cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
philographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philographic
form: most philographic
Senses: examples: text: They publish a bi-monthly newsletter, The Pen and Quill, which provides needed addresses, facisimiles of autographs, interesting articles, promotes philographic conventions and exposes disreputable dealers and forgers.
ref: 1986, Charles S. Slaybaugh, Grandparent's Catalog: An Idea Book for Family Sharing, page 88:
glosses: Having or relating to a love of writing.
Related terms: philographer
philography
Shug Monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cryptid reported from parts of Cambridgeshire, supposed to have features of a dog and a monkey.
mamading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mamada (“blow job”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The story was based on footage taken on a mobile phone and eventually posted on YouTube of a young woman engaged in mamading (the provision of fellatio to multiple strangers) with 24 men in exchange for what she believed to be a free holiday. It transpired that the ‘free holiday’ in question was the name of a drink.
ref: 2017, David Harrison, Richard Sharpley, editors, Mass Tourism in a Small World, CABI, →ISBN, page 188:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: A game in bars where young women are encouraged to perform as many public blowjobs in as short a time possible, in return for free alcohol.
Darlo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Darlington + -o, Darlinghurst + -o.
Senses: glosses: Darlington
glosses: The Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst.
retinitis pigmentosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An inherited degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment and often blindness.
kneelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneelos
Etymology: From kneel + -o.
Senses: glosses: A kneeboarder.
kneelos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneelo
shorepound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorepounds
Etymology: From shore + pound.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A dangerous condition, due to high tide or larger surf, where the waves break in one single "wall" onto the beach, often in shallow water.
shorepounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shorepound
switchfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From switch + foot.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
surfing
glosses: Riding with one's wrong foot forward, i.e. opposite to one's usual natural/goofy preference.
switchfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From switch + foot.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
surfing
glosses: Riding with one's wrong foot forward, i.e. opposite to one's usual natural/goofy preference.
switchfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switchfoots
Etymology: From switch + foot.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A surfer who can surf with either foot forward.
wettie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetties
Etymology: From wet + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A wetsuit.
examples: text: She raised her brows. “You got a woodie; I got a wettie. Doesn't mean mine was for yours.”
ref: 2015, Kresley Cole, Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night:
glosses: The vagina when producing lubrication from arousal.
wetties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wettie
pointbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointbreaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of point break.
pointbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pointbreak
eastern columbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern columbines
Senses: glosses: Aquilegia canadensis, native to eastern North America.
Synonyms: sense: Aquilegia canadensis
word: red columbine
sense: Aquilegia canadensis
word: Canadian columbine
sense: Aquilegia canadensis
word: Canada columbine
sense: Aquilegia canadensis
word: eastern red columbine
sense: Aquilegia canadensis
word: wild columbine
swamp milkweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamp milkweeds
Senses: glosses: Asclepias incarnata, native to eastern and central North America.
Synonyms: sense: Asclepias incarnata
word: rose milkweed
sense: Asclepias incarnata
word: swamp silkweed
sense: Asclepias incarnata
word: white Indian hemp
butterfly milkweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly milkweeds
Senses: glosses: Asclepias tuberosa, native to most of North America, except for the northwest.
Synonyms: sense: Asclepias tuberosa
word: butterfly weed
sense: Asclepias tuberosa
word: pleurisy root
consarnit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Each threw in his two cents, instructing both me and my cousin Ryan so that by the time we were nine, after years of gentle lessons, I could engage the consarnit transmission without any crunching.
ref: 2013, Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe:
glosses: Alternative form of consarn it.
false blue indigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false blue indigos
Senses: glosses: blue wild indigo (Baptisia australis), native to central and eastern North America.
Synonyms: sense: Baptisia australis
word: indigo weed
sense: Baptisia australis
word: rattleweed
sense: Baptisia australis
word: rattlebush
sense: Baptisia australis
word: horsefly weed
antichymotrypsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antichymotrypsin
banjo ukeleles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banjo ukelele
Koch snowflake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koch snowflakes
Senses: glosses: A fractal curve based on the Koch curve.
Related terms: snowflake curve
Koch snowflakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koch snowflake
cordon-bleu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordon-bleus
form: cordon bleu
form: cordonbleu
Senses: glosses: One of two species of passerine birds in the genus Uraeginthus.
cruciverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cruci- (“cross”) + verbal (“words”), from Latin roots crux (“cross”) and verbum (“word”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to crossword puzzles.
camaroptera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camaropteras
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several passerine birds in the genus Camaroptera.
zipcuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zip cuffs.
kanpyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kampyo.
kampyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kanpyo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 干瓢.
Senses: glosses: Dried shavings of calabash used in Japanese cuisine.
guajeo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guajeos
Senses: glosses: A typical Cuban ostinato melody, most often consisting of arpeggiated chords in syncopated patterns.
guajeos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guajeo
to begin with
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: To begin with, we moved the furniture out of the room.
synonyms: at first
to start with
glosses: Initially, at first, at the very start.
examples: text: Double my wages? You weren't paying me anything to begin with!
synonyms: to start with
glosses: In the first place.
Synonyms: sense: at the very start
word: initially
Druskininkai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Lithuanian Drùskininkai.
Senses: glosses: A city in Lithuania.
onychopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onycho- + pathology.
Senses: glosses: The study of diseases of the nails.
Annie Oakley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Annie Oakleys
Etymology: Many complimentary tickets had holes punched in them to prevent recipients from reselling them; in this way, they resembled the playing cards that sharpshooter Annie Oakley shot holes in as part of her act, and so were named after her.
Senses: examples: text: The prince and princess of Belgium happened to be [...] in Detroit. Hurok sent them a pair of passes [...]. The concert was a sellout, Hurok cleared $4,000, and several days later received a polite note from the prince's equerry expressing Their Highnesses' regret at not having been able to use the Annie Oakleys.
ref: 1944 August 28, John Bainbridge, “S. Hurok”, in Life, volume 17, number 9, page 57:
glosses: A complimentary ticket, a free ticket; a comp.
wikipedia: Annie Oakley
Annie Oakleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Annie Oakley
kellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kelly
prickler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pricklers
Etymology: From prickle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The tree did not react, but that was positive. It was a prickler, with many sharply barbed leaves.
ref: 2003, Piers Anthony, Key to Chroma, page 376:
glosses: That which prickles.
pricklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prickler
white turtlehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white turtleheads
Senses: glosses: Chelone glabra, native to wetlands and moist forests of eastern North America.
Synonyms: sense: white turtlehead
word: balmony
sense: white turtlehead
word: snakehead
sense: white turtlehead
word: turtle-head
n/t
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: no text; used as the body of a forum message where the title contains all that the poster wishes to say
Related terms: EOM
SSIA
TSIA
hell night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hell nights
Senses: glosses: A night during which new members are required to undergo hazing rituals in order to be accepted into a fraternity, sorority, etc.
Related terms: hell week
pollency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin polleō (“I am strong/powerful”).
Senses: glosses: Power.
glosses: Strength.
Derived terms: pollent
omnipollent
spraff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spraffs
form: spraffing
form: spraffed
form: spraffed
Senses: glosses: To speak excessively or pointlessly.
glosses: To speak (in general).
spraff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spraffs
Senses: glosses: Spiel.
glosses: Chat, patter.
glosses: Speech.
reformulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reformulators
Etymology: From reformulate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Well, the reformulators might say, exactly how serious can this lack of fit be?
ref: 1998, Wesley J. Wildman, Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century:
glosses: One who reformulates something.
reformulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reformulator
nonscene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scene.
Senses: examples: a nonscene gay couple
glosses: Not of or relating to a scene, especially a social scene.
nonscene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonscenes
Etymology: From non- + scene.
Senses: glosses: A scene, as in a play or film, that is insignificant or anticlimactic.
nonscenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonscene
conjugatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conjugate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being conjugated.
conjugable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conjugate + -able.
Senses: antonyms: inconjugable
glosses: Capable of being conjugated.
zip cuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zipcuffs
Senses: glosses: disposable handcuffs made from plastic straps
huffing and puffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of huff and puff
Thue-Morse sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thue-Morse sequences
Etymology: Named after Axel Thue and Marston Morse, who studied it.
Senses: glosses: The infinitely long binary sequence obtained by starting with 0 and successively appending the Boolean complement of the sequence obtained thus far.
same old
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of same old same old.
Yuta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
critical exponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critical exponents
Senses: examples: text: The critical exponent of "Mississippi" is 7/3, as it contains the string "ississi", which is of length 7 and period 3.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The greatest number of times that a contiguous subsequence can be repeated.
critical exponents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of critical exponent
Lindenmayer system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lindenmayer systems
Senses: glosses: Synonym of L-system.
synonyms: word: L-system
Lindenmayer systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lindenmayer system
Ngs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ng
unsalvaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + salvaged.
Senses: glosses: Not salvaged.
unsavaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + savaged.
Senses: glosses: Not savaged.
unawkward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unawkward
form: most unawkward
Etymology: From un- + awkward.
Senses: glosses: Not awkward.
gimmie
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gimme.
gracer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gracers
Etymology: From grace + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
ref: 1902, Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence, page 242:
glosses: Agent noun of grace: one who graces.
backshooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backshooters
Etymology: From backshoot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It would be so easy for Jed to jerk his rifle from its sheath, lever a cartridge into the firing chamber and put a bullet right between Colter's shoulder blades. For a fleeting moment, Jed considered doing just that. But he knew he was not a backshooter and more than that, he wanted to see the truth of the murder in Colter's eyes and make him squirm before dying at the end of a rope...
ref: 2007, Jory Sherman, Abilene Gun Down, page 29:
glosses: A cowboy who kills someone by shooting them in the back
glosses: A treacherous person
backshooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backshooter
yee ha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: 1984-1986, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I'm a'ginna join a gay men's motorcycle club and see iffin I kin find myself a motorcycle daddy! YEE HA
glosses: Alternative form of yeeha.
gizza
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "It's just more money down the drain. Gizza beer, will ya?"
"It's not shite," replies Ronnie sullenly, "it's just good business sense, something neither of you two have. What do you think, Terry?"
ref: 2003, Sting, Broken Music: A Memoir:
glosses: Alternative form of gissa (UK, slang)
anythang
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: anything
Related terms: thang
somethang
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: something
Related terms: thang
everythang
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: everything
Related terms: thang
partayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of partay
partaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of partay
wild geranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild geraniums
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of species Geranium maculatum, found in North America from Manitoba and Quebec to Oklahoma and Georgia.
Synonyms: sense: wild geranium
word: spotted geranium
sense: wild geranium
word: wood geranium
sense: wild geranium
word: spotted cranesbill
sense: wild geranium
word: wild cranesbill
sense: wild geranium
word: alum root
sense: wild geranium
word: alum bloom
sense: wild geranium
word: old maid's nightcap
black walnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black walnuts
Senses: glosses: Juglans nigra, a tree native to eastern North America.
examples: text: BLACK WALNUT SANDWICH: Between thin slices of lightly buttered brown bread spread black walnut meats chopped rather fine. Nice to serve with hot chocolate.
ref: 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 130:
glosses: The nuts of the aforementioned tree.
glosses: The wood of the aforementioned species.
glosses: Synonym of Queensland walnut (“Endiandra palmerstonii”).
synonyms: word: Queensland walnut
extra: Endiandra palmerstonii
Synonyms: sense: Juglans nigra
word: eastern black walnut
Washington hawthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Washington hawthorns
Senses: glosses: Crataegus phaenopyrum, native to eastern North America.
Synonyms: sense: Washington hawthorn
word: Washington thorn
paw-paw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paw-paws
Senses: examples: text: She ate her paw-paw, buttered a piece of toast, stirred her tea round and round — and tasted no food; was aware of nothing she was doing.
ref: 1987, Mons Davenson, Promise Me, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of pawpaw, Asimina triloba.
paw-paw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paw-paws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pawpaw, grandfather.
nabes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nabe
ballyrag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ballyrags
form: ballyragging
form: ballyragged
form: ballyragged
form: bullyrag
Senses: examples: text: . . . the Duchess of Belmont, that ballyrags every one round her, like a tipsy old soldier.
ref: 1904, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 29, in The House by the Church Yard:
text: "I remember you as a boy, Samuel," said Mrs. Hignett, "lamentably lacking in consideration for others and concentrated only on your selfish pleasures. . . ."
"Don't ballyrag the poor man," said Jane Hubbard.
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in Three Men and a Maid:
glosses: To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.
Teec Nos Pos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tiːsˈnɒspɒs/
Etymology: From Navajo tʼiis názbąs (“cottonwoods in a circle”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Arizona.
whip-poor-will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whip-poor-wills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whippoorwill (Antrostomus vociferus)
grandala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandalas
Senses: glosses: An insectivorous passerine bird of South Asia, Grandala coelicolor.
infantry fighting vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infantry fighting vehicle
$DEITY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: $DEITIES
form: $deity
Etymology: From the syntax of environment variables in Unix shells, and the practice of putting paths to user's software of choice in generically named variables like EDITOR or PAGER.
Senses: examples: text: No real init that actually works the way it's supposed to. No snoop. No truss/strace. The whole stupid application install method with it's^([sic]) /opt /etc/opt/, /var/opt, /tmp/var/etc/opt $DEITY dammit!
ref: 2000, Justin Warren, “Re: newbie learns an arcane command”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):
text: For $DEITY's sake, stop `digesting' each other and advocate something useful!
ref: 2000, 2:1, “Re: Malloy digest”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy (Usenet):
text: Thank $DEITIES for Open Source!
ref: 2015 March 30, Daniel James, “Re: [anti-topic] rant, idiots should probably avoid”, in comp.mobile.android (Usenet):
glosses: A generic deity; the listener's or reader's god of choice.
pseudoarchaeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + archaeological.
Senses: examples: text: The Chiemsee caldron was but the gilding on that pseudoarchaeological Nazi farce.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 47:
glosses: Relating to pseudoarchaeology.
remunerational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From remuneration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: By utilitarian, I mean all remunerational, scholarly, political, professional, medicinal, charitable, recreational, diversionary, culinary or domiciliary activities.
ref: 2003, Richard Schain, Radical Metaphysics, page 147:
glosses: Relating to remuneration.
Froehde reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of molybdic acid or sodium molybdate and hot, concentrated sulfuric acid, used to identify opioids and other compounds.
Kovac's reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Invented by the Hungarian-Swiss chemist Ervin Kovats (Kovacs) (1927–2010).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A biochemical reagent consisting of isoamyl alcohol, paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde and concentrated hydrochloric acid.
Liebermann reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Liebermann reagents
Etymology: Named after Hungarian chemist Leo Liebermann (1852-1926).
Senses: glosses: A mixture of potassium nitrite and concentrated sulfuric acid, used to test for cocaine, morphine, PMA and PMMA.
Ehrlich's reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after German scientist Paul Ehrlich.
Senses: glosses: A reagent made from paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde, ethanol and concentrated hydrochloric acid, primarily used to identify indoles.
wikipedia: Paul Ehrlich
Zen gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zen garden
zenick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zenicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zenik.
zenicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zenick
antizionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antizionistic
form: most antizionistic
Senses: examples: text: and of cause not my antizionistic, but also not your extremistic views, because noone of them was not and could not be the issue of consensus of IBAL voiters.
ref: 1997, Paul Costinsky, “Subject changed last time: was: Meretz racism; Shcharansky's position”, in talk.politics.mideast (Usenet):
text: And I guess that the obvious result would be a stiff surge in Antisemitism *as acceptable opinion* in Germany, eypecially of the leftist-"antizionistic" brand (no pun intended).
ref: 2002, Jorg Raddatz, “Re: It was thirty years ago today...”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet):
text: The nationalistic as well as the antizionistic policy of the Arabs has frightened the developed nations for the safety of their economic interests still in existence.
ref: 1974, The Economic Studies, volume 15, page 219:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of anti-Zionistic.
zinc fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zinc finger
accultation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accultations
Etymology: Probably a variant of occultation.
Senses: examples: text: The bright star Aldebaran is to be occulted by the moon on December 20th, at about 5 o'clock pm. Aldebaran is said to be eight hundred and eighty times the mass of the sun, with a diameter of over 8,000,000 miles; a distance so great that a meteor traveling at the rate of thirty miles per second, would require over three days to cross the disk of the star. Yet, notwithstanding the immense volume, the accultation will occur in a moment, so great is the distance of the star from us, and will continue for about one hour and eight minutes.
ref: 1904 December, Melville Dozier, “[Transactions for November. III. Meetings of Sections.] 2. Section of Astronomy”, in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, volume III, number 9, Los Angeles, Calif.: Published for the Association by R. Baumgardt & Co. 231 West First St., Los Angeles, Cal., →OCLC, page 147:
glosses: Alternative spelling of occultation.
Zogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zogist
unbrutalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbrutalizes
form: unbrutalizing
form: unbrutalized
form: unbrutalized
Etymology: From un- + brutalize.
Senses: glosses: To lift from the state of brutes; to enlighten.
unbrutalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbrutalize
unbrutalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbrutalize
Kincaidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kincaidian
form: most Kincaidian
Etymology: From Kincaid + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949), Antiguan-American novelist and essayist.
doxie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doxies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doxy (“sweetheart or mistress”).
doxie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doxies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doxy (“dachshund”).
Netsilingmiut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Netsilik people.
neuroglycopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neuroglycopenic
form: most neuroglycopenic
Etymology: From neuroglycopenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to neuroglycopenia.
Nevadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nevadian
form: most Nevadian
Etymology: From Nevada + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Nevadan
Nevadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nevadians
Etymology: From Nevada + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Nevadan
Nevadians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nevadian
ankle monitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ankle monitor
ankle bracelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ankle bracelet
Nichiren Buddhism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A branch of Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese monk Nichiren, noted for its focus on the Lotus Sutra and an attendant belief that all people have an innate Buddha-nature and are therefore inherently capable of attaining enlightenment in their current form and present lifetime.
niduses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nidus
nidality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nidal + -ity; see nidus.
Senses: glosses: The idea that microscale disease foci are determined by the entire ecosystem.
extranidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + nidal.
Senses: examples: text: The first extranidal task, a foraging trip, is performed after the second or third orientation flight. The young worker may collect various types of loads, such as nest materials, food, and water […]
ref: 1991, Kenneth G. Ross, Robert W. Matthews, The Social Biology of Wasps, page 247:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Outside a nest.
Niantic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Niantics
Etymology: Borrowed from Mohegan-Pequot Nehântick.
Senses: glosses: A member of a tribe of New England Native Americans who lived in Connecticut and Rhode Island during the early colonial period.
Niantic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mohegan-Pequot Nehântick.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place and village in the town of East Lyme, Connecticut.
glosses: A village in Macon County, Illinois.
Niantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Niantic
nathmore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of neverthemore.
Nepalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nepalian
form: most Nepalian
Etymology: From Nepal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Nepali
Nepalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nepalians
Etymology: From Nepal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Nepali
Nepalians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nepalian
ckt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ckt table
glosses: Abbreviation of cocktail.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of circuit.
nephrographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nephrography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nephrography.
nephrogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephrograms
Etymology: From nephro- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: The diagnostic image produced by nephrography.
nephrograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrogram
nephrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nephro- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: diagnostic imaging of the kidneys
Related terms: nephrogram
nephrograph
nephrographic
radiopacification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiopacifications
Etymology: From radio- + opacification.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something radiopaque.
radiopacify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radiopacifies
form: radiopacifying
form: radiopacified
form: radiopacified
Etymology: From radio- + opacify.
Senses: glosses: To make radiopaque.
radiopacifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiopacification
radiopacified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of radiopacify
radiopacifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of radiopacify
radiopacifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radiopacify
opacifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opacify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being made opaque.
neurilemoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurilemomas
form: neurilemomata
Senses: glosses: schwannoma
neurilemomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurilemoma
neurilemomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurilemoma
neuralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past of neuralize
neomodernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + modernism.
Senses: glosses: neomodern attitudes and practices generally
neomodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neomodernists
Etymology: From neomodern + -ist or neo- + modernist.
Senses: glosses: One who holds neomodern attitudes or takes a neomodern approach.
neomodernists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neomodernist
tokenwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From token + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Further, the advocate of the isomorphism theory of reference for mental representation is going to assume that each belief is tokenwise identical to some mental representation.
ref: 2014, Christopher Gauker, Thinking Out Loud, page 125:
glosses: In terms of tokens.
hesitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hesitation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hesitation.
neuroectodermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + ectodermic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the neuroectoderm
neuronophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuron + -o- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: Neuronophagia.
neuronophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuronophages
Etymology: From neuron + -o- + -phage.
Senses: glosses: A phagocyte that destroys nerve cells.
neuronophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuronophage
negrofication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From negro + -fication.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of negroization.
synonyms: word: negroization
Related terms: negrification
negrify
negrofy
negroize
negrofy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːɡɹoʊfaɪ/
Forms: form: negrofies
form: negrofying
form: negrofied
form: negrofied
Etymology: From negro + -ify.
Senses: synonyms: negroize
coordinate_terms: blackify
;
blackwash#Verb
glosses: To make negro; to convert or adapt to the ways or norms of black people.
Related terms: negrification
negrofication
negroization
negrofying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of negrofy
negrofies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of negrofy
negrofied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of negrofy
negro spirituals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negro spiritual
neuroregulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + regulatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or carrying out, neuroregulation.
Niggerville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From nigger + -ville.
Senses: glosses: An area mainly populated by black people.
Related terms: Coontown
Niggertown
Niggertown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪɡətaʊn/
/ˈnɪɡəɹtaʊn/
Etymology: From nigger + town.
Senses: examples: text: Johnny runs out of the theatre and hitchhikes to Ossining niggertown.
ref: 1987 [1984], James Ellroy, Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 191:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Niggertown.
glosses: An area mainly populated by black people.
Related terms: Coontown
Niggerville
nematocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nematocytes
Etymology: From nemato- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: cnidocyte
neopsychedelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neopsychedelic
form: most neopsychedelic
Etymology: From neo- + psychedelic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neopsychedelia.
neopsychedelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + psychedelia.
Senses: examples: text: The Bunnymen's tasteful neopsychedelia gained fans from Courtney Love to Pavement.
ref: 2004, Nathan Brackett, Christian David Hoard, The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, page 271:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Music that emulates or is heavily influenced by the psychedelic music of the 1960s.
neohippies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neohippie
glosses: plural of neohippy
newsmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From news + monger + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: There is such a barrier also which divides honest reporting from cheap newsmongering.
ref: 1970, Robert Moses, Public works: a dangerous trade, page xxiii:
text: In addition, in transforming news into a mass-produced product, the printing press made newsmongering more than just a specialized function — it established it as a business.
ref: 2007, Mitchell Stephens, A History of News, page 90:
glosses: sensationalistic, gossipy journalism
Related terms: newsmonger
horizonwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From horizon + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards the horizon.
horizonward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From horizon + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the horizon.
dayward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From day + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the day.
the fish rots from the head
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Unknown. Found in the Adages of Erasmus as Piscis primum a capite foetet (“The fish stinks first from the head”).
Senses: glosses: Bad leaders harm an organization.
Related terms: shit rolls downhill
opportuning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opportuning
form: most opportuning
Senses: examples: text: The first night the maid manages to fend off the opportuning prince of Gwynedd, though he is handsome and auburn haired. On the second night of feasting he slips powder into her mead and she falls easily into his arms.
ref: 2001, Moyra Caldecott, Three Celtic Tales, page 39:
glosses: opportunistic
Ona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken by the Selk'nam people in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in southernmost South America.
Ona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Onas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Oña.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
o-mikuji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: o-mikuji
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese おみくじ.
Senses: glosses: A random fortune on a strip of paper, available from Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan in exchange for a small offering.
ombudsmanry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ombudsman + -ry.
Senses: glosses: arbitration by an ombudsman
opisthosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opisthosoma + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the opisthosoma.
omophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omo- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food.
Synonyms: omophagic
Oranian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oranian
form: most Oranian
Etymology: From Oran + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Algerian city of Oran.
Oranian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oranians
Etymology: From Oran + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Algerian city of Oran.
Oranians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oranian
orature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹətʃə/
ipa: /ˈɔː-/
ipa: /ˈɔɹət͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈɔɹəˌt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /-ˌt(j)ʊ-/
Forms: form: oratures
Etymology: From Scots oratur, orature, a variant of oratour, oritour, from Middle English oritore, a variant of ōrātōrī, ōrātōrīe (“room or other place for prayer or private study; chapel, church, temple; shrine”), from Old French oratur, orator, oratore, oratori, oratour (modern French oratoire (“oratory; oratorical”)), from Latin ōrātōrium, from ōrātōrius (“oratorical”), from ōrātor (“orator, speaker”) (from ōrō (“to deliver a speech, orate”), from ōs (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).
Senses: examples: text: This bishop was ane wyse and godlie man, and answered the king in this maner, as after follows, saying, “Sir, I beseech your Grace, that ye take a little meat to refresh you, and I will passe to my orature and pray to God for you, and the commonwealth of this realme and cuntrie.[”]
ref: 16th century, Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, edited by John Graham Dalyell, The Cronicles of Scotland, … Published from Several Old Manuscripts, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1814, →OCLC, footnote, page 128:
text: Yet nertheleſſe within mine orature / I ſtode, whan Titan had his bemis bright / Withdrawin doun, and ſcylid undir cure, / And faire Venus the beaute of the night, / Upraiſe, and ſette unto the weſte ful right […]
ref: 1793, [Robert Henryson], “[Troilus & Creseide.] Testament of Faire Creseide.”, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, [...] To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell and Son, […], →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume I (Containing Chaucer, Surrey, Wyatt & Sackville), London: Printed for Iohn & Arthur Arch, […]; and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Co. […], 1795, →OCLC, page 409:
text: The author [of the poem Testament of Faire Creseide, Robert Henryson] has conceived in a very poetical manner his description of the season in which he supposes himself to have written this dolorous tragedy. The sun was in Aries; his setting was ushered in with furious storms of hail; the cold was biting and intense; and the poet sat in a solitary little building which he calls his "orature." [footnote: oratory.]
ref: 1804, William Godwin, “Sequel to Troilus and Creseide by Robert Henryson.—Tragedy of Shakepear on the Subject.”, in Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet: […] In Four Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed by T[homas] Davison, […]; for Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, pages 489–490:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Variant of oratour (“a small room or chapel used for prayer and worship, or for private study; an oratory”).
pipejacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pipe + jacking.
Senses: glosses: The use of hydraulic jacks to push pipes through the ground behind a TBM or shield, commonly used to create tunnels under existing structures such as roads or railways.
pinhoen oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Portuguese pinhão (“pine nut”)
Senses: synonyms: hell oil
glosses: An oil obtained from Jatropha curcas (syn. Curcas multifidus), formerly used as an emetic.
digitigrady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From digitigrade + -y.
Senses: glosses: digitigrade locomotion
plantigrady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plantigrade + -y.
Senses: glosses: plantigrade locomotion
heelstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelstrikes
Etymology: From heel + strike.
Senses: glosses: The action of the heel striking the ground when walking or running.
heelstrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heelstrike
demihypercube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demihypercubes
Etymology: From demi- + hypercube.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of n-polytopes constructed from alternation of an n-hypercube.
Hyponyms: demicube
demitesseract
demihypercubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demihypercube
hosohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hosohedra
Senses: glosses: A tessellation of lunes on a spherical surface, such that each lune shares the same two vertices.
hosohedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hosohedron
bicylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicylinders
Etymology: From bi- + cylinder.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid formed by two intersecting cylinders.
tricylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricylinders
Etymology: From tri- + cylinder.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid formed by three intersecting cylinders.
bicylinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicylinder
tricylinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricylinder
Steinmetz solid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Steinmetz solids
Etymology: Named after Charles Proteus Steinmetz, though these solids were known long before Steinmetz studied them.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The solid body generated by the intersection of two or three cylinders of equal radius at right angles.
Steinmetz solids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Steinmetz solid
bicylindrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + cylindrical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to two cylinders.
tricylindrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + cylindrical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to three cylinders.
prelab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + lab.
Senses: examples: text: prelab questions in a textbook
glosses: Before a laboratory session.
prelab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prelabs
Etymology: From pre- + lab.
Senses: glosses: An activity before a laboratory session.
Coordinate terms: postlab
pipesnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipesnakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pipe snake.
pipesnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipesnake
pipevine swallowtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipevine swallowtails
Etymology: The caterpillars feed on Aristolochia species; see pipevine.
Senses: glosses: Battus philenor, a swallowtail butterfly found in North America and Central America, black with iridescent blue hind wings.
cabin bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛd
Forms: form: cabin beds
Senses: glosses: platform bed
platform bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platform beds
Senses: glosses: A bed whose base consists of a raised, level, usually rectangular horizontal solid frame, often with a section consisting of rows of flexible wooden slats or latticed structure meant to support just a mattress.
Synonyms: cabin bed
cabin beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabin bed
platform beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platform bed
sticky buns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sticky bun
NUSAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Union of South African Students.
obsessionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obsessional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being obsessional.
Kasabian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəˈseɪbi.ən/
Forms: form: Kassabian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Գասապյան (Gasapyan), Կասաբյան (Kasabyan), Կասապյան (Kasapyan), variants of Ղասաբյան (Ġasabyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
oblivescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: forgetting; state of being forgotten
Related terms: oblivescent
obsequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: obsequiousness
Sloane Rangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sloane Ranger
dystrophia myotonica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: myotonic dystrophy
myotonia atrophica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: myotonic dystrophy
Steinert disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: myotonic dystrophy type 1
myrmecomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myrmeco- + -morphy.
Senses: glosses: The mimicry of ants by other organisms.
Derived terms: myrmecomorphic
myrmecomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrmecomorphs
Etymology: From myrmeco- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that mimics an ant.
myrmecomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myrmecomorphy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, myrmecomorphy; ant-mimicking.
myrmecomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrmecomorph
apex court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apex courts
Senses: topics: government
glosses: A supreme court.
apex courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apex court
Anancy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And so ends the story of July’s birth—a story that was more thrilling than anything the rascal spider Anancy could conjure.
ref: 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of Anansi.
nail-tail wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail-tail wallabies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nailtail wallaby.
synonyms: word: nailtail wallaby
castism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of casteism.
casteist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casteists
Etymology: From caste + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If Indians endorse literature that endorses caste, all it means is that such admirers are also unabashed casteists or apologists for caste.
ref: 2015, Kamala Narasimha, Life-Breath and the Truth: The Real and the Delusory:
glosses: One who discriminates against people based on their caste.