| epidemiologist | (noun) a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases | - |
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| epistasis | (noun) the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene | Synonyms: hypostasis |
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| epistaxis | (noun) bleeding from the nose | Synonyms: nosebleed |
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| episteme | (noun) the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time | - |
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| epistemologist | (noun) a specialist in epistemology | - |
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| epistemology | (noun) the philosophical theory of knowledge | - |
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| epistle | (noun) a specially long, formal letter | - |
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| epistrophe | (noun) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | Synonyms: epiphora |
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| equidistribution | (noun) a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence | - |
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| eristic | (noun) the art of logical disputation (especially if specious) | - |
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| (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, disputant |
| escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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| escapologist | (noun) an entertainer who is expert in the art of escaping | Synonyms: escape expert |
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| eschatologist | (noun) a theologian who specializes in eschatology | - |
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| essayist | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: litterateur |
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| ethicist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in ethics | Synonyms: ethician |
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| ethnologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies ethnology | - |
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| ethologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats | - |
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| etiologist | (noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases | Synonyms: aetiologist |
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| etymologist | (noun) a lexicographer who specializes in etymology | - |
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| eulogist | (noun) an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics | Synonyms: panegyrist |
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| evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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| evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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| excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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| exhibitionist | (noun) someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention | Synonyms: show-off |
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| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: flasher |
| existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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| (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
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| exodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth | - |
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| exorcist | (noun) someone who practices exorcism | Synonyms: exorciser |
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| (noun) one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church | - |
| expressionist | (noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
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| extortionist | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortioner |
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| extremist | (noun) a person who holds extreme views | - |
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| fabulist | (noun) a person who tells or invents fables | - |
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| faddist | (noun) a person who subscribes to a variety of fads | - |
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| falangist | (noun) a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | Synonyms: phalangist |
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| fantasist | (noun) a creator of fantasies | - |
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| fascist | (noun) an adherent of fascism or other authoritarian views | - |
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| fascista | (noun) an Italian fascist under Mussolini | - |
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| fatalist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| fauvist | (noun) a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | Synonyms: Fauve |
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| federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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| feist | (noun) a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog | Synonyms: fice |
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| feistiness | (noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: scrappiness |
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| feminist | (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
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| femtochemistry | (noun) the branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses | - |
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| fermentologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: enologist, oenologist |
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| fetishist | (noun) one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) | - |
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| finalist | (noun) a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition | - |
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| fist | (noun) a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting) | Synonyms: clenched fist |
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| fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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| fistful | (noun) the quantity that can be held in the hand | Synonyms: handful |
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| fisticuffs | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: boxing, pugilism |
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| (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fistfight, slugfest |
| fistmele | (noun) about seven inches; the breadth of a fist with the thumb stuck out (used especially in archery to give the correct distance of the string from the bow) | - |
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| fistula | (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: sinus |
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| (noun) a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse | Synonyms: fistulous withers |
| flautist | (noun) someone who plays the flute | Synonyms: flute player, flutist |
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| florist | (noun) a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold | Synonyms: florist shop, flower store |
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| (noun) someone who grows and deals in flowers | - |
| flutist | (noun) someone who plays the flute | Synonyms: flautist, flute player |
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| fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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| funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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| functionalist | (noun) an adherent of functionalism | - |
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| fundamentalist | (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
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| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| futurist | (noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: fantast |
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| (noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future | - |
| futuristics | (noun) the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions | Synonyms: futurology |
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| gambist | (noun) a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba | - |
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| gastroenterologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract | - |
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| genealogist | (noun) an expert in genealogy | - |
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| generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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| geneticist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in genetics | - |
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| geochemistry | (noun) the chemistry of the earth's crust | - |
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| geologist | (noun) a specialist in geology | - |
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| geophysicist | (noun) a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth | - |
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| gerontologist | (noun) a specialist in gerontology | Synonyms: geriatrician |
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| gist | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, essence |
| glisten | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glister, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| glister | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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| glossarist | (noun) a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries | - |
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| graphologist | (noun) a specialist in inferring character from handwriting | Synonyms: handwriting expert |
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| grist | (noun) grain intended to be or that has been ground | - |
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| gristle | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: cartilage |
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| gristmill | (noun) a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) | - |
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| guitarist | (noun) a musician who plays the guitar | Synonyms: guitar player |
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| gymnosophist | (noun) member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism) | - |
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| gynaecologist | (noun) a specialist in gynecology | Synonyms: gynecologist, woman's doctor |
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| gynecologist | (noun) a specialist in gynecology | Synonyms: gynaecologist, woman's doctor |
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| haematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, hematohiston |
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| haematologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs | Synonyms: hematologist |
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| hagiographist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiologist |
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| hagiologist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiographist |
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| hairstylist | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, styler, stylist |
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| harpist | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harper |
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| harpsichordist | (noun) someone who plays the harpsichord | - |
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| headmistress | (noun) a woman headmaster | - |
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| headmistressship | (noun) the position of headmistress | - |
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| hedonist | (noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: pagan, pleasure seeker |
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| heist | (noun) the act of stealing | Synonyms: rip-off |
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| (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, holdup, stickup |
| hematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, haematohiston |
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| hematologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs | Synonyms: haematologist |
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| herbalist | (noun) a therapist who heals by the use of herbs | Synonyms: herb doctor |
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| herpetologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| heuristic | (noun) a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem | Synonyms: heuristic program, heuristic rule |
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