cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fatheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatheaded
form: most fatheaded
Etymology: From fat + headed.
Senses: synonyms: word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: Characteristic of a fathead; stupid
Derived terms: fatheadedly
fatheadedness
landman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landmen
form: landsman
Etymology: From land + -man.
Senses: glosses: Someone who lives or works on land, as opposed to a seaman.
glosses: In the United States, a person involved in determining, transferring, or managing mineral rights, to include oil (petroleum) and natural gas exploration, development, and production.
Admiral of the Fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The highest-ranking officer in the Royal Navy.
KCB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Knight Commander, part of the Order of the Bath.
your mum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of your mom.
Waziristan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Then the voices turned to discuss American drones over Waziristan, last week’s bloody assault on a wedding party.
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 59:
glosses: A mountainous region in northwestern Pakistan.
uremic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊəˈɹiːmɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more uremic
form: most uremic
form: uraemic
Etymology: From uremia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: urinemic
glosses: Of, relating to, or causing uremia.
Derived terms: hemolytic-uremic syndrome
uremic frost
War on Terror
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the War on Terror
Senses: examples: text: A list obtained and partially verified by the AP cites the names of more than 10,000 Uyghurs sent to prison in just Konasheher county alone, one of dozens in southern Xinjiang. In recent years, China has waged a brutal crackdown on the Uyghurs, a largely Muslim minority, which it has described as a war on terror.
ref: 2022 May 16, Huizhong Wu, Drake Kang, “Uyghur country in China has highest prison rate in the world”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 May 2022:
glosses: Synonym of War on Terrorism.
synonyms: word: War on Terrorism
War on Terrorism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the War on Terrorism
Senses: glosses: An ongoing campaign by the United States (and some of its allies) the stated aim of which is to counter international terrorism, but especially to counter al-Qaeda and other militant Muslim groups.
glosses: The common term for the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism, and specifically used in reference to operations by the United States, in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Synonyms: War on Terror
glycochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glyco- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemistry of carbohydrates and glycosides
glycobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glyco- + biology.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the biological role of carbohydrates (especially oligosaccharides) and glycosides
Synonyms: glycomics
glycomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glyco- + -omics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the biological role of carbohydrates (especially oligosaccharides) and glycosides
Synonyms: glycobiology
Related terms: glycome
nanobalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobalances
Etymology: From nano- + balance.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale mechanical resonator used to measure the mass of particles and molecules down to zeptogram scale.
Related terms: nanocantilever
resonator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resonators
Etymology: From resonate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Any object or system that resonates
glosses: A hollow cavity whose dimensions are selected so as to resonate at a specific frequency
glosses: A resonant electronic circuit
glosses: A type of musical instrument, especially a guitar, that uses spun metal resonator cones to enhance the sound.
Derived terms: cavity resonator
Helmholtz resonator
Oudin resonator
resonator guitar
split-ring resonator
glycoconjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoconjugates
Etymology: From glyco- + conjugate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any carbohydrate that is chemically linked (e.g. as a glycoside) to another compound.
Derived terms: bioglycoconjugate
sialoglycoconjugate lipoglycoconjugate
Related terms: glucoconjugate
glycoconjugation
glycoconjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glycoconjugates
form: glycoconjugating
form: glycoconjugated
form: glycoconjugated
Etymology: From glyco- + conjugate.
Senses: glosses: To undergo glycoconjugation
Broca's area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Broca's areas
Etymology: For Paul Broca, French anatomist.
Senses: examples: text: Broca discovered the brainʼs speech centre in the frontal lobe — the first time that anyone had connected an area of the brain to a specific action. The speech centre is still called Brocaʼs area.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 89:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: An area of the frontal lobe of the brain associated with the control of speech.
Related terms: Broca's aphasia
γ-ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: γ-rays
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gamma ray
phytoplankton bloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoplankton blooms
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large, temporary colony of phytoplankton floating in the sea; they are important in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
biogeochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + geochemistry.
Senses: examples: text: The material deposited as biosediment is important part of biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems.
ref: 2006, Richard F. Dame, Sergej Olenin, The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems, →ISBN:
topics: biology
chemistry
ecology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of biological, geological and chemical processes in the natural environment and especially of their mutual relationships.
Related terms: biogeochemical
zero-knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This issue of privacy in blockchain isn't new, and many ideas have been proposed, such as keeping the data off-chain and using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to prove we did the right computation (e.g., Aleo and Aztec) or using mixnets to anonymize transactions (e.g., Tornado Cash).
ref: 2023 May 26, Rand Hindi, “How Homomorphic Encryption Can Make Blockchain Private”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2023:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Describing situations in which the veracity of a statement may be shown to be true without revealing any other information.
Derived terms: zero-knowledge proof
zero-knowledge proof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-knowledge proofs
Senses: examples: text: Implementation of a zero-knowledge proof significantly improves the privacy and security of many systems. However, it introduces additional costs in processing power and hard drive space.
ref: 2020, Lorne Lantz, Daniel Cawrey, Mastering Blockchain, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 185:
text: This issue of privacy in blockchain isn't new, and many ideas have been proposed, such as keeping the data off-chain and using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to prove we did the right computation (e.g., Aleo and Aztec) or using mixnets to anonymize transactions (e.g., Tornado Cash).
ref: 2023 May 26, Rand Hindi, “How Homomorphic Encryption Can Make Blockchain Private”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2023:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An interactive method for one party to prove to another that a (usually mathematical) statement is true, without revealing anything other than the veracity of the statement.
Synonyms: word: ZKP
Related terms: proof of work
sialylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having been reacted with sialic acid or its derivatives; used especially with oligosaccharides.
Derived terms: polysialylated
tetrasialylated
sialic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialic acids
Senses: examples: text: 1987, The FASEB Journal, Volume 1, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, page 231,
We have previously shown that the study of O-acetyl esters on the sialic acids is fraught with difficulties.
text: Intralysosomal accumulation of free sialic acid both in vivo and in vitro in Salla disease is due to a defect of the transport mechanism of sialic acid in lysosomal membranes [Renlund et al, 1983b, 1986a, b; Mancini et al 1986].
ref: 1987, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Volume 28, page 383:
text: 1997, International Journal of Oncology, Volume 10, Issue 4, Lychnia, page 761,
Figure 3. Relationship between the disease-free survival rate and sialic acid expression in 100 breast cancer patients following curative surgery.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of amino carbohydrates that are substituted forms of neuraminic acid and can be components of glycoproteins and mucoproteins.
Synonyms: acetylneuraminic acid
amino carbohydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amino carbohydrates
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many naturally-occurring compounds formally derived from a carbohydrate by replacing one or more hydroxyl group with a simple or substituted amino group
neuraminic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A 9-carbon atom amino carbohydrate, 5-amino-3,5-dideoxy- D-glycero-D-galacto-non-2-ulosonic acid, many of whose derivatives are found in nature, mostly as glycoproteins and gangliosides
Derived terms: acetylneuraminic acid
Related terms: neuraminate
neuraminic
mucoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucoproteins
Etymology: From muco- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of widely-distributed natural compounds that exist as complexes of proteins with mucopolysaccharides
Related terms: mucoproteinuria
Black Plague
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Black Plague
Senses: glosses: The Black Death.
appreciably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more appreciably
form: most appreciably
Etymology: From appreciable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His fervour tempered her resistance appreciably.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 122:
text: If there are infinite universes, of course there’d be infinite universes where Rick isn’t the smartest person around. But we’ve never seen Rick end up in a place where other people are appreciably smarter than him.
ref: 2021 September 6, Zack Handlen, “Rick And Morty ends its fifth season looking for an escape hatch”, in AV Club:
glosses: In an appreciable manner; to a large extent; considerably.
traumatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: traumatises
form: traumatising
form: traumatised
form: traumatised
form: traumatize
Etymology: From French traumatiser.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of traumatize.
traumatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: traumatizes
form: traumatizing
form: traumatized
form: traumatized
form: traumatise
Etymology: From French traumatiser.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: To injure, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
examples: I was traumatized by a childhood experience.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: To cause a trauma in.
Derived terms: retraumatize
traumatization
lymph gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymph glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of lymph node.
synonyms: word: lymph node
lymph glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymph gland
under par
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: under-par
Senses: examples: text: Yet another seriously under-par performance is unlikely to provide any real answers to their remarkable plummet in form - but it proves they can at least churn out a much-needed result.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: below par
lymphatic node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphatic nodes
Senses: topics: anatomy
immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of lymph node.
synonyms: word: lymph node
lymphatic nodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphatic node
lymphoglandula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪm.foʊˈɡlæn.d͡ʒəl.ə/
Forms: form: lymphoglandulae
form: lymphoglandulas
Etymology: Borrowing from New Latin lymphoglandula, from lympha (“clear water”) + glandula (“a small acorn”), equivalent to lympho- + glandula.
Senses: topics: anatomy
immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of lymph node.
synonyms: word: lymph node
lymphonodus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪm.fəˈnoʊ.dəs/
rhymes: -əʊdəs
Forms: form: lymphonodi
Etymology: Borrowing from New Latin lymphonōdus, from lympha (“clear water”) + nōdus (“a knot, knob, node”); equivalent to lympho- + nodus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of lymph node.
synonyms: word: lymph node
psychologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychologist
below par
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Steve Gerrard, unusually, had a below-par night, too, even if it was a lovely delivery to set up Welbeck to make it 2-2 with a glancing header.
ref: 14 August 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: under par
subpar
coordinate_terms: up to par
above par
glosses: Not up to the average or normal standard.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (of a score) Less than par for the hole or course (which in golf, means better than par).
glosses: Having a price below its face value.
raw_tags: of a financial instrument
Related terms: on a par
below average
pass muster
infundibulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infundibulate
form: most infundibulate
Senses: examples: text: The infundibulate Bryozoa have a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk.
glosses: Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular
glycodiversification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glyco- + diversification.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the function of the diversity of carbohydrates found in nature
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The synthesis of analogues of naturally-occurring carbohydrates
Related terms: glycodiversify
glycosyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosyltransferases
Etymology: From glycosyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several enzymes that catalyze the transfer of glycosyl groups between biological molecules, especially during the biosynthesis of glycoproteins
glycosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosyls
Etymology: From glycose + -yl.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any functional group derived from a sugar (especially from a monosaccharide) by removal of the hemiacetal hydroxy group.
Derived terms: diglycosyl
glycosylamine
glycosyl-amino-acid
glycosylase
glycosylate
glycosylation
glycosylhydrolase
glycosylic
glycosyllipid
glycosylphosphatidyl
glycosyltransferase
monoglycosyl
transglycosylase
tetartemorion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetartemorions
form: tetartemoria
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τεταρτημόριον (tetartēmórion).
Senses: glosses: A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at 1/4 of an obolus.
Related terms: trihemitetartemorion
tritetartemorion
mutasynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutasyntheses
Etymology: From muta- + synthesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The synthesis of analogues of natural products by intercepting the biosynthesis with structural analogs of the natural product's precursors.
natural product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural products
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound produced naturally by a living organism; especially those compounds that are useful commercially
nucleocytoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From nucleo- + cytoplasmic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to nucleocytoplasm
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the relationship between the nucleus and the cytoplasm of a cell
Derived terms: nucleocytoplasmically
nucleocytoplasmic ratio
naked protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naked proteins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein that normally exists combined with another entity (metal, carbohydrate or lipid etc), free from its normal attachment.
heparan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heparans
Etymology: Perhaps from Latin hepar (“liver”) + -an.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A biologically active polysaccharide that exists only as the sulfate
Derived terms: heparanase
heparan sulfate
proteoheparan
Related terms: heparin
heparan sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide found, associated with protein, in all animal tissue; it has a regulatory function in several biological activities
proteoglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteoglycans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many glycoproteins that have heteropolysaccharide side chains
Related terms: proteoaminoglycan
proteoglucan
microglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊˌɡli.ə/
Etymology: From micro- + glia.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The glial cells of the immune system; they can function as phagocytes
Derived terms: antimicroglia
microgliopathy
propitiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propitiations
Etymology: From Middle English propiciacion, propiciacioun, from Anglo-Norman propiciatiun, Middle French propiciation, propitiation, and their etymon Latin propitiātiō. By surface analysis, propitiate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 3:25:
text: At the base of the whole process by which divinities and demons were created, and rites for their propitiation and placation established, lay Fear - fear stimulating the imagination to fantastic activity.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 13:
coordinate_terms: expiation
glosses: The act of propitiating; placation, atonement, similar to expiation but also involving the appeasement of anger.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The death of Christ as a basis for the forgiveness of sin.
glial cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glial cells
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of cell, in the nervous system, that provides support for the neurons.
Synonyms: glia
Derived terms: glioma
macroglial cell
radial glial cell
Related terms: neuroglia
glial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliː.əl/
Etymology: From glia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to glia.
Derived terms: antiglial
axoglial
enteroglial
glial cell
glial fibrillary acidic protein
glially
glymphatic
interglial
intraglial
macroglial
microglial
nonglial
panglial
transglial
microglial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + glial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microglia
Derived terms: nonmicroglial
kainic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 海人草 (kainin-sou).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic dicarboxylic acid isolated from certain red algae; used as an anthelmintic in Japan.
Related terms: kainate
kainate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kainates
Etymology: From kainic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of kainic acid.
cytostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + -static.
Senses: glosses: Tending to inhibit the growth and multiplication of cells.
Derived terms: cytostatically
Related terms: bacteriostatic
cytostasis
cytotoxic
virostatic
cytostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytostatics
Etymology: From cyto- + -static.
Senses: glosses: Any substance which inhibits cell growth and multiplication.
sort oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sort out
form: sorts oneself out
form: sorting oneself out
form: sorted oneself out
form: sorted oneself out
Senses: examples: text: John took a week off work to sort himself out.
glosses: To organize or solve one's personal problems.
examples: text: Give me a few minutes to sort myself out and I'll be with you.
glosses: To calm down emotionally.
Related terms: sort out
cytostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + stasis.
Senses: glosses: The prevention of the growth and multiplication of cells
Related terms: cytostatic
faultfinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faultfinders
Etymology: From fault + finder.
Senses: 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 person who finds fault
find fault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finds fault
form: finding fault
form: found fault
form: found fault
Senses: examples: text: No matter what I do, he always finds fault.
text: My supervisor always finds fault with my work.
text: When one has an intimate knowledge of a business it is easy—and to some extent self-satisfying—to find fault with the way it is run by those in charge.
ref: 1959 November, “Talking of Trains: The anti-railway prejudice”, in Trains Illustrated, page 518:
glosses: To criticize something excessively.
raw_tags: followed by with
Synonyms: quarrel
Derived terms: faultfinding
Related terms: it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
faultfinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faultfindings
form: fault-finding
Etymology: From fault + finding.
Senses: glosses: Excessive or petty criticism
faultfinding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faultfinding
form: most faultfinding
form: fault-finding
Etymology: From fault + finding.
Senses: glosses: Tending to find fault
faultily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more faultily
form: most faultily
Etymology: From faulty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a faulty manner
feasibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈfiːzɪb(ə)li/
Forms: form: more feasibly
form: most feasibly
Etymology: From feasible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a feasible manner
Synonyms: practicably
Coordinate terms: practically
Derived terms: unfeasibly
fecklessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fecklessly
form: most fecklessly
Etymology: From feckless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a feckless manner.
feelingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more feelingly
form: most feelingly
Etymology: From feeling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Vainly did he feelingly paint the perfumed love passages of the passionate pair.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 235:
glosses: In a feeling manner.
felicitously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more felicitously
form: most felicitously
Etymology: From felicitous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The house was not very felicitously titled, said many: it was no academic pharos.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 39:
glosses: In a felicitous manner.
Derived terms: infelicitously
femininely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more femininely
form: most femininely
Etymology: From feminine + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a feminine manner.
festively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more festively
form: most festively
Etymology: From festive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a festive manner
fetchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fetchingly
form: most fetchingly
Etymology: From fetching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fetching manner
eigenvalues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenvalue
featherbedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of featherbed
featherbedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It [Pemex, Mexico's state-owned petroleum company] eventually grew bigger than Gazprom, the Russian state oil company, but it has always had a problem with internal malfeasance and featherbedding. “Corporate governance is poor,” says Duncan Wood, head of the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center. “It’s disorganized. There are little fiefdoms within it. They strike deals with organized crime and turn a blind eye.”
ref: 2019, Seth Harp, “Blood and Oil”, in Rolling Stone:
text: Two factors made the Ministry untenable; private industry considered the featherbedding of the public sector to be unfair competition. Since the DC depends on private industry for much of its support, continuing the practice would have compromised this support.
ref: 2020 September 11, James Walston, The Mafia and Clientelism: Roads to Rome in Post-War Calabria, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The employment of more workers than is necessary, typically because of labor union rules (or sometimes deals with organized crime, a government, etc), especially upon the introduction of new technology.
featherless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛðələs/
ipa: /ˈfɛðəɹləs/
Etymology: From Middle English fethirles, fedyrles, equivalent to feather + -less. Cognate with Dutch veerloos, German federlos, Swedish fjäderlös.
Senses: examples: text: He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.
ref: 1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 128:
text: […] clad in a featherless hat and somber black garments, which set off the dark pallor of his forbidding face.
ref: 1929 June, Robert E. Howard, “Rattle of Bones”, in Weird Tales:
synonyms: apteric
unfeathered
coordinate_terms: defeathered
plucked
glosses: Having no feathers.
Derived terms: featherless biped
featherlessness
Related terms: flightless
furless
hairless
wingless
fecundation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fecundations
Etymology: From fecund + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that in most lands the moon was originally a female deity has led many historians to dispute the superiority of the moon over the sun in ancient mythology. In putting forth this argument they overlook one important and significant factor: the existence of a matriarchate preceding the domination of woman by man. That such a condition was perfectly natural will be realized when it is remembered there was no recognition of the part played by the male in fecundation.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 15:
text: In Neolithic agricultural societies, the sacrificed male and his remains were transferred to the fields needing fecundation, and there the Great Mother becomes the soil receiving the fertilizing blood.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 234:
glosses: The process whereby a new organism is produced by fertilization.
Derived terms: autofecundation
prefecundation
superfecundation
federalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹəlaɪz/
Forms: form: federalizes
form: federalizing
form: federalized
form: federalized
Etymology: From federal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To unite into a federation.
examples: text: If the president invokes the Insurrection Act [of 1807], it temporarily suspends Posse Comitatus and allows him to federalize the National Guard and deploy active duty troops to suppress any uprising that interferes with the execution of state or federal law.
ref: 2025 January 30, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “Trump taps the military for immigration crackdown. Are there limits to using troops?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: “President Trump’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops in response to protests is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project.
ref: 2025 June 7, Seema Mehta and Ian James, “The legal issues raised by Trump sending the National Guard to L.A.”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2025:
glosses: To bring under federal control.
glosses: To change (a unitary state) into a federation.
Derived terms: federalizable
refederalize
unfederalized
federally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more federally
form: most federally
form: fœderally
Etymology: From federal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The solids would then be dumped at a federally approved toxics landfill.
ref: 1988 January 15, Paul Botts, “Environment: Waukegan's Toxic Waits”, in Chicago Reader:
text: White residents used Federal Housing Administration-insured loans to buy their way out of the projects and to move to shiny new middle-class subdivisions. […] The F.H.A.’s explicitly racist underwriting standards, which rated black and integrated neighborhoods as uninsurable, made federally insured home loans largely unavailable to black home seekers.
ref: 2016 June 9, Nikole Hannah-Jones, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: In a federal manner.
feedbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedbags
form: feed bag
form: feed-bag
Etymology: From feed + bag.
Senses: glosses: A horse's nosebag.
Coordinate terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: feedsack
word: feedbin
word: feedroom
Derived terms: strap on the feedbag
put the feedbag on
bosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossers
Etymology: From boss + -er?
Senses: examples: text: They were all bossers here. Especially the women. They were bossy even when they deared her.
ref: 1985, Gertrude Story, The Need of Wanting Always, page 160:
glosses: A bossy person, one who orders others around.
examples: text: […] the ultimate winner is the man with the greatest number of marbles when play comes to an end. The games at Battle at the present time are played with glass marbles and locally made “bossers” of concrete.
ref: 1953, Arthur Beckett, The Sussex County Magazine, volume 27, page 60:
text: Modern children, having only machine-made glass marbles, are restricted to names describing their size, or the names under which they are sold, or fanciful names of their own inventing. Thus big marbles are big 'uns, bossers, bulls or bullies[…]
ref: 1997, Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie, Children's games with things, page 54:
glosses: A large marble in children's games.
glosses: An instrument used to push clay into a mold.
feedlot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedlots
Etymology: From feed + lot.
Senses: examples: text: On the Web, the Harris feedlots are snarkily referred to as “Cowschwitz” (#cowschwitz on Twitter). For those weary and hungry drivers willing to overlook the smell of its animals, Harris Ranch operates a western-style restaurant and hotel.
ref: 2017, Josh Tickell, Kiss the Ground, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: Land on which livestock are fattened for market.
Related terms: CAFO
fellowman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellowmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fellow man.
fellow man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellow men
form: fellowman
form: fellow-man
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); […]; sometimes the general differentiation of subject and object to pregivenness of the co- or 'fellow-man', to whom an environmental element—as, for instance, 'this tree' — is supposed to be introjected, followed by subsequent introjection by the observer to himself (Avenarius); sometimes one's own body to a merely associative coordination of the self-perception of the own self and organ sensations with the own body as perceived from outside.
ref: 2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics:
glosses: A kindred member of humanity.
Synonyms: neighbour
fervency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝ.vən.si/
Forms: form: fervencies
Senses: examples: text: A glow of fervency is ignited in her eyes, the same glow as when she argues points of faith with him on their walks after church.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 403:
glosses: The state of being fervent.
fetishist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛtɪʃɪst/
Forms: form: fetishists
Etymology: From fetish + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A social media convention among young and famous people is not to show bare feet to avoid attention from foot fetishists.
ref: 2025 April 27, Lisa Miller, Maggie Shannon, “When a Child’s Life Becomes the Family Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: kinkster
paraphiliac
antonyms: normophile
glosses: One who has a sexual fetish.
examples: text: As well might we charge the people of Massachusetts with being Fetichists, as the Professor charge us with worshipping images.
ref: 1845, Brownson's Review, page 472:
text: These races were Fetichists before they became Buddhist, Mahometan, or Christian.
ref: 1882, Sir John Lubbock, The Origin of Civilization and the Primitve Condition of Man: Mental and Social Condition of Savages, page 4:
text: The Fetishist thinks not merely that his Fetish is alive, but that it can help him in war, can cure him of diseases, can grant him prosperity, or afflict him with all the contrary evils.
ref: 1866, John Stuart Mill, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, page 170:
glosses: A believer in magical fetishes or talismans.
Derived terms: circumfetishist
fetishistic
fetus fetishist
technofetishist
fetishistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fetishistic
form: most fetishistic
form: fetichistic
Etymology: From fetishist + -ic or fetish + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: A curious fetishistic fear of this grimy volume on the part of her mother prevented her ever allowing it to stay in the house all night, and hither it was brought back whenever it had been consulted.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 36:
glosses: Of or pertaining to fetishism or fetishists.
Derived terms: fetishistically
nonfetishistic
technofetishistic
sandwichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.t͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪ.t͡ʃɪz/
Senses: examples: text: At the station a fifteen-year-old boy seated behind a lunch counter told me he could furnish me with ham sandwichs, cake, and ice cream. […] I did not like the complexion of his cakes, and his sandwichs had about them a venerable air.
ref: 1894, Boot and Shoe Recorder, page 27:
text: He laid out a linen tablecloth and a few sandwichs from some bread, dressing, and beef.
ref: 2002, Serena Carrington, Avalon, Writers Club Press, page 92:
text: From this distance the village looks even more impressive, with the château (once the feudal home of Monaco’s Grimaldi family) clearly visible, overseeing it all. Here we eat the sandwichs bought in the town […].
 Like the French we don’t bother with butter on our sandwichs.
ref: 2007, Sally Hammond, Pardon My French: From Paris to the Pyrenees and Back, New Holland Publishers (AU), →ISBN:
text: The sandwichs were good too. I'm not really a bologna eater but this was delicious in a unique way but the nagain it had help from some good old American yellow cheese. […] We’ll ^([sic]) I don’t want to bore you with my dinner but I had two full size sandwichs and one little Debbie snack […].
ref: 2009 July 19, Doug Van Gorder, Hitchhiking Across America: A Ghostly Unedited True Story Of One Man's Pioneered Existence Traversing the Country from Coast to Coast !!!, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 349:
text: “[…] You had better grab something to eat before you leave and take some sandwichs with you […].” […] He bent down and kissed her on the cheek and just nodded and then went to the cook shack to retrieve Jeb and make the sandwichs.
ref: 2011 November 14, Gene Tunlaw, Plight of the Double B Ranch: A Tale of Fiction of the Old West in the Great Territory of Idaho, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: And the only "care" I could offer was egg sandwichs and Lilly's unfaltering attention.
ref: 2012, Allie McNeil, Watergate Summer, AuthorHouse, page 160:
glosses: Rare form of sandwiches.
feudalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feudalistic
form: most feudalistic
Etymology: From feudal + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: In the stereotyped cycle of peace and turmoil of a feudalistic society in Chinese history, Confucian culture has always been considered the basic stabilizing force. Dynasties might alter, circumstances might change, but democracy has never taken root and grown in Chinese society as it has long done in Western countries. Even after the success of the 1911 revolution, restoration of emperorship alternated with warlord strife. For quite a long time, the Republic of China had remained just in name. The Chinese communists seized power on the mainland, but their rule has run counter to democracy, creating a new form of feudalistic dictatorship.
ref: 1996 May, Lee Teng-hui, “Political Reforms”, in Peace Through Democratic Reforms, Taipei: Wen Ying Tang Press Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 15–16:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of feudalism, feudal.
Derived terms: neofeudalistic
fictionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fictionally
form: most fictionally
Etymology: From fictional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fictional manner.
fictitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fictitiously
form: most fictitiously
Etymology: From fictitious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Since the term 'imagination,' absolutely in a grammatical sense, means a certain, definite idea, that is, an affection of the mind, representative or implying a representation, in the same way I acknowledge that nothing physical, or even in any sense moral, could be conceived by the mind, or could be understood precisely, if not by means of a figurable example: and not only, as they say in the schools, concretely, but especially individually: for at the lowest degree, this can be done vaguely and even fictitiously by an arbitrary representation, which is nevertheless figuarable or imaginable.
ref: 2016, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Georg Ernst Stahl, The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, page 311:
glosses: In a fictitious manner.
filthily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more filthily
form: most filthily
Etymology: From filthy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his handkerchief, for I was filthily bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box, till we returned home […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):
text: I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. And they were filthily cold to the touch.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 6”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
text: Could it be that he, Stephen Dedalus, had done those things? His conscience sighed in answer. Yes, he had done them, secretly, filthily, time after time, and, hardened in sinful impenitence, he had dared to wear the mask of holiness before the tabernacle itself while his soul within was a living mass of corruption.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, chapter 3, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
glosses: in a filthy manner
fiscally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fiscal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fiscal manner; concerning finance
fishily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fishily
form: most fishily
Etymology: From fishy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fishy manner
fittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fittingly
form: most fittingly
Etymology: From fitting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And Van Persie fittingly had the final word with seconds to go by escaping Chelsea's defence once more to thump high past Cech in front of Arsenal's joyous supporters.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a fitting manner.
flabbily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flabbily
form: most flabbily
Etymology: From flabby + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flabby manner
flaccidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flaccidly
form: most flaccidly
Etymology: From flaccid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flaccid manner
flagrantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪɡrəntli/
Forms: form: more flagrantly
form: most flagrantly
Etymology: From flagrant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]
ref: 1854, Robert Aitken, The teaching of the types, page 99:
glosses: In a flagrant manner.
flamboyantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flamboyantly
form: most flamboyantly
Etymology: From flamboyant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Frant and Etchingham [station buildings] are more flamboyantly gothic and are built of ragstone.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529:
text: The entire tense, compact play takes place inside a subway car where an exchange between a flamboyantly loose blonde of about 30, Lula (Jennifer Mudge), and a conservatively dressed young black man, Clay (Dulé Hill ), escalates from surreally unsuppressed flirtation to violence and tragedy as all of Clay’s efforts toward assimilation are shown to be for naught.
ref: 2007 January 24, Ginia Bellafante, “’60s Prejudice and Capitalism as a Big Blond Metaphor”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a flamboyant manner.