Reverse Dictionary: HELP

ADJECTIVES
► ADJUTABLE that may help, helping → 1721 obs.
► ADJUTANT helping, assistant → 1676
► ADJUTORIOUS helpful, giving aid, assisting → 1657 obs.
► ADJUTORY helping, giving aid → 1612 obs.
► ADJUVABLE helpful, giving aid → 1599 obs.
► ADJUVANT. assisting, aiding, helpful → a1614
► ADMINICULAR helpful, giving aid → 1676
► ADMINICULARY helpful, giving aid → 1818 obs.
► AIDANT giving aid, helpful, helping, assisting → 1483
► ALL-HELPING helping all → 1892 (Bk.)
► AUXILIANT affording help or assistance → a1631 obs.
► BAINSOME obliging, helpful → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► COADJUTANT helping; cooperating → 1706
► FURTHERING aiding, helping → 1418 obs.
► FURTHEROUS advantageous, helpful; adapted to help forward → 1597 obs.
► FURTHERSOME advantageous, helpful; adapted to help forward → 1627
► GAINLY ready to help, kindly, gracious → a1300 obs.
► HELPSOME helpful → 1942 Amer. dial.
► LASTFUL helpful, serviceable → c1000 obs.
► NUT useful, advantageous, helpful → c1250 obs.
► OPIFEROUS bringing help or aid or assistance → 1656 obs.
► RIGHT-HAND of a person: of great importance or value to another; serving as an indispensable helper or assistant to another → c1225
► SUBVENTIVE giving help or support → 1871
► SUCCOURABLE 1. affording succour; helpful → c1400 obs.
2. capable of being helped or relieved → 1654
► SUCCOURFUL helpful → 1898 obs.
► TO THE VELVET helpful, to the good → L19 sl.

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► HARRO! an exclamation of surprise; an outcry for help → 1882 Sc.
► NO CASH, NO SWISS no help without payment in advance → 1865
► YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I SCRATCH YOURS let us cooperate; let us be reciprocally and mutually helpful → 1858

NOUNS
► ADJUMENT help, assistance → 1607 obs.
► ADJUTORY help, assistance → c1505 obs.
► ADJUVANCY assistance, help → 1884
► ADMINICLE anything that aids, helps, or supports → a1556
► ADMINICULARY one who helps; a means of help → 1652 obs.
► ADMINICULATION the process of giving help or support → a1670 obs.
► AIDANCE assistance, aid, means of help, support → 1593
► ALL POINTS BULLETIN a plea for help, with work, emotions, and so on → 1960s US students’ sl.
► BACK support, help → 1989 US sl.
► BOTE help; advantage; compensation → 1911 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► CAST OF THE HAND a helping turn → 1637 Sc. obs.
► DIG OUT help getting out of a difficult situation → 1995 Ireland
► FASTNESS support, help → 1382 obs.
► FULTUM help, assistance, support → a1000 obs.
► FURTHERANCE a helping forward; aid, assistance → c1440
► GAIN advantage, use, avail, benefit; remedy, help → c1200 obs.
► HAND help; aid → 1960 Amer. sl.
► HAND’S TURN a helping hand; assistance → 1899 Amer. dial.
► JUVAMENT help, aid, assistance → c1400 obs.
► MIGHTS means, power, help → 1787 Sc. obs.
► MYSTERY something helpful; an aid → 1581 obs.
► OPITULATION the act of giving help or aid, assistance → 1597 obs.
► RATHE counsel, advice; help → c1200 obs.
► SISTENCE aid, help → a1513 obs.
► SUBSIDIUM a help, aid, subsidy → 1640
► SUBSIDY help, aid, assistance → 1387 obs.
► SUBVENTION the provision of help, support, or relief; an instance of this → 1535 obs.
► SUCCURRANCE succour, aid, help, assistance → c1450 obs.
► SUFFRAGAN of things: a help, aid → 1644 obs.
► SUFFRAGE help, support, assistance, aid → c1460 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ADJOINT a helper, an aider; an addition → 1597 obs.
► ADJUMENT a helper or assistant → 1641 obs.
► ADJUTANT an assistant or helper → 1622
► ADJUTATOR a person empowered to act on behalf of others; each of the delegates chosen to represent the private soldiers of some units of the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War, initially at the Army Council of June 1647; later, generally, a helper, an assistant → 1647 hist.
► ADJUTOR a helper, an assistant → 1531 obs.
► ADJUTORY a person who provides assistance; a helper → 1508 obs.
► ADJUTRICE a female helper or assistant → 1609 obs.
► ADJUTRIX a female helper or assistant → a1632 obs.
► ADJUVANT a helper, an assistant → 1609
► ADMINICULARY one who helps; a means of help → 1652 obs.
► AGITANT  assistant, a helper; an aide → 1644 obs –
► AIDANT a helper, aide, assistant → 1475
► ANGEL a person who is a source of comfort or aid; a kind, helpful, thoughtful, or obliging person → 1598
► BEET-MASTER a person or thing helpful in emergency → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BEET-NEED a person who helps in an emergency → 1790 Eng. dial. 
► BENEFETER ► BENEFETOUR a benefactor; one who renders aid or kindly service to others, a friendly helper → c1449 obs.
► BOOSTER a helper; a confederate → 1914 criminals’ sl.  (Bk.)
► CADCATCHER an assistant or helper; a cheap labourer → 1955 (Bk.)
► COADJUTOR a fellow-helper; an ally → c1430
► COADJUTRIX a female fellow-helper → 1646
► FULTUM a person who helps → a1000 obs.
► HANDER a helper; an assistant → 1962 Sc. & Aust. prison sl.
► HELP any person who affords help → c893
► HELPEND a helper → 971 obs.
► HELPENDER an assistant, a helper, generally of a minister or a schoolteacher → 1871 Sc.
► HELPER one who helps or assists; an auxiliary → a1300
► HELPERESS a female helper → 1886
► HELPESTRE a female helper → a1400 obs.
► HELPFELLOW a companion who renders help; a helper; a colleague; a partner or associate → 1549 obs.
► HELP-GIVER a helper, a supporter, an aider → c1595
► HELPINDER an assistant, a helper, generally of a minister or a schoolteacher → 1871 Sc.
► HELPMATE an assistant; a helper; a partner → 1715
► HELPMEET a fitting or suitable helper: usually applied to a wife or husband; a consort, a companion, an assistant → 1382
► HELPSTER a female helper → a1400 obs.
► HILPENDER an assistant, a helper, generally of a minister or a schoolteacher → 1871 Sc.
► LABORING OAR a helper → 1902 (Bk.)
► MAINTAINER one who gives aid, countenance, or support to another; a defender and helper → c1330 obs.
► OFFSIDER an assistant, a helper; orig. and assistant/apprentice to a bullock-driver who worked on the ‘off side’ → 1890 Aust. & NZ sl.
► OPITULATOR a helper, an aider → 1624 obs.
► RIGHT-HAND a person who is particularly useful or important to another, or upon whom one relies; a chief assistant, an indispensable helper → 1538
► SUCCOURESS a female helper → 1582 obs.
► SUFFRAGE one who helps or aids → c1480 obs.
► USEFUL a general helper, esp. in a public house → 1866 Aust. sl. 

VERBS
► ADJUVATE to help, to assist, to aid → 1533
► AIDEN to aid, to help, to assist → 1901 Eng. dial.
► AUXILIATE to help, to aid, to assist → 1656 obs.
► BACK UP to be ready to help, chiefly in games → c1860 colloq.
► BEET to relieve, to help, to aid, to assist a person in need or trouble; to supply the wants of → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BESTEAD to help, to assist, to relieve → 1581
► BOOST to assist, to help → 1995 S. Afr. sl.
► BUNCH IN to help as a group → 1952 Amer. dial.
► CAP to stand by a friend; to take part in an undertaking; to lend a hand → 1785 thieves’ sl. (Bk.)
► CHANGE WORK to give and receive help reciprocally → 1899 Amer. dial.
► FILSTEN to help, to aid, to further → a1200  obs.
► GAIN to be suitable, useful or advantageous; to avail, to help; to serve, to suffice → c1200 obs.
► GIVE ONE AN EASE UP to assist, to give a helping hand → 1895 Sc.
► HELP A LAME DOG OVER A STILE to assist a person in difficulty; to help, to lend a hand → 1546
► HELPMATE to help, to assist → 1931 Amer. dial.
► HOLD A CANDLE TO ANOTHER to assist him by holding the candle while he works; hence, to help in a subordinate position → 1550
► JUVATE to help, to aid → 1708 obs.
► MUCK IN to help with or assist in something; to join in, to lend a hand, esp. in a dirty or unpleasant task → L19 sl.
► OPITULATE to aid, to assist, to help → 1597 obs.
► SAVE SOMEONE’S BACON to help or rescue someone from difficulties → L17 sl.
► SCOTCH to assist one in an undertaking; to help out in a minor way → 1909 Amer. dial.
► SCOTCH FOR ONE to help out → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SKILL to avail, to help → 1528 arch.
► STRETCH FORTH ONE’S HAND to give aid or help to → 1902 (Bk.)
► SUBVENT to come to the help of → a1630 obs.
► VAIL to be of use, advantage, or benefit to; to aid, assist, or help → a1300 obs.