postulant (n.)
- abbess
- abecedarian
- applicant
- apprentice
- aspirant
- beginner
- bidder
- boot
- candidate
- catechumen
- claimant
- entrant
- fledgling
- freshman
- greenhorn
- ignoramus
- inductee
- initiate
- neophyte
- newcomer
- novice
- novitiate
- nun
- petitioner
- prioress
- probationer
- recruit
- rookie
- seeker
- sister
- solicitor
- suitor
- suppliant
- supplicant
- tenderfoot
- tyro