cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lillyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.
Lillyanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.
Lilyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.
Lilyann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilian.
Lillia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Lilia.
figurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figurers
Etymology: From figure + -er.
Senses: examples: text: With its aid they are quick and nimble figurers. The next digital computer was the adding or calculating machine first completed in 1642 by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
ref: 1962, The Book of Knowledge: The Children's Encyclopedia, page 1655:
glosses: One who figures or calculates.
opacous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin opacus (“shaded, shady, dark”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The firm opacous Globe / Of this round World, whose first convex divides / The luminous inferior Orbs.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Not shining or illuminated; dark.
examples: text: And vve particularly remember, that, being at ſome diſtance from London one Night, that the People, upon a very vvell-come Occaſion, teſtified their Joy by numerous Bon-fires; though, by reaſon of the Interpoſition of the Houſes, vve could not ſee the Fires themſelves, yet vve could plainly ſee the Air all enlighten'd over and near the City; vvhich argu'd, that the lucid Beams ſhot upvvards from the Fires, met in the Air with the Corpuſcles opacous enough to reflect them to our Eyes.
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 37]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 309:
text: [I]f you take ammel that is almost opacous, and grind it very well on a Porphyry, or Serpentine, the small particles will by reason of their flaws, appear perfectly opacous […]
ref: 1665, R[obert] Hooke, chapter X, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a fly.
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
glosses: Not allowing the passage of light; opaque.
Derived terms: opacousness
semiopacous
homeborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From home + born.
Senses: glosses: born in a given place, native, indigenous
glosses: born at home, by homebirth, rather than in a hospital
place-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: place-names
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of placename.
place-names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of place-name
first ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first lady
First Ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of First Lady
sujuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sujuks
form: soudjouk
Etymology: From Turkish sucuk. Doublet of soutzouki.
Senses: glosses: A dry, spicy sausage of Ottoman Turkish origin that is popular in the Middle East, Central Asia and Southeastern Europe and, to a lesser extent, in other regions that used to be part of the Ottoman Empire. It consists of ground meat (usually beef) mixed with spices including cumin, sumac, garlic, salt, and red pepper, fed into a sausage casing and allowed to dry for several weeks.
synonyms: churchkhela
soutzoukos
glosses: A sausage-shaped confection, made from walnuts sewn onto a string, and dipped in thickened grape must and dried.
sujuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sujuk
point of order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: points of order
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A motion calling attention to a breach of order of the rules.
points of order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point of order
TEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TECs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of thermoelectric cooler: an electrical heat-transferring device which applies the Peltier effect.
examples: text: I strap out, step out in every direction / Glock, TECs, jimmy hats, in case I need protection
ref: 1993, “Just Another Day”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
text: Rep your set, grab a TEC / Leave you wet and project / In the cut like Gillette / Where they serve and don't protect
ref: 2019, “ZUU”, in ZUU, performed by Denzel Curry:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Ellipsis of TEC-9.
TEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of The Episcopal Church.
antiacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiacids
Etymology: From anti- + acid.
Senses: glosses: Antacid.
antiacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiacid
taciturnous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taciturnous
form: most taciturnous
Etymology: From Latin taciturnus.
Senses: glosses: Taciturn.
salad dressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salad dressings
Senses: glosses: A sauce, such as mayonnaise, used to flavour or season a salad.
Hyponyms: balsamic vinegar
blue cheese dressing
Caesar dressing
Catalina dressing
dijon
dressing
French dressing
hummus
Italian dressing
Louis dressing
mayonnaise
ranch
ranch dressing
Russian dressing
salad
salad cream
tahini
Thousand Island dressing
vinaigrette
salad dressings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salad dressing
salad oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salad oils
Senses: glosses: Any oil used in or as a salad dressing.
glosses: An edible vegetable oil other than olive oil, as corn oil or sesame oil
examples: text: An entrepreneur named Anthony DeAngelis rented petroleum tanks in New Jersey and filled them with seawater, with the exception of just one smaller tank, nested inside a larger tank, which he filled with salad oil.
ref: 2006 May 5, Thomas W. Golden, Steven L. Skalak, Mona M. Clayton, Jessica S. Pill, A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation, Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Generally, palm oil and its more liquid fraction, palm olein, do not make good salad oils on their own due to high cloud point values.
ref: 2015 September 1, Oi-Ming Lai, Chin-Ping Tan, Casimir C. Akoh, Palm Oil: Production, Processing, Characterization, and Uses, Champaign: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 535:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: industrial
glosses: An edible vegetable oil that is winterized so that it remains liquid at cold temperatures. It is characterized by its light flavor, color, and mouthfeel, which make it ideal for industrial food applications such as the production of mayonnaise. (after 1962, usually): partially hydrogenated refined, bleached, and deodorized (RBD) soybean oil for industrial food manufacturing.
Related terms: salad dressing
salad oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salad oil
ramequin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramequins
Etymology: Borrowed from French ramequin.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ramekin.
salading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saladings
Etymology: From salad + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Vegetables or herbs to be used in a salad.
saladings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salading
taction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactions
Etymology: Latin tactio (“touching”), from perfect passive participle tactus (“sense of feeling”), from tangere (“to touch, feel”) + action suffix -io; see tact.
Senses: examples: text: It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), pages 16–17:
glosses: The act of touching; touch; contact.
glosses: The sense of touch.
tentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentations
Etymology: From Old French tentation, from Latin tentatio, alternative form of temptatio. See temptation.
Senses: examples: text: Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.
ref: 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: Obsolete form of temptation.
glosses: A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.
tentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tentation
Salado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salados
form: Saladoes
Senses: glosses: An ancient culture in Arizona which existed from about 1100–1450 C.E.
glosses: Any of several rivers with this name.
Salados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Salado
Saladoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Salado
salad-oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of salad oil.
adverse party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adverse parties
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The opposing party in a lawsuit under an adversary system of law; adversary.
detented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A UHF tuner having 70 detent positions with fine tuning capability at all locations. Coarse tuning is accomplished via a toothed, detented disk and a spirally-extending rim having a follower lever operable therewith.
ref: 1972, Mayer et al., United States Patent 3760640, abstract
glosses: simple past and past participle of detent
adverse parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adverse party
adverse witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adverse witnesses
Senses: topics: law
glosses: a hostile witness.
adverse witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adverse witness
fourneaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourneau
planification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planifications
Etymology: Affixed plan + -ification. Formed in imitation of a Romance language; compare French planification, Spanish planificación.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: The process of planning.
planifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planification
alluvion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːviən
Forms: form: alluvions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin alluviō.
Senses: examples: text: It was Settled at that period, that alluvions must belong to the riparious owner, according to this natural maxim, that the profit belongs to him who is exposed to suffer the damage, with which riparious property is threatened, no more than any other.
ref: 1809, John Elihu Hall, The American Law Journal and Miscellaneous Repertory:
text: The purchaser of a riparious estate under the words "front to the levee," does not acquire the alluvion or batture, when there is land susceptible of separate ownership beyond the levee.
ref: 1826, William Christy, A Digest of Martin's Reports:
topics: law
glosses: The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.
Related terms: alluvium
accession
appeals court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appeals courts
form: appeal court
Senses: examples: text: That year a U.S. appeals court found the program Snowden had exposed was unlawful and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
ref: 2022 September 26, “Putin grants Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Snowden”, in Mark Trevelyan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022, Europe:
topics: law
glosses: An appellate court, to hear appeals against lower tribunals.
appeals courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appeals court
bench warrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bench warrants
Senses: examples: text: A bench warrant authorizing her immediate arrest was issued despite pleas by her counsel, Chokwe Lumumba, suggesting that she may have been detained by illness, unreliable transportation or other circumstances beyond her control.
ref: 1982 April 17, Nancy Wechsler, “Activists Back in Jail for Refusing To Testify”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: An arrest warrant issued by a court against a person guilty of some contempt or indicted for some crime, authorizing his or her arrest on sight.
bench warrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bench warrant
currylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more currylike
form: most currylike
Etymology: From curry + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The odor is best described as strongly penetrating, irritating, fatty, overpowering, currylike, heavy, spicy, warm, and persistent, even after drying out.
ref: 1999, Kenneth T. Farrell, Spices, Condiments and Seasonings, page 85:
text: It also lacks the pungent aroma of sagebrush, instead imparting only a subtle currylike smell to the air.
ref: 2007, Richard Cannings, The Rockies: A Natural History:
glosses: Resembling curry (the spicy food) or some aspect of it.
præ-Socratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sir Alexander then illustrates these periods by showing that in præ-Socratic Greece ethical ideas had no distinctness, but were confused with physical or even mathematical notions, as Pythagoras “ made virtue a number, and justice a cube.”
ref: 1866 May 13, The Fortnightly, number 25, page 248:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pre-Socratic.
præ-Socratic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præ-Socratics
Senses: examples: text: I should have preferred to see him do for Polynesia what, for instance, Diels did for the præ-Socratics […]
ref: 1931, Man (journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland), volume 31, page 232
glosses: Archaic spelling of pre-Socratic.
præ-Socratics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præ-Socratic
microchimerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microchimerism
microchimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From microchimerism + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microchimerism.
impurples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impurple
impurple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impurples
form: impurpling
form: impurpled
form: impurpled
Etymology: From im- + purple.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of empurple.
impurpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impurple
impurpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impurple
unempowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + empowered.
Senses: glosses: Not empowered.
backboneless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From backbone + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Once, like a drunken man, I lurched forward, and fell upon my knees. Such was my backboneless state that for some seconds I remained where I was, half disposed to let things slide, accept the good the gods had sent me, and make a night of it just there.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
antonyms: backboned
glosses: Without a backbone; invertebrate.
glosses: Cowardly, spineless.
Derived terms: backbonelessness
Salagrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃaːlaːɡɹaːmə/
Forms: form: Salagramas
form: Salagramma
form: Saligrama
form: Saligram
form: Shaligram
form: Shaligrama
form: Shalagrama
Etymology: From Sanskrit शालग्राम (śālagrāma, “a village in ancient India; a sacred stone”).
Senses: glosses: A fossil ammonite held by the Hindus to be representative of Vishnu.
pre-Socratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: prē'sŏkrăʹtĭk
ipa: /ˌpɹiːsɒˈkɹætɪk/
Forms: form: præ-Socratic
Etymology: From pre- + Socratic.
Senses: glosses: Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).
pre-Socratic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prē'sŏkrăʹtĭk
ipa: /ˌpɹiːsɒˈkɹætɪk/
Forms: form: pre-Socratics
form: præ-Socratic
Etymology: From pre- + Socratic.
Senses: examples: text: Hers is the philosophy that stood before the speculations of the presocratics; she is the "Holy Mother Church" which Descartes challenged when he cut the umbilical cord between philosophy and the Church and split reality into the res externa and the res cogitans.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 97:
glosses: Any of the pre-Socratic philosophers, viz. Thales (circa 624–546 BCE), Anaximander (circa 610–546 BCE), Anaximenes (circa 585–525 BCE), Pythagoras (circa 576–495 BCE), Xenophanes (circa 570–480 BCE), Heraclitus (circa 535–475 BCE), Parmenides (early-5ᵗʰ century BCE), Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 BCE), Empedocles (circa 490–430 BCE), and Democritus (circa 460–370 BCE).
pre-Socratics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præ-Socratic
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-Socratic
imbecilically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imbecilically
form: most imbecilically
Etymology: From imbecilic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an imbecilic way.
unfacilitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + facilitated.
Senses: glosses: Not facilitated.
Salagramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Salagrama
codepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codepoints
Etymology: From code + point.
Senses: examples: text: The following table shows the relationship of the magnetic stripe code to the codepoint that the display generates. This relationship is independent of the graphic character set supported by the attaching display. For example, the same codepoint is generated for the U.S. EBCDIC character set displays as would be generated for a German character-set display.
ref: 1992 June, chapter 7, in 3270 Information Display System: Data Stream Programmer's Reference, Eight edition, International Business Machines Corporation, page 8:
glosses: Alternative spelling of code point.
codepoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codepoint
bottlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bottlelike
form: most bottlelike
Etymology: From bottle + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bottle.
flasklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flasklike
form: most flasklike
Etymology: From flask + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a flask.
anorexically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /anəˈɹɛksɪk(ə)li/
Forms: form: more anorexically
form: most anorexically
Etymology: From anorexic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The stars of the Right, which attracted a large following from the provincial nobility, were intransigents such as [...] Mirabeau's younger brother, the anorexically challenged Mirabeau-‘Tonneau’ (‘Mirabeau the Barrel’).
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 434:
glosses: Pertaining to loss of appetite or anorexia.
Synonyms: anorectically
anorectically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anorectically
form: most anorectically
Etymology: From anorectic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: She was anorectically thin.
glosses: In an anorectic way.
Synonyms: anorexically
sulfurously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sulfurously
form: most sulfurously
form: sulphureously
form: sulphurously
Etymology: From sulfurous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sulfurous way.
sulphurously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sulphurously
form: most sulphurously
Etymology: From sulphurous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfurously.
candids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candid
unsulfated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unsulphated
Etymology: From un- + sulfated.
Senses: glosses: Not sulfated.
unsulphated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sulphated.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unsulfated.
rapturousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rapturous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being rapturous.
raptuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raptus
florentium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flərĕnʹshĭəm
ipa: /fləˈɹɛnʃɪəm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian florentium, florenzio, from Latin Florentia (“Florence”) + -ium (“metallic element”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: (disused nomenclature) Promethium.
chuppot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuppah
salak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlæk/
Forms: form: salaks
Etymology: From Malay salak.
Senses: glosses: Any salak palm (Salacca zalacca), native to Indonesia; also called.
glosses: Pear-shaped fruit of this palm; also called snake fruit.
salaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salak
salak palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salak palms
Senses: glosses: The salak (Salacca zalacca).
criticaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: criticasters
Etymology: From critic + -aster.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e rather overdoes it, and so puzzles his enemies in the play, and certain German criticasters and English mad doctors in the closet, and does not puzzle his bosom friend in the play one bit, nor the pit for whom he was created.
ref: 1903, Charles Reade, Hard Cash: A Matter-of-fact Romance, page 439:
text: [T]he whys & the wherefores, that's so much waffle for the judges with their black caps & powdered wigs, for the criticasters & their like: guilt, sin, motivation, inspiration, what is good, what is bad—who knows?
ref: 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 53:
glosses: A petty or charlatan critic.
Derived terms: criticasterism
criticastry
philoprogenitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more philoprogenitively
form: most philoprogenitively
Etymology: From philoprogenitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a philoprogenitive way.
philoprogenitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From philoprogenitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He was walking upon the terrace finally upon the eventful day when, amidst an immense jangling of bells from Clavering Church, where the flag was flying, an open carriage and one of those travelling chariots or family arks, which only English philoprogenitiveness could invent, drove rapidly with foaming horses through the Park gates, and up to the steps of the Hall.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Life-size, bald, china heads were produced as guides, suitably inscribed with a patchwork labeled "sublimity," "ideality," "benevolence," and that splendid Victorian substitute for sex - "philoprogenitiveness."
ref: 1973, Lyall Watson, Supernature, page vi. 203:
glosses: The state or condition of being philoprogenitive.
criticasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criticaster
salak palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salak palm
unhurtable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hurtable.
Senses: glosses: Not hurtable; that cannot be hurt.
hurtable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hurt + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be hurt.
salamandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salamandrian
form: most salamandrian
Etymology: From salamander + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling a salamander, the genus Salamandra, or the family Salamandridae.
Synonyms: sense: like a salamander
word: salamanderlike
sense: like a salamander
word: salamandroid
sense: like a salamander
word: salamandrine
unpoisonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + poisonous.
Senses: glosses: Not poisonous.
Synonyms: nonpoisonous
poisonless
poisonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poison + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without poison.
Synonyms: nonpoisonous
unpoisonous
Derived terms: poisonlessness
salamandrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salamandrids
Etymology: From salamander + -id.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps it was Meseta, where the oldest salamandrid fossils on Earth have been discovered.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 35:
glosses: Any animal of the family Salamandridae.
unvenomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + venomous.
Senses: glosses: Not venomous.
Synonyms: poisonless
nonpoisonous
unpoisonous
venomless
salamandrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salamandrid
bellrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellropes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bell rope.
bellropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellrope
cutenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuteness
unprojected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + projected.
Senses: glosses: Not projected.
unimodally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unimodal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a unimodal way.
bimodally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bimodal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bimodal way.
Pridnestrovie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpriːd.nɛsˈtroʊv.jeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Приднестровье (Pridnestrovʹje, literally “[Land] by the Dniester [River]”).
Senses: glosses: Transnistria
fumeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fume + -less.
Senses: examples: text: They developed a new fumeless manufacturing process.
glosses: Without fumes.
Derived terms: fumelessness
sulfurless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sulphurless
Etymology: From sulfur + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without sulfur.
sulphurless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sulphur + -less.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfurless.
salamandriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salamandriform
form: most salamandriform
Etymology: From salamander + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a salamander.
unstrategic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + strategic.
Senses: examples: text: During those three hellish days at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee was badly suffering from a severe case of diarrhea after having eaten too many cherries, an indisposition—given his ill-considered and ultimately amateurishly fatal decision for the Confederacy to attack from the front (and relatively below) on July 3, 1863—that cost his army a victory that day, an incredible mismaneuver and unstrategic folly that became, as it turned out, the turning-point of the entire war that led to the full and final defeat of the South.
ref: 2017, Alexander Theroux, Einstein's Beets, page 514:
glosses: Not strategic.
Derived terms: unstrategically
unstrategically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unstrategic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an unstrategic way.
acidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acid + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without acid.
Synonyms: acid-free
Derived terms: acidlessness
Magic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Allied cryptanalysis project, during and prior to World War II, that decrypted Japanese messages.
Related terms: alt: the UK effort to decrypt German messages in WW II
word: Ultra
unliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + literal.
Senses: glosses: Not literal.
Derived terms: unliterally
unliterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unliteral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unliteral way.
birther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝθɚ/
Forms: form: birthers
form: Birther
Etymology: From birth + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (“supporter”).
Senses: examples: text: […] she couldn't be an "easy birther."
ref: 1951, Erico Verissimo, Time and the Wind, volume 2, page 583:
text: Liz Buttle, Britain's oldest birther, lied about not taking fertility drugs and didn't conceive her 2-month-old boy in the usual way as she insisted.
ref: 1998 January 22, “Paper Disputes Claims of Oldest Brit to Deliver”, in Philadelphia Inquirer, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2012, page C2:
glosses: One who gives birth.
examples: text: I confess I do have some sympathy for the "birthers," though. As an outsider, it's hard to distinguish between the zany arguments that get official approval by the conservative establishment --- things like Bill Ayers, Michelle Obama's infamous "whitey" tape, the claim that Obama is a closet Marxist --- and those arguments that are considered beyond the pale.
ref: 2008 December 8, Jay Bookman, “Shut up about the birth certificate”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2012:
text: Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the same; we don’t know how many of the protesters are birthers, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s a substantial fraction.
ref: 2009 August 7, Paul Krugman, “The Town Hall Mob”, in New York Times:
text: Earlier this month, columnist and birther Frank Gaffney, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, and others held a news conference on Capitol Hill to release a report on Muslim religious law entitled "Shariah: The Threat to America."
ref: 2010 September 29, Mark Benjamin, “What Islamophobia really threatens”, in Salon, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2010:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A believer in the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States (2009–2017), is not a natural-born US citizen, and was therefore ineligible for the presidency under the United States Constitution (Article II, Section 1).
examples: text: [see title]
ref: 2020 August 13, Franco Ordoñez, “Trump and His Campaign Amplify Birther Conspiracy Against Kamala Harris”, in NPR:
text: On Thursday, he started floating a new birther lie about Sen. Kamala Harris, who, if elected, would be the first Black and Asian American vice president.
ref: 2020 August 13, Daniel Dale, Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam, CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: More generally, anyone who questions the eligibility of a candidate for office based on their citizenship status.
Synonyms: sense: one who gives birth
word: woman in labor
sense: one who gives birth
word: woman in labour
Derived terms: birtherism
girther
Related terms: truther
birther
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝθɚ/
Forms: form: birthers
form: birthering
form: birthered
form: birthered
form: Birther
Etymology: From birth + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (“supporter”).
Senses: examples: ref: 2020, Andrew Solender, “'He Wasn't Born Here': Trump Birthers Biden Near Scranton Ahead Of DNC Acceptance Speech”, in Forbes:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To question the eligibility of a candidate for office or the location of one's birth.
child support
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: child maintenance
maintenance
glosses: The ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an obligor, usually the noncustodial parent, to an obligee, usually the custodial parent or other guardian, for the financial care and support of children of a relationship or marriage that has been terminated, or which never existed.
Related terms: alimony
slurpingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slurpingly
form: most slurpingly
Etymology: From slurping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They have been waiting a long time, very silently, the mud sucks slurpingly at a boot as a soldier changes his position, the mist thickens, beginning to turn to rain.
ref: 1965, Alvin Greenberg, The small waves, page 95:
text: […] they sucked the juicy meat out of their crab legs slurpingly […]
ref: 2009, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, At The Breakers, page 62:
glosses: In a slurping way; with slurping sounds.
pimelic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dicarboxylic acid, HO₂C(CH₂)₅CO₂H, whose derivatives are involved in the biosynthesis of lysine.
Synonyms: heptanedioic acid
Derived terms: diaminopimelic acid
pimelate
pimeloyl
isomerisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isomerisation
lycopenodermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌlaɪkəpiːnəˈdɜː(ɹ)mi.ə/
Senses: glosses: An excess of lycopene in the blood, causing discolouration of the skin.
lutidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lutidines
Etymology: Coined by Scottish chemist Thomas Anderson in 1851 as a contracted anagram of toluidine, with which the compounds share their empirical formula
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several dimethyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 2,6-dimethyl pyridine that occurs in coal tar.
lutidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lutidine
loratadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ləˈɹætɪdɪn/
/ləˈɹætɪdiːn/
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antihistamine drug used to treat allergies.
Derived terms: word: desloratadine
english: histamine H1 receptor antagonist
translation: histamine H1 receptor antagonist
word: -tadine
clinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪnɔɪd/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλίνη (klínē, “bed”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Like a bed; relating to the clinoid process.
Derived terms: caroticoclinoid
clinoidal
clinoidectomy
infraclinoid
paraclinoid
supraclinoid
clinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪnɔɪd/
Forms: form: clinoids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλίνη (klínē, “bed”) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The lateral contributions are by the lateral cartilages, namely, the orbitosphenoid, which forms lesser wing of sphenoid, anterior clinoids, and planum sphenoidale, the alisphenoid that forms the greater wing of sphenoid and the medial pterygoid plate.
ref: 2015 August 5, Venkatesh Gokuldas Kamath et al., “Binary Logistic Regression Analysis of Foramen Magnum Dimensions for Sex Determination”, in Anatomy Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The clinoid process.
fexofenadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A second-generation antihistamine drug used in the treatment of hay fever and similar allergies.
terfenadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɜː(ɹ)ˈfɛnədɪn/
/tɜː(ɹ)ˈfɛnədiːn/
Senses: glosses: An antihistamine drug formerly used to treat allergic conditions, superseded by fexofenadine in the 1990s due to the risk of cardiac arrhythmia.
lipoamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipoamides
Etymology: From lipo- + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound 6,8-dithiooctanoic amide.
Derived terms: dihydrolipoamide
lipoamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipoamide
thioesterase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioesterases
Etymology: From thioester + -ase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various enzymes of the esterase family that exhibit esterase activity specifically at a thiol group.
thioesterases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioesterase
limonenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limonene
levulinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 4-oxopentanoic acid, a keto acid used as a synthetic intermediate.
Derived terms: aminolevulinic acid
apoferritin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apoferritins
Etymology: From apo- + ferritin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Part of the ferritin that is not combined with iron
Related terms: holoferritin
apoferritins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apoferritin
thyroidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thyroidal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Using an instrument specially devised by Rosenthal, the Iipiodol may be injected intercrico-thyroidally with even better results.
ref: 1925, The American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, page 268:
text: In view of the possibility of feeding thyroidally active substances to increase milk production it is important to know whether or not some of this material would be secreted in the milk.
ref: 1946, Vitamins and Hormones, volume 4, page 244:
text: Intriguingly, the rat C1b isoform of the calcitonin receptor (CTR) (see Section VI-B) has very little interaction with the thyroidally derived form of calcitonin.
ref: 1997, Louis V. Avioli, Metabolic Bone Disease and Clinically Related Disorders, page 98:
glosses: In a thyroidal way.
symptomologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symptomology
milk acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: acid of milk, lactic acid
resuscitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resuscitation
isotonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From isotonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an isotonic way.
aspartokinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspartokinases
Etymology: From asparto- + kinase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation of the amino acid aspartate, the first step in the biosynthesis of three essential amino acids: methionine, lysine, and threonine.
Synonyms: aspartate kinase
aspartokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspartokinase
gluconeogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gluconeogenesis
aminotransfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amino + transfer.
Senses: glosses: Transamination.
Derived terms: aminotransferase
aminotransferance
neddylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process by which the protein NEDD8 is conjugated to its target proteins, analogous to ubiquitination
Derived terms: deneddylation
hyperneddylation
polyneddylation
due process of law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: due process
kahweol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”) + -ol
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene found in the beans of Coffea arabica, structurally related to cafestol.
Derived terms: dehydrokahweol
cafestol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈfɛstɒl/
Etymology: From French café (“coffee”) + sterol.
Senses: glosses: A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
wikipedia: De Gruyter
Derived terms: dehydrocafestol
diterpenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diterpene
phosphoglucoisomerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoglucoisomerases
Etymology: From phospho- + gluco- + isomerase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of glucose-6-phosphate into fructose 6-phosphate in the second step of glycolysis.
phosphoglucoisomerases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoglucoisomerase
epimerases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epimerase
racemase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racemases
Etymology: From raceme + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having only one center of asymmetry.
Related terms: epimerase
racemases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racemase
cadaverines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadaverine
pentamethylenediamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentamethylenediamines
Etymology: From penta- + methylene + diamine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Cadaverine.
pentamethylenediamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentamethylenediamine
mevalonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mevalonate
phosphoenolpyruvates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoenolpyruvate
phosphotransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphotransferase
macrocyclizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrocyclization
cycloartenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloartenol
labdane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labdanes
Etymology: From labdanum + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A natural bicyclic diterpene with the chemical formula C₂₀H₃₈, forming the structural core of a wide variety of natural products
Synonyms: word: eikosylene
Derived terms: norlabdane
tetranorlabdane
labdanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labdane
lagochiline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagochilines
Etymology: Lagochilus + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter diterpene that forms a grey crystalline solid, found in various plants of the genus Lagochilus.
lagochilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lagochiline
duty of care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duties of care
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others.
Related terms: due diligence
sclarene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene present in the foliage of Podocarpus laetus (syn. Podocarpus hallii).
unflipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unflip
unflipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not flipped.
Synonyms: uninverted
stemarene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A terpene hydrocarbon created by the biosynthesis of enzyme extracts from rice.
ferruginol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene of the abietane chemical class that has been isolated from the needles of the redwood Sequoia sempervirens.
Related terms: ferrugineol
andrographolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andrographolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter labdane diterpenoid that is the main bioactive component of the medicinal plant Andrographis paniculata, effective against certain cancers
Derived terms: homoandrographolide
isoandrographolide
neoandrographolide
andrographolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of andrographolide
agelasimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agelasimines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various adenine-related bicyclic diterpenoids isolated from the orange sponge Agelas mauritania, structurally related to the agelasines.
agelasimines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agelasimine
gross negligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Negligence evincing a total or near total disregard for the rights and welfare of others and for the consequences of an act.
Related terms: contributory negligence
ordinary negligence
slight negligence
police power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The inherent power, incident to sovereignty, of a state to regulate and exercise reasonable control over matters of public health, public morals, public safety, and in general, all things relating to the general welfare.
lemon laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemon law
lienor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lienors
Etymology: From lien + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Those mechanic′s lienors with equal priority to the foreclosing lienor need not be named as defendants in the action, but should be identified in the complaint, as well as those encumbrances with interests prior in right to the foreclosing lienor.
ref: 2009, Carl J. Circo, Christopher H. Little, American Bar Association, A State-by-State Guide to Construction & Design Law, 2nd edition, page 161:
topics: law
glosses: A lienholder.
topics: law
glosses: A lienee.
lienors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lienor