| directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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| disarmer | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: pacificist, pacifist |
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| disaster | (noun) an act that has disastrous consequences | - |
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| (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, tragedy |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: catastrophe |
| disburser | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: expender, spender |
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| disclaimer | (noun) (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something | - |
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| (noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disavowal |
| discounter | (noun) a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price | Synonyms: discount house, discount store, wholesale house |
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| discoverer | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: finder, spotter |
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| (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, inventor |
| disentangler | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: unraveler, unraveller |
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| dishwasher | (noun) a machine for washing dishes | Synonyms: dish washer, dishwashing machine |
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| (noun) someone who washes dishes | - |
| dishwater | (noun) water in which dishes and cooking utensils are washed | - |
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| disorder | (noun) a disturbance of the peace or of public order | - |
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| (noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places | Synonyms: disorderliness |
| (noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning | Synonyms: upset |
| disparager | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, knocker |
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| dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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| dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissenter | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissident, objector, protester |
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| dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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| (noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
| (noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
| distiller | (noun) someone who distills alcoholic liquors | - |
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| distributer | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributor, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributor |
| disturber | (noun) a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion | - |
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| dither | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: flap, fuss, pother, tizzy |
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| diver | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: loon |
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| (noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: plunger |
| (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver |
| divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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| (noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
| (noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
| (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
| diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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| docker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| dodder | (noun) a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria | - |
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| dodderer | (noun) one who dodders from old age and weakness | - |
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| dodger | (noun) small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) | Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger |
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| (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: fox, slyboots |
| doer | (noun) a person who acts and gets things done | Synonyms: actor, worker |
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| dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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| dojigger | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| doorknocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: knocker, rapper |
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| doorstopper | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstop |
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| doppelganger | (noun) a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart | - |
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| doppelzentner | (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, hundredweight, metric hundredweight |
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| dormer | (noun) a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window | Synonyms: dormer window |
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| dosemeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosimeter |
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| dosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosemeter |
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| dosser | (noun) someone who sleeps in any convenient place | Synonyms: street person |
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| dossier | (noun) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) | - |
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| doubleheader | (noun) two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) | Synonyms: double feature, twin bill |
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| doubler | (noun) an electronic device that doubles the voltage or the frequency of an input signal | - |
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| doubter | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: sceptic, skeptic |
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| (noun) someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something | Synonyms: agnostic |
| dowager | (noun) a widow holding property received from her deceased husband | - |
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| dower | (noun) a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband | - |
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| (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dowery, dowry, portion |
| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| downer | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug |
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| dowser | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowsing rod, water finder, waterfinder |
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| (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: rhabdomancer, water witch |
| dozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: bulldozer |
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| drafter | (noun) a writer of a draft | - |
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| dragger | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: trawler |
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| (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: puller, tugger |
| draper | (noun) a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods) | - |
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| drawer | (noun) a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out | - |
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| (noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: draftsman |
| (noun) the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else | - |
| drawler | (noun) someone who speaks with a drawl | - |
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| dreamer | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: escapist, wishful thinker |
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| (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: idealist |
| (noun) someone who is dreaming | - |
| dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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| dresser | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest, chest of drawers |
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| (noun) a cabinet with shelves | - |
| (noun) low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup | Synonyms: dressing table, toilet table, vanity |
| (noun) a wardrobe assistant for an actor | Synonyms: actor's assistant |
| (noun) a person who dresses in a particular way | - |
| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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| (noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
| drier | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: dryer |
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| (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drying agent, siccative |
| drifter | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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| (noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
| (noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
| (noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
| drooler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, slobberer |
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| dropkicker | (noun) a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground | - |
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| dropper | (noun) pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time | Synonyms: eye dropper |
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| drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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| drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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| drummer | (noun) someone who plays a drum | - |
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| dryer | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: drier |
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| dueler | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: duelist, dueller, duellist |
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| dueller | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, duelist, duellist |
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| duffer | (noun) an incompetent or clumsy person | - |
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| dulcimer | (noun) a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers | - |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings | - |
| dumbwaiter | (noun) a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another | Synonyms: food elevator |
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| dumper | (noun) truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity | Synonyms: dump truck, tip truck, tipper, tipper lorry, tipper truck |
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| dunker | (noun) a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots | - |
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| (noun) an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it | - |
| durometer | (noun) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like. | - |
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| duster | (noun) a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter | - |
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| (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, gabardine, gaberdine, smock |
| (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, dustrag |
| (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, sandstorm, sirocco |
| dweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, habitant, indweller, inhabitant |
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| dyer | (noun) someone whose job is to dye cloth | - |
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| dynamiter | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamitist |
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| dynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument designed to measure power | Synonyms: ergometer |
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| eager | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, bore, eagre, tidal bore |
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| earner | (noun) someone who earn wages in return for their labor | Synonyms: wage earner |
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| easter | (noun) a wind from the east | Synonyms: east wind, easterly |
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| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| eater | (noun) any green goods that are good to eat | - |
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| (noun) someone who consumes food for nourishment | Synonyms: feeder |
| eavesdropper | (noun) a secret listener to private conversations | - |
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| economiser | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economizer |
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| economizer | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economiser |
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| edger | (noun) garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard | - |
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| (noun) a person who puts finishing edges on a garment | - |
| effecter | (noun) one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose | Synonyms: effector |
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| eggbeater | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggwhisk |
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| (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, helicopter, whirlybird |
| egger | (noun) moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons | Synonyms: eggar |
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