| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| contest | (noun) a struggle between rivals | - |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: competition |
| (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contend, repugn |
| contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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| contrabandist | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler |
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| contrapuntist | (noun) a composer who specializes in counterpoint | - |
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| contrast | (noun) the act of distinguishing by comparing differences | - |
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| (noun) the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness) | - |
| (noun) the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors | - |
| (noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: demarcation, dividing line, line |
| (noun) the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared | Synonyms: direct contrast |
| (verb) put in opposition to show or emphasize differences | - |
| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: counterpoint |
| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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| conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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| copyist | (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: scribe, scrivener |
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| coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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| cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
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| corporatist | (adjective) of or relating to corporatism | - |
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| (noun) a supporter of corporatism | - |
| cosmetologist | (noun) an expert in the use of cosmetics | - |
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| cosmographist | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographer |
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| cosmologist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe | - |
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| cost | (noun) the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold) | Synonyms: monetary value, price |
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| (noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something | Synonyms: price, toll |
| (noun) the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor | - |
| (verb) be priced at | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice | - |
| counterblast | (noun) a vigorous and unrestrained response | - |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
| cragfast | (adjective) stranded on or as if on a crag | - |
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| craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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| crest | (noun) a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal | - |
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| (noun) (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet | - |
| (noun) the center of a cambered road | Synonyms: crown |
| (noun) the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave | - |
| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crown, peak, summit, tip, top |
| (verb) reach a high point | - |
| (verb) lie at the top of | Synonyms: cap |
| criminologist | (noun) a specialist in criminology | - |
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| crust | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| (noun) the outer layer of the Earth | Synonyms: Earth's crust |
| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: encrustation, incrustation |
| (verb) form a crust or form into a crust | - |
| cryptanalyst | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptographer, cryptologist |
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| cryptologist | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalyst, cryptographer |
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| cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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| (noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
| cultist | (noun) a member of a religious cult | - |
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| (noun) a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
| curst | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: cursed |
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| cyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, biker, wheeler |
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| cymbalist | (noun) a performer on the cymbals | - |
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| cyst | (noun) a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) | Synonyms: vesicle |
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| (noun) a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure | - |
| cytogeneticist | (noun) a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity | - |
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| cytologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells | - |
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| cytoplast | (noun) the intact cytoplasmic content of a cell | - |
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| czarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czaristic, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| dacryocyst | (noun) either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: lacrimal sac, tear sac |
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| dearest | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| defeatist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: negativist |
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| deforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: disafforest, disforest |
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| defrost | (verb) make or become free of frost or ice | Synonyms: de-ice, deice |
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| degust | (verb) taste with relish | - |
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| deipnosophist | (noun) someone skilled at informal chitchat | - |
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| deist | (adjective) of or relating to deism | Synonyms: deistic |
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| (noun) a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it | - |
| delist | (verb) remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange | - |
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| demist | (verb) free from mist | Synonyms: defog |
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| demographist | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographer, population scientist |
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| dentist | (noun) a person qualified to practice dentistry | Synonyms: dental practitioner, tooth doctor |
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| denturist | (noun) someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures) | Synonyms: dental technician |
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| dermatologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin | Synonyms: skin doctor |
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| desist | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, refrain |
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| determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| detest | (verb) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards | Synonyms: hate |
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| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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| diarist | (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diary keeper, journalist |
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| digest | (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| (noun) a periodical that summarizes the news | - |
| (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing | - |
| (verb) become assimilated into the body | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | - |
| (verb) arrange and integrate in the mind | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) convert food into absorbable substances | - |
| diplomatist | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomat |
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| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| disforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disafforest |
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| disgust | (noun) strong feelings of dislike | - |
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| (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, nauseate, revolt, sicken |
| (verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: gross out, repel, revolt |
| dishonest | (adjective) deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive | Synonyms: dishonorable |
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| (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, purchasable, venal |
| disinfest | (verb) rid of vermin | - |
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| disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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| (noun) lack of interest | - |
| disinvest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: divest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: divest |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: divest |
| distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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| 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 |
| diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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| divest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: disinvest |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, strip |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: disinvest |
| dogmatist | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: doctrinaire |
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| doorpost | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorjamb |
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| downcast | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) directed downward | - |
| (noun) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine | - |
| 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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| 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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| durmast | (noun) deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Quercus petraea, Quercus sessiliflora |
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| dust | (noun) fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air | - |
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| (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, junk, rubble |
| (noun) free microscopic particles of solid material | - |
| (verb) remove the dust from | - |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape | - |
| (verb) cover with a light dusting of a substance | - |
| dynamitist | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamiter |
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| dynast | (noun) a hereditary ruler | - |
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| earliest | (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early | Synonyms: earlier |
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| (adverb) with the least delay | Synonyms: soonest |
| earnest | (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: businesslike |
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| (adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: sincere, solemn |
| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, devout, heartfelt |
| (noun) something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract | - |
| east | (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward the east | - |
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| (noun) a location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees | Synonyms: due east, E, eastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the eastward cardinal compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the east | - |
| easternmost | (adjective) farthest to the east | Synonyms: eastmost |
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| eastmost | (adjective) farthest to the east | Synonyms: easternmost |
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| ecdysiast | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
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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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| ectoblast | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoderm, exoderm |
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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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| egest | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: eliminate, excrete, pass |
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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 |
| egotist | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, swellhead |
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