DECAPITATORS Synonyms

• a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed

• a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders

• a grounder that bounces high in the air

• informal terms for a human `tooth'

• an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades

• a butcher's knife having a large square blade

• an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

• an executioner who beheads the condemned person

• someone who causes the death of a person or animal

• the causal agent resulting in death

• a difficulty that is hard to deal with

• predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas

• someone who causes the death of a person or animal