Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
antiquer | one who antiques, ages furniture. |
artificer | a craftsman. |
artisan | a trained or skilled workman. |
artisanal | relating to an artisan, involving or utilizing traditional, small-scale, or non-mechanized methods or techniques. |
artisanship | the state of being an artisan. |
basketweaver | one who weaves baskets. |
belleter | a bellfounder. |
bellhanger | a person who hangs and repairs bells. |
beveler | one who bevels. |
beveller | one who bevels. |
blacksmith | a smith who forges iron. |
blacksmithing | the occupation of blacksmith. |
boatbuilder | one that builds boats. |
bodger | a maker of beechwood furniture in the Chilterns. |
bookbinding | the art or trade of binding books. |
bootmaker | one who makes boots. |
bottomer | a person who provides or fits bottoms (esp for chairs). |
brasier | a worker in brass. |
brassfounder | a person who casts objects in brass. |
brazer | one that brazes. |
brazier | a worker in brass. |
braziery | a container for hot coals. |
burinist | one who works with the burin, an engraver's tool. |
burnisher | one who burnishes. |
cabinetmaker | a skilled woodworker who makes fine furniture. |
cabinetmaking | the craft of the cabinetmaker. |
calligrapher | a professional copyist or engrosser. |
calligraphist | a professional copyist or engrosser. |
caner | one who canes. |
carpenter | a person skilled in woodwork as used in building houses, ships, etc; (verb) to construct by carpentry. |
carpentry | the craft of working with wood. |
cartwright | a maker of carts. |
casemaker | a person who makes covers for books. |
ceiler | one that ceils. |
ceramicist | one who works with ceramics. |
ceramist | one who works with ceramics. |
cerographist | a practitioner of cerography. |
chippy | irritable, unwell with a hangover (noun) a carpenter; a chip-shop |
cladder | one who clads. |
clogger | a person who makes clogs. |
clogmaker | a person who makes clogs. |
coachbuilder | a craftsman who builds the bodies of cars, lorries, railway carriages, etc. |
coachbuilding | the craft of building coaches. |
cobbler | a mender of shoes. |
cobblery | the business of cobbling. |
cooper | a person skilled in making barrels, casks, etc; (verb) to make or repair tubs; to work as a cooper. |
cooperage | work done by a cooper. |
coopery | the business of a cooper. |
coppersmith | a worker in copper. |
cordiner | (Arch.) a shoemaker. |
cordwainer | (Arch.) a shoemaker. |
cordwainery | (Arch.) the craft of shoemaking. |
cosier | (Shakesp.) a cobbler. |
couturier | (Fr.) a (male) dressmaker or dress designer. |
couturiere | (Fr.) a (female) dressmaker or dress designer. |
cowan | (Scots) a drystone diker; a mason who has never served an apprenticeship. |
cozier | (Shakesp.) a cobbler. |
crafter | a person doing craftwork. |
craftsman | one who has a craft. |
craftsmanlike | like a craftsman. |
craftsmanly | like a craftsman. |
craftsmanship | the skills of craftsman. |
craftspeople | workers who practice a trade or craft. |
craftsperson | a craftsman or craftswoman. |
craftswoman | a woman who is an artisan. |
crispin | a poetic name for a shoemaker. |
cupeler | one who assays in a cupel. |
cupeller | one who assays in a cupel. |
currier | a leather tanner. |
cutler | a person who makes or sells knives. |
darzi | (Hindi) a tailor. |
dauber | one who daubs; an unskilful artist. |
diesinker | a person who engraves dies. |
dressmaker | one that makes dresses. |
durzi | (Hindi) a tailor. |
electrician | one who installs, maintains, operates, or repairs electrical equipment. |
electroplater | one who electroplates. |
electrotyper | a person who makes electrotypes. |
etcher | one who etches. |
farrier | one who shoes horses or cares for horses. |
farriery | the art of shoeing horses. |
fellmongering | the removal of hair or wool from hides in preparation for leather-making. |
filmsetter | a typesetter who uses filmsetting. |
forgeman | a skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him. |
freemason | in the Middle Ages, a stonemason of a superior grade. |
freemasonic | relating to freemasons. |
furbisher | one who furbishes; esp a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons. |
gilder | one who gilds. |
glassblower | one who blows glass. |
glassmaker | one that makes glass. |
glassworker | one who works with glass. |
glazer | one who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc. |
glazier | one whose business is to set glass. |
glaziery | glazing. |
goldbeater | one who beats gold into gold leaf. |
goldsmith | a worker in gold and silver. |
goldsmithry | the craft of a goldsmith. |
graffitist | one who draws graffiti. |
grainer | a person who grains; a paintbrush for graining. |
gunmaker | a maker of guns. |
gunsmith | a maker of guns. |
gunsmithing | the work of a gunsmith. |
hammerer | one who hammers. |
handcraftsman | a person who is skilled in handicraft. |
handicraft | a trade requiring skill of hand. |
handicraftsman | a person who engages in a handicraft. |
hatmaker | a maker of hats. |
hellier | a slater, a tiler, a thatcher. |
hemstitcher | one who stitches hems. |
hooper | one who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper. |
horner | one who works or deal in horn or horns. |
horologer | a watchmaker. |
ironsmith | a worker in iron. |
ironworker | one who works in iron. |
ivorist | a worker in ivory. |
jacksmith | a smith who makes jacks. |
japanner | one who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in the art. |
joiner | a woodworker. |
knapper | someone who breaks stones, esp flint-flakes for gunflints. |
knitter | one that knits. |
koftgar | (Urdu) someone who practises koftgari, the inlaying of steel with gold. |
lacemaker | one who makes lace. |
lacemaking | the craft of making lace. |
lapidary | relating to stones; (noun) one who cuts, polishes, or deals in precious stones. |
lapidist | a lapidary. |
laster | a worker who shapes a boot or shoe by fixing the parts smoothly on a last. |
lockmaker | one who makes locks. |
locksmith | one who makes locks and keys. |
locksmithery | the craft of the locksmith. |
locksmithing | the work or business of a locksmith. |
lorimer | a maker of bits, spurs and other small metal accessories for horses. |
loriner | a maker of bits, spurs and other small metal accessories for horses. |
luthier | a maker of stringed instruments. |
marbler | one who works upon marble or other stone. |
metalist | (US) a worker in metals, or one skilled in metals. |
metallist | a worker in metals, or one skilled in metals. |
metalsmith | a smith working in metal. |
metalworker | one who works in metal. |
millwright | a person whose occupation is planning and building mills or setting up their machinery. |
mistery | mystery, in the sense of craft, trade. |
opificer | (Obs.) an artificer. |
overlocker | a person or machine that overlocks, oversews a hem or fabric edge to prevent fraying. |
painter | one who paints. |
painterly | having the qualities of a painter. |
paintress | a female painter. |
paperer | one who papers. |
pargeter | one who pargets, plasters. |
pargetter | one who pargets, plasters. |
penster | a writer. |
perruquier | (Fr.) a wigmaker. |
pewterer | one whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter. |
pinker | a person who cuts or punches designs in cloth, leather, etc. |
planisher | a person who or tool that planishes. |
platemaking | the act of making printing plates. |
plater | one who plates. |
ploughmanship | the craft of a ploughman. |
ploughwright | one who makes ploughs. |
plowwright | one who makes ploughs. |
plumber | one who installs and repairs plumbing. |
poller | one who polls eg trees or hair. |
profilist | one who draws profiles. |
puddler | one who converts pig iron into wrought iron. |
puttier | one who putties; a glazier. |
quilter | one who makes quilts. |
recane | to cane again (eg a chair). |
reeder | a thatcher. |
reforge | to forge again. |
rhyparographer | one who does genre or still-life pictures of sordid subjects. |
roper | a rope-maker. |
saddler | one who makes saddles. |
sartor | (Lat.) a tailor. |
sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes. |
sartorially | (Adv.) SARTORIAL, of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes. |
sartorian | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes. |
sawmiller | one who operates a sawmill. |
scenographer | one who practises scenography. |
seamster | a person whose occupation is sewing, esp the making and mending of garments. |
sempster | a person whose occupation is sewing, esp the making and mending of garments. |
sempstering | working as a sempster. |
shoemaker | one who makes shoes. |
shoemaking | the business of a shoemaker. |
silverer | one who silvers. |
silversmith | an artisan who makes articles of silverware. |
silversmithing | the craft of the silversmith. |
sketcher | one that sketches. |
smith | a person who forges metals with a hammer; (verb) to forge, to fashion. |
smithcraft | the craft of a smith. |
snab | (Scots) a cobbler; a shoemaker's apprentice. |
soutar | (Scots) a shoemaker; a cobbler. |
souter | (Scots) a shoemaker; a cobbler. |
souterly | of or pertaining to a souter, a cobbler. |
sowter | (Scots) a cobbler. |
spindler | one that spindles. |
spurrier | one whose occupation is to make spurs. |
stenciler | one who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil. |
stenciller | one who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil. |
stonecutter | one who cuts stone. |
stonecutting | the business of a stonecutter. |
stonemasonry | the craft of the stonemason. |
stoneworker | a worker in stone. |
sutorial | relating to cobbling or sewing. |
sutorian | relating to cobbling or sewing. |
tailor | a person whose business is to cut out and make outer garments, esp for men; (verb) to fit with clothes. |
tailoress | a female tailor. |
tawer | a maker of white leather. |
taxidermist | one who practises taxidermy. |
taxidermy | the art of stuffing animals. |
telescopy | the art or practice of using or making telescopes. |
thatcher | one that thatches. |
threadmaker | one who makes thread. |
tiler | a maker or layer of tiles. |
tinman | a worker in tin; a dresser of tin ore. |
tinsmith | a worker in tin. |
tinsmithing | the craft of the tinsmith. |
tooler | a person who tools the covers of books. |
toolmaker | one who makes tools. |
topmaker | one who makes (toy) tops. |
trecentist | a writer or artist of the thirteenth century. |
turner | one who turns wood on a lathe. |
typefounder | someone who founds or casts printers' type. |
upholsterer | one who upholsters. |
upholstress | a female upholsterer. |
varnisher | one who varnishes. |
veneerer | one who veneers. |
vitraillist | a maker of glass, esp stained glass. |
vulcan | (Lat.) a blacksmith or ironworker. |
wagonwright | one who makes wagons. |
wainwright | a maker or repairer of carts. |
watchmaker | one that makes or repairs watches or clocks. |
watchmaking | the profession of making watches. |
waxworker | one who works in wax. |
weaver | one that weaves. |
wheelwright | a maker and repairer of wheels and wheeled vehicles. |
whitesmith | one who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron. |
whittaw | (Dial.) a saddler or harness-maker; a maker of white leather. |
whittawer | (Dial.) a saddler or harness-maker; a maker of white leather. |
wigmaker | a maker of wigs. |
willower | one who willows. |
woodcarver | a craftsman who carves wood. |
woodcraftsman | a craftsman who works with wood. |
woodworker | one who works with wood. |
woodworking | the process of working wood into a useful or desired form. |
wright | a maker; a repairer. |
zymologist | one who is skilled in zymology, or in the fermentation of liquors. |