| bivouac | (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: camp, cantonment, encampment |
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| (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
| bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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| carnivore | (noun) a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal | - |
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| (noun) any animal that feeds on flesh | - |
| carnivorousness | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: zoophagy |
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| divorce | (noun) the legal dissolution of a marriage | Synonyms: divorcement |
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| divorcee | (noun) a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband | Synonyms: grass widow |
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| divorcement | (noun) the legal dissolution of a marriage | Synonyms: divorce |
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| divot | (noun) a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club) | - |
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| (noun) (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke | - |
| equivocalness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: ambiguity |
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| equivocation | (noun) falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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| (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: evasiveness, prevarication |
| (noun) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | Synonyms: evasion |
| equivocator | (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: hedger, tergiversator |
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| frivolity | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frippery |
| (noun) the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible | Synonyms: frivolousness |
| frivolousness | (noun) the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible | Synonyms: frivolity |
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| herbivore | (noun) any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants | - |
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| insectivore | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals | - |
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| (noun) any organism that feeds mainly on insects | - |
| ivory | (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: bone, off-white, pearl |
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| (noun) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses | Synonyms: tusk |
| ivorybill | (noun) large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct | Synonyms: Campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpecker |
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| millivolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt | Synonyms: mV |
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| millivoltmeter | (noun) sensitive voltmeter that can measure voltage in millivolts | - |
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| omnivore | (noun) an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances | - |
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| (noun) a person who eats all kinds of foods | - |
| omnivorousness | (noun) The state of eating both animal and plant matter. | - |
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| pivot | (noun) the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot | - |
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| (noun) axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns | Synonyms: pin |
| (noun) the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver | Synonyms: pivot man |
| semivowel | (noun) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | Synonyms: glide |
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| slivovitz | (noun) a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans | - |
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| survivor | (noun) an animal that survives in spite of adversity | - |
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| (noun) one who outlives another | - |
| (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: subsister |
| unequivocalness | (noun) clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity | Synonyms: unambiguity |
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