"killer" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
subtypes:
- executioner, public executioner - an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
- eradicator, exterminator, terminator - someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
- choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler - someone who kills by strangling
- liquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
- poisoner - someone who kills with poison
- regicide - someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
- felo-de-se, suicide - a person who kills himself intentionally
same as: slayer
is a type of: causal agency, causal agent, cause - any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results

same as: cause of death
is a type of: difficulty - a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result
is a type of: dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

belongs to: genus orcinus, orcinus - killer whales

same as: grampus, killer whale, orca, orcinus orca, sea wolf