| distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| distributer | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributor, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributor |
| distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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| (noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
| distributor | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributer, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) a company that markets merchandise | - |
| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributer |
| (noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: allocator |
| district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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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 |
| distrustfulness | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
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| disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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| (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
| disturber | (noun) a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion | - |
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| disulfiram | (noun) a drug (trade name Antabuse) used in the treatment of alcoholism; causes nausea and vomiting if alcohol is ingested | Synonyms: Antabuse |
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| disunion | (noun) the termination or destruction of union | - |
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| disunity | (noun) lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension) | - |
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| disuse | (noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: neglect |
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| disyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: dissyllable |
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| dit | (noun) the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dot |
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| (noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, Hart, hartley |
| dita | (noun) evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Alstonia scholaris, devil tree, dita bark |
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| ditch | (noun) a long narrow excavation in the earth | - |
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| (noun) any small natural waterway | - |
| ditchmoss | (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: Elodea, genus Elodea, pondweed |
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| dither | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: flap, fuss, pother, tizzy |
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| dithering | (noun) the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color | - |
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| dithyramb | (noun) (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) | - |
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| (noun) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing | - |
| dittany | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather | Synonyms: burning bush, Dictamnus alba, fraxinella, gas plant |
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| ditto | (noun) a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated | Synonyms: ditto mark |
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| ditty | (noun) a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung) | - |
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| diuresis | (noun) increased secretion of urine; if not due to increased liquid intake or to the action of a diuretic drug it can be a symptom of diabetes mellitus | - |
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| diuretic | (noun) any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water | Synonyms: diuretic drug, water pill |
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| diva | (noun) a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star | Synonyms: prima donna |
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| divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
| divan | (noun) a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | - |
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| (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: diwan |
| divarication | (noun) branching at a wide angle | - |
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| dive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: nose dive, nosedive |
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| (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: diving |
| (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: honkytonk |
| 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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| divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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| (noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
| divide | (noun) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems | Synonyms: water parting, watershed |
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| (noun) a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) | - |
| dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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| (noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
| (noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
| divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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| (noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
| (noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
| (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
| divination | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophecy |
| (noun) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck | - |
| divine | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic |
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| diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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| diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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| (noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
| divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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| (noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
| (noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
| (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
| divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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| division | (noun) the act or process of dividing | - |
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| (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed | - |
| (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
| (noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | Synonyms: part, section |
| (noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: variance |
| (noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat | - |
| (noun) a group of ships of similar type | Synonyms: naval division |
| (noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | Synonyms: air division |
| (noun) an administrative unit in government or business | - |
| (noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | - |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | - |
| (noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: class |
| divisor | (noun) the number by which a dividend is divided | - |
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| (noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer | Synonyms: factor |
| 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 | - |
| divulgement | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgence |
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| divulgence | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgement |
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| divvy | (noun) short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society | - |
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| diwan | (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: divan |
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| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: divan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: divan |
| dixie | (noun) a large metal pot (12 gallon camp kettle) for cooking; used in military camps | - |
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| dizziness | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
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