cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bed-and-breakfasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the case of equities and unit trusts, etc, this can be done by bed and breakfasting (selling one afternoon and buying back first thing the following morning), but care needs to be taken especially in the present volatile state of the stock market.
ref: 1990, Accountancy, volume 150, page 40:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The use of bed-and-breakfast deals.
bed-and-breakfast deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-and-breakfast deals
Etymology: From the idea that one might stay in a bed and breakfast, since the trades take place on two consecutive days.
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: bed-and-breakfast transaction
wash sale
glosses: The practice of selling a position on the last trading day of the year to establish a tax loss, and then repurchasing early on the first session of the new trading year, to restore the position.
Related terms: bed-and-breakfasting
bed-and-breakfast deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed-and-breakfast deal
bed-and-breakfast transaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-and-breakfast transactions
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Synonym of bed-and-breakfast deal.
synonyms: word: bed-and-breakfast deal
bed-and-breakfast transactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed-and-breakfast transaction
Awkward Bench
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Awkward Bench
Senses: examples: text: Described as 'a sabre-toothed growler on Labour's awkward bench' (Robert Hardman), he sits alongside Dennis Skinner a mere arm's length from the Chief Whip, whom, in opposition during the 1992 Parliament, he defied 52 times, […]
ref: 1999, Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, page 288:
text: I am pleased that he is on the awkward Bench and hope to see him here in future.
ref: 2005, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 451:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The front row of seats below the gangway on the Labour side of the House of Commons, where rebel MPs often sit.
Related terms: below the gangway
below the gangway
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: On the benches in the House of Commons located past the central aisle and relatively far from the Speaker, generally occupied by minority groups not belonging to either the government or the Shadow Cabinet.
Related terms: Awkward Bench
Muzaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Muzak
Muzaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Muzak
Muzaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːzækt/
ipa: /ˈmjuzækt/
Etymology: From Muzak + -ed.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of premises, etc.: provided with Muzak.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of a piece of music: rearranged or otherwise converted into Muzak.
Muzaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːzækt/
ipa: /ˈmjuzækt/
Etymology: From Muzak + -ed.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: simple past and past participle of Muzak
horse parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse parlors
Senses: glosses: A room where gamblers can place bets on horse races.
horse parlors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse parlor
earhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earhorns
Etymology: From ear + horn.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ear trumpet (“type of hearing aid”).
synonyms: word: ear trumpet
extra: type of hearing aid
earhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earhorn
ultratherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultratherm
thorn-apple crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorn-apple crystals
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An ammonium urate crystal having a rounded form with many projecting points.
thorn-apple crystals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thorn-apple crystal
dekatherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dekatherms
form: decatherm
Senses: glosses: A unit of energy equivalent to 10 therms.
decatherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decatherms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dekatherm.
dekatherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dekatherm
decatherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decatherm
Butin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Butins
Etymology: Either from French Butin or Russian Бутин (Butin).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
moonlight-and-magnolia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Here the myth of a moonlight-and-magnolia South founders on dry empirical realities.
ref: 2013, David Chinitz, Which Sin to Bear?, page 34:
text: The romantic South of myth and legend, the “moonlight and magnolia” South with which plantation epics captured the national imagination in the era of the Lost Cause, has acquired a nightmarish quality; […]
ref: 2014, Cynthia Stretch, Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Innocence and Loss, page 33:
text: If a white employer could take so much interest in the child of a black employee, in whom he had no property interest, that would illustrate—as did Hentz's other fiction—the moonlight and magnolia world of Southerners' concern for their slaves.
ref: 2016, Alfred L. Brophy, University, Court, and Slave, page 84:
glosses: Of or relating to romanticized historical portrayals of the American South, often depicting slavery in a positive light.
Darova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Darova.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Timiș County, Romania.
moonlight towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonlight tower
Dobromir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Dobromir.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Constanța County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Dobromir, Constanța County, Romania.
pocketbook issue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocketbook issues
Senses: examples: text: The party leaders became social media stars. Heidi Reichinnek, who is credited for much of the turnaround, told a crowd on Sunday night that they owed their success to the many volunteers who went from door to door talking to people about pocketbook issues.
ref: 2025 February 24, Christopher F. Schuetze, Jim Tankersley, “5 Takeaways From Germany’s Election”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of bread-and-butter issue.
synonyms: word: bread-and-butter issue
pocketbook issues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocketbook issue
Negomir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
police special
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police specials
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: police positive
glosses: A pistol manufactured for police use.
police positive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police positives
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Synonym of police special (“pistol manufactured for police use”).
synonyms: word: police special
extra: pistol manufactured for police use
police specials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police special
police positives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police positive
get out of it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of get out (“indicating incredulity”).
synonyms: word: get out
extra: indicating incredulity
Archy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːt͡ʃi/
ipa: /ˈɑɹt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃi
Senses: examples: text: "Well, if it's beer you're after," said Archy, "It's time we cut along and milked the old 'Cow.'"
ref: 1931, Forum and Century, volume 86, page 178:
glosses: Alternative form of Archie (“male given name or diminutive, from Archibald”).
cut along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts along
form: cutting along
form: cut along
form: cut along
Senses: examples: text: "Well, if it's beer you're after," said Archy, "It's time we cut along and milked the old 'Cow.'"
ref: 1931, Forum and Century, volume 86, page 178:
glosses: To depart for another place; make a move; set off.
look in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks in
form: looking in
form: looked in
form: looked in
Senses: examples: text: You might look in next time you're passing by.
synonyms: drop by
drop round
glosses: To visit a place or person briefly and casually.
books of original entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book of original entry
day books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of day book
book of prime entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: books of prime entry
Senses: glosses: Synonym of book of original entry (“kind of record book in accounting”).
synonyms: word: book of original entry
extra: kind of record book in accounting
books of prime entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book of prime entry
book returns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book return
Culm Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The valley of the River Culm in its upper reaches, in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST0913).
ozzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒzi/
homophone: Aussie
homophone: Ozzie
homophone: Ozzy
Forms: form: ozzies
Etymology: From a pronunciation of hospital with h-dropping, + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: I became most distressed when talking to a man from Liverpool who said he was going up the ozzie? I thought he was planning to examine an Australian, but it turned out he was going to the hospital.
ref: 2001, Nursing Times, Nursing Mirror, volume 97, numbers 5-8:
text: What a way to start the new century – in the ozzie or a police cell.
ref: 2014, Maureen Lee, The Seven Streets of Liverpool:
glosses: A hospital.
ozzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ozzie
pollinar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pollen.
production brigade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: production brigades
Senses: coordinate_terms: people's commune
production team
glosses: The basic accounting and farm production unit in the people's commune system of the People's Republic of China.
production brigades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of production brigade
production team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: production teams
Senses: glosses: The group of technical staff who produce a play, television show, film, or similar work.
coordinate_terms: people's commune
production brigade
glosses: A work team ranking below a production brigade in the people's commune system of the People's Republic of China.
production teams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of production team
North Acton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and industrial area in the borough of Ealing, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2082).
Belinț
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Belinț.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Timiș County, Romania.
big-lipped alligator moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big-lipped alligator moments
Etymology: Coined in a 2009 Nostalgia Critic review of FernGully: The Last Rainforest, referring to a scene in the 1989 film All Dogs Go to Heaven, in which an alligator breaks into an Esther Williams-style musical number.
Senses: examples: text: This may be the first case where the *entire* movie is a Big Lipped Alligator Moment . . .
ref: 2009, Antonio E. Gonzalez, rec.arts.animation (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: BLAM
glosses: A notably unusual, tangential scene in a movie or similar work of fiction, which occurs without setup and does not affect the story afterward.
wikipedia: All Dogs Go to Heaven
Esther Williams
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
Nostalgia Critic
Ciuchici
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ciuchici.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Caraș-Severin County, Romania.
big-lipped alligator moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big-lipped alligator moment
BLAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BLAMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of big-lipped alligator moment.
Bolvașnița
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bolvașnița.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Caraș-Severin County, Romania.
Lupac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Lupac.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Caraș-Severin County, Romania.
Ackford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ackfords
Etymology: Habitational surname, from Old English āc (“oak”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Blee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blees
Etymology: From the Cornish and Irish surname, variant of Bligh.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
BLAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BLAM
Nixon shock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒk
Forms: form: the Nixon shock
Etymology: From Richard Nixon + shock.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A series of economic measures undertaken by United States President Richard Nixon in 1971, in response to increasing inflation, the most significant of which were wage and price freezes, surcharges on imports, and the unilateral cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States dollar to gold.
metadocuments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metadocument
Crews Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɹuːz.hɪl/
Etymology: From Crew, a surname.
Senses: examples: text: The government's New Towns Taskforce has also published a report listing Crews Hill, on the Hertford Loop used by Moorgate services, on a shortlist of 12 potential new towns.
ref: 2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 11:
glosses: A village in the borough of Enfield, on the northern edge of Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3199).
etherially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more etherially
form: most etherially
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ethereally.
aetherially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aetherially
form: most aetherially
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ethereally.
cyberflashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyber-flashing
Etymology: From cyber- + flashing.
Senses: examples: text: For many people of a certain age, particularly women, cyberflashing has become yet another cost of existing on the internet.
ref: 2022 June 13, Valeriya Safronova, “The Fight to End ‘Cyberflashing’”, in The New York Times:
text: For years, the Law Commission has been advising the government to plug this gap in legislation – a chasm between how we punish real-world behaviours and the same behaviour online – by introducing a specific cyber-flashing offence.
ref: 2023 April 19, Sophie Gallagher, “Cyber-flashing is just as damaging as the ‘real world’ equivalent. When will the law catch up?”, in The Guardian:
text: It covers Davies’s experiences in the digital world – that includes cyberflashing such as all those unsolicited dick pics – as well as the widespread use of her images on pornography sites, escort services, dating apps, sex chats (“Ready for Rape? Role play now!” with her picture alongside it).
ref: 2025 April 30, Anna Moore, “‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: crime
glosses: The unsolicited sending of sexually explicit pictures of oneself to another person by means of a computer or telecommunication network.
Warholians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Warholian
cybertraffic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + traffic.
Senses: glosses: The traffic transmitted over a computer network.
robocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From robo- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of roboticide.
synonyms: word: roboticide
no balling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of no ball
no balled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of no ball
roboticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roboticisms
Etymology: From robotic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Dropping out of the mundane existence and breaking free from one's own roboticisms. Bathing in the rapturous energy and hanging free. Free from hive mentality one can't help but to hedonistically rapture on pleasurable energy.
ref: 2005, Daniel McClelland, Secret Magickal Text, page 78:
text: Your tasks at work revolve around the same subject they did last month, assuming they're not the exact same routines of sheer repetition — the industrial roboticism of a corporate world.
ref: 2019, Nikolas Honoré, Meet Me at the Sun:
glosses: Robotic behaviour.
roboticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roboticism
epicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being epic or epical.
Bayford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bayfords
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Bōia + ford (“ford”).
In Hertfordshire, recorded as Begesford 1086 (Domesday Book), and Begeford in 1090; the ford of a man called Bǣga.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3108).
glosses: A large hamlet near Wincanton in Stoke Trister parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7229).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
goose-flesher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goose-fleshers
Etymology: From goose flesh + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […]the best thing to do is to curl up with a good goose-flesher and try to forget, and fortunately I had packed among my effects one called Murder at Greystone Grange.
ref: 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:
glosses: A frightening or thrilling work of fiction.
Synonyms: spine-chiller
Stoke Trister
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Stoke Trister with Bayford Parish Council) in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7328).
exophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + phonic.
Senses: examples: text: The role of German as medium for exophonic writers has actually been growing strongly in recent years.
ref: 2011, David Bellos, chapter 19, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
text: The adopted language is typically acquired as an adult; exophonic writers are not bilingual in the sense that they grew up speaking two languages, and indeed do not necessarily achieve the type of spoken fluency associated with the term "bilingualism."
ref: 2013, Yoko Tawada, Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue:
text: He became a temporary exophonic writer, composing the part of his first novel in a language other than his mother tongue, […]
ref: 2016, Patricia Haseltine, Sheng-mei Ma, Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture, page 21:
glosses: Writing in a language other than one's native language.
Related terms: exophony
nosegrab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosegrabs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: An aerial maneuver in which the skater ollies, then pops the back foot off board and grabs the nose (front) of the skateboard.
half-pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-passes
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: In dressage, a movement in which the horse moves forward and sideways at the same time
half-pass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: half-passes
form: half-passing
form: half-passed
form: half-passed
Senses: glosses: To perform a half-pass
hand-sling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-slings
form: handsling
form: hand sling
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: in the madison, the act of propelling one's teammate into the race by linking hands
Caspers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Casper
vanilla wafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanilla wafers
Senses: examples: text: Speed is whitey's drug, from the palefaces who cook it to the Caspers who deal it to the ofay vanilla wafers who snort or spike it.
ref: 1998, Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto, page 128:
glosses: A white person.
vanilla wafers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanilla wafer
infratemporal fossa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infratemporal fossae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A fossa that is bounded above by the plane of the zygomatic arch, laterally by the ramus of the mandible, and medially by the pterygoid plate, and that contains the masseter and pterygoid muscles and the mandibular nerve.
infratemporal fossae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infratemporal fossa
ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of familial, autosomal dominant ichthyosis, a rare skin disorder.
lectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lectorial
form: most lectorial
Senses: examples: text: In addition to this we have to presume a lectorial perspective on both Mozart and Salieri, both perspectives being necessarily of the O type.
ref: 1995, Robert Reid, Pushkin's Mozart and Salieri: Themes, Character, Sociology, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 167:
text: The two texts also differ according to lectorial perspective. The conceptual prism through which a medieval Arab scholar would have read the Kitab al-Manazir is fundamentally different from that through which his scholastic Latin counterpart would have read the De aspectibus.
ref: 2001, A. Mark Smith, Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception, volume 1, American Philosophical Society, →ISBN, page ix:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a lecture; didactic.
white hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white hawks
Senses: glosses: Leucopternis albicollis, an Amazonian raptor
laryngeal saccule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngeal saccules
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: laryngeal pouch
laryngeal sac
glosses: A saccular expansion of the lateral wall cavity of the larynx between the true and false vocal cords that is greatly developed in certain primates (as the orangutan).
Related terms: laryngeal ventricle
White Hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: White Hawks
form: Whitehawk
Etymology: white+hawk. Calque of various Amerind languages.
Senses: glosses: An Amerindian surname.
laryngeal pouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngeal pouches
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of laryngeal saccule.
synonyms: word: laryngeal saccule
laryngeal sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngeal sacs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of laryngeal saccule.
synonyms: word: laryngeal saccule
JP-5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: avcat
AVCAT
hypernyms: jet fuel
kerosene
coordinate_terms: JP-1#Noun
JP-4#Noun
JP-7#Noun
JP-8#Noun
glosses: Initialism of jet propellant 5; the higher-flashpoint jet fuel used by the U.S. Navy.
JP-8
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: jet fuel
kerosene
coordinate_terms: JP-1#Noun
JP-4#Noun
JP-5#Noun
JP-7#Noun
glosses: Initialism of jet propellant 8; the lower-freezing point jet fuel used by the U.S. Air Force
JP-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: jet fuel
kerosene
coordinate_terms: JP-1#Noun
JP-5#Noun
JP-7#Noun
JP-8#Noun
glosses: Initialism of jet propellant 4, a wide-cut fuel designed by the U.S. military and formerly used in colder environments.
avcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aviation, aviation carrier (aircraft carrier), and aviation turbine fuel (avtur).
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
related: word: AVCAT
glosses: Synonym of JP-5, a type of jet fuel.
synonyms: word: JP-5
extra: a type of jet fuel
aurelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aurelian
form: most aurelian
Etymology: From aurelia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Reverts his face, and pausing flings / Soft showers of roses from aurelian wings.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 134:
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling an aurelia; gold-coloured, golden.
aurelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurelians
Etymology: From aurelia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A collector of butterflies.
Eriskay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɹɪskeɪ/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Èirisgeigh, from Old Norse Eiríksey (literally “Erik's island”).
Senses: glosses: An island and community council area in Western Isles council area, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, between South Uist and Barra.
Salinases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Salinas
Blees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blee
rhesusize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rhesusizes
form: rhesusizing
form: rhesusized
form: rhesusized
Etymology: From rhesus + -ize.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To substitute a rhesus sequence for a human sequence into a nucleic acid
raw_tags: of an antibody
rhesusized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rhesusize
Ackfords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ackford
Bayfords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bayford
Stockleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stockley
Poor Clare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poor Clares
Senses: examples: text: The Poor Clares... have also divided into Clarissines and Urbanists.
ref: 1883, Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume XVI, page 711:
text: Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.
ref: 1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A nun of the Poor Clares, a member of the Order of Saint Clare.
Synonyms: Clare
Clarissa
Clarisse
Clarissan
Clarissian
Clarist
Clarissine
Minoress
Poor Lady
Sister Minor
Sister Minoress
Hypernyms: nun
sister
Hyponyms: Urbanist
Clarisse
Clarist
Clarissine
Poor Clares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the order's namesake Saint Clare and its vows of poverty.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The Order of Saint Clare.
glosses: plural of Poor Clare
wacinko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Among the Oglala Sioux people, a culture-bound syndrome of withdrawn mute anger directed at another person.
overscattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + scattering.
Senses: examples: text: It is indeed a difficult mean to hit between overcrowding and overscattering.
ref: 1888 August, “Confessions of a Gardener”, in MacMillan's Magazine, volume 58, number 346, page 289:
text: […] a pointless anxiety about "overscattering" takes hold, propelling the story to its somewhat ironic finale in which they are desperately scattered upon the face of the earth.
ref: 2008, Shlomo Biderman, Crossing Horizons, page 115:
glosses: Excessive scattering; scattering too far or too much.
examples: text: Pre-fixation of embryos in the first fixative solution could decrease the dissociation or overscattering of blastomeres.
ref: 1975, Nihon Gakushiin, Proceedings of the Japan Academy, page 54:
text: This technique was modified to avoid artifactual loss of chromosomes by overscattering, and the ooplasmic matrix was retained […]
ref: 1991, E. S. E. Hafez, Assisted Human Reproductive Technology, page 31:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The breaking apart and spreading of biological entities during the preparation of sample slides for the microscope.
dove of peace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doves of peace
Senses: examples: text: The second half of the programme was to belong to Surkov. He was given an enthusiastic reception as he strode onstage, his jeans skintight, his T-shirt embossed with a dove of peace, his yellow hair flapping.
ref: 1990, D. M. Thomas, Lying Together, New York, NY: Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 157:
text: Most psychedelic response to a painkiller / “Rainbows, white puffy clouds, doves of peace flying across the sky. Mozart on the piano, contrary motion scales, arpeggios up and down the keyboard, Beethoven—crashing thunder—it was all so beautiful. It was all so perfect.” / Bill Walton, 2002
ref: 2005, Kerry Banks, The Unofficial Guide to Basketball’s Nastiest and Most Unusual Records, Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 151:
text: In November 1950, Paix et liberté released a poster entitled “La colombe qui fait boum” (“The dove that goes boom!”). The motif, a tank disguised as a dove of peace, was very close to the illustration for a book that Taubert had published[…].
ref: 2014, Bernard Ludwig, “Paix et liberté: A Transnational Anti-Communist Network”, in Luc van Dongen, Stéphanie Roulin, Giles Scott-Smith, editors, Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War: Agents, Activities, and Networks (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: The dove as a symbol of peace and pacifism, typically depicted carrying an olive branch.
regressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of regressible.
regressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: regressable
Senses: glosses: Able to regress or be regressed.
klaprothine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic aluminophosphate of magnesium and ferrous iron
flat tire rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat tire rules
Etymology: A vehicle developing a flat tire might be the cause of delay in reaching an airport.
Senses: glosses: An airline's policy of putting a passenger on the next available flight without a penalty if they arrive too late for the scheduled flight.
flat tire rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flat tire rule
klaprotholite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klaprotholites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of klaprothite.
synonyms: word: klaprothite
slymie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: By and by after his iumping vppon them, the Saxons for that Garianonum, or Yarmoth that had giuen vp the ghoſt, in thoſe ſlymie plaſhie fieldes of Gorlſtone trowled vp a ſecond Yarmouth, abutting on the Weſt ſide of the ſhore of this great Yarmouth, that is, but feeling the ayre to be vnholſome and diſagreeing with them, to the ouerwhart brink or verge of the flud, that writ all one ſtile of Cerdicke ſands, they diſlodged with bagge and baggage, and there layde the foundatiõ of a third Yarmouth Quam nulla poteſt abolere vetuſtas, that I hope will holde vp her head till Doomeſday.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 9:
text: There swimmeth also in the Sea, a round slymie substance, called a Blobber, reputed noysome to the fish.
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of slimy.
tone painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tone paintings
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Program music, or the process of composing it.
tone paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tone painting
tone polices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tone police
tone policed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tone police
boyey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: boyier
form: boyiest
Etymology: From boy + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: […] to his sister's olfactory nerves, there was no denying the fact that his little brown tunic, his worn little trousers had acquired a very boyey smell.
ref: 1913, Mary E. Mann, Mrs. Day's Daughters:
text: A reconditioning night mask isn't exactly very boyey or anything.
ref: 2009, Melissa J. Morgan, Reunion #21: Super Special:
synonyms: boyish
boysy
glosses: Characteristic of stereotypical boys.
text painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: text paintings
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Program music, or the process of composing it.
text paintings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of text painting
Soeder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soeders
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish and German Söder.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
an egg's age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nothing about my natural charms no more, an egg's age since anybody had called me to 1 side and whispered "I got a T. L. for you. Gertie thinks your ears is immense."
ref: 1922, Thomas Lansing Masson, Our American Humorists, page 201:
text: As entertaining a book as you will find in an egg's age.
ref: 1928, New York Herald Tribune Books, volume 4, numbers 1-11, page 21:
glosses: A very long time.
Bergstedt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bergstedts
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Bergstedt, from berg (“mountain”) + stedt (“place”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
standard rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard roses
Senses: glosses: A flowering rose cultivar, grown grafted on the stem of another, sturdier rose variety.
Bergstedts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bergstedt
Soeders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Soeder
Allenbaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Allenbaughs
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Allenbach.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Alcivar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alcivars
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Alcívar. This surname is mostly found in Ecuador.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Alcivars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alcivar
Allenbaughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Allenbaugh
Weimars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weimar
Winkelses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Winkels
Vertiz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vertizes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Vértiz, a Castilianized form of Basque Bertiz. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
Zeiset
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zeisets
Etymology: Unexplained.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zeisets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zeiset
accommodation coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accommodation coaches
Senses: glosses: a coach (compartment) of an accommodation train
Vertizes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vertiz
Benscoter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Benscoters
Etymology: Variant of Dutch Benschoter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
reporting mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reporting marks
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A code of up to four letters allocated to and used by railroads and other owners of rolling stock for identification purposes, shown on each rail vehicle in combination with an individual number for the vehicle.
Bilton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Biltons
Etymology: From an unattested Old English personal name *Billa + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). In the case of the place in Warwickshire, the first element is probably Old English beolone (“henbane”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU225105).
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Rugby, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP484736).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA160330).
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SP484736).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: New Bilton
Biltons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bilton
Benscoters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Benscoter
reporting marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reporting mark
Benak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Benaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Benák.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Borowiaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Borowiak
Benaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Benak
McHargue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McHargues
Etymology: Variant of McHarg.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Punches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Punch
Punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Punch
McHargues
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McHargue
Chiuza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Chiuza.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
Spermezeu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Spermezeu.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Spermezeu, Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
Șintereag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Șintereag.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Șintereag, Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
future-proofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of future-proof
future-proofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of future-proof
future-proofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of future-proof
high crawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high crawl
leopard crawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leopard crawl
bear crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear crawls
Senses: glosses: The act of crawling with the feet instead of the knees, creating an arched or squatted body posture.
bear crawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bear crawl
central canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central canals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: ependymal canal
glosses: A minute canal running through the gray matter of the whole length of the spinal cord and continuous anteriorly with the ventricles of the brain.
central canals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of central canal
grey rocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gray rocking.
gray rocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gray rock method.
synonyms: word: gray rock method
homologiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homologisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homologizer.
homologisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homologiser
Uzbekism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uzbekisms
Etymology: From Uzbek + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Uzbek nationalism.
glosses: An Uzbek idiom or turn of phrase.
Uzbekisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Uzbekism
cinnamonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cinnamonlike
form: most cinnamonlike
Etymology: From cinnamon + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of cinnamon.
cylinderlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cylinderlike
form: most cylinderlike
Etymology: From cylinder + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cylinder.
clergylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clergylike
form: most clergylike
Etymology: From clergy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He was quiet, unassuming, decidedly unflashy, nearly clergylike: the antithesis of the popular image of an agent.
ref: 2000, Daniel Okrent, Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the clergy.
frocklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frocklike
form: most frocklike
Etymology: From frock + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a frock.
filelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filelike
form: most filelike
Etymology: From file + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a file (tool).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a file (aggregation of stored data).
antiwarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiwarlike
form: most antiwarlike
Etymology: From anti- + warlike.
Senses: glosses: Opposing war; pacifist.
islandlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more islandlike
form: most islandlike
Etymology: From island + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an island.
pilgrimlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pilgrimlike
form: most pilgrimlike
Etymology: From pilgrim + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pilgrim.
Derived terms: unpilgrimlike
pinionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinionlike
form: most pinionlike
Etymology: From pinion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pinion.
pitcherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pitcherlike
form: most pitcherlike
Etymology: From pitcher + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pitcher.
plinthlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plinthlike
form: most plinthlike
Etymology: From plinth + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a plinth.
quadrantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quadrantlike
form: most quadrantlike
Etymology: From quadrant + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a quadrant.
spoutlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoutlike
form: most spoutlike
Etymology: From spout + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a spout.
stablelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stablelike
form: most stablelike
Etymology: From stable + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stable.
stirruplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stirruplike
form: most stirruplike
Etymology: From stirrup + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stirrup.
vowellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vowellike
form: most vowellike
Etymology: From vowel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a vowel.
Kabistan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kabistans
Senses: examples: text: The stripe, for a central device as well as a border element, is popular among the makers of the Kabistans.
ref: 1902, John Kimberly Mumford, Oriental Rugs, page 110:
glosses: A type of rug woven in parts of the Caucasus.
Kabistans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kabistan
kaiwhiria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Parsonsia capsularis, a climbing plant endemic to New Zealand.
Ukrainism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ukrainisms
Etymology: From Ukraine + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ukrainianism.
Ukrainisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ukrainism
Bulgarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bulgarisms
Etymology: Bulgaria + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Bulgarism in Macedonia
glosses: Bulgarian nationalism.
examples: text: Bulgarisms in Church Slavonic texts
glosses: A Bulgarian idiom or turn of phrase.
Bulgarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bulgarisms
Etymology: Derived from Russian Булгари́зм (Bulgarízm), analyzable as Bulgar + -ism.
Senses: related: word: Bulgharism
coordinate_terms: Tatarism
glosses: An ethnonationalist ideology centered upon the revival of the Volga Bulgar identity (of which the modern Tatar, Bashkir, and Chuvash people are considered descendants).
Related terms: Bulgarist
Bulgarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bulgarism
Pannonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pannonianisms
Etymology: From Pannonian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Papež (also a pannonianism) for papa.
ref: 1959, Stephen Smržík, The Glagolitic or Roman-Slavonic Liturgy, page 80:
text: […] Pannonianisms are in reality Bohemianisms.
ref: 1961, Slovak Studies (issues 1-2, page 33)
text: […] and Pannonianisms were replaced by words characteristic of Bulgarian speech.
ref: 1978, Macedonian Review (volume 8, issue 1, page 23)
glosses: A Pannonian idiom or turn of phrase.
Pannonianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pannonianism
eudialytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On two expeditions, in the years 1888 and 1899, K. J. V. Steenstrup collected about 60 tons of eudialytic rock for the Cryolite Company, with a view to its technical exploitation.
ref: 1929, Martin Vahl, Georg Carl Amdrup, Louis Bobé, Greenland, volume 3, page 398:
text: This complex falls into two series, the eudialytic lujavrites proper, with eudialytites, and the porphyritic rocks.
ref: 1966, Kuzʹma Alekseevich Vlasov, M. V. Kuzʹmenko, Evdokii︠a︡ Mikhaĭlovna Esʹkova, The Lovozero Alkali Massif, page 17:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or containing eudialyte.
paradise nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradise nuts
Senses: glosses: The selenium-rich nut of various Lecythis species.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paradise, nut.
paradise nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradise nut
kakarali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kakaralis
Senses: glosses: Lecythis ollaria, a South American tree.
glosses: The wood of this tree.