cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pobody's nerfect
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Humorous malapropism of nobody's perfect, coined in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: They may suggest the wearers’ tastes in companionships, such as I’m With Stupid, or, Pobody's Nerfect. Fashion, like T-shirts, inevitably communicates the mood of a unique era.
ref: 1979, 1979 LaGrange High School Yearbook, LaGrange, Georgia, United States: LaGrange High School, page 168:
text: A. J. circled around to sit next to him on the bench. Like Dave, he wore a bathing suita nd a colorful T-shirt, but A. J.’s shirt said, “Pobody’s Nerfect.”
ref: 1982, Scott Pinzon, Splendini!, Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Oh yes, the throttle is still wide open. You know the rest of this story (Fig. 4‒6). Oh well, pobody’s nerfect. This conclusdes my series of stories about airplanes flying the pilot.
ref: 1983, Everett Gentry, “5: Intentional Spins”, in All About Stalls & Spins, TAB Books, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Ah, jeez. Oh boy. Yikes. It seems the human culmination of American liberalism lost to a senile (alleged!) rapist game show host. Welp. Pobody’s nerfect, as the old saying goes.
ref: 2019 October 15, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, Will Menaker, Virgil Texas, “Libs”, in The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Spoonerism of nobody's perfect
unaddress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unaddresses
form: unaddressing
form: unaddressed
form: unaddressed
Etymology: From un- + address.
Senses: examples: text: The computer unaddresses the DVM as a listener, and remains a talker.
ref: 1992, Peter H. Sydenham, R. Thorn, Handbook of measurement science: Volume 3, Elements of change:
text: The function ibrd automatically addresses a device as a talker before the device sends data and unaddresses the device afterward.
ref: 1995, IEEE Proceedings of the Southeastcon:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To delete or forget the address of some entity.
unaddresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unaddress
unaddressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unaddress
slopehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slopeheads
Etymology: From slope + head.
Senses: examples: text: In an ethnically mixed police station, officers banter, and one Asian American uses the term "slopehead" to josh an Asian American officer along with comments about eating fishheads and dogs.
ref: 2002, Frederick R. Lynch, The Diversity Machine: The Drive to Change the "White Male Workplace":
text: He took two sticks of strawberry gum from the pack he'd just purchased, field-stripped and stuck them both into his mouth. I guess that's how they train noncommissioned officers to do it. "Yella Slopehead Pinkos kilt my brother in Nam," he said.
ref: 2004, Weber Studies - Volume 22
text: “All right, men,” admonished El Cid, “I want you all to go ahead and let some steam off, and you cocksmen with balls for brains go on if you must and get your nuts off with them slopehead bitches. But, by God, I want you all to remember this!
ref: 2011, Micheal Clodfelter, Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier's Memoir:
glosses: A person of East Asian ethnicity, particularly Vietnamese.
lugubriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lugubriates
form: lugubriating
form: lugubriated
form: lugubriated
Etymology: From lugubrious; see -ate.
Senses: glosses: To render, become, or be lugubrious.
examples: text: Such litanies of equilibrium in economics annually agitate the Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, and lugubriate in the worldly wisdom of such sages.
ref: 2011, John Mauldin, Just One Thing: Twelve of the World's Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can't Overlook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (unpaginated)
text: He who culminates his nature's wealth will ne'er lugubriate by stealth.
ref: 1882, Grip Print. & Publishing Company - Canada, Grip - Volume 18, A Political Novel of the Nineteenth Century - Pages 1-3
text: I've listened to Leonard Cohen lugubriate his erotic evasions, and to Van the Man rave on about the blues and Debussy, to Doc Cook, the Good Father of my college days, rhapsodize about Emerson's bare puddle vastations.
ref: 1999, Geraldine and Elizabeth Poline, Poet Lore - Volume 94, Poet-lore Company, page 43
glosses: To be the etiology of lugubriousness in general.
slopeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slopehead
grey night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey nights
form: gray night
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A night that does not become completely dark because the sun does not go further than 18° below the horizon.
gray night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray nights
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grey night.
battenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battenbergs
Senses: examples: text: When the prince married Princess Victoria (Queen Victoria’s granddaughter), the battenberg was their wedding cake.
ref: 2016 June 25, Claire Ptak, “Claire Ptak’s regal battenberg cake recipe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Battenberg (“Battenberg cake”).
startness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From start + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But startness is only what it is by virtue of the existence of not-startness, and vice-versa. That is, up is only up because our minds conceive of a down.
ref: 1977, Marco M. Pardi, Death: An Anthropological Perspective, page 46:
text: The button ignition was one of the best I’ve encountered (often they don’t respond quickly enough, and you end up pressing five times before you enter the state of stoppedness or startness you desired).
ref: 2016 June 25, Zoe Williams, “Toyota Prius car review - ‘I hurtled like a country driver in this goody-two-shoes of the road’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The condition of being started.
androstadienedione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although there are many microorganisms of different taxa, which are able to convert cholesterol or phytosterols to androstenedione, androstadienedione or other C19-steroids, the efficient microbial conversion of these substrates to pregnenolone has not been described so far.
ref: 2015 July 29, Adrian Gerber et al., “Functionalized PHB granules provide the basis for the efficient side-chain cleavage of cholesterol and analogs in recombinant Bacillus megaterium”, in Microbial Cell Factories, volume 14, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The prohormone androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione ((8R,9S,10R,13S,14S)-10,13-dimethyl-7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16-octahydro-6H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthrene-3,17-dione)
atypism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Category 1: mildly distorted glandular structures, branching villi and tubular crypt proliferation, mild nuclear and cellular atypism, and intact basement membrane; Category 2: moderately or severely distorted glandular structures with branching villi, severe nuclear and cellular atypism, increased mitotic figures, increased atypical mucous retention, and intact basement membrane; Category 3: evident infiltration of tumor cell nests with tumor stromal induction, increased mitotic figures, penetration of the basement membrane, and invasion of the lamina propria or muscularis mucosae.
ref: 2015 July 28, Masayuki Tsuneki et al., “Mieap suppresses murine intestinal tumor via its mitochondrial quality control”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of atypia.
synonyms: word: atypia
avicelase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: G. neo-japonicum showed strong β-glucosidase and avicelase activities and moderate ligninase activity.
ref: 2015 July 27, Wee-Cheat Tan et al., “Ganoderma neo-japonicum Imazeki revisited: Domestication study and antioxidant properties of its basidiocarps and mycelia”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: A form of cellulase
backgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backgates
form: back-gate
Etymology: From back + gate.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gate that supplies a negative voltage.
glosses: Alternative form of back gate.
examples: text: You were a nicelooking Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the thing across the bed as Mrs Dandrade about to be violated by lieutenant Smythe-Smythe, […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: back door
glosses: The anus.
Derived terms: backgated
backgates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By deconvoluting carrier mobility and density from non-contact terahertz spectroscopic measurements of conductance in graphene samples with terahertz-transparent backgates, we are able to present maps of the spatial variation of both quantities over large areas.
ref: 2015 July 24, Jonas D. Buron et al., “Graphene mobility mapping”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: plural of backgate
bioarray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioarrays
Etymology: From bio- + array.
Senses: examples: text: The extension products were purified and transferred to the 384-element SpectroCHIP bioarray.
ref: 2015 July 24, YongPing Chen et al., “Genetic Variants of SNCA Are Associated with Susceptibility to Parkinson’s Disease but Not Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Multiple System Atrophy in a Chinese Population”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: An array of biological or biochemical components or cells
caveoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their close and alternating association with caveoli on the plasma membrane, and direct association with cytoskeletal and regulatory proteins, has led to numerous hypotheses suggesting multiple roles in regulating the generation of force in SM.
ref: 2015 July 24, John F. LaDisa et al., “Gene Expression in Experimental Aortic Coarctation and Repair: Candidate Genes for Therapeutic Intervention?”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of caveolae.
creatinkinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creatinkinases
Etymology: From creatine + kinase.
Senses: examples: text: Pre-specified secondary endpoints included the delta in the serum creatinkinase (total and MB fraction) during the same observational period, and the correlation between the delta hsTnT levels and the procedure time, the number of intra-operative lead repositionings, the underlying cardiac disease and the left ventricular ejection fraction.
ref: 2015 July 24, Verena Semmler et al., “ICD Shock, Not Ventricular Fibrillation, Causes Elevation of High Sensitive Troponin T after Defibrillation Threshold Testing—The Prospective, Randomized, Multicentre TropShock-Trial”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: creatine kinase
dimethacrylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethacrylates
Etymology: From di- + methacrylate.
Senses: examples: text: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of different pH solutions on the solubility and wear resistance of Silorane and dimethacrylate resin based composite restorative materials.
ref: 2015, Tarek A Soliman et al., “In Vitro Solubility and Wear Rates of Silorane and Dimethacrylate Resin Based Composite Restorative Materials under Different pH Conditions”, in Journal of International Oral Health : JIOH, volume 7:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing two methacrylate groups
dimethacrylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimethacrylate
discontinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These values have been reached under simple discontinous shake-flask cultivation and already exceed the pregnenolone concentration described for high-cell density cultivation of recombinant S. cerevisae (~60 µM 48 h −1 ; [ 6 ]).
ref: 2015 July 29, Adrian Gerber et al., “Functionalized PHB granules provide the basis for the efficient side-chain cleavage of cholesterol and analogs in recombinant Bacillus megaterium”, in Microbial Cell Factories, volume 14, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of discontinuous.
endosecretory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + secretory.
Senses: examples: text: We investigated if plasma levels of carboxymethyl-lysine, S100A12 and endosecretory RAGE (esRAGE) were associated with two endpoints: survival without development of PAD and survival without amputation in a 12 years prospective population-based cohort of 146 patients with type 2 diabetes, free from PAD at inclusion.
ref: 2015 July 28, Jonas Malmstedt et al., “The receptor for advanced glycation end products and risk of peripheral arterial disease, amputation or death in type 2 diabetes: a population-based cohort study”, in Cardiovascular Diabetology, volume 14, →DOI:
glosses: That secretes internally; but especially, relating to endocrine secretion
well-put
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-put
form: most well-put
Senses: glosses: Of a point, argument, etc.: skillfully phrased.
enterodial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The serum level of intestinal microbial derived SDG metabolites enterodial and enterolactone have inversed association with breast cancer when studies were conducted on 508 breast cancer women cases.
ref: 2015 July 28, Muhammad Imran et al., “Potential protective properties of flax lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside”, in Nutrition Journal, volume 14, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of enterodiol.
eosinopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eosinopenia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Of these, 12 (27.27%) were eosinopenic and 4 (7.6%) were noneosinopenic (p = 0.006).
ref: 2015, Mohammad Hossein RAHIMI-RAD et al., “Eosinopenia as a Marker of Outcome in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease”, in Mædica, volume 10:
glosses: Characterised by eosinopenia
Derived terms: noneosinopenic
noneosinopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + eosinopenic.
Senses: examples: text: Of these, 12 (27.27%) were eosinopenic and 4 (7.6%) were noneosinopenic (p = 0.006).
ref: 2015, Mohammad Hossein RAHIMI-RAD et al., “Eosinopenia as a Marker of Outcome in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease”, in Mædica, volume 10:
glosses: Not eosinopenic
Western Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
coordinate_terms: Eastern Christian
glosses: Of or pertaining to Western Christianity.
Western Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Western Christians
Senses: examples: text: Yet there is inadequate understanding among Western Christians of their own native cultural context.
ref: 2001, Paul Spickard, Kevin M. Cragg, Gordon William Carlson, A Global History of Christians: How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World, page 343:
text: Theological squabbles had begun to affect denominational mission boards by the early 1920s, but among advocates of missions to Muslims, older models assuring Western Christians of Islam's eventual collapse remained dominant.
ref: 2009, Thomas S. Kidd, American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism, page 75:
text: To the east of Christendom lay another Christian society, one that Western Christians regarded as heretical. The Orthodox, sometimes called the Eastern Orthodox, Church did not recognize the authority of the pope, as Western Christians did.
ref: 2013, Michael Burger, The Shaping of Western Civilization, unnumbered page:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
coordinate_terms: Eastern Christian
glosses: An adherent of any form of Western Christianity; a member of a society based on Western Christianity.
Western Christians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Western Christian
extraorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extra- + orally or extraoral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: DM using calipers is recommended either intraorally or extraorally on a study model. 11 This study there was a slight increase of 0.5 mm in CBCT measurements compared to DMs.
ref: 2015, G S Amarnath et al., “Comparison of Cone Beam Computed Tomography, Orthopantomography with Direct Ridge Mapping for Pre-Surgical Planning to Place Implants in Cadaveric Mandibles: An Ex-Vivo Study”, in Journal of International Oral Health : JIOH, volume 7:
glosses: Outside of the mouth
gastrograffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He was initially diagnosed with distal intestinal obstruction syndrome (DIOS) and started on laxatives and gastrograffin.
ref: 2013 July 29, Mohammed Jawad et al., “Intestinal obstruction secondary to adhesions in an infant with cystic fibrosis”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of gastrografin.
gastrografin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular iodinated radiopaque contrast medium
genechip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genechips
form: gene chip
Etymology: From gene + chip.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A microarray used in analysing genomes.
genechips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Doronin and co-workers used genechips to establish a link between coagulation factor X (FX), a co-receptor of human Ad, and the activation of the innate response in vivo by group C HAd [ 24 ].
ref: 2015 July 24, Stefania Piersanti et al., “Transcriptional Response of Human Neurospheres to Helper-Dependent CAV-2 Vectors Involves the Modulation of DNA Damage Response, Microtubule and Centromere Gene Groups”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:
glosses: plural of genechip
genoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genoprotective
form: most genoprotective
Etymology: From geno- + protective.
Senses: examples: text: On-going studies show that G. neo-japonicum exhibited genoprotective and anti-inflammatory properties (unpublished data).
ref: 2015 July 27, Wee-Cheat Tan et al., “Ganoderma neo-japonicum Imazeki revisited: Domestication study and antioxidant properties of its basidiocarps and mycelia”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:
glosses: That protects against genetic damage
hamartomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hamartoma + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, Lymphangiomas are congenital malformations of the lymphatic system due to hamartomatosis.
ref: 2015, Ayse Serap Karadag et al., “Two cases of lymphangioma circumscriptum successfully treated with pulsed dye laser and cryotherapy”, in Indian Dermatology Online Journal, volume 6, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of hamartomas
hemihepatectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemihepatectomies
Etymology: From hemi- + hepatectomy.
Senses: examples: text: The majority (90.1 %) of patients required a hemihepatectomy, extended resection, or multiple segmental resection.
ref: 2015 July 29, Eunmi Gil et al., “Predictors and patterns of recurrence after curative liver resection in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, for application of postoperative radiotherapy: a retrospective study”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology, volume 13, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of approximately half of the liver tissue
hydroxyalkanoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It accepts coenzyme A thioesters of hydroxyalkanoic acids (HA) as substrates and catalyzes the polymerization of HAs into PHA while simultaneously releasing CoA.
ref: 2015 July 29, Adrian Gerber et al., “Functionalized PHB granules provide the basis for the efficient side-chain cleavage of cholesterol and analogs in recombinant Bacillus megaterium”, in Microbial Cell Factories, volume 14, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing alkanoic acids that have one of more hydroxy substituents
Derived terms: polyhydroxyalkanoic
immunocorrection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + correction.
Senses: examples: text: This TH2-type dysfunction in bronchial asthma inclines to use immunocorrection that can be achieved with probiotics based on gram - positive microorganisms [ 7, 38 ].
ref: 2015 July 14, Rostyslav V. Bubnov et al., “Probiotics and immunity: provisional role for personalized diets and disease prevention”, in The EPMA Journal, volume 6, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The correction of immunological disorders
ploughpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploughpans
form: plowpan
Etymology: From plough + pan.
Senses: glosses: A compacted layer of soil resulting from the use of ploughs or similar equipment.
plowpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plowpans
Etymology: From plow + pan.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ploughpan.
ploughpans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ploughpan
plowpans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plowpan
academented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more academented
form: most academented
Etymology: Blend of academic + demented
Senses: examples: text: A woman who chooses to be a philosopher creating in her own right has little tolerance for the droning of academented professors who re-search and re-gurgitate the babble of dead men endlessly.
ref: 1995, Ilene Rosoff, The WomanSource Catalog & Review:
text: […] You are killing me with your academented stupidity." To her, the postmodern emphasis on cultural difference and the sociocultural construction of the self obscure the universal sameness and evil of patriarchy.
ref: 1997, Gary J. Dorrien, The Word as True Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology, page 216:
text: The patriarchal device of con-fusion involves endless blurring of soulless images, signifying nothing. In the foreground, barbie dolls and the Great Goddess are the same. "Feminists" are lauded in the media and academented publications for accepting and promoting pornography.
ref: 1998, Mary Daly, Quintessence:
glosses: Representing wrong or harmful views or beliefs that are generally accepted in academia.
Related terms: academentia
snool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snools
Etymology: Contraction of snivel. Compare drool, from drivel.
Senses: glosses: An abject, cowardly person who submits tamely to others.
snool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snools
form: snooling
form: snooled
form: snooled
Etymology: Contraction of snivel. Compare drool, from drivel.
Senses: glosses: To submit tamely to others.
snools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snool
numericalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numericalization
manders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mander
mandered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mander
mandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mander
medullitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From medulla + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Inflammation of marrow, either bone marrow (osteomyelitis) or the spinal cord (myelitis).
medisection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medisections
Senses: glosses: surgical incision in the median line
medisections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medisection
medisect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medisects
form: medisecting
form: medisected
form: medisected
Senses: glosses: To incise in the median line; to perform a medisection of.
medisected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of medisect
medisects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of medisect
medisecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of medisect
melanogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanogens
Etymology: From melano- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: A chromogen in urine which is converted into melanin.
groady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊdi/
rhymes: -əʊdi
Forms: form: more groady
form: most groady
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grody.
melanosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being melanous; darkness of complexion.
melanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melanous
form: most melanous
Etymology: From melano- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having a dark complexion.
melanurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From melanuria + -in.
Senses: glosses: A dark pigment found in the urine in cases of melanuria.
menolipsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Temporary cessation of menstruation; amenorrhoea.
menoplania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: abnormal menstruation; menoxenia
mercurialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercurializations
Etymology: From mercurial + -ization.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A treatment with the metal mercury (now known to be toxic).
mercurializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercurialization
merogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mero- + genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: reproduction by segmentation
Related terms: merogenous
mesencephal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mesencephalon.
synonyms: word: mesencephalon
mesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of meson (the mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves)
synonyms: word: meson
extra: the mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves
Related terms: mesial
mesoduodenum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoduodena
Etymology: From meso- + duodenum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The mesentery of the duodenum.
Related terms: mesoduodenal
mesoduodena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoduodenum
mesoduodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + duodenal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the mesoduodenum.
metacresol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacresols
Etymology: From meta- + cresol.
Senses: glosses: One of the three isomeric cresols: a liquid derivative of coal tar, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
metacresols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacresol
metachromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Staining in a tint different from that of the stain being used.
metagaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + gaster.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The secondary and permanent intestinal canal in the embryo, derived from the protogaster.
metagastrula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + gastrula.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A gastrula with a cleavage differing from that of the standard type.
Morgan's canon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proposed by the 19th-century British psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan.
Senses: topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
zoology
glosses: A fundamental precept of comparative animal psychology, stating that an animal's activity should not be interpreted in terms of higher psychological processes if it can be fairly interpreted in terms of simpler developmental processes.
metaplasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Metaplasia: the conversion of one type of tissue into another.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Fulfilled growth and development seen in the stage between anaplasis and cataplasis.
metasyncrisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The elimination of waste or morbid matter, as by the pores, as part of a regenerative process.
tapinocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tapinocephalic
form: most tapinocephalic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tapeinocephalic.
tapeinocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tapeinocephalic
form: most tapeinocephalic
form: tapinocephalic
Etymology: From tapeinocephaly + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to tapeinocephaly.
tapeinocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapinocephaly
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A flattening of the skull.
Related terms: tapeinocephalic
tapinocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tapeinocephaly.
tectocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tecto- + cephalic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of scaphocephalic.
synonyms: word: scaphocephalic
telergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + -ergy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: automatism
telergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From telergy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to telergy.
temporal muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporal muscles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of temporalis.
synonyms: word: temporalis
temporal muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporal muscle
temporo-occipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of temporooccipital.
temporoccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪpɪtəl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of temporooccipital.
tenectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of tenonectomy.
synonyms: word: tenonectomy
tenectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenectomy
tenderor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderors
Etymology: From tender + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tenderer.
tenderors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderor
tenderee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderees
Etymology: From tender + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One to whom an offer or contract is tendered. It is the person, group of people, company or institution who has work they need to be done. They will tender this work out for tenderers to bid for.
tenderees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderee
termatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the termatic artery
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the terma.
tetanigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing tetanus or tetaniform spasms.
low-carber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-carbers
Etymology: From low-carb + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who follows a diet that is low in carbohydrates.
low-carbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low-carber
slave clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave clocks
Senses: examples: text: Special details of the new station are the crystal-regulated master clock in the concourse, which controls 11 "slave" clocks and will also control those to be installed in the Harlow Mill goods depot; [...].
ref: 1960 September, M. J. Wilson, “Harlow Town station opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 542:
glosses: A clock that is synchronised by a master clock.
sneakish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsniːkɪʃ/
Forms: form: more sneakish
form: most sneakish
Etymology: From sneak + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: But her sneakish qualities, if they really existed, were generally hidden, and she was very clever at thinking of new games, and very kind if you got into a row over anything.
ref: 1912, E. Nesbit, “Kenneth and the Carp”, in The Magic World:
text: […] it was only afterward that we could connive in a sneakish way at his escape.
ref: 1922, G. K. Chesterton, “The Vanishing Prince”, in The Man Who Knew Too Much:
glosses: Somewhat sneaky.
Derived terms: sneakishly
sneakishness
sneakishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sneakishly
form: most sneakishly
Etymology: From sneakish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] when men come together to profess a creed, they come courageously, though it is to hide in catacombs and caves. But when they come together in a clique they come sneakishly, eschewing all change or disagreement, though it is to dine to a brass band in a big London hotel.
ref: 1912, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sectarian of Society”, in A Miscellany of Men:
glosses: In a sneakish manner.
slave clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slave clock
panesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panaesthesia
Etymology: From pan- + -esthesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Everything that is felt by a person at one time; totality of sensation.
glosses: Common sensation, as distinct from special sensations or sense perceptions.
Northernness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From northern + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Pure "Northernness" engulfed me: a vision of huge, clear spaces hanging above the Atlantic in the endless twilight of Northern summer, remoteness, severity…and almost at the same moment I knew that I had met this before, long, long ago.
ref: 1955, C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Geoffrey Bles:
glosses: A fascination with the northern lands of Britain and Scandinavia, but also a sense of longing for an unattainable, imaginary world.
panaesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + -aesthesia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panesthesia.
paracresol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + cresol.
Senses: glosses: One of the three isomeric forms or recognized varieties of cresol.
corkscrew stake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corkscrew stakes
Senses: examples: text: So far we had done nothing except file past a tool-dump, where men had collected picks, shovels, coils of wire and corkscrew stakes.
ref: 1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 337 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A steel stake, used for barbed-wire defences, the lower half of which is corkscrew-shaped, to enable it to be screwed into the ground.
Synonyms: screw picket
paraderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The part of the vitellus of the ovum that furnishes cells which contribute to the body of the embryo.
paragraphia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + -graphia.
Senses: glosses: A language disorder in which the patient writes one word in place of another.
parakinesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parakinesis.
synonyms: word: parakinesis
screw picket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw pickets
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A steel stake, used for barbed-wire defences, the lower half of which is corkscrew shaped, to enable it to be screwed into the ground.
Synonyms: corkscrew stake
screw pickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screw picket
corkscrew stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corkscrew stake
parakinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + -kinesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The incorporation of a choreic or involuntary movement into a voluntary one
glosses: A supposed paranormal phenomenon in which the relatively small force imparted to an object is not sufficient to explain the degree of resulting movement
Related terms: parakinetic
paralalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈleɪliə/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈleɪliə/
Etymology: From para- + -lalia.
Senses: glosses: Disturbance of the faculty of speech.
Related terms: paralalia literalis
paralexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralexias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A language disorder in which the words or syllables of a text being read are transposed into meaningless combinations
Derived terms: hemiparalexia
Related terms: paralexic
Eberth's bacillus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eberth's bacilli
Etymology: It was described in 1880 by Karl Joseph Eberth. The pathogen of typhoid fever, it has since been renamed Salmonella typhi.
Senses: glosses: The bacillus Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica, the cause of typhoid.
Eberth's bacilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eberth's bacillus
boxer engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxer engines
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An engine with two horizontally opposed cylinder banks, commonly used in Porsche and Subaru automobiles.
Related terms: english: opposed piston, opposed cylinder
translation: opposed piston, opposed cylinder
word: OPOC
so crazy it might just work
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of so crazy it just might work.
Bramen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bramens
Senses: examples: text: The Bramens have also serpents in great veneration.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 39:
glosses: Obsolete form of brahmin.
hordocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hordock
metagraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metagraphy
Eevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eevolutions
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Eevolution.
glosses: Alternative form of Eeveelution.
astronav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: The story of its development through past ages to the present epoch, when the perfected methods of astronav are being cast aside for more accurate electronic methods of navigation, is a story that surely can never fail to excite the student of the history of science.
ref: 1968, Charles H. Cotter, A History of Nautical Astronomy, page 31:
text: “Astronav? Are you serious? He can barely find his way through the normal physical universe, much less chart a path through warp space. Put him at conn, and you will crash while still in dry dock.”
ref: 1993, Peter David, Worf's First Adventure:
text: While on a double date in the Galactica's astronav post, a “celestial chamber” used by spacefarers in the ancient days of cosmic flight, Apollo, Sheba, Starbuck and Cassiopeia detect a signal on an unused gamma frequency.
ref: 2005, John Kenneth Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica, page 114:
glosses: astronavigation
stotters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stotter
stottered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stotter
stottering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stotter
four-wheel-drive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: four-wheel drive when used as an attributive adjective.
tetanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of more or less continuous muscular hypertonicity sometimes seen in young infants.
Related terms: tetanus
thamuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Frequent urination.
thecitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theca + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the sheath of a tendon
theic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theics
Senses: examples: text: The price at which the average consumer will react adversely is not yet known, and it would be folly to judge by the conduct of the British theics.
ref: 1958, Baditha Srinivasa Rao, Surveys of Indian industries, volume 2, page 111:
text: Wine and spirits topped the drink list, with tea a close second. Bairnsdale's contribution — as wine-bibbers, whisky-tipplers, or theics — to these enlightening statistics is not known.
ref: 1977, Hal Porter, Bairnsdale: Portrait of an Australian Country Town, page 173:
glosses: One who drinks excessive amounts of tea.
theics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theic
feminonucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feminonuclei
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The female pronucleus.
Synonyms: thelyblast
Coordinate terms: masculonucleus
feminonuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feminonucleus
therapeusis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: therapeuses
Senses: examples: text: In pyorrhæa alveolaris a great step forward has been reached in the therapeuses by use of the ethereal preparations of pyrozone, especially the pyrozone 5 per cent. solution.
ref: 1893, Dominion Dental Journal, volume 5, page 229:
glosses: therapeutics; therapy
thenad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thenar + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: This articulation of the metacarpal bone of the thumb is luxated either thenad or anconad of the os trapezium; when thenad, there is a prominence in the palm of the hand, the finger is extended anconad, and cannot be inflected thenad; when luxated anconad, there is a projection on the anconal aspect of the wrist, the thumb is inflected thenad, and cannot be extended.
ref: 1823, John Lizars, A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, volume 1:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Toward the outer side of the palm of the hand.
theriatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “wild beast”) + ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”).
Senses: glosses: The science of medicine involving animals such as veterinary medicine or the treatment of animal bites.
thermatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The branch of therapeutics dealing with the application of heat; thermotherapy.
thermatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to thermatology.
psychoenergetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From psychoenergetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of psychoenergetics.
psychotronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From psychotronic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, psychotronics.
tyroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyromata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τυρός (turós, “cheese”) + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tumor caused by caseation of the lymphatic glands.
examples: text: Oil is important for the hair. It is like the food for it. It makes hair thick and saves from tyroma.
ref: 2004, Arti Mishra, Women in Slums: Impact of Environmental Pollution, page 103:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of tyriasis (“the falling out of the hair”).
synonyms: word: tyriasis
extra: the falling out of the hair
tyromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyroma
typholysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hemolysin involved in cholera.
tyrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τυρός (turós, “cheese”) + -osis.
Senses: glosses: The curdling of milk.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Caseation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tyremesis.
tyremesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τυρός (turós, “cheese”) + emesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The vomiting of curd-like matter, especially by infants.
Synonyms: tyrosis
typhlosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: blindness
typhization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From typhus + -ization.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: infection with typhus or typhoid fever
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: preventive inoculation with typhoid vaccine
typembryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of type + embryonic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the typembryo.
typembryo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typembryos
Etymology: Blend of type + embryo
Senses: glosses: An embryo in the stage of development at which the characteristics of the type to which it belongs may be seen.
Related terms: typembryonic
typembryos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typembryo
tibiad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tibio- + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Toward the tibia.
thyrotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thyro- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Marked by toxic activity of the thyroid gland.
thyroprival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Senses: examples: text: The formative elements of cartilage, bone cementum and dentin in the thyroprival state maintained a depressed activity leading to the obliteration of the marrow spaces and a narrowing of the periodontal and pulpal lumens.
ref: 1953, The Journal of the American Dental Association, volume 47, page 379:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Due to loss of function or removal of the thyroid gland.
Related terms: privative
monastery cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monastery cheeses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Trappist cheese.
synonyms: word: Trappist cheese
monastery cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monastery cheese
Trappist cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trappist cheeses
Etymology: Originated among medieval monastic orders.
Senses: glosses: Any of various semisoft cheeses made with cows' milk.
Synonyms: monastery cheese
Trappist cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trappist cheese
yidams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yidam
whirlpooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whirlpool
methaemoglobinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of methemoglobinuria.
methemoglobinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methaemoglobinuria
Etymology: From methemoglobin + -uria.
Senses: glosses: The occurrence of methemoglobin in the urine.
Derived terms: methemoglobinuric
methemoglobinuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From methemoglobinuria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to methemoglobinuria.
methaemoglobinuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of methemoglobinuric.
methomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) + -mania.
Senses: glosses: alcoholism
microbacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbacteria
Etymology: From micro- + bacterium.
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the Microbacterium genus.
microbacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + bacterial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microbacteria.
Derived terms: polymicrobacterial
ultramicrobacterial