cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
feminology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin fēmina + -ology.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of women's studies.
synonyms: word: women's studies
Derived terms: feminological
feminologist
Related terms: feminism
gynecology
feminologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feminologists
Etymology: From feminology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who studies feminology.
feminologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feminologist
feminological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feminology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Concerning or by means of feminology.
squirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: squirls
Etymology: Blend of squiggle + twirl.
Senses: glosses: A flourish in handwriting.
squirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: squirls
Etymology: Eye-dialect.
Senses: examples: text: “Git up that tree. Look here at this squirl, Benjy.”
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Folio Society, published 2016, page 6:
glosses: A squirrel.
wehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weh
ahun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “I told him to keep them in his pockets.” Versh said. “Holding on to that ahun gate.”
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Folio Society, published 2016, page 6:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of iron, representing African-American Vernacular English.
school district
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school districts
Senses: synonyms: school division
glosses: An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.
Related terms: school board
school districts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school district
harmonometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds.
harmonometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmonometer
phenosafranine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemical compound C₁₈H₁₅ClN₄, used in photography.
harmoniphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmoniphones
Etymology: From its morphology, harmony + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A free-reed musical instrument played with a keyboard, in which the sounds are produced by reeds set in a tube, and vibrating under pressure from the breath; a precursor of the modern melodica.
harmoniphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmoniphone
Tawang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for the Tawang Monastery, which was named by Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso. Supposedly means "chosen by the horse" in a local language.
Senses: glosses: An administrative district of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
glosses: A town, the district headquarters of Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Tawang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ibaloi tayawan (“place to perform a tayaw ritual”), wherein it was held in the caves in the area.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Banig, Boted, Central Tawang, Dengsi, Papasok, Tayawan — sitios of Tawang
glosses: A barangay of La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines.
milkshake duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkshake ducks
form: Milkshake Duck
Etymology: From a Twitter post by Ben Ward (pixelatedboat) on June 12th, 2016: "The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist".
Senses: glosses: Someone or something, especially on social media, that is widely considered to be endearing, but is then discovered to be or have done something deeply flawed or distasteful.
milkshake duck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: milkshake ducks
form: milkshake ducking
form: milkshake ducked
form: milkshake ducked
form: Milkshake Duck
Etymology: From a Twitter post by Ben Ward (pixelatedboat) on June 12th, 2016: "The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist".
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:milkshake duck.
glosses: To reveal (someone or something recently beloved by the internet) to be a milkshake duck (noun).
Shangri-las
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shangri-la. (alternative letter-case form of Shangri-Las.)
14-18 war
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: '14-'18
Etymology: From the years in which the war was fought, 1914 to 1918.
Senses: glosses: World War I.
Antlered God
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Antlered God
Senses: topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The second major supernatural figure in the Wiccan religion, a triune god equal to the Goddess, split into the aspects of Father, Master, and the Sage.
Synonyms: Horned God
misnomial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From misnomer, with the choice of adjectivizing suffix -ial possibly influenced by nomial. Compare misnominal.
Senses: examples: text: There are three classes of cases which may be considered :
(1) Hysteria pure and simple simulating organic disease, as in the misnomial pseudo-peritonitis. […]
ref: 1899, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 441:
text: These cases are distinguishable in that the misnomers therein consist in the use of the statutory word to describe a substance which was not included within the common meaning of that statutory term. However, in the case at bar, the misnomial word is "rice" which is used merely as an adjective to modify the noun "paper," whereas the aforesaid noun "paper" is used to name the substance and has the same connotation as the statutory term.
ref: 1958, United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Court of Customs and Patent Appeals:
text: To call a motion picture reviewer a critic, in the strict sense of the word, is as misnomial as calling a Chicago hog butcher a surgeon.
ref: 1975, Pare Lorentz, Lorentz on film: movies 1927 to 1941:
text: No, this poor fellow, this Private Bright (yes, a misnomial handle) grunted obligingly and gaped at the so far unlooted painting […]
ref: 2013, Jonathan Meades, Pompey: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Being a misnomer.
Synonyms: word: misnominal
misnominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of misnomer + nominal, or mis- + nominal.
Senses: examples: text: .For a similar reason many of the peninsulas are named islands. Is not this feature peculiar to Irish nomenclature? By no means. "Portland Isle" in Dorsetshire (South England) is no island at all: and ''gulf," in the nomenclature of southern Europe, is frequently a misnomer of this description. Every language has little misnominal vagaries […]
ref: 1859, John Henneberry Greene, William Doyle (printer, Cincinnati.), A Catechism of Irish Geography and Topography: Physical, Social, Historical and Biographical, for Schools and Families, page 14
text: The varied enumeration of these Official titles is either fallacious or misnominal.
ref: 1918, Problems in Historical Method and Source Analysis in the Antecedents to the Ides of March, 44 B.C.:
text: However, since the substance is not derived from a rice plant, the court acknowledged that the use of the word "rice" in connection with it could be considered misnominal.
ref: 1962, United States Customs Court Reports: Cases Adjudged in the United States Customs Court:
glosses: Being a misnomer.
Synonyms: word: misnomial
metropolitanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more metropolitanly
form: most metropolitanly
Etymology: From metropolitan + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a metropolitan manner
Cospeito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A parish and municipality of Lugo, Galicia, Spain.
Celanova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Ourense, Galicia, Spain.
you do you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: do you
Senses: examples: text: The implicit policy, in short, is: You do you.
ref: 2022 May 4, “Biden Is Rightsizing the COVID Crisis”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023:
synonyms: whatever floats your boat
do your own thing
glosses: Do whatever you want to do.
self-rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-rape
self-rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-rape
self-raping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-rape
self-raped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-rape
uneat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uneats
form: uneating
form: unate
form: uneaten
form: un-eat
Etymology: From un- + eat.
Senses: examples: text: And now I wished I could uneat them somehow. The ghost of those peas was rising in my throat and fuddling my brain, making it difficult to think or speak with any sense at all.
ref: 1998, Martin Greenberg, August is a Good Time for Killing, page 151:
text: In this chapter we will consider the development of an understanding of human history which was satisfying on both a mythic and an intellectual level; mythic, in that there evolved a symbolically adequate formulation of the accessibility of the golden age; intellectual, in that man was not asked to uneat the apple.
ref: 2008, John L. Greenway, The Golden Horns: Mythic Imagination and the Nordic Past, page 139:
text: Once we've eaten from it, we can't uneat it.
ref: 2013, S.G. Browne, Lucky Bastard, page 209:
glosses: To undo or reverse the eating of.
Related terms: undrink
tetrahedralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tetrahedralizes
form: tetrahedralizing
form: tetrahedralized
form: tetrahedralized
Etymology: From tetrahedral + -ize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To convert to tetrahedrons.
raw_tags: of a surface or a mesh
broad-beamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broad-beamed
form: most broad-beamed
form: broad across the beam
form: broad in the beam
Senses: examples: 1969, Philip K. Dick, Ubik, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston: 2012, p 171.
' "May I use your phone book? he asked the broad-beamed, middle-aged proprietor. "In the rear," the proprietor said amiably, with a jerk of his heavy thumb.'
glosses: Wide across body parts such as the hips.
raw_tags: of a person
Pac-Man defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pac-Man defences
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pac-Man defense.
Pac-Man defenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pac-Man defense
on the telephone
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Talking to someone using a telephone; Synonym of on the phone.
glosses: Connected to a telephone system.
brassen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brassens
form: brassening
form: brassened
form: brassened
Etymology: From brass + -en.
Senses: examples: text: He could possibly understand a man wishing to blacken the gray as he aged, it was only natural—to a point, and then it was not. But to brassen one's hair like a homosexual?
ref: 2004, Tom Morrisey, Deep Blue, page 290:
text: 'You seem disappointed, was I supposed to brassen up. I thought this was other biz, not a shag call.'
ref: 2011, Ken Bruen, Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice:
glosses: To make like or become like brass, particularly in fortitude or colour
Balasubramaniam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A South Indian surname.
saltened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salten
saltening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salten
saltens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of salten
streaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: streakens
form: streakening
form: streakened
form: streakened
Etymology: From streak + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Cullan stopped in his tracks...a double-decker bus made a large angular shadow against the now silver streakening cloudscape, incongruous in this reeded sandscape, like a boat in a desert.
ref: 2013, Anthony Ryan, Candle and Sun, page 123:
glosses: To mark or become marked with streaks.
streakened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of streaken
arbourization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbourizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arborization.
WHAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Placement World History.
Almario
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Almarios
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Almario. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
wastened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wasten
functional necrophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sexual mating with a corpse (ie. necrophilia), resulting in viable offspring (ie. functional).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A reproductive strategy in some amphibians wherein the male will inseminate a fresh newly-dead female corpse, fertilizing the still viable eggs, and then squeezing the corpse to eject the newly fertilized eggs into the water.
absorbtion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of absorption.
traumatic insemination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traumatic inseminations
Etymology: From traumatic + insemination, because of the traumatic injury to the female.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A method of insemination in some invertebrates, whereby the male stabs the body of the female in random locations to inject the sperm, thereby causing trauma to the female.
Synonyms: hypodermic insemination
origamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From origamic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Edgar, on the other hand, ate only one before resealing the bag with an origamically precise fold.
ref: 2017, Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy: A Novel, page 89:
glosses: By means of origami.
characteristic root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characteristic roots
Etymology: Calque of French racine caractéristique, the term preferred by French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857).
Senses: examples: text: 1962 [Prentice Hall], Leonard E. Fuller, Basic Matrix Theory, 2017, Dover, page 217,
There is an important relationship between the characteristic roots of a symmetric matrix and the r and p of the associated quadratic form. It is true that the number of positive characteristic roots is p, whereas the number of nonzero characteristic roots is r.
text: The determinant of a matrix is the product of its characteristic roots.
ref: 1985, Takeshi Amemiya, Advanced Econometrics, Harvard University Press, page 459:
text: 2009, Babu Ram, Engineering Mathematics, Pearson Education India, page 13.56,
Theorem 13.54. The characteristic roots of a Hermitian matrix are real.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An eigenvalue.
wikipedia: Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Related terms: characteristic polynomial
characteristic vector
characteristic roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of characteristic root
baby-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baby talk.
baby-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baby-talks
form: baby-talking
form: baby-talked
form: baby-talked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babytalk.
hydroptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /haɪˈdɹɒptɪk/
Forms: form: more hydroptic
form: most hydroptic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydropic.
mayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of may
lacertians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacertian
reactualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reactualizes
form: reactualizing
form: reactualized
form: reactualized
form: reactualise
Etymology: From re- + actualize.
Senses: glosses: To actualize again.
Related terms: actualization
deactualization
reactualization
self-actualize
reactualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reactualize
reactualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reactualize
reactualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reactualize
hygroscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hygroscopical
form: most hygroscopical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hygroscopic.
tobaccanalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of tobacco + Bacchanalian?
Senses: glosses: Relating to the smoking of tobacco.
tobaccanalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tobaccanalians
Etymology: Blend of tobacco + Bacchanalian?
Senses: glosses: A person who smokes tobacco.
tobaccanalians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tobaccanalian
dancette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dancettes
Etymology: Apparently from a scribal error for French or Middle French denché, from Old French denché, dansié, from Latin dens (“tooth”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:dancette.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A zigzag or indented line or figure.
topics: architecture
glosses: The chevron or zigzag moulding common in Romanesque architecture.
dancettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dancette
shraadha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shraadhas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shraddha.
shraadhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shraadha
premandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From pre- + mandibular.
Senses: glosses: In front of the lower jaw.
premandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: premandibulars
Etymology: From pre- + mandibular.
Senses: glosses: A bone in front of the lower jaw in some reptiles.
premandibulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premandibular
stomach pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomach pump
murgeoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of murgeon
murgeoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of murgeon
murgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of murgeon
murgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murgeon
Origenistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Origenist
ostreiculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostreiculturist
ostreicultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ostreiculture.
ostreacultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ostreaculture.
ostreaculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostreaculturists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ostreiculturist.
ostreaculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostreaculturist
Bartmann jug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bartmann jugs
Etymology: From German Bartmann (“bearded man”).
Senses: glosses: A bellarmine.
Bartmann jugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bartmann jug
threatfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From threatful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being threatful.
iliotibial band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iliotibial bands
Senses: examples: text: Both conditions are a type of repetitive strain injury from friction at either end of an important structure known as the iliotibial band. Because the common denominator in what causes injury is friction, both conditions are collectively referred to as iliotibial band friction syndrome. Runner's knee is the more common form of this syndrome.
ref: 2004, Stuart C. Apfel, MD, David C Saidoff, PT, The Healthy Body Handbook: A Total Guide to the Prevention and Treatment of Sports Injuries, Demos Medical Publishing, page 139
text: With the increased interest in jogging and long-distance bicycling, iliotibial band bursitis is being encountered more frequently in clinical practice. The iliotibial band bursa lies between the iliotibial band and the lateral condyle of the femur. The iliotibial band is an extension of the fascia lata, which inserts at the lateral condyle of the tibia. The iliotibial band can rub back and forth over the lateral epicondyle of the femur and irritate the iliotibial bursa beneath […]
ref: 2013, Steven D. Waldman, Atlas of Uncommon Pain Syndromes, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 313:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: IT band
ITB
iliotibial tract
Maissiat's band
glosses: A group of fibers that run along the outside of the thigh, an extension of the fascia lata.
Derived terms: iliotibial band friction syndrome
iliotibial band syndrome
IT band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IT bands
form: IT Band
Senses: examples: text: The ilio tibial (IT) band isn't a muscle; it's a thick strip of much less elastic tissue called fascia, a fibrous material similar to tendons and ligaments. The IT band begins on the outer hip and connects to the leg bones at the outer knee, and its primary function is to stabilize your knee. Most yoga teachers, myself included, think it's not a good idea to stretch fascia. These tissues receive much less blood than muscle does, which means that even small tears heal slowly and the scarring makes […]
ref: 2006, Yoga Journal, page 124:
text: Often the pain may not appear until you are a mile or two into your workout, and may feel worse as you continue or when you run or walk downhill or downstairs. Many times the pain will subside if you stop running momentarily and walk with very short steps. That's because walking minimizes the rubbing of the band over the joint. Most often IT band problems occur at the knee, but you may also feel discomfort closer to your hip, and/or all along the IT band due to its tightness.
ref: 2009, Danny Dreyer, Katherine Dreyer, ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 229:
glosses: Initialism of iliotibial band.
iliotibial tract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iliotibial tracts
Senses: examples: text: The large bursa located between the greater trochanter and the iliotibial tract can become inflamed by mechanical irritation, causing severe pain. The snapping hip phenomenon is not necessarily pathologic; often the patient has the […]
ref: 1996, Rudolf Bauer, Fridun Kerschbaumer, Sepp Poisel, Atlas of Hip Surgery, Thieme, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Synonym of iliotibial band.
synonyms: word: iliotibial band
iliotibial band friction syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Both conditions are a type of repetitive strain injury from friction at either end of an important structure known as the iliotibial band. Because the common denominator in what causes injury is friction, both conditions are collectively referred to as iliotibial band friction syndrome. Runner's knee is the more common form of this syndrome.
ref: 2004, Stuart C. Apfel, MD, David C Saidoff, PT, The Healthy Body Handbook: A Total Guide to the Prevention and Treatment of Sports Injuries, Demos Medical Publishing, page 139
glosses: Synonym of iliotibial band syndrome.
synonyms: word: iliotibial band syndrome
pseudo-socialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudo-socialist
form: most pseudo-socialist
form: pseudosocialist
Etymology: From pseudo- + socialist.
Senses: glosses: Seemingly in favour of worker’s control, but essentially not.
pseudo-socialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-socialists
form: pseudosocialist
Etymology: From pseudo- + socialist.
Senses: glosses: One who claims to support the worker’s control over the production means, but practically does not.
pseudo-socialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-socialisms
form: pseudosocialism
Etymology: From pseudo- + socialism.
Senses: glosses: An economy wherein the workers seemingly own the production means, or it is claimed to be, but practically does not.
disciplinary loaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nutraloaf.
Compostela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: compostela
Etymology: From Spanish Compostela, from Galician Compostela, from Latin compositella (“the little well-organized one”), from composita (“put together, arranged”) + -ella (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from compōnere (“to put together”), from con- (“with, together”) + pōnere (“to put, to place”), q.v.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Santiago de Compostela: a city in Galicia, Spain, a major Christian pilgrimage site.
malacatoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malacatoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of melocoton.
malacatoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malacatoon
gladiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gladiate
shammatha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew שַׁמָּתָא (shammata).
Senses: glosses: The most severe form of excommunication among the ancient Jews.
monkey cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey caps
Senses: glosses: A balaclava.
monkey caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey cap
exheredated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exheredate
exheredates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exheredate
exheredating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exheredate
krypsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρύψις (krúpsis, “hiding, concealment”). Doublet of crypsis.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The doctrine that Christ, during His state of humiliation, continued to possess in a veiled way the divine attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, etc.
Related terms: kryptic
krupsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of krypsis.
crested ibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crested ibises
Senses: glosses: An ibis of the nearly extinct species Nipponia nippon, formerly native to much of east Asia, being restored in the wild from captive populations.
Synonyms: sense: Nipponia nippon
word: Japanese crested ibis
sense: Nipponia nippon
word: toki
theomantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to theomancy.
enorthotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enorthotropes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εν- (en-) + ὀρθός (orthós, “upright”) + -trope.
Senses: glosses: A toy consisting of a card on which confused objects are transformed into various pictures, by causing it to revolve rapidly.
enorthotropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enorthotrope
falchioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of falchion
butter-and-egger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter-and-eggers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of butter-and-egg man.
synonyms: word: butter-and-egg man
butter-and-eggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter-and-egger
cooked rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Related terms: uncooked rice
telescopiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more telescopiform
form: most telescopiform
Etymology: From telescope + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a telescope, with retractile tubular portions.
anachorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anachorisms
Etymology: Modelled on anachronism, with Ancient Greek χῶρος (khôros, “country”).
Senses: glosses: Something that is incongruous with the spirit of the country.
anachorisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anachorism
manipulational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manipulation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to manipulation.
basketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bask + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bask
extolleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: extol + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extol
buists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buist
buists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buist
ejectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eject + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Ability to be ejected.
decryingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more decryingly
form: most decryingly
Etymology: From decrying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to decry.
decrieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: decry + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decry
grifons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grifon
Festingerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Festingerian
form: most Festingerian
Etymology: From Festinger + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Leon Festinger (1919–1989), American social psychologist, responsible for the development of the theory of cognitive dissonance.
Lewinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lewinian
form: most Lewinian
Etymology: From Lewin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Kurt Lewin (1890–1947), German-American psychologist.
Lewin's equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by Kurt Lewin.
Senses: glosses: The heuristic formula B=f(P,E), stating that behavior is a function of the person and their environment.
wikipedia: Kurt Lewin
print-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: print-offs
form: printoff
Etymology: From print + off.
Senses: glosses: printout.
printoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printoffs
form: print-off
Etymology: From print + off.
Senses: glosses: printout.
pithecanthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pithecanthropic
form: most pithecanthropic
Senses: glosses: Related to, or characteristic of, the hominid species Pithecanthropus.
baronetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baronetical
form: most baronetical
Etymology: From baronet + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a baronet.
desanguinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desanguinates
form: desanguinating
form: desanguinated
form: desanguinated
Etymology: From Late Latin desanguināre.
Senses: glosses: to deprive of blood; to remove the blood from
Derived terms: desanguination
desanguinator
thermometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: thermometric
sidereal month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidereal months
Senses: glosses: The time in which the moon passes round the ecliptic to the same star: 27.3217 days.
Synonyms: lunar month
stellar month
sidereal months
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidereal month
reclaimably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reclaimably
form: most reclaimably
Etymology: From reclaimable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reclaimable manner.
nail biting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailbiting
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
synonyms: onychophagia
onychophagy
glosses: The habit of biting one's fingernails.
rhizoristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”) + ὁρίζω (horízō, “to limit”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to the separation of the roots of an equation.
Related terms: horizon
palinodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palinode + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a palinode.
palinodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palinodists
Etymology: From palinode + -ist.
Senses: glosses: The author of a palinode.
palinodists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palinodist
viticolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Inhabiting or produced upon, the vine.
mansing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of manse
disobligingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disobliging + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I must do him the justice to say, that we had no cause to complain of incivility or disobligingness; and certainly if he gained but little intelligence from us, we equally failed of extracting information from him; […]
ref: 1830, James Baillie Fraser, The Persian Adventurer, page 93:
glosses: The quality of being disobliging.
expatiateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: expatiate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expatiate
live CD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live CDs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A storage medium, often a compact disc, that contains a complete operating system that can be booted off the medium without having to install it.
Coordinate terms: boot disk
boot drive
boot floppy
Related terms: live DVD
live USB
Petrinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Petrine + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The Tübingen theory of F. C. Baur (1792-1860) and his school, of a doctrinal trend in primitive Christianity towards Judaism, ascribed to Peter and his party in opposition to Paulinism.
color depth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color depths
form: colour depth
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The number of bits per pixel used to store color information in an image.
sturdied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sturdy + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having the disease called sturdy.
euphorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphorines
Senses: examples: text: Euphorines are rather unusual hymenopterans in attacking the adult stage of various insects.
ref: 1997, Robert Alan Wharton, Paul M. Marsh, Michael J. Sharkey, Manual of the New World genera of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera):
text: The life cycles of these euphorine parasitoids are synchronized with those of their hosts.
ref: 2001, Alfred George Wheeler, Biology of the Plant Bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae), →ISBN:
text: Although euphorines usually oviposit between abdominal sclerites, often near the anus, some species exhibit a well-pronounced preference for different sites such as the mouth (Wylie, 1985), whilst others are evidently more plastic in their behaviour (Wylie & Loan, 1984). It is usual for the euphorines that attack beetles to have two, or sometimes more, annual generations on a single generation of their univoltine hosts.
ref: 2012, Pierre H. Jolivet, M.L. Cox, E. Petitpierre, Novel aspects of the biology of Chrysomelidae, →ISBN, page 435:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A parasitic wasp of the subfamily Euphorinae (a subfamily of Braconidae), characterized by two submarginal cells in the forewing and, usually, a petiolate first gastral tergite.
examples: text: Dr. Sansoni (Therap. Monatsh., September, 1890) has made a number of observations on the action of euphorine in disease.
ref: 1891, The Year-book of Treatment - Volume 1891, page 460:
text: Euphorine, it would appear, exerts its specific action directly on the micro-organism; but in the tissues -- in other words, in clinical cases -- this action is notably increased by the circumstance that euphorine decomposes, and the decomposition, in part, generated phenic acid.
ref: 1891, Epitome of Medicine - Volume 8, page 317:
text: To cure Michel, who got addicted to euphorine? Well, he cured Michel. And now what?
ref: 2017, Henry Oldie, The End Justifies the Means, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of phenylurethan, when used medicinally.
synonyms: word: phenylurethan
word: when used medicinally
athletic tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: athletic tapes
Senses: examples: text: A wide variety of athletic tapes are available for use by athletic trainers. Nonelastic white cotton cloth athletic tape is the most common tape used to provide support and secure bandages.
ref: 2009, Andrew P. Winterstein, Athletic Training Student Primer: A Foundation for Success, page 273:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: sports tape
glosses: A form of tape used in sports to add a nonslip wrapping to things that must be gripped, such as hockey sticks.
euphorines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphorine
freaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freaken
form: most freaken
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of freaking.
freaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of freaking.
freaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of freaking.
hockey sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hockey socks
Senses: glosses: A form-fitting ankle-to-thigh garment (without a foot section) worn over protective gear by ice hockey players.
hockey socks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hockey sock
phenylurethan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: C₆H₅NHCOOC₂H₅, an aromatic crystalline ester usually made by adding ethyl alcohol to phenyl isocyanate.
glosses: Any ester formed from phenylcarbamic acid.
SAO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SAOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of session-at-once, a recording mode for optical discs.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Specified Associated Organisation.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of school attendance order.
SAO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Serb Autonomous Oblasts
glosses: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (or the star catalog)
glosses: Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science
glosses: Security Advisory Opinion
glosses: Initialism of Sword Art Online.
phenylcarbamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: C₆H₅NHCOOH, an acid found primarily in the form of its salts and esters
ugsomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ugsomely
form: most ugsomely
Etymology: From ugsome + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ugsome manner.
WSDOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Washington State Department Of Transportation.
Synonyms: WashDOT
Related terms: word: ministry of transportation
word: ministry of transport
word: transport ministry
word: transportation ministry
word: department of transport
word: transport department
word: transportation department
english: department of transportation
translation: department of transportation
word: DOT
english: Washington State
translation: Washington State
word: WS
winter boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winter boot
dustcolored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dustcolored
form: most dustcolored
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere in some dustbowl a barbed-wire contonment of low-cost dustcolored prefab buildings, smelling of shame and hopeless incontinence identical clothes of disposable paper, identical rations of chemically flavored food
ref: 1976, Suppression and Expression in Poetry by American Women:
text: Kept swirling like dust under their dustcolored heaven.
ref: 1995, Quarterly review of literature: Poetry series - Volume 34, page 10:
text: Old Tiflis, dustcolored with an occasional patch of blue or white on a house, is loosely sprinkled in the funnel out of which the copper-wire river pours into the plain.
ref: 2003, John Dos Passos, Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941, page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of dust-colored.
USDOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of United States Department Of Transportation.
Related terms: word: ministry of transportation
word: ministry of transport
word: transport ministry
word: transportation ministry
word: department of transport
word: transport department
word: transportation department
english: department of transportation
translation: department of transportation
word: DOT
word: US
dust-colored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dust-colored
form: most dust-colored
form: dust-coloured
form: dustcolored
form: dustcoloured
Senses: examples: text: In the weak eyes of Venus, and in every reddish dust-colored hair in his shock of hair, there was a marked distrust of Wegg and an alertness to fly at him on perceiving the smallest occasion.
ref: 1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend:
glosses: Of a dull, pale, brownish color.
cuten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cutens
form: cutening
form: cutened
form: cutened
Etymology: From cute + -en.
Senses: examples: text: So Doggett tented us together and probably hoped I would drag Lou Rae behind me to Evening Pro and Chunka Chow and Wood Wiz and Lake Sci (and by now I was thinking grimly: Why these bleached-bra Christian girls from Maine have to cuten the entire world with nicknames I don't know) but exactly the opposite happened.
ref: 2011, Jaimy Gordon, Bogeywoman, page 12:
text: Perhaps because of its utility for reinforcing traditional notions of female delicacy and dependency, and for displacing unpleasant thoughts, the kawaisa aesthetic has arguably been Japan's most successful cultural export to East and Southeast Asian countries, which have enthusiastically joined its unannounced campaign to cuten up our ugly world.
ref: 2017, E. Taylor Atkins, A History of Popular Culture in Japan:
glosses: To make cute
examples: text: He looked like a miniature version of his father. My stepfather's features were okay on a grown man, but they didn't look so good on a baby. Mommy must have read the worried look on my face. She laughed gaily and assured me, “Your brother still has the new baby look. Don't worry. He'll start to 'cuten up' real soon.” “I sure hope so,” I said to myself. She was absolutely glowing and proud of the fact that Arthur looked just like his daddy.
ref: 2015, Teri Metcalf, Rambler Rose:
glosses: To become cute
cutened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cuten
cutening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cuten + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cuten
cutening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cuten + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The familiar cutening of my name implies we like each other.
ref: 2007, Beverly West, Jason Bergund, TVtherapy: The Television Guide to Life, page 114:
glosses: The act or process of making cute
cutens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cuten
Callis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
transportation safety board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transportation safety boards
Senses: glosses: A government body responsible for investigations into transportation accidents to determine their cause and recommend courses of action to prevent or mitigate future similar incidents
Synonyms: word: transport safety board
word: TSB
Derived terms: word: TSB
transport safety board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transport safety boards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of transportation safety board (“TSB”).
synonyms: word: transportation safety board
extra: TSB
Synonyms: word: transportation safety board
word: TSB
Derived terms: word: TSB
bravened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of braven
grossened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grossen
grossening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From grossen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grossen
grossening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grossen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of becoming gross (all senses)
greyen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: greyens
form: greyening
form: greyened
form: greyened
form: grayen
Etymology: From grey + -en.
Senses: examples: text: […] he sometimes saw, between him and the ground, lightening the darkness, greyening the leaves and, in wet weather, tinseling the rain, a fascia of white light.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: So Watt busied himself a little while, covering the lamp, less and less, more and more, with his hat, watching the ashes greyen, redden, greyen, redden, in the grate, of the range.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To make or become grey
greyened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of greyen
grayen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grayens
form: grayening
form: grayened
form: grayened
Etymology: From gray + -en.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greyen.
greyening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of greyen
embryony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryonies
Etymology: From embryo + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Whether flowers were pollinated or not, autonomous egg and antipodal embryonies occurred at nearly equal frequencies and progressed almost synchronously for several days.
ref: 1992 March, A. Kojima, Y. Nagato, “Pseudogamous embryogenesis and the degree of parthenogenesis in Allium tuberosum”, in Sexual Plant Reproduction, volume 5, number 1:
text: Nucellar embryony allows citrus rootstock breeders to produce F1 hybrids that are highly heterozygous, but produce seedlings that are genetically uniform and identical to the mother tree.
ref: 2007, Iqrar A. Khan, Citrus Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Besides, according to the logic of Nogler's reasoning, the phenomenon of monozygotic cleavage embryony (formation of twins, triplets and so on), as well as of integumental embryony should be included in apomixis.
ref: 2009, T B Batygina, Embryology of Flowering Plants:
text: Since dermatoglyphic traits are also set in early embryony it was considered logical to look for dermatoglyphic deviations which may have occurred as a result of the rubella infection.
ref: 2012, N.M. Durham, C.C. Plato, Trends in Dermatoglyphic Research, →ISBN, page 125:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of an embryo; embryogenesis.
embryonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embryony
laxening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From laxen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laxen
laxening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laxen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making or becoming lax
laxened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laxen
corradiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corradiate