Occupations and Workers
- 1st lieutenant
- a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a 2nd lieutenant and below a captain
- 2nd lieutenant
- a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps holding the lowest rank
- abbreviator
- one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
- able seaman
- a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills
- academicianship
- the position of member of an honorary academy
- accomplice
- a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
- accountancy
- the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business
- accountantship
- the position of accountant
- accumulator
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- actor's assistant
- a wardrobe assistant for an actor
- adjutant general
- a general's adjutant; chief administrative officer
- adjutant
- an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- administrative official
- an official of a bureaucracy
- admiral
- the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral
- admiralty
- the office of admiral
- aeronaut
- someone who operates an aircraft
- aesthetician
- a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.)
- agent
- any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
- agricultural laborer
- a person who tills the soil for a living
- aide
- someone who acts as assistant
- air force officer
- an officer in the airforce
- air hostess
- a woman steward on an airplane
- aircraftman
- a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force
- aircrewman
- a member of an aircrew
- airplane mechanics
- the craft of building and repairing airplanes
- airplane pilot
- someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
- airwoman
- a woman aviator
- alcalde
- a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town
- almoner
- an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients
- alternative medicine
- the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture
- amah
- a female domestic
- amanuensis
- someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)
- ambassador
- a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another
- ambassadorship
- the post of ambassador
- ambassadress
- a woman ambassador
- angler
- a fisherman who uses a hook and line
- animal stuffer
- a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display
- animator
- the technician who produces animated cartoons
- anthologist
- an editor who makes selections for an anthology
- Anzac
- a soldier in the Australian and New Zealand army corps during World War I
- apostleship
- the position of apostle
- apparatchik
- a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization)
- appointee
- an official who is appointed
- appointment
- the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed
- apprenticeship
- the position of apprentice
- aquanaut
- a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research
- architecture
- the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
- armiger
- a squire carrying the armor of a knight
- armorer
- a worker skilled in making armor or arms
- armorer
- an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.
- army officer
- an officer in the armed forces
- arouser
- someone who rouses others from sleep
- arrowsmith
- a maker of arrows
- art editor
- an editor who is responsible for illustrations and layouts in printed matter
- artificer
- a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
- artilleryman
- a serviceman in the artillery
- artist's model
- a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
- assessor
- an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it
- assistant
- a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- associate
- a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
- associateship
- the position of associate (as in an office or academy)
- astrogator
- the navigator of a spacecraft
- attendant
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- Attorney General of the United States
- the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States
- attorneyship
- the position of attorney
- auto mechanics
- the craft of building and repairing automobiles
- auto-mechanic
- someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles
- ayah
- (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children
- baggageman
- an attendant who takes care of baggage
- bagger
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
- bagman
- a salesman who travels to call on customers
- bailiff
- an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
- bailiffship
- the office of bailiff
- baker
- someone who bakes bread or cake
- balloonist
- someone who flies a balloon
- barber
- a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade
- bargee
- someone who operates a barge
- barkeep
- an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar
- barmaid
- a female bartender
- barnstormer
- a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting
- baronetage
- the state of a baronet
- barrel maker
- a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs
- basketry
- the craft of basket making
- baster
- a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy
- bat boy
- (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment
- batman
- an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
- beadle
- a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
- bean counter
- an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures
- beater
- a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter
- beautician
- someone who works in a beauty parlor
- bell founder
- a person who casts metal bells
- bellboy
- someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels
- berth
- a job in an organization
- best man
- the principal groomsman at a wedding
- bill poster
- someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards
- birthing coach
- an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes
- bishopry
- the office and dignity of a bishop
- biz
- your occupation or line of work
- Black and Tan
- an English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921
- blackleg
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- blacksmith
- a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil
- blaster
- a workman employed to blast with explosives
- bleacher
- a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.)
- blind stitching
- stitching that is not easily seen or noticed
- bluejacket
- a serviceman in the navy
- boater
- someone who drives or rides in a boat
- boatswain
- a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
- body servant
- a valet or personal maid
- bombardier
- the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target
- bombardier
- a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery
- book agent
- a book salesman
- bookbinder
- a worker whose trade is binding books
- bookbinding
- the craft of binding books
- booking
- employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
- bookkeeping
- the activity of recording business transactions
- bottom dog
- a person of low status
- bounty hunter
- a hunter who kills predatory wild animals in order to collect a bounty
- bowdleriser
- a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages
- bracero
- a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II
- brainwashing
- forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs
- brakeman
- a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes
- brass hat
- a high-ranking military officer
- breadwinner
- one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents
- breaker
- a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
- bricklayer
- a craftsman skilled in building with bricks
- bricklaying
- the craft of laying bricks
- bridesmaid
- an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding
- brigadier
- a general officer ranking below a major general
- buck private
- an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines
- buckaroo
- local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California)
- bully pulpit
- a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter
- bunny
- a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit
- busboy
- a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes
- bushwhacker
- a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War
- business editor
- the newspaper editor responsible for business news
- business life
- a career in industrial or commercial or professional activities
- butcher
- a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
- butler
- a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table
- cabin boy
- a young man acting as a servant on a ship
- cabinet minister
- the job of a senior minister who is a member of the cabinet
- cabinetmaker
- a woodworker who specializes in making furniture
- cabinetmaking
- the craft of a joiner
- cabinetry
- the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality)
- cabotage
- navigation in coastal waters
- caddie
- an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player
- cadetship
- the position of cadet
- caliphate
- the office of a caliph
- calligrapher
- someone skilled in penmanship
- calling
- the particular occupation for which you are trained
- candy striper
- a volunteer worker in a hospital
- cannon fodder
- soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
- canoeist
- someone paddling a canoe
- canvasser
- a person who takes or counts votes
- captain
- an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
- captain
- a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
- captain
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- captain
- the pilot in charge of an airship
- captain
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- captaincy
- the post of captain
- carabineer
- a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine
- cardinalate
- the office of cardinal
- caretaker
- an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily
- carhop
- a waiter at a drive-in restaurant
- carpenter
- a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
- carpentry
- the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
- carrier
- a man who delivers the mail
- carrier
- a boy who delivers newspapers
- carter
- someone whose work is driving carts
- cartwright
- a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons
- carver
- makes decorative wooden panels
- case load
- the number of cases handled in a given period of time (as by a court or agency)
- caseworker
- someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged)
- caster
- a worker who casts molten metal into finished products
- cat's-paw
- a person used by another to gain an end
- catechesis
- oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation)
- catechetical instruction
- teaching religious principles by questions and answers
- catering
- providing food and services
- cattleman
- a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
- cavalryman
- a soldier mounted on horseback
- cavalryman
- a soldier in a motorized army unit
- censor
- a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
- census taker
- someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes
- ceramicist
- a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln
- chair
- the position of professor
- chairmanship
- the position of chairman
- chalk talk
- a talk that uses a blackboard and chalk
- chambermaid
- a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels)
- chancellorship
- the office of chancellor
- chaplaincy
- the position of chaplain
- char
- a human female employed to do housework
- charcoal burner
- a worker whose job is to make charcoal
- charge d'affaires
- the official temporarily in charge of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador
- charge of quarters
- an enlisted man who handles his unit's administrative matters after hours
- charioteer
- the driver of a chariot
- Charon
- (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades
- check girl
- a female checker
- checker
- an attendant who checks coats or baggage
- chef
- a professional cook
- chief justice
- the judge who presides over a supreme court
- chief of staff
- the senior officer of a service of the armed forces
- chief petty officer
- a person with the senior noncommissioned naval rank
- chieftaincy
- the position of chieftain
- chimneysweep
- someone who cleans soot from chimneys
- church officer
- a church official
- churchwarden
- an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters
- city editor
- the newspaper editor in charge of editing local news
- city father
- an important municipal official
- civil servant
- a public official who is a member of the civil service
- cleaner
- someone whose occupation is cleaning
- clerk
- an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
- clerk
- a salesperson in a store
- clerkship
- the job of clerk
- clockmaker
- someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches
- coachbuilder
- a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles
- coaching
- the job of a professional coach
- coachman
- a man who drives a coach (or carriage)
- coadjutor
- an assistant to a bishop
- coal miner
- someone who works in a coal mine
- coalman
- someone who delivers coal
- coastguardsman
- a member of a coastguard
- cobbling
- the shoemaker's trade
- cog
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- coiffeur
- a man hairdresser
- coiffeuse
- a woman hairdresser
- coiner
- a skilled worker who coins or stamps money
- collector of internal revenue
- someone who collects taxes for the government
- colonel
- a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
- color bearer
- the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle
- color guard
- a ceremonial escort for the (regimental) colors
- color sergeant
- a sergeant in a color guard who carries one of the colors
- combat pilot
- airplane pilot who fights in an action between two military forces
- comber
- a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool
- command sergeant major
- a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative officer of a headquarters unit of the Army
- commandant
- an officer in command of a military unit
- commander
- a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain
- commander in chief
- the officer who holds the supreme command
- commandership
- the position or office of commander
- commando
- a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids
- commissar
- an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit
- commissioned military officer
- a commissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps
- commissioned naval officer
- a commissioned officer in the navy
- commissioned officer
- a military officer holding a commission
- commodore
- a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral
- companion
- one paid to accompany or assist or live with another
- company man
- an employee whose first loyalty is to the company rather than to fellow workers
- complementary medicine
- the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine
- compositor
- one who sets written material into type
- Comptroller General
- a United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government
- Comptroller of the Currency
- a United States federal official who regulates the national banks
- comptrollership
- the position of comptroller
- conductor
- the person who collects fares on a public conveyance
- conductress
- a woman conductor
- confectionery
- the occupation and skills of a confectioner
- Confederate soldier
- a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
- conscript
- someone who is drafted into military service
- construction worker
- a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc.
- consul
- a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
- consulship
- the post of consul
- controllership
- the position of controller
- cook
- someone who cooks food
- cookie
- the cook on a ranch or at a camp
- copilot
- a relief pilot on an airplane
- coppersmith
- someone who makes articles from copper
- copy editor
- an editor who prepares text for publication
- copyist
- someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
- copywriter
- a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy
- cordon bleu
- a chef famous for his great skill
- cornhusker
- a worker who husks corn
- corporal
- a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines
- cost accounting
- keeping account of the costs of items in production
- costing
- cost accounting
- councillorship
- the position of council member
- counsellorship
- the position of counselor
- counterman
- someone who attends a counter (as in a diner)
- coureur de bois
- a French Canadian trapper
- courser
- a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey
- courtier
- an attendant at the court of a sovereign
- couture
- high fashion designing and dressmaking
- cover girl
- a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model
- cowgirl
- a woman cowboy
- cox
- the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew
- coyote
- a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time)
- craft
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- crew member
- a member of a flight crew
- crewman
- a member of a work crew
- crewman
- any member of a ship's crew
- crocheting
- creating a garment of needlework
- cropper
- small farmers and tenants
- cuirassier
- a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass
- cupbearer
- the attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine
- curacy
- the position of a curate
- curatorship
- the position of curator
- currier
- a craftsman who curries leather for use
- custodianship
- the position of custodian
- cutter
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- cutter
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- DA
- an official prosecutor for a judicial district
- dairymaid
- a woman who works in a dairy
- dairyman
- a man who works in a dairy
- dance lesson
- a lesson in dancing
- Daniel
- a wise and upright judge
- darner
- a person who mends by darning
- day laborer
- a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages
- deaconess
- a woman deacon
- deanery
- the position or office of a dean
- deckhand
- a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
- decoy
- a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
- deer hunter
- hunter of deer
- deliverer
- someone employed to make deliveries
- demonstrator
- someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer
- dental assistant
- an assistant to a dentist
- dental hygienist
- someone trained to provide preventive dental service (cleaning teeth or taking x-rays)
- dental technician
- someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures)
- deputy
- an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent
- desk clerk
- a hotel receptionist
- desk officer
- a military officer who is not assigned to active duty
- diemaker
- someone who makes dies
- digger
- a laborer who digs
- dining-room attendant
- someone employed to provide service in a dining room
- diplomat
- an official engaged in international negotiations
- diplomatic minister
- a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- directorship
- the position of a director of a business concern
- discipleship
- the position of disciple
- dishwasher
- someone who washes dishes
- disinfestation officer
- a workman employed to destroy or drive away vermin
- dispatcher
- employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service
- ditch digger
- a laborer who digs ditches
- dock worker
- a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
- dog catcher
- an employee of a municipal pound who is hired to round up stray dogs and cats
- doge
- formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- dogfighter
- a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights
- domestic
- a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
- doorkeeper
- an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
- double dipper
- someone who draws two incomes from the government (usually by combining a salary and a pension)
- double entry
- bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another
- doughboy
- an American infantryman in World War I
- drafting
- the craft of drawing blueprints
- draftsman
- a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines
- dragger
- someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something
- dragoon
- a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
- dressmaker's model
- someone who models dresses
- dressmaking
- the craft of making dresses
- drill instructor
- a noncommissioned officer who instructs recruits in military marching and discipline
- driver
- someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
- drover
- someone who drives a herd
- drudge
- a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
- duck hunter
- hunter of ducks
- dyer
- someone whose job is to dye cloth
- earner
- someone who earn wages in return for their labor
- editor
- a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)
- editorship
- the position of editor
- education
- the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
- elder
- any of various church officers
- eldership
- the office of elder
- elected official
- official who won the office in a free election
- electrical work
- the craft of an electrician
- electrician
- a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines
- electroplater
- a plater who uses electrolysis
- embalmer
- a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives
- emirate
- the office of an emir
- employable
- a person who is qualified and ready to work
- employee
- a worker who is hired to perform a job
- employment
- the occupation for which you are paid
- enforcer
- one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior
- engineering
- the practical application of technical and scientific knowledge to commerce or industry
- engraver
- a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching
- enlisted man
- a male enlisted person in the armed forces
- enlisted officer
- a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel
- enlisted person
- a serviceman who ranks below a commissioned officer
- enlisted woman
- a female enlisted person in the armed forces
- ensign
- a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade
- envoy
- a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
- equerry
- a personal attendant of the British royal family
- equerry
- an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles
- escort
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
- esquire
- (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood
- event planner
- someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials)
- ex-serviceman
- a person who has served in the armed forces
- excavator
- a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying
- executive officer
- the officer second in command
- executive secretary
- a secretary having administrative duties and responsibilities
- facilitator
- someone who makes progress easier
- factory worker
- a workman in a mill or factory
- factotum
- a servant employed to do a variety of jobs
- falconer
- a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
- faller
- a person who fells trees
- familiar
- a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support
- famulus
- a close attendant (as to a scholar)
- farm worker
- a hired hand on a farm
- farmerette
- a woman working on a farm
- farming
- agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
- farrier
- a person who shoes horses
- fashion model
- a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- fatherhood
- the status of a father
- fatherhood
- the status of a religious leader
- Federal
- any federal law-enforcement officer
- fellah
- an agricultural laborer in Arab countries
- ferryman
- a man who operates a ferry
- feudal lordship
- the position and authority of a feudal lord
- field marshal
- an officer holding the highest rank in the army
- FIFO
- inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold
- fighter pilot
- a military or naval pilot of fighter planes
- file clerk
- a clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization
- finisher
- a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process
- finisher
- a painter who applies a finishing coat
- fire marshall
- an official who is responsible for the prevention and investigation of fires
- fire warden
- an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest
- fireman
- a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
- first mate
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- first sergeant
- a sergeant in the Army above the rank of staff sergeant and below master sergeant
- fisher
- someone whose occupation is catching fish
- five-star admiral
- an admiral of the highest rank
- fixer
- a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
- flag captain
- the captain of a flagship
- flag officer
- a senior naval officer above the rank of captain
- flanker
- a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation
- flight attendant
- an attendant on an airplane
- flight engineer
- the flight crewman responsible for mechanical operation while in flight
- floater
- an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
- floorwalker
- an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems
- flower girl
- a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession
- flunkey
- a male servant (especially a footman)
- FO
- an officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel
- foot soldier
- fights on foot with small arms
- foot soldier
- an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
- footman
- a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores
- foremanship
- the position of foreman
- forger
- someone who operates a forge
- forty-niner
- a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849
- founder
- a worker who makes metal castings
- fowler
- someone who hunts wild birds for food
- framer
- someone who makes frames (as for pictures)
- free lance
- a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
- French lesson
- instruction in the French language
- fry cook
- a cook who specializes in fried foods
- full general
- a general officer of the highest rank
- fuller
- a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living
- fumigator
- someone whose job is to fumigate
- functionary
- a worker who holds or is invested with an office
- funeral director
- one whose business is the management of funerals
- furnishing
- the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc.
- fusilier
- (formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket
- gaffer
- an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set
- gallant
- a man who attends or escorts a woman
- galvaniser
- a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc
- gandy dancer
- a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang
- gardener
- someone employed to work in a garden
- garment cutter
- someone who cuts cloth etc. to measure in making garments
- garnishee
- a wage earner who is served with a garnishment
- gas fitter
- a workman who installs and repairs gas fixtures and appliances
- gasman
- someone employed by a gas company
- gaucho
- a cowboy of the South American pampas
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher
- Prussian general who is remembered for his leadership in the wars against Napoleon (1742-1819)
- gem cutter
- one who cuts and shapes precious stones
- general officer
- officers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonel
- generalcy
- the office and authority of a general
- gentleman
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
- George Frost Kennan
- United States diplomat who recommended a policy of containment in dealing with Soviet aggression (1904-2005)
- German lesson
- instruction in the German language
- gig
- a booking for musicians
- gilder
- someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt
- gillie
- a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief
- gipsy
- a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
- girl Friday
- a female assistant who has a range of duties
- glass cutter
- someone who cuts or grinds designs on glass
- glass cutter
- someone who cuts flat glass to size
- glassblower
- someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass
- gleaner
- someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
- gleaner
- someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
- goat herder
- a person who tends a flock of goats
- gofer
- an employee whose duties include running errands
- gold digger
- a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
- goldbeater
- an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf
- goldbrick
- a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
- golf lesson
- a lesson in playing golf
- gondolier
- a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola
- governorship
- the office of governor
- Grand Inquisitor
- director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal)
- gravedigger
- a person who earns a living by digging graves
- Green Beret
- a soldier who is a member of the United States Army Special Forces
- grenade thrower
- an infantryman equipped with grenades
- Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin
- a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)
- grip
- worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made
- grocery boy
- a delivery boy for groceries
- groom
- someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
- groomsman
- a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- groundkeeper
- someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field)
- group captain
- a commissioned officer (especially one in the Royal Air Force) equivalent in rank to a colonel in the army
- guard of honor
- an escort for a distinguished guest or for the casket at a military funeral
- guardsman
- a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards'
- guest worker
- a person with temporary permission to work in another country
- guide
- someone employed to conduct others
- gunnery sergeant
- a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant in the marines
- gunsmith
- someone who makes or repairs guns
- Gurkha
- a member of the Nepalese force that has been part of the British army for 200 years; known for fierceness in combat
- gutter
- a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
- hairdresser
- someone who cuts or beautifies hair
- hand
- a member of the crew of a ship
- hand
- a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
- handicraft
- a craft that requires skillful hands
- handmaid
- a personal maid or female attendant
- handyman
- a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks
- hanger
- a worker who hangs something
- hangover
- an official who remains in office after his term
- hard worker
- someone who works as hard as a slave
- harpooneer
- someone who launches harpoons
- harvester
- someone who helps to gather the harvest
- headmastership
- the position of headmaster
- headmistressship
- the position of headmistress
- headship
- the position of head
- headship
- the position of headmaster or headmistress
- hearing examiner
- an official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers
- heaver
- a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard)
- Hebrew lesson
- instruction in the Hebrew language
- hedger
- a gardener who takes care of and trims hedges
- helmsman
- the person who steers a ship
- herbal medicine
- the use of medicinal herbs to prevent or treat disease or promote health
- hewer
- a person who hews
- high commissioner
- a senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank
- Highlander
- a soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands
- hire
- a newly hired employee
- hired help
- employee hired for domestic or farm work (often used in the singular to refer to several employees collectively)
- hireling
- a person who works only for money
- hobo
- a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places
- hod carrier
- a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers
- home help
- a person hired to help in another's home (especially one employed by a local authority to help the infirm with domestic work)
- horse wrangler
- a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses
- hospital attendant
- a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients
- hot seat
- a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism
- house painter
- a painter of houses a similar buildings
- house painting
- the occupation of a house painter
- housebreaker
- a wrecker of houses
- housekeeper
- a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household
- hunter
- someone who hunts game
- huntress
- a woman hunter
- hussar
- a member of a European light cavalry unit; renowned for elegant dress
- hypnopedia
- teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep)
- iceman
- someone who cuts and delivers ice
- inculcation
- teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition
- incumbency
- the office of an incumbent
- incumbent
- the official who holds an office
- indexer
- someone who provides an index
- Indian agent
- a representative of the federal government to American Indian tribes (especially on Indian reservations)
- indoctrination
- teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically
- Inquisitor
- an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition
- inspector general
- a military officer responsible for investigations
- inspectorship
- the office of inspector
- instruction
- the profession of a teacher
- instructorship
- the position of instructor
- interior decorating
- the trade or act of decorating the interior of a building or room, especially with regard to color combination, paint, fabrics, carpeting, etc.
- internship
- the position of a medical intern
- internuncio
- (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio
- invalidator
- an official who can invalidate or nullify
- inventory accounting
- accounting that controls and evaluates inventory
- jack
- someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
- Jack-tar
- a man who serves as a sailor
- Janissary
- a Turkish soldier
- jawan
- (India) a private soldier or male constable
- jobholder
- an employee who holds a regular job
- Johnny Reb
- `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
- joiner
- a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood
- journalism
- the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media
- judge advocate
- a staff officer serving as legal adviser to a military commander
- judge advocate
- an officer assigned to the judge advocate general
- judge advocate general
- the senior legal advisor to a branch of the military
- judge
- a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
- judgeship
- the position of judge
- justice of the peace
- a local magistrate with limited powers
- justiciar
- formerly a high judicial officer
- kamikaze
- a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash
- khanate
- the position of a khan
- kitchen help
- help hired to work in the kitchen
- knacker
- someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
- knacker
- someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
- knitting
- creating knitted wear
- KP
- an enlisted person who is assigned to assist the cooks
- lace making
- the act or art of making handmade lace
- lacer
- a workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding)
- lady's maid
- a maid who is a lady's personal attendant
- lame duck
- an elected official still in office but not slated to continue
- laminator
- a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates)
- lamplighter
- (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights
- lance corporal
- an enlisted man in the marine corps ranking above a private first class and below a corporal
- lancer
- (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance
- language lesson
- a period of instruction learning a language
- language teaching
- teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language
- lapidary
- a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones
- lascar
- an East Indian sailor
- lasher
- a driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip
- lather
- a workman who puts up laths
- laundress
- a working woman who takes in washing
- laundryman
- operates industrial washing machine
- law
- the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
- learned profession
- one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles
- lecture
- teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
- lectureship
- the post of lecturer
- legal assistant
- a person with specialized training who assists lawyers
- legateship
- the post or office of legate
- legionary
- a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion)
- Legionnaire
- a member of the American Legion
- legislatorship
- the office of legislator
- lens maker
- a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision
- lesson
- a unit of instruction
- letterer
- a painter of letters
- librarianship
- the position of librarian
- licenser
- an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications)
- lieutenancy
- the position of a lieutenant
- lieutenant
- a commissioned military officer
- lieutenant
- an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
- lieutenant colonel
- a commissioned officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines holding a rank above major and below colonel
- lieutenant commander
- a commissioned officer in the Navy ranking above a lieutenant and below a commander
- lieutenant general
- a general officer ranking above a major general and below a full general
- lieutenant governor
- an elected official serving as deputy to the governor of a state of the United States
- lieutenant JG
- an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant and above ensign
- lifeguard
- an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents
- lifework
- the principal work of your career
- LIFO
- inventory accounting in which the most recently acquired items are assumed to be the first sold
- lighting
- the craft of providing artificial light
- line officer
- a commissioned officer with combat units (not a staff officer or a supply officer)
- line worker
- an employee who works on an assembly line
- linkboy
- (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets
- lion-hunter
- someone who hunts lions
- lister
- assessor who makes out the tax lists
- literature
- the profession or art of a writer
- litter-bearer
- one who helps carry a stretcher
- liveryman
- a worker in a livery stable
- loader
- an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game
- lobsterback
- British soldier; so-called because of his red coat (especially during the American Revolution)
- lobsterman
- a person whose occupation is catching lobsters
- lockkeeper
- a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal)
- locksmith
- someone who makes or repairs locks
- Luddite
- one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
- lumbering
- the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
- luthier
- a craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins)
- mace
- an official who carries a mace of office
- machinist
- a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
- magistracy
- the position of magistrate
- magistrate
- a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses)
- mahout
- the driver and keeper of an elephant
- mail clerk
- a clerk in a post office
- maintenance man
- a skilled worker whose job is to repair things
- major
- a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
- major-domo
- the chief steward or butler of a great household
- major-general
- a general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant general
- man
- a male subordinate
- man Friday
- the most helpful assistant
- man
- someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
- man-at-arms
- a heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times
- managership
- the position of manager
- managing editor
- the editor in charge of all editorial activities of a newspaper or magazine
- mandarin
- any high government official or bureaucrat
- manhood
- the status of being a man
- manicurist
- a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails
- manservant
- a man servant
- mapper
- a clerk who marks data on a chart
- Marine
- a member of the United States Marine Corps
- marine
- a soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land
- marshal
- (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank
- marshalship
- the post of marshall
- mason
- a craftsman who works with stone or brick
- masonry
- the craft of a mason
- master sergeant
- a senior noncommissioned officer in the Army or Marines
- master-at-arms
- the senior petty officer; responsible for discipline aboard ship
- mastership
- the position of master
- matron of honor
- a married woman serving as the attendant to the bride at a wedding
- mayoralty
- the position of mayor
- medicine
- the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
- medium
- an occupation for which you are especially well suited
- melter
- a worker who melts substances (metal or wax etc.)
- menial
- a domestic servant
- messiahship
- the position of messiah
- metalworker
- someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable)
- midinette
- a Parisian salesgirl
- military adviser
- a military officer who serves as an adviser to the troops of an allied nation
- military officer
- any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command
- military recruit
- a recently enlisted soldier
- military volunteer
- (military) a person who freely enlists for service
- militiaman
- a member of the militia; serves only during emergencies
- milkman
- someone who delivers milk
- mill-girl
- a girl who works in a mill
- miller
- someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)
- millwright
- a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery
- minder
- someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors
- miner
- laborer who works in a mine
- minister
- the job of a head of a government department
- ministry
- the work of a minister of religion
- mintage
- act or process of minting coins
- Minuteman
- an American militiaman prior to and during the American Revolution
- model
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- moderatorship
- the position of moderator
- moonlighter
- a person who holds a second job (usually after hours)
- mopper
- a worker who uses a mop to clean a surface
- mounter
- a skilled worker who mounts pictures or jewels etc.
- mover
- workman employed by a moving company
- mule driver
- a worker who drives mules
- music lesson
- a lesson in performing music
- musketeer
- a foot soldier armed with a musket
- muzzler
- someone who muzzles animals
- nailer
- a worker who attaches something by nailing it
- naval commander
- naval officer in command of a fleet of warships
- naval officer
- an officer in the navy
- navigation
- the work of a sailor
- navigator
- the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course
- navigator
- the ship's officer in charge of navigation
- Navy SEAL
- a member of a Naval Special Warfare unit who is trained for unconventional warfare
- needlecraft
- work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle
- netting
- creating nets
- newspaper editor
- the editor of a newspaper
- newspapering
- journalism practiced for the newspapers
- noncombatant
- a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon)
- notary
- someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions
- noticer
- someone who gives formal notice
- nuncio
- (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status
- nurse's aide
- someone who assists a nurse in tasks that require little formal training
- oarsman
- someone who rows a boat
- oarswoman
- a woman oarsman
- occupier
- a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country
- oculism
- the craft of an oculist
- office boy
- a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office
- office-bearer
- the person who holds an office
- officeholder
- someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust
- officer
- a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel
- oil rigger
- someone who works on an oil rig
- oiler
- a worker who oils engines or machinery
- oilman
- a worker who produces or sells petroleum
- orderly
- a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer
- orderly sergeant
- the first sergeant of a company; duties formerly included the conveyance of orders
- ordinary
- a judge of a probate court
- organization man
- an employee who sacrifices his own individuality for the good of an organization
- overlordship
- the position of overlord
- P.O.
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
- page
- a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- page
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
- painter
- a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
- paper route
- the job of delivering newspapers regularly
- paper-pusher
- a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork
- paperboy
- a boy who sells or delivers newspapers
- paperer
- one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper
- papermaking
- the craft of making paper
- para
- a soldier in the paratroops
- paramedic
- a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment
- paraprofessional
- a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional
- parer
- a manicurist who trims the fingernails
- parlormaid
- a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door
- part-timer
- someone who works less than the customary or standard time
- paster
- a workman who pastes
- pastorate
- the position of pastor
- pastry cook
- a chef who specializes in pastry
- peacekeeper
- a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area
- peasant
- one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
- peasanthood
- the state of being a peasant
- peeler
- a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables
- pencil pusher
- a clerk who does boring paperwork
- perfecter
- a skilled worker who perfects something
- persona grata
- a diplomat who is acceptable to the government to which he is sent
- persona non grata
- a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent
- phlebotomist
- someone who practices phlebotomy
- phonics
- teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values
- photographer's model
- a model who poses for photographers
- photography
- the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
- piano lesson
- a lesson in playing the piano
- piano tuner
- someone who tunes pianos
- picker
- someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
- piecework
- work paid for according to the quantity produced
- pigman
- a herder or swine
- pilot
- a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- pilotage
- the occupation of a pilot
- pipe fitter
- a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances
- pistoleer
- someone armed with a pistol (especially a soldier so armed)
- pitchman
- an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something
- placeman
- a disparaging term for an appointee
- placer miner
- a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging
- plaiter
- someone who plaits (hair or fabric etc.)
- planter
- a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
- plasterer
- a worker skilled in applying plaster
- platelayer
- a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks
- plater
- a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold)
- pledge taker
- a volunteer who records (usually by telephone) contributions pledged in a fund drive
- plenipotentiary
- a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government
- plier
- someone who plies a trade
- ploughman
- a man who plows
- ploughwright
- a workman who makes and repairs plows
- plum
- a highly desirable position or assignment
- plumbery
- the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building)
- poilu
- a French soldier (especially in World War I)
- point man
- a soldier who goes ahead of a patrol
- politics
- the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs
- Pontius Pilate
- the Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36)
- porter
- a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- postmaster general
- the official in charge of the national postal service
- potboy
- a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores
- pothunter
- someone who hunts for food (not for sport)
- pottery
- the craft of making earthenware
- powder monkey
- someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)
- power worker
- a worker at a power station
- praetor
- an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic
- praetorship
- the office of praetor
- precentorship
- the position of precentor
- preceptorship
- the position of preceptor
- prefecture
- the office of prefect
- prelacy
- the office or station of a prelate
- premiership
- the office of premier
- presbyter
- an elder in the Presbyterian Church
- preserver
- a cook who preserves fruits or meat
- preserver
- a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
- presidency
- the office and function of president
- President of the United States
- the office of the United States head of state
- pressman
- someone whose occupation is printing
- preventive medicine
- the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
- primateship
- the office of primate
- principalship
- the post of principal
- priorship
- the office of prior
- privateer
- an officer or crew member of a privateer
- probation officer
- the officer of the court who supervises probationers
- processor
- someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
- proconsul
- an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power
- proconsulate
- the position of proconsul
- proctorship
- the position of proctor
- procurator
- (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes
- profession
- an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)
- professional baseball
- playing baseball for money
- professional basketball
- playing basketball for money
- professional boxing
- boxing for money
- professional football
- football played for pay
- professional golf
- playing golf for money
- professional tennis
- playing tennis for money
- professional wrestling
- wrestling for money
- projectionist
- the person who operates the projector in a movie house
- prompter
- someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech
- proofreader
- someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
- property man
- member of the stage crew in charge of properties
- prosecuting attorney
- a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
- prospector
- someone who explores an area for mineral deposits
- protectorship
- the position of protector
- Protestant deacon
- a Protestant layman who assists the minister
- provincial
- (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
- pruner
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs
- public office
- a position concerning the people as a whole
- public servant
- someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment)
- public service
- employment within a government system (especially in the civil service)
- publican
- the keeper of a public house
- Pullman porter
- a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
- punter
- someone who propels a boat with a pole
- purser
- an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare
- pyrotechnics
- the craft of making fireworks
- qadi
- an Islamic judge
- quaestor
- any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)
- quarrier
- a man who works in a quarry
- quartermaster
- an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops
- quartermaster general
- a staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army
- rabbinate
- the office or function of a rabbi
- racker
- an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack
- ragsorter
- a worker who sorts rags and old clothing for new uses (as in papermaking)
- rail-splitter
- a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
- railroad man
- an employee of a railroad
- ranch hand
- a hired hand on a ranch
- ranker
- an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces
- ranker
- a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
- rapporteur
- a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings
- raw recruit
- an inexperienced and untrained recruit
- rear admiral
- an admiral junior to a vice admiral
- receivership
- the office of a receiver
- receptionist
- a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors
- recorder
- a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs
- recorder
- someone responsible for keeping records
- recruiter
- an official who enlists personnel for military service
- recruiting-sergeant
- a sergeant deputized to enlist recruits
- rectorate
- the office or station of a rector
- redact
- someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
- redcap
- a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station
- refiner
- one whose work is to refine a specific thing
- regency
- the office of a regent
- registrar
- a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company
- regular
- a soldier in the regular army
- regulator
- an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
- remover
- someone who works for a company that moves furniture
- rent collector
- a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner
- reservist
- a member of a military reserve
- residency
- the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)
- retainer
- a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
- returning officer
- the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results
- rifleman
- a soldier whose weapon is a rifle
- rigger
- someone who rigs ships
- riveter
- a worker who inserts and hammers rivets
- road mender
- a workman who is employed to repair roads
- roaster
- a cook who roasts food
- rocker
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
- roofer
- a craftsman who lays or repairs roofs
- roofing
- the craft of a roofer
- room clerk
- a hotel clerk who is responsible for room assignments to guests
- ropemaker
- a craftsman who makes ropes
- roper
- a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses
- roper
- a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
- Rough Rider
- a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898)
- roundsman
- a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on)
- router
- a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery
- rulership
- the position of ruler
- sacristan
- an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects
- sainthood
- the status and dignity of a saint
- sales rep
- a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)
- salesgirl
- a woman salesperson
- salesman
- a man salesperson
- salt mine
- a job involving drudgery and confinement
- salter
- someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods
- sandwichman
- a person with advertising boards hanging from the shoulders
- sawyer
- one who is employed to saw wood
- scene painter
- a painter of theatrical scenery
- sceneshifter
- a stagehand responsible for moving scenery
- schooling
- the act of teaching at school
- scorer
- a logger who marks trees to be felled
- scourer
- someone who cleanses by scouring
- SCPO
- a senior noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army
- scratcher
- a workman who uses a tool for scratching
- scrubber
- a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck)
- sculler
- someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward)
- scullion
- a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing)
- sea lawyer
- an argumentative and contentious seaman
- sealer
- an official who affixes a seal to a document
- searcher
- a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items
- seasonal
- a worker who finds employment only in certain seasons
- seasoner
- a cook who uses seasonings
- second
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- second banana
- someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role
- second-in-command
- someone who relieves a commander
- secretarial assistant
- an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization
- Secretary of Agriculture
- the position of the head of the Department of Agriculture
- Secretary of Commerce
- the position of the head of the Department of Commerce
- Secretary of Commerce and Labor
- head of a former executive department created in 1903 and divided into two departments in 1913
- Secretary of Defense
- the position of the head of the Department of Defense
- Secretary of Education
- the position of the head of the Education Department
- Secretary of Energy
- the position of the head of the Department of Energy
- Secretary of Health and Human Services
- the position of the head of the Department of Health and Human Services
- Secretary of Health Education and Welfare
- head of a former executive department created in 1953 and divided into two departments in 1979
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Secretary of Labor
- the position of the head of the Department of Labor
- Secretary of State
- the position of the head of the State Department
- Secretary of the Interior
- the position of the head of the Department of the Interior
- Secretary of the Navy
- head of a former executive department; combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947
- Secretary of the Treasury
- the position of the head of the Treasury Department
- Secretary of Transportation
- the position of the head of the Department of Transportation
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- the position of the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Secretary of War
- head of a former executive department; combined with the Navy Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947
- secretaryship
- the position of secretary
- Section Eight
- a soldier who received a Section Eight discharge as unfit for military service
- section hand
- a laborer assigned to a section gang
- selectman
- an elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns
- selectwoman
- an elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns
- senatorship
- the office of senator
- sergeant
- any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal
- sergeant at arms
- an officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands
- servant girl
- a girl who is a servant
- server
- a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
- service
- employment in or work for another
- services
- performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others
- servitor
- someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else
- settler
- a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings
- sewing
- joining or attaching by stitches
- shearer
- a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals
- shearer
- a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles
- sheepherder
- a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
- sheet-metal work
- the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems)
- sheller
- a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters)
- shelver
- a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves
- shepherdess
- a woman shepherd
- shill
- a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
- shingler
- a worker who shingles roofs
- shingling
- the laying on of shingles
- ship builder
- a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
- shipping clerk
- an employee who ships and receives goods
- shop boy
- a young male shop assistant
- shop girl
- a young female shop assistant
- shoveler
- a worker who shovels
- sidesman
- (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church
- sign painter
- someone who paints signs and billboards etc.
- signalman
- a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
- sinecure
- an office that involves minimal duties
- single entry
- a simple bookkeeping system; transactions are entered in only one account
- skidder
- a worker who uses a skid to move logs
- skilled worker
- a worker who has acquired special skills
- skinner
- a person who prepares or deals in animal skins
- skivvy
- a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work
- skycap
- a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at an airport
- slating
- the act of laying slates for a roof
- smith
- someone who works at something specified
- SMSgt
- a senior noncommissioned officer in the Air Force with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army
- snarer
- someone who sets snares for birds or small animals
- social secretary
- a personal secretary who handles your social correspondence and appointments
- soda jerk
- someone who works at a soda fountain
- solderer
- a worker who joins or mends with solder
- soldier
- an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army
- solicitorship
- the position of solicitor
- sommelier
- a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant
- sorter
- a clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office)
- soundman
- a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast)
- sourdough
- a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska)
- speakership
- the position of Speaker
- specialisation
- the special line of work you have adopted as your career
- spinning
- creating thread
- splicer
- a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands
- splicer
- a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice
- splitter
- a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
- sponger
- a workman employed to collect sponges
- spoonfeeding
- teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought
- sport
- the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
- sports editor
- the newspaper editor responsible for sports news
- spot welder
- a welder who does spot welding
- spotter
- a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)
- spotter
- a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots
- sprayer
- a worker who applies spray to a surface
- sprigger
- a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
- sprog
- a new military recruit
- squire
- young nobleman attendant on a knight
- stacker
- a laborer who builds up a stack or pile
- staff member
- 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)
- staff officer
- a commissioned officer assigned to a military commander's staff
- staff sergeant
- 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
- stage technician
- an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production
- stainer
- a worker who stains (wood or fabric)
- stalker
- someone who stalks game
- stamper
- 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)
- state attorney
- a prosecuting attorney for a state
- steamfitter
- a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating
- steeplejack
- someone who builds or maintains very tall structures
- stemmer
- a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
- steward
- the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements
- stewardship
- the position of steward
- stipendiary
- (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases
- stippler
- a painter who stipples (creates a stippled effect)
- stitcher
- a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps
- stocktaker
- an employee whose job is to take inventory
- stone breaker
- someone who breaks up stone
- strafer
- a combat pilot who strafes the enemy
- street cleaner
- a worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department)
- striker
- someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating
- stringer
- a worker who strings
- strip miner
- a miner who does strip mining
- striper
- a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service
- stroke
- the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
- studentship
- the position of student
- subaltern
- a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
- subeditor
- an assistant editor
- sublieutenant
- an officer ranking next below a lieutenant
- submariner
- a member of the crew of a submarine
- sumo
- a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground
- supercargo
- an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase
- supermodel
- a fashion model who has attained the status of a celebrity
- supply officer
- a commissioned officer responsible for logistics
- Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic
- commanding officer of ACLANT; a general of the United States Army nominated by the President of the United States and approved by the North Atlantic Council
- Supreme Allied Commander Europe
- commanding officer of ACE; NATO's senior military commander in Europe
- suturing
- surgical joining of two surfaces
- swagger
- an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work
- sweeper
- an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
- tacker
- a worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding)
- tailoring
- the occupation of a tailor
- talk
- the act of giving a talk to an audience
- tally clerk
- one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received
- tallyman
- one who sells goods on the installment plan
- tank driver
- a soldier who drives a tank
- tanner
- a craftsman who tans skins and hides
- tanning
- making leather from rawhide
- tapper
- a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads
- tapper
- a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
- taxer
- a bureaucrat who levies taxes
- teachership
- the position of teacher
- teaching reading
- teaching beginners to read
- teamster
- the driver of a team of horses doing hauling
- teaser
- a worker who teases wool
- techie
- a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing)
- technical sergeant
- a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant in the air force or marines
- technician
- someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process
- telecommuting
- employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem
- teller
- an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
- temp
- a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis
- tennis lesson
- a lesson in playing tennis
- territorial
- nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit
- test pilot
- a pilot hired to fly experimental airplanes through maneuvers designed to test them
- thaneship
- the position of thane
- thatcher
- someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage
- theology
- the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary)
- throne
- the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions
- thrower
- a person who twists silk or rayon filaments into a thread or yarn
- tier
- a worker who ties something
- tiler
- a worker who lays tile
- timekeeper
- a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees
- tinker
- formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living
- tinner
- someone who makes or repairs tinware
- tinter
- a hairdresser who tints hair
- toiler
- one who works strenuously
- toll agent
- someone employed to collect tolls
- tool-and-die work
- the craft of making special tools and dies
- topper
- a worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.)
- topper
- a worker who makes or adds the top to something
- touch-typist
- a skilled typist who can type a document without looking at the keyboard
- town clerk
- the official who keeps a town's records
- tracker
- someone who tracks down game
- trade unionist
- a worker who belongs to a trade union
- train dispatcher
- a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard
- trainbandsman
- a member of a trainband
- trainbearer
- one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion
- trapper
- someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs)
- trawler
- a fisherman who use a trawl net
- treasurership
- the position of treasurer
- trencher
- someone who digs trenches
- trial judge
- a judge in a trial court
- tribuneship
- the position of tribune
- trier
- one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case
- trouble shooter
- a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices)
- trustbuster
- a federal agent who engages in trust busting
- trusteeship
- the position of trustee
- tuition
- teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
- turncock
- one employed to control water supply by turning water mains on and off
- turner
- a lathe operator
- turtler
- someone whose occupation is hunting turtles
- twiner
- someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing
- typist
- someone paid to operate a typewriter
- typography
- the craft of composing type and printing from it
- underboss
- an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate)
- undertaking
- the trade of a funeral director
- Unknown Soldier
- an unidentified soldier whose body is honored as a memorial
- unpaid worker
- a person who performs voluntary work
- upholsterer
- a craftsman who upholsters furniture
- upholstery
- the craft of upholstering
- Uriah
- (Old Testament) the husband of Bathsheba and a soldier who was sent to die in battle so that king David could marry his wife (circa 10th century BC)
- usherette
- a female usher
- utility man
- a workman expected to serve in any capacity when called on
- varnisher
- someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish
- verger
- a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies
- vestryman
- a man who is a member of a church vestry
- vestrywoman
- a woman who is a member of a church vestry
- veteran
- a serviceman who has seen considerable active service
- vicar-general
- (Roman Catholic Church) an administrative deputy who assists a bishop
- vice admiral
- an admiral ranking below a full admiral and above a rear admiral
- vice-presidency
- the office and function of a vice president
- vice-regent
- a regent's deputy
- viceroyship
- the position of viceroy
- vigilance man
- member of a vigilance committee
- vintager
- a person who harvests grapes for making wine
- violin lesson
- a lesson in playing the violin
- vizier
- a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire)
- viziership
- the position of vizier
- voicer
- someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes
- vulcaniser
- someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency
- Wac
- a member of the Women's Army Corps
- waggoner
- the driver of a wagon
- waggonwright
- a wagon maker
- waitress
- a woman waiter
- walk
- careers in general
- wallah
- usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing
- wallpaperer
- a worker who papers walls
- wardenship
- the position of warden
- wardership
- the position of warder
- warehouseman
- a workman who manages or works in a warehouse
- warrant officer
- holds rank by virtue of a warrant
- washer
- someone who washes things for a living
- water boy
- an assistant who supplies drinking water
- water dog
- a person who enjoys being in or on the water
- waterer
- someone who waters plants or crops
- Wave
- a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch
- weaver
- a craftsman who weaves cloth
- weaving
- creating fabric
- webmaster
- a technician who designs or maintains a website
- weeder
- a farmhand hired to remove weeds
- weekend warrior
- a reservist who fulfills the military obligation on weekends
- weigher
- an official who weighs and records the weight
- welder
- joins pieces of metal by welding them together
- wetter
- a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process
- whaler
- a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales
- wheeler
- someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels
- whipper-in
- huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds
- whole-word method
- teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words
- winder
- a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism)
- window cleaner
- someone who cleans windows for pay
- window dresser
- someone who decorates shop windows
- window washer
- someone who washes windows
- wine making
- the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine
- wing commander
- (RAF rank) one who is next below a group captain
- wingman
- the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on the wing of) the leader of a flying formation
- wiper
- a worker who wipes
- wireman
- a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring
- womanhood
- the status of a woman
- woodcutter
- cuts down trees and chops wood as a job
- woodman
- makes things out of wood
- work load
- work that a person is expected to do in a specified time
- working girl
- a young woman who is employed
- working man
- an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
- workmate
- a fellow worker
- wrecker
- someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
- wright
- someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)
- yachtsman
- a person who owns or sails a yacht
- yard bird
- a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks
- yardman
- a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)
- yardman
- worker in a railway yard