puppet (n.)

• adherent
• agate
• agent
• amanuensis
• appliance
• baby
• backscratcher
• backslapper
• ball
• bat
• battledore
• bauble
• bootlicker
• brownie
• bust
• carving
• checkerboard
• chessboard
• cipher
• clawback
• clerk
• club
• cockhorse
• consignee
• contrivance
• courtier
• creature
• cue
• device
• disciple
• doll
• dolly
• dud
• dummy
• dupe
• factor
• fawner
• fed
• figure
• figurehead
• figurine
• flatterer
• flunky
• follower
• front
• functionary
• gewgaw
• gillie
• gimcrack
• go-between
• goon
• groveler
• handmaid
• handmaiden
• hanger-on
• helot
• henchman
• hireling
• hobbyhorse
• implement
• instrument
• intermediary
• intermediate
• intermedium
• jack-in-the-box
• jackal
• jacks
• jackstones
• jackstraw
• jackstraws
• kickshaw
• knickknack
• lackey
• lever
• man
• manikin
• mannequin
• marble
• marionette
• mechanism
• mediator
• medium
• microcosm
• midwife
• mini
• miniature
• minion
• model
• monument
• myrmidon
• nebbish
• nobody
• nonentity
• nothing
• nullity
• official
• organ
• patsy
• pawn
• peon
• pinwheel
• plaything
• pushover
• racket
• satellite
• scarecrow
• sculpture
• secretary
• serf
• servant
• slave
• snowman
• spaniel
• sport
• statuary
• statue
• statuette
• steward
• stooge
• suck
• sucker
• sycophant
• taw
• teetotum
• thug
• timeserver
• toad
• toady
• tool
• top
• toy
• trifle
• trinket
• truckler
• vehicle
• votary
• waxwork
• yes-man
• zero