United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939).

synonyms: S. S. Van Dine, Willard Huntington Wright.

United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960).

synonym: Richard Wright.

United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912).

synonym: Wilbur Wright.

United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948).

synonym: Orville Wright.

Influential United States architect (1869-1959).

synonym: Frank Lloyd Wright.

United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852).

synonyms: Fanny Wright, Frances Wright.

Someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination).

Roget 690: doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager.    bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum.    workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy^†; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool etc. 633; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper^†, roustabout.    maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright.    machinist, mechanician, engineer.    sempstress^†, semstress^†, seamstress; needlewoman^†, workwoman; tailor, cordwainer^†.    minister etc. (instrument) 631; servant etc. 746; representative etc. (commissioner) 758, (deputy) 759.    coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis [Lat.], dramatis personae [Lat.]; personnel.    ... show more