pilaster | (noun) a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached | - |
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plaster | (noun) adhesive tape used in dressing wounds | Synonyms: adhesive plaster, sticking plaster |
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(noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plasterwork |
(noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, poultice |
(noun) a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings | - |
(noun) any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs | Synonyms: plaster of Paris |
(verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
(verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
(verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
(verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
(verb) affix conspicuously | - |
(verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
pollster | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, headcounter, poll taker |
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polyester | (noun) any of a large class of synthetic fabrics | - |
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(noun) any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant | - |
(noun) a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer | - |
poster | (noun) a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers | Synonyms: post-horse, post horse |
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(noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, posting |
(noun) someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards | Synonyms: bill poster, bill sticker |
postmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a post office | - |
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prankster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, tricker, trickster |
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protester | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: demonstrator |
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(noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector |
punster | (noun) someone overly fond of making puns | - |
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quartermaster | (noun) an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops | - |
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quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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quizmaster | (noun) the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game | Synonyms: question master |
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raster | (noun) the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor | - |
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register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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(noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
(noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
(noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
(noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
(noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
(noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
(verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
(verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
(verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
(verb) send by registered mail | - |
(verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
(verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
(verb) show in one's face | - |
(verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
(verb) enroll to vote | - |
(verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
requester | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant |
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resister | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, thwarter |
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(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer |
rester | (noun) a person who rests | - |
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rhymester | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, versifier |
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ringmaster | (noun) the person in charge of performances in a circus ring | - |
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roadster | (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: buggy |
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(noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: runabout, two-seater |
roaster | (noun) a special cooking pan for roasting | - |
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(noun) flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting | - |
(noun) a cook who roasts food | - |
(noun) a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment) | - |
roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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rooster | (noun) adult male chicken | Synonyms: cock |
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roster | (noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roll |
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sandblaster | (noun) a tool that throws out a blast of steam laden with sand; used to clean or grind hard surfaces | - |
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schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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(noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
(noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
scoutmaster | (noun) the leader of a troop of Scouts | - |
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seamster | (noun) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments | Synonyms: sartor, tailor |
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semester | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | - |
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(noun) half a year; a period of 6 months | - |
sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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(verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
(verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
(verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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shlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: schlockmeister |
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shyster | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: pettifogger |
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sinister | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening |
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(adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, dark |
(adjective) on or starting from the wearer's left | - |
sister | (noun) a female person who has the same parents as another person | Synonyms: sis |
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(noun) a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group | - |
sodbuster | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, granger, husbandman |
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solenogaster | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: aplacophoran |
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songster | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songbird |
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(noun) a person who sings with skill | - |
(noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songwriter |
southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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spinmeister | (noun) a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person | Synonyms: spin doctor |
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spinster | (noun) an elderly unmarried woman | Synonyms: old maid |
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(noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinner, thread maker |
sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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spymaster | (noun) someone who directs clandestine intelligence activities | - |
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stationmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a railway station | Synonyms: station agent |
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stepsister | (noun) a sister who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-sister, half sister |
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subsister | (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: survivor |
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suggester | (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: proposer |
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supertwister | (noun) the most powerful tornado which can create enormously devastating damage | - |
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tapster | (noun) a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks | Synonyms: tapper |
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taskmaster | (noun) someone who imposes hard or continuous work | - |
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taster | (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: sampler, taste-tester, taste tester |
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teamster | (noun) someone who drives a truck as an occupation | Synonyms: truck driver, trucker |
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(noun) the driver of a team of horses doing hauling | - |
telecaster | (noun) a television broadcaster | - |
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tester | (noun) a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed) | - |
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(noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, quizzer |
thirster | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, yearner |
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throwster | (noun) a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn | Synonyms: thrower |
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thruster | (noun) a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft | - |
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(noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: pusher |
tipster | (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tout |
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toaster | (noun) a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread | - |
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(noun) someone who who drinks to the health of someone or the success of some venture | Synonyms: wassailer |
toastmaster | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: symposiarch |
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trainmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, yardmaster |
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trickster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker |
(noun) a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts | - |
trimester | (noun) a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
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(noun) one of three divisions of an academic year | - |
trustbuster | (noun) a federal agent who engages in trust busting | - |
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truster | (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: believer |
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twister | (noun) small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts | Synonyms: cruller |
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(noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: tornado |
ulster | (noun) loose long overcoat of heavy fabric; usually belted | - |
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upholster | (verb) provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers | - |
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waldmeister | (noun) fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine | Synonyms: sweet woodruff |
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(noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, woodruff |
waster | (noun) someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | Synonyms: wastrel |
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(noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter |
webmaster | (noun) a technician who designs or maintains a website | - |
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wester | (noun) wind that blows from west to east | Synonyms: west wind |
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whoremaster | (noun) a pimp who procures whores | Synonyms: whoremonger |
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(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, trick, whoremonger |
wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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yardmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, trainmaster |
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youngster | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke |
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zoster | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, shingles |
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