| 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 |
| (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
| 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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| downriver | (adverb) away from the source or with the current | Synonyms: downstream |
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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 | (adjective) having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy | - |
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| (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 |
| earlier | (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early | Synonyms: earliest |
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| (adverb) earlier in time; previously | Synonyms: before |
| (adverb) comparatives of `soon' or `early' | Synonyms: sooner |
| (adverb) before now | Synonyms: in the beginning, in the first place, originally, to begin with |
| 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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| eider | (noun) duck of the Northern Hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females | Synonyms: eider duck |
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| eighter | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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| either | (adverb) after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also' | - |
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| elastomer | (noun) any of various elastic materials that resemble rubber (resumes its original shape when a deforming force is removed) | - |
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| elater | (noun) any of various widely distributed beetles | Synonyms: elaterid, elaterid beetle |
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| elder | (adjective) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | Synonyms: older, sr. |
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| (noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: senior |
| (noun) any of various church officers | - |
| (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit | Synonyms: elderberry bush |
| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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| electrodynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument that uses the interaction of the magnetic fields of two coils to measure current or voltage or power | - |
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| electrometer | (noun) meter to measure electrostatic voltage differences; draws no current from the source | - |
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| electroplater | (noun) a plater who uses electrolysis | - |
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| elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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| (noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |
| embalmer | (noun) a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives | - |
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| ember | (noun) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering | Synonyms: coal |
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| embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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| embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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| (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
| embroiderer | (noun) someone who ornaments with needlework | - |
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| emeer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, amir, emir |
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| emitter | (noun) the electrode in a transistor where electrons originate | - |
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| emmer | (noun) hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed | Synonyms: starch wheat, Triticum dicoccum, two-grain spelt |
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| employer | (noun) a person or firm that employs workers | - |
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| empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| enantiomer | (noun) either one of a pair of compounds (crystals or molecules) that are mirror images on each other but are not identical | Synonyms: enantiomorph |
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| enchanter | (noun) a sorcerer or magician | - |
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| encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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| encounter | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, skirmish |
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| (noun) a casual meeting with a person or thing | Synonyms: coming upon |
| (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, face-off, showdown |
| (noun) a casual or unexpected convergence | Synonyms: meeting |
| (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: meet, play, take on |
| (verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, meet, run across, run into, see |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, find, happen |
| (verb) be beset by | Synonyms: run into |
| (verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: meet, receive |
| encroacher | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: invader |
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| encumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, restrain |
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| endanger | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: expose, peril, queer, scupper |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
| endorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: indorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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| (noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: indorser |
| energiser | (noun) a device that supplies electrical energy | Synonyms: energizer |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer |
| energizer | (noun) a device that supplies electrical energy | Synonyms: energiser |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, vitaliser, vitalizer |
| enforcer | (noun) one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior | Synonyms: hatchet man |
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| engender | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, spawn |
| engineer | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, technologist |
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| (noun) the operator of a railway locomotive | Synonyms: engine driver, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| (verb) design as an engineer | - |
| engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
| enhancer | (noun) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | Synonyms: foil |
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| enjoyer | (noun) a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something | - |
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| enlarger | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph | - |
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