cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
submonomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submonomers
Etymology: From sub- + monomer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any small molecule used in the stepwise synthesis of a polymer (especially a polypeptide)
Related terms: submonomeric
sympercent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympercents
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A symmetric percentage difference (used to simplify the presentation of logarithmically transformed data)
sympercents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympercent
vitelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vitello- + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the yolk of an egg.
facial yoga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You can do the facial yoga exercises even when stuck in traffic or waiting in a queue (although the Facial Lift Yoga Exercise may cause a few surprised glances from people nearby)
ref: 2013, Julie Gabriel, Holistic Beauty from the Inside Out: Your Complete Guide to Natural Health, Nutrition, and Skincare:
glosses: Sets of exercises designed to work the facial muscles to maintain suppleness and youthfulness.
Canna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the Small Isles, Inner Hebrides, Highland council area, Scotland, joined to the island of Sanday by a bridge.
glosses: A town and comune in Cosenza province, Calabria, Italy.
glosses: A small town in the Shire of Morawa, Mid West region, Western Australia.
unpilloried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pilloried.
Senses: glosses: Not pilloried.
uncastigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + castigate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not castigated.
Calabrese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkæləˌbɹiːz/
/ˌkæləˈbɹeɪzeɪ/
Etymology: From the Italian calabrese (“Calabrian”).
Senses: glosses: Calabrian (of, from, or pertaining to Calabria)
Calabrese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæləˌbɹiːz/
/ˌkæləˈbɹeɪzeɪ/
Forms: form: Calabresi
Etymology: From the Italian calabrese (“Calabrian”).
Senses: related: word: calabrese
glosses: A kind of sprouting broccoli.
glosses: The Calabrese horse.
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
glosses: Nero d’Avola or Sangiovese, varieties of wine grapes.
Calabrese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæləˌbɹiːz/
/ˌkæləˈbɹeɪzeɪ/
Etymology: From the Italian calabrese (“Calabrian”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
likingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From liking + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of liking something.
lickerishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lickerish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being lickerish.
loppiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loppy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being loppy.
liverishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From liverish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being liverish.
lovesomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From late Middle English lovesumnes, equivalent to lovesome + -ness; compare Old English lufsumness.
Senses: examples: text: Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: Quality of being lovesome.
lubberliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lubberly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being lubberly.
lurkingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lurking + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of lurking.
linkedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From linked + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being linked.
lesserness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lesser + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being lesser.
leisureness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leisure + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But pale Malts will be fit for Use at a Week's End, because the Leisureness of their Drying endows them with a Softness from the Time they are taken off the Kiln to the Time they are brewed […]
ref: 1759, The London and Country Brewer, 7th edition:
text: How else explain the seeming slowness with which we were falling — the seeming leisureness with which the wall drifted up past us?
ref: 2018, Abraham Merritt, The Collected SF & Fantasy Works:
glosses: The quality of being leisurely.
Synonyms: leisure
leisureliness
leewardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leeward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being leeward.
leftwardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leftward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being leftward.
latterness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From latter + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being latter.
laconicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laconical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being laconical.
Synonyms: conciseness
laconicism
terseness
succinctness
manysidedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manysided + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of many-sidedness.
Maoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Maori.
Synonyms: Maoritanga
measurableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From measurable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being measurable.
menstruousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From menstruous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being menstruous.
mincedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From minced + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being minced.
mincingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mincing + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: niminy-piminy
glosses: The quality of being mincing; affected daintiness.
middlingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From middling + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being middling.
Related terms: mediocrity
middleness
midness
miscellaneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From miscellaneous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But this miscellaneousness comes to an end in one subject, the appalling subject of the Speaker's own death and resurrection.
ref: 1876, Joseph Parker, The Priesthood of Christ: a Re-statement of Vital Truth, page 54:
text: There are essentially two different attitudes toward the Outer and Miscellaneous chapters of the Zhuangzi. The first emphasizes their "disorder" and "miscellaneousness" and fails to take into account a certain sort of consistency among them.
ref: 1994, Xiaogan Liu, Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters, page 86:
glosses: The quality of being miscellaneous.
mirthsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mirthsome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being mirthsome.
mirroredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mirrored + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being mirrored.
mirthsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mirthsome
form: most mirthsome
Etymology: From mirth + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The violets blow, and mirthsome birds / With wild song fill the air
ref: 1823 March, Nalla, “Riley Grave-Stones”, in The London Magazine, London: Taylor & Hessey, Eyam Banks, page 284:
text: Every Russian noble, […] may appear as gay as a released bird, because the Muscovite improvidence of character allows him to feel mirthsome with the prospect of immediate enjoyment before him, and the certainty of the evil day of reckoning being a year or two removed; but when he is returning, there flashes across his mind the dread of all that may have been reported upon his conversation and conduct.
ref: 1845, Charles Frederick Henningsen, “The Secret Police”, in Revelations of Russia, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, page 205:
text: The "Worship of Venus," in the bright and varied scale of its tones, and the brilliant play of its lights, is a conception of a gleeful and mirthsome stamp.
ref: 1877, Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, chapter 6, in Titian: His Life and Times, volume 1, London: John Murray, page 210:
text: They bid me laugh, and with mirthsome wiles / And the laughing jests of the free and gay, / They seek to call to my face the smiles / That mock the joy that is far away.
ref: 1889 May 17, Burdette, The Harvard Lampoon, volume 17, number 7, Cambridge, page 110:
synonyms: word: cheerful
word: exuberant
word: gleeful
word: lively
word: berserk
word: blissed out
word: blithe
word: buoyant
word: blithesome
word: bonnie
word: bright
word: cheerful
word: cheerly
word: cheery
word: chuffed
word: cock-a-hoop
word: content
word: contented
word: convivial
word: delighted
word: ebullient
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: excited
word: exhilarated
word: exuberant
word: exultant
word: fat and happy
word: gassed
word: gay
word: gayful
word: glad
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: gleesome
word: happy
word: hearty
word: high on life
word: jovial
word: joyful
word: merry
word: merry as a cricket
word: merry as a grig
word: mirthsome
word: on cloud nine
word: overjoyed
word: overjoyous
word: over the moon
word: pacific
word: perky
word: placated
word: pleased
word: satisfied
word: thrilled
word: tickled pink
word: triumphant
word: vivacious
word: wealful
word: happy as a clam
word: happy as a clam at high water
word: happy as a lark
word: happy as a pig in mud
word: happy as a pig in shit
word: happy as a prince
word: happy as Larry
word: happy as the day is long
glosses: Full of mirth.
Derived terms: mirthsomeness
middleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middlenesses
Etymology: From middle + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The poem is heavily concerned with a middleness, and with an attempt to understand this middleness in relation to beginnings.
ref: 1997, Marion Montgomery, Romantic Confusions of the Good: Beauty as Truth, Truth Beauty, page 74:
text: Even during the era of Middle Western ascendancy early in the century, the qualities that distinguished the Middle West were associated with middleness.
ref: 2001, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Susan E. Gray, The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History, page 186:
glosses: The quality of being middle, or in the middle.
Related terms: mediocrity
middlingness
midness
manness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From man + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being a man.
womanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From woman + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Ah luv thee, thy legs, an' th' shape on thee, an' th' womanness on thee. Ah luv th' womanness on thee.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
text: I don't want people to look at us like one is more "male" than the other. I want to announce my womonness as well as my mate's womonness.
ref: 1984 December 29, Mykki Balduff, “Prisons and Roles”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 6:
glosses: The quality of being a woman.
minimalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From minimal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being minimal.
minimalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimality
minxishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From minxish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being minxish.
malcontentedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From malcontented + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being malcontented.
misbecomingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From misbecoming + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being misbecoming.
middle-classness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From middle-class + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And where Blur and Suede and Pulp felt art schooled and frustrated with their own middle class–ness, Oasis were at the other end of the British spectrum, a working-class rock band chancing their luck with nothing to lose.
ref: 2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue:
glosses: The quality of being middle-class.
momentaneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From momentaneous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being momentaneous.
mobbishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mobbish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being mobbish.
modestness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From modest + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being modest.
modifiableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From modifiable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being modifiable.
modifiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From modifiable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that can be modified.
moodishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moodish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being moodish.
mercuriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mercurious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In memory of which service he had given him, for the crest of his arms, a chapeau with wings, to denote the Mercuriousness of this messenger.
ref: 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England:
text: Qianlong was showing a mercuriousness that few had seen before: even officials close to the throne were puzzled, and trod cautiously.
ref: 2009, Mark C. Elliott, Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World, page 44:
glosses: The quality of being mercurious.
moistish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moistish
form: most moistish
Etymology: From moist + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat moist.
misdirectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From misdirected + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being misdirected.
Mormoness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mormonesses
Etymology: From Mormon + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Zilpha, being just Hiram's age, as was woman's right, blossomed first, and became a demure, marriageable little Mormoness in long dresses (or, as a perverse Gentile friend used to call Mormon little girls, a "Mormoniculess," Mormon little boys being similarly "Mormonicles")," while Hiram was blushing at the shortness of a roundabout, which he felt still more ashamed to exchange for that uneasily self-conscious garment, a coat with tails.
ref: 1871, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Heart of the Continent:
glosses: A female Mormon.
Mormonesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mormoness
monstruousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monstruous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being monstruous.
mooniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moony + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being moony.
moralness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moral + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being moral.
multiformness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multiform + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being multiform.
mostness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From most + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being most.
motleyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From motley + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being motley.
Moorishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Moorish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Moorish.
murmurousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From murmurous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being murmurous.
merchantableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From merchantable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being merchantable.
muddliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muddly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being muddly.
muddledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muddled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being muddled.
misshapenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From misshapen + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being misshapen.
mistrustfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mistrustful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being mistrustful.
mysticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mystic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being mystic.
Synonyms: mysticity
muttoniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muttony + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being muttony.
multisidedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multisided + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being multisided.
muddly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌd.l̩.i/
Forms: form: more muddly
form: most muddly
Etymology: From muddle + -y.
Senses: glosses: muddled; confused; unclear
Derived terms: muddliness
meaningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meaning + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Quality of having a meaning; meaningfulness.
Related terms: well-meaningness
face fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face fucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of facefuck.
face fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: face fucks
form: face fucking
form: face fucked
form: face fucked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of facefuck.
manlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of a man.
musicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From music + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being music.
face fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of face fuck
musicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From musical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being musical.
face fucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of face fuck
Related terms: face-fucked
maternalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maternal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being maternal.
paternalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paternal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being paternal.
marbleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From marble + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being marble
preachifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preachify
nonsensitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonsensitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being nonsensitive.
noncontagiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noncontagious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being noncontagious.
nonadaptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonadaptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being nonadaptive.
noncommutativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noncommutative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being noncommutative.
Norseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Norse + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Norse.
norsesquiterpenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norsesquiterpenoid
Norselander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norselanders
Etymology: From Norseland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Norseland.
Norselanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norselander
Chinese cinnamon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An evergreen tree (Cinnamomum cassia) originating in southern China, and widely cultivated for its aromatic bark, which is used to produce cinnamon.
glosses: The bark of this tree when used as spice, and when distinguishing it from "true cinnamon", the bark of the C. verum.
Synonyms: sense: tree
word: Chinese cassia
sense: tree
word: cassia
Chinese cassia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chinese cinnamon.
synonyms: word: Chinese cinnamon
Indonesian cinnamon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tree of the species Cinnamomum burmannii.
glosses: Its bark, when distinguished from true cinnamon.
Synonyms: cassia
Indonesian cassia
Indonesian cassia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Indonesian cinnamon.
synonyms: word: Indonesian cinnamon
Vietnamese cinnamon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Saigon cinnamon.
synonyms: word: Saigon cinnamon
Vietnamese cassia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Vietnamese cinnamon.
synonyms: word: Vietnamese cinnamon
Saigon cinnamon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: cassia
Vietnamese cassia
Vietnamese cinnamon
glosses: A tree of the species Cinnamomum loureiroi.
glosses: Its bark, when distinguished from true cinnamon (C. verum).
Fermi levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fermi level
hoverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hover + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being traversed by hovercraft.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of interaction by hovering.
a cold day in July
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From July being on average the hottest month in the Northern Hemisphere.
Senses: examples: text: It'll be a cold day in July when that happens.
glosses: The time of occurrence of an event that will never happen.
Synonyms: a cold day in Hell
when Hell freezes over
when pigs fly
Related terms: don't hold your breath
carthoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carthouns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kartaune, from Italian quartana (“25-pounder cannon”).
Senses: examples: text: There too went Master Wolff Danner […] and by his side, Böheim, the master of the gun-founders who made their burnished, beautifully ornamented gun-barrels, cannon, primitive guns and carthouns famous through the whole world.
ref: 1960, Gottfried Keller, translated by AM Holt, Green Henry, Calder Publications, published 2010, page 437:
glosses: A type of early cannon.
body linen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The young lady remarked pleasantly that she had brought over her own, and her best, body-linen, and had left the older stuff on the other side, so as not to make too shabby a show in the alien territory.
ref: 1960, Gottfried Keller, translated by AM Holt, Green Henry, Calder Publications, published 2010, page 382:
glosses: Linen used for clothing, especially underwear or nightwear.
scotodinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκοτοδινία (skotodinía), from σκότος (skótos, “darkness”) + δίνη (dínē, “whirling”). Equivalent to scoto- + dino- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of vertigo involving sudden dizziness, headache, and blurred vision
scabini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scabinus
Reseda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /rəˈsiːdə/
Senses: examples: text: It's a long day, livin' in Reseda / There's a freeway, runnin' through the yard
ref: 1989, “Free Fallin'”, in Full Moon Fever, performed by Tom Petty:
text: You are going to Reseda to make love to a model from Ohio / Whose real name you don’t know
ref: 1994, “Screenwriter's Blues”, in Ruby Vroom, performed by Soul Coughing:
glosses: A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.
S-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more S-shaped
form: most S-shaped
Senses: examples: an S-shaped hook
synonyms: sigmoid
sigmoidal
glosses: shaped like the letter S
Related terms: A-shaped - B-shaped - C-shaped - D-shaped - E-shaped - F-shaped - G-shaped - H-shaped - I-shaped - J-shaped - K-shaped - L-shaped - M-shaped - N-shaped - O-shaped - P-shaped - Q-shaped - R-shaped - S-shaped - T-shaped - U-shaped - V-shaped - W-shaped - X-shaped - Y-shaped - Z-shaped
torture chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torture chambers
Senses: glosses: A room equipped for carrying out torture.
bay laurel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bay laurels
Etymology: From bay ("berry") + laurel.
Senses: glosses: Laurus nobilis (true laurel)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Umbellularia californica
word: California bay laurel
taxonomic: Umbellularia californica
word: Oregon bay laurel
Related terms: bay leaf
Grecian laurel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grecian laurels
Etymology: From Grecian ("Greek") + laurel, after the importance of the species in Greek culture.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of true laurel, to distinguish it from related species.
synonyms: word: true laurel
word: to distinguish it from related species
sweet bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sweet + bay ("berry").
Senses: glosses: Synonym of true laurel, to distinguish it from related species.
synonyms: word: true laurel
word: to distinguish it from related species
true laurel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true laurels
Senses: glosses: Laurus nobilis (bay laurel), to distinguish it from other species called laurels.
benefactives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benefactive
biconditionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biconditional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a biconditional manner.
telespectator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telespectators
Etymology: From tele- + spectator.
Senses: examples: text: All these things that affect the psychology of the telespectator, must also affect the dramaturgical techniques of those who create the telecast.
ref: 1952, Films in Review, volume 3, page 505:
text: The "telespectator" never receives the kinds of sutured transmissino conventionalized by Hollywood film, as well as expected of telecommunications by Freud.
ref: 1994, Richard Burt, The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere:
text: The telespectator has no material object to watch or possess, only the experience of watching fleeting images on the screen.
ref: 2009, Paul Connerton, How Modernity Forgets, page 83:
glosses: One who witnesses an event on television.
telespectators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telespectator
undergeneralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undergeneralizations
Etymology: From under- + generalization.
Senses: glosses: The act, or an instance, of undergeneralizing.
undergeneralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undergeneralization
undergeneralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undergeneralizes
form: undergeneralizing
form: undergeneralized
form: undergeneralized
Etymology: From under- + generalize.
Senses: glosses: To apply something with insufficient generality.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To use a word or phrase to refer to a smaller set of entities than it properly describes.
undergeneralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undergeneralize
undergeneralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undergeneralize
undergeneralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undergeneralize
shitty-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shitty-ass
form: most shitty-ass
Etymology: From shitty + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: I was working a shitty-ass job in fast food.
text: That's some shitty-ass poetry!
glosses: Very bad; worthless.
uncertifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + certifiable.
Senses: glosses: Not certifiable.
certifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From certify + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being certifiable.
anticentromere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-centromere
Etymology: From anti- + centromere.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That bind/react with antigens associated with the centromere
antimitochondrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-mitochondrial
Etymology: From anti- + mitochondrial.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That bind/react with antigens associated with mitochondria
cephalogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalograms
Etymology: From cephalo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
Related terms: cephalograph
cephalography
cephalometric
cephalometrics
cephalograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalogram
cephalometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cephalometrics
cephalometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cephalo- + metrics.
Senses: synonyms: cephalometry
glosses: The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
Related terms: word: cephalogram
word: cephalometric
geoepidemiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + epidemiology.
Senses: glosses: global-scale epidemiology
Related terms: geoepidemiological
menoxenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmiːnəˈziːniə/
ipa: /ˌmɛnəˈziːniə/
Etymology: From meno- (“month, menstrual”) + Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “strange”) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abnormal menstruation.
lymphocytotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lymphocytotoxic
form: most lymphocytotoxic
Etymology: From lympho- + cytotoxic.
Senses: glosses: Toxic to lymphocytes.
Derived terms: lymphocytotoxicity
microlymphocytotoxic
mill stream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mill streams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of millstream.
lymphocytotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lympho- + cytotoxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being lymphocytotoxic.
Derived terms: microlymphocytotoxicity
microlymphocytotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + lymphocytotoxicity.
Senses: glosses: A serologic test or assay for certain antibodies.
Related terms: microlymphocytotoxic
myovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus (bacteriophage) of the family Myoviridae
Related terms: myoviral
myoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myovirus
orthopantomogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopantomograms
Senses: glosses: A panoramic radiograph of the whole mouth, including the jaws and teeth.
Related terms: orthopantomograph
orthopantomography
Rhianna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant spelling of Rihanna, from Arabic رَيْحَانَة (rayḥāna, singulative of رَيْحَان (rayḥān, “basil; myrtle”)). This spelling possibly influenced by unrelated Welsh names such as Rhiannon.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic, variant of Rihanna.
antinativist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinativist
form: most antinativist
Etymology: From anti- + nativist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing nativism.
antinativist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinativists
Etymology: From anti- + nativist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: One who opposes nativism.
antinativists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinativist
omnifariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omnifarious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being omnifarious.
offishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From offish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being offish.
Related terms: stand-offishness
opinionativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opinionative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being opinionative.
obligedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obliged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being obliged.
obsceneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obscene + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being obscene.
outsiderishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outsiderish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being outsiderish.
outsiderliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outsiderly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being outsiderly.
outrightness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outright + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being outright.
overactiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overactive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being overactive.
outcastness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From outcast + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: You can hardly walk along the streets of a great city without seeing swarms rushing eagerly in chase of sin, although shame and scorn and outcastness and destitution and disease and death are glaring with fixt eyes upon them.
ref: 1846, Julius Charles Hare, The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons:
text: Hence if we are to look to the roots of the outcastness of the Irish it is necessary to consider other things beside Catholicism.
ref: 1992, Patrick O'Sullivan, The Irish world wide: history, heritage, identity, page 66:
text: Paradoxically counterbalancing this psychologically defined feature is the second, evreiskaja otver-zhennost’ (Jewish outcastness), which pushes the Jew toward sociological disintegration.
ref: 2008, Vivian Liska, Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide, page 198:
glosses: The state or quality of being outcast.
overbearingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overbearing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being overbearing.
overflowingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overflowing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being overflowing; exuberance.
overstrictness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overstrict + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being overstrict.
oysterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oysterish
form: most oysterish
Etymology: From oyster + -ish.
Senses: glosses: oyster-like, especially in colour
Derived terms: oysterishness
oysterishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oysterish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being oysterish.
overweightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overweighted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being overweighted.
oversweetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oversweet + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being oversweet.
overrichness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overrich + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being overrich.
overloudness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overloud + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being overloud.
otioseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From otiose + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being otiose.
otherliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From otherly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being otherly.
overdressiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overdressy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overdressy.
opposedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opposed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being opposed.
observantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From observant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being observant.
obedientness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obedient + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being obedient.
overassess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overassesses
form: overassessing
form: overassessed
form: overassessed
Etymology: From over- + assess.
Senses: glosses: To assess too often.
glosses: To give too large an assessment.
Related terms: overassessment
overassessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overassess
overassessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overassess
overassesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overassess
underlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underleg
qualminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From qualmy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being qualmy.
quizziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quizzy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being quizzy.
quotativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quotative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being quotative.
quadrateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quadrate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being quadrate.
vulgarness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulgarnesses
Etymology: From vulgar + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being vulgar.
vitativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vitative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being vitative.
vitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitative
form: most vitative
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to vitality, love of life, and resistance to death and disease.
venalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From venal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being venal.
velarness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From velar + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being velar.
velvetiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From velvety + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being velvety.
vehementness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vehement + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being vehement.
variedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From varied + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being varied.
allenylphosphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allenylphosphonates
Etymology: From allenyl + phosphonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any phosphonate that also has an allene group
mattifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mattify
mattified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mattify
electric eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric eyes
Senses: examples: text: A man and woman sat before an electric eye in a London laboratory tonight and a group of people in a darkened room in this village outside New York watched them turn their heads move from side to side.
ref: 1928 February 10, “Span Atlantic by Electric Eye”, in Spokesman-Review, Spokane, USA, retrieved 14 Nov 2013, page 1:
text: Another frequently cited possibility is a system of electric eyes reading beams of light that are aimed along tracks so that any displacement of the rails would disrupt the beam.
ref: 1996 November 29, Richard Perez-Pena, “Rail Accident Stirs Debate About Sensors”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Nov 2013:
text: The doors have electric eyes: "If you're carrying large specimens or carts full of plants, the electric eye beam is broken and the door opens up."
ref: 2005 May 10, Gary Shapiro, “Botanical Garden Will Unveil Eight New Greenhouses”, in New York Sun, retrieved 14 Nov 2013:
glosses: A sensor which measures the intensity of light, often used to start and stop electrical equipment (motorized doors, etc.).
Synonyms: photocell
photoelectric cell
people's house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people's houses
Senses: glosses: A leisure and cultural centre built with the intention of making art and cultural appreciation available to the working classes.
Related terms: people's palace
palace of culture
phono-semantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phonosemantic.
pictophonetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From picture and phonetic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phonosemantic.
synonyms: word: phonosemantic
startline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: startlines
Etymology: From start + line.
Senses: glosses: A line marking the start of something, such as a race.
glosses: A deadline by which a project, etc. must be started.
startlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of startline
Ezhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌˈd͡ʒoʊ/
enpr: ǔʹjōʹ
Forms: form: E'zhou
form: O-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄂州 (Èzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Tienlin said to me that in the district of Yochow and Ochow [Wuchang], the poor farmers as a rule raise only two sons and one daughter, and kill babies at birth beyond this number.
ref: [1947 [1083], Su Tung-po, “Letter to Chu Kang-shu, Chief Magistrate of Ochow”, in Lin Yutang, Rhoda Hoff, editors, China: Adventures in Eyewitness History, Henry Z. Walck, published 1965, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:
text: The neighboring city of Huanggang, which has a population of roughly 6 million, said it would join Wuhan’s quarantine from midnight on Thursday. The nearby city of Ezhou, home to 1 million people, has also shut down its railway stations.
ref: 2020 January 23, Adam Taylor, “Wuhan: The Chinese mega-city at the center of coronavirus outbreak”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2020, Asia:
text: The building, on the outskirts of Ezhou, a city on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, is hailed as the world’s biggest free-standing pig farm, with a second, identical hog high-rise opening soon.
ref: 2023 February 8, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Claire Fu, “China’s Bid to Improve Food Production? Giant Towers of Pigs.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2023:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Hubei, China.
Synonyms: word: Wu-chang
Related terms: E
an ancient kingdom in the area
Wu-chang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After preaching on the street, and learning from the Custom House officers particulars of the troubles, we engaged a small boat to take us to Sha-shih, and thence hired another to Wu-chang.
ref: 1877, C. H. Judd, “Journeyings in Hu-nan, Kwei-chau, and Si-chuen”, in China's Millions, London: Morgan and Scott, page 130:
text: I am sure that if we will but wait, the Lord will provide. . . . We go shortly, that is, Mr. Judd and myself, to see if we can procure headquarters at Wu-chang from which to open up Western China, as the Lord may enable us.
ref: 1921, Frederick Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 256:
text: A stream called the Han River separates Hankow from Hanyang, and these two towns, together with Wu-chang across the Yangtse, are known as the Wu-Han cities. The steel mills, which are often referred to as the "Hankow mills," are at Hanyang.
ref: 1926, Lucian Swift Kirtland, Finding the Worth While in the Orient, New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, page 192:
glosses: Alternative form of Wuchang.
anterolateral ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anterolateral ligaments
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ligament located on the outside, front portion of the knee.
Synonyms: sense: knee ligament
word: A.L.L.
caudoventral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From caudo- + ventral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the underside of an animal, near the tail
Derived terms: caudoventrally
caudoventrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From caudoventral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a caudoventral direction
dorsofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌntəl
Etymology: From dorso- + frontal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the back of an animal, near the head
ecomorphotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecomorphotypes
Etymology: From eco- + morphotype.
Senses: glosses: Any morphological modification caused by, or related to, specific ecological conditions
ecomorphotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecomorphotype
Elunchun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oroqen.
Elunchun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elunchun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oroqen.
Derived terms: elunchunorum
epigrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigraphers
Etymology: From epigraph + -er.
Senses: glosses: epigraphist
epigraphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epigrapher
hadrosaurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadrosaurines
Senses: glosses: hadrosaurid
hadrosaurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hadrosaurine
plewd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plewds
Etymology: Coined by Charles Rice.
Senses: examples: text: You may be able to draw like Michelangelo, but you'll never make a cartoonist until you're up on such matters as Squeans, Plewds, and Briffits. […] Plewds are the little drops of perspiration that shoot off a character's brow to indicate physical exertion, embarrassment, fear or practically anything else.
ref: 1946 March 24, Charles D. Rice, “Squeans, Plewds & Briffits or, How to be a Cartoonist”, in Los Angeles Times, volume 65, United Newspapers Magazine Corporation, page 22:
text: Now add just *one* little plewd coming off the head and, poof, that's one nervous little guy
ref: 2003 September 11, <jgmcle...@aol.com>, “where did &*#$ come from?”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet):
text: The first thing usually taught in bloodstain pattern workshops is that the plewd is not an accurate depiction of blood behavior
ref: 2007, Anita Y. Wonder, Bloodstain pattern evidence: objective approaches and case applications, page 326:
glosses: A stylized sweat drop drawn on the air around a character's head, as if it were coming out of the character, as used in cartoons, especially comic strips.
Related terms: emanata
iguanodontians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iguanodontian
lambeosaurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambeosaurine
UNCLOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: International law recognizes similar avigation rights over the global commons. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)⁸ provides that all states—and, by extension, their nationals—may enjoy the freedom of the high seas, which includes the right to fly aircraft over the high seas and the exclusive economic zones.⁹
ref: 2014, John G Sprankling, “Rights in Airspace and Outer Space”, in The International Law of Property, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 173:
qualifier: UN
glosses: Acronym of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
metotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
-ɒtɪk
Etymology: From met- + otic.
Senses: glosses: Next to the otic capsule.
Negeb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Negev.