cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
postanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + anal.
Senses: examples: text: postanal tail
text: postanal scales
text: postanal angle
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.
spinpolarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinpolarized
form: most spinpolarized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spin-polarized.
callithump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.lɪ.θʌmp/
Forms: form: callithumps
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from calli- + thump, or an alteration and backformation from "Gallithumpian", a Dorset and Devon word from 1790s for a society of radical social reformers, in reference to "noisy disturbers of elections and meetings
Senses: examples: text: You probably don't know what callithump is, but you will find out if you undertake to hoe sod-ground potatoes in July. It has something to do with brazen trumpets and violence. I became acquainted with callithump when I straightened out the asparagus-bed.
ref: 1919, Albert Bigelow Paine, Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm:
glosses: A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises.
glosses: A burlesque serenade; a charivari.
Derived terms: callithumpian
callithumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callithump
conversantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conversantly
form: most conversantly
Etymology: From conversant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a familiar manner.
examples: text: use language conversantly
glosses: conversationally
equinumerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: […]Gold , tho' not equinumerant […] or equiponderant
ref: 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:
text: In a key and lock system, a key member carrying a signature comprising a plurality of index elements, two equinumerant groups of said index elements being interrelated by a predetermined conversion code, and a lock device […]
ref: 1967, The Canadian Patent Office Record, volume 95, numbers 1-4, page 94:
glosses: Equal in number.
nepeta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nepetas
Etymology: From Nepeta (“nepeta”). Doublet of nep.
Senses: examples: 1997 October 13, New York: Interior Design ′97, page 79,
NICE DIGS: Tomato tepees, nepeta, strawberries, and herbs in raised beds billow onto the gravel walk; a neat lattice camouflages a propane tank.
2006 Spring, Early Homes, page 42,
The property is now protected by deer fencing, but Nancy spent many years experimenting with plants that are deer resistant, such as lavender, nepeta (catmint), and peonies.
2007 May-June, Old House Interiors, page 103,
TOP. Mirror-image borders in Hampshire, with purple nepeta, carmine-red geraniums, and yellow thalictrum.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Nepeta of flowering plants, including catnip.
nepetas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nepeta
Norweyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Norweyan
form: most Norweyan
form: Norwayan
Etymology: From Norwey + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Whence cam'ſt thou, worthy Thane?
From Fiffe, great King,
Where the Norweyan banners flowt the Skie,
And fanne our people cold.
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, Macbeth:
glosses: Norwegian
Norweyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norweyans
form: Norwayan
Etymology: From Norwey + -an.
Senses: glosses: Norwegian
umbraculiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more umbraculiferous
form: most umbraculiferous
Etymology: From Latin umbraculum (“umbrella”), diminutive of umbra (“shade”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: umbraculiferous crown
text: umbraculiferous tree
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing something like an open umbrella.
upsoar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌpˈsɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: upsoars
form: upsoaring
form: upsoared
form: upsoared
Etymology: From up- + soar.
Senses: examples: text: on the right up-soar'd in air / The hawk, Apollo's swift-wing'd messenger
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 15”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: To soar upward.
upsoared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upsoar
upsoaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upsoar
upsoars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upsoar
fabulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fabulate
fabulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fabulate
fabulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabulate
fabulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fabulate
Ashtoreth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew עַשְׁתֹּרֶת (‘aštōreṯ), a qere perpetuum of the second syllable of עַשְׁתָּרְת (‘aštārṯ, “Astarte”) through the insertion of the vowels from בֹּשֶׁת (bōšeṯ, “abomination”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Astarte.
wikipedia: Qere and Ketiv#Qere perpetuum
insanitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insanitations
Etymology: From in- + sanitation.
Senses: synonyms: insanitariness
glosses: Lack of sanitation; unhygienic conditions.
musculocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From musculo- + cutaneous.
Senses: examples: text: the musculocutaneous nerve
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to muscles and skin.
ophiomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ophio- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination using snakes.
toilless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toilless
form: most toilless
Etymology: From toil + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without toil.
beadsnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beadsnakes
form: bead snake
form: bead-snake
Senses: glosses: A small poisonous snake of North America, banded with yellow, red, and black: the eastern coral snake, Micrurus fulvius.
beadsnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beadsnake
connascent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + nascent.
Senses: examples: text: But things are said to be rising into being, which receive increase through another thing by contact, or being connascent with it; as embryos
ref: 1801, Thomas Taylor, The Metaphysics of Aristotle:
glosses: Born together; produced at the same time.
expediment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expediments
Senses: examples: text: a like expediment to remove discontent
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Contentment”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of expedient.
expediments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expediment
extirpatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extirpatory
form: most extirpatory
Senses: glosses: extirpative; that uproots
eyereach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-reach
Etymology: From eye + reach.
Senses: examples: text: look, look! is not he blest
That gets a seat in eye-reach of him? more,
That comes in ear, or tongue-reach?
ref: 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: I shoved for the middle of the river on a long downstream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach, I laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go and smell around the wreck
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: problems within eyereach of the school bus
ref: 1946, Effie Geneva Bathurst, Delia Goetz, Elise Henrietta Martens, Education in Bolivia:
glosses: The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.
impenitently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impenitently
form: most impenitently
Etymology: From impenitent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm sorry!" she flashed round on him, impenitently.
ref: 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Confidante”, in Encounters, page 51:
glosses: Without repentance.
millinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millinets
Senses: glosses: A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.
millinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millinet
remast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remasts
form: remasting
form: remasted
form: remasted
Etymology: From re- + mast.
Senses: examples: text: In a few days now the Dawn Treader, remasted, repainted, and well stored, was ready to sail.
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 7, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.
remasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remast
remasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remast
remasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remast
envoyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envoyships
Etymology: From envoy + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or position of an envoy.
envoyships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of envoyship
forenight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forenights
form: fore-night
Etymology: From Middle English fore-niht, from Old English foranniht, equivalent to fore- + night. Cognate with Dutch voornacht, German Vornacht.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, it is a low fire with an immense iron crane over it, on which half a dozen pots at a time can swing in comfort; a hearth on which logs of wood and peat can burn, a hearth that a dozen happy and contented faces can scarce encircle on a winter's forenight.
ref: 1895, William Gordon Stables, “Book I”, in On to the Rescue: A tale of the Indian Mutiny:
text: “Then I minded the tales my father used to tell me in the winter forenight of Wicked Wat Fergus of Craignesslin, how he used to rise from his bed and blow his horn and ride off to the Whig-hunting
ref: 1900, S. R. Crockett, The House on the Muir:
text: the rancher, who has sheep to lose, sits shivering in his log house through the long forenights with a Marlin rifle handy, while the famished timber wolves prowl about his clearing.
ref: 1909, Harold Edward Bindloss, “Chapter 1”, in The Greater Power:
glosses: The evening time, between twilight and bedtime.
Synonyms: eve
eventide
undern
evening
forenights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forenight
monotonist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monotonist
form: most monotonist
Etymology: From monotony + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Egyptian architecture consequently was cold, monotonist, and insipid.
ref: 2001, Jóhann Páll Árnason, Peter Murphy, Agon, Logos, Polis: The Greek Achievement and Its Aftermath, page 224:
text: I will say nothing more until I have heard your renditions, which are certain to lack emotion and be monotonist.
ref: 2004, Albert Clarkson, Heaven Engine, page 96:
text: Since the long centuries of pastoral agriculture, production has been transformed. Labor has changed from seasonal intensity, when bands of workers worked long and hard for a few months a year and sporadically and easily for most of the rest of the year, to the monotonist intensity of Taylorist production lines.
ref: 2013, Michael Boylan, Environmental Ethics:
text: Thus in view of the revered artist van Gogh he writes: ' At the 1912 exhibition in Cologne, where strangely monotonist Expressionist art from all over Europe was on view in the vicinity of the wonderful art of van Gogh, I sometimes had the feeling that he was the only truly great and unwillingly “insane” one among so many who wanted to be insane bet were really all too normal' (Jaspers 1926: 150).
ref: 2013, Giovanni Stanghellini, Thomas Fuchs, One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology, page 146:
glosses: Characterized by sameness; unvarying; lacking originality.
monotonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monotonist
spectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛkˈteɪʃən/
Etymology: From Latin spectatio.
Senses: examples: text: This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: Regard; aspect; appearance.
examples: text: the medical attaché is permitted to ease effortlessly from unwound spectation into a fully relaxed night's sleep, still right there in the recumbent recliner […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: The act of watching something; observation.
welldoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welldoers
form: well-doer
Etymology: From well + doer.
Senses: glosses: One who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.
welldoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welldoer
cauterant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cauterants
Senses: glosses: Any substance that cauterizes
cauterants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauterant
horrisonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horrisonous
form: most horrisonous
Etymology: From Latin horrisonus, from horrere (“to be horrible”) + sonus (“a sound”).
Senses: examples: text: Words of most horrisonous roaring.
ref: 1631, Celestina:
glosses: Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.
Synonyms: cacophonous
horrisonant
joinant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Conjoined.
trustiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English tristinesse, trustinesse, equivalent to trusty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being trusty.
Judaize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːdeɪˌaɪz/
/ˈd͡ʒuːdiˌaɪz/
Forms: form: Judaizes
form: Judaizing
form: Judaized
form: Judaized
form: Judaise
Senses: examples: text: The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
text: They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law.
ref: a. 1710, George Bull, sermon:
text: […] allowing “Israel” to exploit such situation to expropriate further Palestinian lands and to Judaize their sanctities and holy sites.
ref: 2024 January 21, Our Narrative… Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Hamas Media Office, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2024, page 4:
antonyms: dejudaize
glosses: To impose Jewish beliefs or customs on someone; to convert to Judaism; to make Jewish.
examples: text: Later polemicists employ anti-Muslim rhetoric, especially allegations that Muslims themselves judaize, in similar fashion.
ref: 2023 October 1, David M. Freidenreich, chapter 1, in Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 31:
glosses: To be engaged in activity that imposes Jewish beliefs or customs on someone or something.
Derived terms: word: Judaization
word: Judaizer
word: Judaizing
Judaized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Judaize
Judaizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Judaize
Judaizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Judaize
wailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wailments
Etymology: From wail + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: wailment to all that are yet unborn !
ref: 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata:
synonyms: bewailment
glosses: Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing.
wailments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wailment
deprovincialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deprovincializes
form: deprovincializing
form: deprovincialized
form: deprovincialized
Etymology: From de- + provincial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make less of provincial.
deprovincialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deprovincialize
deprovincializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deprovincialize
deprovincializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deprovincialize
engarrison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: engarrisons
form: engarrisoning
form: engarrisoned
form: engarrisoned
Etymology: From en- + garrison.
Senses: examples: text: Those strangers were no otherwise engaged, than as they, that would hold fair correspondence with the citizens, where they were engarrisoned.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.
engarrisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engarrison
engarrisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engarrison
engarrisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engarrison
explicableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From explicable + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: inexplicableness
glosses: The quality of being explicable.
gossib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒsɪb/
Forms: form: gossibs
Senses: examples: text: Halfe dead through feare, her litle babe revyld, And to her gossibs gan in counsell say
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of gossip.
gossibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gossib
misserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misserves
form: misserving
form: misserved
form: misserved
Etymology: From mis- + serve.
Senses: glosses: To serve incorrectly or unfaithfully.
misserve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misserves
Etymology: From mis- + serve.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A misguided serve
misserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misserve
misserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misserve
misserving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misserve
solipedous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solipede + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Born and raised in the city, what does he know about solipedous quadrupeds?
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 326:
glosses: Having solid (i.e. uncloven) hoofs.
subpellucid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + pellucid.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat pellucid
totteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more totteringly
form: most totteringly
Etymology: From tottering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Jeff moved totteringly towards the bar and called for more whisky.
glosses: In a tottering manner.
usurpingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From usurping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The fever’d diadem on my brow
I claim’d and won usurpingly ——
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caesar — this to me?
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
glosses: So as to usurp.
fairily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fairily
form: most fairily
Etymology: From fairy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At length burst in the argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain, new stuff'd, in youth, with triumphs gay / Of old romance.
ref: 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza V, page 85:
glosses: In the manner of a fairy.
helicograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helicographs
Etymology: From helico- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.
wikipedia: Spirograph
helicographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helicograph
indissolubility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French indissolubilité.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being indissoluble.
irresolvedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irresolvedly
form: most irresolvedly
Etymology: From ir- + resolved + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: irresolvedly divided
text: speak irresolvedly
text: irresolvedly separated
glosses: Without settled determination; in a hesitating manner; doubtfully.
lionhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lion + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Harriet had started into lionhood since our first visit to London, and was still run much after, by a rather feeble set of persons chiefly
ref: 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences:
glosses: The state of being a lion.
psalmography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: Compare French psalmographie.
Senses: synonyms: psalmody
glosses: The act or practice of writing psalms.
volcanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more volcanian
form: most volcanian
form: Volcanian
form: volcanean
Etymology: Directly from Latin Volcāniānus or from Latin Volcānius + -an within English, from Volcānus + -iānus (“-ian”) or -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to Volcan + -ian. Doublet of Vulcanian.
Senses: examples: text: The colours all inflam'd throughout her train, / She writh'd about, convuls'd with scarlet pain: / A deep volcanian yellow took the place / Of all her milder-mooned body's grace; [...]
ref: 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 12:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of volcanic, of or related to volcanoes and volcanism.
synonyms: word: volcanic
word: of or related to volcanoes and volcanism
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Vulcanian, of or related to former theories concerning the origin of crystalline minerals to subterranean fires.
synonyms: word: Vulcanian
word: of or related to former theories concerning the origin of crystalline minerals to subterranean fires
Derived terms: Volcanian Islands
atomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of atomic.
carpophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carpo- + -phagous, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: carpophagous insect
synonyms: frugivorous
glosses: fruit-eating.
gripingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gripingly
form: most gripingly
Etymology: From griping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a griping manner.
humorsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From humorsome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being humorsome.
mountebankeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountebankery
mountebankery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountebankeries
Etymology: From mountebank + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
neuropore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropores
Etymology: From neuro- + pore.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An opening at either end of the embryonic neural canal.
Derived terms: caudal neuropore
cranial neuropore
neuropores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropore
periuterine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + uterine.
Senses: examples: text: periuterine veins
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: surrounding the uterus.
synallaxine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συναλλάσσω (sunallássō, “bring into contact”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the outer and middle toes partially united (said of certain birds related to the creepers).
Related terms: Synallaxis
telescopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telescopists
Etymology: From telescope + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [T]o the astonishment of the telescopist who first recognised the change, the comet was found to be double.
ref: 1873, Richard A. Proctor, The Borderland of Science: A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Stars, Planets, and Meteors:
synonyms: telescoper
glosses: Someone who uses a telescope.
telescopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telescopist
unguicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin unguiculus, diminutive of unguis (“a nail”).
Senses: examples: text: an unguicular crest or tooth
glosses: Of or pertaining to a claw or nail; ungual.
vernonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Vernonia + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular glucoside extractable from the root of various South African plant of the genus Vernonia, once used as a mild heart tonic.
versemonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: versemongers
Etymology: From verse + monger.
Senses: glosses: A writer of verses or of commonplace poetry.
Synonyms: poetaster
Related terms: balladmonger
versemongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versemonger
juvenalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: antiques and collectibles
glosses: items connected with children, such as toys, dolls, teddy bears, etc.
Related terms: juvenilia
Banba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Banbha
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A patron goddess of Ireland.
hood ornament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hood ornaments
Senses: glosses: A decorative object fastened on a car's hood, often symbolizing the manufacturer or brand; sometimes fixed to the radiator cap
assertorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more assertorial
form: most assertorial
Senses: examples: text: Yet in our view the second interpretation is self-contradictory because ultimately assertorial logic should exclude from its arguments non-assertions (e.g. task theses) because no truth values can be assigned to them.
ref: 2012, Richard Mattessich, Instrumental Reasoning and Systems Methodology, page 45:
text: First, a scientific language has assertorial content by making assertorial commitments to the existence of certain theoretical entities.
ref: 2017, Xinli Wang, Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication:
text: It is evident that the assertorial function is rock bottom. But Kim claims the assertorial function is not possible unless language has representational functions in some ways.
ref: 2019, Kai Nielsen, After The Demise Of The Tradition:
glosses: That makes an assertion or positive statement; declaratory.
Derived terms: assertorially
Related terms: apodeictical
problematical
digitules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digitule
dissuaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissuader
jucundities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jucundity
jucundity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jucundities
Etymology: From Latin iūcunditās, from iūcundus + -tās. By surface analysis, jucund + -ity. Doublet of jocundity.
Senses: examples: text: For the act of laughter, which is evidenced by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely voluntary, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves, but, as it may be constrained by corporal contaction in any, and hath been enforced in some even in their death, so the new, unusual, or unexpected, jucundities which present themselves to any man in his life, at some time or other, will have activity enough to excitate the earthiest soul, and raise a smile from the most composed tempers.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pleasantness or happiness.
kholah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Indian jackal (Canis aureus indicus).
nosle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosles
Etymology: See nozzle, nose.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nozzle.
nosles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosle
prejudicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prejudicative
form: most prejudicative
Senses: examples: text: as hastie prejudicative sentence
ref: 1647, Henry More, Democritus Platonissans, on an Essay upon the Infinity of Worlds:
glosses: Forming a prior judgment; prejudicial
setigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Forms: form: more setigerous
form: most setigerous
Etymology: From seta + -gerous.
Senses: examples: text: setigerous glands
text: a setigerous segment of an annelid
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae.
Synonyms: setiferous
vulcanoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulcano
vulcanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulcano
Nobby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbi
Senses: examples: text: Nobby Stiles
Norbert is a moniker one normally doesn't associate with one of the game's most intimidating midfielders, but "Nobby" provided the steel for the England side that prevailed in the 1966 World Cup, and his gap-toothed visage would have earned him a guest spot in the movie Halloween.
ref: 2009, Jeff Carlisle, Soccer's Most Wanted II, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Norbert.
examples: text: There's Nobby, now―here he indicates Zenobia with his pipe―"as has 'ad a whole cartload o' troubles, besides me a riding on the shafts, an' that's bad enough, an't it, Nobby?"
ref: 1855, Watts Phillips, The Wild Tribes of London, page 49:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Zenobia.
Nobby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbi
Etymology: Various theories; see Wikipedia article.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for a person with the surname Clark or Clarke.
fiscus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fisci
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fiscus (“treasury”).
Senses: examples: text: It generally applies to all taxes, stamp duties or other compulsory payments to state funds or local governments as well as any subsidies received from the central fiscus or state funds as long as the administration thereof is provided by the Tax and Financial Supervision Authority.
ref: 1998, Klára Oppenheim, Jenny Power, Hungarian Business Law, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Furthermore, it is shown by the fact that the State treasury (" fiscus ") could not be made a party to an action, and also, later, by the absolute power of the emperor.
ref: 1999, Ludwig von Bar, A History of Continental Criminal Law, →ISBN, page 18:
text: For the first time in more than 30 years, the American fiscus was in a healthy state in the Fall of 2000.
ref: 2002, Sue Eleanor Headlee, A Year Inside the Beltway: Making Economic Policy in Washington, →ISBN:
text: The soundness of the fiscal position enabled government to respond aggressively to the recent global financial crisis by raising spending and debt without compromising the long run sustainability of the fiscus.
ref: 2012, Cees Bruggemans, Elsebe' Loots, Economic Perspectives: Ruiterbosch Essays in honour of Peet Strydom, →ISBN:
glosses: A government treasury.
fissis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissi
flamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamen
bibliological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bibliological
form: most bibliological
Etymology: From biblio- + -logical or bibliology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bibliology.
divorcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divorcer
edificial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəl
Etymology: Latin aedificialis.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an edifice; structural.
empassion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpæʃən/
Forms: form: empassions
form: empassioning
form: empassioned
form: empassioned
Etymology: From em- + passion.
Senses: examples: text: Those sights empassion me full near.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic spelling of impassion.
empassioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empassion
empassioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more empassioned
form: most empassioned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of impassioned.
empassioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empassion
empassions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empassion
farmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)məʊst/
Etymology: From far + -most.
Senses: examples: text: A spacious cave within its farmost part.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: furthermost
glosses: Most distant; farthest.
garlandless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From garland + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Dragged to his altars soiled and garlandles
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “(please specify the page)”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], →OCLC:
glosses: Destitute of a garland.
insatiableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insatiable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being insatiable.
jointureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jointure + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no jointure.
jovialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jovialists
Etymology: From jovial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: What talk we to these jovialists? It is liberty , with them , for a man to speak what he thinks , to take what he likes , to do what he lists ; without restriction , without controulment
ref: 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth:
glosses: Someone who lives a jovial life; a fun-lover
jovialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jovialist
lapidified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lapidify
lapidifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lapidify
lapidify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lapidifies
form: lapidifying
form: lapidified
form: lapidified
Etymology: From Latin lapis (“stone”) + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To become stone or stony.
glosses: To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
examples: text: The rule of the Abang, in an age when the techniques existed to lapidify any rule to permanency, was, because of the very rise of a party, doomed.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 303:
glosses: To cause to become permanent; to solidify.
Related terms: lapidification
lapidifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lapidify
misinformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misinformers
Etymology: From misinform + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Framing everything as a grand conflict against scheming enemies can feel enormously reassuring. And that’s why perhaps the greatest culprit of our era of misinformation may be, more than any one particular misinformer, the era-defining rise in social polarization.
ref: 2021 May 7, Max Fisher, “‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2021:
synonyms: misinformant
glosses: One who misinforms.
misinformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misinformer
reparably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reparably
form: most reparably
Etymology: From reparable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: reparably operational performance level
text: reparably flawed
antonyms: irreparably
glosses: In a reparable manner; in such a way that can be repaired.
supravulgar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supravulgar
form: most supravulgar
Etymology: From supra- + vulgar.
Senses: examples: text: none of these Motives can prevail with a Man, to furnish himself with Supravulgar and Noble Quialities
ref: 1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:
glosses: Above the vulgar or common people.
veratrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veratrates
Etymology: From veratric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of veratric acid.
veratrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veratrate
bizzos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bizzo
affrontee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affrontees
Etymology: From affront + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: the affront given, out at once go affronter and affrontee
ref: 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English:
glosses: One who receives an affront.
affrontee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: HAGE of BIMERSIDE, an old Family in the Shire of Berwick; of which before: Azure, a Saltier, between two Stars in Chief and Base; and in the Flanks, two Crescents affrontee Argent, i. e. a Decrescent and Increscent.
ref: 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 250:
text: Gules, a saracen's head erased affrontee filletted argent and azure, on a chief or three roses gules.
ref: 1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 238:
text: The regular, repeated, symmetrical pattern features two peacocks affrontee with tails spread above their heads along two arcs of a circle, forming a fan on the axis of which a small tree with palmettes stands in a pot with two smaller birds facing away[…]
ref: 1986, Marie-Madeleine Gauthier, Highways of the Faith: Relics and Reliquaries from Jerusalem to Compostela, Book Sales:
glosses: Alternative form of affronté.
affrontees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affrontee
doctoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctoresses
form: doctress
Etymology: From doctor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female doctor.
Synonyms: word: doctrix
Related terms: Drss.
fulmineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fulmineous
form: most fulmineous
Etymology: Latin fulmen (“thunder”).
Senses: glosses: fulminous; of or pertaining to thunder.
glottology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡlɒˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: Coined based on Ancient Greek γλῶττα (glôtta, “tongue, language”) + -logy. Compare glotto-.
Senses: glosses: The science of languages
Synonyms: glossology
linguistics
Derived terms: glottological
glottologist
isochronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: isochronal
Derived terms: anisochronic
Related terms: diachronic
isochrone
synchronic
jarnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarnuts
form: jar-nut
Etymology: Of Scandinavian origin: compare Danish jordnöd. Also with corresponding consonantal inlaut yarnut, and without one in arnut.
Senses: glosses: An earthnut, Bunium bulbocastanum.
jarnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jarnut
jigjog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jigjog
form: most jigjog
form: jig-jog
Senses: glosses: Having a jolting motion.
jigjog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jig-jog
Senses: glosses: A jolting motion; a jogging pace.
nitry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nitry
form: most nitry
Etymology: From nitre + -y.
Senses: examples: text: nitry acid
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: nitrous
novennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From novennium (“9-year period”) + -al, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a 9-year period.
Synonyms: enneaeteric
enneatic
numberer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numberers
Etymology: From number + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who numbers.
numberers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numberer
beauish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beauish
form: most beauish
Etymology: From beau + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: a beauish gentleman
synonyms: word: dandiacal
word: buckish
word: beauish
word: buckish
word: coxcombical
word: dandiacal
word: dandified
word: dandy
word: dandyish
word: dandyistic
word: dudish
word: foppish
word: foppy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: lily-handed
word: macaronic
word: swellish
word: Woosterian
glosses: Like a beau; characteristic of a beau
electrotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electrotype + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: galvanoplasty
glosses: the act or process of making electrotypes
fruiteress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruiteresses
Etymology: From fruiterer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A woman who sells fruit; a female fruiterer.
fruiteresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruiteress
indivertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + divertible.
Senses: synonyms: indivertable
glosses: Incapable of being diverted.
neoterist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoterists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεότερος (neóteros, “newer”) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A neologist (someone who introduces new words)
Related terms: neoterism
neoterists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoterist
posingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more posingly
form: most posingly
Etymology: From posing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a posing (puzzling, challenging) manner
posingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more posingly
form: most posingly
Etymology: From posing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to pose (e.g. for a photo).
sheafy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sheafy
form: most sheafy
Etymology: From sheaf + -y.
Senses: synonyms: sheaflike
glosses: Pertaining to, or consisting of, a sheaf or sheaves; resembling a sheaf.
spiketail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiketails
Etymology: From spike + tail.
Senses: glosses: A pintail duck (Anas spp.).
synonyms: biddie
flying adder
glosses: A dragonfly of family Cordulegastridae
Derived terms: Apache spiketail
arrowhead spiketail
brown spiketail
delta-spotted spiketail
Ouachita spiketail
Pacific spiketail
Say's spiketail
spiketail gourami
spiketail molly
spiketail paradisefish
tiger spiketail
twin-spotted spiketail
spiketails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiketail
diplomatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diplomat + -ism.
Senses: glosses: diplomacy
flittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flittingly
form: most flittingly
Etymology: From flitting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: fly flittingly
glosses: With a flitting motion.
subpurchaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpurchasers
Etymology: From sub- + purchaser.
Senses: glosses: A purchaser who buys from another purchaser; someone who buys second-hand.
Related terms: subpurchase
subpurchasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpurchaser
thrivingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thriving + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of something or sometone who thrives; prosperity; growth.
umpress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umpresses
Etymology: From umpire + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Thy glorious triumph with what language hit, O'er sense, o'er learning, modesty and wit; Yes, yes, my foe, in triumph I survey — Myself sole umpress of thy every lay:
ref: 1750 September, “The New Book of the Dunciad”, in The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged, volume 3, page 373:
text: and when he stooped to receive the accustomed reward, and claim the accustomed salute, his eyes were for the first time drawn to a momentary gaze at those of the beautiful umpress.
ref: 1840, The Glasgow University Album, page 62:
text: Nevertheless, when Carroll should come to New York, he would seek him out; and if he found him worthy of his lance, and so disposed, they would buckle on their armor, each, and tilt it out. The prize herself should be the umpress.
ref: 1870, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Queen Titania, page 279:
text: The Calgary Y's Man states that Mrs. Brown was the “Umpress" of the ball game.
ref: 1928, Young Men - Volume 54, page 558:
text: I think we may see the day. Can't you hear it . . . kill the umpress. — Dick Butler , American League supervisor of umpires.
ref: 1980, Bonnie L. Parkhouse, Jackie Lapin, Women Who Win:
text: (see title)
ref: 1984 July 30, Sandy Keenan, “The Umpress Strikes Back”, in Sports Illustrated:
glosses: A female umpire.
umpresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umpress