cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
enshadow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enshadows
form: enshadowing
form: enshadowed
form: enshadowed
Etymology: From en- + shadow.
Senses: examples: text: Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings […]
ref: 1910, E. M. Forster, Howards End:
text: One of the most pervasive of these images is that of a great enshadowing tree which is personified, a great mother who binds all living things together in the manifold embrace of her leaves and branches.
ref: 2005, Joseph Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys, The J. Hillis Miller Reader, page 172:
glosses: To cover with a shadow.
enshadows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enshadow
enshadowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enshadow
enshadowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enshadow
beanfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːnfɪəld/
Forms: form: beanfields
Etymology: From bean + field.
Senses: glosses: A field where beans are grown.
beanfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beanfield
mileages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mileage
unrouged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rouged.
Senses: examples: text: Further aloft reigns Mère Duchesse with her unrouged Amazons; […]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age), page 143:
glosses: Not rouged.
workwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From work + wise.
Senses: examples: text: And the next day was just as bad, workwise, although this time Tom was free and had left a message for her to meet him that evening.
ref: 2013, Betty Neels, The Silver Thaw, page 88:
glosses: In terms of work.
examples: a T-rail placed workwise, i.e. resting on its base
glosses: In a position so that it can be worked upon.
Synonyms: sense: in a position so that it can be worked upon
word: workways
cowtowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowtown
stableful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stablefuls
form: stablesful
Etymology: From stable + -ful.
Senses: glosses: The amount that fills a stable.
stablesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stableful
stablefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stableful
ultrasophisticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrasophisticated
form: most ultrasophisticated
Etymology: From ultra- + sophisticated.
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing so terrifying or so awe-inspiring as the unknown. The more mysterious the phenomenon, the more feared on the one hand, or the more respected on the other. This truism survives even in these modern ultra-sophisticated days.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 8:
glosses: extremely sophisticated
semireligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + religious.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat religious.
postdivorce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + divorce.
Senses: glosses: After divorce.
remotenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remoteness
sacredest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As recorded on video by a New Yorker reporter, a police officer urged the men to step away from “the sacredest place” in the Capitol.
ref: 2021, cited in: Spencer S. Hsu, ‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley, face of pro-Trump Capitol riot, pleads guilty to felony, in: The Washington Post, September 3 2021
glosses: superlative form of sacred: most sacred
savagest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of savage: most savage
haybarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haybarns
Etymology: From Middle English heybarn, heybern; equivalent to hay + barn.
Senses: glosses: A barn where hay is stored.
haybarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haybarn
unornamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more unornamental
form: most unornamental
Etymology: From un- + ornamental.
Senses: examples: text: I should ask that I might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here; that I might be regarded as a useless (and I would add, if it were not for the resemblance I detected between you and me, an unornamental) piece of furniture, tolerated for its old service, and taken no notice of.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not ornamental.
bladers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blader
warmths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warmth
quasimilitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + military.
Senses: glosses: Having certain military aspects.
ruddered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rudder + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a rudder or rudders.
Derived terms: unruddered
irresponsibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irresponsibility
semistarvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + starvation.
Senses: glosses: A state of partial starvation.
contestatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contestatory
form: most contestatory
Senses: examples: text: It is one thing to compare the claims that can be made for cinema as a homogeneous and homogenizing, versus a heterogeneous institution, and another thing to valorize heterogeneity as necessarily contestatory.
ref: 2002, Judith Mayne, Cinema and Spectatorship, page 80:
glosses: Serving to contest something.
copytext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copytexts
Etymology: From copy + text.
Senses: glosses: An edited copy of an original text.
copytexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copytext
revolters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revolter
manipulativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manipulative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being manipulative.
betweenwhiles
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From between + whiles.
Senses: glosses: from time to time; now and again
feedbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedboxes
Etymology: From feed + box.
Senses: examples: text: Gardner's studies revealed that a horse could learn to choose a feedbox covered with black cloth and containing food instead of two empty feedboxes.
ref: 2011, Katherine A. Houpt, Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists:
glosses: A box containing animal feed.
feedboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedbox
carrotty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carrotty
form: most carrotty
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carroty.
prophecying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prophecy
prophecying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prophecyings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prophesying.
prophecied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prophecy
pitchback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitchbacks
Etymology: From pitch + back.
Senses: glosses: A backshot water wheel.
pitchbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitchback
breastshot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From breast + shot.
Senses: glosses: Vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it.
raw_tags: of a water wheel
Related terms: backshot
overshot
bottlecap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlecaps
Etymology: From bottle + cap.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bottle cap.
bottlecaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottlecap
bottlewasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlewashers
form: bottle washer
Etymology: From bottle + washer.
Senses: coordinate_terms: dishwasher
glosses: A machine (or, rarely, a person) that washes bottles.
examples: text: The damned bottle-washers stood about listening with their mouths stretched from ear to ear.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page 47:
glosses: A general factotum.
Derived terms: chief cook and bottle washer
head cook and bottle washer
dark flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark flows
Etymology: From dark (“hidden”) + flow. From the motion of galaxy clusters due to a hidden influence, possibly from beyond the horizon of the observable universe.
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: A possible non-random component of the peculiar velocity of galaxy clusters.
Related terms: axis of evil
dark matter
dark energy
dark sector
Hubble flow
dark flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dark (“sinister”) + flow (“state of focus”).
Senses: examples: text: We propose that players who experience dark flow have difficulty staying on task in everyday life, but, the reinforcing sights and sounds of slot machines rein in these otherwise wandering minds and induce these flow-like states
ref: 2019, Mike J. Dixon, Jeffrey Gutierrez, Madison Stange, Chanel J. Larche, Candice Graydon, Sonia Vintan, Tyler B. Kruger, “Mindfulness Problems and Depression Symptoms in Everyday Life Predict Dark Flow During Slots Play: Implications for Gambling as a Form of Escape”, in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, →DOI:
topics: gambling
games
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A state of flow experienced in gambling, especially by slot machine players; a state of intense focus and absorption on gambling.
midflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + flow.
Senses: examples: text: Such a narrow technical focus is a considerable advantage to performers, who might need to negotiate and deliver complex shifts in thought and emotion without losing momentum in midflow, so to speak.
ref: 2010, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Fernando Cioni, Jacquelyn Bessell, Speaking Pictures, page 190:
glosses: A point in time during flow or fluency.
gimmickiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gimmicky: most gimmicky
gimmickiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gimmicky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being gimmicky.
clubwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubwomen
Etymology: From club + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who is a member of a club.
clubwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubwoman
sonarman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonarmen
Etymology: From sonar + -man.
Senses: glosses: One who operates and repairs sonar equipment.
sonarmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonarman
lightkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: lītʹkē'pər
Forms: form: lightkeepers
form: light-keeper
Etymology: From light (noun) + keeper (noun).
Senses: glosses: The person who has charge of the light in a lighthouse or lightship.
Synonyms: lighthouse keeper
lighthousekeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lighthousekeeper
lightkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightkeeper
chimneypot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimneypots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chimney pot.
chimneypots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimneypot
sweathouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweathouses
Etymology: From sweat + house.
Senses: glosses: sweat lodge
sweathouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweathouse
vagabone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vagabones
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of vagabond.
vagabones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vagabone
sombreroed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sombrero'ed
form: sombrero-ed
form: sombrero'd
Etymology: From sombrero + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a sombrero.
upness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From up + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As well as encouraging externalization of mystery, male genitalization seems to encourage men to prize the qualities of hardness, upness, and linearity.
ref: 1988, James B. Nelson, The Intimate Connection: Male Sexuality, Masculine Spirituality:
text: Sometimes ups, to smarten up, ask downs to come into a program created by ups to explain and justify their downness. The ups call this "human relations training." Of course, ups never have to explain their upness; that is why they are ups.
ref: 1996, Benjamin Bowser, Raymond G. Hunt, Impacts of Racism on White Americans:
qualifier: literal and figurative
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being up
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The property of being an up quark.
Related terms: fed-upness
grown-upness
made-upness
messed-upness
curvacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curvacious
form: most curvacious
Senses: examples: text: Desperate Housewives: If you’ve ever envied Eva Longoria and all of her curvacious glory, what’s to stop you and your roommates from enjoying Halloween as these middle-aged vixens? Go ahead and throw together some very desperate and very housewivish ensembles.
ref: 2005 October 25, Laura Klebanow, “Halloween’s Cheap, Easy Fashion Show”, in The Greyhound, volume 79, number 7, Baltimore, Md.: Loyola University Maryland, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of curvaceous.
datalink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datalinks
Etymology: From data + link.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The protocol layer that transfers data between adjacent network nodes in a wide area network or between nodes on the same local area network segment.
datalinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datalink
timeclock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timeclocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time clock.
time recorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time recorders
Senses: glosses: time clock
timeclocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timeclock
time recorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time recorder
harnessmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harnessmakers
Etymology: From harness + maker.
Senses: glosses: A maker of harnesses and similar equipment for horses.
harnessmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harnessmaker
cowpunching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cow + punching.
Senses: glosses: The work of a cowpuncher, or cowboy.
ownsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ownsome
form: most ownsome
Etymology: From own + -some. Apparent noun use is due to ellipsis.
Senses: examples: text: Ranging somebody else's ownsome ground,
Lacking somebody else's thrill,
Haunting somebody else's too profound,
Just a-ghosting for somebody else!
ref: 1939, Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Poetry, volumes 53-54, page 110:
text: I was doin' what I had to do to save my cares, those that still breathed, and if this cost me my ownsome life, well, that was the price that I had to pay.
ref: 2010, Ardath Mayhar, Robert Reginald, Slaughterhouse World, page 192:
text: This mother-diction engenders the mother-language as such (and therefore the ownsome wyrd of a manhood) in that it firmly hands over the speaking of that language unto its wyrdly biding as a say of en-owning.
ref: 2014, Ivo De Gennaro, The Weirdness of Being:
text: The second joy that Mary had,
It was the joy of two,
To see her ownsome Jesus
To make the lame to go.
ref: 2016, B. Spurr, See the Virgin Blest: The Virgin Mary in English Poetry, page 61:
glosses: Marked by possession, ownership, or belonging; proper.
ownsome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ownsomes
Etymology: From own + -some. Apparent noun use is due to ellipsis.
Senses: examples: text: Am I going to have to go there on my ownsome?
text: Nelson Lavin had been a month at home on his ownsome watching Judge Judy at five in the morning.
ref: 2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: One's own; one's lonesome.
ownsomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ownsome
aisleways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aisleway
housemistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housemistresses
Etymology: From house + mistress.
Senses: glosses: female housemaster
housemistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housemistress
flashlamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashlamps
Etymology: From flash + lamp.
Senses: glosses: A kind of lamp that uses an electric current to start powder burning and produce a brief sudden burst of bright light. It was formerly used in flash photography.
flashlamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flashlamp
unrestful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrestful
form: most unrestful
Etymology: From un- + restful.
Senses: glosses: Not restful.
bolsheviks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolshevik
unapproachableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unapproachable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being unapproachable.
reinscription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinscriptions
Etymology: From re- + inscription.
Senses: examples: text: Skateboarding’s simultaneous challenge to and reinscription of dominant masculinities.
ref: 2009, Emily Chivers Yochim, Skate Life, page 111:
glosses: The act of reinscribing.
reinscriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinscription
partonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partonomies
Etymology: From part + -o- + -nomy.
Senses: glosses: meronomy
glosses: nomenclature of body parts, or the partition of the body into body parts
Derived terms: partonomic
partonomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partonomy
meronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meronomies
Etymology: From mero- + -nomy.
Senses: glosses: A hierarchy that deals with part–whole relationships rather than the discrete sets of a taxonomy.
Synonyms: partonomy
meronomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meronomy
communings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of communing
unzippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unzipping
dyeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyeing
squeakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squeaking
unmiscegenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + miscegenated.
Senses: glosses: Not miscegenated.
clatterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clattering
splutterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spluttering
yellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yelling
tricklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trickling
screechings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screeching
Gilliganian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gilliganian
form: most Gilliganian
Etymology: From Gilligan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Carol Gilligan (born 1936), American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist.
gaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: gaggier
form: gaggiest
Etymology: From gag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Ice cream with rock salt in it is gaggy.
glosses: Disgusting enough to provoke a gag reflex.
examples: text: She made a gaggy sound in her throat.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the action of gagging.
Kohlbergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kohlbergian
form: most Kohlbergian
Etymology: From Kohlberg + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Kohlbergian emergence of increasingly complex stages of moral development is built on the Piagetian emergence of increasingly complex logical operations.
ref: 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 13, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987), American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.
mishearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mishearing
buffetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buffet
buffetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffettings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buffeting.
buffettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffetting
buffetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buffet
ingrosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingrossers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of engrosser.
enchantings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchanting
ingrossers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingrosser
dragonling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragonlings
Etymology: From dragon + -ling.
Senses: topics: fantasy
synonyms: dragonet
dragonette
dragonlet
glosses: A baby dragon.
dragonlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragonling
slaveholdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slaveholding
snippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snipping
mewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mewing
echoings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echoing
mattings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matting
prowlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaʊlɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of prowling
coaxings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coaxing
strugglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of struggling
clankings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clanking
spillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spilling
pullings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulling
foretellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foretelling
cajolings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cajoling
joltings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jolting
clothings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You are hereby desired to receive into your care, the trusses of clothings and beddings which we shall send you from time to time […]
ref: 1758, Jonas Hanway, Three Letters on the Subject of the Marine Society, page 44:
text: Among these were two principal records: registers of clothings, and registers of professions.
ref: 1993, Elizabeth Rapley, The Dévotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-century France:
glosses: plural of clothing
interlacings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlacing
have legs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has legs
form: having legs
form: had legs
form: had legs
Senses: examples: text: Your plan will tell you if your idea has legs and is viable.
ref: 2007, Pete Williams, How to Turn Your Million Dollar Idea Into a Reality (from the Man who Sold the MCG), Milton, Qld.: Wrightbooks, →ISBN, page 68:
text: The longer a film plays (which, in show business terms, means that the film has legs), the more the theater gradually earns from ticket sales.
ref: 2011, Larry Garrison with Wallace Wang, Breaking Into Acting for Dummies, New York, N.Y.: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To have endurance; to have prospects to exist or go on for a long time.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To have speed.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, legs.
Synonyms: carry on
endure
hold up
Related terms: a lie has no legs
die hard
go a long way
wrigglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wriggling
plankings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planking
startings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starting
scurryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scurrying
whinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whining
marryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marrying
intermarryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermarrying
bouncings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouncing
venturings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venturing
shoeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoeing
blinkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blinking
wigglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiggling
pushings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of pushing
yelpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yelping
titterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tittering
pricklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prickling
ticklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tickling
lavings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laving
dynamitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamiting
jinglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jingling
carousings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carousing
waggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagging
slitherings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slithering
squawkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squawking
flirtings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flirting
pilferings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilfering
wheelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheeling
gipsyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gipsying
gypsyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gypsying
hairdressings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairdressing
confessings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈfɛsɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of confessing
experimentings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experimenting
manurings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manuring
replenishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replenishing
unreplenishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + replenishable.
Senses: glosses: Not replenishable.
unreplenished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + replenished.
Senses: glosses: Not replenished.
Who-athon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Who-athons
Etymology: From Who + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: Makes me wish I had a VCR so I could blow the dust off of all my video tapes and have a Who-athon.
ref: 1993 November 25, Michele Paige Goudie, “Oh geeze, I missed it.”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet):
text: To set the scene for the new series, UKTV Gold is showing all of the last one, created by Russell T Davies and starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as his companion Rose. The Who-athon will screen from 11am-6pm on Saturday, and from 11am-6pm on Sunday.
ref: 2006 April 4, Martin, “Tennant's Extra”, in uk.media.tv.sf.drwho (Usenet):
text: But the Who'''-athon starts early on Saturday morning, with retrospectives on each doctor and classic episodes starting on UKTV at 6.30am and running throughout the day - and on Sunday, too.
ref: 2013 November 21, “TV picks of the week: A lesson in Who-story”, in The New Zealand Herald:
glosses: A marathon of the British science-fiction series Doctor Who.
grittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gritting
replayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replaying
waddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wadding
gnashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnæʃɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of gnashing
interworkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interworking
dapplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dappling
decipherings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deciphering
threshings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threshing
roofings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roofing
bedcovering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedcoverings
Etymology: From bed + covering.
Senses: glosses: bedcover
bedcoverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedcovering
chirrupings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirruping
dancings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dancing
buryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burying
Sinosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sino- + -sphere, coined by James Matisoff along with Indosphere in his 1990 article "On Megalocomparison".
Senses: glosses: The area of East and Southeast Asia considered greatly influenced by Han Chinese culture.
Synonyms: word: Sinesia
Coordinate terms: word: Sinesian
word: Sinaic
stardrives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stardrive
star drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star drives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stardrive.
star-drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star-drives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stardrive.
star-drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star-drive Alternative form of stardrives.
star drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star drive Alternative form of stardrives.
to come
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: TK
Senses: examples: text: It's a bonding session that reminds each hunter of its place in the team — invaluable in the struggle to come.
ref: 2002 December 18, 23:56 from the start, in Meat Eaters (The Life of Mammals), season 1, episode 5, David Attenborough (actor):
text: I, I've been getting kinda scared / And feeling unprepared / For what's to come
ref: 2024, Jackie Evancho, “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla:
glosses: Imminent; coming; future.
Synonyms: imminent
in the offing
proximate
impending
Derived terms: the shape of things to come
world to come
Related terms: Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
to-come
TK
-to-be
Lake Zurich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in north-central Switzerland, extending to the south and east of the city of Zurich.
on/off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on-off.
Badiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Ladin spoken in Val Badia and in Mareo
ill-thought-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an ill-thought-out proposal
glosses: Not considered carefully enough.
Blachernae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historic quarter of Constantinople
compassionate leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A period of absence from work taken by an employee due to a personal matter, either illness or death.
paddle box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddle boxes
Senses: examples: text: As these [paddle] steamers have not the usual paddle boxes with vents, they look like modern screw steamers, and their good looks are improved by their two masts.
ref: 1939 June, G. W. Tripp, “The Modern Railway Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 397:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An enclosed structure around a paddlewheel.
Synonyms: wheelhouse
paddle boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paddle box
long service leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An additional employee vacation payable after long periods of service with an employer.
caniforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caniform
unthermostatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + thermostatted.
Senses: glosses: Not equipped with a thermostat.
thermostatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermostat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Equipped with a thermostat.
undangerousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undangerous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In my own instance, well do I remember the time when the principle of universal suffrage, however modified, presented itself to me as being in a general view inadmissible. [ ... ] No : the closer the attention bestowed, the firmer has all along been my conviction—on the one hand of the undangerousness of the principle, taken in the utmost extent to which the application of it can ever reach,—on the other hand, of the facility and consistency, with which, for the sake of union and concord, defalcation after defalcation might,—provisionally at any rate, and for the sake of experience—quiet and gradual experience,—be applied to it.
ref: 1817, Jeremy Bentham, Plan of Parliamentary Reform, page cix:
glosses: Quality of not being dangerous.
coat of mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coats of mail
Etymology: Calque of French cotte de mailles.
Senses: glosses: A defensive garment made of metal scales or interlinked metal rings.
froggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frogging
fluorofibres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorofibre
vinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: vinylal
Etymology: Introduced as a generic term by the Federal Trade Commission.
Senses: glosses: polyvinyl alcohol fibers
vinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From Latin vīnālis (rare), from vīnum (“wine”), or directly from vīnum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: To return then to the great chanel, and thread of our Diſcourse, the examples and experiment which I have already inſiſted upon in confirmation of the reaſons which I have alleged, do dearly demonſtrate, that the bodies which draw the atomes diſpersed in the aire, attract unto themſelves with a greater power and energy ſuch as are of their own nature, than ſuch as are heterogeneous, and of a ſtrange nature; As wine doth the vinal ſpirits;[…]
ref: 1658, R. White, transl., A Late Discourse Made in a Solemn Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France, by Sir Kenelm Digby, Kᵗ. &c. Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy. With Instructions How to Make the Said Powder; Whereby Many Other Secrets of Nature Are Unfolded., 4th edition, London: […] J G […], published 1664, page 110:
text: Their vinal Steams evaporating, they / Felt of their uſual Vigour a Decay;[…]
ref: a. 1700, Thomas Ken, “Edmund: An Epic Poem”, in The Works of the Right Reverend, Learned and Pious Thomas Ken, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, volume II, London: […] John Wyat […], published 1721, book XI, page 313:
text: But, alas, the red wine which he sent to the boatmen took the taste of the bargeman’s wife, a red-faced sot of a woman. She drank it to the last drop, and then flew to arms and almost murdered a servant wench with oyster-shells. Then she rushed on deck, tackled her husband, and tried to pitch him overboard. There is vinal energy for you.
ref: 1894, James Anthony Froude, Life and Letters of Erasmus: Lectures Delivered at Oxford 1893–4, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 230–231:
glosses: Produced by, or originating in, wine.
vinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Senses: glosses: Prosopis ruscifolia
blood accusation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood accusations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blood libel.
synonyms: word: blood libel
blood accusations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood accusation
overheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overheaters
Etymology: From overheat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Don't think that technical features and concern about breathability is only for super-techno-dweebs, backcountry skiers, and serious overheaters.
ref: 1994 December, Skiing, volume 47, number 4, page 212:
text: A crewneck works well for overheaters and warm spring days; turtlenecks keep warmth in and snow out; and zippered turtlenecks are the most versatile. There are varying fabric thicknesses to choose from on the market.
ref: 2002, Gene Prater, Dave Felkley, Snowshoeing, page 75:
glosses: An individual who tends to feel too hot.
overheaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overheater
Grado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Grado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A muncipality in Asturias.
shicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shicers
Etymology: Perhaps from German Scheißer.
Senses: glosses: A worthless thing or person, especially a swindler.
glosses: An unproductive claim or mine; a duffer.
rorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rorters
Senses: glosses: A small-scale confidence trickster.
long screwdrivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long screwdriver
monocaliber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + caliber.
Senses: glosses: Having the same shape and dimensions throughout a range of products
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having guns all of the same calibre
raw_tags: of a battleship etc
Related terms: polycaliber
polycaliber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + caliber.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having guns of two or more different calibres
raw_tags: of a battleship etc
Related terms: monocaliber
supercombinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.pəˌkɒm.bɪˌneɪ.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsuː.pɚˌkɑm.bɪˌneɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈsuː.pɚˌkɑm.bɪˌneɪ.ɾɚ]
Forms: form: supercombinators
Etymology: From super- + combinator.
Senses: examples: text: Supercombinators are used in the implementation of functional languages.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A mathematical expression which is fully bound and self-contained. It may be either a constant or a combinator where all the subexpressions are supercombinators.
supercombinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercombinator
Church numeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Church numerals
Etymology: Named after Alonzo Church.
Senses: glosses: A representation of a natural number using lambda notation.
wikipedia: Alonzo Church
Related terms: Church encoding
Church's theorem
Church numerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Church numeral
presagingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more presagingly
form: most presagingly
Etymology: From presaging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to presage or foretell.
devoicings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devoicing
creepings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːpɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of creeping
footplateman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footplatemen
Etymology: From footplate + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The circular attacks the policy of ASLEF, the principal footplatemen's union, for its opposition to pay differentials between main-line drivers and other footplate men, claiming that it destroys ambition and enterprise.
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment: Breakaway footplate union”, in Modern Railways, page 293:
text: Footplatemen, organised not by the NUR but by ASLEF, had threatened to strike in August 1917 in demand of an eight-hour day.
ref: 2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 51:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
related: word: footplate man
coordinate_terms: brakeman
signalman
pointsman
switchman
conductor
glosses: A railway worker who is either a locomotive engineer or a fireman.
footplatemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footplateman
indubitabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indubitability
infernal stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: lapis infernalis, lunar caustic
glosses: caustic potash
untypified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + typified.
Senses: glosses: Not typified.
brided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bride
briding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bride
Bride of the Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal city:
Nickname for Venice: a city, the capital of Veneto, Italy.
glosses: A coastal city:
Nickname for Tripoli: the capital of Libya.
glosses: A coastal city:
Nickname for Alexandria: a major city in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt.
glosses: A coastal city:
Nickname for Jaffa: a port city in Israel.
glosses: A coastal city:
Nickname for Rio Grande: a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
vilifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vilifiable
form: most vilifiable
Etymology: From vilify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being vilified.
Cadmean victory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cadmean victories
Etymology: Probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus killed each other.
Senses: glosses: A victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished.
wikipedia: Cadmus
Related terms: Pyrrhic victory
Cadmean victories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cadmean victory
fuller's thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Wild teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs were once used by fullers in dressing cloth.
Synonyms: fuller's weed
goldsmith beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldsmith beetles
Senses: glosses: Cetonia aurata, a beetle with metallic green colouration and a distinct V-shaped scutellum.
goldsmith beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldsmith beetle
stang ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stang balls
Senses: glosses: A bar shot.
fold net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fold nets
Senses: examples: text: An Improved System of Management of Live Stock and Cattle
ref: 1822, R. W. Dickson, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 2:
glosses: A kind of net set up on the ground, used to catch birds, rabbits, etc.
fold nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fold net
quick vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Kastner prescribes the following manner of making a malt wine for the quick vinegar process […]
ref: 1848, Andrew Ure, “On Acetic Acid”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 7, page 330:
text: In the other, a large surface of the liquid is exposed to the air, which is cause to circulate over it, so that the process is completed in a far shorter time, on which account it is called the "quick vinegar process."
ref: 1905, Bertram Blount, Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, page 236:
text: His experiments proved successful, and soon after the quick vinegar process was generally adopted.
ref: 1914, William Theodore Brannt, A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Vinegar, page 39:
glosses: Vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.
Wolfland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wolfe-land
Etymology: From wolf + land.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for Ireland.
spindrifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spindrift
copals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copal
wolf's peach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf's peaches
Etymology: From wolf + -'s + peach. This name arose out of the superstition that tomatoes were poisonous or otherwise savage fruits, suitable for wilder beasts rather than humans.
Senses: glosses: A tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).
nihil album
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin nihil album (“white nothing”), from late medieval confusion of German nichts (“nothing”) and nix with Latin nix (“snow, snow-white thing”), used for white forms of zinc oxide. Doublet of nill.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.
synonyms: word: zinc oxide
word: particularly white forms
navy yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navy yards
Senses: glosses: A government dockyard for repairing vessels, training crews, etc.
manganic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical, as yet not created, acid, H₂MnO₄, formed from manganese, analogous to sulfuric acid.
ribgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribgrass
ribworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribwort
chuck rib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuck ribs
Senses: glosses: A cut of beef immediately in front of the middle rib.
Coordinate terms: chuck
rib
middle rib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle ribs
Senses: glosses: A cut of beef between the chuck rib and fore ribs.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: midrib
midvein
glosses: The main vein of a simple leaf or leaflet, running from the petiole to its apex, and from which the other veins usually spread.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: midrib
rachis
glosses: The continuation of the petiole of a pinnately compound leaf around which the leaflets attach.
cold ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold ulcers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An ulcer on a finger or toe, due to deficient circulation and nutrition. In such cases the extremities are cold.
Wyobraska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Wyoming + Nebraska
Senses: glosses: The western part of Nebraska (the panhandle) that is closely related to Wyoming.
krav maga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Krav Maga.