cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shmate
anterotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From antero- + temporal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: At the base of the temples
antiflaviviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + flaviviral.
Senses: glosses: That counters flaviviruses
antimicrotubules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimicrotubule
arterialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arterialisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arterialization.
two upon ten
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: two on ten
Etymology: From the idea of keeping one's two eyes fixed on the shoplifter's ten fingers.
Senses: glosses: A coded warning among shopkeepers that a potential shoplifter must be watched.
astrotactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrotactins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein associated with the migration and adhesion of neurons
autoactivator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoactivators
Etymology: From auto- + activator.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme involved in autoactivation
autoactivators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoactivator
autoapomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoapomorphies
Etymology: From auto- + apomorphy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autapomorphy.
respiratorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respiratoria
Senses: glosses: A gill-like organ used by certain insects to draw water from the air.
autohybridize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autohybridizes
form: autohybridizing
form: autohybridized
form: autohybridized
Etymology: From auto- + hybridize.
Senses: glosses: To cause, or to undergo autohybridization
autohybridized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autohybridize
autohybridized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by autohybridization
beclin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beclins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteins associated with autophagy and apoptosis
bronchoarterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broncho- + arterial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a bronchus and an associated artery
faynshmeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faynshmekers
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פֿײַנשמעקער (faynshmeker). Compare German Feinschmecker (“gourmet”).
Senses: glosses: A fussy or picky person; a connoisseur.
raw_tags: in Jewish communities
faynshmekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faynshmeker
capsidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsidations
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of capsids
Related terms: encapsidation
catecholinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of catecholaminergic.
chaetonotidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaetonotidans
Senses: glosses: Any gastrotrich of the order Chaetonotida
chaetonotidans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaetonotidan
chemoeffector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoeffectors
Etymology: From chemo- + effector.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any structure that is responsible for chemotaxis
chemoeffectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoeffector
combinatorialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: combinatorializes
form: combinatorializing
form: combinatorialized
form: combinatorialized
Etymology: From combinatorial + -ize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To generate combinatorial sequences
landlordish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more landlordish
form: most landlordish
Etymology: From landlord + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Suggesting or befitting a landlord.
combinatorialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of combinatorialize
combinatorializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of combinatorialize
combinatorializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of combinatorialize
ala spuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alae spuriae
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: bastard wing
alae spuriae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ala spuria
deligotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deligotypes
Etymology: From Latin dēligere (“to choose, select, pick out”) + -o- (“connecting vowel”) + type.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of polymorphism in the repeat units of DNA
Related terms: deligotyping
spoligotype
deligotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deligotype
deligotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dēligere (“to choose, select, pick out”) + -o- (“connecting vowel”) + typing.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The identification and characterisation of deligotypes
destigmatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destigmatisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of destigmatization.
Related terms: destigmatise
gyromagnetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: gyromagnetism
detritivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From detritivore + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The action of a detritivore
paleonutritional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleonutrition.
paleonutritionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleonutritionists
Etymology: From paleo- + nutrition + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies paleonutrition.
paleonutritionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleonutritionist
diheteroglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diheteroglycans
Etymology: From di- + heteroglycan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heteroglycan composed of two different monosaccharides
paleonutrition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + nutrition.
Senses: glosses: The study of dietary nutrition in ancient or primitive peoples.
diheteroglycans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diheteroglycan
endocytotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From endocytotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of endocytosis
epithelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of epithelial.
synonyms: word: epithelial
esophagogastroduodenostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From esophago- + gastroduodenostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical creation of a new connection between the esophagus, stomach and the duodenum
estivator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estivators
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any animal that estivates
estivators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estivator
euhermaphrodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euhermaphrodites
Etymology: From eu- + hermaphrodite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any animal that starts life as either male or female but becomes a hermaphrodite when mature
Related terms: euhermaphroditic
fenfluramines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenfluramine
filterplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filterplates
Etymology: From filter + plate.
Senses: glosses: An array of filters, each of which typically uses flat filter papers
filterplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filterplate
foskolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of forskolin.
reermouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reermice
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reremouse.
reermice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reermouse
euhermaphrodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euhermaphrodite
hemidemosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hemidesmosome.
filthless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From filth + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free of filth; clean; pure.
hepatocarcinogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepato- + carcinogenicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hepatocarcinogenic
heterocyclase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterocyclases
Etymology: From hetero- + cyclase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the formation of a heterocycle
heterocyclases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterocyclase
hexadecanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadecanoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a hexadecanoic acid
Synonyms: palmitate
hexadecanoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexadecanoate
suffulted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin suffulcire, suffultum (“to support”).
Senses: glosses: Gradually blending into another colour.
intrapulpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + pulpal.
Senses: glosses: Within the pulp of a tooth
hypersporulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + sporulating.
Senses: glosses: Undergoing hypersporulation
hypersporulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + sporulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Excessive sporulation, typically in response to an antibiotic
hypersporulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersporulators
Etymology: From hyper- + sporulator.
Senses: glosses: A bacterium that undergoes hypersporulation
hypersporulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypersporulator
hypersulfated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + sulfated.
Senses: glosses: Excessively sulfated
hypnozoiticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypnozoitocidal.
Derived terms: antihypnozoiticidal
immunocytostaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of immunohistostaining.
synonyms: word: immunohistostaining
presumability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presumabilities
Etymology: From presume + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: 1907-1909, Henry James, Roderick Hudson/Preface
The prime effect of so sustained a system, so prepared a surface, is to lead on and on; while the fascination of following resides, by the same token, in the presumability somewhere of a convenient, of a visibly-appointed stopping place.
text: It would seem to be the logic of the defense that, having done away with the presumability of marital aspirations on the part of the defendant toward the wife of deceased, he had thereby shown an absence of motive or ground of hostility […]
ref: 1903, Idaho. Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined […] :
glosses: The extent to which something can be presumed or relied upon to be true.
biking jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biking jackets
Senses: examples: text: […] a morose middle-aged fellow who appeared at the Corry in a suit on weekday evenings but on Saturdays and Sundays was transformed by heavy boots, jeans and biking jacket, the ensemble looking just a trifle too much for him.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 201:
text: “Have you got something respectable to wear?”
“I shall wear my best biking jacket with the Yamaha badge—of course I’ve got something respectable!”
ref: 1991, Hazel Holt, chapter 12, in The Cruellest Month, New York: Onyx, published 1992, page 166:
text: […] John Abraham’s favourite biking jacket and helmet were also sold at the fund-raiser.
ref: 2011 July 23, “Stars shine at Dhoni’s London charitable party”, in Daily News and Analysis:
glosses: A thick jacket (usually made of leather) designed to be worn while riding a motorcycle.
immunotherapeutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + therapeutical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of immunotherapeutic.
presumabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presumability
interdispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + dispersed.
Senses: glosses: dispersed among others
Lychrel number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lychrel numbers
Etymology: Coined by Wade Van Landingham as a rough anagram of Cheryl, his girlfriend's first name.
Senses: examples: text: In base ten (decimal), no Lychrel numbers have been yet proved to exist, but many are suspected.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers.
Lychrel numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lychrel number
interserotype
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + serotype.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of interserotypic.
synonyms: word: interserotypic
intrapituitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + pituitary.
Senses: glosses: Within the pituitary gland
intrarterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intraarterial.
lobularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of lobules
gunias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunia
mammoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Relating to mammoplasty
mechanoceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanoceptors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mechanoreceptor.
mechanoceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanoceptor
microdisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdiscs
Etymology: From micro- + disc.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microdisk.
presumingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From presuming + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being presuming; confidently or arrogantly overstepping reasonable bounds.
microdiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdisc
microgeographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From micro- + geographically.
Senses: glosses: In a microgeographic manner
microgeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgeographies
Etymology: From micro- + geography.
Senses: examples: text: As a result of these factors, the microgeography of Cherokee farming changed; fields moved nearer the villages […]
ref: 2000, Peter C. Mancall, James Hart Merrell, American Encounters:
glosses: geography on a very small scale
Related terms: microgeographic
microneurosurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + neurosurgical.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Relating to microneurosurgery
microneurosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + neurosurgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: keyhole neurosurgery aided by a microscope
Related terms: microneurosurgical
microvesiculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvesiculations
Etymology: From micro- + vesiculation.
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of microvesicles
Holywell Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after one of the local holy wells, “the sweet and sacred waters of St Clements Church that still survives on the Strand today, and gave Holywell Street its nickname of the Backside of St Clements”.
Senses: examples: text: There are plenty of filthy books sold outside of Holywell-street, differing from many Holywell-street books, too, as having indecent insides as well as covers.
ref: 1857, William Acton, Prostitution considered in its moral, social, and sanitary aspects:
text: To impute to those who do not care for the Holywell Street literature of any time "the Puritanic squeamishness of an extremely moral undetected Tartuffe, acting as Aristarchus," is to be too zealous for unrighteousness.
ref: 1877, The Academy and Literature, volume 12, page 82:
text: As regards a so-called critic who should decry such a book as Holywell Street literature, and the like, I should have merely to say of him that I could desire no stronger proof of his incapacity in, and his unfitness for, the post to which he has elected himself.
ref: 1891 November [1867 February 20], Charles Dickens, “Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 83, number 498, →ISSN, page 902, column 2:
text: Mr. Long's solicitor was careful to explain that “The Yoke” “is not a Holywell Street book.” We can only say for it that we defy Holywell Street to produce anything so foul. Holywell Street is a much cleaner street than it would be if it sold “The Yoke” […]
ref: 1909, The Academy and Literature, volume 75, page 583:
glosses: A former street in central London, famed for selling pornography in Victorian times.
mollamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollamides
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cytotoxic cyclopeptides present in the tunicate Didemnum molle
mollamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mollamide
flammule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flammules
Senses: glosses: A little flame or flame-like pattern.
multiphenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + phenotype.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving multiple phenotypes
flammules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flammule
nanodelivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + delivery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: nanoscale delivery (of drugs)
neocuprione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of neocuproine.
askanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of askance
askances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of askance
askancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of askance
microgeographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgeography
neuropathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuropathic.
Atë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Até.
Aite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Até.
neuroregulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroregulins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuregulin.
neuroregulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroregulin
Até
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aite
form: Atë
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄτη (átē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A goddess of mischief, delusion, ruin, and folly, the daughter either of Zeus or of Eris.
noncytotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + cytotoxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being noncytotoxic
subfeudation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfeudations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subinfeudation.
subfeudations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subfeudation
nondrusenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + drusenoid.
Senses: glosses: Not drusenoid
nonmuscularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + muscularized.
Senses: glosses: Not muscularized
angios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angio
baracan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baracans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barracan.
baracans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baracan
Doctors' Commons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A society of lawyers practising civil law in London, England, incorporated by royal charter in 1768.
doctor's stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We taught the people to believe in bottles of doctor's stuff; and now they buy it at the stores instead of consulting a medical man.
ref: 1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma:
text: I take the doctor's stuff although / It's bitter-tasting, and what's more, / It's not a remedy I know. / Its action seems a trifle slow.
ref: a. 1993, Stanley Mason, “The Old Age Villanelle”, in Collected poems of Stanley Mason, published 1993:
glosses: medicine
pay off old scores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays off old scores
form: paying off old scores
form: paid off old scores
form: paid off old scores
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: even the score, settle the score, settle a score
glosses: To settle old grudges by taking revenge.
Related terms: word: keep score
word: pay the piper
word: pay the price
word: scoreboard
word: scorekeeper
word: scorekeeping
word: payback
word: pay back
word: revenge is a dish best served cold
saludador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saludadors
form: saludadores
Senses: glosses: A quack doctor who used incantations in an attempt to cure.
Related terms: salutary
saludadors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saludador
saludadores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saludador
unschismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unschismatic
form: most unschismatic
Etymology: From un- + schismatic.
Senses: glosses: Not schismatic.
unschismatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unschismatical
form: most unschismatical
Etymology: From un- + schismatical.
Senses: glosses: Not schismatical.
fisherman's ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fisherman's rings
Senses: examples: text: Benedict will also stop using the so-called fisherman’s ring to seal documents.
ref: 2013 February 26, Gaia Pianigiani, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Benedict XVI to Be Known as Emeritus in Retirement”, in New York Times:
glosses: A signet ring bearing an image of Saint Peter fishing, used in signing papal briefs.
BMWW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It includes a reluctant husband way out of his depth, BMWW (black man, white woman) sex and interracial breeding of a hotwife. There's some BDSM (bondage, gags). This is intense erotica, for adults only.
ref: 2015, Victoria Kasari, Cuckolded:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of black man, white woman.
sit-by-the-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sit-by-the-fires
Senses: examples: text: It's remarkable how marriage changes them. I mean nobody would ever thought ^([sic]) Celia Sayles would turn out to be a sit-by-the-fire. I mean she still likes a good time, but her home and kiddies come first. I mean her home and kiddies come first.
ref: 1926, Ring Lardner, The Love Nest and other stories:
text: The moment he allows the emphasis to swing the other way he becomes a sit-by-the-fire, a cockerel, a drone, a henpeck. A woman steps into this man's sphere at her peril.
ref: 1985, James Mallahan Cain, Roy Hoopes, Michael Hinden, 60 Years of Journalism, page 40:
synonyms: homebody
stay-at-home
glosses: A person who prefers to stay at home rather than go out and socialize.
sit-by-the-fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sit-by-the-fire
problem play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: problem plays
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A form of drama that emerged in the 19th century as part of realism, dealing with contentious social issues through debates between the characters on stage, who typically represent conflicting points of view within a realistic social context.
problem plays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of problem play
pass/no pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A type of grading system where a student either passes or fails a class, and no specific grade (such as A, B or C) is given.
ambagiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ambagiously
form: most ambagiously
Etymology: From ambagious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ambagious manner.
unbet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bet.
Senses: examples: text: […] after you have tasted the sweets of victory, you will begin to share my view that it is fun just to sit and watch a race on which you have not bet. It is fun even when the unbet race is won by a horse you rejected at the paddock.
ref: 1966, Tom Ainslie, The Compleat Horseplayer, page 160:
text: A temporary $500 bet is made on one horse, chosen at random by flipping a coin, and movements in betting on that horse and on the unbet (control) horse were recorded.
ref: 2008, Charles R. Plott, Vernon L. Smith, Handbook of Experimental Economics Results, volume 1, page 721:
glosses: On which a bet has not been placed.
driverly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more driverly
form: most driverly
Etymology: From driver + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As one character is driving the other to work, the passenger berates the driver for not paying enough attention to her driverly duties. Her “check engine” light is on—why hasn't she taken care of that?
ref: 2013, Charles E. Gutenson, Church Worth Getting Up For, page 63:
glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of a driver.
bouncerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bouncerly
form: most bouncerly
Etymology: From bouncer + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Surprisingly we were not asked to snuff them out as we entered. My most mundane thought: 'This must be a fire risk!' But there was no bouncerly discouragement. We filed slowly through to the dancefloor.
ref: 1986, New Statesman, volume 112, page 18:
text: With bouncerly finesse, Frank forklifted his arms under Gerald's & plucked him off his stool, dragging him towards the back & the source of that incessant voice.
ref: 2009, Garry Thomas Morse, Death in Vancouver, page 49:
text: Those on foot cross their arms in a bouncerly manner, chewing gum so that you can count their fillings. The pessimists hold their batons. Gael scans the officers in view and decides she'll volunteer for an all-body pat-down […]
ref: 2018, Caoilinn Hughes, Orchid & the Wasp:
glosses: Befitting or characteristic of a bouncer (security personnel).
pyelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pyelonephritis.
folivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Koala of Australia with its elongated cecum, and many species of primates, sloths, and the pandas are noteworthy folivores.
ref: 2007, George A. Feldhamer et al., Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, →ISBN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The eating of leaves, especially as a major part of the diet of a particular species of animal, such animals being called folivores.
oligoasthenoteratozoospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + asthenoteratozoospermic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to oligoasthenoteratozoospermia
asthenoteratozoospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to asthenoteratozoospermia
Derived terms: oligoasthenoteratozoospermic
chobdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chobdars
form: choabdar
form: chobadar
form: chobedar
form: chubdar
Senses: glosses: A frequent attendant of Indian nobles, and formerly also of Anglo-Indian officials of rank, carrying a staff overlaid with silver.
chobdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chobdar
pay for one's whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays for one's whistle
form: paying for one's whistle
form: paid for one's whistle
form: paid for one's whistle
Senses: examples: text: […] the ship may be on shore before the leader of the band can be convinced how dearly he has "paid for his whistle."
ref: 1836, William Nugent Glascock, The Naval Service, page 239:
text: He felt mightily experienced at this time, and realized, as he thought, quite clearly, the price he had paid for his whistle. He had had his lesson, so he told himself, and had paid for it, […]
ref: 1891, David Christie Murray, Henry Herman, He Fell Among Thieves, page 30:
glosses: To pay dearly for one's caprice.
superableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being superable; potential to be overcome or conquered.
oligogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligogenes
Etymology: From oligo- + gene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of a few genes that, together, control a specific trait
Related terms: oligogenic
habit of body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habits of body
Senses: glosses: The general condition of the body as outwardly apparent.
glosses: Any constitutional tendency or weakness.
simbil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simbils
Senses: glosses: A shortish-legged African stork, Ciconia abdimii.
simbils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simbil
orchiectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: orchiectomizes
form: orchiectomizing
form: orchiectomized
form: orchiectomized
Etymology: From orchiectomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To carry out an orchiectomy.
simbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of simber
simbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of simber
simbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of simber
orchiectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orchiectomize
orchiectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: castrated
oxoprolinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxoprolinases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of oxoproline
antipaternalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipaternalistic
form: most antipaternalistic
Etymology: From anti- + paternalistic.
Senses: glosses: Opposing paternalism.
Samboism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sambo + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Botsford wrote Sambo and Toney, which was designed to teach Christian lessons to the slaves, or, as a Negro today would say, it taught the essence of Samboism.
ref: 1970, George C. Rogers, The history of Georgetown County, South Carolina, page 193:
text: By skeptically observing whites' pretense to paternalism and slaves' pretense to Samboism, the slaveholder became mistrustful of everyone's performances.
ref: 1994, William Freehling, The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War:
synonyms: Uncle Tommery
Uncle Tommism
glosses: A servile attitude adopted by black people toward white authority.
Related terms: Uncle Tom
frammises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frammis
solacings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solacing
overpet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpets
form: overpetting
form: overpetted
form: overpetted
Etymology: From over- + pet.
Senses: examples: text: Don't overpet the cat, or she may bite!
glosses: To pet excessively.
glosses: To overindulge; to spoil (a person).
overpets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpet
overpetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpet
overpetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpet
satara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sataras
Senses: glosses: A kind of ribbed, hotpressed and lustred woolen cloth.
sataras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satara
scyphomedusans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scyphomedusan
skruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skruffs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scruff (“nape of the neck”).
skruffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skruff
Creticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Crete + -ic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Another Creticism is the solemn assurance that the Roman Church is not in politics. It is a fact well known that the Papacy maintains an “Apostolic Delegation” in Washington accredited to the Church […]
ref: 1915, The Chronicle, page 15:
text: This is a noble art because it is wisdom itself to know what singing is required. Knowledge, unlike wisdom is a form of Creticism, an inverted Creticism. The rational, scientific knower is the reverse of the Cretan: […]
ref: 2009, Donald Phillip Verene, Speculative Philosophy, page 73:
glosses: The use of falsehoods; lying.
Epimenidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Epimenidean
form: most Epimenidean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Epimenides of Cnossos, a semi-mythical 7th or 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet.
Epimenides paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Epimenides paradoxes
Etymology: Named after the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Cnossos (alive circa 600 BC), who is credited with the original statement.
Senses: glosses: A form of self-referential logical paradox associated with statements of the form "All Cretans are liars" (spoken by Epimenedes, himself a Cretan, who must therefore be lying).
Epimenides paradoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Epimenides paradox
Callimachan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Callimachan
form: most Callimachan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Callimachean.
star it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stars it
form: starring it
form: starred it
form: starred it
Senses: examples: text: […] after a brilliant, but unprofitable career of provincial and minor management, he starred it through the country […]
ref: 1833, Robert Dyer, Nine Years of an Actor's Life, page 52:
text: Grimaldi had now become the great popular actor, and when leisure permitted, he starred it, as other favourites did, at country theatres; […]
ref: 1838, The Athenaeum, page 115:
glosses: To appear as a star actor, especially on a provincial tour.
pancreatosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancreatospheres
Etymology: From pancreato- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: A spherical organoid composed of pancreatic stem cells
pancreatospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreatosphere
eigenvariates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenvariate
Bareilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hindi बरेली (barelī).
Senses: glosses: A city, district, and division in northern Uttar Pradesh, India.
Derived terms: Barelvi
thoracic vertebrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracic vertebra
troope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troopes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of troop.
troopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troope
marginal credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A method by which a merchant at home can render bills drawn upon him abroad saleable there, by associating a well-known banker's name on their margin with his own.
sunsettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunsetting
Baalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Baalic
form: most Baalic
Etymology: From Baal + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the god Baal.
Baalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Baalian
form: most Baalian
Etymology: From Baal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the god Baal.
perinatologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of perinatological.
unparochial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unparochial
form: most unparochial
Etymology: From un- + parochial.
Senses: glosses: Not parochial.
Synonyms: nonparochial
accreditates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accreditate
accreditating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accreditate
shepherd's flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A flageolet or similar instrument.
xiucai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃjoʊˈtsaɪ/
Forms: form: xiucai
Etymology: Transliteration from Mandarin 秀才 (xiùcái) via Hanyu Pinyin.
Senses: examples: text: The author of The Compendium of Materia Medica was Li Shih-chen (1518-93), a pioneering scholar in the field of medicinal research in the late Ming. A native of Ch’i-chou in Hukuang (modern Ch’i-ch’un in Hupei), Li Shih-chen achieved the first-degree hsiu-ts'ai in 1531, but gave up obtaining the second-degree chü-jen after three unsuccessful attempts between 1534 and 1540.
ref: [1992, Chun-shu Chang, Hsueh-lun Chang, “Crisis and Revolution in the Ming-Ch'ing Intellectual World: Li Yü's World in Historical Perspective”, in Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yü's World, Paperback edition, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, published 1998, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 285–286:
text: Hsü Shih-hsien [Xu Shixian], 1908–83, was born in T’ai-nan city, Taiwan. Her father, Hsü Huan-ch’ang [Xu Huanchang], was a “cultivated talent” (hsiu-ts’ai) of the former Ch’ing [Qing] dynasty; her mother's name was Ch’en Fu.
ref: [2003, “Hsü Shih-hsien”, in Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 233:
synonyms: shengyuan
glosses: In ancient China, a scholar who has passed the entry-level examination to study at a college.
shengyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʃʌŋjuˈæn/
/ˌʃʌŋjuˈɑːn/
Forms: form: shengyuan
Etymology: Transliteration from Mandarin 生員／生员 (shēngyuán).
Senses: synonyms: xiucai
glosses: In ancient China, a scholar who has passed the entry-level examination to study at a college.
linsheng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /lɪnˈʃʌŋ/
/lɪnˈʃɛŋ/
Etymology: Transliteration from Mandarin 廩生／廪生 (lǐnshēng).
Senses: glosses: In the ancient Chinese imperial examination system, the first class of shengyuan, who were the best performers in the college exam, and got to receive government-issued rations and pay for their academic achievements.
corruptician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrupticians
Etymology: From corrupt + -ician.
Senses: examples: text: “Score one for the good guys,” I said, applauding. “Alyce would call Beaumont a corruptician.”
ref: 2010, Linda Joy Singleton, Dead Girl Walking:
glosses: Someone involved in corruption.
corrupticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corruptician
infranatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infranatural
form: most infranatural
Etymology: From infra- + natural.
Senses: glosses: subnatural; below or beneath nature
sinupallial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: sinupalliate
Skipetar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skipetars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shkypetar.
Shkypetar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shkypetars
form: Shkupetar
form: Skipetar
Senses: glosses: An Albanian.
Skipetars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Skipetar
Shkypetars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shkypetar
crosswordy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crosswordy
form: most crosswordy
Etymology: From crossword + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a crossword puzzle.
heterotopology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterotopologies
Senses: glosses: The Foucauldian study of heterotopias.
heterotopologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterotopology
thriddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thridding
transdisciplinarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transdisciplinarily
form: most transdisciplinarily
Etymology: From transdisciplinary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to encompass more than one academic discipline.
Lefebvrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lefebvrian
form: most Lefebvrian
Etymology: From Lefebvre + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), French Marxist philosopher and sociologist.
glosses: Of or relating to Marcel Lefebvre (1905–1991), French Roman Catholic archbishop.
trialectical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trialectical
form: most trialectical
Senses: glosses: Relating to trialectics.
trialectically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of trialectics.
reworld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reworlds
form: reworlding
form: reworlded
form: reworlded
Etymology: From re- + world.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To reconstruct the world, or attempt to view it differently.
reworlded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reworld
reworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reworld
reworlding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reworld
reworlding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reworldings
Senses: glosses: The process of something being reworlded.
thirdsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirdsmen
Etymology: From third + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A third party who acts as mediator.
thirdsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirdsman
Saraf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sarafs
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu صراف (sarrāf, “money changer”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Urdu.
Sarafs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Saraf
retributor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retributors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of retributer.
retributors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retributor
retributiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retributive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being retributive.
unharmfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unharmful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being harmful.
nonretributive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + retributive.
Senses: glosses: Not retributive.
nonretribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + retribution.
Senses: glosses: Absence of retribution; a policy of not retaliating.
marimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 毬藻 (marimo).
Senses: glosses: A rare form of the filamentous green alga Aegagropila linnaei, resembling large green velvety balls.
chasericulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cha + sericulture.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The combined industries of tea-growing and silk production.
chased rainbows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chase rainbows
chases rainbows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chase rainbows
emphlysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φλέω (phléō, “overflow”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A vesicular tumour.
asava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asavas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit आसव (āsava)
Senses: glosses: A fermented juice used medicinally.
agyatwas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अज्ञातवास (ajñātvās), from Sanskrit अज्ञातवास (ajñātavāsa), from अज्ञात (ajñāta, “unknown”) and वास (vāsa, “staying”).
Senses: glosses: A period of concealment or exile of the Pandavas.
rufulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rufulous
form: most rufulous
Etymology: See -ule.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat rufous.
irremovableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irremovable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being irremovable.
squandamania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of squandermania.
glottogonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡlɒtəˈɡɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˌɡlɑtəˈɡɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˌɡlɔtɘˈɡɔnɘk/
Etymology: From glottogony + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Indirectly, this echoes the Neogrammarians, who, upon rejection of the glottogonic separation of stages of language held by their predecessors (cf. 4.10., 5.) affirmed that in the IE languages, "die Schöpfung neuen Stoffes niemals ganz aufgehört hat" ["the development of new grammatical material had never stopped"](Paul 1920 [1898], 175).
ref: 1993, Joachim Jacobs, editor, Syntax: an international handbook of contemporary research, page 1141:
text: There are now quite a few glottogonic theories, some of which are also concerned with the origin of words as, for example, the one that argues that original words are connected with phonosymbolism, […]
ref: 1995, Werner Winter, editor, On Languages and Language […] , Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Johannes Schmidt was later to argue that it was a natural step for the generation of scholars following Schleicher to discard the glottogonic reconstructions.
ref: 2001, Sylvain Auroux, editor, History of the Language Sciences, page 1237:
text: The glottogonic view was perhaps the principal difference between the Neogrammarians and their predecessors.
ref: 2007, Prof. Lyle Campbell, Glossary of Historical Linguistics, page 72:
glosses: Related to the origin or primordial development of language; related to glottogony.
prechondrocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prechondrocyte
prechondrocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prechondrocytes
Senses: glosses: A partially differentiated animal cell that will become a chondrocyte, part of cartilage.