cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
if it isn't
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: if it isn't ...
form: if it wasn't
Etymology: Shortened from if it isn't ___, I'll eat my hat! or similar construction.
Senses: examples: text: Why, if it isn't Bill! Come on in, Bill!
text: "Well, well, if it isn't the new kid," said the bully.
glosses: Observes, with (sometimes ironic) surprise, that a specified thing or person is present.
if it wasn't
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: if it wasn't ...
Senses: glosses: simple past of if it isn't
megamillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamillion
Cartago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
glosses: A city in Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
glosses: A province in central Costa Rica.
glosses: A city and canton, the capital of Cartago province, Costa Rica.
roothold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːthəʊld/
Forms: form: rootholds
Etymology: From root + hold.
Senses: examples: text: A few spindly trees cling to the sides of the gorge, but their roothold on the tiny patches of soil gathered in cracks is precarious.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 98:
glosses: Attachment by means of roots.
roche moutonnée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒʃ muːˈtɒneɪ/
Forms: form: roches moutonnées
Etymology: From French roche moutonnée, from roche (“rock”) + moutonnée (“wavy”).
Senses: examples: text: Some are obviously roches moutonnées, polished and shaped by the ice-sheet that covered this whole landscape during the last million years of the Pleistocene ice age – a geological yesterday compared with the formation of the Alpine chain itself.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 100:
topics: geography
glaciology
natural-sciences
synonyms: moutonnée
sheepback
glosses: A rock formation created by glacial erosion.
roches moutonnées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roche moutonnée
double factorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double factorial
Angelman syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Dr. Harry Angelman, who first described it in 1965.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A neurogenetic disorder characterized by intellectual and developmental delay, sleep disturbance, seizures, jerky movements (especially hand-flapping), and frequent laughter or smiling.
Synonyms: happy puppet syndrome
scrage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: scrages
form: scraging
form: scraged
form: scraged
Senses: qualifier: Bristol; Birmingham; Bristol; Birmingham
glosses: To scrape or graze (typically one's knee).
scrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: scrages
Senses: qualifier: Bristol; Birmingham; Bristol; Birmingham
glosses: A scrape or graze.
casn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kæzn̩t/
Senses: examples: Thee casn't see I. (You can't see me.)
qualifier: Bristol
glosses: Contraction of cannot.
soothsay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuθˌseɪ/
Forms: form: soothsays
form: soothsaying
form: soothsaid
form: soothsaid
Etymology: Formed as a back-formation from soothsayer, equivalent to sooth + say. Compare Old English sōþseċġan (“to say truly, declare”).
Senses: glosses: To foretell the future; make predictions.
Related terms: soothsaw
soothsay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuθˌseɪ/
Forms: form: soothsays
Etymology: Formed as a back-formation from soothsayer, equivalent to sooth + say. Compare Old English sōþseċġan (“to say truly, declare”).
Senses: glosses: Soothsaying; prediction; prognostication; prophecy.
glosses: A portent; an omen.
soothsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soothsaws
form: sooth-saw
Etymology: From Middle English sothesawe, sothsaȝe; equivalent to sooth + saw (“a saying”). Cognate with Icelandic sannsaga (“truth-telling, soothsaying”). Compare also Middle English sothsawel, sothsaȝel (“truth-telling”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: A true saying; truth.
Related terms: soothsay
spurry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurries
form: spurrey
Etymology: Dutch or Old French spurrie; compare German Spergel, New Latin spergula.
Senses: glosses: Any of several European annual herbs of the genus Spergula.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Spergula arvensis
word: corn spurry
taxonomic: Spergula morisonii
word: Morison's spurry
taxonomic: Spergularia spp.
word: sandspurry
taxonomic: Spergularia rubra
word: sea spurry
specificative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Serving to specify something.
Derived terms: specificatively
humanitarian interventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humanitarian intervention
starter marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starter marriage
targeted killings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of targeted killing
terrorist fist jabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrorist fist jab
gate rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gate rape
mollie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŏʹlĭ
ipa: /ˈmɒlɪ/
enpr: mŏʹli
ipa: /ˈmɒli/
enpr: mŏʹlē
ipa: /ˈmɑli/
Forms: form: mollies
Etymology: Diminutive abbreviation; compare Mollie (“Molotov”).
Senses: glosses: Any of many New World fish of the genus Poecilia, formerly called Mollienesia; more commonly molly.
examples: 1993 August 2nd (5:27pm), “KARL FRIEDRICH BLOSS” (user name), talk.politics.guns (Usenet), “Re: You Americans are Gun Freaks…”, Message ID: <1993Aug2.172724.76557@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
It seems the weapon of choice in Rostock and other wonderful displays of harmony with fellow humans (NOT) was the Mollie (Molotov cocktail).
1998 September 30th, “zorbo” (user name), misc.survivalism (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Suppose the bad guys have tanks?”, Message ID: <6useu0$4911@ns1.netrax.net>
Would you be willing to sit in an AFV, even the most modern, while I toss a couple mollies onto the engine compartment?
glosses: A Molotov cocktail.
uhu
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uh-huh.
Related terms: uh-uh
uh
oh
paleospecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleospecies
form: palaeospecies
Senses: examples: text: The problem of recognizing paleospecies is linked to a more fundamental problem in taxonomy —determining how species should be segregated.
ref: 1996, Donald E. Johanson, Donald C. Johanson, Blake Edgar, From Lucy to Language:
text: Similarly, my main source for confidence about paleospecies arises from proven correspondences with true biospecies in favorable cases providing sufficient information for such a test (particularly when species with lengthy fossil records are still extant).
ref: 2001, Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, Evolutionary Patterns, page 197:
text: I do not, of course, argue that all named paleospecies are true biospecies, or that I can even estimate the percentage properly so defined (any more than we know the relative frequency of modern taxa that represent true biospecies).
ref: 2009, Stephen Jay Gould, Punctuated Equilibrium, page 64:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A species that is derived from the paleontological record; chronospecies.
controlled-access highway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controlled-access highways
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A motorway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each
artificial person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artificial persons
Senses: topics: law
glosses: legal person
artificial persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificial person
natural person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural persons
form: natural people
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A human being, as opposed to an organization.
Synonyms: physical person
natural persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural person
horse-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horse-like
form: most horse-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horselike.
spine pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spine pigs
Etymology: From spine + pig, literal translation of porcupine.
Senses: examples: text: Hares are fairly common, so also is the fretful porcupine, who, if he finds his way into your kitchen-garden, will play havoc with your pet vegetables. He is accounted delicate eating, this 'spine pig,' as the natives call him; [...]
ref: 1884, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London society:
text: "Spine-swine (the edgehog misnamed hedgehog)," echidna, echinoderm, rhino, the spine pig or porcupine — "everything is battle-dressed"; [...]
ref: 1953, Randall Jarrell, Poetry and the age:
text: Spine pig, spine pig, say me true, how your flesh befits a you so articulate in joint as to sharpen to your point. I've kept dogs ten thousand days; dodge my fears and play my joys out there in the forest's maze, [...]
ref: 2006, Wayne Clifford, The Book of Were:
glosses: Porcupine.
spine pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spine pig
ketoacyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From keto- + acyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acyl group derived from a keto acid
ketoacylsynthase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoacylsynthases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the biosynthesis of a keto acid
ketoadipate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoadipates
Etymology: From keto- + adipate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of ketoadipic acid
ketoadipic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoadipic acids
Etymology: From keto + adipic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric keto derivatives of adipic acid, but especially the α- isomer, 2-oxohexanedioic acid, which is an intermediate in the metabolism of lysine to glutaric acid
ketoadipic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From keto- + adipic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ketoadipic acid or its derivatives
ketoadipyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From keto- + adipyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from ketoadipic acid
regroupings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regrouping
adipyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adipic + -yl.
Senses: glosses: adipoyl
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical obtained by removing the only one hydroxyl group from adipic acid
Derived terms: ketoadipyl
akeake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori akeake.
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Dodonaea viscosa; aalii.
glosses: A tree of species Olearia traversiorum.
glosses: A tree of species Olearia avicenniaefolia.
ketoalkene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoalkenes
Etymology: From keto- + alkene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkene that also possesses a carbonyl group
meatpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatpoles
Etymology: From meat + pole.
Senses: glosses: A pole where meat is hung at a hunters' camp.
glosses: A penis
meatpoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatpole
gamebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamebags
Etymology: From game + bag.
Senses: glosses: A hunter's pouch for storing game.
gamebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamebag
cardueline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the subfamily Carduelinae of finches.
ketoarginine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From keto- + arginine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric keto derivatives of the amino acid arginine, some of which have biochemical activity.
algals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algal
surbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surbases
Etymology: From sur- + base.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: the uppermost part of the moulding of a baseboard, a pedestal or a similar construct
Hypernyms: base
Derived terms: surbased
surbase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surbases
form: surbasing
form: surbased
form: surbased
Etymology: From sur- + base.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: to lower the rise of an arch
surbases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surbase
surchargeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From surcharge + -able.
Senses: glosses: Requiring payment of a surcharge.
surnameless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From surname + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a surname.
Hypernyms: english: without surname or epithet
translation: without surname or epithet
word: aneponymous
surbased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French surbaissé.
Senses: glosses: having its height less than half of its span
raw_tags: of an arch
glosses: having a surbase
Related terms: surbase
surrealisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrealism
elisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elisors
form: elizor
Etymology: French éliseur, from élire to choose, from Latin ēligō. See elect.
Senses: examples: Maryland Rules of Court, 1985: When the sheriff is a party to or interested in an action so as to be disqualified from serving or executing process, the court, on application of any interested party, may appoint an elisor to serve or execute the process.
topics: law
glosses: An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
elisors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elisor
antistrumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + strumatic.
Senses: examples: text: antistrumatic balsam
text: antistrumatic remedies
text: antistrumatic tablets
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Countering scrofula; antistrumous.
sexly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛksli/
Etymology: From sex + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Should I ascribe any of these things unto myself or my sexly weaknesse, I were not worthy to live.
ref: 1601, Queen Elizabeth I, Golden Speech:
text: For surely in that time were those possessed
Of Demons — making men's hearts a foul nest
For other thoughts besides the sexly crime.
Perchance, tho' seven Demons in her breast
Such passions varied that gave her no rest
Like Envy, Hate and Malice, which her soul had nursed
Until her mind—desires and life accursed.
I have to think that Mary surely pure
Of sexly passion—in that way demure—
But violent otherwise in fits of spite.
ref: 1917, Richard Hayes McCartney, An Unclean Spirit, page 75:
glosses: Relating to a person's (bodily) sex.
weaknesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weaknesses
Senses: examples: text: I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cure of Deſpaire by Phyſick, good counſell, comforts, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6, page 707:
glosses: Obsolete form of weakness.
ethnonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethnonym + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to an ethnonym.
Flobert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Floberts
Etymology: Perhaps from the maker's surname.
Senses: glosses: A small cartridge designed for target shooting; a ball cap.
Floberts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flobert
hyomental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From hyo- + mental (mental in sense of relating to the chin).
Senses: examples: text: the hyomental region of the front of the neck
text: the hyomental distance (HMD)is the distance from the symphysis of the mandible to the body of the hyoid bone
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, or pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary.
dupion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dupions
Etymology: From French doupion, Italian doppione, from doppio (“double”), Latin duplus. See double, and compare doubloon.
Senses: glosses: A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
synonyms: doupion
glosses: The silk from a double cocoon.
powder horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powder horns
Senses: glosses: A tool, usually made from an animal's horn, used to load gunpowder into a gun or cannon.
whorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whorly
form: most whorly
Etymology: From whorl + -y.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a whorl.
antecedaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæntɪsɪˈdeɪniəs/
Forms: form: more antecedaneous
form: most antecedaneous
Etymology: See antecede.
Senses: examples: text: capable of antecedaneous proof
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). He Rose again from the Dead”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Antecedent; coming earlier in time.
Derived terms: antecedaneously
clue sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clue stick
undersling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underslings
Etymology: From under- + sling.
Senses: glosses: any suspended object that is held below the support
undersling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underslings
form: underslinging
form: underslung
form: underslung
Etymology: From under- + sling.
Senses: glosses: to suspend below the support, to support from above
Related terms: underslung
surbasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surbase
nullipore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nullipores
Etymology: From Latin nullus (“none”) + porus (“pore”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various algae which secrete calcium carbonate, such as those of the order Corallinales.
nullipores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nullipore
metagrammatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This distribution has puzzled grammarians, but the Iliadic examples are all from Nestor's account of the Elean war. The aberrant spelling must date from after the alleged metagrammatism.
ref: 1980, Leonard Robert Palmer, The Greek language, page 96:
glosses: anagrammatism
Serbonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sɚˈboʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Sirbonian
Etymology: From Serbonis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Serbonian Bog.
thundrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thundrous
form: most thundrous
Senses: examples: text: scraps of thundrous epic
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of thunderous.
hyperinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + Ancient Greek ἴς (ís, “force, power, muscle, sinew”, stem in-) + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.
undwelt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dwelt.
Senses: glosses: Not lived in.
aquafortis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aqua fortis.
fifthness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fifth + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being or coming fifth.
fourthness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fourth + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being or coming fourth.
thirdness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From third + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being or coming third.
secondness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From second + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being or coming second.
lastness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From last + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being or coming last; finality.
hydrosorbic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + sorbic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid obtained from sorbic acid when it takes up hydrogen.
palladiumized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Coated with palladium.
dianium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin dianium, from Latin Diana; either as the name of the Roman goddess, or from its use in Old English as a name of silver.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (obsolete) niobium (although formerly thought as a distinct element)
organocaesium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of organocesium.
distriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin districtio (“a stretching out”).
Senses: examples: c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, Of the Aspect
A smile […] breaks out with the brightest distriction.
glosses: Sudden display; flash; glitter.
defeat the purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defeats the purpose
form: defeating the purpose
form: defeated the purpose
form: defeated the purpose
Senses: glosses: To undermine the act of doing something by having an opposite effect; to nullify.
preconceit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preconceits
Etymology: From pre- + conceit.
Senses: examples: text: through their misfashioned preconceit
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception.
preconceit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preconceits
form: preconceiting
form: preconceited
form: preconceited
Etymology: From pre- + conceit.
Senses: glosses: To preconceive.
preconceits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preconceit
preconceits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preconceit
epipleural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From epi- + pleural.
Senses: examples: text: epipleural spines
ref: 1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra
glosses: Relating to an epipleuron
Derived terms: pseudoepipleural
epipleural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Forms: form: epipleurals
Etymology: From epi- + pleural.
Senses: glosses: An epipleural bone
carboxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxides
Etymology: Blend of carbon + oxide
Senses: examples: text: Carboxide of potassium is a frey or black, loose pulverulent mass.
ref: 1856, Leopold Gmelin, Hand-book of Chemistry - Volume 10, page 397:
text: potassium carboxide
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of carbon and oxygen, such as carbonyl, with some element or radical; carboxylic acid or carbon oxide.
examples: text: Closure should be as airtight as possible in order to reduce leakage of carboxide to a minimum.
ref: 1943, United States. Navy, Bureau of ships Manual, pages 36-29:
text: Also, carboxide requires a gasproof chamber to be effective.
ref: 1957, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Passive Defense, page 275:
text: Carboxide has been used as an aircraft fumigant in Canada by Air Canada and other air carriers .
ref: 1996, R. A. Ellis, Aircraft Disinsection, page 45:
glosses: A gas composed of 10% ethylene oxide on a carrier of 90% carbon dioxide, used for sterilization.
carboxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboxide
pentahedrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pentahedral.
thinolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thinolites
Etymology: Ancient Greek θίνα (thína, “dune, shore”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a pseudomorph of ikaite, found in Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.
thinolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thinolite
salpæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Salpæ, translucent as their native waters, and often united in chains, after a pattern peculiar to each species...
ref: 1850, George Johnston, Introduction to Conchology, page 125:
glosses: plural of salpa
nematogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nematogenes
Etymology: From nemato- + -gene.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative spelling of nematogen.
nematogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nematogene
escarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈskɑːp/
ipa: /ɪˈskɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: escarps
Etymology: From French escarpe, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz. Doublet of scarp.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of scarp.
escarp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈskɑːp/
ipa: /ɪˈskɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: escarps
form: escarping
form: escarped
form: escarped
Etymology: From French escarpe, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz. Doublet of scarp.
Senses: examples: text: Our men, though quite expos'd, and though the Glacis was all escarp'd upon the live Rock, went on with an undaunted Courage
ref: 1728, Daniel Defoe, Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of scarp.
Derived terms: scarp
escarped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of escarp
escarping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of escarp
escarps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of escarp
Armoricans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Armorican
riotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From riot + -ry.
Senses: examples: June 15, 1780, Horace Walpole, letter to the Rev. Mr. Cole
I hope your electioneering riotry has not, nor will mix in these tumults.
glosses: The act or practice of rioting.
archebiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the possibility of Bacteria arising by a process of Archebiosis
ref: 1871, Henry Charlton Bastian, The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The origination of living matter from non-living; abiogenesis.
ramline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramlines
Etymology: From ram + line.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A line made from a cord or thread, used to get a straight middle line, or from stern to stern during the building a vessel.
ramlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ramline
insurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈʃʊə.ɹ(ə)nt/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃɔː.ɹ(ə)nt/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃʊəɹ.ənt/
Forms: form: insurants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of insured.
synonyms: word: insured
glosses: Synonym of policyholder.
synonyms: word: policyholder
insurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insurant
cavalierish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cavalierish
form: most cavalierish
Etymology: From cavalier + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat like a cavalier.
Derived terms: cavalierishness
microtasimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtasimeters
Etymology: From micro- + tasimeter.
Senses: glosses: A tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions.
microtasimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtasimeter
hierothecae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierotheca
misdivision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdivisions
Etymology: From mis- + division.
Senses: glosses: Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abnormal (i.e. transverse instead of longitudinal) division of a centromere during meiosis or mitosis, resulting in two telocentric chromosomes from a single metacentric chromosome.
misdivisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdivision
prisonment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪzənmənt/
Forms: form: prisonments
Etymology: Partly from prison + -ment, partly shortened from imprisonment.
Senses: examples: text: Yet will I never of my love repent, / But joy that for his sake I suffer prisonment.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Imprisonment.
prisonments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prisonment
tinkerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tinkerly
form: most tinkerly
Etymology: From tinker + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a tinker; sloppy
venditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venditations
Etymology: From Latin venditatio, from venditare, venditatum (“to offer again and again for sale”), v. freq. of vendere. See vend.
Senses: examples: text: And some, by a cunning protestation against all reading, and false venditation of their own naturals, think to divert the fagacity of their readers from themselves
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:
glosses: boastfulness; showing off.
venditations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venditation
pennigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin penniger, from penna (“feather”) + gerere (“to bear”), + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: plumose
glosses: Bearing feathers or quills.
tabularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabularizations
form: tabularisation
Etymology: From tabular + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or action of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
pruriginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin from Latin prurigo (“itching, itch”): compare French prurigineux.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: related to, affected by, or resembling, prurigo.
indecimable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- (“not”) + Latin decimare (“to tithe”). Compare French indécimable. See decimate.
Senses: examples: text: What things be indecimable by the Law, and ought not to pay tithe.
ref: 1628–1644, Edw[ard] Coke, (please specify |part=1 to 4), London:
glosses: Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes.
irrelapsable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrelapsable
form: most irrelapsable
Etymology: From ir + relapse + -able.
Senses: examples: text: irrelapsable condition
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not liable to relapse; unrelenting; secure.
epipharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-iːəl
Etymology: From epi- + pharyngeal.
Senses: examples: text: epipharyngeal bar
text: epipharyngeal gland
text: epipharyngeal groove
text: epipharyngeal margin
text: epipharyngeal placode
text: epipharyngeal wall
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or located at, the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes.
epipharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-iːəl
Forms: form: epipharyngeals
Etymology: From epi- + pharyngeal.
Senses: glosses: An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.
epipharyngeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epipharyngeal
baculine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin baculum (“staff”).
Senses: examples: text: baculine discipline
text: baculine blows
glosses: Of or pertaining to a rod or cane, or punishment with either of them.
basifugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basi- + -fugal.
Senses: examples: text: a basifugal development
text: a basifugal evolution
text: a basifugal growth
text: a basifugal melanisation
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Tending or proceeding away from the base.
implacental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From im- + placental.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Not having a placenta (said of e.g. marsupials and monotremes).
implacental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: implacentals
Etymology: From im- + placental.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mammal having no placenta.
implacentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of implacental
tolbooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolbooths
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of toll booth.
tolbooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolbooth
mismeter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mismeters
form: mismetering
form: mismetered
form: mismetered
form: mismetre
Etymology: From mis- + meter.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.
mismetered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mismeter
mismetering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mismeter
inkhornism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkhornisms
Etymology: From inkhorn + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But the virus of unrestrained inkhornism lurks today, ready to damage the prose of writers who think there are no words in the language sufficiently refined to communicate their ideas and who believe that long, impressive-sounding words must represent impressive ideas.
ref: 1993, Kenneth G. Wilson, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, page 248:
glosses: Pedantry; a preference for inkhorn terms.
examples: text: Mr. Will, whose inkhornisms remain a weekly treat, has had tough words for former White Housers who write tell-all books, so the younger George had better watch his tongue.
ref: 1997 February 1, Walter Goodman, “The Role of Partisans in a Neutral Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Grandiloquent terms in particular aimed to dignify the pedestrian. People might use “pseudo-Latinisms for relatively common things,” similar to the 17th-century inkhornisms that preceded them, Sheidlower said.
ref: 2021 November 9, Max Harrison-Caldwell, “Words Full of Sound and Fury”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An inkhorn term.
inkhornisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkhornism
inkhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkhorn
myochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + -chrome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: myoglobin
fluavil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluavils
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha as a yellow resinous substance.
Synonyms: fluanil
fluavils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluavil
allodiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allodiary
allodiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allodiaries
Senses: glosses: An allodium holder.
proletaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proletaneous
form: most proletaneous
Etymology: Latin proletaneus.
Senses: examples: text: When heads of families did their shopping, they could unostentatiously slip into "The Stoat and Hammer," and manage the business of the nation upon those drastic principles so dear to the hearts of the proletarian and proletaneous dwellers in Little Lambton Street.
ref: 1895, George Brown Burgin, At Tuxter's, page 3:
text: Twinning also was very common in the flock to which this proletaneous ewe belonged, for last year 402 ewes had produced 642 lambs .
ref: 1902 March 15, “Laws of Fecundity”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, page 669:
text: They were conscious of Australia as once a convict colony and still a retreat for a proletariat over-proletaneous since machinery was making so many men superfluous in industry.
ref: 2021, Miles Franklin, All That Swagger:
text: What are a few things like that compared with proletaneous human beings?
ref: 2021, Brent of Bin Bin, Back to Bool Bool:
glosses: Having numerous offspring.
emissitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛmɪˈsɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more emissitious
form: most emissitious
Etymology: From Latin emissitius, from emittere.
Senses: examples: text: Malicious Mass-Priest, cast back those emissitious eyes, to your own infamous Chair of Rome; and, if even in that thou canst discern no spectacles of abominable uncleanness, spend thy spiteful censures upon ours.
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
glosses: Looking, or narrowly examining; prying, nosy or meticulous.
somner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somners
Senses: examples: text: Life, they may do any thing there, man, and fear neither beadle nor somner
ref: 1608, Thomas Middleton, A Trick to Catch the Old One, act 2, scene 1; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 2, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 29:
glosses: A summoner; especially, one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.
somners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somner
cubitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubital
coagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coagents
Etymology: From co- + agent.
Senses: examples: text: a coagent from MI5
glosses: An associate or fellow agent, i.e. a coworker.
examples: text: With a crew of ribalds, vallainous, and nought,
As their coagents in this hatefull thing,
ref: 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons Warres, published 1610, page 108:
glosses: A joint agent, something that acts with another
Related terms: coagency
coagents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coagent
tractioneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tractioneers
Etymology: Blend of traction + engineer.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: An operator of a farm tractor (steam tractor or gas tractor).
Related terms: thresherman
tractioneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tractioneer
thresherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threshermen
Etymology: From thresher + -man.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A male thresher, who beats the grain manually on a threshing floor.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The operator of a mechanical thresher (a threshing machine).
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The owner-operator of a mechanical thresher, operating as a threshing business.
Related terms: combine driver
combiner
tractioneer
threshermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thresherman
steam rollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam roller
MDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA)
mDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mDNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA)
glosses: Abbreviation of murine DNA.
glosses: Abbreviation of murine DNA.
Abbreviation of mouse DNA.
Coordinate terms: nDNA
hDNA
Related terms: mRNA
LNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LNA
UNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UNA
geanticlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geanticline
GNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of glycol nucleic acid.
Related terms: english: deoxyribonucleic acid
translation: deoxyribonucleic acid
word: DNA
english: ribonucleic acid
translation: ribonucleic acid
word: RNA
english: peptide nucleic acid
translation: peptide nucleic acid
word: PNA
english: threose nucleic acid
translation: threose nucleic acid
word: TNA
GNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GNA
tillites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tillite
glycol nucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycol nucleic acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A synthetic nucleic acid; an analogue of DNA in which the sugar backbone is glycerol or a related glycol
Derived terms: word: GNA
Related terms: word: nucleic acid
alt: RNA
word: ribonucleic acid
english: DNA
translation: DNA
word: deoxyribonucleic acid
alt: PNA
word: peptide nucleic acid
alt: TNA
word: threose nucleic acid
peptide nucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peptide nucleic acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: PNA
glosses: A synthetic organic polymer similar to DNA or RNA; the sugar backbone of nucleic acids is replaced by N-(2-aminoethyl)-glycine linked through peptide bonds - considered a possible precursor to RNA
Related terms: word: nucleic acid
alt: RNA
word: ribonucleic acid
english: DNA
translation: DNA
word: deoxyribonucleic acid
alt: GNA
word: glycol nucleic acid
alt: TNA
word: threose nucleic acid
locked nucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locked nucleic acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a synthetic form of RNA, in which the ribose is modified to be locked into a specific conformation by adding extra chemical bonding.
Derived terms: word: LNA
Related terms: word: nucleic acid
alt: UNA
word: unlocked nucleic acid
alt: BNA
word: bridged nucleic acid
alt: RNA
word: ribonucleic acid
english: DNA
translation: DNA
word: deoxyribonucleic acid
BNA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British North America.
BNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BNAs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of bridged nucleic acid.
Related terms: topics: biochemistry
microbiology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
biology
word: UNA
topics: biochemistry
microbiology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
biology
word: LNA
topics: biochemistry
microbiology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
biology
word: DNA
topics: biochemistry
microbiology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
biology
word: RNA
BNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BNA
XNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of XNA
threonucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threonucleic acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: threose nucleic acid
Derived terms: word: TNA
Related terms: nucleic acid
XNA
chelandion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chelandions
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χελάνδιον (khelándion).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a Byzantine bireme used primarily for cargo transport
Related terms: dromon
dromon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dromons
form: dromond
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δρόμων (drómōn).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A Byzantine bireme, similar to the chelandion, but used primarily for naval combat.
Related terms: chelandion
feeler gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feeler gauges
form: feeler gage
Senses: glosses: A set of thin metal strips, of known thickness, used to measure a narrow gap such as by go/no-go status or by the feel of how the gauge slides into the gap.
Related terms: spark gap
fragmentation bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fragmentation bombs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An antipersonnel bomb that scatters shrapnel when it explodes
Brissie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪzi/
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: Brissy
form: Brizzie
Etymology: From Brisbane + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Brisbane (a large city, the capital city of Queensland, Australia)
Brissie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪzi/
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: Brissies
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Brizzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Brissie.