cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
undust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undusts
form: undusting
form: undusted
form: undusted
Etymology: From un- + dust.
Senses: examples: text: It took the state accountants awhile to undust [cq] and figure out his travel expense claims. They would include maybe a pound of coffee, a dozen eggs, a package of cereal, etc. No hotel bills.
ref: 1987, Robert C. Kriebel, Plain Ol' Charlie Deam: Pioneer Hoosier Botanist - Page 70:
text: Those members of a couple who had been the audience to a spouse who had been the “appreciator” (of art, music, natural beauty) had to undust and unpack long-unused sensory organs. This new sense of self, exhilarating as it was, also carries a bittersweet tinge for most members.
ref: 1998, Irvin D. Yalom, The Yalom Reader:
text: With the light at the end of the tunnel now visible, my daughters chose to undust a manuscript of their grandfather's, his son John, which was written in 1971.
ref: 2011, M.A. Lyons, Ph.D. & Franklyn Grace Lyons, War Scribe: First Reports Out: Europe Post V-E Day
text: My momma even said I didn't have to undust her knickknacks every week. I only had to do it twice a month now. I figured that was about twenty-eight weeks a year that I didn't have to do that chore, and that seemed like a good deal to me.
ref: 2011, Linda Jean, Izzy's Summer - Page 144:
text: She gave the green top a snap to undust it and discipline it and, putting the strip of molding and the dirty sock on the step, changed tops right then and there, picked up the molding, threw the dirty sock over her shoulder, and pounded back down the stairs.
ref: 2013, George Saunders, Pastoralia - Page 82:
text: Vajda has noticed a change, too. He sees Djokovic playing like a champion again. "It's like you undust all the trophies on the shelf, and it comes out of him," Vajda said.
ref: 2018 September 9, Christopher Clarey, quoting Marián Vajda, “Novak Djokovic Wins the U.S. Open for His 14th Grand Slam Title”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2023:
synonyms: dedust
glosses: To remove dust from (something); to dust, dust off.
Related terms: undusted
undusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undust
undusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undust
gutturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutturalities
Etymology: From guttural + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: gh was a reinforcement of the old gutturality of h
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: The quality of being guttural.
examples: text: Quartermain launched into another effusion of fractured French mingled with made-up words resembling the singsong gutturalities of the Swedish actress with whom he'd spent a delightful weekend at Palm Springs last year.
ref: 1988, Loup Durand, Daddy:
glosses: An instance of being guttural.
indoxylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From indoxyl + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to indoxyl.
Related terms: indoxylic acid
vermifugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːɡəl
Forms: form: more vermifugal
form: most vermifugal
Etymology: From Latin vermis (“a worm”) + fugare (“to drive away”), from fugere (“to flee”). See worm, and fugitive.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
Related terms: vermicidal
deranger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derangers
Etymology: From derange + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that deranges.
derangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deranger
hydrobromate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrobromates
Etymology: From hydro- + bromate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrobromide
hydrobromates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrobromate
rompingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rompingly
form: most rompingly
Etymology: From romping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a romping manner.
hallage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːlɪd͡ʒ/
homophone: haulage
Forms: form: hallages
Etymology: From hall + -age.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A fee or toll paid for selling goods in a hall.
hallages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallage
poa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊ.ə/
rhymes: -əʊə
Forms: form: poas
Etymology: From scientific Latin Poa (genus name), from Ancient Greek πόα (póa, “fodder”).
Senses: examples: text: We trod out across fragile alpine heath between poa tussocks and something that smelled of lemon thyme.
ref: 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 74
glosses: Any grass of the genus Poa, especially Poa annua.
Related terms: poa pitha
poas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poa
overglide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overglides
form: overgliding
form: overglided
form: overglided
Etymology: From over- + glide.
Senses: examples: text: that ſonne the wych was neuer clowd cowd hide
percyth the cave, and on the harpe diſcendes
whoſe glancỹg light the cordes did ouerglyde
And ſuch luyſter apon the harpe extendes
ref: c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Penitential Psalms”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 91r:
glosses: To glide over.
overglided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overglide
overglides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overglide
overgliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overglide
unstock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstock
form: most unstock
Etymology: From un- + stock.
Senses: examples: text: It was as unstock as a hot rod . But it was all we had for a practice car .
ref: 1961, Charles Beaumont, William F. Nolan, Omnibus of Speed: An Introduction to the World of Motor Sport, page 104:
text: And pinned to the seats of Tyler Wilson's outlandishly unstock Ford While, from the opposite side of the valley, scalding in each curve, came the black din And brunt of Sonny Walker's highjacker Chevrolet, everyone screaming
ref: 1989, Rodney Jones, Transparent Gestures, page 13:
text: Proust's novel is filled with people who behave in unstock ways.
ref: 1998, Alain De Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life:
glosses: Not ordinary, basic, or cliché; atypical.
unstocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstock
unstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstock
embryogenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embryogeny
embryogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryogenies
Etymology: From embryo- + -geny, probably after French embryogénie.
Senses: examples: text: In “A Carcass,” embryogeny is reversed. Death, forcing the beloved to imitate the animal's deconstruction, will make her surrender gender, identity, and coherence.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Embryogenesis.
kyanophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyanophyll.
competitress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: competitresses
Etymology: From competitor + -ess.
Senses: synonyms: competitrix
glosses: A female competitor.
competitresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of competitress
disguisedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disguised + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being disguised, or in disguise.
kirked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots kirkit.
Senses: glosses: Having attended church for the first time after a wedding, birth, or other significant event.
penary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: penary chastisements
ref: 1659, John Gauden, The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England:
glosses: penal
tritylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: propylene
unform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unforms
form: unforming
form: unformed
form: unformed
Etymology: From un- + form.
Senses: examples: text: Such are a few of the numerous causes that contribute to the disunion of concrete bodies, and powerfully co-operate with that wonderful fluid which alternately forms and unforms; which creates , decomposes , and regenerates all nature.
ref: 1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture VII. On Geology. (The Subject Continued.)”, in The Book of Nature. […], volumes I (Series I. Nature of the Material World; […].), London: […] [A[ndrew] & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 154:
glosses: To destroy the form of; to decompose, or resolve into parts; to unmake.
unforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unform
unforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unform
broom rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broom rapes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of broomrape.
semipellucid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + pellucid.
Senses: examples: text: a semipellucid gemstone/species
glosses: Half clear, or imperfectly transparent.
voweled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Squatted behind their serones of fruits and vegetables, their wedges of goat’s-milk cheese and cones of coarse brown sugar, or double rows of bottles of guarado, (the unfermented juice of sugar-cane) they expatiate upon the merits of their merchandise in shrill but soft-voweled Castellano that wheedles the last penny out of your purse.
ref: 1897 November 18, Fannie Brigham Ward, “Quaint Cartago. Droll Sights and Scenes in the Oldest City of Central America. House-Keeping A La Castellano.”, in The Republican Journal, volume 69, number 46, Belfast, Me., page 3, column 2:
text: It is pleasing to think how intensely Weiner must suffer in New York City, where even educated natives grunt a brick-tongued, boomerang-voweled, Stallonian yo-patois.
ref: 1988, Spy, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of vowelled.
chitinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitinizations
form: chitinisation
Etymology: From chitin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming chitinous.
chitinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitinization
effume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: effumes
form: effuming
form: effumed
form: effumed
Etymology: From Latin effumare (“to emit smoke”), from ex + fumare (“to smoke”), from fumus (“smoke”).
Senses: examples: text: I can make this dog take as many whiffes as I liſt, and he ſhall retaine or efume them at my pleaſure.
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, signature [I iiij], verso:
glosses: To breathe or puff out.
Derived terms: effumability
effumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of effume
effumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of effume
effuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of effume
imposturage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imposture + -age.
Senses: glosses: imposture; cheating
incompared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incompared
form: most incompared
Etymology: From in- + compared.
Senses: examples: c. 1580-1590, Edmund Spenser, letter to Sir Francis Walsingham
That Mantuane Poets incompared spirit
glosses: Peerless; incomparable.
mother-naked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mother naked
Etymology: Meaning "as naked as when born (from one's mother)".
Senses: glosses: Completely naked.
symbological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more symbological
form: most symbological
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a symbology.
sextonries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextonry
sextonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextonries
Etymology: From sexton + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: He[…]retayned to hymselfe but a small lyueng, and that was the sextenry of our lady churche in Renes.
ref: 1523–1525, John Bourchier, Froissart's Chronicles:
glosses: The office of sexton.
disincorporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disincorporations
Etymology: From dis- + incorporation.
Senses: examples: text: the king's disincorporation of the monks
ref: 1780, Thomas Warton, The Life of Sir Thomas Pope:
glosses: Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.
disincorporations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disincorporation
elementarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For, though Moses have left no mention of minerals,
nor made' any other description than suits unto the apparent and visible creation,
yet is there, unquestionably, a very large class of creatures in the earth,
far above the condition of elementarity.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: elementariness (the quality of being elementary).
overliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overliberal
form: most overliberal
Etymology: From over- + liberal.
Senses: glosses: Too liberal.
overquietness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overquiet + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail […] were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, pages 49–50:
glosses: Excessive quietness.
weanedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weaned + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being weaned.
hieroglyphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hieroglyphical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Written using hieroglyphics.
preconsolidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + consolidated.
Senses: glosses: consolidated beforehand
rudderpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudderposts
Etymology: From rudder + post.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The rudderstock
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A vertical support on an aircraft's tail section, that connects the rudder to the vertical stabilizer.
rudderposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudderpost
knight-erratic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knights-erratic
Senses: glosses: A knight-errant (the knight)
stageplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stage + playing.
Senses: glosses: The performance of plays on stage.
histrionicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From histrionic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: On the one hand, he considered it almost impossible for a woman to be so disingenuous; on the other hand, how could this girl have taught herself, in the solitude of a savage island, a species of histrionicism which women in London circles strove for years to acquire, and rarely acquired in any perfection?
ref: 1874, William Black, A Princess of Thule:
glosses: The histrionic art; stageplaying.
cantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantations
Etymology: Latin cantatio.
Senses: examples: text: These words were jabbered as fast as ever tongue could utter them, and when he had finished, up he jumped, again commenced the same mad rotations, and broke into the same extravagant cantation as before.
ref: 1838 August, Paddy the Piper, “Tales of the Parish Wake”, in Harrison's monthly collection, number 3, page 135:
text: When we have come to hear thy sweet oblation Of love and joyance from thy sylvan station, Why, in the place of musical cantation, Balk us with pratings?
ref: 1875, Wilson Flagg, “To The Mocking-Bird”, in The Birds and Seasons of New England, page 293:
text: For thirty years there has seemed to me no difference between phonation (speech) and cantation (song), save in the length of the basic vowel sounds.
ref: 1895, Ephraim Cutter, Phonation:
text: When we use it with the dying it has to do with helping people unbind from the body, so we provide a lot of music outside of time—Gregorian chant, Hebrew cantation [Chalice workers don't use only Christian music].
ref: 2011, Marilyn Webb, The Good Death:
glosses: A singing.
examples: text: Whether or not there was any mystic virtue in the exorcisory cantation of the previous night, I cannot determine; but it is certain, that next morning, though headaches abounded among our officers, indications of the yellow fever there were none.
ref: 1836, Edward Howard, Rattlin, the Reefer, page 193:
text: This literature contained a corpus of texts, most probably one for each school of Vedic cantation (the words śakhā, 'school' or 'branch', speaks in favor of this guess).
ref: 2012, David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen, The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought, page 104:
text: He picked up the bows and began a soft cantation, long spoken by his father before him.
ref: 2021, Louis Bruno, Come home Young One:
glosses: Synonym of incantation.
synonyms: word: incantation
cantations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantation
lifehold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifeholds
Etymology: From life + hold.
Senses: examples: text: He was quite angry with circumstances for so heedlessly inflicting on Giles a second trouble when the needful one inflicted by himself was all that the proper order of events demanded. "I told Giles's father when he came into those houses not to spend too much money on lifehold property held neither for his own life nor his son's," he exclaimed. "But he wouldn't listen to me. And now Giles has to suffer for it."
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Land held by a life estate.
lifeholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifehold
retributer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retributers
Etymology: From retribute + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes retribution.
retributers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retributer
houseroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsɹuːm/
Forms: form: houserooms
Etymology: From house + room.
Senses: examples: text: ‘But go thy waies to him, and fro me say, / That here is at his gate an errant Knight, / That house-room craves […].’
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: […] it would make a man mad of our profession, especially to be buz’d in the Ears with your Honesty or Plain-dealing, as if you were turned their Advocate, and went about to perswade us to give them House room.
ref: 1685, John Dunton, An Hue and Cry after Conscience, London, page 56:
text: 1786, Frederick Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, p. 38,
[…] she has more old figures than is worth house room.
text: And, Mr. Farfrae, as you provide so much, and houseroom, and all that, I’ll do my part in the drinkables, and see to the rum and schiedam—maybe a dozen jars will be sufficient?
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: Room or place in a house.
glosses: A room dedicated for the use of a particular house at a boarding school.
slumbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slumbery
form: most slumbery
form: slombry
form: slumbry
Etymology: From Middle English slumbry, slombry, slomry, equivalent to slumber + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch slumerich (“slumbery”).
Senses: examples: text: Only the upper part of her body is awake, and even that droops with a slumbery weakness.
ref: 1820, The London Magazine, volume 1, page 405:
text: “Yes, miss. He found you outside on the portico. You were wet and cold and all slumbery.” “Slumbery?” Susannah scrunched her nose at the sound of the word. “Asleep, miss. He couldn't wake you.” Colleen took Susannah's hand.
ref: 2014, Suzanne Hoos, Only Time Will Tell:
text: In the summer of 1981, shortly before the filming of A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Mia fell in love with a sixty-acre farm, Frog Hollow, on the outskirts of Bridgewater, Connecticut, a slumbery country town of 1,600, boasting a post office, a general store, and a gas station, as well as a bank and library.
ref: 2014, Marion Meade, The Unruly Life of Woody Allen:
text: There are also the calamitous events of bushfires all over the continent, and the title of my first poetry collection, Crackle at Midnight, reflects this anxiety as it speaks to the jolting disruption of a raging fire that invades a slumbery community in the heart of rural Malawi, leaving its inhabitants covered in a green pall of toxic haze.
ref: 2021, Dike Okoro, Lupenga Mphande: Eco-Critical Poet and Political Activist, page 186:
synonyms: slumberous
glosses: Inclined to sleep; sleepy or sleeping; (by extension) quiet and slow-paced.
Synonyms: sleepy
laulau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A Hawaiian dish of pork or fish etc. wrapped in taro leaf.
friskful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more friskful
form: most friskful
Etymology: From frisk + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: [H]is sportive Lambs, / This way and that convolv'd, in friskful Glee, / Their Frolics play.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Lively; frolicsome.
galvanographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: galvanographic process
text: galvanographic section
glosses: Of or pertaining to galvanography.
Derived terms: photogalvanographic
hornedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horned + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being horned.
tinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinner
factionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French factionnaire, Latin factionarius (“the head of a company of charioteers”).
Senses: examples: text: Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius,
always factionary on the party of your general.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: Belonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides.
factionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factionaries
Etymology: Compare French factionnaire, Latin factionarius (“the head of a company of charioteers”).
Senses: examples: text: 1555, Richard Eden (translator), The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, London: Edwarde Sutton, Decade 2, Book 6, [p. 71b],
Vaschus him selfe dyd greatly affecte this embasage: But neyther woolde the resydewe of his felowes electe hym therto, nor his factionaries suffer hym to departe: Aswell for that therby they thought they shulde bee left desolate, as also that they murmured that if Vaschus shulde once goo from theym, he wolde neuer returne to suche turmoyles and calamities […]
text: 1832, Walter Scott, Count Robert of Paris in Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 4th Series, Volume 2, Chapter 10, p. 257,
[…] the traitor Ursel, some of them suppose, is dead, but if it were so, his name is sufficient to draw together his old factionaries […]
text: He was a Cromwellian who never fought in the Civil War, a monarchist who denounced the corruptions of kingship, a servant of two hostile parties, and a factionary of neither, a politician who did his best for both worlds.
ref: 1922, H. J. Massingham, “Andrew Marvell”, in William H. Bagguley, editor, Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678: Tercentenary Tributes, Oxford University Press, page 108:
glosses: A member of a faction.
wordle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)dəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl
Forms: form: wordles
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.
wordles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordle
mezzotinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mezzotint
mezzotinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mezzotint
actinophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more actinophorous
form: most actinophorous
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having straight projecting spines
Related terms: actinophore
guildable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From guild + -able.
Senses: glosses: Liable to a tax; taxable.
tectibranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tectibranchs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the former order Tectibranchiata of gastropods.
tectibranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tectibranch
unfriendship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + friendship.
Senses: examples: text: an act of unfriendship to my sovereign person
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: unfriendliness; enmity
glosses: The state of not being a friend
uncart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncarts
form: uncarting
form: uncarted
form: uncarted
Etymology: From un- + cart.
Senses: glosses: To remove or unload from a cart.
uncarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncart
uncarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncart
uncarts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncart
uncontrovertibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncontrovertibly
form: most uncontrovertibly
Etymology: From uncontrovertible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: incontrovertibly
toothlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothlets
Etymology: From tooth + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small tooth or other toothlike object.
toothlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothlet
existencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of existency
existency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: existencies
Senses: examples: text: variety of states or manner of existency naturally and necessarily concomitant unto it
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of existence.
Derived terms: preexistency
verisimilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verisimilous
form: most verisimilous
Etymology: From Latin vērisimilis + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: verisimilous writing
glosses: Synonym of verisimilar.
synonyms: word: verisimilar
arsehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arseheads
Etymology: From arse + head.
Senses: examples: text: Blackadder: Meet the new Member of Parliament for Danny-on-the-Wold.
Prince George: But he's an absolute arsehead!
ref: 1987, Blackadder the Third: Dish and Dishonesty:
glosses: An idiotic or undesirable person.
arseheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arsehead
incumbently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incumbently
form: most incumbently
Etymology: From incumbent + -ly.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.
coinhabitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkəʊ.ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/
Forms: form: coinhabitants
Etymology: From co- + inhabitant.
Senses: examples: text: co-inhabitants of the same element
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul:
synonyms: cohabitant
glosses: Someone who lives with another, or with others.
coinhabitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coinhabitant
flocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: flockier
form: flockiest
Etymology: From flock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: flocky sediment
glosses: Abounding with flocks (tufts); floccose.
freightless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From freight + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without freight.
hearkener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearkeners
Etymology: From hearken + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hearkens; a listener.
hearkeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearkener
unfeather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfeathers
form: unfeathering
form: unfeathered
form: unfeathered
Etymology: From un- + feather.
Senses: glosses: To strip of feathers.
examples: text: unfeather the propeller
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To disengage the controls that rotate the blades of a propeller perpendicular to the axis of the propeller.
unfeathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfeather
unfeathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfeather
exequial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin exequialis, exsequialis, from exsequiae (“exequies”).
Senses: examples: text: exequial parvana cake
text: exequial rite
text: exequial mass
glosses: Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.
misadvertence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + advertence.
Senses: glosses: inadvertence; carelessness
gesturement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gesturements
Etymology: From gesture + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile our poets, in high parliament, / Sit watching euerie word and gesturement […]
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: Act of making gestures; gesturing.
gesturements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesturement
phycochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phycochromes
Etymology: From phyco- + -chrome.
Senses: examples: text: The purple-red or violet phycochromaceze contain phycochrome, which is composed of chlorophyll and a purple, but generally (not apparently different) blue modification of phycocyan, which easily turns into a verdigris-coloured substance.
ref: 1867, The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London, page 210:
text: It is quite possible that the writer has reckoned some of the filamentous species of the Schizomycetes under the head of Phormidium tenuissimum, since it is impossible to determine with certainty in all cases whether a filament less than one micromillimeter in thickness, contains phycochrome or not.
ref: 2012, T.D. Brock, Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures, page 49:
text: Ohad et al. (1980) have recently shown that allophycocyanin has identical photoresponses to the phycochromes, which suggests that allophycocyanin may be the true identity of the phycochromes.
ref: 2012, O. L. Lange, Physiological Plant Ecology I, page 264:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A bluish-green pigment in certain blue-green algae.
Derived terms: phycochromaceous
phycochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phycochrome
lyric opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyric operas
Senses: glosses: A nineteenth-century form of French opera, emphasising melody and having a romantic or fantasy theme.
gipouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gipoun
healful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more healful
form: most healful
Etymology: From Middle English heeleful, heleful, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) + -ful. Compare healless.
Senses: examples: text: healful remedies
text: As for psychogenic death, this will be the case when three supplementary, in this case, healful conditions are fulfilled: […]
ref: 2008, Bernardo N. De Luca, Mind-Body and Relaxation Research Focus:
glosses: Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.
examples: text: […] I believe my Father catched [sic] cold on his journey, tho' he was otherways a very strong healful man, for on his return to Pennicuik a boile broke out between his shoulders, which in a very few days turn'd to a Mortification.
ref: 1892, Scottish History Society, Publications of the Scottish History Society:
text: The public conscience demands that they work under healful conditions, with ample light, without overspceding, and with the same provisions for their safety at their work that the employer would desire for himself were he so employed.
ref: 1913, Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green, The American federationist:
text: And, therefore, what is more healful than the sweetness of this sight, or what softer thing may be felt?
ref: 1957, Ray C. Petry, Late medieval mysticism:
glosses: Full of health or safety; healthy; whole; sound; safe.
examples: text: […] since Christ will not fail to minister, himself, all lawful and healful sacraments, and necessary at all time, and especially at the end, […]
ref: 1844, John Foxe, George Townsend, The acts and monuments of John Foxe:
glosses: Affording health or salvation.
kecklish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kecklish
form: most kecklish
Etymology: keck, keckle + -ish
Senses: examples: text: The female Penyroiall[…]staieth a kecklish stomack.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: Inclined to vomit; squeamish.
teston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testons
Senses: synonyms: testern
glosses: A tester; a sixpence.
have a pop at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a pop at
form: having a pop at
form: had a pop at
form: had a pop at
Senses: examples: text: I called this guy gay, and then he had a pop at me.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:have a pop at.
glosses: To attack or start a fight with something or someone.
megalerg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalergs
Etymology: From megalo- + erg.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: megerg
megaerg
glosses: A unit of one million ergs.
megalergs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalerg
rightwisely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rightwisely
form: most rightwisely
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of righteously.
soldan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒldən/
Forms: form: soldans
Etymology: From Middle English soudan, from Old French soudan, from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān). Doublet of sultan.
Senses: examples: text: The iewels and the treaſure we haue tane
Shall be reſeru’d, and you in better ſtate,
Than if you were arriu’d in Siria,
Euen in the circle of your Fathers armes,
The mightie Souldan of Ægyptia.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
glosses: The ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt.
examples: text: And then the Damzell, the sad Samient, / Should as his purchast prize with him convay / Unto the Souldans court […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A sultan.
soldans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soldan
tartramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tartramides
Etymology: From tartro- + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid amide derivative of tartaric acid.
tartramides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tartramide
misobserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misobserves
form: misobserving
form: misobserved
form: misobserved
Etymology: From mis- + observe.
Senses: examples: text: They understand it as early as they do language; and, if I misobserve not , they love to be treated as rational creatures sooner than is imagined
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “(please specify the section number)”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.
misobserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misobserve
misobserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misobserve
misobserving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misobserve
uncreatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncreated + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They rejected the Mu'tazili notion of the createdness of the Quran, affirmed the contrary – its uncreatedness – and made this a fundamental tenet of faith, as a way of asserting the superiority of the Quran to all human reasoning and knowledge.
ref: 2002, Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: The quality or state of being uncreated.
humidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From humid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: humidity
overlate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlate
form: most overlate
Etymology: From over- + late.
Senses: glosses: Too late; exceedingly late.
overlate
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overlate
form: most overlate
Etymology: From over- + late.
Senses: glosses: Excessively late
plumbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumbages
Senses: glosses: leadwork; plumbing
plumbages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumbage
surmisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surmisable
form: most surmisable
Etymology: From surmise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: surmisable fact
text: a surmisable result
glosses: Capable of being surmised.
pumiciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pumiciform
form: most pumiciform
Etymology: From pumice + -iform.
Senses: synonyms: pumicelike
pumiceous
glosses: Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.
unspinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unspin
unspins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unspin
bastioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bastion + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: As he walked stiffly aslant against the booming northern wind, he tried to marshal his thoughts, tried to dovetail for himself a picture of what had happened behind the grim, bastioned walls of the lamasery and of what was going to happen […]
ref: 1919, Achmed Abdullah, chapter IV, in Fear and Other Stories:
text: To the North there were low pale-colored hills, in places bastioned with rock.
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
bastioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bastion + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bastion
enguard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enguards
form: enguarding
form: enguarded
form: enguarded
Etymology: From en- + guard.
Senses: examples: text: He may enguard his dotage with their powers
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: To guard or treasure.
enguarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enguard
enguarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enguard
enguards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enguard
unnaturalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unnaturalizes
form: unnaturalizing
form: unnaturalized
form: unnaturalized
Etymology: From unnatural + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: he strives to unnaturalize himſelf
ref: 1659, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales:
glosses: To make unnatural.
unnaturalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unnaturalize
unnaturalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unnaturalize
vernacularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernacularizations
Etymology: From vernacular + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Thousands of words and uses of words, on their first appearance, or revival, as candidates for vernacularization, must have met with repugnance, expressed or unexpressed.
ref: 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English:
glosses: The act or process of making vernacular.
vernacularizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernacularization
gelatination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelatinations
Etymology: From gelatin + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: gelatinization
glosses: conversion into gelatin or jelly-like substance
gelatinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelatination
idoloclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idoloclasts
Etymology: From idol + -o- + -clast.
Senses: glosses: A breaker or undoer of idols; an iconoclast.
Related terms: idoloclasm
idoloclasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idoloclast
caracoly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, used to make jewellery of inferior quality.
unrioted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrioted
form: most unrioted
Etymology: From un- + rioted.
Senses: examples: text: a chaste, unrioted house
ref: 1679, Lucan, translated by Thomas May, Pharsalia, ix (61-65 AD):
glosses: Free from rioting; without riots.
geneset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genesets
Etymology: From gene + set.
Senses: glosses: A set of genes (with a specified function)
intermuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From inter- + muscular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between muscles.
gettable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛtəbəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɛtəbl/
ipa: /ˈɡɛdəbəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɛdəbl/
ipa: /ˈɡɛtəbəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɛtəbl/
rhymes: -ɛtəbəl
Forms: form: more gettable
form: most gettable
form: getable
form: gettabill
form: gettible
Etymology: From get + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I think that of the court's conservative justices, [Amy Coney Barrett] is (as the order today [in Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition] suggests and yesterday's decision [in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA]) one of the justices that may be more "gettable" to join the court's liberal justices.
ref: 2025, Amy Howe, in: Announcement of opinions for Wednesday, March 5 (complete) (live blog transcript), SCOTUSblog, 2025-03-05
glosses: Able to be gotten.
Synonyms: obtainable
cuspated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuspated
form: most cuspated
Senses: glosses: cuspate
aflow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈfloʊ/
Etymology: From a- + flow.
Senses: examples: text: But hush! and from the children take away / Their founts aflow with tears, and talk them calm,
ref: 1875, Robert Browning, Aristophanes' Apology:
glosses: flowing
weighbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighbeams
form: weigh beam
form: weigh-beam
Etymology: From weigh + beam.
Senses: synonyms: weighmaster's beam
glosses: A kind of large steelyard or scale that works by balance, as opposed to a spring.
examples: text: The normal balance position of the weighbeam of a beam scale shall be horizontal.
ref: 2003, National Conference on Weights and Measures, Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements For Weighing and Measuring Devices, pages 2-5:
glosses: The rigid beam that supports the receptacle for an item that is weighed on a balance-based scale.
weighbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weighbeam
neologian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neologian
form: most neologian
Senses: glosses: Neological.
Derived terms: neologianism
neologian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neologians
Senses: glosses: A neologist.
neologians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neologian
offerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offerable
form: most offerable
Etymology: From offer + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being offered
examples: text: an offerable present
glosses: suitable or worthy to be offered.
hoistway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoistways
Etymology: From hoist + way.
Senses: glosses: An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a warehouse.
Related terms: fallway
hoistways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoistway
casemated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From casemate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Casemated batteries are sometimes used in the seafaces of works, and in defending the entrance of harbours, in which case they consist of a bomb-proof
ref: 1844, E. S. Norman Campbell, A Dictionary of the Military Science:
glosses: Furnished with, protected by, or built like a casemate.
Derived terms: uncasemated
unconsequential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconsequential
form: most unconsequential
Etymology: From un- + consequential.
Senses: glosses: inconsequential