OPENER Synonyms

• (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected

• something that causes an important event to happen

• a person who grows or makes or invents things

• terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

• preceding all others in time or space or degree

• highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections

• the first or highest in an ordering or series

• the first element in a countable series

• the time at which something is supposed to begin

• the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)

• an honours degree of the highest class

• the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

• before anything else

• the initial time

• before another in time, space, or importance

• prominently forward

• serving to begin

• ranking above all others

• serving to set in motion

• a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• anything that precedes something similar in time

• a person who initiates a course of action

• someone who deliberately foments trouble

• a person who initiates a course of action

• a person who rules or guides or inspires others

• a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers

• someone who creates new things

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

• open up an area or prepare a way

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• open up and explore a new area

• a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction)

• a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

• something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

• an ancestor in the direct line

• an electric motor for starting an engine

• a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning

• the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition

• any new participant in some activity

• food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)

• a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle

• a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough

• someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• Agent noun of inaugurate; one who inaugurates.

• a seducer who ruins a woman

• a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens

• a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

• a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens

• a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens