almsgiver | (noun) a person who gives alms | - |
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ambiversion | (noun) (psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion | - |
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anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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(noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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deliverable | (noun) something that can be provided as the product of development | - |
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deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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(noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
(noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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(noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
(noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
(noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
(noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
(noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
(noun) the event of giving birth | - |
deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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diver | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: loon |
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(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: plunger |
(noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver |
divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
divergency | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergence |
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(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergence |
diverseness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diversity, multifariousness, variety |
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diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
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(noun) the condition of being varied | - |
diversion | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: recreation |
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(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation |
(noun) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack | Synonyms: diversionary attack |
diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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diversity | (noun) the condition or result of being changeable | - |
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(noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, multifariousness, variety |
diverticulitis | (noun) inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation | - |
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diverticulosis | (noun) presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
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diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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divertimento | (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: serenade |
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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 | - |
fiver | (noun) a United States bill worth 5 dollars | Synonyms: five-spot, five dollar bill |
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forgiver | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, pardoner |
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giver | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, presenter |
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(noun) someone who devotes himself completely | - |
lawgiver | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawmaker |
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liver | (noun) large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes | - |
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(noun) liver of an animal used as meat | - |
(noun) someone who lives in a place | - |
(noun) a person who has a special life style | - |
liverleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions | Synonyms: hepatica |
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liverwort | (noun) any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses | Synonyms: hepatic |
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liverwurst | (noun) sausage containing ground liver | Synonyms: liver pudding, liver sausage |
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livery | (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: delivery, legal transfer |
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(noun) the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay | - |
(noun) uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs | - |
liveryman | (noun) a worker in a livery stable | - |
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miniver | (noun) trimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur | - |
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multiversity | (noun) a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers | - |
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nondriver | (noun) a person who is not a driver | - |
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perceiver | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, percipient |
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quiver | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quivering, vibration |
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(noun) case for holding arrows | - |
(noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
quivering | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, vibration |
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(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
receiver | (noun) set that receives radio or tv signals | Synonyms: receiving system |
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(noun) earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds | Synonyms: telephone receiver |
(noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: recipient |
(noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: liquidator |
(noun) a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass | Synonyms: pass catcher, pass receiver |
(noun) the tennis player who receives the serve | - |
receivership | (noun) the office of a receiver | - |
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(noun) a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all | - |
(noun) the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver | - |
river | (noun) a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) | - |
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riverbank | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverside |
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riverbed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river | Synonyms: river bottom |
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riverside | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverbank |
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screwdriver | (noun) a hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw | - |
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(noun) a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice | - |
shiver | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shake, tremble |
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(noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
shivering | (noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: chill |
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skydiver | (noun) a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord | - |
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sliver | (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: paring, shaving |
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(noun) a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal | Synonyms: splinter |
striver | (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, slave |
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taxidriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taximan |
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tergiversation | (noun) falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language | Synonyms: equivocation |
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(noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: apostasy |
tergiversator | (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: equivocator, hedger |
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universal | (noun) coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions | Synonyms: universal joint |
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(noun) a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings | - |
(noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class | Synonyms: universal proposition |
(noun) (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages | Synonyms: linguistic universal |
universalism | (noun) the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved | - |
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universality | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: catholicity |
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universe | (noun) everything stated or assumed in a given discussion | Synonyms: universe of discourse |
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(noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: population |
(noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, world |
university | (noun) establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching | - |
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(noun) the body of faculty and students at a university | - |
(noun) a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees | - |
viverrine | (noun) small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World | Synonyms: viverrine mammal |
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waiver | (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: discharge, release |
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wivern | (noun) a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs | Synonyms: wyvern |
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