The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blackmailer \Black"mail`er\, n. One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blackmailer n 1: a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them [syn: blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist]