| 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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| dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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| dorsoventrally | (adverb) in a dorsoventral direction | - |
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| dove | (noun) any of numerous small pigeons | - |
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| (noun) an emblem of peace | - |
| (noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: squab |
| (noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: peacenik |
| dovecote | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, columbary |
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| dovekie | (noun) small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions | Synonyms: little auk, Plautus alle |
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| dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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| (verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
| dovish | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: pacifist, pacifistic |
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| dovishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict | - |
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| downriver | (adverb) away from the source or with the current | Synonyms: downstream |
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| drawshave | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawknife |
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| drive | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: ride |
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| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: driving |
| (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: driving force, thrust |
| (noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | - |
| (noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland | - |
| (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: parkway |
| (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: driveway, private road |
| (noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium | - |
| (noun) the trait of being highly motivated | - |
| (noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, get |
| (verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | - |
| (verb) (hunting) search for game | - |
| (verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling | - |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: force, ram |
| (verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force | - |
| (verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | - |
| (verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off | - |
| (verb) excavate horizontally | - |
| (verb) push, propel, or press with force | - |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse |
| (verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment | - |
| (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: motor |
| (verb) operate or control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) cause someone or something to move by driving | - |
| (verb) move by being propelled by a force | - |
| (verb) urge forward | - |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug |
| (verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly | - |
| (verb) work as a driver | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: ride |
| drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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| (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
| (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
| 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 | - |
| driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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| driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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| (adjective) acting with vigor | - |
| (noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
| drove | (noun) a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone | Synonyms: drove chisel |
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| (noun) a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together | - |
| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: horde, swarm |
| drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| duvet | (noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, eiderdown |
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| eaves | (noun) the overhang at the lower edge of a roof | - |
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| eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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| eavesdropper | (noun) a secret listener to private conversations | - |
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| echovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants | - |
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| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| educative | (adjective) resulting in education | - |
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| effective | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effectual, efficacious |
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| (adjective) existing in fact; not theoretical; real | - |
| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: efficient |
| (adjective) works well as a means or remedy | - |
| (adjective) ready for service | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: good, in effect, in force |
| effectively | (adverb) in actuality or reality or fact | Synonyms: in effect |
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| (adverb) in an effective manner | Synonyms: efficaciously |
| effectiveness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectivity, effectuality, effectualness |
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| (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: potency, strength |
| effectivity | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectuality, effectualness |
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| effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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| (noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| effluvium | (noun) a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) | - |
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| effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
| effusively | (adverb) in an effusive manner | - |
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| effusiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: expansiveness, expansivity |
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| eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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| eightvo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, octavo |
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| ejective | (noun) a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis. | Synonyms: ejective consonant |
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| elective | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elected |
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| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: facultative |
| (noun) a course that the student can select from among alternatives | Synonyms: elective course |
| electiveness | (noun) Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed. | Synonyms: optionality |
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| electromotive | (adjective) concerned with or producing electric current | - |
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| electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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| electronegativity | (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: negativity |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| elevated | (adjective) increased in amount or degree | Synonyms: raised |
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| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| (adjective) raised above the ground | - |
| (noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | Synonyms: el, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway |
| elevation | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, aggrandizement |
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| (noun) drawing of an exterior of a structure | - |
| (noun) distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level) | - |
| (noun) (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump | - |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: lift, raising |
| (noun) a raised or elevated geological formation | Synonyms: natural elevation |
| (noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, altitude, EL |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| elevator | (noun) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building | Synonyms: lift |
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| (noun) the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend | - |
| eleven | (adjective) being one more than ten | Synonyms: 11, xi |
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| (noun) a team that plays football | Synonyms: football team |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one | Synonyms: 11, XI |
| eleventh | (adjective) coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 11th |
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| (noun) position 11 in a countable series of things | - |
| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
| (adjective) difficult to describe | - |
| elusiveness | (noun) the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down | - |
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| elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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| (noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |