an expert who observes and comments on something


a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country


a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas


a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts


someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race)


a connoisseur of fine wines; a grape nut


someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection


a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office


someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust


a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel

he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines


someone who administers the rules of a game or sport

the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling


a worker who holds or is invested with an office


a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service


a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War


any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau


a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person


a worker who produces or sells petroleum


an old person who receives an old-age pension


oewn-old_man-n oewn-greybeard-n oewn-graybeard-n oewn-Methuselah-n


a great European painter prior to 19th century


oewn-oldster-n oewn-old_person-n oewn-senior_citizen-n oewn-golden_ager-n


oewn-old-timer-n oewn-oldtimer-n oewn-gaffer-n oewn-old_geezer-n oewn-antique-n


an athlete who participates in the Olympic games


a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government


someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams


a man who has been socially accepted into a group of other men


an agent that operates some apparatus or machine


a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets


a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye


a person who places expediency above principle


a contestant that you are matched against


a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures


a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision


a person disposed to take a favorable view of things


a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses


a member of a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold Protestantism and the British sovereign


oewn-orator-n oewn-speechmaker-n oewn-rhetorician-n oewn-public_speaker-n oewn-speechifier-n

a person who delivers a speech or oration


a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders


oewn-orderer-n oewn-systematizer-n oewn-systematiser-n oewn-systemizer-n oewn-systemiser-n oewn-systematist-n


a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients


a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer

the orderly laid out the general's uniform


the first sergeant of a company; duties formerly included the conveyance of orders


a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death


someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation


a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy


an employee who sacrifices his own individuality for the good of an organization


a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise


someone who enlists workers to join a union


a supporter of the Orleans branch of the Bourbons that was descended from a younger brother of Louis XIV


someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision


a dentist specializing in the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth


Jew who practices strict observance of Mosaic law


a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)


a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children)


an anatomist who is skilled in osteology


a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles


a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)


a member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD


a person who ousts or supplants someone else


oewn-outcast-n oewn-castaway-n oewn-pariah-n oewn-Ishmael-n

a person who is rejected (from society or home)


a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing)


a woman who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting and fishing)


a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield


(baseball) a person who plays in the outfield


(baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand


a person who lives away from his place of work


a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated


an escort who rides ahead (as a member of the vanguard)


a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win


a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated


a person who has general authority over others


a person who directs and manages an organization


(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business

he is the owner of a chain of restaurants


they are searching for the owner of the car


a motorist who owns the car that he/she drives


an occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in


a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes


someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes


a workman employed to pack things into containers


a collector of miscellaneous useless objects


an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S.


an owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy


a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew)


in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood


a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings


a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint


(Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands


any of various important officials in ancient Rome


a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch


one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral


fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms


oewn-pamperer-n oewn-spoiler-n oewn-coddler-n oewn-mollycoddler-n

someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence


a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues)


a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money)


a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money


a person who participates in (or is open to) sexual activities of many kinds


someone who believes that God and the universe are the same


a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines


one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper


someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money


a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork


a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute


a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper)


a person with specialized training who assists lawyers


a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment


a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down)


a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional


someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance


a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences


a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense


a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian


a person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis)


a commissioner in charge of public parks


an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures


an elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons


a person who is employed to look after the affairs of businesses that are affected by legislation of the British Parliament


a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door


mimics literary or musical style for comic effect


a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated


a member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India


someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share


he was a major player in setting up the corporation


a fervent and even militant proponent of something


a person who is a member of a partnership


a person who owns something in common with others


someone who works less than the customary or standard time


a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments

party bosses have a reputation for corruption


an attractive young woman hired to attend parties and entertain men


the hall was crowded with an overflow of partygoers


a member of a political party who follows strictly the party line


a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt


a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it


(football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass


a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group


a person who passes by casually or by chance


an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has


someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity


an informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously


the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly


a person who has the right to be considered legally a British citizen (by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent)


a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself


any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race


title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)


a person of refined upbringing and manners


one who loves and defends his or her country


someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area


someone who supports or champions something


a woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron


a saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation


someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking)


someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money)


a person who handles or caresses in a clumsy or overfamiliar manner


a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security


a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area


a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls


oewn-peasant-n oewn-barbarian-n oewn-boor-n oewn-churl-n oewn-Goth-n oewn-tyke-n oewn-tike-n

a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement


one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers


a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle)


a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit


oewn-peddler-n oewn-pedlar-n oewn-packman-n oewn-hawker-n oewn-pitchman-n

someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)


a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner


a dentist who specializes in the care of children's teeth


an adult who is sexually attracted to children


a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables


a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage


a peer who is entitled to sit in the House of Lords


the police were too busy to chase the pelters


the supreme war chief of the ancient Britons


an intruder who passes into or through (often by overcoming resistance)


(Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)


someone who is excessively careful with money (who pinches every penny before letting go of it)


a person who studies the theory and practice of prison management


a person you come to know by frequent friendly correspondence


any member of a Pentecostal religious body


a musician who plays percussion instruments


a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards


although not the inventor he must be recognized as the perfecter of this technique


an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience


an obstetrician specializing in perinatology


a dentist specializing in diseases of the gums and other structure surrounding the teeth


a person who deliberately gives false testimony


a blond whose hair is bleached with peroxide


a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state


a person who manages the affairs of another


another word for person; a person not meriting identification

a strange personage appeared at the door


a diplomat who is acceptable to the government to which he is sent


a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent


a person who represents an abstract quality


a new personification of a familiar idea


someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on


oewn-pervert-n oewn-deviant-n oewn-deviate-n oewn-degenerate-n oewn-perv-n oewn-perve-n

a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior


oewn-pest-n oewn-blighter-n oewn-cuss-n oewn-pesterer-n oewn-gadfly-n


a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up


oewn-petitioner-n oewn-suppliant-n oewn-supplicant-n oewn-requester-n


someone left in charge of pets while their owners are away from home


a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one


a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army


a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions


a self-righteous or sanctimonious person


oewn-pharmacist-n oewn-druggist-n oewn-chemist-n oewn-apothecary-n oewn-pill_pusher-n oewn-pill_roller-n

a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs


someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects)


someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being


a collector and student of postage stamps


an admirer of Greece and everything Greek


a native or inhabitant of Philippi in ancient Macedonia


a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC


a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits


a humanist specializing in classical scholarship


a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity


someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view


someone who takes photographs professionally


a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs


someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull


therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder


a chemist who specializes in the chemistry of plants


someone who teaches students to play the piano


(ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child


someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.


a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work


a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places


a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships


a leader who entices people to follow (especially to their doom)


someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion


one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620


someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight


a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor


a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax


oewn-pimp-n oewn-procurer-n oewn-panderer-n oewn-pander-n oewn-pandar-n oewn-fancy_man-n oewn-ponce-n

someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)


a niggardly person who starves himself (and others)


(baseball) a substitute for the regular batter


a person with mildly leftist political views


one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them


oewn-pioneer-n oewn-innovator-n oewn-trailblazer-n oewn-groundbreaker-n

someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art


oewn-pirate-n oewn-buccaneer-n oewn-sea_robber-n oewn-sea_rover-n

someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation


someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed)


(baseball) the person who does the pitching


an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something


a dwarf whose condition is caused by a deficiency of growth hormones, rather than by genetic factors (as in the case of the achondroplastic dwarf)


the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver


(football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal


a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging


oewn-plagiarist-n oewn-plagiarizer-n oewn-plagiariser-n oewn-literary_pirate-n oewn-pirate-n

someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own


a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty


an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America)


a person who brings an action in a court of law


someone who plaits (hair or fabric etc.)


an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience


a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground


a person (considered to be) without human failings


a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks


a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold)


a blond whose hair is a pale silvery (often artificially colored) blond


a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes


a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure


a person who participates in or is skilled at some game


a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously


a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score


someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group


someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge


a volunteer who records (usually by telephone) contributions pledged in a fund drive


a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government


oewn-plodder-n oewn-slowpoke-n oewn-stick-in-the-mud-n oewn-slowcoach-n

in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach


someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours


a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow


a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances


oewn-plunderer-n oewn-pillager-n oewn-looter-n oewn-spoiler-n oewn-despoiler-n oewn-raider-n oewn-freebooter-n

someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)


someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society


a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature


a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time


someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth


someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another


a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)


the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain

the poet laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions


a poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary position in a particular group or region

she is the poet laureate of all lyricists


a French soldier (especially in World War I)


a painter who uses the technique of pointillism


someone who is the forefront of an important enterprise

he is the president's point man on economic issues


a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic


a woman who is the forefront of an important enterprise


a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)


a civil commissioner appointed to supervise the duties and discipline of the police


a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written


someone who sets the plan pursued by a government or business etc.

policy makers often make the right decision for the wrong reason


someone who is imprisoned because of their political views


a social scientist specializing in the study of government


oewn-politician-n oewn-politico-n oewn-pol-n oewn-political_leader-n


a leader engaged in civil administration


a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways


oewn-pollster-n oewn-poll_taker-n oewn-headcounter-n oewn-canvasser-n

someone who conducts surveys of public opinion

a pollster conducts public opinion polls


a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment


someone who is married to two or more people at the same time


someone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit trees


a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses


a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome


someone who shares in and contributes to a general fund for use by all


oewn-pope-n oewn-Catholic_Pope-n oewn-Roman_Catholic_Pope-n oewn-pontiff-n oewn-Holy_Father-n oewn-Vicar_of_Christ-n oewn-Bishop_of_Rome-n


a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)


oewn-popularizer-n oewn-populariser-n oewn-vulgarizer-n oewn-vulgariser-n

someone who makes something attractive to the general public


a vendor of pork and products made from pork


someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores


a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)


a person employed to carry luggage and supplies


oewn-portraitist-n oewn-portrait_painter-n oewn-portrayer-n oewn-limner-n


a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not


someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes


an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse


a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree


a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes

she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy


infant born after 42 weeks of gestation; usually shows signs of placental insufficiency


someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument


(Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization


someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others


a citizen who does not hold any official or public position


a thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution


an advocate of full legal protection for embryos and fetuses; someone opposed to legalized induced abortion


a dentist who is expert in prosthodontics


(Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order

the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials


someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman)


an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism


the official in charge of the national postal service


one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order


a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores


oewn-potholer-n oewn-spelunker-n oewn-speleologist-n oewn-spelaeologist-n


someone who hunts for food (not for sport)


someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies


oewn-potter-n oewn-thrower-n oewn-ceramicist-n oewn-ceramist-n

a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln


a dealer in poultry and poultry products


someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)


one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

the mysterious presence of an evil power


she was the most important influence in my life


a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice


a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control

a power broker who does you a favor will expect you to return it


oewn-powerhouse-n oewn-human_dynamo-n oewn-ball_of_fire-n oewn-fireball-n

a highly energetic and indefatigable person


(computing) a computer user who needs the fastest and most powerful computers available


someone who practices a learned profession


an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic


a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions


oewn-prankster-n oewn-cut-up-n oewn-trickster-n oewn-tricker-n oewn-hoaxer-n oewn-practical_joker-n

someone who plays practical jokes on others


oewn-preacher-n oewn-preacher_man-n oewn-sermonizer-n oewn-sermoniser-n

someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel


a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church


teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)


one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)


a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid


a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals


oewn-premature_baby-n oewn-preterm_baby-n oewn-premature_infant-n oewn-preterm_infant-n oewn-preemie-n oewn-premie-n

an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation


a person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens


a follower of Calvinism as taught in the Presbyterian Church


a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten


an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.)


someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.)


a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) are being fulfilled at the present time


someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas


someone who keeps safe from harm or danger


oewn-President_of_the_United_States-n oewn-United_States_President-n oewn-President-n oewn-Chief_Executive-n

the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government

the President likes to jog every morning


an executive officer of a firm or corporation


the head administrative officer of a college or university


the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization


any philosopher who lived before Socrates


oewn-press_agent-n oewn-publicity_man-n oewn-public_relations_man-n oewn-PR_man-n

someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure)


a photographer who works for a newspaper


a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)


a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) have already been fulfilled


the party in a lawsuit who obtains a judgment in their own favor


oewn-prey-n oewn-quarry-n oewn-target-n oewn-fair_game-n

a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence


a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders


a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion


a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star


the primary care physician acts as a gatekeeper to the medical system


(obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time


(obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time


oewn-primordial_dwarf-n oewn-hypoplastic_dwarf-n oewn-true_dwarf-n oewn-normal_dwarf-n

an achondroplastic dwarf whose small size is the result of a genetic defect; body parts and mental and sexual development are normal


the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland


a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)


any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire


a suitor who fulfills the dreams of his beloved


a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign


a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality


the male heir apparent of the British sovereign


a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)


the eldest daughter of a British sovereign


the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account


oewn-principal-n oewn-school_principal-n oewn-head_teacher-n oewn-head-n

the educator who has executive authority for a school

she sent unruly pupils to see the principal


(criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement


the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project


an apprentice in a printing establishment


someone who sells etchings and engravings etc.


the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot


a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war


a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war


an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines

our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value


oewn-private_detective-n oewn-PI-n oewn-private_eye-n oewn-private_investigator-n oewn-operative-n oewn-shamus-n oewn-sherlock-n

someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations


an officer or crew member of a privateer


a mathematician who specializes in probability theory


someone released on probation or on parole


a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period


the officer of the court who supervises probationers


someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)


someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant


a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire


an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power


someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness)


a doctor specializing in diseases of the rectum and anus


(ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes


an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration


someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)


a person engaged in one of the learned professions


someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university


someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)


someone who sells stock shares at a profit


oewn-programmer-n oewn-computer_programmer-n oewn-coder-n oewn-software_engineer-n

a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs


the person who operates the projector in a movie house


a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)


someone who is an active supporter and advocate


someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech


(law) one who promulgates laws (announces a law as a way of putting it into execution)


someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections


a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government


someone who propagates plants (as under glass)


member of the stage crew in charge of properties


oewn-prophet-n oewn-prophesier-n oewn-oracle-n oewn-seer-n oewn-vaticinator-n

an authoritative person who divines the future


someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God


(parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion


the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action


oewn-prosecutor-n oewn-public_prosecutor-n oewn-prosecuting_officer-n oewn-prosecuting_attorney-n

a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state


a new convert; especially a gentile converted to Judaism


someone who explores an area for mineral deposits


oewn-prostitute-n oewn-cocotte-n oewn-whore-n oewn-harlot-n oewn-bawd-n oewn-tart-n oewn-cyprian-n oewn-fancy_woman-n oewn-working_girl-n oewn-sporting_lady-n oewn-lady_of_pleasure-n oewn-woman_of_the_street-n

a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money


a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career


someone who provides the means for subsistence


someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions


a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum


a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs


David is called The Psalmist because he is believed to be the author of the Book of Psalms


a sociologist who studies election trends


someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth


a physician who specializes in psychiatry


a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception


someone who claims to receive messages from the dead in the form of raps on a table


a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language


someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')


a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders


a lawyer who represents indigent defendants at public expense


a person employed to establish and promote a favorable relationship with the public


someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment)


a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music


a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling


a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter


someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something


someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself


a person on whom another person vents their anger

he resigned because his boss used him as a punching bag


a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture


(football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground


a leader or ruler who is chosen by a despot to head a government


an agent who purchases goods or services for another


someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)


someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures


a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship


an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare


the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued


a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture

always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers


someone who supplies provisions (especially food)


oewn-pusher-n oewn-drug_peddler-n oewn-peddler-n oewn-drug_dealer-n oewn-drug_trafficker-n


one who intrudes or pushes himself forward


someone who is easily taken advantage of


a person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable


any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet


a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit


an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice


(obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of four pregnancies


a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs


one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy


any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)


one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear


a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition

the tournament was won by a late qualifier


(football) the person who plays quarterback


an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops


a staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army


a native or inhabitant of Quebec (especially one who speaks French)


the sovereign ruler of England when female


something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind


a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign


a queen who serves as ruler when the king cannot


Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a queen


the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game


an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent


oewn-quibbler-n oewn-caviller-n oewn-caviler-n oewn-pettifogger-n

a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections


someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge


(obstetrics) woman who has given birth to a viable infant in each of five pregnancies


one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy


a communicator (speaker or writer) who uses quotations


spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law


someone who drives racing cars at high speeds


someone who offers advice about betting on horses (either to influence the odds or in the hope of sharing some of the winnings)


a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others


an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack


someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)


a person who has radical ideas or opinions


an announcer whose voice is broadcast on radio


a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms


a scientist trained in radiological technology


a medical specialist who uses radioactive substances and X-rays in the treatment of disease


someone who operates a radio transmitter


an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood


a worker who sorts rags and old clothing for new uses (as in papermaking)


a fan of racing who watches races from the outer rail of the track


a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences


American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain


executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm


a bridge partner who increases the partner's bid


a member of the dominant Hindu military caste in northern India


oewn-rake-n oewn-rakehell-n oewn-profligate-n oewn-rip-n oewn-blood-n oewn-roue-n


a person whose speech or writing is not well organized


a person who takes long walks in the country


(the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja


an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces


a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status


someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner


someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse


someone who is suspected of committing rape


a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings


a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil


a workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin


a person who pays local rates (especially a householder)


an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism


a person who can read; a literate person


a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them


a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style


a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly


oewn-real_estate_broker-n oewn-real_estate_agent-n oewn-estate_agent-n oewn-land_agent-n oewn-house_agent-n

a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land

in England they call a real estate agent a land agent


a real estate agent who is a member of the National Association of Realtors


oewn-rebutter-n oewn-disprover-n oewn-refuter-n oewn-confuter-n

a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument


a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass


the tennis player who receives the serve


a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors


someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior


someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)


a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs


any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)


an official who enlists personnel for military service


someone who supplies members or employees


oewn-redact-n oewn-redactor-n oewn-reviser-n oewn-rewriter-n oewn-rewrite_man-n

someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication


a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station


a member of the military police in Britain


someone who redeems or buys back (promissory notes or merchandise or commercial paper etc.)


oewn-redhead-n oewn-redheader-n oewn-red-header-n oewn-carrottop-n


a poor White person in the southern United States


a person who enacts a role in an event that occurred earlier


a person whose case has been referred to a specialist or professional group

the patient is a referral from Dr. Bones


(sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play


an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case


one whose work is to refine a specific thing


oewn-refinisher-n oewn-renovator-n oewn-restorer-n oewn-preserver-n

a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture


oewn-reformer-n oewn-reformist-n oewn-crusader-n oewn-social_reformer-n oewn-meliorist-n


liberal Jew who tries to adapt all aspects of Judaism to modern circumstances


someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch


someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king


a graduate nurse who has passed examinations for registration


a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby)


the administrator responsible for student records


a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company


holder of a British professorship created by a royal patron


a dependable follower (especially in party politics)


an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest


embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form)


a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies


a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience


one retired from society for religious reasons


a member of a religious order living in common


someone who works for a company that moves furniture


a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics


a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests

a statistician has to be something of a generalist


someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw


a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner


an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person


someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments


a skilled worker whose job is to repair things


a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored


the audience consisted largely of repeaters who had seen the movie many times


a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories


an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)


someone who saves something from danger or violence


a scientist who devotes himself to doing research


someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there


the representative of Puerto Rico in the United States House of Representatives


a person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative


the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent


someone who has retired from active working


the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results


the clubs attract revelers as young as thirteen


oewn-drunken_reveler-n oewn-drunken_reveller-n oewn-bacchanal-n oewn-bacchant-n


a person who returns after a lengthy absence


a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging)


(law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion


someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication


a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position


oewn-revolutionist-n oewn-revolutionary-n oewn-subversive-n oewn-subverter-n

a radical supporter of political or social revolution


a physician specializing in rheumatic diseases


a primitive hominid resembling Neanderthal man but living in Africa


a student who holds one of the scholarships endowed by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that enables the student to study at Oxford University


oewn-rhymer-n oewn-rhymester-n oewn-versifier-n oewn-poetizer-n oewn-poetiser-n

a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)


a performer (and sometimes composer) of rhythm and blues music


a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language


an unknown or fictitious party to legal proceedings


a person who possesses great material wealth


a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars


a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars


a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at many billions of dollars


a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)


a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)


a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left


a member of a right wing political party


a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses


a person who is almost identical to another


a young woman who holds up cards indicating the number of the next round at prize fights


a person who leads (especially in illicit activities)


the person in charge of performances in a circus ring


troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority


a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife


a person who rises (especially from bed)


a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies


an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms


oewn-rival-n oewn-challenger-n oewn-competitor-n oewn-competition-n oewn-contender-n


someone whose business is to build roads


a workman who is employed to repair roads


oewn-roarer-n oewn-bawler-n oewn-bellower-n oewn-screamer-n oewn-screecher-n oewn-shouter-n oewn-yeller-n

someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice


a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment)

the honoree gave his roasters as good as he got


a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence


a book of rules for presiding over a meeting; written by Henry M. Martin in 1876 and subsequently updated through many editions


legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor


the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island


(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable


a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles


a performer or composer or fan of rock music


an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle


an engineer who builds and tests rockets


you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out


oewn-rogue-n oewn-knave-n oewn-rascal-n oewn-rapscallion-n oewn-scalawag-n oewn-scallywag-n oewn-varlet-n


an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker


a member of the imperial family that ruled Russia


an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism


a hotel clerk who is responsible for room assignments to guests


a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses


a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)


an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground


(a literary reference to) a pretty young girl


a member of a secret 17th-century society of philosophers and scholars versed in mystical and metaphysical and alchemical lore


a member of any of various organizations that subsequently derived from the 17th-century society


oewn-rotter-n oewn-dirty_dog-n oewn-rat-n oewn-skunk-n oewn-stinker-n oewn-stinkpot-n oewn-bum-n oewn-puke-n oewn-crumb-n oewn-lowlife-n oewn-scumbag-n oewn-so-and-so-n oewn-git-n oewn-scum_bag-n

a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible


colloquial term for a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police


a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898)


a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle


a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War


a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on)


a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery


an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement


a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs


a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself


a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare


someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border


a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents


a trained athlete who competes in foot races


(football) a back on the offensive team (a fullback or halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on plays from the line of scrimmage


a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices


oewn-runt-n oewn-shrimp-n oewn-peewee-n oewn-half-pint-n


a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously


someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory


(football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball


someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)


one who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism)


someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks


a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief)


a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall)


a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism


a religious person who offers up a sacrifice


a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses


a member of an ancient Jewish sect around the time of Jesus; opposed to the Pharisees


someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others


someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism


a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents


a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom


the ship's officer in charge of navigation


oewn-saint-n oewn-holy_man-n oewn-holy_person-n oewn-angel-n


a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization


oewn-salesclerk-n oewn-shop_clerk-n oewn-clerk-n oewn-shop_assistant-n


a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)


someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods


a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises


a member of the people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times


a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy


someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you


a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'


a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders


a traditional Zulu healer and respected elder


oewn-Santa_Claus-n oewn-Santa-n oewn-Kriss_Kringle-n oewn-Father_Christmas-n oewn-Saint_Nicholas-n oewn-Saint_Nick-n oewn-St._Nick-n

the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas


(Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other


(Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other


a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)


(historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades


(historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire


a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm


oewn-satyr-n oewn-lecher-n oewn-lech-n oewn-letch-n


a governor of a province in ancient Persia


oewn-savior-n oewn-saviour-n oewn-rescuer-n oewn-deliverer-n

a person who rescues you from harm or danger


a person who performs in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan


oewn-scab-n oewn-strikebreaker-n oewn-blackleg-n oewn-rat-n

someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike


a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)


someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost

he got theater tickets through a scalper


someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables


someone who is punished for the errors of others


a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward


a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble


a stagehand responsible for moving scenery


an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene


an artist specializing in scenic subjects


a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action


someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia


(Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler


oewn-schlepper-n oewn-shlepper-n oewn-schlep-n oewn-shlep-n


(Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything


(slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise


oewn-schmuck-n oewn-shmuck-n oewn-schmo-n oewn-shmo-n


(Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised


(Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others


a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines


a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)


a young person attending school (up through senior high school)


a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism


oewn-schoolmarm-n oewn-schoolma-ap-am-n oewn-schoolmistress-n oewn-mistress-n

a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)


any person (or institution) who acts as an educator


oewn-schoolmate-n oewn-classmate-n oewn-schoolfellow-n oewn-class_fellow-n

an acquaintance that you go to school with


a teacher in a school below the college level


a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences


oewn-scoffer-n oewn-flouter-n oewn-mocker-n oewn-jeerer-n

someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision


someone who eats food rapidly and greedily


one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses


oewn-scold-n oewn-scolder-n oewn-nag-n oewn-nagger-n oewn-common_scold-n

someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault


an official who records the score during the progress of a game


a player who makes a score in a game or contest


someone who travels widely and energetically


someone who can find paths through unexplored territory


someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)


a competitor who has withdrawn from competition


a person who scratches to relieve an itch


a workman who uses a tool for scratching


a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read


a guard at an airport who checks passengers or their luggage at a security checkpoint


(baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs


someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas


a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck)


a nurse who helps a surgeon prepare for surgery


a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care


someone who examines votes at an election


someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward)


a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing)


oewn-sculptor-n oewn-sculpturer-n oewn-carver-n oewn-statue_maker-n


a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia


an official who affixes a seal to a document


a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items


a Boy Scout enrolled in programs for water activities


a worker who finds employment only in certain seasons


the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match


(baseball) the person who plays second base


a child of a first cousin of one's parent


someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote


someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role


an intermediate person; used in the phrase `at second hand'

he could learn at second hand from books


a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps holding the lowest rank


a person of second-rate ability or value


oewn-secret_agent-n oewn-intelligence_officer-n oewn-intelligence_agent-n oewn-operative-n

a person secretly employed in espionage for a government


an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization


a person who is head of an administrative department of government


the person who holds the position of secretary of the Justice Department

Edmund Randolph was the first Attorney General, appointed by President Washington


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Agriculture

the first Secretary of Agriculture was Norman J. Colman, who was appointed by Cleveland


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Commerce

the first Commerce Secretary was William C. Redfield who was appointed by Wilson


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Defense Department

the first Defense Secretary was James V. Forrestal who was appointed by Truman


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Education

Carter appointed Shirley Hufstedler as the first Secretary of Education


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Energy

the first Secretary of Energy was James R. Schlesinger who was appointed by Carter


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Health and Human Services

the first Secretary of Health and Human Services was Patricia Roberts Harris who was appointed by Carter


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Housing and Urban Development

the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Robert C. Weaver who was appointed by Johnson


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Labor

the first Labor Secretary was William B. Wilson who was appointed by President Wilson


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of State

the first Secretary of State was Thomas Jefferson


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Interior Department

President Taylor appointed Thomas Ewing as the first Secretary of the Interior


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Treasury Department

Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Transportation

Johnson appointed Alan S. Boyd as the first Transportation Secretary


the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Bush appointed Edward J. Derwinski as the first Secretary of Veterans Affairs


a person who is a chief administrator (as of the United Nations)


most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect


a soldier who received a Section Eight discharge as unfit for military service


someone who teaches a section of a large college course


an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education


a woman who is pregnant for the second time


an adviser about alarm systems to prevent burglaries


head of a private security force working for a business or industry


a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing


one of the outstanding players in a tournament


someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart


a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth


a male elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns


a female elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns


an energetic person with unusual initiative


oewn-seller-n oewn-marketer-n oewn-vender-n oewn-vendor-n oewn-trafficker-n

someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money


someone who sells goods (on commission) for others


one of four competitors remaining in a tournament by elimination


a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary)


an athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis


a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English `Mr'


an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation


a senior noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army


a senior noncommissioned officer in the Air Force with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army


the ranking vice president in a firm that has more than one


someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality


someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention


an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)


a Jew who is of Spanish or Portuguese or North African descent


(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord


any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal


an officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands


a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative officer of a headquarters unit of the Army


someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval


a serial killer whose murders occur within a brief period of time


oewn-serjeant-at-law-n oewn-serjeant-n oewn-sergeant-at-law-n oewn-sergeant-n

an English barrister of the highest rank


a medical scientist who specializes in serology


a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)


(court games) the player who serves to start a point


oewn-serviceman-n oewn-military_man-n oewn-man-n oewn-military_personnel-n

someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force


someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else


a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country


a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings


(law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee


someone who sews by operating a sewing machine


a young woman who is thought to have sex appeal


any person regarded simply as an object of sexual gratification


someone who has been convicted of a sex crime


a person (especially a celebrity) who is well-known for their sexual attractiveness


an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects


title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran


a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world


a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship


a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways


a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest


a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals


a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles


a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock


a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision


a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon


an offensive term for non-Jewish young man


oewn-sheik-n oewn-tribal_sheik-n oewn-sheikh-n oewn-tribal_sheikh-n oewn-Arab_chief-n


a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters)


a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves


a clergyman who watches over a group of people


the principal law-enforcement officer in a county


a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women


a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others


a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap


an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge


a dealer in equipment and supplies for ships


someone who owns a ship or a share in a ship


an employee who ships and receives goods


a dealer in sails and ropes and other supplies for sailing ships


a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels


a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68


a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe


an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen


(sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket)


a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps


oewn-shopkeeper-n oewn-tradesman-n oewn-storekeeper-n oewn-market_keeper-n


someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy


a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her


a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management


(baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position


a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)


a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)


a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments


a person skilled at making effective presentations


a member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste


someone who walks without raising the feet


someone who shrinks from familiarity with others


a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods


one of a pair of identical twins born with their bodies joined at some point


(ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet


a football official who works downfield behind the defensive secondary on the same sideline as the head linesman


(Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church


a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music)


oewn-sightseer-n oewn-excursionist-n oewn-tripper-n oewn-rubberneck-n

a tourist who is visiting sights of interest


a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard


someone who signs and is bound by a document


someone who can use sign language to communicate


someone who paints signs and billboards etc.


used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately


an Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name


an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name)


an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to `Miss', it is either used alone or before a name


a partner (who usually provides capital) whose association with the enterprise is not public knowledge


someone who makes or repairs articles of silver


oewn-addle-head-n oewn-addlehead-n oewn-loon-n oewn-birdbrain-n

a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought


(Old Testament) the 2nd son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel


a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy


a person lacking intelligence or common sense


oewn-singer-n oewn-vocalist-n oewn-vocalizer-n oewn-vocaliser-n


a student of Chinese history and language and culture


a title used before the name of knight or baronet


a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority


a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived

Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song


formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger


a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group


(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address)


(Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life


a female person who has the same parents as another person


a sister who has only one parent in common with you


oewn-sissy-n oewn-pantywaist-n oewn-pansy-n oewn-milksop-n oewn-Milquetoast-n

a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive


oewn-waverer-n oewn-vacillator-n oewn-hesitator-n oewn-hesitater-n


an organism (person or animal) that sits


someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs


a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction


a skier who leaps through the air (especially on a ski jump)


a follower of the theories or methods of B. F. Skinner


someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party)


a worker who has acquired special skills


an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder


a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent


a person who prepares or deals in animal skins


a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work


a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport


a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord


a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)


a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand

someone slapped me on the back and I turned to see who the slapper was


oewn-slattern-n oewn-slut-n oewn-slovenly_woman-n oewn-trollop-n


someone entirely dominated by some influence or person


a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees


the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it


a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal


fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss


a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers)


a person with good manners and stylish clothing


a person who uses a sling to throw something


oewn-slob-n oewn-sloven-n oewn-pig-n oewn-slovenly_person-n


someone who coins and uses slogans to promote a cause


an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions

he's no slouch when it comes to baseball


a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage


a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people


an infant whose size and weight are considerably less than the average for babies of the same age


a person owning or renting a smallholding


one of a group of brahmans who uphold nonsectarian orthodoxy according to the Vedanta school of Hinduism


oewn-smasher-n oewn-stunner-n oewn-knockout-n oewn-beauty-n oewn-ravisher-n oewn-sweetheart-n oewn-peach-n oewn-lulu-n oewn-looker-n oewn-mantrap-n oewn-dish-n

a very attractive or seductive looking woman


a smiler whose smile is offensively self-satisfied


someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable)


someone who works at something specified


oewn-smoothie-n oewn-smoothy-n oewn-sweet_talker-n oewn-charmer-n

someone with an assured and ingratiating manner


oewn-smuggler-n oewn-runner-n oewn-contrabandist-n oewn-moon_curser-n oewn-moon-curser-n

someone who imports or exports without paying duties


a performer who uses movements and music to control snakes


someone who sets snares for birds or small animals


a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible


a thief who steals without using violence


a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression


a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose


a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place


oewn-snob-n oewn-prig-n oewn-snot-n oewn-snoot-n

a person regarded as arrogant and annoying


a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others


someone who expresses contempt or indignation by uttering a snorting sound


someone who slides down snow-covered slopes while standing on a snowboard


a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus)


a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories


an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems


someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior


a person who belongs to the political left


a person who takes part in social activities


someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships


a personal secretary who handles your social correspondence and appointments


someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged)


an adherent of the teachings of Socinus; a Christian who rejects the divinity of Christ and the Trinity and original sin; influenced the development of Unitarian theology


a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior


a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication


a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society


oewn-sodomite-n oewn-sodomist-n oewn-sod-n oewn-bugger-n

someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)


a person who is weak and excessively sentimental


an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army


a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents


a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes


a law officer appointed to assist an attorney general


a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant


a woman songster (especially of popular songs)


a composer of words or music for popular songs


any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects


a female singer with the highest vocal range of all the voice type


oewn-sorcerer-n oewn-magician-n oewn-wizard-n oewn-necromancer-n oewn-thaumaturge-n oewn-thaumaturgist-n


in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination


a person of a particular character or nature


a clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office)


the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life


someone for whom you have a deep affinity


a person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability

I would use newspapermen as a sounding board for such policies


a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast)


a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska)


oewn-sourpuss-n oewn-picklepuss-n oewn-gloomy_Gus-n oewn-pouter-n

someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression


a member of the Southern Baptist Convention


oewn-Rebel-n oewn-Reb-n oewn-Johnny_Reb-n oewn-Johnny-n oewn-greyback-n

`Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms


a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right


someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug)


an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space


someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk)


an American whose first language is Spanish


someone who refrains from injuring or destroying


a boxer who spars with another boxer who is training for an important fight


a person suffering from spastic paralysis


oewn-speaker-n oewn-talker-n oewn-utterer-n oewn-verbalizer-n oewn-verbaliser-n

someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)


a speaker of a particular language who has spoken that language since earliest childhood


the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly

the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives


someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.)


a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver


someone whose authority is limited to the special undertaking they have been instructed to perform


an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning


someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent)


oewn-spectator-n oewn-witness-n oewn-viewer-n oewn-watcher-n oewn-looker-n

a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)

the spectators applauded the performance


someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains


someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts


a therapist who treats speech defects and disorders


a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit


addict who habitually uses stimulant drugs (especially amphetamines)


an ice-skater who races competitively; usually around an oval course


an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound


someone who spends money to purchase goods or services


oewn-spendthrift-n oewn-spend-all-n oewn-spender-n oewn-scattergood-n


one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment


an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret


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

his title is Director of Communications but he is just a spin doctor


someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)


the vital principle or animating force within living things


a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman)


a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)


a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time


a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands


a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice


(football) an offensive end who lines up at a distance from the other linemen


a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics


a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone


a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning


oewn-spoilsport-n oewn-killjoy-n oewn-wet_blanket-n oewn-party_pooper-n

someone who spoils the pleasure of others


oewn-spokesperson-n oewn-interpreter-n oewn-representative-n oewn-voice-n

an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government


a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances


(Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine


someone who leads a merry existence; especially a gambler on the outcome of sporting events


an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events


the newspaper editor responsible for sports news


a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)


a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots


oewn-spouse-n oewn-partner-n oewn-married_person-n oewn-mate-n oewn-better_half-n


he is such a sprawler he needs a bed to himself


someone who runs a short distance at top speed


a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt

she was known as a spurner of all suitors


(military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors


a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people

my spies tell me that you had a good time last night


someone who directs clandestine intelligence activities


someone who quarrels about a small matter


a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views


someone who doesn't understand what is going on


someone who settles on land without right or title


someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it


derogatory terms for an American Indian woman


derogatory term for a white man married to a North American Indian woman


(slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend


oewn-stableman-n oewn-stableboy-n oewn-groom-n oewn-hostler-n oewn-ostler-n

someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses


an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States)


a commissioned officer assigned to a military commander's staff


a noncommissioned officer ranking above corporal and below sergeant first class in the Army or Marines or above airman 1st class in the Air Force


someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show


an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production


someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed


someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall


someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner


someone who walks with long stiff strides


a candidate put forward to divide the Opposition or to mask the true candidate


someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions


oewn-stamper-n oewn-stomper-n oewn-tramper-n oewn-trampler-n

someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground


a workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine)


a dealer in stamps (whose customers are stamp collectors)


an outstanding leader of a political movement


a person who sets a standard for things to conform to


someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train)

the allowed number of standees is posted


an organism (person or animal) that stands


oewn-stand-in-n oewn-substitute-n oewn-relief-n oewn-reliever-n oewn-backup-n oewn-backup_man-n oewn-fill-in-n

someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes


a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility)


a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church


a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star


the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition


a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning


(baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game


someone who is starving (or being starved)


a resident of a particular state or group of states


a person who is a respected leader in national or international affairs


a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies


the person in charge of a railway station


someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)


a mathematician who specializes in statistics


a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel


a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating


someone who builds or maintains very tall structures


a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers


someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)


a brother who has only one parent in common with you


a child of your spouse by a former marriage


a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage


the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage


the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage


the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage


the son of your spouse by a former marriage


oewn-stevedore-n oewn-loader-n oewn-longshoreman-n oewn-docker-n oewn-dockhand-n oewn-dock_worker-n oewn-dockworker-n oewn-dock-walloper-n oewn-lumper-n

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port


someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else


the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements


a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses


a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)


infant who shows no signs of life after birth


an economizer who stints someone with something


(United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases


a painter who stipples (creates a stippled effect)


a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps


an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds


one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers


an employee whose job is to take inventory


someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation


the stockholder whose name is registered on the books of the corporation as owning the shares at a particular time


one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods


a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno

a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny


someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions


a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)


an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill)


one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate; someone who delays by lengthy speeches etc.


a person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward


a person at a racetrack who searches for winning parimutuel tickets that have been carelessly discarded by others


a private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage


a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage


a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian


anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found


an individual that one is not acquainted with


a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support


a commuter who uses public transportation


an expert in strategy (especially in warfare)


a member of a work gang who supervises the other workers


a person who walks rapidly with long steps

he was such a strider that she couldn't keep up without running


someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place


a worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department)


someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing


a contestant who is very aggressive and willing to use underhand methods


a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas


(sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets


oewn-streetwalker-n oewn-street_girl-n oewn-hooker-n oewn-hustler-n oewn-floozy-n oewn-floozie-n oewn-slattern-n

a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets


an employee on strike against an employer


someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating


a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service


oewn-stripper-n oewn-striptease_artist-n oewn-striptease-n oewn-stripteaser-n oewn-exotic_dancer-n oewn-ecdysiast-n oewn-peeler-n

a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music


a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books


the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew


a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence

he is determined to bring down the Iraqi strongman


a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus


a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort


a member of the royal family that ruled Scotland and England


a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution


a college student who is teaching under the supervision of a certified teacher in order to qualify for a degree in education


someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play)


a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned


a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts

his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable


a walker or runner who trips and almost falls


oewn-stupid-n oewn-stupid_person-n oewn-stupe-n oewn-dullard-n oewn-dolt-n oewn-pudding_head-n oewn-pudden-head-n oewn-poor_fish-n oewn-pillock-n


an artist who is a master of a particular style


an early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars


a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain


someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor


a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church


someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites)


someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion


a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation

the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly


an officer ranking next below a lieutenant


someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others

he was a prolific submitter of proposals


someone who yields to the will of another person or force


a person of less than normal intelligence


oewn-subordinate-n oewn-subsidiary-n oewn-underling-n oewn-foot_soldier-n

an assistant subject to the authority or control of another


someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money


someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication


oewn-subscriber-n oewn-endorser-n oewn-indorser-n oewn-ratifier-n


someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy


an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced


someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds


a person who inherits some title or office


someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty


a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)


someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right


a Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam; a Muslim who seeks direct experience of Allah; mainly in Iran


an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese


a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)


an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)


a wealthy older man who gives a young person expensive gifts in return for friendship or intimacy


someone who advances a suggestion or proposal

the suggester of this absurd strategy was a fool


a person who kills himself intentionally


a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people


(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit

all the suits care about is the bottom line


the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire)


a member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer


(Maine colloquial) temporary summer residents of coastal Maine


a wrestler who participates in sumo (a Japanese form of wrestling)


a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc


someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan


a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown


an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase


a police informer who implicates many people


an amateur boxer who weighs more than 201 pounds


a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector


one of greater rank or station or quality


a fashion model who has attained the status of a celebrity


an informal term for a mother who can combine childcare and full-time employment


reducing staff is difficult because our employees include no supernumeraries


one who supervises or has charge and direction of


someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity


a commissioned officer responsible for logistics


oewn-supporter-n oewn-protagonist-n oewn-champion-n oewn-admirer-n oewn-booster-n oewn-friend-n

a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

all their supporters came out for the game


dictators are suppressors of free speech


a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or racial group over all others


the most important person in an organization


the senior medical officer in an Army or Navy


the head of the United States Public Health Service


a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim


an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism


someone who takes the place of another person


a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so

a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term


an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures


someone who conducts a statistical survey


someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation


the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital


oewn-sutler-n oewn-victualer-n oewn-victualler-n oewn-provisioner-n

a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army


the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically


someone (usually maleficent) who tries to persuade or force another person to do his bidding


an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work


a girl with an attractive bust who wears tight sweaters


an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)


oewn-sweetheart-n oewn-sweetie-n oewn-steady-n oewn-truelove-n


a person who travels through the water by swimming


a trained athlete who participates in swimming meets


a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex


a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other


a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip


a baseball player who can bat either right or left handed


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an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious


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a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage


logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning


an elemental being believed to inhabit the air


a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods