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affiant |
Noun
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a person who makes an affidavit |
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acrobat |
Noun
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an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination |
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abator |
Noun
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a person who abates a nuisance |
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aficionado |
Noun
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a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer |
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aficionado |
Noun
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a fan of bull fighting |
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aerialist |
Noun
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an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) |
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abbe |
Noun
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a French abbot |
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action officer |
Noun
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the case officer designated to perform an act during a clandestine operation (especially in a hostile area) |
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abbess |
Noun
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the superior of a group of nuns |
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active citizen |
Noun
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a citizen who takes an active role in the community (as in crime prevention and neighborhood watch) |
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actor |
Noun
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a theatrical performer |
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actor |
Noun
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a person who acts and gets things done |
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abbot |
Noun
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the superior of an abbey of monks |
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archimandrite |
Noun
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the superior of an abbey of monks |
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agent-in-place |
Noun
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an operative serving as a penetration into an intelligence target |
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abjurer |
Noun
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a person who abjures |
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agent provocateur |
Noun
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a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts |
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abnegator |
Noun
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one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something |
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abominator |
Noun
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one who hates or loathes |
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aggravator |
Noun
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an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating |
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aggressor |
Noun
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a confident assertive person who acts as instigator |
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aggressor |
Noun
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someone who attacks |
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abridger |
Noun
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one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work |
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actor's agent |
Noun
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a business agent for an actor |
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agitator |
Noun
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one who agitates |
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abbreviator |
Noun
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one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work |
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abstractor |
Noun
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one who makes abstracts or summarizes information |
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actress |
Noun
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a female actor |
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abstracter |
Noun
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one who makes abstracts or summarizes information |
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addict |
Noun
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someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance |
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addict |
Noun
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someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction |
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addict |
Verb
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to cause someone or oneself to become dependent on something, especially a narcotic drug |
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absconder |
Noun
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a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution |
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agony aunt |
Noun
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a newspaper columnist who answers questions and offers advice on personal problems to people who write in |
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absolver |
Noun
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someone who grants absolution |
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agricultural laborer |
Noun
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a person who tills the soil for a living |
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abdicator |
Noun
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one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility |
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agricultural labourer |
Noun
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a person who tills the soil for a living |
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abettor |
Noun
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one who helps or encourages or incites another |
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agriculturist |
Noun
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someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil |
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abetter |
Noun
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one who helps or encourages or incites another |
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agriculturalist |
Noun
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someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil |
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abhorrer |
Noun
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a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred |
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abiogenist |
Noun
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a believer in abiogenesis |
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addressee |
Noun
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one to whom something is addressed |
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able seaman |
Noun
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a seaman in the merchant marine |
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agronomist |
Noun
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an expert in soil management and field-crop production |
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adducer |
Noun
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a discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof |
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able-bodied seaman |
Noun
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a seaman in the merchant marine |
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air attache |
Noun
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a military attache who is a commissioned or warrant officer in an air force |