cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bambosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bamboozle and bosh.
Senses: examples: text: Annie, a willing accomplice once Daisy had told her a tale of bambosh about wishing to approach Lady Sarah to seek employment for a friend, had also divulged that the dowager spent an hour every Thursday afternoon perusing the shelves at Lackington's Bookshop.
ref: 2001, Kathryn Kirkwood, A Townhouse for Tessa, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: Humbug; deceptive nonsense.
examples: text: Some Creole observers have described the post-Duvalier period as diyari demokratik (democratic diarrhea) or bambosh demokrasi (revelry of democracy).
ref: 1991, Richard A. Haggerty, Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies, page 340:
text: Yes, the bambosh dance is still danced until the dancers, wildly drunk on clairine vanish into the surrounding blackness to capture the partner of their choice.
ref: 2001, Charles H. Baker Jr., Knife, Fork and Spoon: Eating Around the World, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: Silliness and revelry.
raw_tags: in Haiti
bambosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bamboshes
form: bamboshing
form: bamboshed
form: bamboshed
Etymology: From bamboozle and bosh.
Senses: examples: text: Those who play and pay go to extraordinary lengths to be bamboshed.
ref: 1934, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 238, page 541:
glosses: To bamboozle; to deceive with nonsense.
bamboshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bambosh
bamboshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bambosh
bamboshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bambosh
barbarocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbarocracies
Etymology: From Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”) + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: The existing Bavarocracy (the Greeks, who are as fond of puns as ever, used to call it barbarocracy) had become impossible.
ref: 1846, The Quarterly Review (London), page 314:
text: I think that the reader would admit that they are better fitted to live under a constitution than under a barbarocracy, as they called the government of the irresponsible camarilla of Bavaria.
ref: 1869, Cornelius Conway Felton, Greece, Ancient and Modern:
text: The President, a cruel, rapacious fellow, representing the military barbarocracy, and receiving the support of the vilest and most reactionary elements of the Republic, exercised an almost military dic tatorship rather than a civil government.
ref: 1920, Rufino Blanco-Fombona, The Man of Gold, page 314:
text: So by nature we are the stalwarts who use their words and thoughts to bring them a barbarocracy of unparalleled freedom.
ref: 2001, Jack Hall, The Spiritron Sperm and Education: A 21st Century Primer, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Rule by barbarians.
barbarocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbarocracy
tripodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tripod + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: tripodal
tripodical
glosses: Having three feet or legs.
bigu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Daoist practice of fasting and avoiding grain (or sometimes all foods).
NGI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NGIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of non-governmental individual.
NGI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not guilty by reason of insanity.
axle stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axle stands
Senses: glosses: a support which can be placed under an axle, subframe or other suitable point when a vehicle is undergoing maintenance.
Synonyms: jack stand
wait-list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wait-lists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of waitlist.
wait-list
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wait-lists
form: wait-listing
form: wait-listed
form: wait-listed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of waitlist.
wait-lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wait-list
wait-lists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wait-list
wait-listing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wait-list
wait-listed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wait-list
methhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛθˌhɛd/
Forms: form: methheads
Etymology: From meth (“methamphetamine”) + -head.
Senses: hypernyms: word: druggie
word: drughead
word: junkhead
word: junkie
word: user
word: abuser
word: person
coordinate_terms: cokehead
crackhead
pillhead
pothead
glosses: A person who is addicted to or routinely uses methamphetamines.
cookie butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookie butters
Etymology: From cookie + butter by analogy with peanut butter, which is made from pulverized peanuts.
Senses: examples: text: Cookie Butter Treats
Cookie butter is a lot like peanut butter, but it's made from blended cookies instead of nuts. There are a few different brands of cookie butter, so you should be able to find some at your local grocery store […]
ref: 2015, Ashley Fox Whipple, Super Cute Crispy Treats:
text: Cookie butter is all the rage right now and with good reason! It can be found in most supermarkets near the peanut butter. Its creamy sweetness works so well with the tart raspberries—but I won't lie... I usually just eat my cookie butter with a spoon.
ref: 2015, Karly Campbell, Stack Happy: 70 Flipping Delicious Flapjack Recipes:
glosses: A spread, similar to peanut butter, made from pulverized speculoos cookies (and often sugar and flour) and a fat such as vegetable oil.
Synonyms: english: spread
translation: spread
word: speculoos
Related terms: butter cookie
aesthesiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aesthesiogenic
form: most aesthesiogenic
Etymology: From aesthesio- + -genic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Producing a sensation; stimulating the sense of touch.
anacrises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anacrisis
anacusic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Only vibrotactile responses could be obtained in 59 ears in the presence of effusion, while only 8 ears in an effusion-free condition were classified as anacusic.
ref: 1997, Ted L. Tewfik, Vazken M. Der Kaloustian, Congenital Anomalies of the Ear, Nose, and Throat, page 99:
text: In the anacusic ear, eustachian tube obliteration, using muscle, bone, or foreign materials, may be indicated.
ref: 2003, Michael E. Glasscock, Aina J. Gulya, Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear, →ISBN, page 449:
text: Hearing loss may be conductive, sensorineural, or mixed, and the degree of loss may be mild, moderate, severe, profound, or total (anacusic).
ref: 2006, Meyer Michael Cohen, Perspectives on the Face, →ISBN, page 89:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Totally deaf.
Related terms: acoustic
anagalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ana- + galactic.
Senses: examples: text: The velocity of the Sun relative to the 44 anagalactic objects, for which data exist, is generally found to be about twice as large as the velocity relative to the 18 globular clusters.
ref: 1936, Miscellaneous papers on nebulae - Volume 3, page 409:
text: Shapley was not so opposed to the hypothesis as I had expected, but, of course, he believes in "supra-galaxies' [sic], i.e. he thinks that the Milky Way forms a system of higher order than the ordinary anagalactic objects.
ref: 1982, Robert W. Smith, The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900-1931, →ISBN:
text: Winson tried to put a good face on the fact that Lin's design occupied a place in the company's consciousness about as remote as an anagalactic nebula.
ref: 2003, Lis Harris, Tilting at Mills, →ISBN:
glosses: Outside of our own galaxy.
Synonyms: extragalactic
anagraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anagraphies
Senses: examples: text: I propose to show, however, that despite their strong literary connections both lyrics have a realist or factual hinterland, so that by working our way back from the lyrical tranfiguration to the underlying realities we can discover new elements about Laura's anagraphy and possible identity while also dating the two poems.
ref: 1985, Romance Studies: A Journal of the University of Wales:
text: In this way the subject is not something that is to be discovered, fresh and new, from the unknown, but is an effect that surges out of a flat, printed surface of unconscious memory, since sujet, following the prevailing logic of anagraphy (typographical anamorphosis), can be bent into j'ai su, or "I have known."
ref: 1992, Michael Giordano, Studies on Béroalde de Verville, page 92:
text: A particular style emerges, one that might be called anagraphy, or a rhetoric of graphic traits that bind the physical character of the printed letters to the psychological conditions of the narratives.
ref: 1993, John D. Lyons, Mary B. McKinley, Critical tales, page 67:
text: W.S. Hart's middle name is Shakespeare, starts are versified as the seasons or as literal heavenly bodies and actors are explicitly identified as symbols. But there are also more proximate causes that underlie anagraphy.
ref: 2014, Barry King, Taking Fame to Market: On the Pre-History and Post-History of Hollywood Stardom, →ISBN:
glosses: The relationship between an item's identity and the characteristics of the symbols or words used to represent it.
anagraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anagraphy
anagraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anagraphical
Senses: examples: text: As secretary a young man with a “mobile identity” since his anagraphic data such as his second surname will change in relation to the linguistic decrees of the birthplace.
ref: 2013, Francisco Vicente Cipolla-Ficarra, Advanced Research and Trends in New Technologies, Software, Human-Computer Interaction, and Communicability, →ISBN, page 50:
text: On the basis on the available data on the 40 experiences the purposes of moving, together with some anagraphic correlates (age, ownership of other cars, etc.) generated 8 functional profiles: e.g. 'from and to airports and stations'; 'shopping in the center'; 'moving on campus'; 'living the night'; ...
ref: 2014, Emiliano Ippoliti, Heuristic Reasoning, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Basso (47) has differentiated between neurologic and anagraphic factors, which may serve as indicators of prognosis. ...Anagraphic factors include personal characteristics such as age, sex, handedness, and health status.
ref: 2014, Richard L. Harvey, Joel Stein, Carolee J. Winstein, Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition, →ISBN:
glosses: Falling into well-defined categories that have discrete values which correspond to words or symbols, and that can be applied to anybody.
examples: text: The designs which appear on one or both faces include a cross with four pellets, a gateway, a lion, a mounted knight, a key, a pair of pincers, a hammer, a bridge with a fish below, a fleur-de-lis, an eagle, various heraldic shields, numbers and monograms. Tokens as opposed to coins are almost without exception anagraphic.
ref: 2005, Adrian J. Boas, Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East, →ISBN, page 183:
text: For anagraphic reasons and because of their disciplinary way of thinking, the first people to examine Japanese serial animation in the early 1980s either used an approach that could be defined as a generational response to the anime phenomenon, or chose to use elements of film theory not entirely fitting the new language introduced by Japanese commercial animagion.
ref: 2010, Marco Pellitteri, Jean-Marie Bouissou, The Dragon and the Dazzle, →ISBN:
text: On the one hand, the analogy between the image and the text that Hellenistic epigrams so often feature is reinforced; the “anagraphic” aspect of the composition, whose verbal-cum-inscriptional conclusion draws attention to the words' physical shape and form, is also a meterial, surface object, inviting a reading that conforms with the description of the statue supplied by the exegete, all focused on externals ("the boundaries between the stone and scroll are quite permeable and migration across them is easy"; Bing 1998,34).
ref: 2014, Clemente Marconi, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to the representation of an existing item in words or symbols.
Derived terms: anagraphically
anagraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anagraphic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Again, if we use an adequate code system, with the help of modern information technology, we can derive from our anagraphical registers a lot of information useful for improving our decision making.
ref: 1995, Modern Management Methods for Local and Regional Authorities and the Role of Training, →ISBN, page 8:
text: The means by which all men and women were included in it were the sacraments, beginning with baptism: they had a double efficacy, both as symbols of religious membership, and as signs of basic (anagraphical) inscripion into civil society.
ref: 2007, Joaquim Carvalho, Religion and Power in Europe: Conflict and Convergence, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Another model describes a partial discount of the time spent in the dry state, meaning that the physiological age is less than the anagraphical age, due to the slowing down of the metabolism and development.
ref: 2010, Esther Lubzens, Joan Cerda, Melody Clark, Dormancy and Resistance in Harsh Environments, →ISBN, page 136:
text: To enforce quality management and to align credit management processes with other internal processes, there is a strong need to centralize and make unique all of the sources of anagraphical and descriptive information on items related to credit such as customers, products, and organizational components.
ref: 2013, Mario Anolli, Elena Beccalli, Tommaso Giordani, Retail Credit Risk Management, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Alternative form of anagraphic.
anagraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anagraphic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The socialists all seemed to me to be old, even those who were anagraphically young, and to be lacking in revolutionary capacity.
ref: 1969, Joyce Lussu, Freedom has no frontier, page 11:
text: Even in a restricted group of persons, individualities have the right to manifest themselves; even where anagraphically just one religion is present, there are differences in approaching the same faith and in expressing it in practice.
ref: 1992, Islamochristiana - Volume 18, page 29:
text: A bare two per cent of the country—six million acres squeezed between the vast rainless deserts—was capable of sustaining life, and the population was increasing by half a million human beings every year. Anagraphically and ecologically, the prospects were appalling.
ref: 2011, Raymond Flower, Napoleon to Nasser: The Story of Modern Egypt, →ISBN:
glosses: Involving or pertaining to anagraphic data.
examples: text: Since there are, in the LGN, a number of examples of the SAR sign with a value mú, it may be that the place name in the Sippar tablet should be read anagraphically as mú:šim and connected with the 'à-me-šum of the LGN.
ref: 1992, Douglas Frayne, The Early Dynastic List of Geographical Names, page 20:
text: The Natasha of War and Peace, who anagraphically does not exist, in the economy of the book and in readers' imaginations is more real than Napoleon.
ref: 1996, Giuseppe Mantovani, Environments: From Everyday To Virtual, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Evident in the representation of three of early cinema's most popular stars, this tendency to construct the persona anagraphically - to refer to the self as a token of a transindividual category -- is a common feature of early fan discourse.
ref: 2014, Barry King, Taking Fame to Market: On the Pre-History and Post-History of Hollywood Stardom, →ISBN:
glosses: Involving the relationship between an ontological entity and its representation in words or symbols.
petit-maître
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petits-maîtres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of petit maître.
petits-maîtres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petit-maître
scrieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrieves
form: scrieving
form: scrieved
form: scrieved
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the monotonous tones of London's streets, the sounds changed every few steps, so that the rattle of pollarded oaks could be followed by the trumpeting of bullfrogs and then the sudden sigh of scrieving swifts.
ref: 1997, Nicholas Crane, Clear Waters Rising : a mountain walk across Europe, London: Penguin Books:
glosses: To glide or move smoothly.
scrieve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrieves
Senses: examples: text: When additional vessels were required, the drawings, patterns and scrieves would all be ready, […]
ref: 1919, Walter Pollock, Hot Bulb Oil Engines and Suitable Vessels, page 206:
text: Orders for two dozen tankers to be produced off the same scrieve […]
ref: 1958, Duncan Burn, The Structure of British Industry: A Symposium, page 109:
glosses: The design plan for building a ship.
Derived terms: scrieve board
scrieve knife
scrieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrieve
scrieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrieve
scrieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrieve
scrieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrieve
jack stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack stands
Senses: glosses: Synonym of axle stand.
synonyms: word: axle stand
Story
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Arkansas, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana.
glosses: A ghost town in St. Clair County, Missouri.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska.
glosses: A census-designated place in Sheridan County, Wyoming.
Derived terms: Story City
Story County
Related terms: Storey
Marseille soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marseille soaps
Etymology: After Marseille in France, from which it comes.
Senses: glosses: A kind of hard soap, made from vegetable oils.
Related terms: Castile soap
Marseille soaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marseille soap
al-Mada'in
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic اَلْمَدَائِن (al-madāʔin, literally “The Cities”) (plural of مَدِينَة (madīna)), calque of the Aramaic name.
Senses: glosses: An historical Sassanian Persian metropolis on the Tigris between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia-on-Tigris.
Seleucias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seleucia
shitful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitfuls
Etymology: From shit + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He was raising a shitful of money.
ref: 2015, Richard Nelson, The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country - Page 70:
text: I'm in a shitful of trouble, that's what I know!
ref: 2016, Amy Miles, Wither:
synonyms: word: shitload
word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A tremendous quantity or amount.
shitful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shitful
form: most shitful
Etymology: From shit + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: 18 March Dearest Kirsten, I had a shitful day at school today. I got an F for my English assignment. Foster tried to beat me up. And the Principal is sending my parents a letter saying that I'm starting fights.
ref: 1999, George Ivanoff, Life, Death & Detention: Short Stories - Page 88:
text: I wouldn't have missed this wedding for anything in the world even though those bridesmaid dresses are shitful.
ref: 2010, Fern Michaels, Yesterday:
glosses: Full of unpleasantness, inferiority, or something distasteful; completely shitty (all senses)
Derived terms: shitfully
shitfulness
Texan tuxedo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Texan tuxedos
form: Texan tuxedoes
Etymology: From Texan + tuxedo. So-called due to its stereotypical association with the Southwestern US.
Senses: glosses: An outfit comprising a matching denim jacket and jeans, often worn with cowboy boots and sometimes a bolo tie.
Hypernyms: double denim
Coordinate terms: Canadian tuxedo
shitfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitful
shitfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shitfully
form: most shitfully
Etymology: From shitful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Details, details,” Hornby said, smiling shitfully.
ref: 2014, Piers Hobson, Thieves: A comedy of crime and conscience - Page 261:
glosses: In a shitful manner.
shitfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shitful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Finally he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and blew his nose and wiped his eyes. "Do you see that?" he said.
"What," I said, "his shitfulness?"
ref: 1957, New Campus Writing - Issue 2 - Page 12
glosses: The condition or quality of being shitful or full of shit
Senonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /səˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: Borrowed from French sénonien, which was borrowed from Latin Senonēs.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The final part of the Cretaceous epoch, comprising the Coniacian, Santonian, Campanian and possibly the Maastrichtian ages
taurobolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taurobolia
form: tauroboly
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin taurobolium, from Ancient Greek ταυροβόλιον (taurobólion).
Senses: examples: text: The cult of the Magna Mater, borrowing the civic spirit proper to Roman religion, made of the official taurobolium a manifestation of loyalty to the institutions of the Roman Empire.
ref: 1927, George La Piana, Foreign Groups in Rome During the First Centuries of the Empire, Harvard University Press, page 300:
text: 1968, Phoenix, Volume 22, Classical Association of Canada, University of Toronto Press, page 236,
It is safe to conclude that the taurobolium at this stage in its development was a substitution rite³³ at least in its original and most basic purpose, although it may soon have become an initiatory rite for women.
text: 1990, Britt-Mari Näsström, O Mother of the Gods and Men, Plus Ultra, page 42,
In addition to the gloomy figure of Attis, another spectacular element was connected to the cult of Magna Mater, the rite of the Taurobolium and the Criobolium.
glosses: The ritual slaughter of a bull.
wikipedia: Bernhard Rode
Merriam-Webster
Derived terms: taurobolic
Related terms: english: ritual slaughter of a ram
translation: ritual slaughter of a ram
word: criobolium
taurobolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a taurobolium
titulature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titulatures
Senses: glosses: Any method of naming kings, pharaohs and similar monarchs
transhumants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transhumant
Villa Clara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Villa Clara.
Senses: glosses: A province of Cuba.
Lieutenant Governor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The title for someone who holds the lieutenant governor job.
lieutenant-governor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lieutenant-governors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lieutenant governor.
lieutenant-governors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lieutenant-governor
bisnaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisnagas
Etymology: From Spanish biznaga.
Senses: glosses: A plant in the celery family (Visnaga daucoides, syn. Ammi visnaga) grown for its seeds, which have been used as an herbal medicine.
Related terms: khellin
bisnagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisnaga
surrections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrection
titulatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titulature
ultradistributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultradistribution
eigenstrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenstrain
mudspate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudspates
Etymology: From mud + spate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mudflow.
synonyms: word: mudflow
mudspates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudspate
undialyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dialyzed.
Senses: glosses: Not dialyzed.
undialysed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dialysed.
Senses: glosses: Not dialysed.
mesotherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesotherms
Etymology: From meso- + -therm.
Senses: examples: text: The large terrestrial and marine reptiles of the Mesozoic were likely mesotherms, which maintained high body temperatures by virtue of their large size and whose metabolism approached that of endotherms.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Gigantism and Its Implications for the History of Life”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An animal that adjusts its body to a metabolically favourable temperature using a context-dependent balance of internal metabolically-produced heat and external-environmentally derived heat.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that thrives in moderate temperatures.
Related terms: mesothermic
mesothermy
mesotherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesotherm
intraendosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + endosomal.
Senses: examples: text: As shown in Fig 2B and 2C, EmGFP-Rab30 was not recruited to SLO-deficient GAS which are Rab7-positive intraendosomal bacteria, suggesting that Rab30 is recruited to GAS in response to autophagy induction by SLO. We also examined whether the recruitment of Rab30 to GAS requires GcAV formation using autophagy-deficient cell line.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Golgi-Resident GTPase Rab30 Promotes the Biogenesis of Pathogen-Containing Autophagosomes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within an endosome.
faciobrachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From facio- + brachial.
Senses: examples: text: Seven patients (17.1%) presented with faciobrachial dystonic seizures (FBDS), and all patients had anti-LGI1 antibodies.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Effect of Immunotherapy on Seizure Outcome in Patients with Autoimmune Encephalitis: A Prospective Observational Registry Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the face and arm.
enantioseparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantioseparations
Etymology: From enantio- + separation.
Senses: examples: text: The influences of BGE pH and the concentration of β-CD additive on the enantioseparation efficiency were examined.
ref: 2016 January 16, “Preparation of a β -Cyclodextrin-Based Open-Tubular Capillary Electrochromatography Column and Application for Enantioseparations of Ten Basic Drugs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The separation of enantiomers.
enantioseparations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enantioseparation
desmostylians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmostylian
Montanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Montanistic
form: most Montanistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of Montanism.
Montanistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Montanistical
form: most Montanistical
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of Montanism.
untasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untaste
untasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I have no appetite, and the food would be wasted on my untasting tongue.
ref: 2014, Magus Tor, Life Bank: Selling life for money, page 18:
glosses: That does not taste.
space-operatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more space-operatic
form: most space-operatic
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of, the genre of space opera.
know someone from a can of paint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows someone from a can of paint
form: knowing someone from a can of paint
form: knew someone from a can of paint
form: known someone from a can of paint
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know someone from Adam.
synonyms: word: know someone from Adam
shamiyanah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamiyanahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shamiana.
miladdo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Diminutive of my lad with -o.
Senses: glosses: Term of address for a young man.
castile soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castile soaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Castile soap.
castile soaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castile soap
unsight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (“absence of”) + sight.
Senses: examples: text: He tries to correct this unsight in the second stanza, asking a series of speculative (and rhetorical) questions about his cousin's life.
ref: 2012, Gregory Tate, The Poet's Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870:
text: [...] as dame in her dwelling, whereby I may picture her there; And in vain do I urge my unsight To conceive my lost prize At her close, whom I knew when her dreams were upbrimming with light, And with laughter her eyes.
ref: 2013, Dr Rosemarie Morgan, The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy - Page 405:
text: Her robes shimmered with wards of unsight stitched in electrum thread.
ref: 2013, Peter V. Brett, The Daylight War - Page 566:
glosses: Absence of sight; lack of vision
unsight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsights
form: unsighting
form: unsighted
form: unsighted
Etymology: From un- + sight.
Senses: examples: text: The veil thus marks out the objects of both sexual and metaphysical desire as 'Scheingestalten'. A similar veil unsights the lover's gaze in Angelika as he perceives her 'wie durch einen Schleier' (S 1 116).
ref: 1996, Andrew J. Webber, The Doppelgänger - Page 297:
glosses: To remove the sight of or from
examples: text: Just jeep as the Sten magazine emptied there came a single shot from the far end of the lane and in the same instant a bullet cracked over Butler's head.The jeep swung sharply to the right, unsighting him.
ref: 2012, Anthony Price, The '44 Vintage:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To lose sight on a target
Related terms: unsight unseen
calligraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calligraph
calligraphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calligraph
protuberated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of protuberate
protuberates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of protuberate
protuberating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of protuberate
undenuded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + denuded.
Senses: glosses: Not denuded.
prosopographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prosopography + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Using a prosopographical (collective biography) approach, her current work focuses on the socio/historical analysis of relationships between religion, work and vocational education with special reference to nineteenth century Nonconformist and Jewish entrepreneurs.
ref: 1998, Michael Erben, Biography and Education: A Reader, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: Relating to prosopography.
proteolyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proteolyses
form: proteolysing
form: proteolysed
form: proteolysed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of proteolyze.
proteolysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proteolyse
prowessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prowessed
form: most prowessed
Etymology: From prowess + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Distinguished by prowess.
provocators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provocator
prunable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prune + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being pruned.
psychicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psychic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The study of psychic ability.
examples: text: They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
glosses: Psychic ability.
Related terms: psychicist
acierates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acierate
acierating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acierate
acierated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acierate
acrophobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrophobic
acrogenously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acrogenous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an acrogenous manner.
activize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: activizes
form: activizing
form: activized
form: activized
form: activise
Etymology: From active + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Will we activize the thousands of new Negro members and make them into effective leaders of the Negro people?
ref: 1994, Bernard K. Johnpoll, A Documentary History of the Communist Party of the United States:
glosses: To convert to activism.
activized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of activize
activizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of activize
activizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of activize
Adamsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈædəmzaɪt/
Forms: form: Adamsites
Etymology: From Adams + -ite.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), American statesman who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829.
Adamsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adamsite
adread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈdɹɛd/
Forms: form: adreads
form: adreading
form: adreaded
form: adreaded
Etymology: From Middle English adreden, from late Old English ādrǣdan, from earlier Old English ondrǣdan, from Proto-West Germanic *andrādan.
Senses: glosses: To dread, fear greatly.
glosses: To fear, be afraid.
adread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈdɹɛd/
Etymology: From Middle English adred, adrad, past participle of Middle English adreden, from Old English ondrǣdan, equivalent to a- + dread. Compare also Middle English ofdradd (“afraid”), Old English ofdrǣdd (“terrified, afraid”).
Senses: glosses: Affected by or full of dread; fearful.
aeronomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeronomers
Senses: glosses: One who studies aeronomy.
aeronomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeronomists
Etymology: From aeronomy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies aeronomy.
aeronomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeronomer
aeronomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeronomist
aerophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerophobes
Etymology: From aero- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: Many aerophobes who fly nonetheless rev up for their ordeal by popping tranquilizers or getting stoned on marijuana at the terminal parking lot or drowning their fears at the airport bars.
ref: 1972, Cosmopolitan, volume 173, page 106:
glosses: A person who is afraid of flying.
aerophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerophobe
monomode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + mode.
Senses: glosses: Capable of operation only in a single mode.
affectlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more affectlessly
form: most affectlessly
Etymology: From affectless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without affect or emotion.
affablest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the most affablest creature, sir! so merry!
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: 'He's comfortable in bed — the best bed. A thorough gentleman; the smilingest, affablest gentleman I ever had to do with.'
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: superlative form of affable: most affable
afterswarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterswarms
Etymology: From after- + swarm.
Senses: glosses: A swarm of bees that leaves the hive after the primary swarm.
Related terms: afterswarming
afterswarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterswarm
Aggadahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aggadah
Aggadot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aggadah
Aggadoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aggadah
agglutinability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agglutinabilities
Senses: examples: text: The figures represent the relative agglutinabilities of the cultures as found in a single test and calculating from two hours' readings only.
ref: 1920, The Lancet, volume 2, page 499:
text: The fluctuations are paralleled by periodic changes in agglutinability, which confirms the notion that it is the sexual adhesiveness of the flagella which determines the mating competence.
ref: 2013, R.A. Bloodgood, Ciliary and Flagellar Membranes, page 142:
glosses: The quality or degree of being agglutinable.
Derived terms: nonagglutinability
agglutinabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agglutinability
aglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + -glossia.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The absence of a tongue.
Related terms: aglossal
microglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + -glossia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of an abnormally small tongue.
agloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agloos
form: aglu
Etymology: Of Inuit origin.
Senses: glosses: A seal's breathing-hole in the ice.
agloos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agloo
agrarianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrarianism
agroforester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agroforesters
Etymology: From agro- + forester.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in agroforestry
agroforesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agroforester
reimposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reimposers
Etymology: From reimpose + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who reimposes something.
reimposers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reimposer
agrologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From agrological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of agrology.
agrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrologists
Etymology: From agrology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies or carries out agrology.
agrologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agrology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to agrology.
agrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to agrology.
Derived terms: agrologically
agrologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrologist
agueproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ague + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Go to, they are not men o' their words: they told me I was every thing; 'tis a lie; I am not agueproof.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
text: The infant voice spoken of by Rosolato believes that it is everything, and can swallow down the world, but testifies in its suffering that it is not agueproof.
ref: 2002, Patrick Campbell, Adrian Kear, Psychoanalysis and Performance:
glosses: Resistant to the ague.
ahistoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ahistoric
form: most ahistoric
Etymology: From a- + historic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ahistorical.
synonyms: word: ahistorical
Derived terms: ahistorically
airplays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airplay
airproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of airproof
airproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of airproof
akaryotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akaryote
ajwan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ajwain.
ajowain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajowains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ajwain.
alackaday
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of alack.
synonyms: word: alack
alablaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of alabaster.
alalagmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alalagmoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλαλαγμός (alalagmós), from ἀλαλάζω (alalázō), compare Greek αλαλάζω (alalázo).
Senses: glosses: A war cry of Ancient Greece.
albarellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albarello
alanyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alanyl
albertites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albertite
albitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more albitic
form: most albitic
Etymology: From albite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mineral albite.
Mongolian beef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Chinese-American dish of barbecued beef flank and vegetables, including scallions, in a spicy soy-based sauce.
Related terms: Mongolian barbecue
albugos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albugo
alburnums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alburnum
alembications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alembication
alexipharmakon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alexipharmacon.
algerines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algerine
algorismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From algorism + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of algorithmic.
alismataceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Alismataceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Alismataceae.
alightment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alightments
Etymology: From alight + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of alighting, or descending and settling.
alightments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alightment
aliyoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aliya
glosses: plural of aliyah
allegoriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegorisers
Etymology: From allegorise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allegorizer.
allegorisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allegoriser
allergenicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allergenicity
alligated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alligate
alligates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alligate
alligating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alligate
allomorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allomorphism
allotetraploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotetraploidies
Senses: glosses: The quality of being allotetraploid.
allotetraploidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allotetraploidy
altimetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of altimetric.
synonyms: word: altimetric
aluminums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aluminum
alveolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alveolation
alumstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alumstones
Etymology: From alum + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: alunite
alumstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alumstone
amautik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amautiks
Senses: examples: text: The next day, anxious for a break from exorbitant prices, Leah Neeveacheak bundled her 1-year-old niece, Nancy, into a traditional amautik (hooded parka), and walked through the biting cold to the Northern grocery store.
ref: 2009 September 28, Paul Watson, “The high cost of nourishing the North”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of amauti.
amautiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amautik
ambitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Of glass: covered with stony speckles, symptoms of incipient devitrification.
fivelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiveling
fiveleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiveleaves
Etymology: From Middle English fivelefe, fyflef, from Old English fīflēaf, equivalent to five + leaf.
Senses: glosses: Cinquefoil.
Related terms: fiveleaf yam
anapaestical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anapaestical
form: most anapaestical
Etymology: From anapaest + -ical.
Senses: glosses: anapestic