| councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
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| councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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| counterman | (noun) a male who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| counterplan | (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot | Synonyms: counterplot |
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| counterwoman | (noun) a female who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| countryman | (noun) a man from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: ruralist |
| countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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| (noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
| courlan | (noun) wading bird of South America and Central America | Synonyms: Aramus guarauna |
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| courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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| cowman | (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowboy |
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| cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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| craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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| (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
| (noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
| cragsman | (noun) a climber of vertical rock faces | Synonyms: rock climber |
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| cran | (noun) a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring | - |
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| crewman | (noun) a member of a work crew | - |
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| (noun) a member of a flight crew | Synonyms: crew member |
| (noun) any member of a ship's crew | Synonyms: sailor |
| crocodilian | (noun) extant archosaurian reptile | Synonyms: crocodilian reptile |
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| crossopterygian | (noun) any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form | Synonyms: lobe-finned fish, lobefin |
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| crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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| (noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | - |
| custodian | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: keeper, steward |
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| cyan | (adjective) of the blue-green color that is a primary subtractive color of light | - |
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| (noun) a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color | - |
| cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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| cyprian | (adjective) resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus | - |
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| (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| dalesman | (noun) a person who lives in the dales of northern England | - |
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| 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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| deadpan | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adverb) without betraying any feeling | - |
| dean | (noun) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | - |
| (noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: doyen |
| deciban | (noun) a unit of information, one tenth of a ban. | - |
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| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| demean | (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down |
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| deskman | (noun) the police sergeant on duty in a police station | Synonyms: desk sergeant, station keeper |
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| 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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| dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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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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| diocesan | (adjective) belonging to or governing a diocese | - |
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| (noun) a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese | - |
| dioecian | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals | Synonyms: dioecious |
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| dipteran | (noun) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | Synonyms: dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects |
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| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| dishpan | (noun) large pan for washing dishes | - |
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| divan | (noun) a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | - |
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| (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: diwan |
| diwan | (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: divan |
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| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: divan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: divan |
| dolman | (noun) a woman's cloak with dolman sleeves | - |
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| (noun) a hussar's jacket worn over the shoulders | Synonyms: dolman jacket |
| doorman | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| draftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsperson, draughtsman |
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| (noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: drawer |
| dragoman | (noun) an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government) | - |
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| draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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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 |
| dustman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, garbageman, refuse collector |
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| dustpan | (noun) a short-handled receptacle into which dust can be swept | - |
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| (noun) the quantity that a dustpan will hold | Synonyms: dustpanful |
| dystopian | (adjective) as bad as can be; characterized by human misery | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia | - |
| earthman | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, tellurian, worldling |
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| econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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| ectozoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: epizoan |
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| (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
| egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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| (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
| elan | (noun) enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness | - |
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| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, flair, panache, style |
| (noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, zeal |
| 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 |
| empyrean | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyreal |
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| (adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, sublime |
| (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
| endozoan | (adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: entozoan |
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| (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
| entozoan | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to entozoa | Synonyms: endozoan |
| (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoon |
| 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 |
| ephemeropteran | (noun) short-lived insect | Synonyms: ephemerid |
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| epicurean | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic |
| (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
| epizoan | (adjective) of or relating to epizoa | Synonyms: ectozoan |
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| (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoon |
| equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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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 |
| 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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| euclidean | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidian |
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| euclidian | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidean |
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| 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 |
| everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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| exciseman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman |
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| fabian | (adjective) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation | - |
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| fan | (noun) a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces | - |
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| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, lover |
| (noun) an enthusiastic devotee of sports | Synonyms: rooter, sports fan |
| (verb) make (an emotion) fiercer | - |
| (verb) blow away or off with a current of air | Synonyms: winnow |
| (verb) strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher) | - |
| (verb) agitate the air | - |
| fantan | (noun) a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4) | Synonyms: fan tan |
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| (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: parliament, sevens |
| ferryman | (noun) a man who operates a ferry | - |
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| fieldsman | (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fielder |
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| finnan | (noun) haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter | Synonyms: finnan haddie, finnan haddock, smoked haddock |
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| fireman | (noun) play in which children pretend to put out a fire | - |
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| (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, firefighter |
| (noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: stoker |
| (noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: relief pitcher, reliever |
| fisherman | (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisher |
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| flan | (noun) open pastry filled with fruit or custard | - |
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| foeman | (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, opposition |
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| footman | (noun) a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores | - |
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| foreman | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, gaffer, honcho |
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| (noun) a man who is foreperson of a jury | - |
| forewoman | (noun) a woman in charge of a group of workers | - |
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| (noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forelady |
| freedman | (noun) a male person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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| freedwoman | (noun) a female person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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| freeman | (noun) a male person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freewoman | (noun) a female person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freshman | (adjective) used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college) | Synonyms: first-year |
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| (noun) a first-year undergraduate | Synonyms: fresher |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| frogman | (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: diver, underwater diver |
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| frontiersman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: backwoodsman, mountain man |
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| frontierswoman | (noun) a woman who lives on the frontier | - |
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| frypan | (noun) a pan used for frying foods | Synonyms: frying pan, skillet |
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| fugleman | (noun) a leader and organizer and spokesman (especially a political leader) | - |
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| furan | (noun) a colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon | Synonyms: furane, furfuran |
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