Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun windtalker
1 sense of windtalker
Sense 1
codetalker, windtalker -- (a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II)
=> secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operative -- (a person secretly employed in espionage for a government)