| biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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| diva | (noun) a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star | Synonyms: prima donna |
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| divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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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 |
| divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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| 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 |
| divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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| (verb) branch off | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: plunge, plunk |
| (verb) swim under water | - |
| (verb) plunge into water | - |
| 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 |
| diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
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| (verb) extend in a different direction | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
| (verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
| 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 |
| divergent | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: diverging |
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| (adjective) diverging from another or from a standard | - |
| diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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| divers | (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: diverse |
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| diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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| (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
| diversely | (adverb) in diverse ways | Synonyms: multifariously, variously |
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| 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 | - |
| diversified | (adjective) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | - |
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| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| 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 |
| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| 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 |
| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| diverted | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, entertained |
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| 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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| diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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| divertingly | (adverb) in an entertaining and amusing manner | Synonyms: amusingly |
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| divest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: disinvest |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, strip |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: disinvest |
| 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 | - |
| dividable | (adjective) can be divided usually without leaving a remainder | - |
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| 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) | - |
| (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: fraction |
| (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
| (verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: separate |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: separate |
| divided | (adjective) separated into parts or pieces | - |
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| (adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided up, shared, shared out |
| (adjective) having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions | Synonyms: dual-lane |
| 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 | - |
| divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
| divine | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: elysian, inspired |
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| (adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: godly |
| (adjective) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | - |
| (adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: godlike |
| (adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: godlike |
| (adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: providential |
| (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic |
| (verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
| (verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
| divinely | (adverb) by divine means | - |
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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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| divisible | (adjective) capable of being or liable to be divided or separated | - |
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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 |
| divisional | (adjective) of or relating to a military division | - |
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| (adjective) serving to divide or marking a division | - |
| (adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional |
| divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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| 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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| (verb) get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage | Synonyms: split up |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite |
| divorced | (adjective) of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved | - |
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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 | - |
| divulge | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| 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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| endive | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, witloof |
| individual | (adjective) being or characteristic of a single thing or person | Synonyms: single |
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| (adjective) separate and distinct from others of the same kind | Synonyms: case-by-case, item-by-item |
| (adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: private |
| (adjective) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing | Synonyms: single |
| (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
| (noun) a single organism | - |
| individualisation | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualization, individuation |
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| individualise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualize, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualize |
| individualised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualized, personalised, personalized |
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| individualism | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individuality, individuation |
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| (noun) the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs | Synonyms: laissez faire |
| (noun) a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence | - |
| individualist | (adjective) marked by or expressing individuality | Synonyms: individualistic |
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| (noun) a person who pursues independent thought or action | - |
| individualistic | (adjective) with minimally restricted freedom in commerce | Synonyms: laissez-faire |
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| (adjective) marked by or expressing individuality | Synonyms: individualist |
| individualistically | (adverb) in an individualistic manner | - |
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| individuality | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individualism, individuation |
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| (noun) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity | Synonyms: identity, personal identity |
| individualization | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individuation |
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| individualize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualise |
| individualized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, personalised, personalized |
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| individually | (adverb) apart from others | Synonyms: on an individual basis, one by one, separately, severally, singly |
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| individuate | (verb) give individual shape or form to | - |
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| (verb) give individual character to | - |
| individuation | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individualism, individuality |
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| (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individualization |
| indivisibility | (noun) (arithmetic) The state of being impossible to divide by a specific integer without leaving a remainder. | - |
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| indivisible | (adjective) impossible of undergoing division | - |
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| medivac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medevac, medical evacuation |
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| nosedive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: dive, nose dive |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline | - |
| (verb) plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft | - |
| recidivate | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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| recidivism | (noun) habitual relapse into crime | - |
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| recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
| skydive | (verb) jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute | Synonyms: sky dive |
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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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| skydiving | (noun) performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute | - |
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| subdivide | (verb) divide into smaller and smaller pieces | - |
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| (verb) form into subdivisions | - |
| subdivider | (noun) someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites) | - |
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| subdivision | (noun) the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided | - |
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| (noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | Synonyms: subsection |
| (noun) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, branch |
| (noun) an area composed of subdivided lots | - |
| tardive | (adjective) late-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease) | - |
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| undiversified | (adjective) not diversified | - |
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| undividable | (adjective) cannot be divided without leaving a remainder | Synonyms: indivisible by |
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| undivided | (adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: exclusive, single |
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| (adjective) not parted by conflict of opinion | - |
| (adjective) not shared by or among others | - |
| (adjective) not separated into parts or shares; constituting an undivided unit | - |
| unsubdivided | (adjective) (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions | Synonyms: simple |
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