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LexiTopic: Occupations

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The LexiConnexxions analysis has identified these words related to OCCUPATIONS in the Spelling Bee lexicon. The complete list of words on this topic is shown at right (on laptop or desktop) or at the end of the page (on mobile); the complete topical analysis is given below.
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Taxonomy for Spelling Bee words related to OCCUPATIONS
SUBJECT HEADINGS IN THIS LEXITOPIC: Agriculture and Farm LifeAttire, Fashion, and StyleAviationBuildings Architecture, and ConstructionBusiness and CommerceDramatic ArtsEconomics and FinanceEntertainmentGovernment, Civics, and PoliticsHuman Health and MedicineHospitality and Service includes Food and DrinkInformation and Communication TechnologiesLaw, Crime and Courts not criminalsLearning, Education, and ResearchMusicNautical and Maritime Other Trades and ProfessionsSex WorkSports and Recreation in general, not specific sportsTransportation and Travel on land, not air or seaVisual ArtsWords about OccupationsWriting and Publishing
NOTES ABOUT THE TAXONOMY FOR OCCUPATIONS SCOPE NOTE: This LexiTopic compiles and defines Bee words related to human occupations and professions (not hobbies or other nonoccupational activities). Words indexed in OCCUPATIONS are also indexed in the relevant subject areas. Words related to certain occupations are not indexed in OCCUPATIONS, as follows: Criminals and criminal occupations are in LAW, CRIME, AND COURTS. Words related to royalty (present or historical) and historical occupations (that no longer exist?) are in HISTORY AND OLDEN TIMES. Words related to occupations in the military are in WEAPONS AND WARFARE. Words related to occupations in religious orders or organizations are in BELIEF SYSTEMS. Epithets related to or derived from occupation or profession are in PEOPLE: CHARACTER AND APPEARANCE.
Topical arrangement of Spelling Bee words related to OCCUPATIONS
Agriculture and Farm Life
BEEKEEPING: raising and caring for beesBOOR: a peasant; a member of a European class of persons tilling the soil as small landowners or as laborers; also: a member of a similar class elsewhereCLOWN: M-W’s 1st def.: 1: a farmer, countrymanCOWGIRL: girl or woman who tends cattle or horses; or a girl or woman who is a rodeo performerCOWHAND: a cowboyDAIRYMAID: a woman employed in a dairyFARMHAND: a farm laborer, especially: a hired laborer on a farm; also, a baseball player on a farm teamGROOM: a person responsible for the feeding, exercising, and stabling of horsesHIND: a British farm assistantIRRIGATOR: a person employed in agricultural irrigation; an irrigation technicianLUNA: M-W: Hawaii foreman, especially: a foreman of a plantationYEOMEN: a person who owns and cultivates a small farm, specifically: one belonging to a class of English freeholders below the gentry; also, a person of the social rank of yeoman
Attire, Fashion, and Style
MODEL: one who is employed to display clothes or other merchandise; also, to display by wearing, using, or posing with (modeled gowns); also, to work or act as a fashion modelTAILOR: a person whose occupation is making or altering garments (such as suits, jackets, and dresses) typically to fit a particular person; also, to make or fashion as the work of a tailor; to fit with clothes; to style with trim straight lines and finished handwork; to do the work of a tailor
Aviation
AIRMAN: a civilian or military pilot, aviator, or aviation technicianAVIATOR: the operator or pilot of an aircraft and especially an airplaneCAPTAIN: a senior pilot who commands the crew of an airplaneCOPILOT: a qualified pilot who assists or relieves the pilot but is not in commandJOCK: a pilot, especially: a fighter pilotPILOT: a person who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft
Buildings, Architecture, and Construction
CONTRACTOR: one that contracts to erect buildingsHARDHAT: M-W has only the open compound hard hat, a construction worker
Business and Commerce
ACCOUNTANT: one who is skilled in the practice of accounting or who is in charge of public or private accountsADMAN: a person who writes, solicits, or places advertisementsADMIN: administrative assistantADWOMAN: a person who writes, solicits, or places advertisementsAGENT: one who is authorized to act for or in the place of another; a business representative (as of an athlete or entertainer) (a theatrical agent)BOSS: one who directs or supervises workers (asking your boss for a raise); also, to exercise control or authority over: to act as boss of (she was assigned to boss the project)CONTRACTOR: one that contracts to perform work or provide suppliesFACTOR: one who acts or transacts business for another: such as a broker, or one that lends money to producers and dealers (as on the security of accounts receivable)FLACK: one who provides publicity, especially a press agentMANAGEMENT: the collective body of those who manage or direct an enterpriseMIDDLEMEN: middleman: an intermediary or agent between two parties, especially: a dealer, agent, or company intermediate between the producer of goods and the retailer or consumerOILMAN: an oil company executive; also, an oil field workerTEMP: short for a temporary worker; also, to work as a tempTEMPED: short for a temporary worker; also, to work as a tempWORKMAN: a workingman, one who works for wages usually at manual labor; also, an artisan, a worker who practices a trade or handicraft: a craftspersonWORKWOMAN: a woman who works
Dramatic Arts
ACTOR: one who acts in a play, movie, television show, etc.ANCHORMAN: a broadcaster (as on a news program) who introduces reports by other broadcasters and usually reads the newsCOMIC: a comedian (a stand-up comic)COMPANY: an organization of performing artists, such as a company of actorsDRAM: a dramatist or playwrightGAGMAN*: a gag writer; a comedianGAGMEN*: a gag writer; a comedianGRIP: a technician on a motion-picture or television set who handles and maintains equipment (such as cameras and their dollies and cranes); also, a stage worker who handles scenery, properties, or lights: a stagehandHYPHENATE: (noun) a person who performs more than one function (such as a producer-director in filmmaking)MIME: an actor in a mime; one that practices mime; a mimicMIMIC: a mime: an actor in a mime or one that practices mime; one that mimics; also, to imitate closely; to ape; to ridicule by imitationNARRATOR: one who narrates, to provide spoken commentary for (something, such as a movie or television show)PRINCIPAL: a leading performer: a starPROPMAN*: a man in charge of stage properties
Economics and Finance
ACTUARY: a person who calculates insurance and annuity premiums, reserves, and dividendsMONEYMEN: financiers
Entertainment
ACROBAT: one that performs gymnastic feats requiring skillful control of the bodyCARNY: a person who works with a carnivalCLOWN: a fool, jester, or comedian in an entertainment (such as a play), specifically: a grotesquely dressed comedy performer in a circusCOMIC: a comedian (a stand-up comic)CRITIC: one who engages often professionally in the analysis, evaluation, or appreciation of works of art or artistic performancesDEEJAY: initialism from disc jockey, a person who introduces and plays recorded music (especially popular music) on a show (such as a radio program); also, an entertainer who plays and often manipulates recorded music (as by combining tracks or adding effects) for dancing at a night club or party; also: someone who makes music (as through turntablism, sampling, etc.) that is often sung or rapped over; also, to perform the role of a disc jockey: to act as a disc jockey forDEEJAYED: initialism from disc jockey, a person who introduces and plays recorded music (especially popular music) on a show (such as a radio program); also, an entertainer who plays and often manipulates recorded music (as by combining tracks or adding effects) for dancing at a night club or party; also: someone who makes music (as through turntablism, sampling, etc.) that is often sung or rapped over; also, to perform the role of a disc jockey: to act as a disc jockey forGAGMAN*: a gag writer; a comedianGAGMEN*: a gag writer; a comedianGEEK: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snakeJOCK: a disc jockey, an announcer of a radio show of popular recorded music; also: one who plays recorded music for dancing at a nightclub or partyMAGICIAN: one who performs tricks of illusion and sleight of handMIME: an actor in a mime; one that practices mime; a mimicZANY: a subordinate clown or acrobat in old comedies who mimics ludicrously the tricks of the principal: a merry-andrew, a person who clowns publicly
Government, Civics, and Politics
AGENT: one engaged in undercover activities (such as espionage): a spy (a secret agent)AGENT: a representative, emissary, or official of a government (crown agent, federal agent)ATTACHE: M-W has attaché: a technical expert on a country's diplomatic staff at a foreign capitalENVOY: a minister plenipotentiary accredited to a foreign government who ranks between an ambassador and a minister resident; a person delegated to represent one government in its dealings with anotherLEGATE: a usually official emissaryMAILMAN: a man who delivers mailMAILMEN: a man who delivers mailMAYOR: an official elected or appointed to act as chief executive or nominal head of a city, town, or boroughMOLE: a spy (such as a double agent) who establishes a cover long before beginning espionage; broadly: one within an organization who passes on informationMULLAH: an educated Muslim trained in religious law and doctrine and usually holding an official postNUNCIO: a papal legate of the highest rank permanently accredited to a civil governmentPOLITICO: a politician: a person experienced in the art or science of government, especially: one actively engaged in conducting the business of a government; also, a politician: a person engaged in party politics as a profession
Hospitality and Service includes Food and Drink
ATTENDANT: one who attends another to perform a service, especially: an employee who waits on customers; also accompanying, waiting upon, or following in order to perform serviceBARBACK: a worker whose job is to assist a bartender (as by setting out glasses and restocking beverages)BARMAID: a woman who serves liquor at a barBARMAN: a bartenderBELLBOY: a bellhop: a hotel or club employee who escorts guests to rooms, assists them with luggage, and runs errandsBELLMAN: a bellhop: a hotel or club employee who escorts guests to rooms, assists them with luggage, and runs errandsBELLMEN: a bellhop: a hotel or club employee who escorts guests to rooms, assists them with luggage, and runs errandsBIDDY: a hired girl or cleaning woman; diminutive of the name Bridget [probably an Irish servant]BOOTBLACK: one who shines shoesCARHOP: one who serves customers at a drive-in restaurantCHEF: French, short for chef de cuisine, head of the kitchenCOMPANION: one employed to live with and serve another (We hired a companion for our elderly mother.)COOK: a person who prepares food for eatingDOORMAN: a usually uniformed attendant at the door of a building (such as a hotel or apartment building)EUNUCH: a castrated man placed in charge of a harem or employed as a chamberlain in a palaceFACTOTUM: person having many diverse activities or responsibilities; a general servantFAMILIAR: a member of the household of a high officialFOOTMAN*: a servant in livery formerly attending a rider or required to run in front of his master's carriage; or a servant who serves at table, tends the door, and runs errandsHATCHECK*: employed in checking hats and articles of outdoor clothingJACK: a servant or laborerJACKAL: a person who performs routine or menial tasks for anotherJANITOR: one who keeps the premises of a building (such as an apartment or office) clean, tends the heating system, and makes minor repairs; also, a doorkeeper; from Janus, gate, from a Roman god that is identified with doors, gates, and all beginnings and that is depicted with two opposite facesKEEP: a keeper, one whose job is to keep or tend [e.g., a barkeep, an innkeeper]KITCHEN: the people who prepare, cook, and serve food especially in a restaurant, cafeteria, etc.LANDLADY: a woman who is a landlord [LOL]LANDLORD: the owner of property (such as land, houses, or apartments) that is leased or rented to another; the master of an inn or lodging house: innkeeperLEGMAN*: an assistant who performs various subordinate tasks (such as gathering information or running errands)LEGMEN*: an assistant who performs various subordinate tasks (such as gathering information or running errands)MAID: a maidservant; a woman or girl employed to do domestic workMAJORDOMO: a head steward of a large household (such as a palace); also, a butler or steward; also, a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another; broadly: the person who runs an enterpriseMENIAL: a person doing menial work, specifically: a domestic servant or retainer; also, of or relating to servants: lowly (a menial worker); appropriate to a servant: humble, servile (menial chores)PAGE: a boy serving as an honorary attendant at a formal function (such as a wedding); also, one employed to deliver messages, assist patrons, serve as a guide, or attend to similar duties; also, to wait on or serve in the capacity of a pagePAGED: a boy serving as an honorary attendant at a formal function (such as a wedding); also, one employed to deliver messages, assist patrons, serve as a guide, or attend to similar duties; also, to wait on or serve in the capacity of a pagePAGING: a boy serving as an honorary attendant at a formal function (such as a wedding); also, one employed to deliver messages, assist patrons, serve as a guide, or attend to similar duties; also, to wait on or serve in the capacity of a pagePIEMEN* : plural of pieman, a baker or cook who specializes in making pies, or: a pie vendorVALET: an employee (as of a hotel or a public facility) who performs personal services for customers; also, a man's male servant who performs personal services (such as taking care of clothing); also, to serve as a valetVALETED: an employee (as of a hotel or a public facility) who performs personal services for customers; also, a man's male servant who performs personal services (such as taking care of clothing); also, to serve as a valetWOMAN: a woman who is a servant or personal attendantWOMEN: plural of woman, a woman who is a servant or personal attendantYEOMEN: a person attending or assisting another: a retainer; also, one that performs great and loyal service (did a yeoman's job in seeing the program through)
Human Health and Medicine
CLINICIAN: a person qualified in the clinical practice of medicine, psychiatry, or psychology as distinguished from one specializing in laboratory or research techniques or in theory; also, a person who conducts a clinicDOCTOR: a person skilled or specializing in healing artsDOULA: a person trained to provide advice, information, emotional support, and physical comfort to a mother before, during, and just after childbirthMEDIC: one engaged in medical work or studyMEDICO: a physician; also: a medical student
Information and Communication Technologies
TECH: a technician (lab techs, a computer tech)TECHIE: a person who is very knowledgeable or enthusiastic about technology and especially high technologyTECHNICIAN: a specialist in the technical details of a subject or occupation (a computer technician); also, one who has acquired the technique of an art or other area of specialization (a superb technician and a musician of integrity)
Law, Crime and Courts not criminals
ARBITRATOR: one that arbitrates a dispute: an arbiterBAILIFF: a minor officer of some U.S. courts usually serving as a messenger or usherDETECTIVE: one employed or engaged in detecting lawbreakers or in getting information that is not readily or publicly accessible; of or relating to detectives or their workFLATFEET: or plural flatfoots, slang: a police officer, especially: a patrolman walking a regular beat; or a sailorFLATFOOT: slang: a police officer, especially: a patrolman walking a regular beat; or a sailor HACK: slang: a guard, especially at a prison; from Hackney, Middle English hakeney, hakenay "a small saddle horse, especially one for hire," probably from hackney, originally a parish and village, where nearby meadows may have been used to pasture horses; hackney = horse let out for hire  anything let for hire  mercenary or contract employeeHANGMAN: one who hangs a condemned person; also: a public executionerLAWMAN: a law-enforcement officer (such as a sheriff or marshal)MATRON: a woman who supervises women or children (as in a school or police station) [or prison]ORDINARY: a judge of probate in some states of the U.S.POLICE: police force; plural: police officers; also, the members of a private police organization
Learning, Education, and Research
ACADEMIC: a member (such as a professor) of an institution of learning (such as a university)ADJUNCT: an adjunct faculty member at a college or universityCHAIR: professorship (a university chair)COACH: a private tutor [from the concept that the tutor conveys the student through examinations]DEAN: the head of a division, faculty, college, or school of a university, or a college or secondary school administrator in charge of counseling and disciplining studentsDOCENT: a college or university teacher or lecturerFACULTY: a branch of teaching or learning (such as law, medicine, or liberal arts) in an educational institution; members of a facultyFELLOW: an incorporated member of a college or collegiate foundation especially in a British university; also, a person appointed to a position granting a stipend and allowing for advanced study or researchHEAD: a headmaster, a man heading the staff of a private school: a principalLIBRARIAN: a specialist in the care or management of a library; also, a research specialistMATRON: a woman who supervises women or children (as in a school or police station)PRINCIPAL: the chief executive officer of an educational institutionPROCTOR: someone who supervises or monitors students; also, someone who oversees student examinationsPROF*: by shortening from professor, a faculty member of the highest academic rank at an institution of higher education; a teacher at a university, college, or sometimes secondary school; one that teaches or professes special knowledge of an art, sport, or occupation requiring skillQUANT: an expert at analyzing and managing quantitative data; short for quantitative (analyst)
Music
AXMAN: slang: a guitarist especially in a jazz or rock bandCANTOR: a choir leaderCHAIR: a position of employment usually of one occupying a chair or desk, specifically: the position of a player in an orchestra or bandCONDUCTOR: the leader of a musical ensembleFRONTMAN: M-W has this as an open compound, front man: a person serving as a front or figurehead, or the lead performer in a musical group
Nautical and Maritime
ADMIRAL: a commissioned officer in the navy or coast guard who ranks above a vice admiral and whose insignia is four starsBOATMAN: a man who works on, deals in, or operates boatsCAPTAIN: a naval officer who is master or commander of a ship; or a commissioned officer in the navy ranking above a commander and below a commodore and in the coast guard ranking above a commander and below a rear admiralEXEC: short for executive officer (the officer second in command of a military or naval organization or vessel)FLATFEET: or plural flatfoots, slang: a sailorFLATFOOT: slang: a sailorHAND: a member of a ship's crew (All hands on deck!)MATE: a deck officer on a merchant ship ranking below the captainPILOT: one employed to steer a ship: a helmsman; also, a person who is qualified and usually licensed to conduct a ship into and out of a port or in specified waters
Other Trades and Professions
GUARD: a person or a body of persons on sentinel duty; guards pluralHACK: a cabdriver; from Hackney, Middle English hakeney, hakenay "a small saddle horse, especially one for hire," probably from hackney, originally a parish and village, where nearby meadows may have been used to pasture horses; hackney = horse let out for hire  cart hired out with the horse  horse-drawn taxicab  motor taxi  cabbieHAND: a person employed at manual labor or general tasks (a ranch hand); a worker or employee (employed over a hundred hands) HELP: employee(s); also, often offensive: a domestic worker —usually used in plural but singular or plural in constructionHOBOS: often disparaging: a usually very poor person who has no permanent residence and travels from place to place especially by furtively hopping trains; also, a migrant worker; also, to live or travel in the manner of a hoboHYPHENATE: a person who performs more than one function (such as a producer-director in filmmaking)ICEMAN: one who sells or delivers iceICEMEN: one who sells or delivers iceJACK: a lumberjackLINEMAN: one who sets up or repairs electric wire communication or power linesLINEMEN: one who sets up or repairs electric wire communication or power linesLOOKOUT: one engaged in keeping watch: a watchmanMANUMIT: to release from slaveryMECHANIC: a manual worker: an artisan; a machinist, especially: one who repairs machinesMOLE: one who works in the darkOILMAN: an oil field workerPEON: any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as an infantryman or an orderly; also, a member of the landless laboring class in Spanish America; also, a person held in compulsory servitude to a master for the working out of an indebtedness; also, a drudge, menialPITMEN* : plural of pitman, a man who works in or near a pit, or a sawyer who stands below the timberTEAM: crew, gang [of laborers]WATCHMAN: a person who keeps watch: a guard, one assigned to watch someone or something to provide security or prevent escape
Sex Work
BAWD: one who keeps a house of prostitution: a madam; also, a prostituteBULLY: a pimpDRAB: a woman who engages in sex acts and especially sexual intercourse in exchange for pay: a woman who is a sex worker; also, to associate with sex workersGIGOLO: a man who is paid to be a sexual partner and companion; also, a male sex worker hired to attend a social engagement with someone: a man who is an escort; also, dated: a man who is paid to be a dancing partnerMADAM: a woman who runs a brothelMADAME: a madam, a woman who runs a brothelPIMP: a person and especially a man who controls one or more sex workers, arranges clients for them, and takes a cut of their earnings; also, to work as a pimpPIMPED: a person and especially a man who controls one or more sex workers, arranges clients for them, and takes a cut of their earnings; also, to work as a pimpPIMPING: a person and especially a man who controls one or more sex workers, arranges clients for them, and takes a cut of their earnings; also, to work as a pimpTRAMP: disparaging: a woman who engages in sex acts and especially sexual intercourse in exchange for pay: a woman who is a sex workerTROLLOP: a vulgar or disreputable woman, especially: one who engages in sex promiscuously or for moneyTRULL*: old-fashioned + usually disparaging: a woman who engages in sex acts and especially sexual intercourse in exchange for pay: a woman who is a sex workerTURN: informal: to engage in (a sex act as a sex worker) (turning tricks [=taking payment for performing sex acts])VICE: disapproving: uninhibited sexual behavior; also, sex work
Sports and Recreation in general, not specific sports
AQUANAUT: a scuba diver who lives and operates both inside and outside an underwater shelter for an extended periodATHLETE: a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, or staminaBALLBOY: M-W shows as open compound: ball boy: a male attendant who retrieves balls for players or officials (as in a tennis match or a baseball or basketball game)BATBOY: a boy employed to look after the equipment (such as bats) of a baseball teamCOACH: one who instructs players in the fundamentals of a sport and directs team strategy
Transportation and Travel on land, not air or sea
CABBIE: or cabby, a cabdriverCABBY: or cabbie, a cabdriverCHAIRMAN: a carrier of a sedan chairCOACHMAN: a man who drives a coach or carriageCONDUCTOR: a collector of fares in a public conveyanceMOTORMAN*: an operator of a motor-driven vehicle (such as a streetcar or subway train)TRAINMAN*: a member of a train crew supervised by a conductorWHIP: one that handles a whip: such as a driver of horses: a coachman, a coach or carriage driver
Visual Arts
CURATOR: a person who oversees or manages a place (such as a museum or zoo) that offers exhibitsDOCENT: a person who leads guided tours especially through a museum or art galleryLAPIDARY: a cutter, polisher, or engraver of precious stones usually other than diamondsMODEL: a person or thing that serves as a pattern for an artist especially: one who poses for an artist; also, to work or act as an art modelPAPARAZZI: plural of paparazzo, a freelance photographer who aggressively pursues celebrities for the purpose of taking candid photographs, Italian, from Paparazzo, surname of such a photographer in the film La dolce vita (1959) by Federico FelliniPHOTOG: one who takes photographs: a photographer; short for photographer
Words about Occupations
CLOAK: a distinctive character or role (… hung up his academic cloak … to become a stay-at-home father …—Charles Chamberlain)CLOTH: a distinctive dress of a profession or callingLINE: a field of activity or interest (worked in the plumbing line)OUTFIT: a set of tools or equipment especially for the practice of a trade; also, to furnish with an outfit; to acquire an outfit
Writing and Publishing
AUTHOR: the writer of a literary work (such as a book)BARD: a poetCOAUTHOR: one who collaborates with another person in authoring a literary or dramatic work, a document, a legislative bill, etc.DRAM: a dramatist or playwrightGRAMMARIAN: one who studies or teaches grammarJOURNO: M-W’s only def.: chiefly British: a journalist, a person engaged in journalism, especially: a writer or editor for a news mediumLEGMAN*: journalism: a reporter assigned usually to gather informationLEGMEN*: journalism: a reporter assigned usually to gather informationPAPARAZZI: plural of paparazzo, a freelance photographer who aggressively pursues celebrities for the purpose of taking candid photographs, Italian, from Paparazzo, surname of such a photographer in the film La dolce vita (1959) by Federico FelliniPENMAN: an authorPENMEN: not in M-W, but in Collins: plural of penman, an authorPOET: one who writes poetry: a maker of verses
Spelling Bee words related to OCCUPATIONS
ACADEMICACCOUNTANTACROBATACTORACTUARYADJUNCTADMANADMINADMIRALADWOMANAGENTAIRMANANCHORMANAQUANAUTARBITRATORATHLETEATTACHEATTENDANTAUTHORAVIATORAXMANBAILIFFBALLBOYBARBACKBARDBARMAIDBARMANBATBOYBAWDBEEKEEPINGBELLBOYBELLMANBELLMENBIDDYBOATMANBOORBOOTBLACKBOSSBULLYCABBIECABBYCANTORCAPTAINCARHOPCARNYCHAIRCHAIRMANCHEFCLINICIANCLOAKCLOTHCLOWNCOACHCOACHMANCOAUTHORCOMICCOMPANIONCOMPANYCONDUCTORCONTRACTORCOOKCOPILOTCOWGIRLCOWHANDCRITICCURATORDAIRYMAIDDEANDEEJAYDEEJAYEDDETECTIVEDOCENTDOCTORDOORMANDOULADRABDRAMENVOYEUNUCHEXECFACTORFACTOTUMFACULTYFAMILIARFARMHANDFELLOWFLACKFLATFEETFLATFOOTFOOTMAN*FRONTMANGAGMAN*GAGMEN*GEEKGIGOLOGRAMMARIANGRIPGROOMGUARDHACKHANDHANGMANHARDHATHATCHECK*
HEADHELPHINDHOBOSHYPHENATEICEMANICEMENIRRIGATORJACKJACKALJANITORJOCKJOURNOKEEPKITCHENLANDLADYLANDLORDLAPIDARYLAWMANLEGATELEGMAN*LEGMEN*LIBRARIANLINELINEMANLINEMENLOOKOUTLUNAMADAMMADAMEMAGICIANMAIDMAILMANMAILMENMAJORDOMOMANAGEMENTMANUMITMATEMATRONMAYORMECHANICMEDICMEDICOMENIALMIDDLEMENMIMEMIMICMODELMOLEMONEYMENMOTORMAN*MULLAHNARRATORNUNCIOOILMANORDINARYOUTFITPAGEPAGEDPAGINGPAPARAZZIPENMANPENMENPEONPHOTOGPIEMEN* PILOTPIMPPIMPEDPIMPINGPITMEN* POETPOLICEPOLITICOPRINCIPALPROCTORPROF*PROPMAN*QUANTTAILORTEAMTECHTECHIETECHNICIANTEMPTEMPEDTRAINMAN*TRAMPTROLLOPTRULL*TURNVALETVALETEDVICEWATCHMANWHIPWOMANWOMENWORKMANWORKWOMANYEOMENZANY
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