| district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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| (verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
| 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 |
| (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: mistrust, suspect |
| distrustful | (adjective) having or showing distrust | - |
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| distrustfully | (adverb) with distrust | Synonyms: mistrustfully |
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| distrustfulness | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
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| disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
| disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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| (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
| disturbed | (adjective) having the place or position changed | - |
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| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: maladjusted |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried |
| disturber | (noun) a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion | - |
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| disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| disturbingly | (adverb) in a disturbing manner | - |
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| 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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| 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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| dualistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of dualism | Synonyms: Manichaean |
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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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| dynamitist | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamiter |
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| dyslogistic | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dislogistic, pejorative |
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| dysphemistic | (adjective) of or the nature of dysphemism | - |
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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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| 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 |
| egoistic | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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| egoistical | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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| egotist | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, swellhead |
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| egotistic | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistical, narcissistic, self-loving |
| egotistical | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, narcissistic, self-loving |
| egotistically | (adverb) in an egotistical manner | Synonyms: selfishly |
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| eisteddfod | (noun) any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing) | - |
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| electrochemistry | (noun) branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reactions | - |
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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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| 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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| enlist | (verb) join the military | - |
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| (verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: draft, muster in |
| (verb) hire for work or assistance | Synonyms: engage |
| enlistee | (noun) any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) | Synonyms: recruit |
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| enlisting | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: recruitment |
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| enlistment | (noun) the act of enlisting (as in a military service) | - |
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| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, hitch, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| enologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: fermentologist, oenologist |
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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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| 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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| epistemic | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemological |
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| epistemological | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemic |
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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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| epistolary | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolatory |
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| epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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| epistrophe | (noun) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | Synonyms: epiphora |
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| equidistant | (adjective) the same distance apart at every point | - |
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| equidistribution | (noun) a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence | - |
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| eristic | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristical |
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| (noun) the art of logical disputation (especially if specious) | - |
| (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, disputant |
| eristical | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristic |
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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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| eulogistic | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, panegyric, panegyrical |
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| euphemistic | (adjective) of or the nature of euphemism | - |
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| euphemistically | (adverb) in a euphemistic manner | - |
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| evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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| evangelistic | (adjective) relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel | - |
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| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelical |
| 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 |
| exhibitionistic | (adjective) compulsively attracting attention to yourself especially by public exposure or exaggerated behavior | - |
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| exist | (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: be |
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| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: live, subsist, survive |
| 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 |
| existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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| (adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
| (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
| existential | (adjective) relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) | - |
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| (adjective) of or as conceived by existentialism | - |
| (adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: experiential |
| 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 | (adjective) relating to or involving existentialism | - |
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| (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 |
| existing | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existent |
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| (adjective) presently existing | - |
| (adjective) existing in something specified | - |