carpetbagger

carpetbagger has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
• n.. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"