confusion and turbulence | - |
| (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
| boaster | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| bolster | (noun) a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows | Synonyms: long pillow |
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| (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
| (verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
| (verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
| booster | (noun) an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective | Synonyms: booster dose, booster shot, recall dose |
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| (noun) the first stage of a multistage rocket | Synonyms: booster rocket, booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket |
| (noun) an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: booster amplifier, booster station, relay link, relay station, relay transmitter |
| (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: lifter, shoplifter |
| (noun) someone who is an active supporter and advocate | Synonyms: plugger, promoter |
| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
| broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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| (noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
| broncobuster | (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, buster |
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| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| burster | (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: bursting charge, charge, explosive charge |
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| buster | (noun) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something | - |
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| (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster |
| (noun) a robust child | - |
| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: dude, fellow |
| (noun) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | Synonyms: baby buster |
| cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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| canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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| (noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
| cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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| caster | (noun) a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable | Synonyms: castor |
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| (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a worker who casts molten metal into finished products | - |
| choirmaster | (noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: cantor, precentor |
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| chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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| cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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| (noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
| (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| cluster | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, clump, clustering |
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| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
| clyster | (noun) an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: enema |
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| coaster | (noun) a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle) | - |
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| (noun) someone who coasts | - |
| (noun) a resident of a coastal area | - |
| contester | (noun) someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.) | - |
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| cotoneaster | (noun) any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits | - |
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| defroster | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: deicer |
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| demister | (noun) heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car | - |
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| digester | (noun) autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested | - |
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| disaster | (noun) an act that has disastrous consequences | - |
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| (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, tragedy |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: catastrophe |
| duster | (noun) a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter | - |
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| (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, gabardine, gaberdine, smock |
| (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, dustrag |
| (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, sandstorm, sirocco |
| easter | (noun) a wind from the east | Synonyms: east wind, easterly |
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| ester | (noun) organic compound formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water | - |
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| faster | (adverb) more quickly | Synonyms: quicker |
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| fester | (noun) a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus | Synonyms: suppurating sore |
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| (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: maturate, suppurate |
| filibuster | (noun) (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches | - |
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| (noun) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | Synonyms: filibusterer |
| (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
| fluster | (noun) a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset | Synonyms: perturbation |
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| (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
| (verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
| forecaster | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer |
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| forester | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: arboriculturist, tree farmer |
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| foster | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: surrogate |
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| (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
| (verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
| gagster | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagwriter |
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| gangster | (noun) a criminal who is a member of gang | Synonyms: mobster |
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| glister | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| grandmaster | (noun) a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge | - |
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| hamster | (noun) short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches | - |
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| harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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| (noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
| headmaster | (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: master, schoolmaster |
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| hipster | (noun) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle | Synonyms: flower child, hippie, hippy |
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| hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
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| holster | (noun) a sheath (usually leather) for carrying a handgun | - |
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| (noun) a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools | - |
| housemaster | (noun) teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse | - |
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| huckster | (noun) a seller of shoddy goods | Synonyms: cheap-jack |
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| (noun) a person who writes radio or tv advertisements | - |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
| hypercoaster | (noun) a roller coaster that goes up 200 feet or higher and can catapult riders from 0 to 70 mph in 4 seconds by motors originally designed to launch rockets | - |
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| imposter | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| jester | (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: fool, motley fool |
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| jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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| keister | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| lackluster | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
| leister | (noun) a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon) | - |
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| lister | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker |
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| (noun) assessor who makes out the tax lists | - |
| lobster | (noun) any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a lobster | - |
| lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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| luster | (noun) a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain | Synonyms: lustre |
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| (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, lustre, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: lustre, sheen, shininess |
| maltster | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltman |
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| master | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, primary, principal |
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| (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master copy, original |
| (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master key, passe-partout, passkey |
| (noun) an artist of consummate skill | Synonyms: maestro |
| (noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: superior, victor |
| (noun) an authority qualified to teach apprentices | Synonyms: professional |
| (noun) directs the work of others | - |
| (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: lord, overlord |
| (noun) someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution | - |
| (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, schoolmaster |
| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, sea captain, skipper |
| (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) be or become completely proficient or skilled in | Synonyms: get the hang |
| (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount |
| (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: dominate |
| minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
| (noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
| (noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
| (verb) work as a minister | - |
| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| minster | (noun) any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery | - |
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| mobster | (noun) a criminal who is a member of gang | Synonyms: gangster |
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| molester | (noun) someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities | - |
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| monster | (noun) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | Synonyms: teras |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, ogre |
| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity |
| (noun) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts | - |
| (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath |
| muster | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, draft, selective service |
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| (noun) a gathering of military personnel for duty | - |
| (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
| nester | (noun) a bird that has built (or is building) a nest | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, squatter |
| newscaster | (noun) someone who broadcasts the news | - |
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| noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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| northeaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: noreaster |
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| northwester | (noun) a wind from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest wind |
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| oldster | (noun) an elderly person | Synonyms: golden ager, old person, senior citizen |
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| oleaster | (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits | - |
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| ouster | (noun) the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out | Synonyms: ousting |
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| (noun) a wrongful dispossession | - |
| (noun) a person who ousts or supplants someone else | Synonyms: ejector |
| overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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| oyster | (noun) marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters | - |
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| (noun) edible body of any of numerous oysters | Synonyms: huitre |
| (noun) a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl | - |
| (verb) gather oysters, dig oysters | - |
| palmister | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: chiromancer, palmist |
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| paster | (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, sticker |
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| (noun) a workman who pastes | - |
| paternoster | (noun) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor | - |
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| paymaster | (noun) a person in charge of paying wages | - |
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| pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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| piaster | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria | Synonyms: piastre |
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| (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: kurus, piastre |