cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hydrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hydrate
falsified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more falsified
form: most falsified
Senses: glosses: Demonstrated to be false.
Derived terms: nonfalsified
unfalsified
falsified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of falsify
hydrogen hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The systematic alkali name for water.
Synonyms: water
hard-core
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-core
form: most hard-core
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardcore.
hydrohydroxic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of several systematic acid names for water, H₂O.
Synonyms: water
hydroxic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of several systematic acid names for water, H₂O.
Synonyms: water
hydroxilic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of several systematic acid names for water, H₂O.
Synonyms: water
hydroxylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of several systematic acid names for water, H₂O.
Synonyms: water
A*
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ̯ stɑː/
Forms: form: A*'s
form: A*s
Senses: glosses: An academic grade, higher than A or A+. Where it is used, it is often the best class of result.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A best-first graph search algorithm for finding a lowest-cost path to a goal.
Related terms: A+
ô
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ȯ
ö
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the THOUGHT vowel; also an orthographic ⟨o⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as having that value, as in the word "nor".
ô
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: examples: text: O all you hoſt of heauen, ô earth, what els, / And ſhall I coupple hell, ô fie, hold, hold my hart, […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], signature D3, verso:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of O.
ü
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ū
o͞o
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the GOOSE vowel
μ-oxido dihydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alternative systematic name for water, H₂O.
Synonyms: water
Olympian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪm.pɪ.ən/
ipa: /əˈlɪm.pi.ən/
Forms: form: Olympians
Etymology: From Late Middle English Olympyan, from Latin Olympius (“of or relating to Mount Olympus”) and its etymon Ancient Greek Ὀλῠ́μπῐος (Olŭ́mpĭos, “of or relating to Mount Olympus; living on Mount Olympus; Olympian”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, or forming agent nouns). Ὀλῠ́μπῐος (Olŭ́mpĭos) is derived from Ὄλῠμπος (Ólŭmpos, “Mount Olympus”) (from Pre-Greek) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Senses: examples: text: Pauſanias's account is related pretty faithfully there, if we except two errors, one, that Arcas an Olympian mixed ſome Hippomanes with the brazen ſtatue, the other that he caſt a mare. […] We do not find in the author's Latin, that Arcas the Olympian mixed ſome Hippomanes, &c.
ref: 1741, [Pierre] Bayle, “A Dissertation Concerning the Hippomanes”, in John Peter Bernard, Thomas Birch, John Lockman, et al., transl., A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical: […], volume X, London: […] James Bettenham, for G[eorge] Strahan, J. Clarke, […], →OCLC, page 361:
text: Midas longed for gold, and insulted the Olympians. He got gold, so that whatsoever he touched became gold—and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Morrison’s Pill”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem), page 15:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the 12 principal gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades); (specifically) preceded by the: Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Greek deities.
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: In the Platonist theology of Plethon, a god in one group of supercelestial gods, the other group of such gods being the Tartareans or Titans.
glosses: A person with superior talents or towering achievements.
Olympian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪm.pɪ.ən/
ipa: /əˈlɪm.pi.ən/
Forms: form: Olympians
Etymology: From Late Latin Olympianus (“Olympic”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, or forming agent nouns). Olympianus is derived from Latin Olympia (“town in Elis, Greece, where the ancient Olympic Games were held”) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Olympia is from Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ (Olumpĭ́ā, “Olympia”), from Ὀλῠ́μπῐος (Olŭ́mpĭos, “of or pertaining to Mount Olympus; living on Mount Olympus, Olympian; (specifically) Zeus”) or Ὄλῠμπος (Ólŭmpos, “Mount Olympus”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
As regards noun sense 1 (“inhabitant of the city of Olympia, Washington, United States”), the city was named after the Olympic Mountains which are visible to the northwest, which in turn were named after Mount Olympus in Greece.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the city of Olympia, the capital of Washington, United States.
examples: text: And I haue ſeene thee pauſe, and take thy breath, / When that a ring of Greekes haue ſhruped thee in, / Like an Olympian wraſtling.
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sportsperson competing in the ancient Olympic Games.
examples: text: I will forever carry the pride and privilege of representing this amazing country on the grandest global stage. There is so much that comes with that, with being an Olympian. But now, because of Covid-19, some athletes will never get that honour. […] There will be people who were getting the timing right for 2020 who won't be in 2021. From in one year does not guarantee form in the next. That is absolutely heart-breaking. There will be athletes in the community that should have become Olympians. Because of Covid-19, they will never get that opportunity.
ref: 2020 August 28, Steve Solomon, “Covid has stripped Olympic glory from a generation of athletes – that’s heartbreaking”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2021:
text: […] Olympians’ mental health has never been a key concern for the sports governing bodies that oversee them.
ref: 2021 July 22, Alice Park, “How Olympians are Fighting to Put Athletes’ Mental Health First”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2021:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sportsperson competing in the modern Olympic Games.
Derived terms: Deaflympian
Paralympian
Special Olympian
Related terms: Olympia
Olympiad
Olympic
Olympically
Olympic Games
Olympism
narrowest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of narrow: most narrow
dangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dangle
gulped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌlpt/
rhymes: -ʌlpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gulp
goings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of going
acquisitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acquisition
recommenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recommence
renouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renounce
eccentricities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eccentricity
adjudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adjudge
smiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English smytinge, smitende, smytende, smitand, from Old English smītende, from Proto-Germanic *smītandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to throw, hurl, bespatter”), equivalent to smite + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smite
smiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smitings
Etymology: From Middle English smytinge, smytynge, equivalent to smite + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: How can I revoke that decision made in consultation with my ministers and friends desiring my welfare, causing confusion, as the sudden smiting of an army by the enemy.
ref: 0300, Valmiki, The Ramayana of Valmiki: A Complete Modern English Translation, Hari Prasad Shastri, page 180:
text: Two were the smitings of Governor Grey.
ref: 1731, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, HMSO, page 39:
text: In very early times each year was named after some important event in it, e.g., “The year of the first smiting of the East,” and was at the same time connected with the reigning king.
ref: 1768, The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, The Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume IV, page 576:
text: His end in smiting was to bring your heart nearer to him, by removing what estranged it.
ref: 1800, American Tract Society, Tracts of the American Tract Society: General Series, American Tract Society, page 9:
text: When her sisters talked about the Bible it was all the Sermon on the Mount and the Song of Solomon, Proverbs and Psalms; never smitings and plagues.
ref: 2009, Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue, page 275:
glosses: The act of one who smites.
pleads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plead
awakens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of awaken
embodying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embody
embodying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embodyings
Senses: examples: text: They stood, less like the great champions or warring states of antiquity, throwing their whole force into the struggle for the temporary prizes of the sword, than two great embodyings of principle, two master-spirits, contending for the dominion of the minds of mankind[…]
ref: 1835, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 38, page 627:
glosses: embodiment
gamblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gambler
pescatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛskəˈtɛːɹɪən/
Forms: form: pescatarians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pescetarian.
Notre Dame
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnoʊ.tɹə ˈdɑːm/
ipa: /ˌnɒ.tɹə ˈdɑːm/
ipa: /ˌnɒ.tɹə ˈdæm/
ipa: /ˌnɔ.tɹə ˈdäːm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
ipa: /ˌnoʊ.tɚ ˈdeɪm/
ipa: /ˌnɒ.tɹə ˈdeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Etymology: From French Notre Dame (literally, “Our Lady”, a title of Mary, mother of Jesus; now hyphenated as Notre-Dame). The university was named by its founder, the French-born Catholic priest Edward Sorin.
Senses: head_nr: 2
related: word: Notre-Dame
word: Nôtre Dame
glosses: Notre-Dame de Paris.
head_nr: 2
glosses: University of Notre Dame.
Related terms: Notre Dame Bay
School Sister of Notre Dame
dailiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪlɪnəs/
Etymology: From daily + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being daily.
examples: text: I feel for a moment that I understand the whole bright dailiness of our life before this: the morning glances at the bathroom sink, the spit of toothpaste, the cramp and comfort of our hall and living room and kitchen – understand it and also understand that it is gone.
ref: 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 131:
glosses: Mundanity; ordinariness.
damnableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damnablenesses
Etymology: From damnable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There were two vigorous paragraphs upon the utter damnableness of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, a contagious damnableness I gathered, one wasn't safe within a mile of Holborn Viaduct, and a foul-mouthed attack on poor little Wilkins the novelist--who was being baited by the moralists at that time for making one of his big women characters, not being in holy wedlock, desire a baby and say so....
ref: 1911, H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli:
glosses: The state or quality of being damnable.
dampiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dampy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dampy.
dangerousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dangerous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The D.C. Circuit held, however, that when the district court’s finding of dangerousness is based on the nature and circumstances of a defendant’s conduct on January 6, a defendant’s participation in the Capitol riot is not sufficient, standing alone, to justify a finding of dangerousness.
ref: 2021 April 16, “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. TIMOTHY LOUIS HALE-CUSANELLI”, in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, page 2:
glosses: The state or quality of being dangerous.
Synonyms: dangerosity
hazardousness
perilousness
riskiness
dankness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæŋk.nəs/
Forms: form: danknesses
Etymology: * dank + -ness
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dank.
dapperness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dapper + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ‘But I just adore his dapperness. Heʼs terribly dapper.’
ref: 2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 119:
glosses: The state or quality of being dapper.
daringness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daringnesses
Etymology: From daring + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being daring.
dashingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dashing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dashing.
dastardliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dastardly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: If there is any feminist message in Nell becoming a glorified figure in the traditionally male-dominated field of highway robbery, it is worn very lightly indeed. Cape-swirling, moustache-twirling dastardliness abounds.
ref: 2024 March 27, Lucy Mangan, “Renegade Nell review – Derry Girls’ Louisa Harland is beyond brilliant in Sally Wainwright’s new drama”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The state or quality of being dastardly.
dastardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dastard + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being a dastard.
Related terms: dastardly
day-blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From day-blind + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being day-blind.
dazedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪzdnəs/
ipa: /ˈdeɪzədnəs/
Etymology: From dazed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dazed.
daziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dazy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dazy.
deaf-blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deafblindness.
dearworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dearworthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dearworthy.
deathiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deathy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being deathy.
deathliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English dethliknesse, from Old English dēaþlīcnes, equivalent to deathly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The deathliness of Hirst’s garden paintings conveys the dire truth about Frieze.
ref: 2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The state or quality of being deathly.
Related terms: dead
deadliness
deadly
deathlike
debauchedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɔːtʃədnəs/
ipa: /dɪˈbɔːtʃtnəs/
Etymology: From debauched + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being debauched.
debonairness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From debonair + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being debonair.
decayedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From decayed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being decayed.
deceitfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsiːtfəlnəs/
Forms: form: deceitfulnesses
Etymology: From deceitful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: O full off all sutelte and disseytfulnes the chylde off the devyll, and the enemye of all righteousnes thou ceasest not to pervert the strayght wayes off the lorde.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
text: 'This is the hend, is it, of all my bearing with her deceitfulness, her lowness, her falseness, her laying herself out to catch the admiration of vulgar minds . . .'
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 42, in Nicholas Nickleby:
text: 1903, Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days, ch. 20 "A Moonlight Drive",
The lanterns both rear and forward being always in sight, I was as much at sea as any one as to the length of the herd, knowing the deceitfulness of distance of campfires and other lights by night.
glosses: The state or quality of being deceitful; duplicity.
deceivableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deceivable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being deceivable.
decentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From decent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being decent.
deceptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deceptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state or quality of being deceptive
decidedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪdədnəs/
Etymology: From decided + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being decided.
decisiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪsɪvnəs/
Etymology: From decisive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being decisive.
declaredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklɛədnəs/
Etymology: From declared + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being declared.
decorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkɹəsnəs/
Forms: form: decorousnesses
Etymology: From decorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being decorous.
glosses: A decorous behaviour.
decrepitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɹɛpɪtnəs/
Etymology: From decrepit + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The station interiors were also suffering. "The universal lavatorial glazed tiling is dirty and cracked, the paint is peeling, and there is a general air of decay," Guardian journalist Charles Cook wrote in a 1974 feature. But as Cook himself discovered, this decrepitness disguised the positives of Underground travel.
ref: 2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL, number 947, page 45:
glosses: Decrepitude.
Synonyms: agedness
cobwebbiness
hoariness
oldness
defectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛktɪvnəs/
Forms: form: defectivenesses
Etymology: From defective + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being defective.
defensiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛnsɪvnəs/
Forms: form: defensivenesses
Etymology: From defensive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The gay vs. straight confrontation has been dealt with before in movies and plays but never with the gay character in control and never so free of defensiveness or homosexual guilt.
ref: 1976 February 7, Don Shewey, “Haunted Host (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 14:
glosses: The state or quality of being defensive.
defiantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)əntnəs/
Etymology: From defiant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being defiant.
definiteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfɪnɪtnəs/
Forms: form: definitenesses
Etymology: From definite + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: indefiniteness
glosses: The state or quality of being definite.
Related terms: definition
definitiveness
finiteness
finitude
finity
infiniteness
infinitude
infinity
definitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɪnɪtɪvnəs/
Etymology: From definitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being definitive.
Related terms: definiteness
deformedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɔːmdnəs/
Etymology: From deformed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being deformed.
defunctness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From defunct + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being defunct.
degenerateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From degenerate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being degenerate.
dejectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈdʒɛktədnəs/
Etymology: From dejected + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dejected.
delectableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From delectable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being delectable.
Synonyms: delectability
deliberativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deliberative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being deliberative.
deliciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deliciousnesses
Etymology: From delicious + -ness.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: scrumptiousness, hyperpalatability
glosses: The state or quality of being delicious.
delightfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From delightful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being delightful.
delusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From delusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being delusive.
demandingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demanding + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Buddhist concept of tanha, for example — roughly translated as “blind demandingness” — encapsulates many tenets of R.E.B.T. and points the way toward emotional equanimity: stop asking more of the universe than it can possibly deliver.
ref: 2009 May 10, “Enlightenment Therapy”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being demanding.
demissness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demiss + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore name they it sacred and divine, and it concerns not them whether the violence of tyrants, or the demissnesse [tr. lascheté] of the people be against them.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.186
glosses: The state or quality of being demiss; humility, submissiveness.
heat sink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat sinks
form: heatsink
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: An object, system or environment that absorbs and dissipates heat from objects in thermal contact (either direct or radiant) with it.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: A place toward which the heat moves in a system.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: A material capable of absorbing heat.
Related terms: heat dump
heat pump
demonstrativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demonstrative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being demonstrative.
demureness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demurenesses
Etymology: From demure + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She would laugh, high and loud, and the shopkeepers would laugh with her, their laughter softer than hers, a thoughtful demureness that was mindful of the fact that she was the customer […] and therefore should not be upstaged.
ref: 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), pages 257-258:
text: “Don’t be coy. Haven’t I sent you nice gifts? Haven’t I been sweet to you? You play at demureness, but now? Why him? Why not me?”
ref: 2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 222:
glosses: The state or quality of being demure.
deplorableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deplorable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being deplorable.
depressingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From depressing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being depressing.
derivativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From derivative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being derivative.
derogatoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From derogatory + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being derogatory.
desertedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deserted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being deserted.
deservedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deserved + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being deserved.
deservingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deserving + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being deserving.
Malizai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sons of Mali Baba, the ancestor of Yūsufzai, a tribe that settled in district DIR (Northwest Frontier Provence, Pakistan).
hyperdrive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperdrives
Etymology: From hyper- + drive.
Senses: examples: text: The ship's hyperdrive had failed, leaving them stranded years from any repair base.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A spaceship engine that allows faster-than-light travel by entering hyperspace.
examples: text: With enemies closing in fast, our hero's mind sprung into hyperdrive.
glosses: A state of accelerated action.
Related terms: jump drive
warp drive
page-turner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: page-turners
form: pageturner
Etymology: From page + turner.
Senses: examples: text: Her debut novel is such a page-turner that it's one of those books that you can't put down.
text: This is a very fat novel. The first thing you want to do with it is send it to a hospital for one of those crisis diets. Cut out 300 pages and maybe you've got a page-turner that could stand off "The Firm."
ref: 1993 January 31, Sidney Zion, “He Died With His Pants Down”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:
glosses: A highly interesting or suspenseful written work that one is compelled to read very rapidly.
examples: text: She's a famous soloist today, but she did her time as a page-turner, just as many others have done.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A person who is responsible for turning the pages of another musician’s (especially a pianist or organist’s) sheet music during a performance.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see page, turner.
Related terms: turn the page
cliffhanger
desidiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desidious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being desidious.
designedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From designed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being designed.
designfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From designful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being designful.
haploinsufficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Etymology: From haplo- + insufficient.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting haploinsufficiency
put back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts back
form: putting back
form: put back
form: put back
Senses: examples: text: He carefully put the vase back on the shelf.
text: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The scope of the new upgrade isn't just restricted to the station and junction. It has involved more than simply putting back what was unwisely taken away.
ref: 2024 May 1, Tom Ingall, “Hope springs eternal for better services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 52:
glosses: To return something to its original place.
examples: text: The French […] had put back to Toulon.
ref: 1813, Robert Southey, The Life of Horatio, Lord Viscount Nelson:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To turn back; to return.
examples: text: The meeting has been put back to 5.00 pm.
glosses: To postpone an arranged event or appointment.
examples: text: You'll need to put that drink back quickly; it's very nearly closing time.
text: Whisky he sipped at suspiciously, and still had not got an adult taste for; but wine he loved, and he put back champagne as if it were lager, with awful belches and chuckles after each glass.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: To drink fast; to knock down alcohol.
examples: text: Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks back an hour.
text: When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. […] Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early.
ref: 1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railways and Summer Time”, in Railway Magazine, page 429:
glosses: To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time.
driverside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From driver + -side.
Senses: glosses: On the side of a car corresponding to the driver's seat.
clastogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clastogeneses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλαστός (klastós) + -genesis. See clastogen.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process resulting in additions, deletions, or rearrangements of parts of the chromosomes that are detectable by light microscopy.
Mutsun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One of eight divisions of the Ohlone Native American people of northern California.
Mutsun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The extinct language of this people, an Ohlone dialect in the Utian family.
Synonyms: San Juan Bautista
haploinsufficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haploinsufficiencies
Etymology: From haplo- + insufficiency.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of a diploid organism having only a single copy of a particular gene, the other copy being inactivated due to mutation
Related terms: haplosufficiency
cicerone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪt͡ʃəˈɹəʊni/
ipa: /sɪsəˈɹəʊni/
Forms: form: cicerones
form: ciceroni
Etymology: 1726, from Italian cicerone (surface analysis cicero + -one (augmentative)), from Latin Cicerōnem, form of Cicerō, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer (“chickpea”) from Proto-Indo-European *ḱiker- (“pea”). Possibly humorous reference to loquaciousness of guides.
Senses: examples: text: East, still doing the cicerone, pointed out all the remarkable characters to Tom as they passed[…]
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 7:
text: he was in the act of making his evening plans with the same smelly but nice cicerone in a café-au-lait suit whom he had hired already twice at the same Genoese hotel [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 3:
text: Ultimately their gazes all rested on his cicerone as most powerful member of the group.
ref: 1987, Michael Brodsky, Xman, page 360:
text: “First,” advised their cicerone in the matter, Professor Svegli of the University of Pisa, “try to forget the usual picture in two dimensions.”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 279:
glosses: A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.
Derived terms: ciceronage
ciceroneship
ciceronism
Related terms: Ciceronian
cicerone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪt͡ʃəˈɹəʊni/
ipa: /sɪsəˈɹəʊni/
Forms: form: cicerones
form: ciceroning
form: ciceroned
form: ciceroned
Etymology: 1726, from Italian cicerone (surface analysis cicero + -one (augmentative)), from Latin Cicerōnem, form of Cicerō, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer (“chickpea”) from Proto-Indo-European *ḱiker- (“pea”). Possibly humorous reference to loquaciousness of guides.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, as three o'clock struck, six dashing-looking light dragoons were seen slowly sauntering up the dining-hall, escorted by Webber, who, in full academic costume, was leisurely ciceroning his friends and expatiating upon the excellences of the very remarkable portraits which graced the walls.
ref: 1841, Charles Lever, chapter 17, in Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon, volume 1, page 151:
glosses: To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.
sibship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sibships
Etymology: From sib + -ship.
Senses: glosses: All the siblings of a family.
ladder logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique for describing and drawing electrical logic schematics.
methamphetamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methamphetamine, apparently by analogy with amphetamines.
Senses: glosses: Methamphetamine.
herma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hermae
form: hermai
Senses: glosses: A herm
infliction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈflɪkʃən/
Forms: form: inflictions
Etymology: Borrowed, perhaps via French, from Latin īnflīctiōnem.
Senses: examples: text: The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the "warm hose", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 221:
glosses: The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition.
Derived terms: reinfliction
Related terms: inflict
blacksnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaksneɪk/
Forms: form: blacksnakes
form: black-snake
Etymology: From black + snake.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black snake: any of several relatively harmless North American snakes.
glosses: A long, tapering whip.
examples: text: [He] couldn't keep from staring at my blacksnake. He'd probably never seen a dick like mine. I couldn't help but stare at his prick too. He had the smallest dick I'd ever seen on any man. […] She went over to Raft and pulled down his underwear, revealing his blacksnake. In front of Bogie, she eased down on her knees, skinned back the foreskin of Raft's penis, and insertd it into her mouth.
ref: 2003, Darwin Porter, The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart, page 251:
glosses: A penis, especially a black penis.
blacksnake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaksneɪk/
Forms: form: blacksnakes
form: blacksnaking
form: blacksnaked
form: blacksnaked
form: black-snake
Etymology: From black + snake.
Senses: examples: text: He said to Stanbrough, “George, you damned son-of-a-bitch, you blacksnaked my aunt with a blacksnake, and I am going to wear this out on you, ” and began striking him with the buggy whip. He struck the deceased several times ...
ref: 1899, Missouri Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, page 513:
text: They were slugged and blacksnaked, run through a gauntlet, deposited on cattle cars headed away from the city, and told never to return.
ref: 2001, Roger A. Bruns, The Damndest Radical … Ben Reitman, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 121:
text: A settler on the Muddy River was more blunt : "injuns killed a calf the other day we did em up and Blacksnaked [bullwhipped] em I ges they will know better next time made them sing Ki hi Ki hi they have ben good as little pigs since.
ref: 2001, Martha C. Knack, Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775-1995, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Whenever he and Bell had a row—and their rows got bigger and bitterer—the overseer went out and blacksnaked three or four slaves, for they were the only critters in the shape of man that he could abuse without a comeback.
ref: 2006, Thomas A. Green, The Greenwood Library of American Folktales [Four Volumes], Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: To whip with a long, tapering whip.
blameable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blameable
form: most blameable
Etymology: From Middle English blameable, equivalent to blame + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I say, I have never much distinguished thee, not because I did not see that in thee which I might well have praised, but because I saw something blameable, which such praises might have made worse.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 332:
glosses: Alternative spelling of blamable.
Derived terms: blameableness
blameably
unblameable
blamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪməbəl/
Forms: form: more blamable
form: most blamable
form: blameable
Etymology: From Middle English blamable, blameable, equivalent to blame + -able.
Senses: glosses: Deserving blame
Synonyms: blameworthy
culpable
reprehensible
Derived terms: blamableness
blamably
unblamable
blatancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blatancies
Etymology: Formed by analogy with the way that words that end in -ant that are derived from French typically form their noun forms. This is erroneous logic in this case, however, because blatant does not derive in any way from French, but is rather a native English formation using native English word parts (bleat and -and), that only later had its ending slightly modified to fit more with other words that were more commonly used, that happened to have the French-derived -ant suffix.
Some other examples of the -and suffix changing to -ant over time are flippant and blicant.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being blatant.
blemished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blemish
blemished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blemished
form: most blemished
Senses: examples: text: Stated sharply, today′s centers of higher learning are more blemished than superficial appearances suggest, and what often seems “democratic” is little more than contrived public displays.
ref: 2001, Robert Weissberg, “Chapter 18: Academic Tyranny: The Tale and the Lessons”, in Stuart S. Nagel, editor, Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation, page 111:
text: One of them in fact singled out Rebecca, not the marmoreal Rowena, as the novel′s most blemished character. “She is,” he complained, “too near perfection.[…]”
ref: 2008, Ritchie Devon Watson, Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War, page 65:
text: The most blemished life will not keep His love from pouring out. It is the blemished and the marked, the hurting and the rejected that stirs this love in Him.
ref: 2010, Holly S. Ruddock, Life in Your Losses: Transformation Through Trials, page 186:
glosses: Having blemishes; flawed.
Related terms: unblemished
blindfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blindfold
Related terms: blinded
blindfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Once people learn the true facts they will no longer want to be "blindfolded donkeys."
ref: 2006 October 6, Fang Hong, “The CCP Policy of Treating People Like "Blindfolded Donkeys" No Longer Works”, in Minghui:
glosses: Wearing a blindfold
Derived terms: blindfoldedness
Related terms: blinded
blinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blinker
blinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: blinders
word: bumbles
word: winkers
glosses: A pair of leather or rubber eye cups attached to a horse hood in order to impede the rear vision of racehorses and harness horses.
glosses: A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes from glare, dust, etc.
glosses: Spectacles.
blinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blinker
blistered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blister
blistered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blistered
form: most blistered
Senses: examples: text: A large percentage of all Late Horizon fragments at this site was overfired, to the point where many were vitrified, black to dark brown, and misshapen, some with blistered surfaces.
ref: 1976, Dorothy Menzel, Pottery Style and Society in Ancient Peru: Art as a Mirror of History in the Ica Valley, 1350–1570, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Having one or more blisters
Derived terms: unblistered
blistery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blistery
form: most blistery
Etymology: From blister + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having blisters.
blockader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockaders
Etymology: From blockade + -er.
Senses: examples: text: One worker ignored entreaties that she take the day off in recognition of the protest, as she waded through the blockaders to get to the door; others, who were successfully turned away by the protesters, were let into the building through another door by security guards.
ref: 1983 April 9, John Kyper, “Nineteen Arrested In Berkeley Shock Protest”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: A person who blockades
glosses: A ship used in blockading
blockbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From block + busting.
Senses: examples: text: Sonny W. Walker, another of the three black salesmen employed along with three whites by Concord Realty, 3524 Church Avenue, picked up the thread of Mr. Harris's bitter disclaimer that it took deliberate blockbusting—sometimes called panic redlining—to make whites move out of East Flatbush.
ref: 1969 December 9, Linda Charlton, “'Blockbusting': Dilemma in East Flatbush Area”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.
blockbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From block + busting.
Senses: examples: text: a blockbusting movie
glosses: Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.
Derived terms: bonkbusting
Related terms: blockbuster
bloodsucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌdˌsʌkɪŋ/
Etymology: From blood + sucking.
Senses: examples: text: Bedbugs win neither praise for their sophisticated technique, nor very much respect for the fact that they don’t carry diseases, as most bloodsucking human ectoparasites do.
ref: 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times:
glosses: That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.
raw_tags: of an insect or animal
glosses: parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: nonbloodsucking
Related terms: bloodsucker
bloodsucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌdˌsʌkɪŋ/
Forms: form: bloodsuckings
Etymology: From blood + sucking.
Senses: examples: text: Economic blood-sucking of the Indian peoples, who are forced to pay immense sums of money to sustain rich Indian Civil Servants
ref: 1940, Basil Mathews, “Worldwide reaction to events in India”, in The Asiatic Review, volume 36, page 255:
glosses: Parasitic, leechlike behavior.
blowup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowups
form: blow-up
Etymology: Deverbal from blow up.
Senses: glosses: An explosion, or violent outburst.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An enlargement.