cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dehydrocholesterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːhaɪdɹəˌkəˈlɛstəɹɒɫ]
Forms: form: dehydrocholesterols
Etymology: From dehydro- + cholesterol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sterol, 7-dehydrocholesterol, found in the skin, that, on exposure to light, is converted into vitamin D
Derived terms: 7-dehydrocholesterol
dehydroretinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˌhaɪdɹəˈɹɛtɪnɒɫ]
Etymology: From de- + hydro- + retinol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of retinol having an extra double bond; vitamin A2.
desmethylsterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmethylsterols
Etymology: From desmethyl + sterol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any sterol lacking a methyl group in a specified position, e.g. 4-desmethylsterol.
dilatometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilatometries
Etymology: From dilate + -o- + -metry.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of changes in volume that accompany some other physical phenomenon
Derived terms: thermodilatometry
Related terms: dilatometer
disaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + saturated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two saturated fatty acids
raw_tags: of a glyceride
Related terms: monosaturated
trisaturated
monosaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + saturated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having one saturated fatty acid
raw_tags: of a glyceride
Related terms: disaturated
trisaturated
trisaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + saturated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having three saturated fatty acids
raw_tags: of a glyceride
Related terms: disaturated
monosaturated
dissociable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissociable
form: most dissociable
Etymology: From Latin dissociābilis, from dissociare: compare English dissociable. See dissociate.
Senses: glosses: Able to be dissociated, divided or separated.
examples: text: They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner.
ref: 1711 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “SATURDAY, March 3, 1710–1711”, in The Spectator, number 3; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 96:
glosses: Not well associated or assorted; incongruous.
glosses: Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuited to society; unsociable.
Derived terms: dissociably
nondissociable
photodissociable
undissociable
multiconfessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiconfessional
form: most multiconfessional
Etymology: From multi- + confessional.
Senses: examples: text: Utopia is a multiconfessional state.
glosses: Of, or tolerant of, many religions.
VRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of vehicle registration tax.
bimestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Since the dinner was bimestrial, the next one was due soon.
glosses: Occurring once every two months
Synonyms: bimensal
bimonthly
Derived terms: bimestrially
Related terms: bimester
archenemies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archenemy
apostasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostasy
asynchronously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From asynchronous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: These allow scripts to specify functions that should be invoked asynchronously when certain events occur.
ref: 2011, David Flanagan, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide:
text: Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.
ref: 2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page 25:
glosses: In an asynchronous manner.
quahogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quahog
quirkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of quirky: more quirky
quirkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Of all the quirks of railway history that gave rise to the lines in this list, the quirkiest has to be that British Railways was (albeit briefly) responsible for a network of lines in Northern Ireland.
ref: 2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Northern Counties Commission”, in RAIL, number 974, page 46:
glosses: superlative form of quirky: most quirky
pacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pækts/
rhymes: -ækts
Senses: glosses: plural of pact
pacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pækts/
rhymes: -ækts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pact
quipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quip
quipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quip
ercalciol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: vitamin D2
ercalcitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dihydroxy- derivative of vitamin D2 that occurs in some plants.
expeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛlə/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛlɚ/
ipa: /ɪkˈspelə/
Forms: form: expellers
Etymology: From expel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.
ref: 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times:
glosses: Someone or something that expels.
glosses: Someone or something that expels.
A machine that removes most of the oil from oilseeds to form oil cake.
Related terms: impeller
extractor
extruder
oilpresser
ablegating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ablegate
oil cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil cakes
form: oilcake
Senses: glosses: The solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil; it is used, with other ingredients, as animal food.
glosses: A cake made with vegetable oil instead of butter.
Related terms: chiffon cake
amurca
poonac
ablegated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ablegate
abludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ablude
abluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ablude
abluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ablude
abolitionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abolitionize
abolitionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abolitionize
abolitionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abolitionize
horrifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more horrifyingly
form: most horrifyingly
Etymology: From horrifying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a horrifying manner
absinthiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absinthiate
absinthiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absinthiate
accessioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accession
accessioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accession
accreases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accrease
accreases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accrease
accreasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accrease
accreased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accrease
acrospiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acrospire
acrospired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acrospire
acupuncturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acupuncture
acupunctured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acupuncture
farkakteh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farkakteh
form: most farkakteh
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פֿאַרקאַקט (farkakt, “shitty, crappy, full of shit”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of verkakte.
obediency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obediencies
Senses: examples: text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:obediency.
text: The second group, although probably relieved to a large extent from domestic work due to their economic capability to hire domestic service, is particularly affected by the fact that the rule of woman's obediency to men does not apply only to marriage and the family, […]
ref: 1985, Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz, Iris M. Zavala, Women, feminist identity, and society in the 1980's: selected papers, page 71:
glosses: Obedience, the quality of being obedient.
Synonyms: obedience
obedientness
Derived terms: disobediency
massive retaliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A military doctrine and nuclear strategy by which a state commits itself to retaliate with much greater force when attacked.
Grand Rapids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Kent County, Michigan.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Itasca County, Minnesota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in LaMoure County, North Dakota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village and township in Wood County, Ohio.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Wood County, Wisconsin. The city of Wisconsin Rapids was also named Grand Rapids, but was renamed in 1920.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in British Columbia.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A town in Manitoba.
Derived terms: Grand Rapids disease
Celtiberian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɛlt.ɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌkɛlt.aɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛlt.ɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛlt.aɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Celtiberians
form: Celt-Iberian
Etymology: Blend of Celtic + Iberian.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during the Roman Empire.
Celtiberian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɛlt.ɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌkɛlt.aɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛlt.ɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛlt.aɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Celt-Iberian
Etymology: Blend of Celtic + Iberian.
Senses: glosses: An extinct Indo-European language of the Celtic branch spoken by these people in an area of the Iberian Peninsula lying between the headwaters of the Duero, Tajo, Júcar and Turia rivers and the Ebro river.
Hypernyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Celtic
Coordinate terms: sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Cumbric
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Galatian
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Gaulish
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Lepontic
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Noric
sense: Lost Celtic languages
word: Pictish
Celtiberian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɛlt.ɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌkɛlt.aɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛlt.ɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɛlt.aɪˈbɪ(ə)ɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Celt-Iberian
Etymology: Blend of Celtic + Iberian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to these people or their language.
Celtiberians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Celtiberian
Celt-Iberian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celt-Iberians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Celtiberian.
Celt-Iberians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Celt-Iberian
timbreless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From timbre + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking timbre.
ad libs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ad lib
ad libs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ad lib
ad libbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ad lib
ad libbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ad lib
tithed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tithe
tithed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to tithe.
raw_tags: of items
glosses: Liable for tithe.
raw_tags: of persons
glosses: Taken as or paid for tithe.
raw_tags: of items
admeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of admeasure
puzzle out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puzzles out
form: puzzling out
form: puzzled out
form: puzzled out
Senses: examples: text: […] but Clover, who thought she remembered a definite ruling against beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven Commandments which were inscribed there.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: To figure out; to discover or find a solution to.
admeasuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of admeasure
admeasured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of admeasure
affectionates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affectionate
affectionating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affectionate
affectionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affectionate
aggerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aggerate
aggerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aggerate
aggerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aggerate
aggrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aggrade
aggrading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aggrade
aggraded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aggrade
aggreges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aggrege
puzzles out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puzzle out
aggreging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aggrege
aggreged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aggrege
puzzling out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of puzzle out
air-brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air-brush
air-brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of air-brush
air-brushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of air-brush
puzzled out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He puzzled out the mystery by weighing the facts.
glosses: simple past and past participle of puzzle out
air-brushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of air-brush
assarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assart
assarts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assart
assarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assart
assarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assart
assoyles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assoyle
assoyling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assoyle
assoyled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assoyle
assrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assrun
assran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of assrun
shiveringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shiveringly
form: most shiveringly
Etymology: From shivering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I shiveringly walked into the cold graveyard at night.
glosses: While shivering, for example with fright.
examples: text: Old and new ballads delivered in shiveringly strong and colored voice.
ref: 1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
text: A breath of shiveringly cold air stirred, like an invisible icy hand searching behind the furniture and down unseen halls for what it had lost.
ref: 2010 September 9, Kate Elliott, Cold Magic, Orbit, →ISBN:
glosses: In a manner or to an extent that makes one shiver.
astonies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of astony
astonying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of astony
atomising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A new type of air-inducing ring improved considerably the atomising and distribution of the oil fuel in the firebox, and it was advanced practice for the period that the new engine was equipped with compressed air operation of both the reversing gear and the water-scoop.
ref: 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the "Claud Hamiltons" & "Directors"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115:
glosses: present participle and gerund of atomise
attitudinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attitudinize
attitudinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In dining with her brother and with the Dormers, two evenings before, Mrs. Dallow had been moved to exclaim that Peter and Nick knew the most extraordinary people. As regards Peter the attitudinizing girl and her mother now pointed that moral with sufficient vividness; so that there was little arrogance in taking a similar quality for granted in the conceited man at her elbow, who sat there as if he would be capable, from one moment to another, of leaning over the arm of her sofa.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of attitudinize
attitudinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attitudinizings
Senses: examples: text: With his "hatred of what was theatrical" (1:124) he is put off by the posturings and attitudinizings of the chief actors.
ref: 1990, Clyde de L. Ryals, A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature:
glosses: The act of one who attitudinizes; affected posturing.
attitudinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attitudinize
attitudinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: attitudinises
form: attitudinising
form: attitudinised
form: attitudinised
Etymology: From Italian attitudine (“attitude, pose, posture”) + English ise (a variant of -ize (suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to do [something denoted by the word to which it is attached]’)): see further at attitudinize.
Senses: examples: text: In every line that he wrote Cicero was attitudinising for posterity, or reflecting on the effect of his conduct upon his interests or his reputation.
ref: 1879, James Anthony Froude, chapter XIV, in Cæsar: A Sketch, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 194:
text: Radet was a cadaverous, weather-worn, passion-worn individual, badger-grey, and worked up into a grotesquely attitudinised fury of injured self-esteem
ref: 1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford M. Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter 11, in The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 178:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard form of attitudinize.
Derived terms: word: attitudinisation
word: attitudiniser
word: attitudinising
attitudinises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attitudinise
attitudinising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attitudinise
attitudinised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attitudinise
autoxidises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoxidise
autoxidising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoxidise
organology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organologies
Etymology: From organ + -ology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the organs of plants and animals.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The study of musical instruments in relation to history, culture, and construction.
Derived terms: ethno-organology
organologic
organologist
Related terms: pedagogy
autoxidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoxidizes
form: autoxidizing
form: autoxidized
form: autoxidized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of autoxidise.
autoxidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoxidize
autoxidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoxidize
autoxidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoxidize
averruncates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of averruncate
averruncated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of averruncate
aviles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of avile
aviling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of avile
aviled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avile
avising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of avise
avised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avise
avocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of avocate
avocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of avocate
avocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avocate
awarns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of awarn
awarning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of awarn
awarned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of awarn
awhapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of awhape
awhaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of awhape
awhaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of awhape
awhaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more awhaped
form: most awhaped
Senses: examples: text: More loathd then Lerna, or then Stygian lake, / That any man would night awhaped make […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Stupefied; terrified.
baing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ba
baed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bae
baaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baa
backchats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backchat
backchats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backchat
backchatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backchat
backchatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backchat
backhauls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backhaul
backhauling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backhaul
backhauled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backhaul
backscratches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backscratch
backscratches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backscratch
operational taxonomic unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operational taxonomic units
form: OTU
Senses: examples: External nodes: things under comparison; operational taxonomic units
glosses: A terminal node in phylogenetic analysis; an organism.
Related terms: hypothetical taxonomic unit
backscratched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backscratch
backslaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backslap
backslapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backslap
hypothetical taxonomic unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothetical taxonomic units
form: HTU
Senses: glosses: An internal node in phylogenetic analysis; an inferred ancestral organism.
Related terms: operational taxonomic unit
balkanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balkanise
balkanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balkanise
balkanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balkanise
balkanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balkanize
balkanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balkanize
balkanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balkanize
band-aiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of band-aid
band-aided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of band-aid
banjaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of banjax
bartends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bartend
bartending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bar + tending.
Senses: examples: text: "I need to know if any of them took a specific drink order recently. An angel shot."
The manager raised an eyebrow. "Angel shot? Isn't that--"
Kelly nodded. In the bartending business, it was well known that an "angel shot" wasn't a real drink, but was instead a code word that women could use to signal that they were in trouble.
ref: 2023, Rylie Dark, Where You Go:
glosses: The craft of mixing drinks, making cocktails, and related skills of tending a bar.
Derived terms: budtending
flair bartending
flairtending
Related terms: mixology
bartending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bartend
bartended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bartend
bastinadoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bastinado
bastinadoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bastinado
bastinadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastinado
bastinadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bastinado
beatboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beatbox
beatboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beatbox
beatboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beatbox
bedimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedim
bedimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedim
beelining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beeline
beelined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beeline
bejewels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bejewel
bejewelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bejewel
bejeweling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bejewel
bejewelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bejewel
bejewelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bejewelled
form: most bejewelled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bejeweled.
Derived terms: overbejewelled
unbejewelled
belates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belate
belating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belate
bellyached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bellyache
bellyflops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bellyflop
bellyflopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bellyflop
bellyflopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bellyflop
bepaints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bepaint
bepainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bepaint
bepainted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bepaint
canzonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kanzə(ʊ)ˈnɛt/
Forms: form: canzonets
Etymology: From Italian canzonetta, from canzone (“song”) + -etta (“-ette: forming diminutives”), from Latin cantiō. Doublet of canzonetta. Cf. canzone.
Senses: examples: text: Besides what I have said of one of their warlike songs, I have another amorous canzonet, which beginneth in this sence […].
ref: , Folio Society 2006, vol.1, p.213
glosses: A short song, now especially one which is light and breezy.
grade inflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Grade inflation refers to an increase in grade point average without a concomitant increase in achievement.
ref: 1981, I. Bejar, E. Blew, “Grade Inflation and the Validity of the Scholastic Aptitude Test”, in American Educational Research Journal, volume 18, number 2, page 143:
topics: education
glosses: A gradual upward trend in grades awarded to students during the decades since the mid-20th century, reported in a number of countries and at a number of levels of schooling and sometimes offered as evidence of a decline in academic standards.
rediffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + diffusion.
Senses: glosses: The rebroadcasting of a programme; more specifically, the distribution of radio or television transmissions from a single receiver
glosses: The transmission of radio programs over a cable system
compound machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound machines
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any combination of simple machines operating together.
querulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more querulent
form: most querulent
Senses: glosses: Habitually suspicious or querimonious.
querulent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: querulents
Senses: glosses: A habitually suspicious or querimonious person.
ccf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ccf
form: Ccf
form: CCF
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of one hundred cubic feet.
CCF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCF
form: ccf
form: Ccf
form: C.C.F.
form: C. C. F.
Senses: glosses: One hundred cubic feet: used as a unit of measurement of volume.
glosses: Initialism of congestive cardiac failure.
glosses: Initialism of carotid-cavernous fistula.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of credit conversion factor.
CCF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ccf
form: Ccf
form: C.C.F.
form: C. C. F.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
glosses: Initialism of Combined Cadet Force.
Related terms: sense: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
word: NDP
sense: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
word: LPC
sense: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
word: CPC
sense: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
word: BQ
sense: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
word: CA
sense: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
word: RCAP
sense: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
word: CRAP
Ccf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ccf
form: ccf
form: CCF
Senses: glosses: One hundred cubic feet: used as a unit of measurement of volume.
sticky-note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticky-notes
form: stick note
form: sticky note
Etymology: * A modern (post-1962) formation from sticky + note.
Senses: synonyms: post-it note
glosses: A small sheet of paper from a padded stack, with each sheet of the pad consisting of a strip of nonpermanent adhesive on the reverse.
mend one's ways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mends one's ways
form: mending one's ways
form: mended one's ways
form: mended one's ways
Senses: glosses: To recognise one's failings and attempt to remedy them.
Related terms: the error of one's ways
zootsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zootsuits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zoot suit.
where it counts
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: True, Madeline does not have a lot of book smarts, but she is plenty wise enough where it counts.
glosses: in the most advantageous area or sphere
examples: text: At first the boycott's impact was barely noticeable, but now the protesters are hurting the store where it counts.
glosses: in an effective manner
examples: text: A girl's best weapon — and one that should be used sparingly — is a swift kick where it counts.
glosses: in the testicles
Derived terms: black where it counts
enough is as good as a feast
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Here is enough, I am satisfied, (sayd he). / Since enough is enough, (sayd I), here may we / With that one word take end good, as may be geast: / For folke say, enough is as good as a feast.
ref: 1546, John Heywood, chapter XI, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood. […], London: George Bell and Sons, […], published 1874, →OCLC, part II, page 173:
synonyms: enough is enough
glosses: Just the right amount is as good as more than enough: there is no value in excess.
gamest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of game: most game
Eutychian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Eutyches + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Eutyches, to Eutychianism, or to Eutychians.
Eutychian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eutychians
Etymology: From Eutyches + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who believes in Eutychianism.
autocritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːtəʊˈkɹɪtɪkəl/
Forms: form: more autocritical
form: most autocritical
Etymology: From auto- + critical.
Senses: examples: text: His training procedures, which stress self-awareness and autocritical skills, are fascinating reading for contemporary psychologists interested in cognitive skills training.
ref: 1982, Robert J. Sternberg, Handbook of human intelligence, page 466:
glosses: Critical of oneself, or of one's work or behaviour.
Synonyms: reflective
self-critical
parabolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parabola
parabole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabolae
form: parabolai
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “juxtaposition, comparison”). See parable.
Senses: examples: text: Parabole, to illustrate a thing, compares;
Like, as, so, thus, such, are the signs it bears.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Parabole.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of parable.
bulllike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bulllike
form: most bulllike
form: bull-like
Etymology: Relatively recent (late 20th century) spelling of bull-like.
Senses: examples: text: He had a bulllike neck.
text: So these bulllike men queried the brahmin, O king, and he told them the entire story of the birth of Draupadí.
ref: 1973, J. A. B. van Buitenen (tr.), transl., The Mahābhārata, Book 1, page 314
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bull.
bulllike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bulllike
form: most bulllike
form: bull-like
Etymology: Relatively recent (late 20th century) spelling of bull-like.
Senses: examples: text: He was breathing bulllike from anger.
glosses: In a manner similar to a bull.
Related terms: This is one of the few English words with triple letters. Others include
but are not limited to: frillless
wallless
headmistressship
goddessship
and agreeeth
pallbearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pallbearer
paperboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperboy
big Os
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big O
parallelograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallelogram
paunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paunch
peahens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peahen
pecans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pecan
patrolmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrolman
pedicures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedicure
pedicures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pedicure
pestilences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pestilence
P-wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P-waves
form: P wave
Etymology: From p(rimary) + wave.
Senses: examples: text: P-waves are the first to arrive; that is, they travel fastest. These are ‘push-pull’ waves analogous to sound waves, in which each particle moves back and forth as the waves propagate.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 71:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
glosses: A longitudinal compressional wave produced by an earthquake.
Synonyms: seismic wave
Related terms: S-wave
silver lining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver linings
Etymology: Originating in John Milton's poem “Comus”; see 1634 quotation. The proverb every cloud has a silver lining is an allusion to the relevant passage.
Senses: examples: text: Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night? / I did not err: there does a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night, / And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
ref: 1634, John Milton, Comus:
text: The only silver lining for businesses and local residents was that there was at least an end in sight, and that the new station, once built, would enhance the area and provide improved east-west access for pedestrians.
ref: 2025 February 19, Chris Howe, “Euston: a work in progress”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 45:
glosses: A favorable aspect or prospect of a mostly unfavorable event or situation.
wikipedia: Comus (John Milton)
John Milton
Synonyms: sense: good aspect
word: bright side
Related terms: every cloud has a silver lining
every silver lining has a cloud
blessing in disguise
God works in mysterious ways
confirmands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confirmand
fibrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrates
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of amphipathic drugs that affect lipid metabolism
flaxseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflæks.siːd/
/ˈflæksiːd/
Forms: form: flaxseeds
form: flax seed
Etymology: From flax + seed.
Senses: glosses: The seed of the flax plant; a source of linseed oil.
Synonyms: linseed
Meronyms: lignan
linoleic acid
protein
Derived terms: flaxseed oil
gadoleic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: - but see Gadus and oleic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to gadoleic acid or its derivatives
Related terms: gondoic
gadoleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The unsaturated fatty acid cis-icos-9-enoic acid related to oleic acid but having 20 carbon atoms; it is found in fish and vegetable oils
Related terms: gondoic acid
glucagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡluːkəɡən/
ipa: /ˈɡluːkəɡɒn/
ipa: /ˈɡlukəˌɡɑn/
Forms: form: glucagons
Etymology: From gluco- + Ancient Greek ἄγων (ágōn), present participle of ἄγω (ágō, “push forward, put in motion; stir up; excite, urge”).
Alternatively, possibly gluco- + -a- + -gon.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide hormone, produced by the pancreas, that opposes the action of insulin by stimulating the production of sugar
Derived terms: antiglucagon
enteroglucagon
glucagonemia
glucagonlike
glucagonoma
glucagonotropic
-glutide
preproglucagon
proglucagon
glyceridic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glyceride + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to glycerol or glycerides.
glycerolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycerolipids
Etymology: From glycero- + lipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lipid based on glycerol
Derived terms: arabinoglycerolipid
galactoglycerolipid
glycoglycerolipid
Related terms: glyceride
bepelts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bepelt
bepelting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bepelt
bepelted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bepelt
bepinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bepinch
bepinching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bepinch
bepinched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bepinch
bepommels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bepommel
bepommelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bepommel
bepommelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bepommel
bespeckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bespeckle
bespeckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bespeckle
bespeckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bespeckle
beveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bevelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bevel
beveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bevelings
form: bevelling
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bevelling.
bibbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bibble
bibbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bibble
bibbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bibble
biodegrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biodegrade
biodegrading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biodegrade
birching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birchings
Senses: glosses: A beating with a birch.
birching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of birch
birched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of birch
blandishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blandish