| cryptologist | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalyst, cryptographer |
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| cubist | (noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
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| cultist | (noun) a member of a religious cult | - |
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| (noun) a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
| cyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, biker, wheeler |
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| cymbalist | (noun) a performer on the cymbals | - |
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| cyst | (noun) a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) | Synonyms: vesicle |
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| (noun) a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure | - |
| cytogeneticist | (noun) a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity | - |
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| cytologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells | - |
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| cytoplast | (noun) the intact cytoplasmic content of a cell | - |
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| dacryocyst | (noun) either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: lacrimal sac, tear sac |
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| dearest | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| defeatist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: negativist |
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| deipnosophist | (noun) someone skilled at informal chitchat | - |
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| deist | (noun) a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it | - |
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| demographist | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographer, population scientist |
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| dentist | (noun) a person qualified to practice dentistry | Synonyms: dental practitioner, tooth doctor |
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| denturist | (noun) someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures) | Synonyms: dental technician |
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| dermatologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin | Synonyms: skin doctor |
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| determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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| diarist | (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diary keeper, journalist |
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| digest | (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| (noun) a periodical that summarizes the news | - |
| diplomatist | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomat |
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| disgust | (noun) strong feelings of dislike | - |
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| disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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| (noun) lack of interest | - |
| distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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| distrust | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrustfulness, mistrust |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: misgiving, mistrust, suspicion |
| diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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| dogmatist | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: doctrinaire |
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| doorpost | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorjamb |
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| downcast | (noun) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine | - |
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| dramatist | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: playwright |
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| druggist | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, chemist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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| dualist | (noun) an adherent of dualism | - |
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| duelist | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, dueller, duellist |
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| duellist | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, duelist, dueller |
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| durmast | (noun) deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Quercus petraea, Quercus sessiliflora |
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| dust | (noun) fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air | - |
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| (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, junk, rubble |
| (noun) free microscopic particles of solid material | - |
| dynamitist | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamiter |
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| dynast | (noun) a hereditary ruler | - |
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| earnest | (noun) something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract | - |
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| east | (noun) a location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees | Synonyms: due east, E, eastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the eastward cardinal compass point | - |
| ecdysiast | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
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| eclecticist | (noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method | Synonyms: eclectic |
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| ecologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment | - |
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| econometrist | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrician |
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| economist | (noun) an expert in the science of economics | Synonyms: economic expert |
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| ectoblast | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoderm, exoderm |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| educationalist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationist |
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| educationist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationalist |
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| egoist | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egocentric |
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| (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egotist, swellhead |
| egotist | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, swellhead |
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| eldest | (noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
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| electrologist | (noun) someone skilled in the use of electricity to remove moles or warts or hair roots | - |
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| electrotherapist | (noun) someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity | - |
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| elegist | (noun) the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | - |
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| elitist | (noun) someone who believes in rule by an elite group | - |
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| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| embryologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in embryology | - |
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| empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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| encyclopaedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopedist |
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| encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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| endoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoderm, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| endocrinologist | (noun) physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system | - |
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| endodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in diseases of the dental pulp and nerve | - |
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| enologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: fermentologist, oenologist |
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| enthusiast | (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: partisan, partizan |
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| (noun) a person having a strong liking for something | Synonyms: fancier |
| entoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| entomologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, bugologist |
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| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| enzymologist | (noun) a person who is trained in or engaged in enzymology | - |
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| epidemiologist | (noun) a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases | - |
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| epistemologist | (noun) a specialist in epistemology | - |
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| erythroblast | (noun) a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop | - |
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| 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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| exhaust | (noun) system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged | Synonyms: exhaust system |
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| (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust fumes, fumes |
| 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 |
| 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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