| dalmatian | (noun) a large breed having a smooth white coat with black or brown spots; originated in Dalmatia | Synonyms: carriage dog, coach dog |
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| defiance | (noun) a defiant act | - |
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| (noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
| (noun) a hostile challenge | - |
| defiant | (adjective) boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | Synonyms: noncompliant |
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| defiantly | (adverb) in a rebellious manner | Synonyms: contumaciously, rebelliously |
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| defoliant | (noun) a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off | - |
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| deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
| deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
| diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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| dialectician | (noun) a logician skilled in dialectic | - |
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| dianoetic | (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: discursive |
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| dietician | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietitian |
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| dietitian | (noun) a specialist in the study of diet and nutrition | Synonyms: dietician |
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| diluvian | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvial |
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| dioecian | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals | Synonyms: dioecious |
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| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| dulciana | (noun) the organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality | - |
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| durian | (noun) huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts | - |
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| (noun) tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | Synonyms: durian tree, Durio zibethinus, durion |
| dystopian | (adjective) as bad as can be; characterized by human misery | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia | - |
| econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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| egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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| (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
| egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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| electrician | (noun) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines | Synonyms: lineman, linesman |
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| elysian | (adjective) relating to the Elysian Fields | - |
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| (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: divine, inspired |
| eonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: aeonian |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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| equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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| equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
| (noun) a person skilled in equitation | Synonyms: horseback rider |
| equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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| establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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| esthetician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty | Synonyms: aesthetician |
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| (noun) a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) | Synonyms: aesthetician |
| ethician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in ethics | Synonyms: ethicist |
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| euclidian | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidean |
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| euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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| (noun) a psychoactive drug that tends to produce elation and euphoria | - |
| eutherian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria | - |
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| (noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | Synonyms: eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal |
| fabian | (adjective) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation | - |
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| fiance | (noun) a man who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: groom-to-be |
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| fiancee | (noun) a woman who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: bride-to-be |
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| flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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| fustian | (noun) a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap | - |
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| (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, bombast, claptrap, rant |
| gentian | (noun) any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis | - |
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| gentianella | (noun) low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Gentiana acaulis |
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| geometrician | (noun) a mathematician specializing in geometry | Synonyms: geometer |
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| geriatrician | (noun) a specialist in gerontology | Synonyms: gerontologist |
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| giant | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo |
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| (noun) any creature of exceptional size | - |
| (noun) an unusually large enterprise | - |
| (noun) a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) | Synonyms: giant star |
| (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, goliath, monster |
| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, heavyweight, titan |
| (noun) an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: heavyweight, hulk, whale |
| giantess | (noun) a female giant | - |
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| giantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: gigantism |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: gigantism, overgrowth |
| gorgonian | (noun) corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton | Synonyms: gorgonian coral |
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| grammarian | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: syntactician |
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| guardian | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, protector, shielder |
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| guardianship | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: keeping, safekeeping |
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| (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, tutelage |
| haemosporidian | (noun) minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens | - |
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| haplosporidian | (noun) parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance | - |
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| helianthemum | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions | Synonyms: sun rose, sunrose |
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| helianthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays | Synonyms: sunflower |
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| hemianopia | (noun) blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes | Synonyms: hemianopsia |
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| hemianopsia | (noun) blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes | Synonyms: hemianopia |
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| hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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| hessian | (noun) (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot | Synonyms: Hessian boot, jackboot, Wellington, Wellington boot |
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| historian | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historiographer |
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| holocephalian | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalan |
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| holothurian | (noun) echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders | Synonyms: sea cucumber |
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| hominian | (adjective) characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | Synonyms: hominid |
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| humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
| humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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| ianfu | (noun) a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II | Synonyms: comfort woman |
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| inebriant | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, intoxicant |
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| infusorian | (noun) any member of the subclass Infusoria | - |
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| insouciance | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
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| insouciant | (adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: casual, nonchalant |
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| invariance | (noun) the quality of being resistant to variation | Synonyms: invariability, invariableness |
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| (noun) the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it | - |
| invariant | (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, constant, unvarying |
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| (adjective) unaffected by a designated operation or transformation | - |
| (noun) a feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it | - |
| isthmian | (adjective) of or relating to or forming an isthmus | - |
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| kalian | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| kaoliang | (noun) sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching) | - |
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| kiang | (noun) wild ass of Tibet and Mongolia | Synonyms: Equus kiang |
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| labyrinthian | (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthine, mazy |
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| lacertilian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: saurian |
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| lapidarian | (adjective) inscribed on stone | - |
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| latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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| (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
| leptorrhinian | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinic |
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| lesbian | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman | Synonyms: sapphic |
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| (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, tribade |
| lesbianism | (noun) female homosexuality | Synonyms: sapphism |
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| liana | (noun) a woody climbing usually tropical plant | - |
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| libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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| (noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
| libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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| librarian | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: bibliothec |
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| librarianship | (noun) the position of librarian | - |
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| lilliputian | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (noun) a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) | - |
| logician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logistician |
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| logistician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logician |
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| luxuriance | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, voluptuousness |
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| luxuriant | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, profuse, riotous |
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| (adjective) marked by complexity and richness of detail | Synonyms: elaborate |
| (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
| luxuriantly | (adverb) in a manner marked by complexity and richness of detail | - |
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| (adverb) extremely abundant in growth or production | - |
| magician | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, prestidigitator |
| malacopterygian | (noun) any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | Synonyms: soft-finned fish |
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| mammalian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Mammalia | - |
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| (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
| marginocephalian | (noun) includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs | Synonyms: Marginocephalia, suborder Marginocephalia |
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| mathematician | (noun) a person skilled in mathematics | - |
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| median | (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | Synonyms: medial |
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| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves | Synonyms: medial |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items | Synonyms: median value |
| mediant | (noun) (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant | - |
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