| deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
| deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
| deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
| (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
| (verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
| deviation | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviance |
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| (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion |
| (noun) the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances | - |
| (noun) the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function | - |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, difference, divergence |
| deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| device | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: gimmick, twist |
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| (noun) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | - |
| (noun) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry) | - |
| (noun) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) | - |
| (noun) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | - |
| devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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| devil | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, dickens |
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| (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, demon, fiend |
| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, fiend, monster, ogre |
| (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: heller, hellion |
| (verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| devilfish | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: manta, manta ray |
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| (noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: octopus |
| (noun) medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale |
| devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devilish | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: rascally, roguish |
| (adverb) in a playfully devilish manner | Synonyms: devilishly |
| devilishly | (adverb) in a playfully devilish manner | Synonyms: devilish |
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| (adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, insanely, madly |
| (adverb) as a devil; in an evil manner | Synonyms: diabolically, fiendishly |
| devilishness | (noun) The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil. | - |
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| devilize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| devilry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: deviltry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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| devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
| deviously | (adverb) in a devious manner | - |
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| deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
| devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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| devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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| (noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
| (verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
| devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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| deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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| devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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| devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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| devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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| devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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| devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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| devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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| devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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| (verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |