cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
idiorrhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idiorrhythmic
form: most idiorrhythmic
form: idiorhythmic
Etymology: From ἴδιος (ídios, “own, personal, distinct”) + ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós, “rule, measure, rhythm”).
Senses: examples: text: St. Stergos was an idiorrhythmic monk.
topics: Christianity
glosses: self-regulating; usually referring to an Eastern form of monastic life where monks live alone, often in isolation, constantly in mental prayer.
Related terms: idiorrhythmism
cenobiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cenobiac
form: most cenobiac
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a cenobite
Synonyms: cenobitic
plugworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plugworthy
form: most plugworthy
form: plug-worthy
Etymology: From plug (“to blatantly mention or advertise”) + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: In pursuit of plugworthy composers, then, the Festival is sure sooner or later to walk off the end of the pier.
ref: 1967, The Spectator, volume 219, page 249:
text: Because of this isolation, and the lack of visitor 'attractions' deemed plug-worthy, nobody goes to Gabalfa unless they live there, work there, or are writing a painstaking Cardiff history.
ref: 2014, Dic Mortimer, Cardiff:
qualifier: show business
glosses: Worthy of being plugged or advertised.
roneat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɔˈni.ət/
Forms: form: roneats
Etymology: Borrowed from Khmer រនាត (rɔɔrɔniət).
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of xylophone used in traditional Cambodian music.
Related terms: roneat dek
roneat ek
roneat thung
roneat ek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A xylophone used in the Khmer classical music of Cambodia.
Related terms: roneat dek
roneat thung
roneat dek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Khmer រនាតដែក (rɔɔrɔniət daek).
Senses: glosses: A Cambodian metallophone.
Related terms: roneat ek
roneat thung
roneat thung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Khmer រនាតធុង (rɔɔrɔniət thung).
Senses: glosses: A low-pitched xylophone used in the Khmer classical music of Cambodia.
Related terms: roneat dek
roneat ek
khim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khims
Etymology: From Thai ขิม (kǐm).
Senses: glosses: a stringed musical instrument from South East Asia, played with bamboo sticks.
chalcogenophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalcogenophosphates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The equivalent of a phosphate in which the oxygen atoms have been replaced by those of a chalcogen
cycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclines
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A derivative of, or mixture of tetracyclines
eigenangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenangles
Etymology: From eigen- + angle.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angle whose value is an eigenvalue
Related terms: eigenangular
ethnosociology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnosociologies
Etymology: From ethno- + sociology.
Senses: glosses: The sociology of specific ethnic groups
fleahopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleahoppers
Senses: glosses: Any of several very small insects in the family Miridae that are garden or agricultural pests.
Derived terms: cotton fleahopper
garden fleahopper
gyrolayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrolayers
Etymology: From gyro- + layer.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A specific layer of a gyroresonant fluid object
heptanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptanoids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound in which substituents are attached to each end of a heptanone chain
Derived terms: diarylheptanoid
hyperimmunoglobulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperimmunoglobulins
Etymology: From hyper- + immunoglobulin.
Senses: glosses: A formulation of an immunoglobulin containing multiple antibodies
glosses: hyperimmunoglobulinemia
Derived terms: hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome
hyperimmunoglobulinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperimmunoglobulinemias
Etymology: From hyper- + immunoglobulin + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of a larger than normal amount of immunoglobulins in the blood
indolylalkylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indolylalkylamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any indolyl derivative of an alkylamine
leptohadron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptohadrons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An excited state of a lepton that interacts as if it were a hadron
leptomeson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptomesons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An excited state of a lepton that interacts as if it were a meson
lymphoplasmocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphoplasmocytes
Etymology: From lympho- + plasmocyte.
Senses: glosses: A lymphoid plasmocyte
macrostrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrostrains
Etymology: From macro- + strain.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: macroscopic strain
Related terms: macrostress
microstrain
macromagnitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macromagnitudes
Etymology: From macro- + magnitude.
Senses: examples: text: The "pointer readings" corresponding to different values of a macromagnitude are associated with inequivalent Hilbert space representations of the algebra, and the appropriate Hilbert space for the measuring instrument can be represented as a direct sum of these Hilbert spaces.
ref: 1988, Richard F. Kitchener, The World View of Contemporary Physics: Does It Need a New Metaphysics?:
glosses: A macroscopic magnitude
nanofinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanofingers
Etymology: From nano- + finger.
Senses: glosses: Any structure having the form of a nanoscopic finger
nanomask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanomasks
form: nano mask
Etymology: From nano- + mask.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale mask.
nanopinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanopinches
Etymology: From nano- + pinch.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nanoscale pinch (or Z-pinch)
microhelix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhelices
Etymology: From micro- + helix.
Senses: antonyms: macrohelix
glosses: A microscopic helix
mesocluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoclusters
Etymology: From meso- + cluster.
Senses: glosses: A mesoscale cluster
microscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microscans
Etymology: From micro- + scan.
Senses: glosses: A very small-scale scan
septocosta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septocostae
Senses: glosses: An external costa on the calyx of a coral at the end of a radial septum
noraporphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noraporphines
Etymology: From nor- + aporphine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from an aporphine by the addition of a methylene group
subarrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subarrangements
Etymology: From sub- + arrangement.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of an arrangement
Related terms: subarrange
subcomposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcompositions
Etymology: From sub- + composition.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of a composition
Derived terms: subcompositional
phenylalkylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylalkylamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phenyl derivative of an alkylamine
gravel pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravel pits
Senses: examples: text: At Fallgate a short branch leading to a quarry is disused, but some gravel pits are working at full blast; [...].
ref: 1944 January and February, “Light Railways in Derbyshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 25:
glosses: A quarry from which gravel for construction purposes is obtained.
gravel pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravel pit
phorocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phorocytes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mobile cell that transports the buds of doliolids
Synonyms: carrier cell
nurse cell
microinference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinferences
Etymology: From micro- + inference.
Senses: glosses: A single, small inference in a chain of inferences
truth tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truth trees
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: semantic tableau
glosses: A variation of a truth table in which any node (representing a statement) has branches if and only if other statements (true or false) may be derived from it
Genson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gensons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Genson.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Querubin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Querubins
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Querubín, possibly via Cebuano or Tagalog.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
fabellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the fabella
fieldpea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldpeas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of field pea.
Cabasan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Bacacay, Albay, Philippines.
fossorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fossorially
form: most fossorially
Etymology: From fossorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fossorial manner
hertzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hertzian.
hippoboscoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippoboscoids
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the superfamily Hippoboscoidea
hippoboscoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippoboscoid
Tejana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tejanas
Etymology: From Spanish tejana, the feminine equivalent of tejano.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Tejano
glosses: A female Texan of Mexican descent.
hypandrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the hypandrium
hypercarnivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a hypercarnivore
Related terms: hypocarnivory
hypocarnivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a hypocarnivore
Related terms: hypercarnivory
iliopubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ilio- + pubic.
Senses: examples: text: iliopubic tract
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or between, the ilium and the pubis.
incisior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incisiors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of incisor, especially that of an animal
incisiors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incisior
infraspinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + spinous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of infraspinal.
synonyms: word: infraspinal
intraannual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + annual.
Senses: glosses: Within a particular year
Related terms: interannual
ischatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ischiatic.
katepisternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the katepisternum
katepisternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katepisterna
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ventral part of the episternum of an insect.
Derived terms: mesokatepisternum
Related terms: katepisternal
lissoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lissoirs
Etymology: From French lissoir, from lisser (“to smooth”) + -oir (“tool suffix”).
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A prehistoric tool, made of bone or wood, used to soften leather.
Hypernyms: burnisher
lissoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lissoir
macrolarviparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + larviparous.
Senses: glosses: That gives birth to comparatively large larvae
Related terms: macrolarvipary
macrolarvipary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macrolarviparous + -y.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being macrolarviparous
marsupialiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsupialiforms
Senses: glosses: Any marsupial of the infraclass Marsupialia
Related terms: marsupiform
marsupialiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsupialiform
marsupicarnivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsupicarnivores
Senses: glosses: Any marsupial carnivore
marsupicarnivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsupicarnivore
uninvitee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uninvitees
Etymology: From uninvite + -ee.
Senses: glosses: a person who is not invited into or onto someone else's premises.
paigon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [pejɡən]
ipa: [peːɡən]
rhymes: -eɪɡən
homophone: pagan
Forms: form: paigons
form: paigan
form: pagon
form: pagan
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole pagan, from English pagan.
Senses: examples: text: They ain't none of them things. They're paigons. They're wastemen and they ain't got loyalty to no one — JJ included.
ref: 2013, Polly Courtney, Feral Youth, page 279:
text: They are hosted by one teenager with a microphone (there are a series of these hosts: My favourite channels are Koomz and Ash and 2Man TV.) The host asks passing teenagers to bait out the biggest paigon they know, or the biggest bowcat or sket or sidechick or stunter or catfish.
ref: 2016 April 20, Russell Smith, “Russell Smith: The future of English is in these teens' YouTube videos”, in The Globe and Mail:
text: Grime MC Stormzy has expressed his dismay at Theresa May, calling her a “paigon” at the GQ men of the year awards.
ref: 2017 September 6, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Stormzy: 'Theresa May is a paigon'”, in The Guardian:
text: you know I got something for a paigon yute (skang)
Hmm, I'm very important
So I never beg endorsement
ref: 2021, Norf Face, “Baitest Sound”:
glosses: An untrustworthy person; a person who deliberately acts against one's interests.
Derived terms: waigon
door god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door gods
Senses: glosses: A divine guardian of doors and gates in Chinese folk religions.
under one's very eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: in plain sight; while someone is watching
in plain sight
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You stand with your hand on my waistline
It's a scene, and we're out here in plain sight
ref: 2014 October 27, Taylor Swift, Ryan Tedder, “I Know Places (Taylor's Version)”, in 1989 (Taylor's Version), performed by Taylor Swift, published 27 October 2023:
glosses: Very easy to see or notice, especially when supposed to be hidden.
Related terms: hide in plain sight
hidden in plain sight
beblew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of beblow
bebroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bebreak
bedrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bedraw
bedrove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bedrive
beflew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of befly
cleithra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleithrum
Isip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Isips
Etymology: From Kapampangan Isip.
Senses: glosses: A Filipino surname
A surname from Kapampangan
glosses: A Filipino surname
A surname from Tagalog
mediodistal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medio- + distal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: medial and distal
Derived terms: mediodistally
mediodistally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mediodistal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mediodistal direction
medioproximal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medio- + proximal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: medial and proximal
Derived terms: medioproximally
medioproximally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From medioproximal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a medioproximal direction
mesembrinellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesembrinellids
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the family Mesembrinellidae
mesembrinellids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesembrinellid
mesocarnivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + carnivory.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a mesocarnivore
metacristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + cristid.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cristid on the mesial side of the tooth.
Derived terms: premetacristid
Related terms: hypocristid
paracristid
postmetacristid
metastylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metastyle + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the metastyle
minkewhale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minkewhales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of minke whale.
fly off at a tangent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies off at a tangent
form: flying off at a tangent
form: flew off at a tangent
form: flown off at a tangent
form: go off at a tangent
form: go off on a tangent
Senses: glosses: To digress from a topic.
follow the leader
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows the leader
form: following the leader
form: followed the leader
form: followed the leader
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of follow-the-leader.
gall and wormwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Deuteronomy 29:18 of the King James Bible.
Senses: glosses: bitterness and resentment
not have the faintest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Ellipsis of "not have the faintest idea/clue/notion/understanding/concept/inkling".
Senses: examples: text: Soon everything is in its appointed place except for Becky. And Becky does not have the faintest where that is.
ref: 1992, Maureen Freely, The Stork Club, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 273:
text: For the most part we do not have the faintest who asylum-seekers really are.
ref: 2003 January 19, “Terrorist 'sleepers' slip intelligence net”, in The Independent:
text: You may have heard the call to go on your short-term mission (STM), but you also need to be in the right place at the right time. Like Isaiah, you may be able to say, "Here I am! Send me" (Isaiah 6:8) – but may not have the faintest where to go, with whom, or know the duration of the STM.
ref: 2018, Mathew Backholer, Short-Term Missions, A Christian Guide to STMs: For Leaders, Pastors, ByFaith Media, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: To not know; to have no idea.
Related terms: not have the foggiest
not have the slightest idea
not have a clue
ring down the curtain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings down the curtain
form: ringing down the curtain
form: rang down the curtain
form: rung down the curtain
Etymology: In reference to ringing a bell to end a performance. See ring up the curtain.
Senses: examples: text: Ring down the curtain on To-day And give the Past the right of way, Till fields of battle red with rust, Shine through the ashes and the dust Across the Age, and burn as plain As glowing Mars through window-pane.
ref: 1876, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 12, page 360:
text: And although he is impatient with the Beat pose, uniform, and rhetoric, he too disaffiliates himself and prepares to "ring down the curtain on the American dream."
ref: 1964, William Wasserstrom, Civil Liberties and the Arts: Selections from Twice a Year, 1938-48:
text: Now Tyrone, in mixed charity and despair, tries to ring down the curtain on the tragic farce of his son's life.
ref: 2000, Edward L. Shaughnessy, Down the Nights and Down the Days: Eugene O'Neill's Catholic Sensibility, →ISBN:
text: A visibly frail Roosevelt played his usual role of mediator between the pugnacious Churchill and the scowling tyrant Stalin. All three leaders left Yalta believing they had obtained the assurances they needed for the postwar world. Churchill rebutted any and all suggestions that the British ring down the curtain on their empire.
ref: 2000, Edward R. Kantowicz, Coming Apart, Coming Together, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: To end something.
examples: text: But tonight the Union veteran of Maryland clasps hands with the rebel veteran of Missouri, and the gap is closed. In this supreme moment the imperfect welding of the broken Union is perfected at last, and from this hour the seam of the joining shall no more be visible. The long tragedy is ended — ring down the curtain!
ref: 2006, Mark Twain, Paul Fatout, Mark Twain Speaking, →ISBN, page 219:
text: Life is too difficult. O. Greenbaum, H. Knape, T. Kornflower, J. Davenport, all would agree that “Life is but the span from womb to tomb; a sigh, a smile; a chill, a fever; a throe of pain, a spasm of volupty: then a gasping for breath, and the comedy is over, the song is ended, ring down the curtain, the clown is dead.”
ref: 2012 -, Nathanael West, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, →ISBN:
text: The great natural routes in Yosemite have been done. The Wall of Early Morning Light merely rang down the curtain. —Jim McCarthy, 1971
ref: 2013, Steve Roper, Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber, →ISBN:
glosses: To mark the end of something.
Synonyms: sense: end something
word: stop
sense: end something
word: finish
Cacao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines.
landcovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landcover
cove moldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cove molding
mobiliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to furniture or to other movable property.
Derived terms: mobiliary art
URMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of URM
synchro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Analyzable as syn- + chrono-, from Ancient Greek σύν (sún)+χρόνος (khrónos)
Senses: glosses: synchronous; synchronized
tralations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tralation
antihomicide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + homicide.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or preventing homicide.
burper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burpers
Etymology: From burp + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who burps.
burpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burper
undeceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undeception
pyrolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pyrolizes
form: pyrolizing
form: pyrolized
form: pyrolized
Senses: examples: text: A fire on a flat surface cannot propagate because much of the heat generated is lost to the air and feedback is too weak to pyrolize volatile gases.
ref: 2017, Robert W. Fitzgerald, Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings, page 104:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pyrolyse.
Derived terms: pyrolizer
pyrolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pyrolize
pyrolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pyrolize
pyrolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pyrolize
chrysotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chryso- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to chrysotherapy.
pearl tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl teas
Etymology: A calque of Chinese 珠茶 (zhūchá, “pearl tea”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gunpowder tea.
synonyms: word: gunpowder tea
pearl tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl teas
Etymology: From its tapioca pearls.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bubble tea.
synonyms: word: bubble tea
pearl teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearl tea
sloggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sloggingly
form: most sloggingly
Etymology: From slogging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
ref: 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:
text: She struggled up on her feet, limping sloggingly, leg throbbing, to the door, searching for Steve.
ref: 2011, Susan Katrinka Butler, Her Education, page 300:
glosses: With exhausting repetitive effort; laboredly.
polyvinyl alcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyvinyl alcohol
unpictureable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpictureable
form: most unpictureable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unpicturable.
pictureable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pictureable
form: most pictureable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of picturable.
oversubtleties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oversubtlety
prostitutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prostitutable
form: most prostitutable
Etymology: From prostitute + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be prostituted.
Mausers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mauser
dealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deal + -able.
Senses: examples: text: How many different five-card hands are dealable from a 52-card deck?
glosses: Able to be dealt.
door gods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door god
changiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From change + -y + -ness.
Senses: glosses: liability to change; variability
multidimensionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multidimensional
counterpleadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpleading
counterpleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpleaders
Etymology: From counter- + pleader.
Senses: glosses: One who counterpleads.
counterpleaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpleader
common barleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common barley
ruffless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ruff + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] the opinion, therefore, that those ruffless males are birds of a very late brood of the preceding season, is a reasonable conjecture.
ref: 1831, George Montagu, Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds, page 446:
glosses: Without a ruff.
nabobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nabobery.
ostectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: ostectomies
form: osteoectomy
Etymology: From osteo- (“of bone”) + -ectomy (“surgical excision of”).
Senses: examples: text: femoral head ostectomy
text: Bell and Levy have shown that if the blood supply to the anterior maxilla is interrupted both on its labial and palatal surfaces during ostectomies, the maxilla will undergo necrosis.
ref: 1972, Canadian Symposium on Dental Research and Education:
text: Distal ulnar ostectomy is indicated as an early corrective surgery for premature closure of the distal ulnar physis, before the appearance of severe angular limb deformities.
ref: 2005, Ann L. Johnson, Dianne Dunning, Atlas of Orthopedic Surgical Procedures of the Dog and Cat, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 26:
text: An alternative to transposing the nail unit onto a shortened skeleton is to reduce the nail and shorten the digit further with segmental ostectomies along the length of the digit.
ref: 2010, Scott W. Wolfe, Robert N. Hotchkiss, William C. Pederson, Scott H. Kozin, Green's Operative Hand Surgery E-Book: Expert Consult: Online and Print, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN:
text: Enucleation with peripheral ostectomy is an extension of the curettage technique described above.
ref: 2012, Lars Andersson, Karl-Erik Kahnberg, M. Anthony Pogrel, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 634:
text: After ulnar ostectomy, postoperative radiographs document the location and length of the ostectomy gap. A soft padded bandage or splint may be used to protect the limb for 2 weeks if bilateral procedures are done.
ref: 2013, Theresa Welch Fossum, Small Animal Surgery Textbook, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN:
text: Ostectomies of the glenoid rim and humeral head are made with and sharp osteotome, oscillating saw, or high-speed rotating burr.
ref: 2014, M. Joseph Bojrab, Don Ray Waldron, James P. Toombs, Current Techniques in Small Animal Surgery, Fifth Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 892:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Excision of all or part of a bone.
spodik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spodiks
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish ספּאָדיק (spodik), from Polish spodek (“saucer”).
Senses: glosses: A tall hat made of black fur, traditionally worn by Hassidic Polish Jews.
morphocline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphoclines
Etymology: From morpho- + cline. Coined by T. Paul Maslin in 1952.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A series of morphological transformations that occurs during the evolution of a species
Related terms: morphoclinal
morphoclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphocline
mouth hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouth hooks
Etymology: From mouth + hook.
Senses: glosses: either of a pair of hooked larval mouthparts that function as jaws in some Diptera
mouth hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouth hook
nonhomoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + homoplastic.
Senses: glosses: Not homoplastic
notoryctemorphian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notoryctemorphians
Senses: glosses: Any member of the order Notoryctemorphia; a marsupial mole.
notoryctemorphians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notoryctemorphian
oestroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oestroid
form: most oestroid
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the superfamily Oestroidea
oestroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oestroids
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the superfamily Oestroidea
oestroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oestroid
palaeoecologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + ecologic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoecologic.
paleoethnographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + ethnographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleoethnography
paleoethnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + ethnography.
Senses: glosses: ethnography of paleolithic man
Related terms: paleoethnographic
faithectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: faithectomies
Etymology: From faith + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Our planet needs a faithectomy. I gave up the religion, but I kept the music.
ref: 2008, Dan Barker, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 324:
glosses: A removal of faith.
faithectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faithectomy
NCOIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NCOICs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of NCO-in-charge, referring to a non-commissioned officer.
Related terms: english: non-commissioned officer
translation: non-commissioned officer
word: NCO
english: officer-in-charge
translation: officer-in-charge
word: OIC
OICs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OIC
NCOICs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NCOIC
USAMU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Army Marksmanship Unit.
Synonyms: United States Army Marksmanship Unit
U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit
Army Marksmanship Unit
paracristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracristids
Etymology: From para- + cristid.
Senses: glosses: The primary crest of the mammalian trigonid
Derived terms: postparacristid
USAMRIID
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
medicine
military
pathology
politics
sciences
war
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Synonyms: United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
parafibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + fibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Across or through the fibula
glosses: Relating to a parafibula
paraflocculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraflocculi
Etymology: From para- + flocculus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The lateral part of the flocculus of the cerebellum
paucituberculatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paucituberculatans
Senses: glosses: Any marsupial of the order Paucituberculata; a shrew opossum.
paucituberculatans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paucituberculatan
peradectid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peradectids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct mammal of the family Peradectidae
peradectids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peradectid
peramelemorphian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peramelemorphians
Senses: glosses: Any marsupial of the order Peramelemorphia; a bilby or a bandicoot.
peramelemorphians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peramelemorphian
pleuraspidotheriid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleuraspidotheriids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct mammal of the genus Pleuraspidotherium
pleuraspidotheriids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleuraspidotheriid
postcingulid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcingulids
Etymology: From post- + cingulid.
Senses: glosses: A thin ridge surrounding the posterior or distal-most aspects of a lower molar crown. The postcingulid is typically located on the distal margin of the talonid, below the hypoconid, hypoconulid, and entoconid.
postcingulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcingula
Etymology: From post- + cingulum.
Senses: glosses: A small ridge behind a cingulum on a tooth
posterolabial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪbiəl
Etymology: From postero- + labial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior and labial
Derived terms: posterolabially
posthypocristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthypocristids
Etymology: From post- + hypocristid.
Senses: glosses: The dental feature behind a hypocristid
hypocristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + cristid.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cristid on the posterolabial side of the tooth.
Derived terms: prehypocristid
posthypocristid
Related terms: entocristid
metacristid
paracristid
protocristid
protocristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protocristids
Etymology: From proto- + cristid.
Senses: glosses: An enamel ridge that joins the metaconid and the protoconid of a mandibular molar
Derived terms: preprotocristid
postprotocristid
postpronotum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postpronota
Etymology: From post- + pronotum.
Senses: glosses: The posterior division of a pronotum
postsutural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + sutural.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: posterior to a suture
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Following the introduction of sutures
Related terms: presutural
postzygomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Etymology: From post- + zygomatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located behind the zygoma
entocristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entocristids
Etymology: From ento- + cristid.
Senses: examples: text: A metastylid is present at the base of the metaconid, and an entocristid is in an intermediate position between the metastylid and the entoconulid.
ref: 1988, Annalisa Berta, Quaternary evolution and biogeography of the large South American Canidae (Mammalia, Carnivora), page 48:
text: C₁ with enlarged concave mesiolingual fossa, no lingual entocristid but a distinct vertical torus; long precristid; horizontally disposed lingual cingulum with no basal bulge of enamel or distobasal notch; small distal surface for C¹ occlusion.
ref: 2013, John G. Fleagle, Alfred L. Rosenberger, The Platyrrhine Fossil Record, page 218:
text: At this state of wear, a small entocristid anterior to the entoconid is evident, and is apparently larger on m2.
ref: 2017, Lawrence J. Flynn, Wen-Yu Wu, Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China, page 13:
glosses: A cristid located on the lingual surface of a tooth.
Derived terms: postentocristid
preentocristid
preentocristid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + entocristid.
Senses: examples: text: The entoconid has a prominent preentocristid that extends anteriorly to the base of the metaconid where it just meets the posterior end of a distinct but narrow almost vertical crest that ascends the posterolingual flank of the metaconid.
ref: 1985 January-February, S. J. Hand, “New Miocene Megadermatids (Chiroptera: Megadermatidae) From Australia with Comments on Megadermatid Phylogentics”, in Australian Mammal Society, volume 8, number 1, page 15:
glosses: An anterior entocristid.
pregonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregonites
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of terminalia anterior to the postgonites of a dipteran
postgonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postgonites
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of terminalia laterally encircling the basiphallus of a dipteran
prementum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntəm
Forms: form: prementa
Etymology: From pre- + mentum.
Senses: glosses: The distal part of an insect labium
premolariform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a premolar
presutural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: praesutural
Etymology: From pre- + sutural.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anterior to a suture
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Before the introduction of sutures
Related terms: postsutural
proepisternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + episternal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the proepisternum
proepisternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proepisterna
Etymology: From pro- + episternum.
Senses: glosses: The episternum of the prothorax of an insect
proximalmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proximal + -most.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: most proximal
charper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: charpers
form: charpering
form: charpered
form: charpered
Etymology: From Italian cercare (“to look for”), from Late Latin circāre (“to traverse, go about”), from Latin circa (“around, near, about”), circus (“a circular line or orbit”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring”).
Senses: examples: text: She’ll cruise an omi with fabulosa bod, / regard the scotches, the thews, the rod – / charpering a carsey for the trick.
ref: 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To seek; to search.
Derived terms: english: police officer
translation: police officer
word: charperer
english: police station
translation: police station
word: charpering carsey
english: policeman
translation: policeman
word: charpering omi
charpers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of charper
charpering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of charper
charpered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of charper
charpering omi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charpering omis
form: charpering omee
Etymology: From charper (“to seek”) + omi (“man”).
Senses: examples: text: Get a charpering omi round now!
ref: 2012 November 22, Tanice Judge, Twitter:
text: 'She's street, but she's not tough.' He sipped his tea. 'How's the charpering omi?'
ref: 2015, Alex Howard, A Hard Woman to Kill:
glosses: A policeman.
Synonyms: police officer
Derived terms: sharping-omi
sharper
sharpy
charpering omis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charpering omi
Malinao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Laak, Davao de Oro, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Albay, Philippines.
schizophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizophorans
Senses: glosses: Any fly of the taxon Schizophora
sparassocynid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparassocynids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct marsupial of the family Sparassocynidae
sparassocynids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparassocynid
Tiongson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tiongsons
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog Tiongson, from Spanish Tiongson, from Hokkien.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Tagalog [in turn from Spanish, in turn from Hokkien], common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry.
sphenorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sphenoorbital.
stagodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stagodontids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct mammal of the family Stagodontidae
stagodontids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagodontid
subfossilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + fossilized.
Senses: glosses: Partially fossilized
Related terms: subfossil
subsquamosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + squamosal.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of subsquamous.
synonyms: word: subsquamous
subsquamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + squamous.
Senses: glosses: Beneath the squamosal bone
suprameatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + meatal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Lying above a meatus
syntergite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syntergites
Senses: glosses: A structure, in some flies composed of several fused tergites
syntergosternite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syntergosternites
Senses: glosses: An abdominal plate found on some arthropods believed to have evolved by the fusion of one or more tergites with a sternite.
toolmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toolmarks
Etymology: From tool + mark.
Senses: glosses: A mark left on an object that has been worked on with a tool.
unpneumatised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pneumatised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unpneumatized.
unpneumatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pneumatized.
Senses: glosses: Having no air cavities
copynumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copynumbers
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of copy number.
erythroleukoplakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythroleukoplakias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A lesion that is red and white in colour
erythroleukoplakias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erythroleukoplakia
erythroplakias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erythroplakia
like the cat that got the cream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: like the cat that ate the canary
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very satisfied and happy.
ethylpyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethylpyrimidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ethyl derivative of pyrimidine
microcornea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcorneas
Etymology: From micro- + cornea.
Senses: glosses: A congenital defect of the eye in which the cornea is less that about 10 mm in diameter
Related terms: microcorneal
charity begins at home
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Charity begins at home, is the voyce of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner.
ref: 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
glosses: One should help the people closest to oneself before thinking of helping others.
Related terms: physician, heal thyself
myometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: By means of a myometer
myotonometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of muscle tone, e.g. by means of a myotonometer
Related terms: myotonometric
myotonometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to myotonometry
glosses: By means of a myotonometer
toxocarosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of toxocariasis.
synonyms: word: toxocariasis