cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lay one's tongue to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays one's tongue to
form: laying one's tongue to
form: laid one's tongue to
form: laid one's tongue to
Senses: examples: text: Mr Lightwood, I will now name to you, that on behalf of the poor dear boy, me and Mrs Boffin have stood out against the old man times out of number, till he has called us every name he could lay his tongue to.
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:
text: He’s been dabbling in every sort of fool thing you can lay your tongue to,—wild-cat stocks, patent-rights, land speculations, oil claims,—till he’s run through about everything.
ref: 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter 20, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
text: He was a terrible man. You couldn’t lay your tongue to a wickedness he had not been in the forefront of—drinking, duelling, gambling,—all manner of sins had been meat and drink to him since he was a boy almost.
ref: 1888, Charlotte Riddell, “The Last of Squire Ennismore”, in David Marcus, editor, The Poolbeg Book of Irish Ghost Stories, Dublin: Poolbeg, published 1990, page 255:
text: Your face I have seen, and your coat-armor also, young sir, though I cannot lay my tongue to your name.
ref: 1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 17, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC:
text: Canaille! Canaglia! Schweinerei! He loathed them in all the languages he could lay his tongue to.
ref: 1923, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 12, in Kangaroo, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, page 262:
text: Now it’s none of my business […] to try to make a man’s mind up for him between two girls. His politics I’ll lecture him on while my breath lasts, but the other thing I won’t lay my tongue to.
ref: 1953, Shirley Barker, chapter 9, in Fire and the Hammer,, New York: Crown:
glosses: To say; to name; to think of to say.
acromegaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acromegaly + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of acromegaly.
glosses: Resembling acromegaly (but pathophysiologically distinct).
Derived terms: acromegaloidism
guard one's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guards one's tongue
form: guarding one's tongue
form: guarded one's tongue
form: guarded one's tongue
Senses: examples: text: 1696, Aphra Behn, “Love-Letters to a Gentleman,” Letter 3, in All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, London: Samuel Briscoe, p. 47,
[…] though I scorn to guard my Tongue, as hoping ’twill never offend willingly; yet I can, with much adoe, hold it, when I have a great mind to say a thousand things I know will be taken in an ill sence.
text: […] of course it is a little out of character to call upon me to guard my tongue, when it is the privilege of a freeman to speak his mind […]
ref: 1793, John Trusler, chapter 36, in Life; or, The Adventures of William Ramble, Esq., volume 3, London: for the author, page 86:
text: Oh, Howard, Howard, the things you have uttered when you were forgetting to guard your tongue, have betrayed you.
ref: 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIII, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 241:
text: But in spite of the affection she felt for her charming mother-in-law, Arnon had extended no confidences. Her father had warned her to guard her tongue in the presence of these people.
ref: 1948, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 2, in The Big Fisherman, Toronto: Thomas Allen, page 30:
glosses: To be careful in what one says; to avoid divulging information or speaking in a way considered to be inappropriate or offensive.
half-past-six
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Unknown, supposedly referring to the angle of a flaccid penis (6:30 on a clock).
Senses: examples: text: Hence, its ill-repute of shoddiness and unreliability, as one is criticised for “half-past six work” or an organisation being labelled as a “half-past six company.”
ref: 2005, David Leo, Life's so like dat, illustrated edition, Pagesetters Services, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Lately there has been a lot of talk by politicians about our being a “half-past-six” nation.
ref: 2006 May 12, “What is ‘half-past-six’?”, in The Star:
text: Nah...for such shoddy half past six work...i will stick to my own camera, Tey or Snap-Attack.com!
ref: 2010 June 29, Lim Ee-Van, “What God Made, Human Must Not Divide”, in Tristupe (blog), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2016:
text: A RESPECTABLE statesman once said if a country surrenders its sovereignty, it may become a half-past-six country.
ref: 2018 July 21, Datuk Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid, “Staying clear of the half-past-six conundrum”, in The New Straits Times:
glosses: Careless; shoddy.
examples: text: Whatever Mahathir's shortcomings were, he cannot be accused of being a half-past six leader. The problem with Pak Lah[…]is that all the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men cannot prove that he is not one.
ref: 2006 June 15, pluto, “mkl= Pak Lah must prove he’s not ‘half-past six”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
glosses: Incompetent.
Related terms: half past
adenylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The enzyme adenylyl cyclase
Derived terms: oligoadenylase
polyadenylase
adenylylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adenylylates
form: adenylylating
form: adenylylated
form: adenylylated
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To undergo, or to carry out adenylylation
Derived terms: deadenylylate
adenylylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adenylylate
adenylylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has undergone adenylylation
Derived terms: preadenylylated
unadenylylated
agmatoploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄγματ- (ágmat-), stem of ἄγμα (ágma, “fragment”) + -o- + -ploidy. Coined by Malheiros-Gardé and Gardé (1950).
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: symploidy
glosses: The fragmentation of one or more chromosomes (particularly all chromosomes), leading to an increased chromosome number but no additional genetic material.
Related terms: agmatoploid
chromosome number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromosome numbers
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The number of chromosomes in each cell of an organism
Related terms: haploid
diploid
polyploid
agroinfiltrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agroinfiltrates
form: agroinfiltrating
form: agroinfiltrated
form: agroinfiltrated
Etymology: From agro- + infiltrate.
Senses: glosses: To undergo agroinfiltration
allocolchicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allocolchicines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The antimitotic agent methyl 5-acetylamino-6,7-dihydro-9,10,11-trimethoxy-5H-dibenzo(a,c)cycloheptene-3-carboxylate
allocolchicines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allocolchicine
ambystomatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of ambystomatids
amphisbenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphisbenians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amphisbaenian.
amphisbenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphisbenian
anacrophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anacrophores
Etymology: From an- + acrophore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that lacks an acrophore
anacrophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anacrophore
anammoxosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anammoxosome
angustidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoterpenoid indole alkaloid 18-methyl-3,13,17-triazapentacyclo[11.8.0.02,10.04,9.015,20]henicosa-1(21),2(10),4,6,8,15(20),16,18-octaen-14-one
Related terms: angustine
angustoline
angustine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An indole alkaloid 19-ethenyl-3,13,17-triazapentacyclo[11.8.0.02,10.04,9.015,20]henicosa-1(21),2(10),4,6,8,15(20),16,18-octaen-14-one
Related terms: angustidine
angustoline
angustoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An indole alkaloid (1-hydroxyethyl)indolo[2',3':3,4]pyrido[1,2-b][2,7]naphthyridin-5(7H)-one
Related terms: angustidine
angustine
anisochrony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anisochronies
Senses: glosses: The condition of being anisochronous
anisochronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + isochronous.
Senses: glosses: Not isochronous
anisorhizas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anisorhiza
ankylothecodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ankylo- + thecodont.
Senses: glosses: placed in deep sockets and fused to the bone
raw_tags: of teeth
antagonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of antagonistically.
anterioseptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anteroseptal.
antharcycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anthracycline.
anthomedusan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthomedusans
Senses: glosses: Any hydrozoan of the former order Anthomedusae (now Anthoathecata)
anthomedusans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthomedusan
anticlastogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being anticlastogenic
antigelatinolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + gelatinolytic.
Senses: glosses: That inhibits gelatinolysis
antihelmintics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihelmintic
antimitochondria
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antimitochondrial.
antischistomiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + schistomiasis.
Senses: glosses: That counters schistomiasis
apatotherian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apatotherians
Senses: glosses: Any extinct mammal of the suborder †Apatotheria (sole family: †Apatemyidae)
apatotherians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apatotherian
apolemiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apolemiids
Senses: glosses: Any siphonophore of the family Apolemiidae
apolemiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apolemiid
arabinofuranosyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinofuranosyltransferases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that moves arabinofuranosyl groups
artocyonid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arctocyonid.
asialoglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asialoglycans
Etymology: From a- + sialoglycan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycan that lacks sialic acid groups
asialoglycans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asialoglycan
atheroprogressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From athero- + progressive.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or promoting atheroprogression
audiospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From audio- + spinal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to sound and the movement of the spine and thus to a person's gait
augerpeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augerpeptides
Senses: glosses: Amy of a group of toxic peptides present in some venomous marine snails
augerpeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of augerpeptide
australobatrachian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: australobatrachians
Senses: glosses: Any frog of the suborder Australobatrachia
autoperfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + perfusion.
Senses: glosses: Passive perfusion, typically during surgery
autopurification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From auto- + purification.
Senses: glosses: automated purification
glosses: self-purification
Related terms: autopurifying
basigaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basigasters
Senses: glosses: The anus of a siphonophore
basigasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basigaster
batrachylid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batrachylids
Senses: glosses: Any frog of the family Batrachylidae
batrachylids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batrachylid
bicotylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + cotylar.
Senses: glosses: Having two cotyles
bidentalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bidentalians
Senses: glosses: Any extinct therapsid of the superfamily Bidentalia
bidentalians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidentalian
biointeractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biointeraction
bioselection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + selection.
Senses: glosses: biological selection
biotherapeutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + therapeutical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biotherapeutic.
brachypodism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brachy- + -pod + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having short legs
bulliforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulliform
caeliferan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caeliferans
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the suborder Caelifera
caeliferans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caeliferan
caleosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caleosins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of plant proteins that bind calcium
caleosins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caleosin
capnometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to capnometry
capsidiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpenoid present in tobacco and some peppers
cardiomyocytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cardiomyocytic.
cardiomyokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiomyokines
Etymology: From cardio- + myokine.
Senses: glosses: A cytokine in the muscle of the heart
cardiomyokines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiomyokine
cardiotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiotropins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cardiotrophin.
carioprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cario- + protective.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: That provides protection against caries
Related terms: cardioprotective
snothe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of snithe
rottedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English rotednesse; equivalent to rotted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That in others of these states, [and particularly in those to the eastward of the union,¹] this germ of rottedness in the constitution of juries has been carefully excluded, and their laws have provided with laudable foresight for the appointment of jurors by selectmen chosen by the people themselves[…]
ref: 1798 October 24, Thomas Jefferson, “Petition of the Election of Jurors”, in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1795-1801, published 1896, page 285:
text: To behold earth itself as compost (rather than a small section or heap of it) is to behold it in the condition of rottedness and manure, of waste and leavings. But the shift is not only tonal or textural, from sweet green growth to fetid brown decay.
ref: 1980, Enid Rhodes Peschel, Medicine and literature, page 197:
text: […] Then, in the crisp rottedness / That lines the question marks of steam / Coiling out of the potholes / Which I manage to avoid for the most part, / I ponder my wheelbarrow , and all / Of its inner-meaning, / which is far sweeter […]
ref: 2006 January 1, Michael Dumanis, Cate Marvin, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, page 225:
synonyms: rottenness
glosses: rottenness
rottingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English rotyngnesse; equivalent to rotting + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He sent women down to the beach to collect the guttings and debris left there, the rottingness of fish which stank so badly, the unsaltable entrails of cod and plaice and porpoise in wooden buckets.
ref: 1992, Helen Flint, Making the angels weep, Heinemann, page 25:
text: […]I felt as though I could never get away from death and...and rottingness, and I wouldn't talk to him any more. I couldn't.' 'I'm not surprised,' said Willow gently. 'But because I wouldn't talk, Andrew started to come home later and later every day, and then afterwards I found out where he'd been.'
ref: 2016 February 1, Natasha Cooper, Sour Grapes: A Willow King Novel 7, Macmillan, page 93:
text: In such an enclosing autism the knowledge that God suffers one's agony can be a delivering knowledge indeed: One is not at all a vessel of rottingness; one is a real, living, feeling consciousness, even in the extreme experience of suffering - […]
ref: 2018 February 19, Aharon R. E. Agus, Hermeneutic Biography in Rabbinic Midrash: The Body of this Death and Life, Walter de Gruyter, page 222:
glosses: Something which is undergoing rot or decomposition.
sardelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sardelle
twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: stuck twin syndrome
TTTS
glosses: A complication of disproportionate blood supply between unborn twins, resulting in high morbidity and mortality.
Pele's tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pele's tear
Etymology: Named after Pele, the Hawaiian fire goddess of volcanoes.
Senses: glosses: Small black pieces of solidified lava formed when airborne particles of molten material fuse into tear-like drops of volcanic glass.
Related terms: word: Pele's hair
word: Apache tear
english: Rupert's drop
translation: Rupert's drop
word: glass tear
fantasmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fantasmatic
form: most fantasmatic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phantasmatic.
Sommerfeld's constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The fine-structure constant.
wikipedia: Arnold Sommerfeld
patent outside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patent outsides
Senses: glosses: A newspaper printed only on the outside, sold to a publisher who fills the other side with local news or other material.
Coordinate terms: patent inside
patent inside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patent insides
Senses: glosses: A newspaper like a patent outside but printed only on the inside.
patent outsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patent outside
patent insides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patent inside
Gothicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gothicism
jumbees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumbee
caspofungins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caspofungin
ceratotrichia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A collection of keratinous filaments that supports a fishes fin
cerianthid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerianthids
Senses: glosses: Any tubular anemone of the family Cerianthidae
cerianthids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerianthid
chalkophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalkophores
form: chalcophore
Etymology: From chalko- (“chalcogen”) + -phore.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any medium-sized molecule that has a high specificity for binding or chelating copper
chalkophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalkophore
champsosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champsosaurs
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Champsosaurus
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere out there, predatory lizards called chapsosaurs and large alligator-like crocodilians lurk, mostly submerged in the water, snapping at fish.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 107:
glosses: Any extinct diapsid reptile of the genus †Champsosaurus.
Hypernyms: diapsid
champsosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champsosaur
chimeriform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimeriforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the order Chimaeriformes
chimeriforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimeriform
chitinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chitinises
form: chitinising
form: chitinised
form: chitinised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chitinize.
chitinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chitinise
chlorocyclohexane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorocyclohexanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro derivative of cyclohexane
chlorocyclopentyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorocyclopentyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro derivative of a cyclopentyl radical (univalent radical derived from chlorocyclopentane)
chlorocyclopentane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorocyclopentanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro derivative of cyclopentane
chloroxime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloroximes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro derivative of an oxime RC(Cl)=NOH.
glosses: Misspelling of chloroxine.
chloroxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular antibacterial drug
healing lodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: healing lodges
Senses: glosses: an alternative to prison used in the Canadian correctional system for indigenous offenders
chronotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chrono- + typical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chronotypic.
chumsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃʌmsɪkl̩/
Forms: form: chumsicles
Etymology: From chum + -sicle.
Senses: glosses: A compact (sometimes frozen) ball of chum for feeding to sharks
chumsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chumsicle
cimolestid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cimolestids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct eutherian of the family †Cimolestidae
cimolestids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cimolestid
cnidoband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cnidobands
Senses: glosses: A band of cnidocytes on a cnidarian
cnidobands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cnidoband
cnidopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cnidopods
Senses: glosses: The stalklike base of a nematocyst
cnidopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cnidopod
cnidosac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cnidosacs
Senses: glosses: A group of cnidocytes, retained by some sea slugs that feed on cnidarians
cnidosacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cnidosac
teuch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: teucher
form: teuchest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teugh.
codonophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codonophorans
Senses: glosses: Any hydrozoan of the order Codonophora.
codonophorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codonophoran
colostrogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of colostrum, typically in cattle
lion hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lion hunters
Senses: glosses: One who runs after celebrities with foolish adulation, or seeking reflected glory from their company.
Related terms: english: famous person
translation: famous person
word: lion
word: Mrs. Leo Hunter
conductional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conduction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or by means of conduction
lion hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lion hunter
conodipine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conodipines
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phospholipase in the venom of cone snails
conodipines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conodipine
fish coop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish coops
Senses: glosses: A square box with a hole in the bottom, used in ice fishing.
fish coops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish coop
conomarphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conomarphins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide in the venom of some cone snails
conomarphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conomarphin
contrabiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contra- + biotic.
Senses: glosses: That counters the action of microbes
contryphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contryphans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide in the venom of some cone snails
contryphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contryphan
coverboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coverboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cover board.
coverboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coverboard
cryoexposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + exposure.
Senses: glosses: exposure to low temperatures (especially to freezing)
hark-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːkbæk/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹkˌbæk/
Forms: form: hark-backs
form: hark back
Etymology: Deverbal from hark back.
Senses: topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
examples: text: The addendum cancelling the closures refers to 14 pages […] in which Table 183 is reproduced in its old form with connections to and from Liverpool, Bradford, York, Edinburgh etc. – a hark-back to G.C. ambitions.
ref: 1961 June, “Talking of Trains: Early Timetables – but at a Price”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 325:
synonyms: callback
glosses: An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event).
hark-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hark-back
cryofractured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cryofracture
glass painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass paintings
Senses: glosses: The art of producing pictures on glass by means of chemical staining.
glosses: A picture produced by this means.
glass paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass painting
cryopuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cryopunctures
form: cryopuncturing
form: cryopunctured
form: cryopunctured
Etymology: From cryo- + puncture.
Senses: glosses: To puncture by exposure to low temperature, especially to freezing
cryopunctured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cryopuncture
rice hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice hens
Senses: glosses: The common American gallinule.
rice hens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice hen
rose vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose vinegars
Senses: glosses: An infusion made by steeping roses in vinegar.
rose vinegars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose vinegar
sigillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigillations
Senses: glosses: A sigillate pattern.
decationize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decationizes
form: decationizing
form: decationized
form: decationized
Senses: glosses: To remove cations (from)
Related terms: decationization
sigillations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigillation
decationized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decationize
decationization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process, or the result of decationizing
deethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deethylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of ethyl groups from a molecule.
glosses: Misspelling of demethylation.
postmillenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊst.mɪləˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌpoʊst.mɪləˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: postmillenarians
Senses: glosses: One who believes in postmillennialism.
postmillenarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postmillenarian
deflox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defloxes
form: defloxing
form: defloxed
form: defloxed
Etymology: From de- + flox.
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: To remove a DNA sequence from between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP"
defloxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deflox
defloxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deflox
dermatoglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermatoglyphs
Etymology: From dermato- + glyph.
Senses: glosses: The pattern of loops, arches and whorls on the skin of a finger or foot
Related terms: dermatoglyphic
dermatoglyphics
dermatoglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermatoglyph
derubylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deRUBylation
Etymology: From de- + rubylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Removal of the protein "RUB" related to ubiquitin
desmonemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmoneme
desomatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desomatizes
form: desomatizing
form: desomatized
form: desomatized
Etymology: From de- + somatize.
Senses: glosses: To express physical symptoms as emotions
Related terms: desomatization
desomatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + somatization.
Senses: glosses: The process or the result of desomatizing
desomatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desomatize
oranges and lemons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional English children's game, in which a rhyme is chanted as the players file, in pairs, through an arch formed by two other players' clasped hands. Those caught when the hands descend then form another adjacent arch.
desomosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of desmosomal.
detremental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of detrimental.
floss holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floss hole
rose campion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose campions
Senses: synonyms: bloody William
gardener's delight
gardener's eye
glosses: The flowering plant Silene coronaria (syn. Lychnis coronaria).
rose campions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose campion
gardener's delight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardener's delights
Senses: glosses: rose campion (Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria)
gardener's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardener's eyes
Senses: glosses: rose campion (Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria).
bloody William
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloody Williams
Senses: glosses: rose campion (Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria)
scan. mag.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: An action of scan. mag. was brought for these words, “There are more Jesuits come into England since the Earl of Northampton was Lord of the Cinque Ports, than ever there were before,” and held actionable.
ref: 1820, Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Law-Dictionary:
glosses: Abbreviation of scandalum magnatum.
four corners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If Republicans don't think it's a coup or doesn't fit this definition of a coup in all four corners then I'd love to hear what they would call it.
ref: 2020 December 1, Charles Joseph Scarborough, “Morning Joe for December 1, 2020” (1:23:00 from the start), in Morning Joe, via MSNBC:
topics: law
glosses: The face of a document or its contents, considered without reference to any outside information.
glosses: A major intersection and/or economic center in a town
rewordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rewordable
form: most rewordable
Etymology: From reword + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be expressed in different words.
retirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retirable
form: most retirable
Etymology: From retire + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able or due to be retired.
devil's bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's-bit
Etymology: Calque of Latin morsus diaboli.
Senses: glosses: devil's bit scabious (Succisa pratensis), native to Europe.
glosses: blazing star (Chamaelirium luteum), native to North America.
serenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serenizes
form: serenizing
form: serenized
form: serenized
Etymology: From serene + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make bright; to glorify.
serenise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serenises
form: serenising
form: serenised
form: serenised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of serenize.
serenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serenize
serenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serenize
serenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serenize
serenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serenise
serenises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serenise
serenising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serenise
curaçoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curaçoas
Senses: examples: text: And after that, comes Mrs Veneering, in a pervadingly aquiline state of figure, and with transparent little knobs on her temper, like the little transparent knob on the bridge of her nose, ‘Worn out by worry and excitement,’ as she tells her dear Mr Twemlow, and reluctantly revived with curaçoa by the Analytical.
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, book the first (The Cup and the Lip), page 89:
glosses: Dated form of curaçao.
curaçoas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curaçoa
dartist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dartists
Etymology: Blend of dart + artist
Senses: examples: text: Dartists stood grouped before the two boards in the public bar, the counter full of elbows, the tables crowded.
ref: 1945, Henry Gibbs, Blue Days and Fair:
text: So while a "bull" (as the dartists term a bull's-eye) is nice, it is as difficult to hit the narrow red or green strips circling the board and that have different point values.
ref: 2003, Gerald Eskenazi, A Sportswriter's Life: From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter:
text: He'd assumed that the Hollow Head's dartists would all come from the area around the pub, or at least from somewhere in the borough of Cowden.
ref: 2003, Mat Coward, In and Out, page 31:
glosses: A skilled darts player.
dartists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dartist
atrypaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atrypacean
subreflector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subreflectors
Etymology: From sub- + reflector.
Senses: glosses: A telescope's secondary reflector.
rubberhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubberheads
Etymology: From rubber + head.
Senses: glosses: An employee of a theme park or similar attraction who wears a full-body costume.
rubberheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubberhead
ravelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravelments
Etymology: From ravel + -ment.
Senses: glosses: confusion; entanglement
glosses: discord; disagreement
ravelments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ravelment
Arguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argus
arguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argus
Court of Aids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Courts of Aids
Etymology: Calque of French Cour des Aides
Senses: glosses: A sovereign court in Ancien Régime France, dealing with customs and other matters of public finance.
Courts of Aids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Court of Aids
too too
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "[…] couldn't beat them. It would be really too too!"
Lady fflote, already purple with the heat, went almost black at the suggestion of beating the Mexican hairless.
"Beat them!" she ejaculated. "Oh that would be very wrong. […]"
ref: 1921, Anthony M. Ludovici, Too Old for Dolls, page 104:
glosses: Extreme; excessive.
examples: text: […] perhaps rather impishly, if she had ever sought professional garden advice from the "Too-too" lady—who shall remain nameless.
ref: 1952, The Illustrated London News:
glosses: Affectedly sentimental; gushing.
examples: text: "Do you think you dance too much?" "Well, not too too much."
glosses: To an extreme degree.
spondylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spondyle + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to spondyles; vertebral
cliqueyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cliquey + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cliquiness.
ice-covered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: covered with a layer of ice, e.g. water; frozen over
Synonyms: iced-over
tiddly-om-pom-pom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: tiddely-om-pom-pom
form: tiddley-om-pom-pom
Senses: examples: text: I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom!
Where the brass bands play Tiddely-om-pom-pom!
ref: 1907, John Glover-Kind, “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside”, performed by Mark Sheridan:
qualifier: imitative
glosses: Meaningless words used to hum a tune or indicate a certain type of rhythm.
fish odor syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Trimethylaminuria.
fish malodor syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Trimethylaminutia.
autopterotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pterotic.
synonyms: word: pterotic
autopterotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autopterotics
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pterotic.
synonyms: word: pterotic
autopterotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autopterotic
reautopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reautopsies
Etymology: From re- + autopsy.
Senses: examples: text: Amid accusations of a cover-up, relatives of the deceased demanded a reautopsy.
glosses: A second or subsequent autopsy of the same body.
reautopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reautopsies
form: reautopsying
form: reautopsied
form: reautopsied
Etymology: From re- + autopsy.
Senses: glosses: To carry out another autopsy on.
reautopsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reautopsy
reautopsies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reautopsy
reautopsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reautopsy
reautopsying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reautopsy
pretriage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + triage.
Senses: glosses: Before a triage phase.
intraglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: From intra- + glottic.
Senses: glosses: Within the glottis.
extraglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: From extra- + glottic.
Senses: glosses: Outside the glottis.
extraepiglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + epiglottic.
Senses: glosses: Outside the epiglottis.
Aunt Jemima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aunt Jemimas
Etymology: From Aunt Jemima, a stereotypical black mammy used to advertise a popular American pancake mixture brand of the same name. American newspaper managing editor Chris L. Rutt is credited with coming up with the name, inspired by the song “Old Aunt Jemima” (written in 1875) after reportedly seeing a minstrel show featuring it in the fall of 1889. A British image in the Library of Congress, which may have been created as early as 1847, shows a smiling black woman named “Miss Jim-Ima Crow”, with a framed image of “James Crow” on the wall behind her; a character named “Aunt Jemima” appeared on the stage in Washington, D.C., as early as 1864.
Senses: synonyms: Aunt Jane
Aunt Thomasina
coconut
Oreo
glosses: A black woman who is obsequiously servile to white authority, a black female race traitor.
wikipedia: Aunt Jemima#Character of Aunt Jemima
Chris L. Rutt
Old Aunt Jemima
Hypernyms: race traitor
Aunt Jemimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aunt Jemima
foodlegger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodleggers
Etymology: Blend of food + bootlegger. Attested since circa 1941.
Senses: examples: text: Foodleggers. One sinister development that aggravated the food situation was the rise in wartime Britain of a new kind of criminal: the food racketeer. Like gangsters who terrorized the U.S. under Prohibition, foodleggers have highjacked trucks ...
ref: 1941, Time:
text: All branches of the retail industry agreed that the plan, far from being selfish on our part, would [provide] food in normal and equitably established channels, making food available for all types of stores without creating foodleggers and black markets.
ref: 1943, A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business: […] :
text: Recent price controls on butter are rapidly helping to make this item as popular as meat with "foodleggers," and the ceilings on fresh vegetables are an open invitation to black market operators to enter this field.
ref: 1950, David Hinshaw, Herbert Hoover: American Quaker:
glosses: An illicit foodseller, especially in a jurisdiction where food is subject to rationing.
foodleggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodlegger
nefesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ (néfesh, “soul”).
Senses: glosses: One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to natural instinct.
Coordinate terms: chaya
chayah
haya
hayah
neshama
neshamah
ruach
yechidah
Derived terms: pikuach nefesh
ruach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruakh
Etymology: From Hebrew רוּחַ (rúakh, “spirit”).
Senses: examples: text: Despite the misuse of the virginal conception to disparage women’s active use of their sexuality, this event actually subverts patriarchy by replacing the usual male participation with ruah, the creative Spirit of God.
ref: 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
glosses: One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to emotion and morality.
Coordinate terms: chaya
chayah
haya
hayah
nefesh
neshama
neshamah
yechidah
yechidah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew יְחִידָה (y'khidá, “unity”).
Senses: glosses: One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, that of being one with God.
Coordinate terms: chaya
chayah
haya
hayah
nefesh
neshama
neshamah
ruach
chayah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chaya.
hayah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chaya.
royal cashmere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thin material of pure wool.
foodlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From foodless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without food.
royal mast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal masts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The fourth and highest part of the mast from the deck, commonly made in one piece with the topgallant mast.
royal masts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of royal mast
busheler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushelers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of busheller.
bushelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busheler
busheller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushellers
form: busheler
Etymology: From bushel + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: glosses: A person who bushels, or repairs clothes.
glosses: A person who packs grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.
bushellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busheller
polytechnically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more polytechnically
form: most polytechnically
Senses: glosses: In a polytechnic manner.
puzzolano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzolanos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pozzolana.
puzzolanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puzzolano