| epistemologist | (noun) a specialist in epistemology | - |
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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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| 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 |
| exist | (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: be |
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| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: live, subsist, survive |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| expansionist | (adjective) of or involving or guided by expansionism | - |
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| expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
| 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 | (adjective) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | Synonyms: radical, ultra |
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| (noun) a person who holds extreme views | - |
| 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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| falangist | (noun) a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | Synonyms: phalangist |
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| fantasist | (noun) a creator of fantasies | - |
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| fascist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fascism | Synonyms: fascistic |
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| (noun) an adherent of fascism or other authoritarian views | - |
| fatalist | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalistic |
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| (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
| fauvist | (noun) a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | Synonyms: Fauve |
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| federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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| feist | (noun) a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog | Synonyms: fice |
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| feminist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women | - |
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| (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
| fermentologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: enologist, oenologist |
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| fetishist | (noun) one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) | - |
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| finalist | (noun) a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition | - |
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| fist | (noun) a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting) | Synonyms: clenched fist |
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| flautist | (noun) someone who plays the flute | Synonyms: flute player, flutist |
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| florist | (noun) a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold | Synonyms: florist shop, flower store |
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| (noun) someone who grows and deals in flowers | - |
| flutist | (noun) someone who plays the flute | Synonyms: flautist, flute player |
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| foist | (verb) insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
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| (verb) to force onto another | - |
| fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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| funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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| functionalist | (noun) an adherent of functionalism | - |
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| fundamentalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
| (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| futurist | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futuristic |
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| (noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: fantast |
| (noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future | - |
| gambist | (noun) a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba | - |
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| gastroenterologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract | - |
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| genealogist | (noun) an expert in genealogy | - |
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| generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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| geneticist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in genetics | - |
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| geologist | (noun) a specialist in geology | - |
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| geophysicist | (noun) a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth | - |
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| gerontologist | (noun) a specialist in gerontology | Synonyms: geriatrician |
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| gist | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, essence |
| glossarist | (noun) a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries | - |
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| graphologist | (noun) a specialist in inferring character from handwriting | Synonyms: handwriting expert |
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| grist | (noun) grain intended to be or that has been ground | - |
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| guitarist | (noun) a musician who plays the guitar | Synonyms: guitar player |
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| gymnosophist | (noun) member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism) | - |
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| gynaecologist | (noun) a specialist in gynecology | Synonyms: gynecologist, woman's doctor |
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| gynecologist | (noun) a specialist in gynecology | Synonyms: gynaecologist, woman's doctor |
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| haematologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs | Synonyms: hematologist |
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| hagiographist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiologist |
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| hagiologist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiographist |
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| hairstylist | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, styler, stylist |
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| harpist | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harper |
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| harpsichordist | (noun) someone who plays the harpsichord | - |
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| hedonist | (noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: pagan, pleasure seeker |
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| heist | (noun) the act of stealing | Synonyms: rip-off |
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| (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, holdup, stickup |
| (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, burgle |
| hematologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs | Synonyms: haematologist |
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| heraldist | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldic |
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| herbalist | (noun) a therapist who heals by the use of herbs | Synonyms: herb doctor |
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| herpetologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians | - |
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| histologist | (noun) anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues | - |
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| hobbyist | (noun) a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure | - |
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| hoist | (noun) lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects | - |
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| (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: lift, wind |
| (verb) raise by using ropes and pulleys | Synonyms: run up |
| (verb) move from one place to another by lifting | - |
| hornist | (noun) a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn) | - |
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| horologist | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologer, watchmaker |
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| horticulturist | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: plantsman |
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| humanist | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanistic |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanistic |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanistic |
| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanistic, humanitarian |
| (noun) a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts | - |
| (noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanitarian |
| humorist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humourist |
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| humourist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humorist |
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| hydrologist | (noun) a geologist skilled in hydrology | - |
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| hygienist | (noun) a medical specialist in hygiene | - |
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| hypnotist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotizer, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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| ichthyologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies fishes | - |
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| idealist | (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: dreamer |
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| ideologist | (noun) an advocate of some ideology | Synonyms: ideologue |
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| illusionist | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: seer, visionary |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator |
| immunologist | (noun) a medical scientist who specializes in immunology | - |
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| imperialist | (adjective) of or relating to imperialism | Synonyms: imperialistic |
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| (noun) a believer in imperialism | - |
| impressionist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who follows the theories of Impressionism | - |
| individualist | (adjective) marked by or expressing individuality | Synonyms: individualistic |
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| (noun) a person who pursues independent thought or action | - |
| industrialist | (noun) someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise | - |
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| insist | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: assert |
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| (verb) be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge | Synonyms: take a firm stand |
| (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: importune |
| instrumentalist | (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: musician, player |
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| insurrectionist | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, rebel |
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| internationalist | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalistic |
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| (noun) an advocate of internationalism | - |
| (noun) a member of a socialist or communist international | - |
| internist | (noun) a specialist in internal medicine | - |
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