politician vs plotter

politician and plotter both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
politician	Yes	No	No	No
plotter	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, plotter is a hypernym of politician; that is, plotter is a word with a broader meaning than politician:

politician: a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways
plotter: a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action

Other hypernyms of politician include schemer.

politician (noun)	plotter (noun)
a person active in party politics	an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures
a leader engaged in civil administration	a member of a conspiracy
a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways	a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action
	a clerk who marks data on a chart