cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flipbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flipbooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flip book.
flipbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flipbook
footages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footage
heroisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heroism
kyats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyat
lilyturf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lilyturfs
Etymology: From lily + turf, a coinage of the 1920s.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of low-growing, grasslike perennials of the genera Liriope and Ophiopogon that are often used in landscaping for ground cover.
lilyturfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lilyturf
pluralistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pluralistically
form: most pluralistically
Etymology: From pluralistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a pluralistic way.
unpluralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pluralized.
Senses: glosses: Not pluralized.
seedily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seedily
form: most seedily
Etymology: From seedy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a seedy way.
riad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riads
form: riyad
Etymology: From Arabic رِيَاض (riyāḍ)
Senses: examples: text: A beautiful riad, full of the works of one of the proprietors, who is a painter and sculptor as well as an interior designer.
ref: 2010, Daniel Jacobs, The Rough Guide to Morocco, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden.
riads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riad
vanful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanfuls
form: vansful
Etymology: From van + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: At Thornton’s request, the firm of Dominic Winter hauled a couple of vansful of books directly from the library.
ref: 2007, Fine Books & Collections, page 23:
text: For one thing, they are cheaper and more compact than older systems, which required a vanful of equipment and a dedicated tech nerd and cost thousands of dollars a week to rent.
ref: 2007 March 25, Jesse Green, “Theater’s Alive With the Sound of Laptops”, in New York Times:
glosses: As much as a van will hold.
Related terms: vanload
vanfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanful
Laserdisc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: laser disc
form: laserdisc
Etymology: From laser + disc, a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A home videodisc format of the 1980s, now obsolete.
Laserdisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laserdiscs
form: laser disc
form: laserdisc
Etymology: From laser + disc, a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A disc in this format.
bughouse chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variant of chess played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two. Each player plays the other colour of pieces than their teammate, to whom they pass the pieces they capture from their opponent. The teammate can then choose to put one of these pieces on their board as an alternative way of making a move.
twinships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twinship
twirlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of twirly: more twirly
twirliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of twirly: most twirly
thall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of progressive metal music related to djent, with particular emphasis on manipulation of pitch, especially via bends and digital processing.
twitchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of twitchy: more twitchy
twitchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of twitchy: most twitchy
OEMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OEM
twitchily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more twitchily
form: most twitchily
Etymology: From twitchy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a twitchy way.
gimboid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gimboids
Etymology: Coined in the television series Red Dwarf, possibly from gimp + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: You can blame that primarily on George Dubbya "I wanna rule tha world" Bush and all the gimboids who voted for him.
ref: 2003, bewtifulfreak, “Did I post this yet?”, in alt.tv.red-dwarf (Usenet):
text: A great deal of rap (both commercial and non) is made by talentless gimboids.
ref: 2003, Tim Hill, “Bizarre audio CD protection”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):
text: Actually it doesn't, they just think you're a sad gimboid.
ref: 2005, Andy P Field, Discovering Statistics Using SPSS:
glosses: An incompetent person.
gimboids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gimboid
smegger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smeggers
Etymology: Coined in the television series Red Dwarf, from smeg + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I'd send in something that sent back some kind of telemetary ^([sic]), to see what was going on. If some bastard goes and blows it up, you send in about 40,000 ships and kill the smeggers.
ref: 1998, John Duffey, “- A comment by JMS!”, in alt.babylon5.uk (Usenet):
text: I remember you now. You're that smegger who floods a thread with the same message over and over...and the same smegger who top-posts.
ref: 2002, Dr. Smartass, “New HOPE for Hoooooooooooooooomosexuals!”, in alt.recovery.catholicism (Usenet):
text: Evil boss then has cheek to ask me to work one of the bloody bank holidays in the week he refused me off. Cheeky smegger. Said no.
ref: 2007, Erik Ringmar, A Blogger's Manifesto:
glosses: A hateful person or thing.
Synonyms: bastard
blighter
bugger
smeggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smegger
reflexives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflexive
fractally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fractal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: it can be seen that chance positioning can build large fractally structured clusters
ref: 2008, Brian H. Kaye, A Random Walk Through Fractal Dimensions, page 220:
glosses: In a fractal manner.
Derived terms: multifractally
generatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From generative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a generative way.
gender identity disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender identity disorders
Senses: synonyms: GID
glosses: A condition in which the patient experiences significant gender dysphoria: the diagnostic classification most commonly applied to transgender/transsexual people.
Related terms: gender dysphoria
remonetizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remonetization
tail lifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tail lift
assessorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: examples: an assessorial district
glosses: Relating or belonging to an assessor.
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Pertaining to services other than basic delivery, such as fuel and equipment.
raw_tags: of a fee
assessorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: assessorials
Senses: glosses: An assessorial charge.
Synonyms: accessorial
theory-laden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more theory-laden
form: most theory-laden
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Whose meaning depends upon a set of theoretical principles
sheepier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sheepy: more sheepy
sheepiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sheepy: most sheepy
sheepies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheepy
smoggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smoggily
form: most smoggily
Etymology: From smoggy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a smoggy way.
muggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more muggily
form: most muggily
Etymology: From muggy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a muggy way.
soupily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soupily
form: most soupily
Etymology: From soupy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a soupy way.
warlockry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warlockries
Etymology: From warlock + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Wizardry; witchcraft.
australite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: australites
Etymology: For the type locality Australia + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of tektite found in Australia.
australites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of australite
blunderful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌn.də.fl̩/
ipa: /ˈblʌn.dɚ.fl̩/
Forms: form: more blunderful
form: most blunderful
Etymology: From blunder + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It is, therefore, quite believable that many of these secret agents were as blunderful and tactless as any ill-bred son of the soil could be...
ref: 2009, Douglas Blackburn, Secret Service in South Africa:
synonyms: blunderous
blundersome
blundery
glosses: Inclined to blunder.
blunderingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blunderingly
form: most blunderingly
Etymology: From blundering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a blundering way; making mistakes.
Dunglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Dutch + English.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A non-standard variety of the English language with Dutch influences.
thunderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thunder + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without thunder.
unlash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æʃ
Forms: form: unlashes
form: unlashing
form: unlashed
form: unlashed
Etymology: From un- + lash.
Senses: glosses: To unfasten.
unlashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlash
unlashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlash
unlashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlash
unlashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Without eyelashes.
unfucked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fucked.
Senses: glosses: Not fucked; virginal.
Related terms: unfuckable
unfucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unfuck + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfuck
unsmacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + smacked.
Senses: glosses: Not smacked.
Synonyms: unslapped
unspanked
come rain or shine
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rain or shine.
virginally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more virginally
form: most virginally
Etymology: From virginal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a virginal way.
power pill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power pills
Etymology: From a power-up in the Pac-Man video game (1980) that grants the player temporary invulnerability.
Senses: glosses: A tablet of the drug ecstasy.
wikipedia: Pac-Man
Synonyms: E
carcinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcinoids
Etymology: From carcino- + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of slow-growing tumour originating in the neuroendocrine system.
cementite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cementites
Etymology: From cement + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of iron carbide, Fe₃C, that is a component of steel.
cytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytopenias
Etymology: From cyto- + -penia.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A reduction in the number of blood cells for any of several reasons.
Derived terms: bicytopenia
cytopenic
hemocytopenia
pancytopenia
thrombocytopenia
cytopaenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytopaenias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cytopenia.
cytopaenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytopaenia
influenzalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more influenzalike
form: most influenzalike
Etymology: From influenza + -like.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flulike.
synonyms: word: flulike
Lisetta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Italian pet form of Elisabetta
Senses: examples: text: "And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.
ref: 1857, The National Magazine, volumes 10-11, page 350:
glosses: A female given name from Italian.
Related terms: Elisabeth
Elizabeth
Lisette
Lilibet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, Betty, this is so awful for mummy and Margaret," Lilibet wrote to a family friend, Elizabeth Cecil, soon after she became queen.
ref: 2005, Carolly Erickson, Lilibet: An Intimate Portrait of Elizabeth II:
glosses: A variant of the female given name Lilibeth.
demanganization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demanganizations
form: demanganisation
Etymology: From de- + manganize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of removing compounds of manganese from water
pandemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pandemic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Malaria occurs endemically, epidemically, pandemically, or sporadically.
ref: 1886, Hermann Ludwig Eichhorst, Handbook of Practical Medicine, page 168:
glosses: In a pandemic manner.
shrimplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shrimplike
form: most shrimplike
Etymology: From shrimp + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Marine scientists will plumb the Arctic Ocean and productive waters around Antarctica to see how shifts in sea ice and ocean currents affect species from clouds of shrimplike krill to whales, penguins and polar bears.
ref: 2007 February 26, Andrew C. Revkin, “2-Year Study of Polar Changes Set to Begin”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a shrimp.
shrimpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of shrimpy: more shrimpy
shrimpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of shrimpy: most shrimpy
regal horned lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regal horned lizards
Senses: glosses: Phrynosoma solare, a horned lizard, with a wide toad-shaped body about seven inches long, noted for the ten horns that form a crown-like structure on its head.
Synonyms: sense: Phrynosoma
word: horned toad
sense: Phrynosoma
word: horny toad
Related terms: Phrynosoma
chocophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocophiles
Etymology: From choc + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: The report has had 750,000 page views since the story went up in December and has been passed from chocophile to chocophile.
ref: 2007 February 10, Damon Darlin, “Figuring Out Gift Giving in the Age of $2,000-a-Pound Chocolate”, in New York Times:
glosses: A lover of chocolate.
chocophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocophile
babyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: babiless
Etymology: From baby + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a baby.
Synonyms: childless
Derived terms: babylessness
lawyerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lawyerlike
form: most lawyerlike
Etymology: From lawyer + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He analyzed the marketing of the chocolate with lawyerlike logic and came to the conclusion there was little special about it.
ref: 2007 February 10, Damon Darlin, “Figuring Out Gift Giving in the Age of $2,000-a-Pound Chocolate”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lawyer.
Derived terms: unlawyerlike
nonparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonparents
form: non-parent
Etymology: From non- + parent.
Senses: examples: text: nonparent visitation and custody
text: When we were nonparents, our modest digital camera was perfect for vacation photos and the like.
ref: 2007 February 10, M. P. Dunleavey, “And Baby Breaks the Budget”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who is not a parent.
nonparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonparent
braidlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more braidlike
form: most braidlike
Etymology: From braid + -like.
Senses: examples: text: And for a specialty style, like dreadlocks or the popular flat twist, in which the hair is coiled tightly against the scalp in braidlike rows, customers often visit far trendier salons where the simplest look starts at $100.
ref: 2007 February 11, Tim Murphy, “Amid Shifting Streets, a Wash and a Trim”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a braid.
creaturedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creature + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: An acceptance of our common creaturedom is essential not just to the health of the planet but to our ordinary happiness.
ref: 2007 February 11, Will Blythe, “Food for the Soul”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state of being a creature; the world of living things.
discussable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discussable
form: most discussable
form: discussible
Etymology: From discuss + -able.
Senses: examples: text: All the rules were discussable.
ref: 2007 February 11, “Living Up to Standards”, in New York Times:
glosses: That can be discussed.
Derived terms: indiscussable
undiscussable
horned lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horned lizards
Senses: glosses: Any of some 14 species of lizard in the genus Phrynosoma, generally with wide toad-shaped bodies less than a foot long, noted for the horny structures on their heads.
Synonyms: sense: Phrynosoma
word: horned toad
sense: Phrynosoma
word: horny toad
sense: Phrynosoma
word: horned frog
Hyponyms: regal horned lizard
horned lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horned lizard
longboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longboarders
Etymology: From longboard + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A former professional longboarder, Huerta, 28, works in international sales and merchandising for a denim company.
ref: 2007 February 11, Matt Higgins, “Surf’s Up, and Upscale, as Sport Reverses Its Beach Bum Image”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who rides a longboard.
longboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longboarder
memex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memexes
Etymology: Blend of memory + index, coined by Vannevar Bush in his article As We May Think (1945) in The Atlantic Monthly.
Senses: examples: text: Surely when Vannevar Bush imagined his hyperlinked memex or Jorge Luis Borges his Library of Babel or Tim Berners-Lee his World Wide Web, what excited them wasn’t the possibility of reading the boldfaced words “nympho starlets” in a printed novel, racing to the nearest computer to type a U.R.L. into a browser and watching a YouTube clip of James Blunt singing “You’re Beautiful” over scenes of Sharon Tate in “The Fearless Vampire Killers.”
ref: 2007 February 11, Matt Weiland, “Web of Spies”, in New York Times:
glosses: A proposed computer system, implemented with electromechanical controls and microfilm equipment, that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.
misshelve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛlv
Forms: form: misshelves
form: misshelving
form: misshelved
form: misshelved
Etymology: From mis- + shelve.
Senses: examples: text: She scoured the library for misshelved volumes, reread five surrounding volumes, reviewed her early notes but never found that paragraph imprinted in her memory, “the words filling less than half a page, the address on Clark Street, the remarks about her appearance, all of which where typed up by a machine in need of new ribbon.”
ref: 2007 February 11, Elizabeth Schmidt, “Erasing Slavery”, in New York Times:
glosses: To place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.
misshelves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misshelve
misshelving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misshelve
misshelving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misshelvings
Senses: glosses: An instance of something being misshelved.
misshelved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misshelve
punctuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punctuation
repressiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From repressive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Sociologists say that an increased willingness to address sexual problems reflects Spain’s sexual liberation after the repressiveness of the Franco years.
ref: 2007 February 11, Dan Bilefsky, “Spain Says Adiós Siesta and Hola Viagra”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being repressive.
siblingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sibling + -less.
Senses: examples: text: For Betty Rollin, a memoirist who grew up in Yonkers, being siblingless meant that she was pampered, adored and showered with gifts.
ref: 2007 February 11, Liesl Schillinger, “And Baby Makes Three”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without siblings.
Hypernyms: brotherless
sisterless
ribbonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ribbon + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a ribbon.
reparability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reparabilities
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of repairability.
slanshack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slænʃæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: slanshacks
Etymology: From slan (“science fiction fan”) + shack. From a clubhouse for science fiction fans in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA called "Slan Shack" which existed from 1943 to 1945; from the fanspeak term slan; from the science fiction novel Slan (1940) by A. E. van Vogt, by analogy to the superior but persecuted mutants of the novel.
Senses: examples: text: Slan Shack - A science-fiction house in Battle Creek, charter members being Al & Abby Lu Ashley, Walt Liebscher, and Jack Wiedenbeck. Acquired in the summer of '43, it wasn't occupied by the slans till the eve of the Michiconference. EEEvans joined a little later.
ref: 1944, John Bristol Speer, “sfn - Sydcon”, in Fancyclopedia:
text: Sad to relate, however, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen. Probably none of them had ever been in a slanshack, and there were only a few completists among them.
ref: 1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life:
text: In fact we *had* a slanshack about 6 blocks from his house, but he never had the time to hang out much -- he would drop by for an hour or so to drink beer...
ref: 1995, Richard Newsome, “Signing one's real name”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A house shared by fans of science fiction.
spouseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English spouselees, spowseles; equivalent to spouse + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But the new majority materialized only because The Times chose to use survey data that counted, as spouseless women, teenagers 15 through 17 — almost 90 percent of whom were living with their parents.
ref: 2007 February 11, Byron Calame, “Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a spouse; unmarried.
boutonnière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boutonnières
Etymology: Borrowed from French boutonnière.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boutonniere.
storybooklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more storybooklike
form: most storybooklike
Etymology: From storybook + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It was so serene and storybooklike.
ref: 2007 February 11, Douglas Century, “Alpine, N.J., Home of Hip-Hop Royalty”, in New York Times:
synonyms: fabular
ideal
picturesque
glosses: Like a storybook, or a traditional story
tonelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toneless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So much menace, so much studied tonelessness and unmusicality — and on the part of so young a virtuoso — is disturbing, to say the least, and it comes a relief when he lays it aside.
ref: 2007 February 11, Stephen Metcalf, “Informal Menace”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being toneless.
uncostumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + costumed.
Senses: examples: text: They had something else in common: they were the only uncostumed guests.
ref: 2007 February 11, “Danielle Scott and Steven Sackaris”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not costumed; not in costume.
unprolific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌʌn.pɹoʊˈlɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Etymology: From un- + prolific.
Senses: examples: text: With the possible exception of cliquishness, in each of these regards Fenton is more like Larkin: plain-spoken, unprolific and firmly in possession of a deflated sense of poetic vocation.
ref: 2007 February 11, Stephen Metcalf, “Informal Menace”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not prolific.
unrecommended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + recommended.
Senses: examples: text: He is strongest describing place — an old motor lodge rests in “a highly unrecommended corner of Tulsa,” a Detroit house is “the sort of box that if you tripped coming in the front door, you found yourself falling out the back.”
ref: 2007 February 11, Allison Glock, “The Man Show”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: unrecommendable
;
ill-advised
glosses: Not recommended; discouraged.
vortexlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vortexlike
form: most vortexlike
Etymology: From vortex + -like.
Senses: examples: text: To watch “Twitch City,” in other words, is often to watch someone watch TV. The screen serves as a de facto mirror — a nifty trick for a show about the vortexlike pull and mind-altering possibilities of television.
ref: 2007 February 11, Dennis Lim, “One Couch Potato, Gently Roasted”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a vortex.
vorticial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vɔː(ɹ)ˈtɪʃəl/
Forms: form: more vorticial
form: most vorticial
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a vortex.
antistar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antistars
Etymology: From anti- + star.
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: A conjectured type of star formed from antimatter.
antistars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antistar
antigalaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigalaxies
Etymology: From anti- + galaxy.
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: A conjectured type of galaxy formed from antimatter.
antigalaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antigalaxy
cauterizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauterizer
cauterizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cauterizers
Etymology: From cauterize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Various wands and clippers and cauterizers went into other little holes, and while watching the screens, the two doctors moved them around as if working joysticks on a video game.
ref: 2007 April 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R.”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, cauterizes.
Derived terms: electrocauterizer
cauteriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cauterisers
Etymology: From cauterise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cauterizer.
cauterisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauteriser
hotelwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hotel + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Fearful it could have landed in the trash, the hotel contacted its garbage contractor, Waste Management, and had hotel employees conduct the kind of hotelwide search usually reserved for homicide detectives.
ref: 2007 April 3, Claire Atkinson, “Lost and Very Rarely Found”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a hotel.
laparoscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From laparoscopic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The two flat-screen monitors worked perfectly, on the other hand, affording a full-color, high-definition view of the first patient’s gallbladder, which Dr. Gawande and a surgical resident, Siva Raja, proceeded to remove laparoscopically, after first inserting a fiber-optic camera through a tiny incision in the patient’s abdomen.
ref: 2007 April 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R.”, in New York Times:
text: Doctors can perform prostatectomies in one of three different ways: perineally, retropubically, or laparoscopically.
ref: 2011, Paul H. Lange, Christine Adamec, Prostate Cancer For Dummies:
glosses: By means of laparoscopy.
unmessy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + messy.
Senses: examples: text: The whole business is suprisingly unmessy.
ref: 2007 April 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not messy; tidy.
messless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mess + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without mess.
Synonyms: unmessy
Derived terms: messlessly
messlessness
stanzaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stanza + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Divided into stanzas.
license to print money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licenses to print money
Senses: glosses: US spelling of licence to print money.
tyrotoxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: tyro- + tox- + -ism; ultimately from Ancient Greek τυρός (turós, “cheese”) + Latin toxicum (“poison”).
Senses: glosses: Poisoning by cheese or other dairy products
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Related terms: tyrotoxin
slipware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipwares
Etymology: From slip + ware.
Senses: glosses: A type of pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip is placed onto the dry surface by dipping, painting or splashing.
metaheuristic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaheuristics
Etymology: From meta- + heuristic.
Senses: glosses: An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
metaheuristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaheuristic
fittingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fittingnesses
Etymology: From fitting + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He may neither judge the fittingness of society’s death sentence nor dictate our actions — even to express his remorse, however heartfelt.
ref: 2007 March 14, “It’s Not Up to the Killer (1 Letter)”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being fitting; suitability.
suitabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suitability
misallocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misallocates
form: misallocating
form: misallocated
form: misallocated
Etymology: From mis- + allocate.
Senses: examples: text: After a two-year investigation by the city’s Department of Investigation, the two men admitted their roles in stealing or misallocating nearly $1.2 million, including an $875,000 payment to a radio network, Air America, that had been concealed from the charity’s board of directors.
ref: 2007 March 14, Timothy Williams, “Ex-Leaders of Bronx Charity Avoid Prison in Fraud Case”, in New York Times:
text: It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.
ref: 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
text: Despite Japan's well deserved reputation for high quality export products, its economic system misallocates factors, under-produces, overworks, misdistributes and mistransfers goods and services.
ref: 2013, Steven Rosefielde, Asian Economic Systems, page 182:
glosses: To allocate incorrectly or inappropriately.
misallocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misallocate
misallocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misallocate
misallocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misallocate
shockvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of shock + advertising.
Senses: examples: text: Because what they know — what they learned at the feet of the master — is that, in the narrowest sense, shockvertising works. It works (a) by provoking widespread outrage, inevitably reported in the press, creating a level of buzz […]
ref: 2004, Bob Garfield, And Now a Few Words From Me:
text: So-called shockvertising, in the form of ads that are deliberately provocative to draw attention to themselves, is becoming increasingly popular.
ref: 2007 March 14, Stuart Elliott, “Critics to Marketers: Suicide Is No Joke”, in New York Times:
glosses: Advertising that is intended to shock the viewer.
anthropomorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropomorphoses
Etymology: From anthropo- + morphosis.
Senses: examples: text: He’s best known for his views of aristocratic race horses, seen purely as beautiful animals with no attempt at anthropomorphosis, but he painted other mammals too, dogs, lions, tigers, oxen, monkeys and humans.
ref: 2007 March 2, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Transformation into a human form.
uncompellingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncompellingly
form: most uncompellingly
Etymology: From uncompelling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Like Ms. Gallagher, Philippe Parreno excerpts and repeats, but uncompellingly.
ref: 2007 March 2, Roberta Smith, “Visions That Flaunt Cartoon Pedigrees”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an uncompelling way.
uncompelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncompelling
form: most uncompelling
Etymology: From un- + compelling.
Senses: glosses: Not compelling.
Derived terms: uncompellingly
lipless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lip + -less.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) brimless, ledgeless, rimless
synonyms: achilous
unlipped
glosses: Without a lip or lips.
Derived terms: liplessly
liplessness
mouthless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English *mouthles, from Old English mūþlēas (“mouthless”), equivalent to mouth + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a mouth.
Derived terms: mouthless crab
mouthlessness
Related terms: unmouthed
kidneyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kidney + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a kidney or kidneys.
liverless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From liver + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a liver.
latherings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lathering
multijointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + jointed.
Senses: examples: text: WowWee, whose previous creations include the robotic toy Robosapien, is also working on a radio-controlled vehicle for release this year that walks on four spidery, multijointed legs.
ref: 2007 February 8, Michel Marriott, “If Leonardo Had Made Toys”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having multiple joints.
pseudobulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudobulbs
Etymology: From pseudo- + bulb.
Senses: examples: text: Remove only dead flowers, not the living bloom stalk, which is actually a pseudobulb commonly called a cane.
ref: 2007 February 8, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
glosses: A storage organ in orchids, derived from the part of a stem between two leaf nodes.
Derived terms: pseudobulbous
pseudobulbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudobulb
serenader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serenaders
Etymology: From serenade + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Serenades pitch woo or pitch for whatever entitlement the serenader is looking for.
ref: 2007 February 8, Bernard Holland, “What Do You Play in the Evening? Serenades. Moonlight Becomes Them.”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who serenades.
serenaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serenader
songless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From song + -less.
Senses: synonyms: musicless
glosses: Without song.
unmuscled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmuscled
form: most unmuscled
Etymology: From un- + muscled.
Senses: glosses: Not muscled; lacking muscles.
subbrands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subbrand
subbrands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subbrand
subbrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subbrands
Etymology: From sub- + brand.
Senses: examples: text: Julie Gilhart, the fashion director of Barneys New York, has been wearing one this week from A/X, one of the Armani subbrands.
ref: 2007 February 8, Eric Wilson, “Yes, You Do Look Fat”, in New York Times:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A subsidiary brand.
subbrand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subbrands
form: subbranding
form: subbranded
form: subbranded
Etymology: From sub- + brand.
Senses: glosses: To market under a subsidiary brand.
tacrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæ.kɹiːn/
Etymology: From t(etrahydro) + acr(id)ine.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1980s, Dr. Thal, a neurologist, helped lead successful clinical trials of tacrine, a cholinesterase inhibitor drug that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1993.
ref: 2007 February 8, Jeremy Pearce, “Leon J. Thal, Neurologist Who Led Study for Alzheimer’s Drugs, Dies at 62”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic drug used in Alzheimer's disease to inhibit the breakdown of acetylcholine by cholinesterase and thereby enhance neurological function.
waterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watering
braider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braiders
Etymology: From braid + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was determined to be the best rawhide braider in the world; when she struggled with a piece of writing, he understood.
ref: 2007 March 1, Joyce Wadler, “Writing Her Own Sequel”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, braids.
braiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braider
cotrimoxazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-trimoxazole
Etymology: From co- + blend of trimethoprim + sulfamethoxazole.
Senses: examples: text: Because pediatricians are concerned that prolonged use of cotrimoxazole could lead to resistant malaria, they often stop the drug among AIDS patients when tests show significant improvement in the health of their immune system after antiretroviral therapy.
ref: 2007 March 1, Lawrence K. Altman, “Project Curbs Malaria in Ugandan Group”, in New York Times:
glosses: A sulfonamide antibacterial combination of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole, in the ratio of 1 to 5, used in the treatment of a variety of bacterial infections.
governability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: governabilities
Etymology: c. 1858 governable + -ity
Senses: examples: text: “The new electoral law must guarantee governability and continuity in politics,” he told senators on Wednesday.
ref: 2007 March 1, Ian Fisher, “Slim Vote of Confidence for Italy’s Leader”, in New York Times:
antonyms: ungovernability
glosses: The ability to be governed.
governabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governability
malarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /məˈlɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more malarious
form: most malarious
Etymology: From malaria + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 102:
text: Dr. Abrams, the Columbia expert, said in an interview that the Uganda findings had additional implications for treating H.I.V.-infected children in malarious areas.
ref: 2007 March 1, Lawrence K. Altman, “Project Curbs Malaria in Ugandan Group”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: With malaria; where people may catch malaria.
raw_tags: of a place or region
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing or relating to malaria.
Derived terms: nonmalarious
ruralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ruralizes
form: ruralizing
form: ruralized
form: ruralized
form: ruralise
Etymology: From rural + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: the curling cloud / Of city smoke, by distance ruralised
ref: 1799, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, London: Moxon, published 1850, Book 1, Introduction, p. 7:
text: This tardy favorite of fortune […] thoroughly ruralized from head to foot, proceeded to escort us up the hill behind his house.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 2, in The Silverado Squatters, Boston: Roberts Brothers, pages 40–41:
text: […] the quiet bachelor house had its best rooms on the big garden, which seemed to advance into them through their wide windows and ruralize their dullness.
ref: 1890, Henry James, chapter 2, in The Tragic Muse, volume 2, London: Macmillan, page 23:
text: But it is also a collection of villages, a ruralized metropolis where people live by their wits and devices, cut off from the authorities, the law and often each other.
ref: 2007 March 1, Michael Slackman, “In Arab Hub, the Poor Are Left to Their Fate”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make rural; to give a rural character to (something or someone).
examples: text: c. 1822, Charles Lamb, undated letter to John Howard Payne in The Letter of Charles Lamb, 1814-1825, Boston: The Bibliophile Society, Volume 4, pp. 197-198,
I shall certainly attend your Farce, if in town; but as ’t is possible I shall ruralize this week, I will have no orders of you till next week.
text: […] Letitia, who, except one jaunt to Margate, had never been out of the sound of Bow-bells, that she might ruralise after the fashion of the poets, sit under trees, and gather roses all day long;
ref: 1824, Mary Russell Mitford, “Rosedale and Its Tenants”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume 11, page 525:
text: […] the passage which I recollect with the greatest pleasure in Cicero, is where he says that books delight us at home, and are no impediment abroad; travel with us, ruralise with us.
ref: 1840, Leigh Hunt, “My Books”, in The Seer, London: Moxon, page 51:
text: Then there is his Excellency the “royal Chamberlain”—a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.
ref: 1872, Mark Twain, chapter 67, in Roughing It, Hartford, CT: American Publiching Company, page 486:
synonyms: rusticate
glosses: To become rural; to take up residence or spend time in the country.
Derived terms: ruralization
ruralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ruralize
ruralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ruralize
ruralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ruralize
ruralise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ruralises
form: ruralising
form: ruralised
form: ruralised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ruralize.
Derived terms: ruralisation
ruralises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ruralise
ruralising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ruralise
ruralised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ruralise
heroinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heroinlike
form: most heroinlike
Etymology: From heroin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Intended to be swallowed whole and digested over 12 hours, the pills can produce a heroinlike high if crushed and then swallowed, inhaled or injected.
ref: 2007 May 9, The Associated Press, “Painkiller’s Maker Settles Complaint”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling heroin or some aspect of it.
ringette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ring + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Sam Jacks, the inventor of ringette and floor hockey, and Robert Steadward, whose efforts spearheaded the growth of Paralympic sports, are being inducted in the builder category.
ref: 2007 May 9, The Associated Press, “Sports Briefing”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A team sport played on ice on skates and primarily by women, the players using sticks to control a rubber ring and attempting to score goals by landing it in the opponents' net.
Hypernyms: hockey
Coordinate terms: bandy
cosom hockey
field hockey
floorball
floor hockey
hockey
ice hockey
inline hockey
quad hockey
road hockey
roller hockey
street hockey
Derived terms: floor ringette
gym ringette
inline ringette
quad ringette
road ringette
roller ringette
street ringette
salmonellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salmonella
blanchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blanchingly
form: most blanchingly
Etymology: From blanching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Grotesque” is full of schoolgirls in long socks but blanchingly free of cuteness, a combination we might call Uh-Oh Kitty.
ref: 2007 April 15, Sophie Harrison, “Memoirs of a Geisha’s Sister”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a blanching way.
dosshouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dosshouses
Etymology: From doss + house.
Senses: examples: text: “What gives you the idea that you won't enjoy yourself? Brinkley Court's an earthly Paradise.” “In many respects, yes, but life there at the moment has its drawbacks. There's far too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste. Who do you think is staying at the old dosshouse? Aubrey Upjohn.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter II:
text: It was the profoundest hour of the night, their third as inmates of Princess Celestial Hind’s dosshouse, a converted wool factory fronting on an alley off Sturgeon Street, not far from the Caspian wharfs.
ref: 2007 April 15, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of doss-house.
dosshouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dosshouse
icelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more icelike
form: most icelike
Etymology: From ice + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It also revolves around a symbolic essential substance: in this case, a crystalline icelike material, mined from a meteor, that can awaken the power of speech in selected human hearts.
ref: 2007 April 15, Ken Kalfus, “They Had a Hammer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling ice.
Synonyms: icy