cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
economic immigrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of economic immigrant
grasshopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grasshop
sociographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sociographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, sociography.
proso millets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proso millet
broomcorn millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broomcorn millets
Senses: glosses: Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum).
Related terms: broomcorn
common millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common millets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)
synonyms: word: proso millet
extra: Panicum miliaceum
glosses: Synonym of foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
synonyms: word: foxtail millet
extra: Setaria italica
raw_tags: in older literature
glosses: Synonym of pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus (syn. Pennisetum glaucum))
synonyms: word: pearl millet
extra: (Cenchrus americanus (syn. Pennisetum glaucum))
raw_tags: in older literature
hog millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog millets
Senses: glosses: proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)
white millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white millets
Senses: glosses: proso millet, brown millet, Chinese millet, common millet, French millet, little millet, millet panic, panicum millet, red millet, white French millet (Panicum miliaceum)
glosses: Japanese barnyard millet, Japanese millet (Echinochloa esculenta)
glosses: Indian barnyard millet, Siberian millet, sawa millet, white panicum, white-panic (Echinochloa frumentacea)
broomcorn millets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broomcorn millet
common millets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common millet
hog millets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog millet
white millets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white millet
ripped off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rip off
call to arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calls to arms
form: call-to-arms
Senses: examples: text: This is a call to arms, will you stand beside me?
This is our time to fight, no more compromising
ref: 2007, “Halo”, performed by Machine Head:
glosses: An appeal to fight or to engage in conflict.
glosses: An appeal to undertake a particular course of action or to support a specific cause; a call to action.
deactualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deactualizations
form: deactualisation
Etymology: From de- + actualization.
Senses: examples: text: This method of actualizing deactualization of what has passed is the only appropriate type of forgetting in cases of severe trauma.
ref: 2011, Jurgen Straub, Jorn Rusen, Dark Traces of the Past: Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking:
glosses: Making less real or existent.
deactualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deactualization
antisensationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + sensationalism.
Senses: glosses: The opposition to the use of sensational subject matter, style or methods.
oophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oophore
echinofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echinofaunas
Etymology: From echino- + fauna.
Senses: glosses: All the echinoderms of a region
backtranslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backtranslations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of back-translation.
backtranslations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backtranslation
otoacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oto- + acoustics.
Senses: glosses: The science studying otoacoustic sounds.
examples: text: These faint sounds of otoacoustics, produced by the expansion and contractions of hair cells within the outer cochlea, could not be measured until the development of sufficiently sensitive low noise microphones in the late 1970s, so the […]
ref: 2010, David Toop, Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener:
glosses: Otoacoustic sounds and related phenomena, collectively.
otoacoustical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of otoacoustic.
synonyms: word: otoacoustic
otoacoustically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From otoacoustic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Figure 2 gives experimental examples of otoacoustically traced, acoustically induced, cochlear perturbations in a human and a guinea pig ear.
ref: 1988, H. Duifhuis, J. Wiebe Horst, Hero P. Wit, Basic Issues in Hearing: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Hearing, Paterswolde, Netherlands, April 5-9, 1988:
glosses: In an otoacoustic manner.
audiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From audiology + -ic.
Senses: examples: 2005, edited by Joseph B. Nadol, Michael J. McKenna, Chapter 3: Dianne H. Meyer, Edward L. Applebaum, Surgery of the Ear and Temporal Bone
This chapter describes audiologic tests used in the diagnosis and measurement of hearing disorders. The first section reviews basic audiologic procedures, including pure-tone and speech audiometry, acoustic immittance. auditory brainstem response […]
glosses: of, or related to audiology
Derived terms: audiologically
Mogherini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Mogherini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
XAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ICAO code for Midway Connection, operated by Fischer Brothers Aviation of the United States
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Extensible Application Package, a Windows file container format for mobile apps and Silverlight Web apps.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Initialism of Extensible Authoring Publishing, the old name for XMP.
do-si-do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-si-dos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dos a dos.
antipasta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of antipasto.
Eastwoodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Eastwood + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of Clint Eastwood
hieraticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hieratic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: priesthood, its principles and practices
exhausted combination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The combination, in a patent claim, of a novel device with conventional elements in a conventional manner.
Beauregard claim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beauregard claims
Etymology: Named after the legal decision In re Beauregard.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A patent claim to a computer program, written in the form of a claim to an article of manufacture: a computer-readable medium on which are encoded, typically, instructions for carrying out a process.
Beauregard claims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beauregard claim
Jepson claim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jepson claims
Etymology: Named after the legal case Ex parte Jepson, 243 Off. Gaz. Pat. Off. 525 (Ass't Comm'r Pat. 1917).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A patent claim where one or more limitations are specifically identified as a point of novelty, distinguishable over at least the contents of the preamble.
Jepson claims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jepson claim
Markush claim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪm
Forms: form: Markush claims
Etymology: Named after Eugene Markush, the first inventor to use them successfully in a US patent.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A patent claim that identifies multiple functionally equivalent chemical entities allowed in one or more parts of a compound.
Markush claims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Markush claim
reach-through
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Being or relating to a kind of patent claim that attempts to cover basic research or a discovery before it has become a full invention.
jakers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: * minced oath from Jaysus. Compare jeepers.
Senses: examples: text: Be jakers, what are they hushing at—and staring at me as if I wor a Roschicrucian.
ref: 1838, Charles Dance, “The Irish Lion”, in The Acting National Drama, volume 4, Chapman & Hall, page 75:
text: O jakers, Jenny, says Joe, how short your shirt is!
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: "Jakers, but we worked." With a long breath she shut her eyes. "But it was too much for one woman and a half-grown girl […]"
ref: 2013, Nora Roberts, Irish Thoroughbred, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: An expression of surprise or emotion
degunkifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degunkify
degunkifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degunkify
degunkified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degunkify
multihormone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + hormone.
Senses: glosses: Involving more than one hormone.
anthropolater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropolaters
Etymology: From anthropo- + -later.
Senses: glosses: A worshipper of a human or humans.
anthropolatrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthropolatrous
form: most anthropolatrous
Etymology: From anthropolatry + -ous or anthropo- + -latrous.
Senses: glosses: Worshipping a person or people.
anthropolaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropolater
musicographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From musicography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to musicography.
Synonyms: musicographical
musicographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Two of his works have been crowned, his Bibliographie générale des Gaules by the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres, and his musicographical collection, with a translation of the Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle, by the French Academy.
ref: 1901 December 24, Pratt Institue Monthly, volume 10, number 2, page 50:
text: Oransay left behind his private archives, Turk Kiig Belgeligi, which is considered the largest collection of theoretical treatises, manuscripts, musicographical and biographical works in Turkey.
ref: 1988, Turkish Music Quarterly, volume 1, page 25:
text: The Roman world never produced theoreticians as great as those of ancient Greece: the musicographical works of the Latin authors are very heavily indebted to the Greek thinkers, whom they did not, however, always understand.
ref: 2003, Jacques Brunschwig, The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge, page 175:
glosses: Relating to musicography.
Synonyms: musicographic
Beauregard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊɹəɡɑɹd/
Etymology: From French Beauregard.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A placename
Derived terms: Beau
Beauregard claim
Beauregard Parish
Bo
Beauregard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊɹəɡɑɹd/
Forms: form: Beauregards
Etymology: From French Beauregard.
Senses: glosses: A variety of sweet potato.
closety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more closety
form: most closety
Etymology: From closet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Gay Pride, for all its need to show off, did not alienate old-liners of the homophile movement, nor uncommitted young and middle-aged gays, nor even old and/or closety homosexuals.
ref: 1971, Donn Teal, The Gay Militants:
text: The lyrics to the song, despite attempts to support gay liberation […] end up being apologetic and closety.
ref: 1978 April 1, Eric Rogers, “The Macho Madness of the Village People”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
text: I was very closety and not at all comfortable about the direction my sexuality was taking me.
ref: 2014, Audrey Borden, The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous, page 102:
glosses: Inclined to remain in the closet; not open about one's homosexuality.
brallobarbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A barbiturate drug, now disused because of its disagreeable side effects.
HZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HZs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of habitable zone.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of herpes zoster.
HZs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HZ
farmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From farm + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a farm or farms.
farmerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From farmer + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a farmer.
unostentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + ostentation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of ostentation.
outragings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outraging
breedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdi
Forms: form: more breedy
form: most breedy
Etymology: From breed + -y. In some senses, perhaps a clipping of breeding.
Senses: examples: text: All three girls now had gathered about the table to gauge his progress. Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain: A Novel, Atlantic Monthly Press, page 219:
text: [...] he watched Stephen Douglas jump a neat clear on a breedy bay mare who went by the name of China Lily.
ref: 2010, Lyndon Stacey, Cut Throat - Page 147:
glosses: Apt or ready to breed, produce; breeding readily; prolific
Derived terms: breediness
binary-coded decimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary-coded decimal
showfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From show + folk.
Senses: glosses: showpeople
gradualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graduality
grammaticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grammaticises
form: grammaticising
form: grammaticised
form: grammaticised
Etymology: From grammatic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammaticize.
Derived terms: grammaticisation
grammaticised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grammaticise
grammaticises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grammaticise
grammaticising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grammaticise
brandification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brand + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The permeation of commercial brands into other aspects of living.
granddam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granddams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grandam.
granddams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granddam
graciosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English graciousete, partly from Middle French gracieuseté, partly modelled on Latin grātiōsitās, and probably also partly equivalent to gracious + -osity.
Senses: glosses: graciousness, usually in a bad sense, as implying duplicity
grandsir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandsirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grandsire.
grandsirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandsir
graphicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more graphicly
form: most graphicly
Etymology: From graphic + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Want of space forbids our extracting from these accounts, but it is really remarkable how completely he enters into the sort of thing, how clearly he understands the exact position of the Princes, and how graphicly, though in quite plain language, he describes the details of the different scenes.
ref: 1856, Calcutta Review, volume 27, page 288:
glosses: Archaic form of graphically.
greenbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenbugs
form: green bug
Etymology: From green + bug.
Senses: glosses: The wheat aphid (Schizaphis graminum).
greenbugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenbug
greenmailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of greenmail
greenmailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of greenmail
grenadillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grenadilla
gridironed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gridiron
gridironing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gridiron
griffinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From griffin + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The attitudes or behaviour of griffins (new arrivals in British India).
griffinish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more griffinish
form: most griffinish
Etymology: From griffin + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a griffin (new arrival in British India).
grillery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grilleries
Etymology: From grill + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A restaurant serving grilled food.
grilleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grillery
grottily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grottily
form: most grottily
Etymology: From grotty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a grotty manner.
grottiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grotty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being grotty.
groupism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From group + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The habit or policy of associating in groups or cliques.
gritless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grit + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from grit.
Derived terms: gritlessness
ungritty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungritty
form: most ungritty
Etymology: From un- + gritty.
Senses: glosses: Not gritty.
groatsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groatsworths
Etymology: From groat + -s- + -worth.
Senses: glosses: An object or quantity that can be purchased for a groat; hence (figurative) a small amount; a morsel.
groatsworths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groatsworth
guildswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guildswomen
Etymology: From guild + -s- + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female member of a guild.
Related terms: guild
guildsman
guildswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guildswoman
growthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: growthier
form: growthiest
Etymology: From growth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The companies represented are certainly large, even though they could be a bit more growthy.
ref: 2015, Russell Wild, Investing in ETFs For Dummies, page 63:
topics: business
finance
qualifier: animal breeding
glosses: Inclined to growth; growing healthily or rapidly.
Derived terms: growthiness
gyniolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [W]e find in the [Divina] Commedia the image of the Middle Ages, and the sentimental gyniolatry of chivalry, which was at best but skin-deep, is lifted in Beatrice to an ideal and universal plane.
ref: 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Dante”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of gynolatry.
gyrodyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrodynes
Etymology: From gyro- + -dyne.
Senses: glosses: A kind of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system driven by its engine for takeoff and landing, as well as one or more conventional propellers to provide forward thrust during cruising flight
gyrodynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrodyne
gyrostatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gyrostatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, gyrostatics.
tiltrotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiltrotor
proprotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proprotors
Etymology: From prop + rotor.
Senses: glosses: Any of the powered rotors of a tiltrotor aircraft.
proprotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proprotor
tiltwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiltwings
Etymology: From tilt + wing.
Senses: glosses: A kind of aircraft featuring a wing that is horizontal for conventional forward flight and rotates up for vertical takeoff and landing.
tiltwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiltwing
gyromagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyro- + magnetism.
Senses: glosses: The property of being gyromagnetic.
gyttjas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyttja
haematoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haematoblast
hacksawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of hacksaw
hagiographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagiographists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hagiographer.
synonyms: word: hagiographer
hagiographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagiographist
hairgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairgrasses
Etymology: From hair + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of various grasses thought to resemble hair, including those of genera Aira, Deschampsia, Koeleria, and others.
glosses: Any of certain species of sedge in the genus Eleocharis.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Deschampsia antarctica
word: Antarctic hairgrass
taxonomic: Deschampsia elongata
word: slender hairgrass
taxonomic: Deschampsia cespitosa
word: tufted hairgrass
hairgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairgrass
halfpences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfpence
halloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallo
halloes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hallo
handwringings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handwringing
hand-wringings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-wringing
harmonograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmonogram
SSI income
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSI incomes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of SSI.
synonyms: word: SSI
heatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heated + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I said some things I didn't mean in the heatedness of the debate.
glosses: The quality of being heated.
hebephreniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hebephreniacs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hebephrenic.
synonyms: word: hebephrenic
hebephreniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hebephreniac
satyriasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more satyriasic
form: most satyriasic
Etymology: From satyriasis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to satyriasis.
aluminumizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aluminumize
Boschian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Boschian
form: most Boschian
Etymology: From Bosch + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450–1516), Early Netherlandish painter known for his fantastic imagery, detailed landscapes, and illustrations of religious concepts and narratives.
hegemonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hegemonism
hei-tiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæeˈtiki/
ipa: /ˌheɪˈtɪki/
Forms: form: hei-tiki
form: hei-tikis
form: heitiki
form: hei tiki
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori heitiki, from hei (“to tie around the neck; scarf, pendant”) + tiki (“carving of a human figure”).
Senses: examples: text: The ability to work stone and bone was also prized, for the production of essential tools such as adzes and fishhooks, and for the quality of ornaments such as pendants and hei tiki.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 74:
glosses: An ornamental pendant (typically made of pounamu or greenstone) among the Māori, worn around the neck, representing a human figure traditionally connected with Tiki, the first human in Maori mythology.
hei-tikis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hei-tiki
heitiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heitikis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hei-tiki.
heitikis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heitiki
helidromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helidrome
heliopauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliopause
hemiparasitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hemiparasitic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of semiparasitically.
synonyms: word: semiparasitically
semiparasitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semiparasitic + -ally.
Senses: examples: an organism that lives semiparasitically
glosses: In a semiparasitic manner.
hendecasyllabics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æbɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of hendecasyllabic
henpeckery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From henpeck + -ery.
Senses: glosses: henpecking behaviour
hermaphrodisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hermaphrodism
hereticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heretical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being heretical.
hereditarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hereditarianists
Etymology: From hereditarian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to the theory of hereditarianism.
hereditarianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hereditarianist
herbaceously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From herbaceous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a herbaceous manner.
noshings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noshing
heortologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heortologist
herringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herringers
Etymology: From herring + -er.
Senses: glosses: A fisherman who fishes for herring.
glosses: A boat used in fishing for herring.
herringers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herringer
hexametrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /hɛkˈsæmɪtɹaɪz/
Forms: form: hexametrizes
form: hexametrizing
form: hexametrized
form: hexametrized
Etymology: From hexameter + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert to hexameter.
hexametrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hexametrize
hexametrizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hexametrize
hexametrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hexametrize
shareholders' agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shareholders' agreements
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An agreement between the shareholders of a company that supplements the constitutional documents and typically covers such issues as dividend policy, rights of shareholders when one or more of them want to sell their shares, representation in the board etc.
arbannes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbanne
quadrilobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrilobes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quatrefoil
synonyms: word: quatrefoil
bradytelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bradytelic
form: most bradytelic
Etymology: From bradytely + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A distinction is to be made between slow horotelic rates and bradytelic rates, also slow but essentially a different phenomenon, as demonstrated by the marked difference in survivorship pattern, from which the existence of bradytelic rates have been deduced.
ref: 1944, George G. Simpson, Tempo and mode in evolution, Columbia University Press, page 133:
text: This low-rate, nonnhorotelic excess is bradytely and the rates involved in it are bradytelic.
ref: 1953, George G. Simpson, The Major Features of Evolution, Columbia University Press, pages 313–337:
text: Bradytelic — when organisms evolve at exceptionally slow rate. It is believed that this classification applies to plants also. Many annual species like Gilia, Clarkia, and many epiphytic orchids are tachytelic while Magnolia, Cer- cidiphyllum, ...
ref: 1978, Vishwambhar Puri, The so-called primitive angiosperms:
text: For example, bradytelic lines — defined by Simpson (1953:113) as "low rates" or "arrested evolution" — imply, above all, extremely low rates of morphological evolution over a considerable span of time — usually at least 100 million years.
ref: 1979, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History:
text: Slow bradytelic evolvers are famous as living fossils. Good examples are horseshoe crabs, coelacanth fish, crocodiles, opossums, and primitive lampshells (linguloid brachiopods). Simpson pegged these as bradytelic because they belong to ...
ref: 2001, J. William Schopf, Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: Of or relating to bradytely.
Derived terms: hypobradytelic
Related terms: tachytelic
horotelic
bradytely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brady- + -tely.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Unusually slow evolution.
Derived terms: bradytelic
hypobradytely
Related terms: horotely
tachytely
horotely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horo- + -tely.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Evolution of an organism at a normal rate.
Derived terms: horotelic
Related terms: bradytely
tachytely
tachytely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tachy- + -tely.
Senses: examples: text: Thus tachytely is intimately associated with Simpson's original model of quantum evolution — and quantum evolution is usually, if not solely, implicated in the origin of taxa of relatively high categorical rank […]
ref: 1989, Niles Eldredge, Macroevolutionary dynamics: species, niches, and adaptive peaks, page 25:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Unusually rapid evolution.
Derived terms: tachytelic
Related terms: bradytely
horotely
quadrupedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a quadruped; quadrupedalism
crocodile birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocodile bird
Egyptian plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Egyptian plovers
Senses: glosses: A wading bird of the species Pluvianus aegyptius.
Egyptian plovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Egyptian plover
cottontop tamarins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottontop tamarin
sanist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanist
form: most sanist
Etymology: From sane + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Behaviorists, social scientists, and legal scholars must begin to develop research agendas so as to (1) determine and assess the ultimate impact of sanism, (2) better understand how social science data is manipulated to serve sanist ends, […]
ref: 2002, Michael L. Perlin, Mental disability law: civil and criminal, volume 1, page 528:
glosses: Prejudiced in favor of sane people, against people who are mentally ill.
Related terms: sanism
Pacific blackchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pacific blackchin
blacksmelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blacksmelt
Ausonius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Decimus Magnus Ausonius, a 4th-century CE Roman poet.
nonsingleton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + singleton.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not a singleton; containing more than one element.
putinisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: putinization
Etymology: From Putin + -ise + -ation or Putinise + -ation.
Senses: topics: government
politics
antonyms: deputinization
glosses: The taking over of power utilizing allegedly undemocratic means.
Related terms: Putinist
Putinise
Putinite
Putinism
bur oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bur oak
common glowworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common glowworm
bush clovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bush clover
best case scenario
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best case scenarios
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of best-case scenario.
unpompousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unpompous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being pompous.
wreck the hoose juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Buckfast Tonic Wine, a brand of fortified wine.
nepiophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νήπιος (nḗpios, “infant”) and φιλία (philía, “(fraternal) love”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of infantophilia.
synonyms: word: infantophilia
Derived terms: autonepiophilia
infantophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infantophiles
Etymology: From infant + -o- + -phile.
Senses: synonyms: nepiophile
glosses: A pedophile who is sexually attracted to infants, toddlers and other very young children (generally age 0–4).
Related terms: infantophilia
infantophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infantophile
subjectivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjectivations
Etymology: From subjective + -ation; attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: The historic interest of the belief is its subjectivation of the source of necessity and the correlated "loosening," as Hume would say, of states of consciousness.
ref: 1893, Edward Douglas Fawcett, The Riddle of the Universe: Being an Attempt to Determine the First Principles of Metaphysic, Considered as an Inquiry Into the Conditions and Import of Consciousness:
glosses: The process of turning subjective.
subjectify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subjectifies
form: subjectifying
form: subjectified
form: subjectified
Etymology: From subject + -ify. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Leyden was essentially of the old and dying school, a versifier like Pope, but not a poet, a jingler of rhymes and a selecter of appropriate epithets and artistic scenes, but destitute of self-unconsciousness, of natural elegance, of aesthetic culture, of deep feeling, of ability to "subjectify" himself, of the gift, in a word, that raises man nearer to God than any, save inspiration, our race has every enjoyed.
ref: 1858, Calcutta Review, volume 31, page 39:
glosses: To turn into a subject.
eclipsing binaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eclipsing binary
subjectifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subjectify
subjectifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subjectify
subjectified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subjectify
disgustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disgustable
form: most disgustable
Etymology: From disgust + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] levels of disgust sensitivity vary with age, and with the current state of the immune system. Do other factors influence how disgustable one is?
ref: 2013, Valerie Curtis, Don't Look, Don't Touch: The Science Behind Revulsion, page 47:
glosses: Capable of being disgusted.
Derived terms: undisgustable
priviness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From privy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being privy (to something).
Ximena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish or Basque.
nonarthritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + arthritic.
Senses: glosses: Not arthritic.
untrekked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trekked.
Senses: examples: text: We backpacked for ten days in total wilderness in the as yet unscathed and untrekked Canyonlands.
ref: 2008, Laird Christensen, Hal Crimmel, Teaching about Place: Learning from the Land, page 22:
glosses: Not trekked.
British wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: British wines
Senses: glosses: A drink made in Britain by the fermentation of grape (or other fruit) juice or concentrate originating anywhere in the world. It is not legally wine, which must be produced from freshly pressed grapes.
British wines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of British wine
dudelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dudelet
chapette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapettes
form: chappette
Etymology: From chap + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female chap; a woman.
glosses: A cover to protect horse riding boots.
chapettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapette
homo sacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Roman law, a person who was banned and could be killed by anybody, but not sacrificed in a religious ritual.
telltale tit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telltale tits
form: tell-tale-tit
Etymology: From a children's rhyme. Tit refers to the bird.
Senses: glosses: A telltale; one who tattles.
telltale tits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telltale tit
underqualification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + qualification.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being underqualified.
participatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more participatorily
form: most participatorily
Etymology: From participatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a participatory manner.
kiyi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiyis
Etymology: From the pronunciation of the abbreviation KIA (killed in action).
Senses: examples: text: You know that Doc's been treating him for melancholy and depression... ever since he got that kiyi about his son... … Kiyi: K.I.A.: Killed In Action letter from the War Dept.
ref: 1940s, Sam Glanzman, "The Kiyi", in Our Army at War #258, July 1973
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An official letter informing of a person killed in action.
undominant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undominant
form: most undominant
Etymology: From un- + dominant.
Senses: glosses: Not dominant.
Paulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paulites
Etymology: From Paul + -ite.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of Ron Paul.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A member of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit.
barrel of sunshine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrels of sunshine
Senses: glosses: A very cheery and happy person.
bucket of sunshine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckets of sunshine
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A nuclear weapon.
glosses: Synonym of barrel of sunshine.
synonyms: word: barrel of sunshine
ryebuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪ.bʌk/
Forms: form: more ryebuck
form: most ryebuck
form: ribuck
Senses: glosses: Good, excellent
glosses: Genuine
irrelevency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the region of prosperous western Anatolia and the Black Sea coast, where commercial agriculture prevailed,a land reform designed to create small peasant proprietors was an irrelevency.
ref: 2014, Malcolm Yapp, The Near East since the First World War: A History to 1995:
glosses: Misspelling of irrelevancy.
Murdock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Murdocks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Murdaugh
quadrilobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrilobe
subjectivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subjectivation
nobhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nobheads
Etymology: From nob + head.
Senses: examples: text: The nobhead seems to have slipped on 'is food!
ref: 2008, Piers Venmore-Rowland, Latent Hazard, Galleons Green, →ISBN, page 12:
text: “Some alien nobhead curses me and I'm supposed to just lie back and take it? No sir. Kneel before your god, infidel.”
ref: 2013, Peter Ackers, Alien, Inc, Booktango, →ISBN:
text: 'All right, nobhead?' Adam glared at the Beast and his tittering gang of minions.
ref: 2014, D. J. McCune, The Mortal Knife: Death & Co. 2, Hot Key Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of knobhead.
why oh why
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Senses: examples: text: Why, oh why, oh why oh / Why did I ever leave Ohio?
ref: 1953, Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, “Ohio”, performed by Rosalind Russell, Edie Adams, in musical Wonderful Town:
glosses: A strengthened form of why, as used in questions.
examples: text: Are these terrible figures greeted by hysterical "why-oh-why?" letters to the Times demanding a huge shift in resources from road-building to rail-modernisation?
ref: 1993, New Statesman Society:
text: Indeed, a right-wing paper is hardly ready for press without a why-oh-why article on children's failures to identify verbs and nouns.
ref: 2005, Fred Sedgwick, How to Teach with a Hangover: A Practical Guide to Overcoming Classroom Crises, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 94:
text: To mark the introduction of civil partnership in Britain, the Daily Telegraph duly featured a bitter polemic from 'Why-oh-Why' columnist Ferdinand Mount.
ref: 2006, Ben Summerskill, The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 7:
text: David Starkey and John Casey, a donnish don from Cambridge who cranks out 'why, oh why?' hand-wringing pieces for the Daily Mail, are modern equivalents.
ref: 2009, Andrew Marr, My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 27:
text: ... the British health system, once the best in the world, was disintegrating in a welter of underfunding, staff shortages and collapsing morale. A hand-wringing why-oh-why piece appeared in the Daily Mail, an internal investigation was ordered.
ref: 2012, Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Random House, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: A statement of exasperation associated with reactionary viewpoints.
polyanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -anthropy.
Senses: glosses: polygyny and polyandry
cariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Ramond found granites in the high chain of the Pyrenees, corroded both externally and internally: not detached blocks alone, he informs us, but whole regions are attacked with this cariousness, the cause of which is still unknown.
ref: 1811, J. F. Berger, Transactions of the Geological Society, "Observations on the Physical Structure of Devonshire and Cornwall," vol. 1, p. 126, note
glosses: the state or quality of being carious, an advanced state of corrosion.
short-period comet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-period comets
form: short period comet
Senses: examples: text: […] comets. Depending on their orbital period, comets are classified as short or long period comets. Short period comets have periods less than 200 years. For example, Halley's Comet is a short period comet, because it has a period of 76 years.
ref: 2014, Panos Photinos, Visual Astronomy: A Guide to Understanding the Night Sky, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN:
text: Some bodies in the Kuiper Belt will slowly evolve inwards, to Centaur orbits (as discussed in Section 7.3), from where they might evolve into short-period comet orbits under the influence of Jupiter (mainly) and Saturn. Thus orbital evolution […]
ref: 2004, Neil McBride with Iain Gilmour, An Introduction to the Solar System, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 273:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any periodic comet with an orbital period of less than 200 years.
short-period comets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short-period comet
shilling mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shilling marks
Etymology: A development of the long s ⟨ſ⟩, an abbreviation of Latin solidus, used to mark the amount of shillings in a sum. Formerly also the slash in all its uses, but this extended sense was taken on by the term solidus.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩ in its use to mark the amount of shillings in a sum or (obsolete) in all its uses.
synonyms: word: slash in its use to mark the amount of shillings in a sum or
extra: m or (obsolete) in all its uses
Synonyms: slash
shilling marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shilling mark
front slashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front slash
slash mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slash marks
form: slash-mark
Etymology: Used to distinguish the typographic sense of slash from its other uses.
Senses: examples: text: Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
ref: 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
synonyms: word: slash
extra: /
Synonyms: slash
slash marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slash mark
slash-mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slash-marks
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Alternative form of slash mark.
slash-marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slash-mark
calla lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calla lily
scratch comma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratch commas
form: scratch-comma
Etymology: From its appearance.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩ in its former use as a form of comma.
synonyms: word: slash in its former use as a form of comma
extra: comma
Synonyms: slash
scratch commas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scratch comma
scratch-comma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratch-commas
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Alternative form of scratch comma.
scratch-commas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scratch-comma
polycladose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + cladose.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having many branches