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. |