cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
neverendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛv.əˈɹɛn.dəm/
ipa: /ˌnɛv.ɚˈɛn.dəm/
Forms: form: neverendums
form: neverenda
Etymology: Blend of neverending + referendum. Coined by Canadian writer Josh Freed in the context of repeated referendums on the secession of Quebec.
Senses: examples: text: Another "neverendum" (as Canadian nationalists call this process) on Quebec's secession is planned before the year 2000.
ref: 1998, Pierre Desrochers, Eric Duhaime, “10: A Secessionist's View of Quebec's Options”, in David Gordon, editor, Secession, State, and Liberty, page 239:
text: And so, the neverendum marches on. This is good news for the Liberals but bad news for Canada.
ref: 1999, David Schneiderman, The Quebec Decision: Perspectives on the Supreme Court Ruling on Secession, page 123:
text: Well then you get Bouchard to have some neveredums (or neverenda, if you're literate.)
ref: 1999 April 26, J Kirby Inwood, “Municipality creation”, in can.legal (Usenet):
text: You should see the history lessons on the Quebec referenda(neverenda?)...
ref: 1999 September 9, Dwight Williams, “Plastique and the FALN: Birds of a Feather?”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet):
text: Some referenda feel like neverenda, political footballs kicked about in empty aisles.
ref: 2011, Peter Swirski, American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History, Routledge, page 86:
text: This is the Québécois scenario of the ‘neverendum’, which could be replicated in Scotland: the voters park their ideology and values at the elections to the Holyrood Parliament and elect an SNP or SNP coalition government, but vote differently at Westminster elections.
ref: 2012, Henry McLeish, Scotland: The Growing Divide: Old Nation, New Ideas, page 116:
text: I refer, among other things, to the egregious abuses during our neverenda referenda and the federal robocall scandal.
ref: 2014 June 17, Yaniv Loran, “How to get out the youth vote”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page A16:
glosses: A series of referendums on the same issue held in an attempt to achieve an unpopular result.
neverendums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neverendum
cakepan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cakepans
Etymology: From cake + pan.
Senses: glosses: A dish or mould for baking a cake.
cakepans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cakepan
hyperarticulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: hyperarticulations
Etymology: From hyper- + articulation.
Senses: examples: the hyperarticulation of child-directed speech
glosses: exaggerated articulation
Related terms: hyperarticulated
hyperarticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperarticulated
form: most hyperarticulated
Etymology: From hyper- + articulated.
Senses: glosses: Having exaggerated articulation.
Related terms: hyperarticulation
hyperarticulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperarticulation
agglutinativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agglutinative + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being agglutinative.
neobehaviourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + behaviourism.
Senses: glosses: Standard spelling of neobehaviorism.
movie stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of movie star
film stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of film star
neobehaviorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neobehaviourism
Etymology: From neo- + behaviorism.
Senses: glosses: A form of behaviorism that takes unobservable internal behaviors into account.
Related terms: neobehaviorist
neobehaviorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neobehaviorists
Etymology: From neo- + behaviorist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of neobehaviorism.
DIET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of direct interspecies electron transfer.
neobehaviorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neobehaviorist
nonmethane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + methane.
Senses: glosses: Not methane.
dry lab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry labs
Senses: glosses: A laboratory where computational or mathematical analyses are used to simulate a physical phenomenon.
glosses: A photographic laboratory that does not use "wet" photographic chemicals.
Derived terms: dry labbing
dry lab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dry labs
form: dry labbing
form: dry labbed
form: dry labbed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dry-lab.
Related terms: in silico
dry labs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry lab
dry labs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dry lab
unconglomerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conglomerated.
Senses: glosses: Not conglomerated.
overinclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overinclusions
Etymology: From over- + inclusion.
Senses: glosses: inclusion of too much or too many within a category
overinclusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overinclusion
North Pole of inaccessibility
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the North Pole of inaccessibility
Senses: glosses: The point near the North Pole that is most distant from solid land; the centre of the largest circle that fits entirely in the Arctic Ocean
Related terms: english: another place that is most remote by a certain measure
translation: another place that is most remote by a certain measure
word: Point Nemo
Kinbotean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kinbotean
form: most Kinbotean
Etymology: From Kinbote + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Charles Kinbote, the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (1962).
Kinbotean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kinboteans
Etymology: From Kinbote + -an.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A proponent of an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire according to which the ostensible author John Shade is in fact an invention of the character Charles Kinbote.
Coordinate terms: Shadean
concessives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concessive
madneps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madnep
cybercloset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberclosets
Etymology: From cyber- + closet.
Senses: examples: text: That's why CleanSweep is considered "a superior way to clean your cybercloset."
ref: 1998 May 5, PC Mag, volume 17, number 9, page 293:
text: Favorite new features include an expanded cybercloset, where girls can scan their own photos and "try on" new hairstyles.
ref: 1998 June, Working Mother, volume 21, number 6:
text: To be fair, AOL is not the only online portal with various sexual dysfunctions, they're just the biggest and offer the biggest target, especially in light of the disconnect between their family-only promotion and the sex hidden in the cybercloset.
ref: 2002, Lewis Perdue, EroticaBiz: How Sex Shaped the Internet, page 49:
text: A virtual, nanogenetic space? A glove-and-helmet, artificially intelligent, self-replicating reality? A cybercafe of the mind for the millions? A cybercloset of the mind for one? It may now be that we approach a world more like a room[…]
ref: 2004, Phil Condon, Montana Surround: Land, Water, Nature, and Place, page 107:
text: […] there is also the risk that they will keep people from truly coming out and participating in the community. Depending on how they are utilized, gay chat rooms could become pathetic cyberclosets.
ref: 1998 March 3, The Advocate, number 754:
text: Many lesbians and gays prefer not to self-identify for a variety of reasons, but this study has shown dramatically that our community is out of the cybercloset in large numbers.
ref: 2013, Katherine Sender (quoting Scott Seitz), Business, Not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market, page 152:
glosses: A space on the Internet resembling a closet, especially in the sense of one's sexual orientation or undesirable secrets being kept "in the closet".
cyberclosets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercloset
sub-liminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sub-liminal
form: most sub-liminal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subliminal.
jobshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jobshares
Etymology: From job + share.
Senses: glosses: A work arrangement where the functions of a single job are fulfilled by two or more people who work at different times.
jobshare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jobshares
form: jobsharing
form: jobshared
form: jobshared
Etymology: From job + share.
Senses: glosses: To take part in a work arrangement of this kind.
jobshares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jobshare
jobshares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jobshare
vertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vertible
form: most vertible
Etymology: From the Old French vertible, from Latin vertibilis from the stem of vertō (“I turn”).
Senses: examples: text: But were it not better that God Almighty should annihilate the Individuals of this middle vertible Order, as you call it, as soon as they lapse into Sin?
ref: 1667, Henry More, Divine Dialogues, II.20:
glosses: Able to turn or to be turned; changeable.
Wilberian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wilberian
form: most Wilberian
Etymology: From Wilber + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ken Wilber (born 1949), American writer and public speaker.
orientabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orientability
Lickorish-Wallace theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The theorem was proved independently in the early 1960s by W. B. R. Lickorish and Andrew H. Wallace.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The theorem that any closed, orientable, connected 3-manifold may be obtained by performing Dehn surgery on a framed link in the 3-sphere with ±1 surgery coefficients, and that each component of the link can be assumed to be unknotted.
underinclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underinclusions
Etymology: From under- + inclusion.
Senses: glosses: inclusion of too few or too little
underinclusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underinclusion
biclausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + clausal.
Senses: examples: text: "It is surprising that Mary likes apples" is a biclausal sentence consisting of an independent clause and a dependent clause.
glosses: Of or relating to two clauses.
spit nails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spits nails
form: spitting nails
form: spat nails
form: spat nails
form: spit nails
form: spit nails
Senses: examples: text: [O]ne thing about Aunt Jenny gets me so mad I could spit nails.
ref: 1965 September 6, Ann Landers, “Exception is Acknowledged”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle, retrieved 22 Nov 2013, page 17:
text: The three chiefs of staff are described by sources as ‘spitting nails’ over the latest proposals to cut the defence budget even further.
ref: 1993 November 9, “RAF chief attacks Treasury over cuts”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 22 Nov 2013:
text: Just the thought of Joseph I. Lieberman makes some Democrats want to spit nails these days. But Mr. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, is not the least troubled by his status as Capitol Hill’s master infuriator.
ref: 2009 December 14, David M. Herszenhorn, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Lieberman Gets Ex-Party to Shift on Health Plan”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Nov 2013:
glosses: To speak or sputter in a very angry manner.
Related terms: spit blood
spit chips
spit feathers
spit tacks
spit venom
prenominally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prenominal + -ly.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Before a noun.
postnominally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postnominal + -ly.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: After a noun.
counterreply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterreplies
Etymology: From counter- + reply.
Senses: glosses: A reply to a reply.
counterreplies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterreply
antitheta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + theta.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Countering the theta antigen.
microscissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + scissors.
Senses: glosses: Very small surgical scissors.
Asherman's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Described by Israeli gynecologist Joseph Asherman in 1948.
Senses: glosses: A condition characterized by adhesions and/or fibrosis of the endometrium, most often associated with dilation and curettage of the intrauterine cavity.
Synonyms: Fritsch syndrome
Fritsch syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Heinrich Fritsch.
Senses: glosses: Asherman's syndrome
wikipedia: Heinrich Fritsch
antianhedonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antianhedonic
form: most antianhedonic
form: anti-anhedonic
Etymology: From anti- + anhedonic.
Senses: glosses: That counters anhedonia
biobleaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + bleaching.
Senses: glosses: The bleaching of paper using biological agents such as enzymes
biorefining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + refining.
Senses: glosses: The refining of biomass products in a biorefinery
biorefined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + refined.
Senses: glosses: Processed in a biorefinery.
arteriviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arterivirus
betaretrovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betaretroviruses
Etymology: From the genus name, translingual Betaretrovirus.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Betaretrovirus
Derived terms: betaretroviral
betaretroviruslike
betaretroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betaretrovirus
spumaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to spumaviruses.
spumavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spumaviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Spumavirus.
spumaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spumavirus
deltaretrovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deltaretroviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Deltaretrovirus.
Related terms: deltaretroviral
deltaretroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deltaretrovirus
deltaproteobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to deltaproteobacteria.
coltivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coltiviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Coltivirus.
coltiviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coltivirus
furovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Furovirus.
furoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furovirus
carlavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carlaviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Carlavirus
Related terms: carlaviral
carlaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carlavirus
carmovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carmoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name, after the type species Carnation mottle virus.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Carmovirus
Related terms: carmoviral
carmoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carmovirus
filoviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to filoviruses
Derived terms: antifiloviral
bunchy top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A viral disease of various plants, including banana and tomato plants, caused by the Nanoviridae.
dianthovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dianthoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Dianthovirus.
dianthoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dianthovirus
dependovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Dependovirus.
dependoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dependovirus
densovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: densoviruses
Etymology: From the now obsolete genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the subfamily Densovirinae
Derived terms: sea star-associated densovirus
starfish-associated densovirus
Related terms: densoviral
densoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of densovirus
closterovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closteroviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Closterovirus
Related terms: closterovirid
closteroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closterovirus
Viterbi algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Italian–American electrical engineer Andrew Viterbi (1935–), who proposed it in 1967 as a decoding algorithm for convolutional codes over noisy digital communication links.
Senses: glosses: A dynamic programming algorithm for finding the most likely sequence of hidden states (the Viterbi path) that results in a sequence of observed events.
cucumovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucumoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Cucumovirus
Related terms: cucumoviral
cucumoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cucumovirus
necrovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necroviruses
Etymology: From a former genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genera Alphanecrovirus and Betanecrovirus.
necroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necrovirus
orthohepadnavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthohepadnaviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Orthohepadnavirus
Related terms: orthohepadnaviral
orthohepadnaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthohepadnavirus
varicellovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varicelloviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Varicellovirus.
varicelloviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varicellovirus
mengovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mengoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Mengovirus.
mengoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mengovirus
sobemovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sobemoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: The virus particle formation is also important for vector transmission due to the high RNase activities in regurgitant of leaf-feeding beetles who can transmit sobemoviruses in a semipersistent manner.
ref: 2015, Merike Sõmera et al., “Overview on Sobemoviruses and a Proposal for the Creation of the Family Sobemoviridae”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 7, →DOI:
glosses: Any virus of the genus Sobemovirus.
sobemoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sobemovirus
phytoreovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoreoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Phytoreovirus.
phytoreoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytoreovirus
novirhabdovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novirhabdoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Novirhabdovirus.
novirhabdoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novirhabdovirus
Taura syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An epidemic occurred in the Taura River basin district of Ecuador.
Senses: glosses: A viral disease of shrimp, caused by Aparavirus.
tobravirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tobraviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Tobravirus.
tobraviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tobravirus
chickenwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chicken + wort.
Senses: glosses: common chickweed
chillsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: chil'səm
ipa: /ˈtʃɪlsəm/
rhymes: -ɪlsəm
Forms: form: more chillsome
form: most chillsome
Etymology: From chill + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I heard Red Barber one morning on the radio say the air was “chillsome.”
ref: 2011, Lewis Burke Frumkes, Favorite Words of Famous People:
glosses: Cold; chilly.
founden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of find
heavinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heaviness
titty bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titty bars
Senses: glosses: A strip club (with female performers).
titty bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titty bar
cobette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobettes
Etymology: From cob + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: I'll cook clams, lobsters—hot-and-spicy red potatoes and corn cobettes.
ref: 2002, Patricia Hickman, Sandpebbles, page 194:
text: Processing budgets were completed for these seven frozen products: strawberries, strawberry jam, sliced green beans, cut corn, corn (cobettes), sliced apples, and apple puree.
ref: 2006, Progress Report, volume 15, page 54:
text: Sitting late one night again in a burger bar, where I munched into some fries and a corn cobette, I mentioned my vegetarianism to Joshua and how I just felt a deep-rooted belief it was morally wrong to kill animals for us to eat […]
ref: 2011, Rehana Incognito, Bodycage, page 304:
glosses: A small portion of corn on the cob, less than the whole ear.
cobettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobette
cowboy beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: campfire beans
glosses: A dish of beans and ground beef in a sweet tangy sauce.
centonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centonizations
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A theory about the composition of a melody or piece based on pre-existing melodic figures and formulas.
Related terms: centonate
centonizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centonization
centonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centonates
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece composed according to the rules of centonization.
centonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centonate
responsorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From responsorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: to sing responsorially
glosses: In a responsorial manner.
responsivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responsiveness
midnight oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: aunti/aunti Emma
word: big O
word: chandu
word: Chinese tobacco
word: dopium
word: dream gun
word: dream stick
word: fi-do-nie
word: gee
word: God's medicine
word: gondola
word: goric
word: guma
word: hop/hops
word: meconium
word: midnight oil
word: mud
word: ope
word: pen yan
word: pin gon
word: pox
word: skee
word: toxy
word: when-shee
word: yen
word: ze
word: zero
glosses: The drug opium.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: lamp oil burned at midnight.
Related terms: burn the midnight oil
shit yeah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Shit yeah! We are the champions.
text: Shit yeah! We get paid today!
glosses: Expressing joy, celebration, glee, support, elation, etc.
examples: text: Shit yeah, I do.
glosses: A strong affirmative response.
Derived terms: shit
Related terms: the shit
yeah
Europhone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Euro- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Able to speak a European language.
glosses: Written or spoken in a European language.
myosote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myosotes
Senses: examples: text: And laden barges float
By banks of myosote;
And scented flag and golden flower-de-lys
Delay the loitering boat.
ref: before 1899, Robert Seymour Bridges, There is a Hill
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Myosotis.
deconvolutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deconvolution + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing deconvolution
deubiquitylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deubiquitylases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deubiquitinase.
deubiquitylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deubiquitylate
glycogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glyco- + genomics.
Senses: glosses: The application of genomics to the study of carbohydrate-active enzymes
hemicellulases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemicellulase
hemicellulosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemicellulose + -ic.
Senses: glosses: That contains hemicelluloses
hexadecadienal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadecadienals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated aliphatic aldehyde containing 16 carbon atoms and 2 double bonds, but especially 10,12-hexadecadienal which is a component of the female sex pheromone of some insects
hexadecadienol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated aliphatic alcohol containing 16 carbon atoms and 2 double bonds, but especially 10,12-hexadecadienol which is a component of the female sex pheromone of some insects
immunodeplete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunodepletes
form: immunodepleting
form: immunodepleted
form: immunodepleted
Etymology: From immuno- + deplete.
Senses: glosses: To undergo immunodepletion
mannobiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannobioses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric disaccharides formed from two mannose moieties
mannohexaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannohexaoses
Etymology: From manno- + hexa- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligosaccharide composed of six mannose moieties (or of three mannobiose moieties).
mannopentaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannopentaoses
Etymology: From manno- + penta- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligosaccharide composed of five mannose moieties
mannotetraose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannotetraoses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligosaccharide composed of four mannose moieties (or of two mannobiose moieties)
mannotriose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannotrioses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trisaccharide composed of three mannose moieties.
metaboreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaboreceptors
Etymology: Blend of metabolic + receptor
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A type of chemoreceptor, found in skeletal muscle, that responds to an increase in metabolic products and stimulates an increase in circulation in response to exercise
metaboreceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaboreceptor
mimotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimotopes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any biological macromolecule (especially a peptide) that mimics an epitope
mimotopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mimotope
monocopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + copy.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing any gene that has a copy number of one
bioparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioparticles
Etymology: From bio- + particle.
Senses: glosses: A particle of biological material
Derived terms: nanobioparticle
nanobioparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobioparticles
Etymology: From nano- + bioparticle.
Senses: glosses: A nanosize bioparticle
nanocarriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocarrier
neoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From neoplasm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neoplasm
symbionin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aphid endosymbiont-specific chaperonin protein
transcallosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + callosal.
Senses: glosses: Across or through the corpus callosum
encephalographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From encephalography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or employing encephalography.
Derived terms: encephalographically
magnetoencephalographic
rheoencephalographic
mihirung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mihirungs
Etymology: From Chaap Wuurong mihirung paringmal (literally “giant bird”).
Senses: glosses: A bird of the family Dromornithidae, which became extinct in Australia 20,000 to 50,000 years ago.
raking together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rake together
raked together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rake together
rakes together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rake together
exclamatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exclamative
battle-line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle-lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of battleline.
battle-lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle-line
ajoene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːhoʊ.iːn/
Forms: form: ajoenes
Etymology: From Spanish ajo (“garlic”) + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated disulfide obtained from garlic, with antioxidant, antithrombotic, and antimicrobial properties.
Coordinate terms: sense: sulfur compounds from garlic
word: allicin
ajoenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ajoene
copaene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copaenes
Etymology: From copaiba + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oily liquid hydrocarbon found in a number of essential oil-producing plants. It is a tricyclic sesquiterpene.
copaenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copaene
cepaene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cepaenes
Etymology: From Latin cepa (“onion”) + -ene?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound with antiasthma properties, found in onions.
cepaenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cepaene
swiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪs/
homophone: Swiss
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: swisses
form: swissing
form: swissed
form: swissed
Senses: glosses: To prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to soften it.
swissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swiss
swisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swiss
swissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swiss
Swiss steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swiss steaks
Etymology: See swiss (“to soften by rolling or pounding”), and (by confusion) Swiss (“of Switzerland”).
Senses: glosses: meat, usually beef, softened by rolling or pounding, and then braised in stewed tomatoes
Swiss steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swiss steak
overcite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊvə(ɹ)ˌsaɪt/
homophone: oversight
Forms: form: overcites
form: overciting
form: overcited
form: overcited
Etymology: From over- + cite.
Senses: glosses: To cite too much.
Related terms: overcitation
overquote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overquotes
form: overquoting
form: overquoted
form: overquoted
Etymology: From over- + quote.
Senses: glosses: To give a quotation (price estimate) that is too high.
overquotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overquote
overquoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overquote
overquoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overquote
overcites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcite
overciting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcite
overcited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcite
fiduciarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fiduciary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fiduciary manner
refinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refining
floristically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From floristic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a floristic manner; according to flora.
glosses: With regard to floristry
nonscented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scented.
Senses: glosses: Not scented.
nonschematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + schematic.
Senses: glosses: Not schematic.
schematization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schematizations
form: schematisation
Etymology: From schematize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Arrangement into a scheme or schema.
schematizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schematization
folk-lore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk-lores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of folklore.
folk-lores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folk-lore
selfy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfies
Etymology: See selfie
Senses: examples: text: The small business “brand,” like Mike's, is typically the small business founder, so pulling out a video camera and shooting a selfy can't be beat.
ref: 2013 November 22, “Selfytising - A New Genre In Advertising?”, in Forbes:
glosses: Alternative form of selfie.
selfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self + -y.
Senses: examples: text: While a bat, like even the lowly lobster, has a biological self, it has no selfy self to speak of — no Center of Narrative Gravity
ref: 1991, The New York Times Book Review, volume 96, page 60:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.
formworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formwork
Trombe wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trombe walls
Etymology: Named after French engineer Félix Trombe.
Senses: glosses: A wall built on the winter sun side of a building with a glass external layer and a high mass internal layer separated by a layer of air, so as to absorb heat during sunlit hours of winter and slowly release it overnight.
Trombe walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trombe wall
beat ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beat up
dispatchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dispatch + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being dispatched.
Derived terms: undispatchable
appulses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appulse
g-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: g-words
form: G-word
Senses: glosses: The word gay.
glosses: The word goddamn.
glosses: The word gook.
examples: text: And the “g” word (shhh!) is just taboo.
Away! Away! They say to gifts
Thinking this denial lifts
All children to a common place[.]
ref: 2018, Deb Douglas, The Power of Self-Advocacy for Gifted Learners: Teaching the Four Essential Steps to Success (Grades 5–12), Free Spirit Publishing, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Any word beginning with g that is not normally taboo but is considered to be so in the given context, such as globalization or genocide.
Related terms: english: God
translation: God
word: G-word
sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
nondeterminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + determinative.
Senses: glosses: Not determinative.
v-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: v-words
form: V-word
Senses: glosses: The word vagina or Voldemort.
glosses: Any word beginning with v that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
w-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: w-words
form: W-word
Senses: glosses: The word whore.
glosses: The word wank or wanker.
glosses: The word wetback.
examples: text: 'We're going mining,' said Lister. 'We're not in the heats of "Come Jiving", we're going to work.'
'Hey - I do not do the "W" word.'
'We're all doing the "W" word,' said Lister.
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
glosses: Any word beginning with the letter w that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context, such as the word work or woman.
Related terms: word: wh-word
sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
crab puff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab puffs
Senses: glosses: A ball of crab meat deep-fried in batter.
crab puffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crab puff
geburs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gebur
kiekie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kie-kie
Etymology: Borrowing from Maori kiekie
Senses: glosses: Freycinetia banksii, a high-climbing shrub of New Zealand.
Euro-American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈjʊɹ.oʊ.əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
/ˈjɝ.oʊ.əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
Forms: form: Euroamerican
Etymology: From Euro- + American.
Senses: examples: Euroamerican trade with China
glosses: European and/or American; of European and/or American origin, culture, etc (Europe and America being considered a unit).
glosses: Of that group of Americans (natives or inhabitants of America) who are descended from European settlers, or of their culture, etc (contrasted with e.g. Native American/Amerindian)
Euro-American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjʊɹ.oʊ.əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
/ˈjɝ.oʊ.əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/
Forms: form: Euro-Americans
form: Euroamerican
Etymology: From Euro- + American.
Senses: glosses: A person of Euro-American ancestry
Related terms: Euramerica
Afro-American
Euroamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Euro-American.
Euroamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euroamericans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Euro-American.
premmie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premmies
Senses: glosses: An infant who is born prematurely.
sex ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sex education.
fucking machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucking machines
Senses: examples: text: Dear Mary, I promised to write directly when to school I returned. / But I think when this letter is finished 'twere better by far it were burned; / For a girl has just now returned to us, and bought while in town she has been / The last improvement in dildoes - the new patent Fucking Machine.
ref: 1880, Society of Vice, The Pearl, volume 12:
text: First, if there are people out there interested in getting their minds off the election, or anything else, I can attest that reading about fucking machines — yes, they exist and, yes, they’re commercially available — is almost as good as these pictures of my boyfriend in a Speedo at 16.
ref: 2004 November 5, Dan Savage, “Not thinking about Bush”, in Savage Love, Boston Phoenix, retrieved 08 May 2013:
text: Money cannot buy happiness, but this is not apparent from the smiling faces of the women depicted on this Web site ... even if they have been having sex with the nightmarish 'fucking machines' ...
ref: 2008, Bonnie G. Smith, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, volume Kaffka, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 490:
glosses: A powered device, significantly larger than a vibrator, designed to bring a person to orgasm by sexual penetration.
wikipedia: Fucking Machines
Related terms: sex machine
fucking machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fucking machine
common bistort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common bistorts
Senses: glosses: Bistorta officinalis (syn. Persicaria bistorta), Easter giant
eschatologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eschatologically
form: most eschatologically
Etymology: From eschatological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an eschatological manner.
smellfungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɛlˌfʌŋɡəs/
Forms: form: smellfunguses
form: smellfungi
Etymology: From Smelfungus, name of a hypercritical traveller in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, a satirical characterization of Tobias Smollett and his Travels Through France and Italy (1766). Apparently from smell + fungus.
Senses: examples: text: But this want of a softening medium, and consequently, of aerial perspective, is not the defect of the Rhine scenery in particular, but of river views in general. And then it is so rich in equivalents—so strong in picture; a true Smellfungus would exclaim, “Yes; but the pictures are all alike.”
ref: 1834, Mary Boddington, Slight reminiscences of the Rhine, Switzerland, and a corner of Italy, volume I, page 81:
text: Nor is she a smellfungus searching for weeds where roses grow, or setting down everything a wilderness from Braga to Barcelona.
ref: 1847, “Journal of a few Months' Residence in Portugal, and Glimpses of the South of Spain”, in Quarterly Review, volume LXXXI, number CLXI, page 88:
synonyms: word: bellyacher
word: carper
word: castigator
word: caviler
word: censurer
word: complainer
word: crabber
word: critic
word: criticizer
word: faultfinder
word: findfault
word: grouch
word: grumbler
word: hafter
word: kvetcher
word: latrant
word: nitpicker
word: pettifogger
word: pick-fault
word: quibbler
word: scolder
word: smellfungus
word: sourpuss
word: squeaky wheel
word: troublemaker
word: vituperator
word: whiner
word: whinger
word: whining Willy
glosses: A faultfinder, complainer, grumbler.
wikipedia: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Tobias Smollett
Travels Through France and Italy
smellfungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smellfungus
IOOH
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I'm out of here.
get the last laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the last laugh
form: getting the last laugh
form: got the last laugh
form: got the last laugh
form: gotten the last laugh
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of have the last laugh.
swamp white oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swamp white oak
scarlet oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarlet oak
oughten
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: I was jest a little child but I knowed I oughten to go without my clothes.
glosses: ought not, oughtn't
savasana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savasanas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shavasana.
autapomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autapomorphic.
conchostracan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conchostracans
Etymology: From Conchostraca + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any clam shrimp of the former order Conchostraca.
Rhondda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rhondda
Senses: glosses: A former coal-mining valley in South Wales.
glosses: A river in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, South Wales with two main tributaries, Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach.
Derived terms: Blaenrhondda
Dinas Rhondda
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Ystrad Rhondda
Related terms: Rhonda
crossveins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossvein
ectoparasitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectoparasitisms
Etymology: From ecto- + parasitism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being an ectoparasite.
glosses: Infection by an ectoparasite.
forecoxa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecoxae
Etymology: From fore- + coxa.
Senses: glosses: The foremost lobe of the coxa in some arthropod legs
forecoxae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forecoxa
forefemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forefemora
form: forefemurs
Etymology: From fore- + femur.
Senses: glosses: The foremost part of the femur in the arthropod leg