cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bejade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bejades
form: bejading
form: bejaded
form: bejaded
Etymology: From be- + jade.
Senses: examples: text: but if you have no mercy upon them, yet ſpare your ſelfe, leſt you bejade the good Galloway, your owne opiniaſter Wit,
ref: 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: To tire.
bardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bardisms
Etymology: From bard + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The system, learning, beliefs, or status of bards.
bardisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bardism
branchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From branchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being branchy.
reedwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reed + work.
Senses: examples: text: This organ has been praised by many intelligent people, particularly for its reedwork, and I must confess that it gave great pleasure when I examined it.
ref: 1956, Organ Institute Quarterly - Volumes 6-7, page 3233:
text: The finest reedwork was voiced by a Mr. Jeffrey who brought the art of low pressure reed voicing to a very high standard.
ref: 1976, Laurence Elvin, Forster and Andrews: Their Barrel, Chamber and Small Church Organs, page 102:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Collectively, the reed stops of an organ.
examples: text: Metal work, leather work, etc., substituted for woodwork and reedwork during other seasons of the year.
ref: 1939, Harry Amoss, L. Helen DeLaporte, Training Handicapped Children, page 73:
text: As a hobby, reedwork may well be the most familiar type of basketmaking, but it is not an American Indian tradition.
ref: 1976, Lura LaBarge, Basketmaking from the Beginning, page 41:
text: A highly skilled and attractive craft, reedwork can again be seen at Kasubi .
ref: 1994, St Paul's Cathedral Namirembe: A History and Guide, page 9:
text: there was evidence of excessive cutting of the reedwork, with the tongues loaded to improve regulation, not a Schulze practice.
ref: 2006, Bryan Hughes, The Schulze Dynasty: Organbuilders 1688-1880, page 150:
text: Others made "plasticine work, women's wool hats, christmas tree decorations, carding buttons, artificial flowers, reedwork ...brushes ... slippers ...... canvas shoes, dresses, millinery ... shirts ... [ and ] flower buttonholes.
ref: 2006, Jeff Keshen, Raymond Benjamin Blake, Social Fabric Or Patchwork Quilt, page 71:
glosses: The craft of weaving reeds or grasses, or the goods produced by this craft.
autoerotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From autoerotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an autoerotic manner.
lymphy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lymphy
form: most lymphy
Etymology: From lymph + -y.
Senses: examples: text: lymphy exudation
text: lymphy deposit
glosses: Containing or resembling lymph.
majorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majorships
Etymology: From major + -ship.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: majorate
glosses: The position or office of major.
majorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of majorship
subadarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subadarships
Etymology: From subadar + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or office of subadar.
subadarships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subadarship
subedarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subedarships
Etymology: From subedar + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or office of subedar.
subedarships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subedarship
incompass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incompasses
form: incompassing
form: incompassed
form: incompassed
Etymology: From in- + compass.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of encompass.
incompassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incompass
incompasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incompass
incompassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incompass
plagio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪdʒɪəʊ/
Etymology: From Late Latin plagio-, from Ancient Greek πλάγιος (plágios, “oblique”).
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Slanted, oblique.
electrovital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + vital.
Senses: glosses: Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
indissolubleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indissoluble + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: a state of immortality and indissolubleness of his Composition
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being indissoluble.
dulcifluous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dulcifluous
form: most dulcifluous
Etymology: From Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + fluere (“to flow”).
Senses: glosses: sweet in nature, character, or sound.
infraspinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From infra- + spinal.
Senses: examples: text: infraspinal fossa
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: subvertebral
infraspinate
glosses: Below the vertebral column/spine
muride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin muria (“brine”) (since it was obtained from seawater) + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bromine
disburser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disbursers
Etymology: From disburse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disburses money.
disbursers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disburser
overput
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overputs
form: overputting
form: overput
form: overput
Etymology: From Middle English overputten, equivalent to over- + put.
Senses: glosses: To overthrow; subdue.
heiau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪaʊ/
Forms: form: heiaus
form: heiau
Etymology: From Hawaiian heiau.
Senses: examples: text: The basalt was also piled to outline large squares in the ceremonial centres known as heiau'''s.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 52:
text: They'd order lawbreakers put to death in fearsome ritualized killings that took place in a heiau, accompanied by beating drums and chants.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press 2012, page xix:
glosses: A temple in traditional Hawaiian society.
macrurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Macrura + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: macrural
macruroid
glosses: Of or pertaining to an obsolete subdivision of crustaceans, Macrura, having long tails.
sparkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sparkish
form: most sparkish
Etymology: From spark + -ish.
Senses: examples: 1697, William Walsh, Preface to John Dryden's The Works of Virgil
Is there any thing more parkih and better-humour'd than Venus her accosting her Son in the Dearts of Libya?
glosses: Like a spark; airy; gay, lively.
examples: text: Birds that value themselves upon a Sparkish Outside
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: showy; well-dressed
Synonyms: sparkful
heiaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heiau
archaeologian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeologians
Senses: glosses: An archaeologist.
archaeologians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeologian
boltel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boltels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boultel.
boltels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boltel
hypersthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersthenic
form: most hypersthenic
Etymology: From hypersthene + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: hypersthenic rock
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of, or containing, hypersthene.
hypersthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersthenic
form: most hypersthenic
Etymology: From hypersthenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to hypersthenia.
hypersthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersthenics
Etymology: From hypersthenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has hypersthenia.
triturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: triturable substances
text: [minerals are] not only triturable, and reducible into powder by contrition.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being triturated.
lyrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyrisms
Etymology: From lyre + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But he had found that humdrum world in a terribly dynamic condition, in which even badinage and lyrism had turned explosive;
ref: 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Part 8, Chapter 82:
glosses: The act of playing on a lyre or harp.
malacopterygian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malacopterygians
Etymology: From translingual Malacopterygii + -an.
Senses: glosses: (zoology) Any of the obsolete order of fish Malacopterygii.
malacopterygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malacopterygian
epozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic.
cavilingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From caviling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With petty criticism.
deperdition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deperditions
Senses: examples: text: For the activity of the agent, being not able to overmaſter the reſiſtance of the patient, there will enſue no deperdition.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 163:
text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
glosses: Loss; destruction
micropegmatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropegmatites
Etymology: From micro- + pegmatite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rock showing under the microscope the structure of pegmatite.
Related terms: micropegmatitic
micropegmatites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropegmatite
bumbast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bombast.
bumbast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bumbasts
form: bumbasting
form: bumbasted
form: bumbasted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bombast.
on dit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒ̃ diː/
Forms: form: on dits
Etymology: Borrowed from French on-dit (“they say; it is said”).
Senses: examples: text: It is a mere on dit.
text: Lady Marchmont was an object of her especial dislike; she feared her wit, and could not forgive her youth and beauty. Moreover, there was an interest in any on dit about one so much the rage; her looks, laces, and sayings, were equally invaluable as matters of gossip.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Gossipping”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 93:
text: Though he is too modest to admit it, Lord Doak gives a cachet to our smart quartier such as it has not received since the ever-memorable visit of the Earl of Sittingbourne. Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal industries.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “15”, in Babbitt:
text: The ‘on dit’ at Lippincott was that she [author Harper Lee] only had one book in her […]
ref: 2015 July 3, Gaby Wood, “Harper Lee: The inside story of the greatest comeback in literature [print version: The curious case of Harper Lee, 4 July 2015, p. 6]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), archived from the original on 07 Jul 2015:
glosses: A rumour; hearsay
on dits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of on dit
dementedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demented + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being demented.
dementialike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dementialike
form: most dementialike
Etymology: From dementia + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of dementia.
rapinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rapinous
form: most rapinous
Etymology: From rapine + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Given to rapine (looting).
imperceivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imperceivable
form: most imperceivable
Etymology: From im- + perceivable.
Senses: examples: text: by a long Train of gradual , imperceivable Encroaches of the Flesh upon the Spirit
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: that cannot be perceived; imperceptible
Related terms: imperceivableness
imperceivably
imperceivableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imperceivable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being imperceivable.
Siennese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Siennese
form: most Siennese
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sienese.
tetrahexahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrahexahedron
tetrahexahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrahexahedrons
form: tetrahexahedra
Etymology: From tetra- + hexahedron.
Senses: glosses: A tetrakis hexahedron
Derived terms: tetrahexahedral
tetrahexahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrahexahedron
endeavorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endeavorers
form: endeavourer
Etymology: From endeavor + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes an effort or attempt.
endeavorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endeavorer
indeficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indeficiency
indeficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indeficiencies
Etymology: From in- + deficiency.
Senses: examples: text: the indeficiency of faith, final perseverance
ref: 1718, John Strype, Life and Acts of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury:
glosses: The state or quality of not being deficient; sufficiency
Related terms: indeficient
quenouille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quenouilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French quenouille.
Senses: examples: text: We had now an opportunity of seeing both pyramidal and quenouille trees, properly so called: they differ so slightly, that it is little wonder the terms should generally be considered as convertible.
ref: 1823, Patrick Neill, Journal of a Horticultural Tour Through Some Parts of Flanders, Holland, and the North of France, in the Autumn of 1817, page 386:
text: A portion of the pear trees, having been trained in the quenouille or pyramidal form , by bending downwards the young shoots at midsummer, and thus confined for a season, they retain their position forever after unchanged.
ref: 1843 January, William Kenrick, “Notes on England and France, during two several visits to those countries in the years 1840, 1841 and 1842”, in Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries, page 16:
text: By cutting your leading branches very short for a number of seasons, as in the case of that absurd form now happily abandoned—the "pillar" or "quenouill"—the tree becomes fruitful, it is true, but at the expense of size, form, and beauty.
ref: 2008, Thomas Brehaut, Cordon Training of Fruit Trees, page 14:
glosses: The distaff- or cone-like shape of a tree that has been subjected to quenouille training.
examples: text: At the garden of the London Horticultural Society, the trees are set very remarkably close, and generally trained as quenouilles, or in pyramidal forms. These also bore remarkable crops in that year, being furnished with limbs quite to the ...
ref: 1841 July, William Kenrick, letter from Newton, in The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, page 284
text: 1846, Charles Mason Hovey (editor, and author of Article I), "Article I", in Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs
The garden is laid out with a central walk through its entire length, and on each side of this are planted dwarf pears, some trained as pyramidal trees, some as quenouilles, and some as espaliers : and with these Mr. Washburn has tried ...
glosses: A tree trained to grow in this shape, the shape of a cone.
advisoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adviso
avisoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aviso
Peelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peelites
Etymology: From Peel + -ite, after Sir Robert Peel.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: One of a breakaway faction of the British Conservative Party in the nineteenth century, characterised by a commitment to free trade and a managerial, almost technocratic, approach to government.
Peelites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peelite
unadvertisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unadvertisable
form: most unadvertisable
Etymology: From un- + advertisable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be advertised.
Yunnanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Yunnanese
form: most Yunnanese
Etymology: From Yunnan + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Chinese province of Yunnan.
Yunnanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yunnan + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The people of Yunnan in China.
keyaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyakis
Etymology: From Japanese 欅.
Senses: glosses: An Asian tree, Zelkova serrata.
profitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profiting
photoreal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photoreal
form: most photoreal
Etymology: From photo- + real.
Senses: examples: text: Frequently, you can use the texture from one object to surface a completely different object. Figure 8.26 illustrates how a crab shell texture makes a wonderful photoreal fruit skin.
ref: 1998, Dan Ablan, Patrik Beck, Inside LightWave 3D:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting photorealism.
refittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refitting
requisitionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From requisition + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being requisitioned.
disfiguringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disfiguringly
form: most disfiguringly
Etymology: From disfiguring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to cause disfigurement.
Solomonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Solomonic
form: most Solomonic
Etymology: From Solomon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: I did not want her to think that it was a foolish question, so I pretended to think and in a moment of Solomonic wisdom I said, "You know many rabbis have been asked this question and although some said Macintosh while others said Delicious, most of them encouraged a combination of both."
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 72:
glosses: Relating to or resembling Solomon, a king of Israel noted for his wisdom; wise.
examples: text: Near-synonym: solonic
text: It is woth having regard in this context to its Solomonic solution to the language problem. During the Apartheid era, there were two official languages, both those of the white minority—English and Afrikaans. There was no majority language in the population of some 43 million people. To follow other former British colonies in Africa and adopt English as the sole official language would have been unacceptable to the six million Afrikaans-speaking South Africans (three million white and three million 'coloreds'). English was the home language of only three million South Africans […]. To retain both white languages as the official languages of post-Apartheid would have been demeaning of the nine main indigenous languages. The solution was the recognition of eleven official languages: the two 'white languages' and nine indigenous languages.
ref: 2012 October 11, Anver M. Emon, Mark Ellis, Benjamin Glahn, Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 367:
text: ... proposed the Solomonic solution of dividing Upper Silesia, which even as a least bad solution would “remix" the very peoples the plebiscite had sought to “unmix." Given the divided vote between urban and rural areas, and even within urban areas, no border could be drawn without leaving large numbers of Germans in Poland, or large numbers of Poles in Germany.
ref: 2018 March 2, Leonard V. Smith, Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 241:
text: a Solomonic judgement
glosses: Resembling the Judgement of Solomon; involving the division of something between several groups with competing claims.
examples: a Solomonic language
glosses: Relating to the Solomon Islands.
examples: a Solomonic column
topics: architecture
synonyms: barley-sugar
glosses: Twisted helically.
Related terms: split the baby
jelq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛlk/
rhymes: -ɛlk
Etymology: From Persian جلق (jalq).
Senses: glosses: A penis enlargement technique in which the thumb and index finger are wrapped around the penis and repeatedly drawn away from the body in order to force blood into the glans and encourage vascularity.
Related terms: jelqing
jelq
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛlk/
rhymes: -ɛlk
Forms: form: jelqs
form: jelqing
form: jelqed
form: jelqed
Etymology: From Persian جلق (jalq).
Senses: glosses: To stroke and squeeze one's penile shaft with the aim of increasing the girth or length of the penis.
Derived terms: jelqer
jelqing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jelq + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The use of the jelq technique for penis enlargement.
nitrokeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrokegs
Etymology: From nitro- + keg.
Senses: glosses: A beer keg pressurised by nitrogen rather than carbon dioxide.
nitrokegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrokeg
Bongard problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bongard problems
Etymology: After their inventor, the Russian computer scientist Mikhail Moiseevich Bongard (Михаил Моисеевич Бонгард, 1924—1971).
Senses: glosses: A kind of puzzle in which there is one common factor in a first set of diagrams that is missing from a second set. The solver (possibly a computer program) must identify this factor.
barwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barwomen
Etymology: From bar + woman.
Senses: examples: text: The barwoman gazes at us, two giggly fools at ease, and takes comfort in our joy.
ref: 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water, Viking, page 80:
glosses: A woman who serves drinks at a bar.
barwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barwoman
shinies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiny
biogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biogens
Etymology: From bio- + -gen.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: bioplasm
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: biophor
silicofluoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From silico- + fluoric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing, or composed of, silicon and fluorine.
Related terms: silicofluoric acid
silicofluoride
French kissers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French kisser
Flamsteedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Flamsteedian
form: most Flamsteedian
Etymology: From Flamsteed + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Sir John Flamsteed (1646–1719), English astronomer.
starman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starmen
Etymology: From star + -man.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A spaceman.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An alien; a person who comes from another star system.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of a star.
batwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batwoman
inhabitativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inhabitative + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences
glosses: A propensity towards permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
bonesetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bone + setting.
Senses: glosses: the trade of a bonesetter, the practice of realigning broken or disjointed bones
catwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catwomen
Etymology: From cat + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman in a cat costume.
Related terms: catgirl
genderedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gendered + -ness.
Senses: examples: the genderedness of nouns in French
glosses: The quality of having gender.
transgenderedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transgendered + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I have also stressed Jess's role as a “mother” to Kim—by which I mean her role in offering the daughter not only transgenderedness but also empowered femaleness.
ref: 2003, Susan Fraiman, Cool Men and the Second Sex, page 155:
text: My husband's transgenderedness is not a present, or if it is, it's a present I'd return if I had the receipt. So would he. Not because we don't like it — we both do, to an extent — but because there's nowhere to put it. We can't put it in the closet because that makes him unhappy, and we can't put it out in public because that makes everyone else unhappy.
ref: 2006, J. Ari Kane-Demaios, Vern L. Bullough, Crossing Sexual Boundaries: Transgender Journeys, Uncharted Paths:
text: To her surprise Deirdre will find that the inevitable challenge to her transgenderedness she anticipates does not come from her profession.
ref: 2007, Dana Anderson, Identity's Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion, page 131:
glosses: The condition of being transgendered.
Synonyms: transgenderness
others at transness
subscribable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subscribe + -able.
Senses: examples: text: But I will suppose the person a minister: but minister of a Church which has expressly disclaimed all pretence to infallibility; a Church which in the construction of its Liturgy and Articles is known to have worded certain passages for the purpose of rendering them subscribable by both A and Z—that is, the opposite parties as to the points in controversy.
ref: 1840, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection and The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit:
text: He objected because the amount of stock subscribable was not enough to raise the price of that stock in the market; because the amount of Treasury notes subscribable would not benefit the public credit in the least; because the bank could furnish no real aid in the way of loans; and because during the way it could not be relied on to provide a circulating medium.
ref: 1883, John Bach McMaster, A History of the People of the United States:
text: In principle, geolocalization enables people to aggregate content from multiple sites within the same community, as long as those sites offer webfeeds or some other form of subscribable update.
ref: 2004, Christian Crumlish, The Power of Many: How the Living Web Is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Life:
glosses: Capable of being subscribed to; permitting subscription.
flint glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flint glasses
Etymology: Originally made of calcined flints.
Senses: glosses: A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware and in optical instruments.
Synonyms: crystal glass
labrose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labrose
form: most labrose
Etymology: From Latin labrosus, from labrum (“lip”).
Senses: glosses: Having thick lips.
depressomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From depress + -o- + motor.
Senses: examples: text: Depressomotor nerves lower or inhibit muscular activity.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement.
depressomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depressomotors
Etymology: From depress + -o- + motor.
Senses: examples: text: Bromides are depressomotors.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centres.
depressomotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depressomotor
discardure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discard + -ure.
Senses: examples: text: In what shape does it constitute a plea for the discardure of religion
ref: 1780, T. Hayter, Remarks on Mr. Hume's dialogues:
text: Under certain circumstances it permits the discardure of the use of injection.
ref: 1873, The Medical News:
glosses: rejection; dismissal
experimentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more experimentarian
form: most experimentarian
Etymology: From experiment + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: an experimentarian philosopher
glosses: Relying on experiment or experience.
experimentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experimentarians
Etymology: From experiment + -arian.
Senses: synonyms: eperimenter
glosses: One who relies on experiment or experience.
experimentarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experimentarian
antiexposure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + exposure.
Senses: glosses: Preventing exposure.
lordkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lordkins
Etymology: From lord + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: Our poor little pauper just mentioned is dosed with Daffy's Elixir , and somehow survives the drug. Princekin or lordkin from his earliest days has nurses , dependants , governesses , little friends , schoolfellows , schoolmasters[…]
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A little, or unimportant, lord.
lordkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lordkin
cookroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookrooms
Etymology: From cook + room.
Senses: examples: text: […] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage.
ref: 1855, Pharoah and Co, A Gazetteer of Southern India, page 553:
glosses: A kitchen or room for cookery.
examples: text: […] in all their Ships (for the most Part) the Cook-rooms are built in their Forecastles, contrary to that which hath been anciently used.
ref: c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service:
glosses: The galley or caboose of a ship.
cookrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookroom
calcareoargillaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calcareo- + argillaceous.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Consisting of, or containing, chalk and clay.
dephlegmatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dephlegmatory
form: most dephlegmatory
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.
divertive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tɪv/
Forms: form: more divertive
form: most divertive
Etymology: From divert + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: things of a pleasant and divertive nature
ref: a. 1729, John Rogers, The Advantages of good Discourse:
text: Divertive theoretic and historic considerations have been scrupulously avoided.
ref: 1925, Elmer LeRoy Ryer, Ophthalmometry, Optical Publishing Company, Preface, page V:
glosses: fun; amusing; interesting.
elytriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elytriform
form: most elytriform
Etymology: From elytron + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: elytriform wings
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the form or structure of an elytron.
mellitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellitates
Etymology: From mellitic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of mellitic acid.
mellitates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mellitate
stablers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stabler
winglessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From wingless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without wings.
flightlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From flightless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without the power of flight.
unsentient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sentient.
Senses: glosses: Lacking sentience.
monothalmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ælmɪk
Etymology: See monothalamous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Formed of a single pistil; said of fruits.
rubedinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubedinous
form: most rubedinous
Etymology: From Latin rubēdō (“redness”), from rubeō (“I am red, ruddy”).
Senses: examples: text: rain of rubedinous aspect
ref: 1845, Moses Stuart, A Commentary on the Apocalypse:
glosses: reddish
disingenuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disingenuities
Etymology: From dis- + ingenuity.
Senses: examples: text: […]it was only his Obſervation of the Diſingenuity, and want of Integrity in this Parliament, which leſſened that Reverence to it,[…]
ref: 1702, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, Book IV, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, volume I, Oxford: The Theater, page 340:
text: For example; Do you seriously believe, and mean to assert, that it is impossible for any person, even for a philosopher, to be guilty of disingenuity and falsehood, by professing to believe a sophism which he really did not[…]?
ref: 1819, James Gregory, Letters from Dr. James Gregory of Edinburgh: In Defence of His Essay on the Difference of the Relation Between Motive and Action and that of Cause and Effect in Physics, with Replies, by Alex. Crombie, page 289:
glosses: Synonym of disingenuousness.
synonyms: word: disingenuousness
palladious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palladium + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing palladium; used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence compared with palladic compounds.
liquorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liquorous
form: most liquorous
Etymology: See lickerish.
Senses: examples: text: Suſpectles, too ſuſpectles: till the crowde: / (Still liquerous of vntried nouelties) / Impatient with ſeuerer gouernment: / Made ſtrong with Florence: baniſht Altofront.
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv:
glosses: Eagerly desirous.
spousess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spousesses
Etymology: From spouse + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: One account has it that at the ceremony there 'were no persons present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlemen and a young man to help the priest sing.'
ref: 2007, Anne Crawford, quoting Robert Fabyan, The Yorkists: The history of a dynasty. (History), quoted in The New Chronicles of England and France (1515), →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: A wife or bride.
snatchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snatchingly
form: most snatchingly
Etymology: From snatching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a snatching motion.
aliseptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛptəl
Etymology: From ali- + septal.
Senses: examples: text: The prenasal cartilage (Fig. 70, pn) still points downwards, and by this time are formed the alinasal cartilages (Fig. 70, aln) developed from the trabecular horns, and the aliseptal cartilages which enclose the inferior turbinals (Fig. 70).
ref: 1874, Sir Michael Foster, The Elements of Embryology, page 231:
text: Such lateral developments of the ethmoid plate are the aliethmoid, aliseptal, and alinasal.
ref: 1884, Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds:
text: This lower view (Plate 15, fib. 1) shows, behind the exposed part of the snout already described, that the double nasal canal, after narrowing in a little, enlarges only gradually in the aliseptal region (al.sp.).
ref: 1885, William Kitchen Parker, On the Structure and Development of the Skull in the Mammalia:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.
proudlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proudling
spherograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherographs
Etymology: From sphero- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off.
Related terms: Spirograph
spherographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spherograph
pontifician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pontifician
form: most pontifician
Senses: examples: text: Pontifician Laws
ref: 1645, Joseph Hall, The Peacemaker:
glosses: Of or relating to the pontiff or pope.
pontifician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontificians
Senses: examples: text: Freewill made no such controversie among moderate men , either of the Pontifician or Protestant side
ref: 1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: a just Appeale from two unjust Informers:
glosses: One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist.
Related terms: pontiff
pontificians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pontifician
buccaneerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buccaneerish
form: most buccaneerish
Etymology: From buccaneer + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a buccaneer; piratical.
forgetive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forgetive
form: most forgetive
Etymology: From forge (“to make”).
Senses: examples: text: A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: inventive; productive; capable
hydrosalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrosalts
Etymology: From hydro- + salt.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt supposed to be formed by a hydracid and a base.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid salt.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization.
hydrosalts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrosalt
terminatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From terminative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to terminate; terminatingly.
liquescency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquescencies
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being liquescent.
transcalency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Oh my fucking god, bro! The transcalency of that substance is higher than you were last night after toking on all those joints!
glosses: The quality or state of being transcalent; conductivity to heat.
revengeance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revengeances
Etymology: From revenge + vengeance.
Senses: examples: text: And if you want to sing a mocking, dark, moralistic song...well, that's just the icing on the cake. It's their just desserts, really. “And those, my protégé, are my three revengeances.”
ref: 2018, Best Tardy, Beware the Stars, →ISBN, page 480:
glosses: Vengeance; revenge.
conducibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: deriving their obligation from their conducibility to the promoting of our chief end
ref: 1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion:
glosses: The state or quality of being conducible.
nolleity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin nolleitās, from nolle (“to be unwilling”) + -ity. Formed on the model of velleity.
Senses: examples: text: For the latter, it is true indeed, that for the most part it falls out, that every one that is to be punished is unwilling to undergoe it, and there is an improper nolleity (if I may so speak) in nature, unto the subtracting of any good from it, or the immission of any evill upon it; […]
ref: 1655, John Owen, Vindiciæ Evangelicæ […], page 484:
text: He demeriteth ipso facto any Ecclesiastical dignity, that receiveth it not with some nolleity & reluctancie.
ref: 1662, The Merit and Honour Of the Old English Clergy […], page [8]:
text: In ordinary places, which are dependent on the personal offerings of the worshippers, the virtue of voluntaryism is eclipsed by the vice of nolleity.
ref: 1869 October, “Church Finance”, in The General Baptist Magazine, volume 71, number 34, page 315:
glosses: The state of being unwilling; nolition.
methodizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methodizers
Etymology: From methodize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who methodizes; someone who does things methodically.
methodizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methodizer
porpesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porpesses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of porpoise.
porpesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porpess
glosses: plural of porpesse
reformalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reformalizes
form: reformalizing
form: reformalized
form: reformalized
Etymology: From re- + formalize.
Senses: glosses: To formalize again.
reformalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reformalizes
form: reformalizing
form: reformalized
form: reformalized
Etymology: From reform.
Senses: glosses: To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
reformalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reformalize
reformalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reformalize
reformalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reformalize
somnific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒmˈnɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /sɑmˈnɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more somnific
form: most somnific
Etymology: From Latin somnificus, from somnus (“sleep”) + facere (“to make”). By surface analysis, somn- + -ific.
Senses: glosses: Causing sleep; somniferous.
chloroplastid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloroplastids
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A chloroplast.
Synonyms: chloroleucite
chloroplastids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloroplastid
foreordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreordinations
Etymology: From fore- + ordination.
Senses: synonyms: word: destiny
word: doom
word: chance
word: destin
word: destiny
word: doom
word: fatality
word: fate
word: foredoom
word: foreordination
word: fortune
word: kismet
word: lot
word: orlay
word: portion
word: predestination
word: predestiny
word: preordination
word: qadar
word: weird
word: wyrd
glosses: Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
footlicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footlickers
Etymology: From foot + licker.
Senses: examples: text: […]Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy Caliban, / For aye thy foot-licker.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: A sycophant; a fawner; a toady
glosses: Someone who licks another's feet.
Related terms: bootlicker
bootlick
footlickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footlicker
scranky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scranky
form: most scranky
Etymology: Probably related to scrawny and lanky
Senses: glosses: thin; lean
temptatious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more temptatious
form: most temptatious
Senses: glosses: tempting; inciting desire.
perspectography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Senses: glosses: The science or art of drawing in perspective.
Related terms: perspectograph
ludibrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ludibrious
form: most ludibrious
Etymology: From Latin ludibrium (“mockery, derision”), from ludere (“to play, sport”).
Senses: examples: text: Genius, enamor'd of his fruitful bride,
Assumes new force and elevates his pride.
No more, recumbent o'er his finger'd style,
He plods whole years each copy to compile,
Leaves to ludibrious winds the priceless page,
Or to chance fires the treasure of an age;
But bold and buoyant, with his sister Fame,
He strides o'er earth, holds high his ardent flame,
Calls up Discovery with her tube and scroll,
And points the trembling magnet to the pole.
ref: 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:
text: Carols, too, receive ludibrious attention; and it is not unusual for small Christmas singers at the door to offer their own words to the familiar tunes […]
ref: 1959, Iona Opie, Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren:
glosses: sportive; wanton
examples: text: the Souldiers Geniculations, thornie Coronation, and ludibrious Gesticulations
ref: 1619, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrim or Microcosmus:
glosses: ridiculous
Derived terms: ludibriously
Related terms: ludibrium
ludibry