cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
soldier's woundwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soldier's woundworts
Senses: examples: text: King of common herbs or rare / Not a mole is here to scare / Sheepsorrel of barren soil / And Soldier's Woundwort — harsh Milfoil
ref: 1908, “Verse from Heine”, in Littel's Living Age, page 322:
text: It’s known by several common names which hint to several attributes, such as common yarrow, nosebleed plant, soldier’s woundwort, and thousand-leaf, just to name a few.
ref: 2017 June 22, “Plant of the month: Achillea millefolium”, in Santa Clara Valley Water News:
glosses: Achillea millefolium or common yarrow, a flowering plant widespread in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, formerly and sometimes used to stanch the flow of blood.
nosebleed plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosebleed plants
Senses: examples: text: She reached in her bag and drew out a leaf from the nosebleed plant she had collected.
ref: 2016, Jenna Kernan, The Warrior's Captive Bride:
text: It’s known by several common names which hint to several attributes, such as common yarrow, nosebleed plant, soldier’s woundwort, and thousand-leaf, just to name a few.
ref: 2017 June 22, “Plant of the month: Achillea millefolium”, in Santa Clara Valley Water News:
glosses: Achillea millefolium or common yarrow, a flowering plant widespread in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, formerly and sometimes used to stanch the flow of blood.
Related terms: Achillea millefolium
cupboard faith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Insincere religious faith pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange.
Related terms: cupboard love
cup gall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cup galls
Senses: glosses: A cup-shaped gall in oak leaves.
cup galls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup gall
phylocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phylo- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Centred upon tribes or races of people, or upon species of organisms
pinostilbene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The stilbenoid 3-[(E)-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethenyl]-5-methoxyphenol present in the bark of Pinus sibirica
pinosylvins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinosylvin
piptocarphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piptocarphins
Etymology: From translingual Piptocarpha + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of sesquiterpenes present in Piptocarpha
piptocarphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piptocarphin
cast in someone's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts in someone's teeth
form: casting in someone's teeth
form: cast in someone's teeth
form: cast in someone's teeth
Senses: synonyms: throw something in someone's teeth
glosses: To accuse someone of something, or reproach them for it.
synonyms: throw something in someone's teeth
glosses: To fling some remark at someone, such as a taunt or a challenge.
Related terms: in one's face
piscidic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The phenolic dicarboxylic acid (2S,3R)-2,3-dihydroxy-2-[(4-hydroxyphenyl)methyl]butanedioic acid present in various fruits
Related terms: Piscidia
pleotelson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleotelsons
Senses: glosses: A fusion of the last abdominal segment of an arthropod and its telson
pleotelsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleotelson
drunkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drunkies
Etymology: From drunk + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A drunkard.
drunky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drunkies
Etymology: From drunk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Inside were stretchers and appliances for removing prisoners, and, that the alarm might not be fruitless, the mayor directed the police to pick up a "drunky" whom we had passed on the way, amusing a group of children […]
ref: 1882, W. H. Russell, Hesperothen: Notes from the West, volume 1:
text: For so long as I can remember, my old man, he was a drunky and a bully. So many times I have seen him beat my ma without mercy, with a buckle belt or his fists.
ref: 2001, Fritz Pointer, A Passion to Liberate: La Guma's South Africa, Images of District Six:
glosses: Alternative form of drunkie (“a drunkard”).
drunkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drunky
glosses: plural of drunkie
pleurotolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular cytolysin
casting net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casting nets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cast net.
synonyms: word: cast net
casting nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casting net
pneumotoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumotoxicants
Senses: glosses: Any pneumotoxic material
pneumotoxicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumotoxicant
poserolaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of posterolaterally.
cross-cast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-casts
form: cross-casting
form: cross-cast
form: cross-cast
form: cross-casted
form: cross-casted
Etymology: From cross- + cast.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To add up the separately computed totals from each column to ensure that they agree with the overall total.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To cast an actor of the opposite gender to play a part.
cross-casts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross-cast
cross-casting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-cast
postinsemination
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + insemination.
Senses: glosses: Following insemination
bucanier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucaniers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of buccaneer.
bucaniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucanier
preacetylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preacetylations
Etymology: From pre- + acetylation.
Senses: glosses: acetylation prior to some other operation
salt of vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: zinc sulphate
curse tablet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curse tablets
Senses: examples: text: A simple curse tablet might be inscribed with the words “As this piece of lead grows cold, so will John Smith.”
ref: 2010, Allan Zola Kronzek, Elizabeth Kronzek, The Sorcerer's Companion, 3rd edition, page 52:
text: Curse tablets persisted in their original Greek homeland, and spread out from it across much of the empire.
ref: 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 65:
glosses: A stone tablet inscribed with a curse, as used in parts of the ancient Mediterranean to target someone with maleficent magic.
curse tablets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curse tablet
lantern jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lantern jaws
Senses: glosses: A long, thin jaw.
Related terms: lantern-jawed
prognathism
lantern jaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lantern jaw
spring-heeled Jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring-heeled Jacks
Senses: examples: text: And he rattled, thumped, brandished his thunderbox, yelled, shouted, raved, roared, stamped, and danced corrobory like any black fellow; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox, and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks and sallaballas […]
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
text: Servant-girls who have just received their year's wages at Christmas will frequently profess themselves afraid to go home after dusk, because “there are so many o' these Spring-heeled Jacks about.”
ref: 1887, English Dialect Society, Publications, volume 21, number 53, page 367:
text: London and Edinburgh had their spring-heeled jacks long before they appeared in Lasswade in Johnny's time. As long ago as 1837 a real, flesh-and-blood ghost in the shape of a spring-heeled jack was caught by a London policeman […]
ref: 1953, John B. Cairns, Bright and early: a bookseller's memories of Edinburgh and Lasswade:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A terrifying man of bizarre appearance and able to make extraordinary leaps, the subject of English folklore of the Victorian era.
spring-heeled Jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring-heeled Jack
quadjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadjets
Etymology: From quad- + jet.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A jet aircraft powered by four engines.
Coordinate terms: monojet
trijet
twinjet
spring ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring ligaments
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The inferior calcaneoscaphoid ligament of the sole of the foot.
spring ligaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring ligament
precocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chromene, 7-methoxy-2,2-dimethyl-3-chromene, that inhibits juvenile hormone biosynthesis in some insects
semicolon butterfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicolon butterflies
Senses: synonyms: question mark
glosses: A kind of butterfly, Polygonia interrogationis, with a silver mark on its underside resembling a semicolon.
semicolon butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicolon butterfly
prometaphasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to prometaphase
glosses: That promotes metaphase
criticoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criticoid
protarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + tarsal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the protarsus
criticoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criticoids
Senses: examples: text: These criticoids are obtained in consequence of the analogy between the linear transformation of a quotic in one variable and the factorial transformation of a quotoid in one dependent and one independent variable.
ref: 1871, The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An invariant function of a differential equation
Derived terms: cubicriticoid
quadricriticoid
protosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to protosomes
glosses: Misspelling of proteasomal.
pseudophylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudophyllines
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the subfamily Pseudophyllinae
pseudophyllines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudophylline
ADAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADATs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Alesis Digital Audio Tape: a kind of magnetic tape for storing soundtracks.
ADATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ADAT
pseudoresidual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoresiduals
Etymology: From pseudo- + residual.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The difference between the observed value and the median
pseudoresiduals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoresidual
pyrimidodiazepine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrimidodiazepines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterocycle formed by fusion of a pyrimidone and a diazepine
pyrimidodiazepines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrimidodiazepine
pyroxidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pyridoxine.
quasipalindromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + palindromic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Approximately palindromic (containing inverted repeats)
raw_tags: of a DNA sequence
Related terms: quasipalindrome
storm cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm cones
Senses: glosses: A cone of canvas stretched on an elevated frame as a storm signal.
storm cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm cone
storm drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm drums
Senses: glosses: A canvas cylinder extended on a hoop, hoisted in conjunction with the storm cone as a storm signal.
storm drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm drum
quinazolinamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinazolinamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aromatic amine derived from a quinazoline
Pararctalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The northern temperate realm of the waters of the globe.
Coordinate terms: Antarctalia
Arctalia
Notalia
Tropicalia
Derived terms: Pararctalian
Pararctalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Pararctalia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Pararctalia.
Tropicalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tropicalia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Tropicalia.
Antarctalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Antarctalia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Antarctalia.
Arctalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Arctalia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Arctalia.
pseudofatalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The other side by contrast relies on a pseudofatalistic chain of supposedly centuries-old interethnic clashes in order to “explain” the Yugoslav crisis and the break-up of Bosnia.
ref: 1995, Catherine Samary, “Preface”, in Peter Drucker, transl., Yugoslavia Dismembered, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Rare spelling of pseudo-fatalistic.
pseudomodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomodels
Etymology: From pseudo- + model.
Senses: examples: text: One of the major problems in applying bootstrap to model building procedures consists in choosing an appropriate pseudomodel.
ref: 1992, Raoul LePage, Lynne Billard ·, Exploring the Limits of Bootstrap, page 386:
text: A pseudomodel M is called a model of S if all theorems provable in S are true in M.
ref: 1979, Andrzej Mostowski, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Foundational Studies: Selected Works, volume 2, page 352:
text: So we lean toward one side in this discussion: toward rejecting pseudomodels that claim to be universal, and rejecting an ethnic fatalism that would also imply a historical fatalism.
ref: 1995, Catherine Samary, “Introduction”, in Peter Drucker, transl., Yugoslavia Dismembered, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: An incomplete or inaccurate version of a model.
radioadaptative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + adaptative.
Senses: glosses: relating to radioadaptation
reflocculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflocculations
Etymology: From re- + flocculation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent flocculation, especially following deflocculation
regioversatility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From regio- + versatility.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ability of a drug or other compound to modify a macromolecule at multiple positions
reparixin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemokine receptor inhibitor (2R)-2-[4-(2-methylpropyl)phenyl]-N-methylsulfonylpropanamide
replicably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a replicable manner
resiglitazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rosiglitazone.
resporulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resporulates
form: resporulating
form: resporulated
form: resporulated
Etymology: From re- + sporulate.
Senses: glosses: To sporulate again
Related terms: resporulation
resporulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resporulate
retromutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retromutation
rhizavidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An avidin dimer present in Rhizobium bacteria
rhythmometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of rhythms (typically biological or medical)
Related terms: rhythmometric
rhythmometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to rhythmometry
riproximin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that inactivates certain ribosomes and may have anticancer uses
roburoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to taxa like Acer quercifolium and the roburoid oaks, the fossil record from Russia and Ukraine coincides with that of the western area: no records older than Sarmatian (Armavir, Sarmatian Eastern Paratethys stage).
ref: 2013, Michael C. Boulter, Cenozoic Plants and Climates of the Arctic, page 352:
glosses: Characteristic of oaks of the species Quercus robur.
unwarely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: from Middle English unwarly, from Old English unwærlīce; equivalent to unware + -ly.
Senses: glosses: unawares; unforeseen
Turkey hone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkey hones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Turkey stone (“novaculite”).
synonyms: word: Turkey stone
extra: novaculite
Turkey hones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkey hone
Cookstown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community in the town of Tallaght, South Dublin, Ireland.
glosses: A town and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, named after Dr. Alan Cooke.
glosses: A neighbourhood in the city of Innisfil, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: If one makes poor decisions, then one should expect negative consequences.
Related terms: fuck around and find out
make one's bed and lie in it
you reap what you sow
rimulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rimulose
form: most rimulose
Senses: glosses: minutely rimose; having small cracks or crevices
serpentine verse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpentine verses
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A form of verse constructed so as to begin and end with the same word.
serpentine verses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serpentine verse
Ruskie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ruskies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Russki.
Fancy Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Church People
Gay Dutch
glosses: The Pennsylvania German people who do not observe requirements to wear plain clothes; often those not belonging to Anabaptist groups.
Gay Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fancy Dutch.
synonyms: word: Fancy Dutch
Church People
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fancy Dutch.
synonyms: word: Fancy Dutch
Plain Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Sect People
glosses: The Pennsylvania German people who observe religious strictures to only wear plain clothes; often those belonging to Anabaptist groups.
cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described in 2004.
Senses: examples: text: 2019, Catherine C. Crone, Jeanne M. Lackamp, Andrew R. Alkis, 19: Gastrointestinal Disorders, James L. Levenson (editor), Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 3rd Edition, American Psychiatric Association Publishing, page 535,
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome is sometimes mistaken for idiopathic cyclic vomiting syndrome, delaying appropriate treatment.
text: Comment: cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) is indicated by recurrent episodes of refractory nausea and vomiting with vague diffuse abdominal pain (accompanied by compulsive, frequent, hot baths or showers for relief of abdominal pain; these behaviors are thought to be learned through their cyclical periods of emesis) in the context of chronic cannabis use (at least weekly for >2 years).
ref: 2019, Mari J. Wirfs, The APRN and PA's Complete Guide to Prescribing Drug Therapy 2020, Springer, page 73:
text: 2023, Ivan A. Ross, Plant-Based Therapeutics, Volume 1: Cannabis sativa, Springer Publishing, page 343,
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome can be challenging to differentiate from hyperemesis gravidarum.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: CHS
glosses: A syndrome sometimes resulting from cannabis use, characterized by recurrent nausea, hyperemesis, and abdominal pain.
Related terms: english: a characteristic symptom
translation: a characteristic symptom
word: scromiting
sumpman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumpmen
Etymology: From sump + -man.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A pitman's assistant, responsible for the machinery in the engine shaft.
sumpmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumpman
cocommentator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocommentators
Etymology: From co- + commentator.
Senses: examples: text: “I've never seen anything like it,” said Ove Bengtson, Engstrand's expert cocommentator. The players looked confused. What was the rule? Should they change sides?
ref: 2018, Mats Holm, Ulf Roosvald, Björn Borg and the Super-Swedes:
glosses: A joint commentator; one who provides commentary together with another.
cocommentators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocommentator
sacromatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sarcomatoid.
salmonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salmonines
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the subfamily Salmoninae
salmonines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salmonine
cyberconsumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberconsumers
Etymology: From cyber- + consumer.
Senses: glosses: A consumer who acquires goods or services via the Internet.
cyberconsumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmpʃən
Etymology: From cyber- + consumption.
Senses: glosses: The acquisition of goods or services via the Internet.
cyberconsumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberconsumer
sambaqui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sambaquis
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese sambaqui.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The remains of a midden containing mostly seashells
sambaquis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sambaqui
scarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarines
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the subfamily Scarinae
scarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarine
sceloporine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sceloporines
Senses: glosses: Any lizard of the genus Sceloporus
sceloporines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sceloporine
schizophrenomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That mimics schizophrenia
schizophrenomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizophrenomimetics
Senses: glosses: A drug that induces effects like those of schizophrenia
schizophrenomimetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schizophrenomimetic
bushellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushelling
scleractinan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scleractinian.
scleractinan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scleractinans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scleractinian.
bushelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busheling
scleractinans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scleractinan
semestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semestral.
serpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of serpin.
serpines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serpine
china blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uː
Forms: form: china blues
Senses: glosses: A pale blue-grey colour.
china blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uː
Senses: glosses: Of a pale blue-grey colour.
Related terms: Chinese blue
china blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of china blue
Danbury shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named from cases in Danbury, Connecticut, which had a large hat-making industry that used mercury.
Senses: glosses: The condition of mercury poisoning.
wikipedia: Danbury, Connecticut
Closs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Danbolt-Closs syndrome
sonating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sonate
sonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonations
Senses: glosses: The making of a sound (especially by a bird)
sonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonation
scullduggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scullduggeries
Senses: examples: text: […] I discovered this particular one to be merely a shallow recess in the limestone, nowhere reëntrant to a distance of over forty feet, of the general proportions of a tin oven, and transacting an immense business of mystery (or what they call, as far west as this, "Shenandigan" and "Scullduggery") with those who gape at it from below, on the capital of a dark, overgrown portal, as big as the cave itself.
ref: 1870, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, “The Dead Sea.—The Physical Geography and History of Its Basin.”, in The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle, New York, N.Y.: Published by Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC, page 385:
text: Reverting to the Lübeck plan, one need perhaps shed no tears for the KGB, and the GRU (the Soviet CIA), deprived of their preferred choice as a scullduggery base of Kiel, where the Federal German navy has an installation.
ref: 1985, Fairplay, volume 293, London: IHS Markit, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 151, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of skulduggery.
sophoropentaose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pentasaccharide present in sophorolipid
sculduggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sculduggeries
Senses: examples: text: Mr. BURNS wanted to hear from the gentleman from Logan on his amendment, to see whether there was any "sculduggery" about it.
ref: 1873 June 3, Barnabas Burns; J. G. Adel, official reporter, “Fourteenth Day”, in Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Third Constitutional Convention of Ohio, Assembled in the City of Columbus, on Tuesday, May 13, 1873, volume I, Cleveland, Oh.: W. S. Robison & Co., printers to the Convention, […], →OCLC, page 163, column 2:
text: And you, O student, might do worse than to investigate the assorted sculduggeries of this obscure trio: […]
ref: 1941, Norman Cousins, editor, Saturday Review, volume 24, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Alternative spelling of skulduggery.
sophorotetraose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetrasaccharide present in sophorolipid
Mashonalander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mashonalanders
Etymology: From Mashonaland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Mashonaland.
staurosporines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staurosporine
Mashonalanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mashonalander
subcarapacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + carapacial.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a carapace
subdiffusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + diffusional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to subdiffusion
subserosally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sub- + serosally.
Senses: glosses: In a subserosal manner
suffusate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has suffused
suffusate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suffusates
Senses: glosses: Material that has suffused
sulfachloropyridazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sulphonamide 4-amino-N-(6-chloro-3-pyridazinyl)benzenesulfonamide
sulphidogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The generation of sulphides, typically to remove metals from wastewater
ice feather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice feathers
Senses: glosses: An unusual feather-like form assumed by ice at the summits of mountains.
ice feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice feather
supercontacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercontacters
form: supercontactor
Etymology: From super- + contact + -er.
Senses: topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A gregarious person who has many contacts.
Coordinate terms: supershedder
superspreader
Related terms: supercontacting
supercontacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercontacter
suprathreshhold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of suprathreshold.
Speke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /spiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: speak
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Speak, itself a variant of Speake, all related to the placename below.
* The placename is either from Old English spec (“brushwood”) or the obsolete noun speight (“woodpecker”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4383).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Speke's antelope
Speke's gazelle
Related terms: Brampford Speke
bosslady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossladies
Etymology: From boss + lady.
Senses: examples: text: And the bosslady said well the pencil was too thick to hold and he said size doesn't count it's service...
ref: 1975, Moving Out, volumes 5-8, page 27:
text: Hey, bosslady, we have a live one in Booth 213.
ref: 1976, John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact, page 168:
text: Ain't no way, bosslady, to keep them younguns there from drinking bad water.
ref: 2011, Janice Daugharty, Heir to the Everlasting, page 123:
glosses: Female equivalent of bossman.
Synonyms: bosswoman
AEO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AEOs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of attachment of earnings order.
topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: Initialism of authorized economic operator.
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: Initialism of alternative episcopal oversight.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Abbreviation for “answer engine optimization”: a form of SEO that allows AI tools to answer users’ specific questions, instead of simply giving links to websites.
bossladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bosslady
sculduggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sculduggery
scullduggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scullduggery
technoeconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: techno-economic
Etymology: From techno- + economic.
Senses: glosses: technical and economic
telomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of teleomorph.
tetrafluorophenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric tetrafluoro derivatives of a phenyl radical
Related terms: tetrafluorophenol
tetranucleotidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + nucleotidic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a tetranucleotide
tetraplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛtɹələt/
/ˈtɛtɹəlɪt/
Forms: form: tetraplets
Etymology: Blend of tetra- (“four”) + couplet (“set of two”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quartet: A group of four things.
synonyms: word: quartet
extra: A group of four things
glosses: Any member of such a group.
tetraplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraplet
tettigonioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tettigonioids
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the superfamily Tettigonioidea
tettigonioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tettigonioid
thingodontan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingodontans
Senses: glosses: Any extinct marsupial of the informal order Thingodonta, more formally known as †Yalkaparidontia
thingodontans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thingodontan
tigerinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tigerinins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteins, on the skin of the frog Hoplobatrachus rugulosus, that releases insulin from suitable cells
tigerinins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tigerinin
todolactol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: todolactols
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of polyphenols present in many seeds
todolactols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of todolactol
tonometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a tonometric manner
tracheosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracheospheres
Etymology: From tracheo- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: A spherical group of basal stem cells present in the trachea
tracheospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheosphere
tracheostomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tracheostoma + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Relating to, or as a result of a tracheostomy; relating to a tracheostoma
transalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
-əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From trans- + alveolar.
Senses: glosses: Across or through an alveolus
transconjugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transconjugations
Etymology: From trans- + conjugation.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process, or the result of transconjugating
translaryngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-ɪnʒiəl
-ɪndʒəl
-iːəl
Etymology: From trans- + laryngeal.
Senses: glosses: Across or through the larynx
transphenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of transsphenoidal.
draw it mild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws it mild
form: drawing it mild
form: drew it mild
form: drawn it mild
Etymology: Opposite of come it strong, in allusion to public houses where customers may desire the beer to be "drawn mild".
Senses: glosses: To state a thing without exaggeration.
draw it fine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws it fine
form: drawing it fine
form: drew it fine
form: drawn it fine
Senses: glosses: To be too precise.
black in the face
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the face purple through strangulation, passion, or effort.
Related terms: until one is blue in the face
sons of God
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son of God
repercept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repercepts
Senses: glosses: A represented percept.
repercepts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repercept
floatboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floatboards
Etymology: From float + board.
Senses: glosses: A board on the rim of an undershot water wheel on which the water acts and moves the wheel.
floatboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floatboard
instant-runoff voting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of alternative or preferential voting system in which voters rank candidates, and votes for the worst performing candidate are re-allocated to the voters' next-highest choices until one candidate has reached the threshold for election.
tremulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: trembling, quivering
Related terms: tremulate
tribocorrosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tribo- + corrosion.
Senses: glosses: corrosion caused by (or made worse by) wear between surfaces
tricosanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricosanoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of tricosanoic acid
tricosanoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricosanoate
triturative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That triturates
Related terms: trituration
quander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quanders
form: quandering
form: quandered
form: quandered
Senses: examples: text: While thus I quandered in despair, imagine, please, me shocks — A gang o' naked savages came troopin' down the rocks ;.
ref: 1906, The Reader - Volume 7, page 230:
text: There's a difference in the die-breaks, Or change made in the die, That leads the numismatic mind To quander and to pry.
ref: 1933, “A Coin”, in The Numismatist, volume 46, page 799:
text: The picture continued to press upon young Alford's mind, and with the peculiar vigor of youth, he had stopped to quander over the outward aspect of the situation.
ref: 2007, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro, →ISBN:
text: Unusual short hop, should have been at least four hours or more, but I didn't have time to quander over it, because Lt. Hanse and I get the call to take her back up.
ref: 2008, William Schumann, The Big Spud: USS Idaho in WWII, →ISBN, page 321:
text: What the hell did I get myself into? he quandered, peering down at the long, slender legs as they drew up closer to his thigh . . . the dark, kneehigh skirt climbing slowly above the gartered silk stockings.
ref: 2013, Michael O'Shea, Blood on the Risers, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: To ponder or wonder about.
quanders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quander
quandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quander
pseud.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseuds.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pseudonym.
quandered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quander
gender minority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender minorities
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the process of coming out as a gender minority may or may not be related to sexual orientation, and the concept may have vastly different meanings and applications in the gender minority (GM) community.
ref: 2016, Matthew D. Skinta, Aisling Curtin, Mindfulness and Acceptance for Gender and Sexual Minorities, New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN:
text: There are different types of surgeries that may be specific to the surgeon performing the surgery or related to the size of a gender minority person's chest. A double incision procedure with nipple grafts is the most common procedure ...
ref: 2017, K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob C. Warren, K. Nikki Barefoot, LGBT Health: Meeting the Needs of Gender and Sexual Minorities, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 258:
glosses: A person who is not a binary cisgender person (i.e. a transgender or non-binary person), or these people collectively. (Also used attributively.)
examples: text: Anecdotal evidence suggests that this discomfort occurs when children are a gender minority as well. For example, one colleague reported that when her son was given a choice of making pancakes or building a birdhouse as a group activity, he said explicitly, "I really want to make pancakes, but there are no other boys making pancakes, and I don't want to be the only boy."
ref: 2008, Sheri R. Levy, Melanie Killen, Intergroup Attitudes and Relations in Childhood Through Adulthood, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gender, minority.
Synonyms: word: GM
word: TGNB
Coordinate terms: alt: SM
word: sexual minority
english: sexual and gender minority
translation: sexual and gender minority
word: SGM
Related terms: non-cisgender
band chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: band chiefs
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The chief or headman of a band society.
glosses: The chief elected officer of an Indian band in Canada. The chairperson of the band council for an Indian band. Roughly equivalent to a mayor in non-indigenous local government.
coulda fooled me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you could have fooled me.
oberek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obereks
Etymology: From Polish oberek.
Senses: glosses: A lively Polish dance with many lifts and jumps.
reponder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reponders
form: repondering
form: repondered
form: repondered
Etymology: From re- + ponder.
Senses: examples: text: In a far more dramatic and meaningful dream sequence (the didactic tone of the first dream sequence has been earlier commented upon), he sees again, now strangely indifferent if not actively hostile, the many lovely girls who have departed from the world, and he reponders their fate and the fate of those girls still alive in the light of the verses and emblems which he had found merely puzzling on his first visit to the region.
ref: 1968, Chih-tsing Hsia, The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical Introduction, page 287:
text: What had twice been pondered then put aside is now repondered and acted upon.
ref: 1981, Joseph Mileck, Hermann Hesse: Life and Art, →ISBN, page 300:
text: The lucidity of hindsight, on the other hand, tells him, when he reponders all of these events some time later, that it was while he was sitting alone in the Topples Auditorium that the details surrounding his brother's disappearance first floated irretrievably into unreality.
ref: 1989, Brad Leithauser, Hence: a novel, page 243:
text: First he pondered and repondered his poem for sixteen years after the first edition; never a day passed in this whole time that he was not about this, both with pen and with reflection.
ref: 2015, Giraldi Cinthio, Giraldi Cinthio on Romances, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: To ponder again.
reponders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reponder
repondering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reponder
repondered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reponder
refantasize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refantasizes
form: refantasizing
form: refantasized
form: refantasized
Etymology: From re- + fantasize.
Senses: examples: text: "I'll have to refantasize where you got all this expertise," she said. "I had you pegged as the Romeo of some plush, private school."
ref: 1986, Emilie Richards, Something So Right, →ISBN, page 231:
text: Each photograph shows how modern-day Americans remember, memorialize, reinterpret, refantasize, and relive great historical events and idolize larger-than-life figures of American history.
ref: 2015, Julia Marshall, David M. Donahue, Art-Centered Learning Across the Curriculum, →ISBN, page 94:
text: More than in any visible, explicit sense, the loss of these various places forced Chaudhuri to refabricate them, refantasize them, in their absence.
ref: 2015, Ian Almond, The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Islam, Empire and Loss, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: To fantasize again or anew.
refantasizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refantasize
refantasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refantasize
refantasized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refantasize
repatrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repatrols
form: repatrolling
form: repatrolled
form: repatrolled
Etymology: From re- + patrol.
Senses: examples: text: There is, however, some solid ground in this area that need not presently be repatrolled.
ref: 1976, Criminal Law Series - Volume 8, Issues 37-41:
text: Three visits were made and, in view of Isabi's low population (P.D.S. 1979 - 68 Residents) it was decided not to repatrol yet again.
ref: 1982, G. J. Slaughter, Field Co-ordinator's Report, page 151:
text: There were no fixed targets, no objectives, no highways to take—it was patrol and repatrol, search and destroy.
ref: 2013, Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, →ISBN:
glosses: To patrol again.
repatrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repatrols
Etymology: From re- + patrol.
Senses: examples: text: The United States Coast Guard also has furnished the committee with records of depth soundings taken in the North Atlantic in the course of its repatrol work which have their application to the study of the seismic area of the Grand Banks.
ref: 1929, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Report of the National Academy of Sciences, page 88:
text: ...medical scheme, travel on appointment and repatrol.
ref: 1969, The Sierra Leone Gazette - Volume 100, page 196:
text: ... thought it smarter to move them down there and make productive use of that 8-days' transit time that they were spending on a repatrol.
ref: 1984, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, Drug Law Enforcement Strategy (DEA, Coast Guard, Customs):
glosses: A patrol of an area that was already previously patrolled.
repatrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repatrol
repatrols
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repatrol
repatrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repatrol
repatrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repatrol
green mamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green mambas
Etymology: Compound of green + mamba, from Zulu imamba.
Senses: glosses: Dendroaspis angusticeps, a venomous snake native to Africa, the common mamba, eastern green mamba.
glosses: Dendroaspis viridis, a venomous snake native to western Africa; the western green mamba.