cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pierceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pierceable
form: most pierceable
Etymology: From pierce + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A ſhadie groue not farr away they ſpide, / That promiſt ayde the tempeſt to withſtand: / Whoſe loftie trees yclad with ſommers pride, / Did ſpred ſo broad, that heauens light did hide, / Not perceable with power of any ſtarr:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 5:
text: The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million—a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable, in its vast front, by the need of the individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will.
ref: 1908, Henry James, “Preface”, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as The Portrait of a Lady (EBook #2833), United States: Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:
text: Boil the potatoes in their jackets until tender and pierceable.
ref: 1949, James Beard, The Fireside Cook Book, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 201:
text: 1995, Mark Krikorian, statement given at the Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Session, 17 May, 1995, in Legal Immigration Reform Proposals, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996, p. 136,
Whichever method is chosen for deciding the level of immigration, the question arises whether the cap should be “pierceable” or not. Although “pierceable cap” has an Orwellian ring to it, the issue boils down to whether increases in immediate-family immigration (assuming it remains unlimited) would be subtracted from the numbers allotted to immigrants selected by the point system (a true cap) or whether the numerical limit would apply only to those chosen through a point system.
glosses: Capable of being pierced; penetrable.
Derived terms: impierceable
unpierceable
endoprostheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoprosthesis
indigobirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigobird
unpurchasability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + purchasability.
Senses: examples: text: The lonely millionaire reflected bitterly on the unpurchasability of true love.
glosses: The quality of not being purchasable.
holoimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holoimages
Etymology: From holo- + image.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A holographic image.
holoimages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holoimage
equilibrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equilibrity
equilibrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equilibrities
Etymology: From Latin aequilibritas (“equal distribution”).
Senses: examples: text: the weight of the other side where the whole was, drew it the other way, and in this manner kept it in equilibrity.
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: The state of being balanced; equality of weight; equilibrium.
phantasmatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma) + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A description of celestial phenomena.
coccolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccolites
form: coccolith
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “kernel”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral diopside.
coccolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coccolite
vestlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestlets
Etymology: From vest + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small vest.
glosses: Any of several species of anemone of the genus Cerianthus, with a long, smooth, tapering body and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth.
vestlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vestlet
otocranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oto- + cranial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the otocrane.
telespectroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telespectroscopes
Etymology: From tele- + spectroscope.
Senses: examples: text: one face rests upon the slit-plate of the telespectroscope, and has its acute edge perpendicular to the slit at its middle point
ref: 1873-1874, Norman Lockyer, Contributions to Solar Physics:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A spectroscope designed to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, such as stars.
telespectroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telespectroscope
lancefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lancefishes
form: lancefish
form: lance-fish
form: lance fish
Etymology: From lance + fish.
Senses: glosses: A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus, found in British waters.
Synonyms: lesser sand eel
sand lance
lancefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lancefish
flutemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flutemouths
Etymology: From flute + mouth.
Senses: glosses: The trumpetfish.
flutemouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flutemouth
linguacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more linguacious
form: most linguacious
Etymology: From Latin linguax, -acis (equivalent to loquacious), from lingua (“tongue”).
Senses: glosses: talkative; loquacious
infraterritorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From infra- + territorial.
Senses: examples: text: It does not generally effect of itself the object to be accomplished, especially so far, as its operation is infraterritorial; but is carried into execution by the sovereign power of the respective parties to the instrument
ref: 1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States:
glosses: intraterritorial, within the territory of a state.
levation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin levatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle
Related terms: prelevation
halfness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæfnəs/
Forms: form: halfnesses
Etymology: From half + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong.
ref: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation:
glosses: The quality of being half; incompleteness.
micropantograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropantographs
Etymology: From micro- + pantograph.
Senses: glosses: A kind of pantograph (the drawing aid) that can be used to make microscopically small copies.
micropantographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropantograph
slakeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slakeless
form: most slakeless
Etymology: From slake + -less.
Senses: examples: text: my slakelesse payne hells horror doth exceede
ref: c. 1600, Richard Linche, Diella, Sonnet XXX:
text: Who sleeps to dream of blood, and waking glows
With the oft-baffled, slakeless thirst of change
ref: 1821, Lord Byron, The Prophecy of Dante, Canto 1:
synonyms: unquenchable
unrelievable
glosses: Not capable of being slaked.
want lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of want list
redimensionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From redimension + -able.
Senses: examples: text: You can make all arrays dynamic, and thus redimensionable[…]
ref: 1988, James William Cooper, Microsoft QuickBASIC for scientists:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Capable of being redimensioned.
rediminish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rediminishes
form: rediminishing
form: rediminished
form: rediminished
Etymology: From re- + diminish.
Senses: glosses: To diminish again.
rediminished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rediminish
rediminishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rediminish
rediminishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rediminish
cloud-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cloud-built
form: most cloud-built
Senses: examples: text: on the summit of a cloud-built height
ref: 1761, Hew Dalrymple, Woodstock. An Elegy:
text: both of them so flimsy and cloud-built, that they are unable to withstand even the soft impressions of their adverse debility.
ref: 1799, Analytical Review:
text: Of love undying and of endless praise
⁠For beauty only—chief of all thy kind;
Immortal, even because of thy brief days;
⁠Thou cloud-built, fairy city of the mind!
ref: 1908, Richard Watson Gilder, Vanishing City:
glosses: unsubstantial or imaginary.
Related terms: castle in the air
glew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glews
Etymology: From Middle English glew, glu, etc.
Senses: examples: text: When the painting is originally on wood, it must be first detached from the ceiling or wainscot where it was fixed; and the surface of it covered with a linen cloth, cemented to it by means of glew[…]
ref: 1764, Edmund Burke, Dodsley's annual register: Volume 1758, Part 1, page 385:
glosses: Obsolete form of glue.
examples: text: Now Gold is easily associated to and with Copper; and so fit a cuspe, or point made of Gold to this Cupreous Iron; and with Borax and Golden Solidature or Soder (Gold Glew, which is made of Copper Money, a little Silver and Gold melted at the Eye is better) melt it after the accustomed manner, in a fitting Coal-fire, and then you shall have the Golden Nail so much spoken of.
ref: 1677, Otto Tachenius, Hippocrates Chymicus, pages 113-114:
glosses: Obsolete form of solder, used in alchemy.
glew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Either formed on the analogy of know, grow (and other verbs which are now weak in the standard such as crow, mow) or inherited from Middle English glew, glewe (“glowed”), in turn from Old English glēow (“glowed”), past tense of Old English glōwan (“to glow”).
Senses: glosses: simple past of glow
glews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glew
tripersonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + personality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tripersonal.
Riga fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Riga firs
Senses: glosses: A variant of Baltic pine, Pinus sylvestris.
Riga firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Riga fir
unbeget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbegets
form: unbegetting
form: unbegot
form: unbegotten
Etymology: From un- + beget.
Senses: examples: text: By any help or courage but his own:
 Wishes, each minute, he could unbeget
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To deprive of existence, i.e. kill.
unbegetting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + begetting.
Senses: glosses: That does not beget.
adversarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd.vəˈsɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌæd.vɚˈsɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more adversarious
form: most adversarious
Senses: examples: text: It is only when actually engaged in this vindication that I can regard you as an adversary: in the intervals, when that occupation is suspended, I am not sensible of any adversarious feeling
ref: 1826, Robert Southey, Letters to Charles Butler, Esq.:
glosses: hostile; adversarial
mintman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mintmen
Etymology: From mint + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male worker in a mint, producing coins.
mintmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mintman
goldenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more goldenly
form: most goldenly
Etymology: From golden + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a golden manner.
nonpurchasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + purchasable.
Senses: glosses: Not purchasable.
cybercash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + cash.
Senses: examples: text: If that occurs, and if no one else issues cybercash, the existing scheme of banking regulation would give users of cybercash enforceable claims against nonpaying banks[…]
ref: 2001, Henry H. Perritt, Law and the information superhighway, page 607:
text: […]cases such as cyberstalking or theft of cybercash[…]
ref: 2004, Ian Marsh, John Cochrane, Gaynor Melville, Criminal justice, page 126:
glosses: Synonym of e-money.
synonyms: word: e-money
Related terms: cybermoney
cyberpayment
cyberwallet
incalculableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incalculable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being incalculable.
calculableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calculable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being calculable.
antigentile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigentile
form: most antigentile
Etymology: From anti- + Gentile.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to antigentilism.
metacommand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacommands
Etymology: From meta- + command.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A command that is not part of the language being written but serves as a directive to the interpreter or compiler.
metacommands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacommand
corneally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From corneal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In relation to the cornea.
Derived terms: transcorneally
cat around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cats around
form: catting around
form: catted around
form: catted around
Etymology: Perhaps referring to the behavior of a cat in heat.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs S. was convinced that any girl who visited a boy in his bedsitter after 10 p.m. was up to no good. 'If you boys want to cat around, okay, but you're not going to do it under my roof! This is a respectable house!' she was fond of saying whenever she suspected we were trying to put one across her - which was practically all the time.
ref: 1998, Francis Hugh De Souza, No. 3, Templeton Place, page 171:
text: Before then, I catted around, ever since the urge came to me. I learned blond hair, blue eyes, an innocent look works with women. I had many girls. I stayed out to all hours. Mother never cared.
ref: 2004, Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson, And their children after them, page 133:
text: None of them seemed to know that Nikki had been catting around behind Brandon's back with her roommate's boyfriend (thank God).
ref: 2008, Meg Cabot, Airhead, page 221:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
synonyms: alley cat
glosses: To engage in sex with various partners; to sleep around; to cheat on a sexual partner.
glosses: To wander; to waste time or idle.
multinumber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + number.
Senses: examples: a multinumber dialling system
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Relating to more than one telephone number.
multinumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multinumbers
Etymology: From multi- + number.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set with repeated elements that are indistinguishable from one another.
Related terms: multiset
multinumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multinumber
purchasability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From purchase + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being purchasable.
shock troop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shock troops
Etymology: Loose calque of German Stoßtrupp.
Senses: glosses: A military formation created to lead an attack.
subslice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subslices
Etymology: From sub- + slice.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A slice that makes up part of a larger slice.
subslices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subslice
boondie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boondies
Etymology: From an Aboriginal Australian language (probably of Western Australia) bundi ("stone").
Senses: examples: text: […]I gathered my gun and boondie and went with him.
ref: 1969, W. Michael Ryan, White Man, Black Man: The true story of a white man who was initiated into an Aboriginal tribe:
text: Look, Jimmy, there goes the girls! / Were the words about the victims said; / The criminal ran them down / And with his boondie killed them dead.
ref: 1987, John Meredith, Hugh Anderson, Roger Covell, Patricia Anne Brown, Folk Songs of Australia and the men and women who sang them, volume 2, page 202:
glosses: A stone thrown as a weapon; or a heavy club.
boondies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boondie
stereoplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereoplates
Etymology: From stereo- + plate.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A stereotype.
stereoplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereoplate
nonamortizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + amortizable.
Senses: glosses: Not amortizable.
nonamortized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + amortized.
Senses: glosses: Not amortized.
unamortizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + amortizable.
Senses: glosses: Not amortizable.
unamortized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + amortized.
Senses: glosses: Not amortized.
Sandwicher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sandwichers
Etymology: From Sandwich + -er.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the Sandwich Islands.
Sandwichers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sandwicher
clownology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clown + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: At another graduation, Zoomer and Zonker, two students who met in the clownology course, were married[…]
ref: 1976, International Thespian Society, Dramatics: Volumes 48-49:
text: In addition to her duties as a clownology instructor, she is an active member of Clowns of America International[…]
ref: 1992, Catherine V. McIntyre, Writing effective news releases, page 98:
text: In the mid-seventies, she was the valedictorian of her clownology class. Among her many performances as a clown, she counts as her most memorable her performances at a national conference of the National Endowment for the Arts[…]
ref: 1994, Roberta Fernández, In other words: literature by Latinas of the United States, page 61:
glosses: The study of being a clown.
undegeneracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + degeneracy.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being undegenerate.
phallometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phallo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the penis.
Related terms: phallometer
phallometric
predelinquency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + delinquency.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being predelinquent.
predelinquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + delinquent.
Senses: glosses: At risk of falling into delinquency.
predelinquent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predelinquents
Etymology: From pre- + delinquent.
Senses: glosses: A young person who is at risk of falling into delinquency.
predelinquents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predelinquent
bufferhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bufferheads
Etymology: From buffer + head.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The head of a buffer on a carriage which receives the impact.
bufferheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bufferhead
electromotance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: electromotive force
stop-loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop-losses
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A requirement for soldiers to remain in service beyond their normal discharge date.
topics: business
finance
stock-market
glosses: A stop loss order.
peacocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpikɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpiːkɒkɪŋ/
Etymology: From peacock + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Peacocking may take place in legislatures and lodges, churches and chain stores. But it is particularly evident and bizarre in academia, a world where everyone is supposed to produce logically ordered exchanges of ideas.
ref: 1997, Emily Toth, Ms. Mentor's impeccable advice for women in academia, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 66:
text: Men do it to get attention from women. Peacocking in pickup circles is pretty much a given. It's not for everyone and if you do decide to do it, you have to fully commit to it.
ref: 2010, Dag Albright, How to Meet and Pick Up Women, Leisure Crest International, →ISBN, page 85:
text: While you can decide for yourself if peacocking is your thing or not, I recommend you make a conscious effort to stand out from the crowd when you head out. If you dress like everyone else, you'll just blend into everyone else.
ref: 2010, Eric Rogell, The Art of War for Dating:
text: Brian: Quagmire told us to dress flashy so girls would notice us.
Stewie: Oh, right. Peacocking.
ref: 2011 April 10, Tiegs for Two (Family Guy), season 9, episode 14, spoken by Brian and Stewie Griffin (Seth McFarlane):
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: Ostentatious dress or behaviour employed by a man in an attempt to impress women.
ethylxanthate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethylxanthates
Etymology: From ethyl + xanthate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the ethyl ester of xanthic acid
ethylxanthates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethylxanthate
ethylxanthogenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethyl + xanthogenate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ethyl ester of xanthogenic acid
ethylxanthogenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethylxanthogenate
downclock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downclocks
form: downclocking
form: downclocked
form: downclocked
Etymology: From down- + clock.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To reduce the clock speed of.
Hypernyms: reclock
downclocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downclock
downclocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downclock
downclocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downclock
reclock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclocks
form: reclocking
form: reclocked
form: reclocked
Etymology: From re- + clock.
Senses: examples: text: And what's the big deal if people reclock their chips? “It gives us a bad reputation when a reclocked system fails!” says Intel.
ref: 1999 March 23, PC Mag, volume 18, number 6, page 87:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To modify the clock speed of.
glosses: To clock something again.
Hyponyms: downclock
upclock
reclocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclock
reclocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclock
reclocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclock
upclock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upclocks
form: upclocking
form: upclocked
form: upclocked
Etymology: From up- + clock.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To increase the clock speed of.
Hypernyms: reclock
upclocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upclock
upclocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upclock
upclocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upclock
penfriendship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penfriendships
Etymology: From penfriend + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being penfriends.
penfriendships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penfriendship
antibird
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bird.
Senses: examples: an antibird device
glosses: Countering birds.
subcorneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + corneal.
Senses: glosses: Below the cornea.
Related terms: extracorneal
intracorneal
subcorneally
Darwinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Darwinizes
form: Darwinizing
form: Darwinized
form: Darwinized
Etymology: From Darwin + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas Darwinian social scientists had sought to Darwinize manifest behavior by demonstrating its adaptiveness, the focus of evolutionary psychologists is on the "deeper" psychological mechanisms[…]
ref: 2004, Richard C. Francis, Why men won't ask for directions: the seductions of sociobiology, page 166:
glosses: To cause to conform to Darwinism.
Related terms: Darwinization
Darwinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Darwinize
Darwinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Darwinize
Darwinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Darwinize
Darwinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Darwin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of Darwinizing.
altar girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altar girls
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A girl serving as an acolyte.
panpsychistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panpsychistic
form: most panpsychistic
Senses: glosses: Relating to panpsychism.
Skolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Skolt
mutton flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Mutton flaps are the discarded parts of the lamb that are not fit for consumption in New Zealand. They were able to dump this stuff on the Pacific countries."
ref: 2016 January 18, Katy Watson, Sarah Treanor, “How mutton flaps are killing Tonga”, in BBC News:
glosses: A fattening cut of meat in the South Pacific, from the rib area of a sheep.
neuroaxonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + axonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a neuroaxon.
piss flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piss flap
piss-flap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piss-flaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piss flap.
piss-flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piss-flap
bomber seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bomber seat
blacksmithies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blacksmithy
blacksmithy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blacksmithies
Senses: glosses: The smithy of a blacksmith.
coppersmithies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coppersmithy
coppersmithy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coppersmithies
Etymology: From copper + smithy.
Senses: glosses: The smithy of a coppersmith.
goldsmithies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldsmithy
goldsmithy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldsmithies
Etymology: From gold + smithy.
Senses: glosses: The smithy of a goldsmith.
silversmithies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silversmithy
silversmithy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silversmithies
Etymology: From silver + smithy.
Senses: glosses: The smithy of a silversmith.
tinsmithies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinsmithy
tinsmithy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinsmithies
Etymology: From tin + smithy.
Senses: glosses: The smithy of a tinsmith.
wire bail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire bails
Senses: glosses: A wire clamp traditionally used to seal glass jars.
widefield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wide-field
Etymology: From wide + field.
Senses: qualifier: microscopy
glosses: In which a whole two-dimensional image is acquired simultaneously using a wide-area detector array.
blow-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blow-off
buddyroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buddyroo
brantles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brantle
breath tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breath test
wire bails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wire bail
olation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olations
Etymology: From ol + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The well-known fundamental feature of olation, namely that only cis isomers olate and trans isomers do not, is explained, for the first time, by the proposed mechanism and is correlated with the structure of the reagents and products.
ref: 1987, Michael Ardon, Avi Bino, Kirsten Michelsen, “Olation and Structure”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry, volume 109, Washington, D.C.: ACS Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1986:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process by which metal ions form polymeric oxides in aqueous solution.
Related terms: olate
oxolation
polyoxometallate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyoxometallates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polyoxometalate.
polyoxometallates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyoxometallate
oxoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxonium
persuadableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From persuadable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She imputed to me abundance of fine qualities; but told me, that, in this case, that of persuadableness was wanting to crown all.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being persuadable; persuadability.
persuadability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From persuade + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The young count's good nature and easy persuadability were among his best characteristics.
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being persuadable.
sessionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From session + -less.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without a session; taking the form of a series of isolated requests.
grapline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graplines
Senses: glosses: A grapnel (small anchor).
graplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grapline
graphospasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphospasm
dragonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragonet
gelatinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈlætɪneɪt/
Forms: form: gelatinates
form: gelatinating
form: gelatinated
form: gelatinated
Etymology: From gelatin + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To convert into gelatin or a jelly-like substance.
examples: text: Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids.
ref: 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:
glosses: To be converted into gelatin or a jelly-like substance.
gelatinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gelatinate
gelatinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gelatinate
gelatinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gelatinate
remigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːmaɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: remigrations
Etymology: From re- + migration.
Senses: examples: text: there was a Return of the Jews under Cyrus, which continued in Partial Remigrations for some time after.
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:
text: While the concept of remigration has long existed in academia, its hijacking by the far right on social media appears to have begun about a decade ago when French adherents to identitarianism, an ethno-nationalist movement, organised what they described as the inaugural meeting in Paris on remigration.
ref: 2024 October 3, Ashifa Kassam, “How remigration became a buzzword for global far right”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Migration again to another place, or back to the place of emigration.
remigrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remigration
architective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: How could the Bodies of many of them (particularly the laſt mentioned ) be furniſhed with architective Materials?
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Used in building; suitable for building.
waid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waid
form: most waid
Etymology: For weighed.
Senses: examples: text: This being waid, as may delight,
be not afraid, the countrey wight
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
nippitato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nippitatum
Etymology: From nippitate.
Senses: examples: text: that they cannot put a cup of Nippitato to their snowts
ref: 1620, John Melton, Astrologaster:
glosses: Strong liquor or ale.
sea trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea trumpets
Senses: synonyms: trumpetweed
glosses: Ecklonia buccinalis, a large blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any large marine univalve shell of the former genus Triton, such as Charonia variegata or Cymatium femorale
glosses: Cordia subcordata (seaweed)
sea trumpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea trumpet
Mussulmanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mussulman + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Islam
microcapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + capsular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microcapsules.
wharfman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wharfmen
Etymology: From wharf + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who works on a wharf.
wharfmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wharfman
asbolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄσβολος (ásbolos, “soot”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: The Principal Elements in the composition of the soot which lodges upon boiler shells and tubes, are carbon, ulmin, asbolin, creosote , and capnomor.
ref: 1913 June, Edward J. Clarke, “Steam Boiler Explosions”, in The National Engineer, volume 17, page 338:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acrid oil obtained from wood soot.
humbuggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humbuggery
humbuggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humbuggeries
Etymology: From humbug + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Both see Leviathan more as a photograph than a metaphor — a reality veiled by rhetoric — and thereby claim a position of epistemic privilege, a Realpolitik, a discourse shorn of humbuggery and pretense.
ref: 1996, Charles Arthur Willard, Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy:
text: Peale, however, was never accused of humbuggery — not in his entertainments, not in his marketing strategies, and above all not in his public persona.
ref: 2001, James W. Cook, The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum:
glosses: trickery; deception
subsumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: subsuntive
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or containing, a subsumption.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Antipassive (used in describing the grammar of Guarani).
retinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: retinic acid
glosses: Archaic form of resinous.
uninucleated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + nucleated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: uninucleate; having a single nucleus.
turbination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbinations
Etymology: Compare Latin tirbinatio (“a pointing in the form of a cone”). See turbinate.
Senses: glosses: The act of spinning or whirling.
turbinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbination
dioramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diorama + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: dioramic reconstruction
text: dioramic scene
glosses: Pertaining to a diorama.
refundment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refundments
Etymology: From refund + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of refunding.
examples: text: But some portions of it somehow always stuck so fast, that the denunciators have been fain to postpone the prophecy of refundment to a late posterity
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The amount that is refunded.
refundments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refundment
feodalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feodality
feodality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feodalities
Senses: examples: text: The leaders teach the people to abhor and reject all feodality as the barbarism of tyranny , and they tell them afterwards how much of that barbarous tyranny they are to bear with patience
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of feudality.
lethargize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lethargizes
form: lethargizing
form: lethargized
form: lethargized
Etymology: From lethargy + -ize.
Senses: examples: May 23, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability.
glosses: To make lethargic.
lethargized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lethargize
lethargizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lethargize
lethargizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lethargize
oophoridia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oophoridium
oophoridium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oophoridia
Etymology: By surface analysis, oophore + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spore in heterosporous flowerless plants.
nicker tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nicker trees
form: neckar tree
form: nickar tree
Senses: synonyms: bonduc
glosses: The plant (genus Caesalpinia) producing nicker nuts.
Hypernyms: tree
nicker trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nicker tree
brickkiln
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickkilns
Etymology: From brick + kiln.
Senses: examples: text: Are some poor boys brought before him for sleeping in brickkilns, — a circumstance to which they may have been compelled by want of room at home, or the damp and cold nights of autumn[…]?
ref: 1819, The Examiner, numbers 575-626, page 641:
hypernyms: kiln
coordinate_terms: clamp
glosses: A kiln in which bricks are baked.
brickkilns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brickkiln
misrelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrelations
Etymology: From mis- + relation.
Senses: examples: a. 1663, John Bramhall, letter to the Marquis of Newcastle
But as mine aim, in the first discourse, was only to press home those things in writing which had been agitated between us by word of mouth (a course much to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations, less subject to mistakes and misrelations […]
glosses: erroneous relation or narration
unduke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːk
Forms: form: undukes
form: unduking
form: unduked
form: unduked
Etymology: From un- + duke.
Senses: examples: text: are they about to take the garter from him? to unprince, unduke him?
ref: 1711, Jonathan Swift, A New Vindication of the Duke of Marlborough:
glosses: To deprive of dukedom.
unduked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unduke
undukes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unduke
unduking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unduke
nauseant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nauseants
Etymology: Latin nauseans.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A substance that induces nausea.
Synonyms: emetic
nauseant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin nauseans.
Senses: glosses: Inducing nausea.
Synonyms: emetic
Derived terms: antinauseant
nauseants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nauseant
bluestockingism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bluestocking + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The character or manner of a bluestocking (educated woman).
backworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backworms
Etymology: From back + worm.
Senses: examples: text: The Indian falcon is sick of the backworm
ref: August 1593, Walter Raleigh, letter:
text: The backworm is rarely quite killed[...].
ref: 1735, The Sportsmen's Dictionary, London: Printed for C. Hitch, at the Red Lion, and C. Davis, both in Pater-Noster-Row; and S. Austen, at the Angel and Bible in St. Paul's Church-Yard:
text: [... T]his, if any, may probably destroy that obstinate Disease of the Filander or Backworm.
ref: 1964, Thomas Browne, “Of Hawks and Falconry, ancient and modern”, in Geoffrey Keynes, editor, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volume 3, London: Faber and Faber, page 62:
glosses: The thread-like worm found in filanders, the disease of hawks.
duplicature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duplicatures
Etymology: Compare French duplicature.
Senses: examples: text: The genus Saipanetta has been suggested to be a surviving relict of the metacopidan superfamily Healdiacea because of its muscle scar pattern and narrow duplicature; nevertheless, it differs from the Metacopida in its more complex hingement, lack of a distinct contact groove, exaggerated domiciliar asymmetry, and lack of posterior ridges or angulations.
ref: 1978, Philip D. Gingerich, New Condylarthra (Mammalia) from the Paleocene and Early Eocene of North America, page 289:
glosses: A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.
duplicatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duplicature
foreprize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreprizes
form: foreprizing
form: foreprized
form: foreprized
Etymology: From fore- + prize (“take”).
Senses: examples: text: […] God hath foreprized things of the greatest weight, and hath therein precisely defined, as well that which euery man must performe, as that which no man may attempt […]
ref: 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, published 1622, Book 5, p. 381:
text: I denied that Bishops had authority to prescraibe Conditions to Kings, when they Crowned them; but I never denyed that the People might preserve the foundation, freedome, and forme of their Common-wealth, which they foreprized when they first consented to have a King.
ref: 1643, “Certaine observations collected out of a treatise called, The difference between Christian subjection, and unchristian rebellion”, in A Discourse upon Questions in Debate between the King and Parliament, London, pages 15–16:
text: Excepted, and always Foreprized out of this Our Pardon, all Treasons committed or done in the Parts beyond the Seas, or in any other Place out of this Our Realm […]
ref: 1688, King James II of England, His Majesties Most Gracious and General Pardon, London:
glosses: To assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
foreprized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreprize
foreprizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foreprize
foreprizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foreprize
willow-wort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willow-worts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of willowwort.
willow-worts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of willow-wort
lucriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more lucriferous
form: most lucriferous
Etymology: From Latin lucrum (“gain”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: [B]eing a bachelor, and through God's bounty furnished with a competent estate for a younger brother, and freed from any ambition to leave my heirs rich, I had no need to pursue lucriferous experiments, to which I so much preferred luciferous ones
ref: 1774, Robert Boyle, “The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Thomas Birch, page cxxx:
glosses: gainful; profitable