cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
submoronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more submoronic
form: most submoronic
Etymology: From sub- + moronic.
Senses: examples: text: Here's something else for those of you who think of Neanderthals as submoronic cartoon characters.
ref: 1997, John Darnton, Neanderthal:
text: From genuine satire to submoronic silliness, comedy records have been around as long as any other kind...
ref: 2000, Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz:
text: These actors, alas, are at the service of a submoronic script and special effects that look like a video game writ large.
ref: 2000, Roger Ebert, I hated, hated, hated this movie:
glosses: Having, or suited to, an intellect below that of a moron.
tin cry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin cries
Senses: glosses: The crackling sound heard when a bar of tin is bent, caused by the crystal twinning in the metal.
tin cries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tin cry
alienatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more alienatedly
form: most alienatedly
Etymology: From alienated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an alienated way.
superplasticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superplasticity
superplastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superplastically
form: most superplastically
Etymology: From superplastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a superplastic way.
plastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplastɪkli/
Forms: form: more plastically
form: most plastically
Etymology: From plastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: They have been turned into parallel sausages, telling you that the whole outcrop of rock must have been extended – stretched plastically on some kind of tectonic rack.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 85:
glosses: In a plastic way; through moulding; flexibly.
Derived terms: metaplastically
thermoplastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thermoplastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a thermoplastic way.
superplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superplastic
thermoplasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoplasticities
Senses: glosses: The state or degree of being thermoplastic.
unreligiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreligiously
form: most unreligiously
Etymology: From unreligious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unreligious way.
usurously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more usurously
form: most usurously
Etymology: From usurous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a usurous way.
unblurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unblur
unblurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unblur
unblurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unblur
unblurred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not blurred.
unfried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fried.
Senses: examples: text: There are communities across America where it’s almost impossible to find a fresh apple or an unfried potato.
ref: 2009 March 21, “Fresh Food for Urban Deserts”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not fried.
reboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reboards
form: reboarding
form: reboarded
form: reboarded
Etymology: From re- + board.
Senses: examples: text: Grabbing some pictures, I reboard the '222' for a run down to London, which makes me appreciate how the effects of COVID vary from TOC to TOC (train operating company) - something you can't see from the DfT's national figures.
ref: 2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: To board (a vehicle, etc.) again.
examples: text: to reboard a ceiling
hypernyms: retimber
glosses: To replace the wooden boards or plasterboard of.
retrotort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retrotorts
form: retrotorting
form: retrotorted
form: retrotorted
Senses: glosses: To undergo retrotorsion.
examples: text: But Greek and Latin are quite unequal, when disjoined from the elder wheels in our etymological system, to the working of the total machinery of the English language. Mr. Landor proceeds upon no fixed principles in his changes. Sometimes it is on the principle of internal analogy within itself, that he would distort or retrotort the language; sometimes on the principle of external analogy with its roots; sometimes on the principle of euphony, or of metrical convenience.
ref: 1861, Thomas De Quincey, Writings, volume 3, page 250:
glosses: To twist backward.
retrotort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrotorts
Etymology: Blend of retro- + retort, coined by Bernard Cooper.
Senses: glosses: A witty remark that one thinks of when it is too late.
Related terms: afterwit
l'esprit de l'escalier
staircase wit
reboards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reboard
reboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reboard
reboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reboardings
Senses: glosses: The act of boarding a vehicle or vessel again.
reboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reboard
boardable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From board + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The lifeboat is only boardable when inflated.
glosses: Suitable for boarding.
examples: text: boardable snow; boardable slopes
glosses: Suitable for snowboarding.
rewindable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rewind + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be rewound.
precosmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pɹĭˈkŏz'mĭk
ipa: /pɹɪˈkɒz.mɪk/
Etymology: From pre- + cosmic.
Senses: glosses: Occurring or existing before the existence of the universe.
Synonyms: precosmogonic
usuriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more usuriously
form: most usuriously
Etymology: From usurious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a usurious way.
pretemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From pre- + temporal.
Senses: glosses: Occurring or happening before the existence of time.
unexpansively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unexpansively
form: most unexpansively
Etymology: From unexpansive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unexpansive way.
precreative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiːkɹɪˈeɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: pre-creative
Etymology: From pre- + creative.
Senses: glosses: Occurring or happening before the supposed creation of the universe.
mintiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From minty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being minty.
recruitee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recruitees
Etymology: From recruit + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is recruited.
Synonyms: recruit
recruitees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recruitee
pre-hexameral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hexameral.
Senses: glosses: Occurring before the supposed creation of the universe.
Synonyms: precreative
pre-creative
howlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more howlingly
form: most howlingly
Etymology: From howling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a howl or howls.
examples: his howlingly inappropriate choice of attire
glosses: In a comical way that causes howls of laughter.
preplanetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-planetary
Etymology: From pre- + planetary.
Senses: glosses: Before the existence or formation of planets.
Related terms: interplanetary
inter-planetary
planet
planetary
post-planetary
postplanetary
preplanetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-planetary
Etymology: From preplanetary nebula, from pre- + planetary nebula.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a stage in the life of a red giant star or its preplanetary nebula during the star's final stages of life
Related terms: nebula
planet
planetary
planetary nebula
preplanetary nebula
protoplanetary
protoplanetary nebula
pre-planetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preplanetary.
autorick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoricks
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: An autorickshaw.
autoricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autorick
autorickshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autorickshaws
Etymology: From auto- + rickshaw.
Senses: glosses: A motorized rickshaw of South Asia and East Asia, often available for hire in the manner of a taxi.
Related terms: tuk-tuk
traysikel
songthaew
nullibiquitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /nʌl.ɪˈbɪk.wɪ.təs/
Senses: glosses: Not in existence anywhere.
autorickshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autorickshaw
gender dysphoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender dysphorias
Senses: examples: text: The Saturday workshops focused mainly on the situations that the professionals may encounter in their work. Since these people would be dealing most often with those feeling gender disforia ^([sic]) (a discomfort about their gender or their need to cross-dress), the discussion centered around people in the subculture with problems.
ref: 1977 April 9, Lyn Rosen, “'Helping Professions' Meet a Sexual Minority”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: In the latest version of the DSM (the DSM-5) released in May 2013, the association changed the name from GID to “gender dysphoria.” According to the American Psychiatric Association, they changed the name “to better characterize the experiences of affected children, adolescents, and adults” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
ref: [2014, Nancy J. Mezey, LGBT Families, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: GD
word: gender identity disorder
antonyms: gender euphoria
glosses: A profound and persistent unhappiness caused by having characteristics (body parts, clothing, etc) of, or being perceived as, a gender different from one's gender identity, experienced especially by transgender people.
Derived terms: ROGD
targetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of targeted.
targetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of targeted.
shortener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɔɹtənɚ/
ipa: /ˈʃɔːtənə/
Forms: form: shorteners
Etymology: From shorten + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This is the only place in the OneNote family of apps where you can see Microsoft's link shortener in action. When you click or tap one of the Create buttons, you'll see a Shorten item on the pop-up window that appears; click or tap that button to get a much shorter link to share.
ref: 2013, James H. Russell, OneNote 2013 For Dummies, page 147:
glosses: One who, or that which, shortens.
Hyponyms: summarizer
shorteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortener
metallic waterproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: finely graded iron particles combined with an oxidizing catalyst. When mixed with water (or water, cement and sand), the finely distributed particles expand, creating a waterproof layer that becomes part of the surface to which it is applied.
thrashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: thrashier
form: thrashiest
Etymology: From thrash + -y.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Resembling the thrash genre.
thrashier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of thrashy: more thrashy
thrashiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thrashy: most thrashy
bentgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnt.ɡɹæs/
ipa: /ˈbɛnt.ɡɹɑːs/
Forms: form: bentgrasses
form: bent grass
Etymology: From bent (“a type stiff grass”) + grass.
Senses: synonyms: word: bent
word: helm
glosses: Any of numerous reedy grass species of the genus Agrostis.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Agrostis humilis
word: alpine bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis aequivalvis
word: arctic bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis blasdalei
word: Blasdale bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis vinealis
word: brown bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis densiflora
word: California bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis clavata
word: clavate bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis clivicola
word: coastal bluff bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis capillaris
word: colonial bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis stolonifera
word: creeping bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis elliottiana
word: Elliott's bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis hallii
word: Hall's bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis sandwicensis
word: Hawai'i bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis hendersonii
word: Henderson's bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis castellana
word: highland bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis hooveri
word: Hoover's bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis howellii
word: Howell's bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis idahoensis
word: Idaho bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis variabilis
word: mountain bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis mertensii
word: northern bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis oregonensis
word: Oregon bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis avenacea
word: Pacific bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis clivicola var. punta-reyesensis
word: Point Reyes bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis rossiae
word: Ross' bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis scabra
word: rough bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis pallens
word: seashore bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis microphylla
word: small-leaf bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis exarata
word: spike bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis perennans
word: upland bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis canina
word: velvet bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis lacuna-vernalis
word: vernal pool bentgrass
taxonomic: Agrostis hyemalis
word: winter bentgrass
bentgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bentgrass
rain collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain collars
Senses: glosses: counterflashing used to wrap a penetration and prevent water infiltration through the top of the penetration base flashing.
flutily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flutily
form: most flutily
Etymology: From fluty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fluty way.
fluffily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fluffily
form: most fluffily
Etymology: From fluffy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At five or six I had, as other children did, invited little girls for games and goûter in our back garden, only to discover, one balmy afternoon early on, that my playmates had little interest in tag, or in my rows of fluffily attired dolls.
ref: 2000, Claire Messud, The Last Life: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: She was no typical Edwardian beauty, all pink marshmallow softness and swooning femininity; neither was she fluffily pretty or pert. But she was arresting and there was something indefinable about her that captured his imagination, […]
ref: 2005, Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Then she rang the bell, and the nurse brought in a pretty little boy of nearly two, fluffily dressed in white, who was excited at the prospect of his great morning treat - going down in the lift.
ref: 2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: In a fluffy way.
blacklistee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blacklistees
Etymology: From blacklist + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is blacklisted.
blacklistees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blacklistee
blinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blini
cooingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cooingly
form: most cooingly
Etymology: From cooing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Ruperet," she said, cooingly, "Ruperet, you must be very, very careful."
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 376:
text: Unlike Mr. Daniels, Ms. Harden had previously encountered Mr. Gandolfini, whom she almost cooingly described as soulful.
ref: 2009 March 22, Deborah Sontag, “The Alpha Males of ‘Carnage’”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a cooing way.
elucidatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elucidatory
form: most elucidatory
Etymology: From elucidate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Numerous compound nouns of category (b) are perfectly valid lexemes, but are not considered dictionary material since their definition (e.g., ‘a door of a cupboard’) is no more elucidatory than the original compound itself (‘cupboard door’).
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 7:
glosses: Serving to elucidate.
Derived terms: elucidatorily
elucidatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more elucidatorily
form: most elucidatorily
Etymology: From elucidatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an elucidatory way.
ephors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ephor
tolars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolar
genua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genu
stotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stotins
form: stotina
form: stotini
form: stotinov
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovene stotin.
Senses: examples: text: The brokers of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange today for the first time dealt in certificates on dinar funds deposited in the special accounts of the Service of the Social Accounting. The stock exchange brokers who dealt with these certificates demanded 800-900 stotins for a dinar. However, the buyers were willing to pay 750-850 stotins for a dinar.
ref: 1991, FBIS Daily Report: East Europe, numbers 192-201, page 37:
text: The tolar is a decimal currency and there are 100 stotins in a tolar, although stotins are no longer produced.
ref: 2005, Robin McKelvie, Jenny McKelvie, Slovenia: The Bradt Travel Guide, Bradt Travel Guides, page 27:
glosses: A former currency unit of Slovenia, one hundredth of a tolar.
stotins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stotin
unfestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfestive
form: most unfestive
Etymology: From un- + festive.
Senses: glosses: Not festive.
unfestively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfestively
form: most unfestively
Etymology: From unfestive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It looked like we would have to sit out the bad weather a bit longer, so we decided to make the best of Christmas Day, despite being unfestively low on food and almost completely out of grog supplies.
ref: 2001, John Long, Tim Bowden, Mountains of Madness:
glosses: In an unfestive way.
overground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + ground.
Senses: examples: text: an overground railway
text: Colour-light signals, for both day and night work, came into use at a much later date, and their first use on any scale in this country was on the London underground railways, where the principle adopted was largely American in origin. But although light signalling is credited to America, one of the first instances of its use was an experimental installation at Herne Hill, although it did not find favour in this country for overground working until some fifty years later.
ref: 1955 April, R. H. Warring, “Some Early Railway Signals”, in Railway Magazine, pages 231-232:
text: We have been concentrating on the City because that was the initial target for builders of both overground and underground railways, who were like artists going over and over the same piece of canvas.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 57:
synonyms: aboveground
superterranean
antonyms: underground
glosses: Above the ground.
examples: text: They have plans to carry overground books on gay liberation, and a lot of books from small presses.
ref: 1974 April 6, “H.C.H.S. Bookstore”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
glosses: Mainstream, not underground.
overground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overgrounds
Etymology: From over- + ground.
Senses: examples: text: The overground is ten minutes walk through the gloom. Anna finds a seat in the third carriage she tries.
ref: 2013, Tobias Hill, The Cryptographer:
text: Today dozens more systems are being built – or at least being planned with twelve in China alone – and that's not counting the overgrounds and the tramways!
ref: 2014, Nicholas Faith, The World the Railways Made:
text: TfL has released an official map showing how the new Elizabeth Line will slot in with the existing stations, Tube lines and overgrounds.
ref: 2022 May 19, Lucy Aplin, “New Tube map: How the London Underground map looks with the Elizabeth Line ahead of Crossrail opening”, in i:
coordinate_terms: underground
subway
glosses: A commuter rail or similar rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally running through an urban area largely above ground and faster than an underground or metro with fewer stops.
overground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgrind
zombiehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zombie + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition or period of being a zombie.
capriccios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capriccio
overpedal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpedals
form: overpedaling
form: overpedalling
form: overpedaled
form: overpedaled
form: overpedalled
form: overpedalled
Etymology: From over- + pedal.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To overuse the sustaining pedal of a piano, causing the notes to sound too loud.
overpedals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpedal
overpedalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpedal
overpedalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpedal
widescreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of widescreen
biliously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more biliously
form: most biliously
Etymology: From bilious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bilious way.
ephor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfə/
ipa: /ˈɛfɚ/
Forms: form: ephors
form: Ephor
form: ephoros
form: ephorus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔφορος (éphoros, “overseer”), from Homeric ἐπίουρος (epíouros), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + ὁράω (horáō, “look”).
Senses: examples: text: Agesilaus was fined by the Ephories, because he had drawne the hearts and good wills of al his fellow-citizens unto himselfe alone.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 32, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Then one of his servants came and told him the news, as he sat in council with the Ephors; whereat, remembering when it was that the woman became his wife, he counted the months upon his fingers, and having so done, cried out with an oath, "The boy cannot be mine." This was said in the hearing of the Ephors; but they made no account of it at the time.
ref: 1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars, translation of original by Herodotus:
text: Originally associated with the social system, the agoge (see CAH III.I², 742), the ephors rose to some constitutional importance when the senior ephor became the eponymous official of the year in 754, perhaps in connexion with the oaths made at the beginning of the year and renewed each month between the kings and the ephors:[…].
ref: 1982, N. G. L. Hammond, “42: The Peloponnese”, in John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond, editors, The Cambridge Ancient History, page 330:
text: For basic duties, the ephors convened both the Spartan boulê of kings and elders and the assemblies. In times of war, the ephors were responsible for mustering troops, determining what age groups of soldiers would be sent out to battle, and determining how many would be sent.
ref: 2009, Stephanie Lynn Budin, The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction, page 197:
text: Moreover, as he^([Cleomenes]) was laying his plans, he was given a sign that he had divine sanction—an ephor told him that he had had a dream in which the ephors’ chairs had been removed and a divine voice told him that this was best for Sparta.
ref: 2011, Alfred S. Bradford, Leonidas and the Kings of Sparta, page 199:
glosses: One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
glosses: A superintendent or curator.
raw_tags: in modern Greece
Derived terms: ephoral
ephorate
ephorship
privacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of privacy
shamingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shamingly
form: most shamingly
Etymology: From shaming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shaming way.
balafon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balafons
Etymology: From Mandinka balafoŋo.
Senses: examples: text: He is performing here with his Symmetric Orchestra, an ensemble of West African musicians who play both traditional instruments (kora, balafon, bolombatto, djembe) and slightly more contemporary ones (guitars, keyboards).
ref: 2009 April 17, The New York Times, “Pop Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: A wooden-keyed percussion idiophone of West Africa that is struck with two padded sticks.
Synonyms: bala
balaphone
Hypernyms: idiophone
balaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balaphones
Etymology: Alteration of balafon, from Mandinka balafoŋo.
Senses: glosses: A balafon.
balaphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balaphone
balafons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balafon
brittlebush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brittlebushes
Etymology: From brittle + bush, from the frangibility of its stems.
Senses: glosses: A shrub native to deserts in the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Encelia farinosa.
brittlebushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brittlebush
nonmusic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + music.
Senses: examples: text: Giant balloons shaped like energy-drink cans bobbed in the wind on East Sixth Street, and nonmusic companies like PepsiCo, BlackBerry and National Public Radio have established a greater presence, as music magazines and record labels have scaled back.
ref: 2009 March 23, Ben Sisario, “Marketing as Backbeat at Indie Music Festival”, in New York Times:
glosses: That is not music or not involved with music.
unshown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈʃəʊn/
ipa: /ʌnˈʃoʊn/
Etymology: From un- + shown.
Senses: glosses: Not shown.
virologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From virology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to virology
Related terms: extravirologic
unpractised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpractised
form: most unpractised
Etymology: From un- + practised.
Senses: examples: text: To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.
ref: 1961 July 24, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 425:
glosses: Alternative spelling of unpracticed.
viscerosensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From viscero- + sensory.
Senses: glosses: Describing sensations experienced by means of the viscera.
volumetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From volumetric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a volumetric manner
trigeminally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trigeminal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a trigeminal way.
wavevector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wavevectors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wave vector.
wavevectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavevector
hokily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hokily
form: most hokily
Etymology: From hoky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hokey way.
wholemount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wholemounts
form: whole mount
Etymology: whole + mount
Senses: glosses: The practice of placing an entire organism on a microscope slide for examination.
unshakeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unshakeably
form: most unshakeably
Etymology: From unshakeable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, all their experience and wealth of encouraging evidence leaves the Germans unshakeably convinced that their standardised alliance of high-speed diesel engines and hydraulic transmissions has been the right course on all counts.
ref: 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 394:
glosses: Alternative spelling of unshakably.
unfakeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfakeably
form: most unfakeably
Etymology: From unfakeable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unfakably.
unfakably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfakably
form: most unfakably
Etymology: From unfakable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfakable way.
wortmannin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wortmannii + -in, after Talaromyces wortmannii.
Senses: glosses: A furanosteroid metabolite of the fungus Penicillium funiculosum; it is an inhibitor of some kinases
furanosteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furanosteroids
Etymology: From furan + -o- + steroid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of steroids that have an extra fused furan ring.
unfakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfakable
form: most unfakable
Etymology: From un- + fakable.
Senses: examples: text: Obedient daily dress, / You cannot always keep / That unfakable young surface. / You must learn your lines —
ref: 1954, Philip Larkin, Skin:
glosses: That cannot be faked.
unfakeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfakeable
form: most unfakeable
Etymology: From un- + fakeable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unfakable.
furanosteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furanosteroid
corticosteroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corticosteroid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to corticosteroids.
Derived terms: noncorticosteroidal
xestospongin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xestospongins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of a marine natural products, first isolated from Pacific basin sponges, that have vasodilatory properties.
rupiahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rupiah
prescriptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prescriptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being prescriptive.
Synonyms: prescriptivity
Related terms: normativeness
descriptiveness
jokiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jokeyness
Etymology: From joky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being joky.
vasodilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vaso- + dilatory.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or functioning as a vasodilator.
paddleball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddleballs
Etymology: From paddle + ball.
Senses: glosses: An early form of racquetball
paperwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperwhites
Etymology: From paper + white.
Senses: glosses: A bulbous perennial, of species Narcissus papyraceus, native to the Mediterranean region, with fragrant bunches of white flowers.
glosses: A perennial ornamental plant (Narcissus tazetta).
paperwhites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperwhite
xestospongins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xestospongin
amidol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amidols
Etymology: From amide + -ol.
Senses: glosses: The hydrochloride of the amino-phenol 2,4-diaminophenol, used as a photographic developer.
cheddary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheddary
form: most cheddary
Etymology: From cheddar + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The new snacks are described as a cheddary cheese spread sandwiched between crisp, cheddar cheese-flavored crackers.
ref: 1971, Candy and Snack Industry: Volume 136, Issues 7-13:
text: Surely it is in the public interest for these crackers to be made with as much cheddary goodness as is humanly possible. So where has this so-called ‘extra’ cheese been all this time? It didn’t just suddenly drop from the sky. No, they knew about it for decades and did nothing.
ref: 2024 January 11, “New ‘Extra Cheesy’ Cheez-Its A Tacit Acknowledgement That Company Could Have Been Making Snack Cheesier All Along”, in The Onion:
glosses: Resembling cheddar cheese in taste, texture, etc.
thermoprinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoprinters
Etymology: From thermo- + printer.
Senses: glosses: A thermal printer.
thermoprinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermoprinter
thermoprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + printing.
Senses: glosses: Printing by applying heat to a treated surface, as by a thermal printer.
chesslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chesslike
form: most chesslike
form: chess-like
Etymology: From chess + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Since games are locked in from two to four years in advance, there's a definite chess-match aspect to the scheduling. Pollsters study these chesslike moves, to give weight to a school's football program.
ref: 2007, Don Wallace, One Great Game:
text: Still, most Newporters were mesmerized by the boats and their chesslike maneuvers. Smooth sailing was rarely a part of any America's Cup race. The boats spent most of their time locked in a complex dance that involved constant blocking[…]
ref: 2009, Deborah Davis, Gilded: How Newport Became America's Richest Resort, page 202:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of chess; A complex task requiring careful forethought and planning.
cheeselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheeselike
form: most cheeselike
Etymology: From cheese + -like.
Senses: coordinate_terms: dairylike
;
milklike
;
butterlike
;
creamlike
glosses: Resembling cheese.
Related terms: cheeze
cheese food
processed cheese
dorkwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorkwads
Etymology: From dork + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: ...they have been exchanging insults in writing: "dickhead," "dillweed," "fuzzbutt," "dorkwad," "asswipe," and so forth.
ref: 1996, Timothy Jay, What to Do When Your Students Talk Dirty, page 207:
text: Nixon, however, was seen as a chess club/marching band dorkwad. Uncool.
ref: 2005, Eric Dezenhall, Turnpike Flameout:
text: What I learned: I've turned into a total dorkwad manager and can no longer communicate like a normal human being.
ref: 2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans:
glosses: A dork.
dorkwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorkwad
force fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of force field
gafiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gafiate
gafiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gafiate
gafiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gafiate
gafiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gafiate
monkey boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey boy
derezzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derezz
Aukštaitian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aukšt.
Etymology: Borrowed from Lithuanian Aukštaitija + -ian.
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Lithuanian spoken in Aukštaitija, Dzūkija and Suvalkija, upon which standard Lithuanian is based.
Aukštaitian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aukštaitians
form: Aukšt.
Etymology: Borrowed from Lithuanian Aukštaitija + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from Aukštaitija.
Aukštaitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Aukšt.
Etymology: Borrowed from Lithuanian Aukštaitija + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Aukštaitian dialect of Lithuanian.
glosses: Of or relating to the region of Aukštaitija or its inhabitants.
Related terms: Samogitian
illatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From illative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of illation.
azapropazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of apazone.
synonyms: word: apazone
keratomileusis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɛɹətəʊmaɪˈl(j)uːsɪs/
ipa: /ˌkɛɹətəʊmɪˈl(j)uːsɪs/
Forms: form: keratomileuses
Etymology: From Spanish queratomileusis, coined by Spanish physician José Barraquer in 1963 from Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”), equivalent to kerato-, + σμίλευσις (smíleusis, “carving”).
Senses: examples: text: The most popular form of laser eye surgery is "laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis," or Lasik for short. More than 85% of laser eye surgery patients in Europe and the US opt for it.
ref: 2006 November 24, Ed Ewing, “Consumer test: Laser eye surgery”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2014:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Improvement of the refractive state of the cornea, performed by cutting a thin hinged flap in the front surface of the eye and lifting it to access the cornea.
Derived terms: LASIK
keratomileuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratomileusis
cryolathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryolathes
Etymology: From cryo- + lathe.
Senses: glosses: A device used for freezing and grinding human corneal tissue into different refractive powers.
cryolathes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryolathe
vapourization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapourizations
Etymology: From vapour + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vaporization.
vapourizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapourization
vapourisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapourisations
Etymology: From vapour + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vaporization.
vapourisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapourisation
microkeratome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microkeratomes
Etymology: From micro- + keratome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A precision instrument with an oscillating blade used to cut the corneal flap in keratomileusis.
microkeratomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microkeratome
photorefractively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photorefractive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a photorefractive way.
phototherapeutically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phototherapeutic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The finest specimens of optical glass have been tried, but when examined spectroscopically they not only showed an enormous absorption in all regions except the yellow, but also evinced phototherapeutically an unmistakable inefficiency, even with the employment of the largest arcs of as high a capacity as 100 ampères.
ref: 1902 September 20, Milton Franklin, “Phototherapeutic apparatus”, in The Medical News, volume 81, page 539:
text: It is possible to treat with these the mucosa of the urethra, of the mouth, throat, nose, and most probably of the urinary bladder and the larynx phototherapeutically.
ref: 1908, Ernst Kromayer, “Further experience with the white and blue light of the quartz lamp”, in Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Including Syphilis, volume 26, page 261:
text: At higher irradiancies however these positions are reversed; that is, the relative amount of phototherapeutically eliminated bilirubin is greater.
ref: 2013, Firmino F. Rubaltelli, Neonatal Jaundice: New Trends in Phototherapy, page 222:
glosses: In a phototherapeutic way.
keratectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: keratectomies
Etymology: From kerato- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An operation that removes part of the cornea, as in keratomileusis
Derived terms: photokeratectomy
photorefractive keratectomy
keratectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratectomy
phototherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phototherapy
phototherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to phototherapy.
Derived terms: phototherapeutically
phototherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototherapeutics
Etymology: From photo- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: A drug used in phototherapy.
Aukštaitija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊkˈʃtaɪti.ə/
note: more Anglicised
ipa: /ɔːkˈstaɪti.ə/
ipa: /ək-/
Etymology: From Lithuanian Aukštaitija, from aukštas (“high”) + -ija (“-ia, -land”), literally “highland”.
Senses: glosses: An ethnographic region of Lithuania, located in the north-east of the country.
Derived terms: Aukštaitian
Samogitia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsa.mə(ʊ)ˈɡiː.ʃə/
ipa: /ˌsæ.moʊˈɡi.ʃə/
ipa: /ˌsæ.məˈɡi.ʃə/
Etymology: From Latin Samogetia, Samogitia (“Žemaitija”), from German Sameiten, Sameythen (“Žemaitija”), from Lithuanian Žemaitija (“lowland”). "g" was introduced to Latin and later German translations due to the usage of the letter "g" to denote "j" in Medieval writing.
Sometimes connected with the (etymologically unrelated) name Getae, Ancient Greek Γέτης (Gétēs, “ancient Dacian tribe”).
Senses: glosses: An ethnographic region of Lithuania, located in the north-west of the country.
Derived terms: Samogitian
porphyries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porphyry
porphyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From porphyry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to porphyry.
Derived terms: porphyrically
porphyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From porphyria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to porphyria.
porphyrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From porphyric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a porphyric way; pertaining to porphyry.
photosensitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more photosensitively
form: most photosensitively
Etymology: From photosensitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a photosensitive way.
neonatally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neonatal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: During the neonatal period.
heliotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From helio- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to heliotherapy.
Lithuania Minor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Lithuanian Mažoji Lietuva (“Little Lithuania”)
Senses: synonyms: Prussian Lithuania
glosses: A historically Lithuanian-speaking ethnographic region of Eastern Europe, now politically mostly in the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia with small parts in Lithuania and Poland; now often taken to refer only to the rump portion in Lithuania.
heliotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliotherapies
Etymology: From helio- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: Any medical therapy by exposure to light.
Derived terms: heliotherapeutic
heliotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliotherapy
choirmistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choirmistresses
Etymology: From choir + mistress.
Senses: glosses: A female choirmaster.
choirmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choirmistress
wine bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wine bar
winebar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winebars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wine bar.
winebars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winebar
canoodler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canoodlers
Etymology: From canoodle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Serious canoodlers should get a room in the restaurant upstairs to share fragrant free-range chicken tagines (stews) on low divans.
ref: 2010, Alison Bing, John A. Vlahides, San Francisco, page 170:
glosses: One who canoodles.
spoonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoonie
glosses: plural of spoony
spoonier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spoony: more spoony
spooniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spoony: most spoony
spoonily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spoonily
form: most spoonily
Etymology: From spoony + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spoony way.
canoodlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canoodler
Suvalkija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Suwałki.
Senses: glosses: An ethnographic region of Lithuania, located in the south-west of the country.
Synonyms: Sudovia
Related terms: Sudovian
tanorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of tan + anorexia
Senses: glosses: A condition whose sufferers believe they are too pale and become obsessed with tanning.
Dzūkija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈ(d)zuːki.ə/
/ˌ(d)zuːkiˈɑː/
Etymology: From Lithuanian Dzūkija.
Senses: glosses: An ethnographic region of Lithuania, located in the south of the country.
Synonyms: Dainava
Related terms: Džukian
yopo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: niopo
glosses: A perennial South American tree, Anadenanthera peregrina, that has a number of traditional uses.
liberatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liberatory
form: most liberatory
Senses: examples: text: a liberatory conflict
text: One of the difficulties facing efforts to constitute a radicalized articulation of ecology remains that nature has been more firmly affixed to hegemonic discourses, e.g. consumerism or "resourceism" than to liberatory discourses.
ref: 2006, Atenea, volumes 26-27:
text: In the case of Rothbard, for example, crusader's faith in the efficiency and liberatory potential of the invisible hand is resolutely resistant to the piled-up evidence that it's a catastrophe for the many.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: Serving to liberate.
requestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From request + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be requested.
zeugopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeugopods
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζεῦγος (zeûgos, “yoke, pair”) + -pod.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zeugopodium.
Related terms: zeugopodal
zeugopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeugopod