| curler | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, hair curler, roller |
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| currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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| customer | (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: client |
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| cutler | (noun) a dealer in cutlery | - |
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| cutter | (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutlery, cutting tool |
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| (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: pinnace, ship's boat, tender |
| (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop | - |
| (noun) someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) | - |
| (noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: carver |
| (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: stonecutter |
| cyder | (noun) a beverage made from juice pressed from apples | Synonyms: cider |
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| cylinder | (noun) a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | - |
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| (noun) a chamber within which piston moves | Synonyms: piston chamber |
| (noun) a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | - |
| (noun) a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) | - |
| cypher | (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cipher, cryptograph, secret code |
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| (noun) a message written in a secret code | Synonyms: cipher |
| (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, nobody, nonentity |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, nought, zero |
| cytophotometer | (noun) a photometer that can be used to locate and identify chemical compounds in a cell by measuring the intensity of the light that passes through stained sections of the cytoplasm | - |
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| dabbler | (noun) any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling | Synonyms: dabbling duck |
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| (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dilettante, sciolist |
| dagger | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: sticker |
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| (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: obelisk |
| dallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope |
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| dampener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: moistener |
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| damper | (noun) a depressing restraint | - |
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| (noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: muffler |
| (noun) a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace | - |
| dancer | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: professional dancer, terpsichorean |
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| (noun) a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball) | Synonyms: social dancer |
| dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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| (noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
| danger | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: peril, risk |
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| (noun) a dangerous place | - |
| (noun) the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury | - |
| (noun) a cause of pain or injury or loss | - |
| darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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| darter | (noun) a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly | - |
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| (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, snakebird |
| dasymeter | (noun) densimeter consisting of a thin glass globe that is weighed in a gas to determine its density | - |
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| dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| dawdler | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
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| daydreamer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: woolgatherer |
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| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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| (noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
| (noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
| (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
| debaser | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: degrader |
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| debater | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: arguer |
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| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| debugger | (noun) a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors | - |
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| decaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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| decameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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| decanter | (noun) a bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water | Synonyms: carafe |
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| deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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| deciliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter | Synonyms: decilitre, dl |
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| decimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimetre, dm |
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| decipherer | (noun) a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text | - |
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| (noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decoder |
| decker | (noun) (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels | - |
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| declarer | (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: contractor |
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| (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, avower |
| declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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| decoder | (noun) a machine that converts a coded text into ordinary language | - |
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| (noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decipherer |
| deer | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: cervid |
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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| defamer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| defaulter | (noun) a contestant who forfeits a match | - |
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| (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: deadbeat |
| (noun) someone who fails to make a required appearance in court | - |
| defender | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: guardian, protector, shielder |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: withstander |
| defiler | (noun) a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment | Synonyms: polluter |
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| defrauder | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| defroster | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: deicer |
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| degrader | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: debaser |
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| degreaser | (noun) a chemical substance that dissolves water-insoluble substances, such as greases and oils. | - |
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| dehumidifier | (noun) an appliance to extract moisture from the air and make the environment more comfortable | - |
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| deicer | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: defroster |
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| dejeuner | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: lunch, luncheon, tiffin |
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| dekaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekalitre, dkl |
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| dekameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekametre, dkm |
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| delayer | (noun) a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late | - |
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| delimber | (noun) a machine for removing limbs from trees with a saw or flailing chains. | Synonyms: stroke delimber |
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| deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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| (noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
| (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
| demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| demister | (noun) heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car | - |
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| demographer | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographist, population scientist |
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| demurrer | (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, defense, denial |
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| (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demur, demurral |
| (noun) (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings | - |
| denier | (noun) any of various former European coins of different denominations | - |
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| (noun) a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon | - |
| (noun) one who denies | - |
| densimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densitometer |
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| densitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density | - |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densimeter |
| departer | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: goer, leaver |
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| deposer | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, testifier |
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| derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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| descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who descends | - |
| deserter | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: defector |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
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| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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| (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
| determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
| developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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| (noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
| deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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| devourer | (noun) someone who eats greedily or voraciously | - |
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| dialyzer | (noun) a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes | Synonyms: dialysis machine |
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| diameter | (noun) the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference | Synonyms: diam |
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| (noun) a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface) | - |
| diaper | (noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement | Synonyms: napkin, nappy |
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| (noun) a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures | - |
| dibber | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibble |
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| dicer | (noun) a mechanical device used for dicing food | - |
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| diemaker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diesinker |
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| diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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| dieter | (noun) a person who diets | - |
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| diffuser | (noun) optical device that distributes the light of a lamp evenly | Synonyms: diffusor |
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| (noun) baffle that distributes sound waves evenly | Synonyms: diffusor |
| digester | (noun) autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested | - |
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| digger | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: excavator, power shovel, shovel |
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| (noun) a laborer who digs | - |
| digitiser | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitizer |
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| digitizer | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitiser |
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| dilater | (noun) a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ | Synonyms: dilator |
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| dillydallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, lounger, mope |
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| dimer | (noun) a compound whose molecules are composed of two identical monomers | - |
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| dimmer | (noun) a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination | - |
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| diner | (noun) a passenger car where food is served in transit | Synonyms: buffet car, dining car, dining compartment |
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| (noun) a restaurant that resembles a dining car | - |
| (noun) a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant) | - |
| dinner | (noun) the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday | - |
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| (noun) a party of people assembled to have dinner together | Synonyms: dinner party |
| diopter | (noun) a unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists | Synonyms: dioptre |
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| dipper | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball |
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| (noun) small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom | Synonyms: water ouzel |
| (noun) a ladle that has a cup with a long handle | - |