faction (n.)

• affiliation
• aggressiveness
• antagonism
• argumentation
• band
• battalion
• bellicosity
• belligerence
• bevy
• bickering
• bloc
• body
• branch
• brigade
• bunch
• cabal
• cadre
• camarilla
• camp
• cast
• caucus
• church
• circle
• clannishness
• clash
• clique
• cliquishness
• coalition
• cohort
• combativeness
• combine
• communion
• community
• company
• complement
• conflict
• contention
• contentiousness
• contingent
• contradiction
• controversy
• corps
• coterie
• covey
• crew
• crowd
• denomination
• denominationalism
• detachment
• detail
• difference
• disagreement
• discord
• discordance
• discrepancy
• disharmony
• disparity
• dissension
• dissent
• dissidence
• dissonance
• disunion
• disunity
• divergence
• diversity
• division
• exclusiveness
• fellowship
• flak
• fleet
• gang
• group
• grouping
• inequality
• interest
• intrigue
• irascibility
• irritability
• junta
• junto
• litigiousness
• lobby
• machine
• mob
• movement
• negation
• offshoot
• opposition
• order
• organization
• outfit
• pack
• part
• partiality
• partisanship
• party
• persuasion
• phalanx
• platoon
• posse
• pugnacity
• quarrelsomeness
• regiment
• repugnance
• rift
• ring
• rupture
• salon
• schism
• school
• sect
• sectarianism
• sectionalism
• sedition
• segment
• set
• shrewishness
• side
• society
• splinter
• split
• squad
• stable
• strife
• string
• team
• tribe
• troop
• troupe
• variance
• variety
• version
• wing