cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eosiniphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of eosinophilic.
ephemerophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ephemerophytes
Etymology: From ephemero- + -phyte.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any ephemeral plant, usually in the sense of native or naturalised plants having a short lifespan, but sometimes also in reference to annual plants which cannot sustainably propagate in an environment but can survive in it.
ephemerophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ephemerophyte
epibacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epibacteria
Etymology: From epi- + bacterium.
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the genus Epibacteria
Related terms: epibacterial
epibacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epibacterium
epibacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + bacterial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to epibacteria
ergocristinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ergocristine.
synonyms: word: ergocristine
eriocitrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoside of the flavanone eriodictyol
esocoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esocoids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of esocid.
synonyms: word: esocid
esocoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esocoid
estaurine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of estuarine.
estearase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of esterase.
Newa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Newar.
synonyms: word: Newar
Newa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Newa script, also known as Nepaalalipi in Nepal and as Newar in English-speaking countries, is a Brahmi-based script that dates to the tenth century ce.
ref: 2022 September 24, “Version 15.0 – Core Specification”, in Unicode, page 533:
glosses: A script used to write Nepal Bhasa, Maithili, Sanskrit and Pali.
euarchontogliran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euarchontoglirans
form: euarchontoglire
Senses: glosses: Any mammal of the superorder Euarchontoglires.
euarchontoglirans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euarchontogliran
eurypterygian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eurypterygians
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the infracohort Eurypterygia
eurypterygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eurypterygian
extrahematopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + hematopoietic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to extramedullary hematopoiesis
antisyndicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-syndicalism
Etymology: From anti- + syndicalism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposition to syndicalism.
extrathalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + thalamic.
Senses: glosses: Not controlled by the thalamus
Netherdutch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛðədʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈnɛðɚdʌt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: Nether-Dutch
form: Nether Dutch
Etymology: From nether- + Dutch, probably a calque of Dutch Nederduitsch (modern: Nederduits) or a calque of German Niederdeutsch.
Senses: glosses: Dutch, pertaining to the Dutch language
glosses: Dutch, pertaining to the Netherlands or to Dutch people
Netherdutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛðədʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈnɛðɚdʌt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: Nether-Dutch
form: Nether Dutch
Etymology: From nether- + Dutch, probably a calque of Dutch Nederduitsch (modern: Nederduits) or a calque of German Niederdeutsch.
Senses: examples: text: But I have a deadly hatred of sch generally for a clumsy and newfangled corruption—it is either the older sc-, or it is the High Dutch way of pronouncing s followed by a consonant, … The Nether Dutch of Germany hasn't got it at all except as the representative of sc-, and that of Holland has kept the old pronunciation of sk, even though written sch, except as a termination, when I believe it is pronounced s. … and if the Germans, or rather Nether Dutchmen, of Sleswick have to become Danes in the long run, and to learn Danish at school, …
ref: letter by Strangford, in: Ten Letters to E. A. Freeman, Esq., in: 1878, Original Letters and Papers of the Late Viscount Strangford upon Philological and Kindred Subjects. Edited by Viscountess Strangford, p. 32
text: The truth is that the Nether-Dutch of the European mainland and the Nether-Dutch—that is, the English—of Britain and America have long ceased to be mutually intelligible, but that they can again become mutually intelligible under certain circumstances. [...]. I know by experience that, in the city of Hamburg, where though the polite and literary speech is High-Dutch, the natural speech of the people is Nether-Dutch, if you speak English slowly and carefully, choosing your words well and uttering them distinctly, you will be understood by a common man in the streets of the Hanseatic city.
ref: 1882, Edward A. Freeman, Lectures to American Audiences. I. The English People in its three Homes. II. The practical Bearings of general European History., Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, page 75:
text: But round about these, in a broken curve are found the represenatives of the Low-German (Nieder-Deutsch, Netherdutch or Netherlandish) family. Along the shores of the Baltic and far inland, where German [= (Standard) High German] is established in the educated ranks, the mass of the population speak Platt-deutsch, which is nothing but a form of Dutch, not German or Hoch-deutsch.
ref: 1917, The Dutch Language, in: De nieuwe gids vol. 32.1, p. 982ff., here p. 984
glosses: Low German
chessmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chessmasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chess master.
chessmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chessmaster
rectoneovaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recto- + neovaginal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the rectum and neovagina.
Anaheims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anaheim
oaflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oaflike
form: most oaflike
Etymology: From oaf + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] beyond the oaflike appreciation of mere professional workers in an entertainment medium.
ref: 1955, William Irving Kaufman, How to write for television, page 34:
text: Really missing Larry and the oaflike existence he presented to the household.
ref: 2016, Robert Spencer, I Will Love You If:
glosses: oafish
Sunyavadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sunyavadi
wambulances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wambulance
Kiliwas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kiliwa
rikishis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rikishi
ground waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground water
alkalescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkalescence
falcarindiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An antifungal polyacetylene diol (3R,8S,9Z)-1,9-heptadecadiene-4,6-diyne-3,8-diol present in carrots
ferroxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The oxidation of ferrous to ferric iron (typically, when catalysed by ferritin)
fibrochondrogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fibro- + chondro- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The growth of fibroblasts and/or fibrochondrocytes
Related terms: fibrochondrogenic
fibrochondroinductive
fibrochondrogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibro- + chondro- + -genic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to fibrochondrogenesis
arrosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arrose
arrosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arrose
fibrochondroinductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibro- + chondro- + inductive.
Senses: glosses: That induces fibrochondrogenesis
present perfect progressives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of present perfect progressive
Tequixquiac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl tequixquitl (“saltpetre”) + atl (“water”) + -c (“place”).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Santiago Tequixquiac: a town, the administrative seat of Tequixquiac, State of Mexico, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of the State of Mexico, Mexico. Seat: Santiago Tequixquiac.
Synonyms: Tequisquiac
flavonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of flavones
flavonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aldehyde 2-phenyl-4-oxo-4H-1-benzopyran-3-carbaldehyde
fluoroemerald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoro-emerald
Etymology: From fluoro- + emerald.
Senses: glosses: A form of dextran impregnated with fluorescein
fluoronanotube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoronanotubes
Etymology: From fluoro- + nanotube.
Senses: glosses: A fluorinated nanotube
fluoronanotubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoronanotube
dual earner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuː.əl ɜːn.ə/
ipa: /ˈdʒuː.əl ɜːn.ə/
ipa: /ˈd(j)uː.əl ɝnɚ/
Forms: form: dual earners
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: person of a couple with two jobs and thus two incomes; they may or may not have children.
Derived terms: word: dual-earner
word: dual earner couple
word: dual earner family
Related terms: double income
no kids
no kids yet
dual career couple
frustulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frustulins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein associated with the biomineralisation of the frustulum of diatom cell walls
frustulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frustulin
frustulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frustula
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin frustulum, from frustum (“morsel”).
Senses: glosses: The silica-based cell wall of a diatom
Related terms: frustule
decaparsecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decaparsec
Conneticut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Connecticut.
standard siren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard sirens
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gravitational wave source of known loudness.
standard sirens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard siren
pawstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawsteps
Etymology: From paw + step.
Senses: glosses: A footstep taken by an animal, walking on paws.
pawsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawstep
thingumebob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingumebobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thingamabob.
thingumebobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thingumebob
honeyfugler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeyfuglers
Etymology: From honeyfugle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who honeyfugles.
honeyfuglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeyfugler
notch filter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notch filters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A bandstop filter with a narrow stopband.
notch filters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notch filter
Hannukahs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hannukah
biffings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biffing
demorphinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demorphinizes
form: demorphinizing
form: demorphinized
form: demorphinized
Etymology: From de- + morphine + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To gradually reduce the dose of morphine to a person who is addicted to it.
demorphinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demorphinize
demorphinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demorphinize
demorphinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demorphinize
elastoplastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From elastoplastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an elastoplastic manner.
beatnikish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beatnikish
form: most beatnikish
Etymology: From beatnik + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a beatnik.
elastoresistivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elastoresistivity
elastoresistive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elastoresistive
form: most elastoresistive
Etymology: From elasto- + resistive.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: resistant to elastic deformation
uncrocheted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + crocheted.
Senses: glosses: Not crocheted.
nonrutting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rutting.
Senses: examples: a nonrutting surface
glosses: Not tending to form ruts.
examples: a nonrutting season
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Not involving or performing rutting (sexual activity).
typometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typometers
Etymology: From typo- + -meter.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
typography
glosses: A ruler traditionally used in the graphic arts to inspect the measures of typographic materials.
aflajes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aflaj
butter brickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Apparently originally a trade name for a butterscotch-like candy, probably from butter(scotch) + brickle (“brittle, breakable”).
Senses: glosses: A toffee ice cream flavouring.
exercise bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exercise bike
ingcibi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingcibis
Senses: glosses: A traditional surgeon among the Xhosa people.
ingcibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingcibi
typometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typometer
Krakatoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Krakatoan
form: most Krakatoan
Etymology: From Krakatoa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Krakatoa.
noncategorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + categorial.
Senses: glosses: Not categorial.
beegha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beeghas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bigha.
beeghas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beegha
motivology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From motive + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: People studying motivology are hoping to find the motive behind the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
glosses: The psychological study of people's motives.
eloignated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eloignate
eloignating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eloignate
motivological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to motivology.
Greenland Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a sea area to the east of Greenland, bounded by Iceland, the Norwegian Sea, Svalbard and the Arctic Ocean.
onomatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onomatoids
Etymology: From onomato- + -oid.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In the philosophy of reism, any name denoting a state, relation, property, etc. rather than a body.
onomatoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onomatoid
porch pirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porch pirates
Senses: examples: text: After Bohlan's home security system recorded a porch pirate stealing packages from his doorstep, he reported the theft to the police department...and volunteered his own doorstep as a place where police could leave "bait" packages to catch porch pirates.
ref: 2018, Uncle John's Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader, page 271:
ref: 2019 November 1, Lauren Smiley, “The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A criminal who steals a delivered package from a porch.
Related terms: porch piracy
thief
porch pirates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porch pirate
Hurrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
terotechnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to terotechnology.
terotechnologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terotechnologists
Senses: glosses: A person working in the field of terotechnology.
terotechnologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terotechnologist
dimensional stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimensional stone
dimension stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimension stone
T-tubules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-tubule
nimblewill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nimble will
Senses: glosses: A slender North American grass (Muhlenbergia sylvatica or Muhlenbergia schreberi). It is often used for grazing
orthopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + -opia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: normal vision; absence of visual disorder
electromotive forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electromotive force
snoreworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snoreworthy
form: most snoreworthy
Etymology: From snore + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Very boring.
snoozeworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snoozeworthy
form: most snoozeworthy
Etymology: From snooze + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Having made a conscious rational decision to eschew the bad boys in exchange for ordinary Nick, I'm disappointed that I found him more snoozeworthy than sensible.
ref: 2018, Alice Judge-Talbot, The Back-Up Plan:
glosses: Very boring.
Mandies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mandy
Mandys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mandy
truebred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truebred
form: most truebred
Senses: examples: text: A truebred nag, whenever walking or trotting, or if ever spoken to, should carry its tail right out.
ref: 1895, Ontario. Legislative Assembly, Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario:
text: While Mendel was able to start his experiments with truebred tall and truebred dwarf peas, neither of which had any trace of the other in its past breeding history, his results were naturally more uniform and positive than can possibly be attained with Beagles, large and small...
ref: 1949, Glenn G. Black, American Beagling, page 250:
text: Branigan on his mount, a truebred quarter-horse out of the legendary Rocking Bar Ranch, rode point.
ref: 1981, Fran Grace, Branigan's Dog: A Novel, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of true-bred.
Purebred.
examples: text: These two authors were truebred soldiers and heroes, who distinguished themselves in the most famous battles of this war, one in the battle of Port Arthur and the other in the battle of the Japan Sea, and were at the same time men of
ref: 1941, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs:
text: In addition, the relationship of merchants with bureaucrats and the ulama needs to be explained, as does the connection between urban notables and the merchant class, since it is virtually impossible to find a truebred merchant mentioned in historical sources of the pre-modern age.
ref: 2013, Masashi Haneda, Islamic Urban Studies, →ISBN, page 263:
text: These facts become highly important when it is recalled that the first and most important writers to evaluate Burke's political philosophy, and to establish its most widely accepted meaning, were truebred utilitarians and positivists.
ref: 2015, Peter James Stanlis, Edmund Burke and the Natural Law, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Alternative form of true-bred.
Genuine
examples: text: "He was not 'illegal,' as you ignorantly put it, Sireno. He was a truebred Church, but a wild young wastrel."
ref: 1950, The New Yorker - Volume 26, page 65:
text: A cairn was built. It started as a hybrid Sherpa-Ladakhi one, but this fell down. The final truebred Sherpa one seemed firm enough.
ref: 1958, Joyce Dunsheath, Mountains and memsahibs, page 152:
text: Richard Brathwait,18 (born at Burneside Hall in 1588, died at East Appleton in 1673) much admired Tyrer and mentions him with praise in his poem To all truebred Northerne Sparks, of the generous society of the Cottoneers, who hold their High-roade by the Pinder of Wakefield, the Shoo-maker of Brandford, and the White Coate of Kendall;
ref: 1977, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, volumes 77-79:
glosses: Alternative form of true-bred.
Of proper lineage.
siegeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From siege + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a siege.
unabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unability
unabler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Forasmuch as we are geven to understand, that, at the great charges of the saide Ansley, divers of the poorer & unabler sort of the saide recusants, havinge bene convented [before] you, doe, upon the[ir] triall remayne lawfullie convicted;
ref: 1779, Desiderata Curiosa Or a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces Relating Chiefly to Matters of English History, page 89:
text: If thou dislike these sorrowful lines, then know, My muse with tears, not with conceits, did flow; And, as she my unabler quill did guide, Her briny tears did on the paper fall; If then unequal numbers be espied, Oh, Reader! do not that my errour call;
ref: 1810, A. Cowley, “To the Reader”, in The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper:
text: As to my coming to America, I cannot say anything about it at this time owing to the state of my family, but still I have as good an intention to come as ever I had, but what we have come through at this time has rendered us a great deal unabler for it than we were last year, but still if our family suffers all stout, I hope that we will be able yet to see that land, and John our son has offered to assist us in playing for a farm if we can have it in our power to go to America.
ref: 2004, Glover, Vermont: Andersonville, the first 100 years, page 162:
glosses: comparative form of unable: more unable
unablest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unable: most unable
unables
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unable
unhilted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhilted
form: most unhilted
Etymology: From un- + hilted.
Senses: examples: text: And like an unhilted sword, this edge could cut very deep.
ref: 2018 -, Harry I Nimon, The Coming War with China: A Semi-Fictional Future, →ISBN:
glosses: Lacking a hilt.
untease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unteases
form: unteasing
form: unteased
form: unteased
Etymology: From un- + tease.
Senses: examples: text: My purpose in this article is to untease that tangled web of philosophy and science which constitutes cognitive science.
ref: 1989, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith:
text: This study made use of the stochasticity preserved by Monte Carlo methods to untease the different sources of synaptic variability.
ref: 2002, Kevin M. Franks, A Monte Carlo Model of Synaptic Signaling, page 13:
text: Her eyebrows reduced once more to smooth, perfect arcs above her deep-blue eyes, she took off the towel and started running her fingers through her wet hair to untease the knots before winding in the curlers.
ref: 2012, Daphne Wright, The Parrot Cage, →ISBN:
glosses: To disentangle; to tease apart.
unteases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untease
unteasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untease
unteasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unteasing
form: most unteasing
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing vampish about her, and parenthetically we may note that the European woman has, since the war, come to represent a new sexual ideal — unteasing directness.
ref: 1990, Return to Cheyne Spa, →ISBN, page 275:
text: . I don't think I've seen you remain unsmiling or unteasing for more than two minutes since we met.
ref: 2003, Donna Kauffman, The Cinderella Rules, →ISBN:
text: She gave him a glance so direct and unteasing that it amounted to the biggest tease of all.
ref: 2014, Edward Stewart, For Richer, for Poorer: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: Not teasing; serious and direct.
unflatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unflatters
form: unflattering
form: unflattered
form: unflattered
Etymology: From un- + flatter.
Senses: examples: text: Well, sith thy truth unflatters me, I will believe it truth.
ref: 1918, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, Where England Sets Her Feet: A Romance, page 229:
text: He switched promptly from the escapist fantasy of young-white-male-orientated comic books to the cauterizing realism of Richard Wright, whose fiction unflatters the United States, condemning it as dehumanizing and coercively deathly for blacks (JanMohamed 2005).
ref: 2008, Christopher N. Okonkwo, A Spirit of Dialogue:
text: Mainstream media “unflatters” the demos and its rulers daily.
ref: 2018, Marlene K. Sokolon, Travis D. Smith, Flattering the Demos: Fiction and Democratic Education, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: To show or display in a bad light; to portray unfavorably.
unflatters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unflatter
astoundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astoundable
form: most astoundable
Etymology: From astound + -able.
Senses: examples: text: 1838, Richard Monckton Milnes, letter to Aubrey de Vere, cited in T. Wemyss Reid, The Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, First Lord Houghton, London: Cassell, Volume 1, pp. 220-221,
Have you ever seen any of Blake’s poetry? I think of publishing some selections from him which will astonish those who are astoundable by anything of this kind.
text: Emily had known Jill for so long that she could afford to astound her with her opinions. Jill was the ideally astoundable friend—she got astounded, but she stood her ground.
ref: 1988, Richard P. Brickner, After She Left, New York: Henry Holt, Part 2, Chapter 6, p. 84:
glosses: Capable of being astounded.
unsoothe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsoothes
form: unsoothing
form: unsoothed
form: unsoothed
Etymology: From un- + soothe.
Senses: examples: text: Take out your ire on the unneighborly generators of noises that unsoothe the nerves.
ref: 1952, Gayelord Hauser, Be Happier, Be Healthier, page 142:
text: Now it is overlooked by instructions, thrown out with the visual equivalent of a sergeant-major's bark, designed not to harmonize but to be dissonant, to abolish tranquillity, and to unsoothe and unsettle the soul.
ref: 2006, Roger Scruton, News from Somewhere: On Settling, →ISBN, page 138:
text: And don't you just love the image of a tall mountain of a man using his big hands to soothe a child . . . or unsoothe a woman?
ref: 2012, Sandra Hill, Santa Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: To disturb; to unsettle; to arouse or irritate from a calm state.
unsoothes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsoothe
womban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womben
Etymology: Blend of womb + woman
Senses: topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: woman
Huaying
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hua-ying
Etymology: From Mandarin 華鎣 /华蓥 (Huáyíng).
Senses: examples: text: Archaeologists have excavated the tomb of Anbing in Huaying and the remains of the pre-historical towns in the Chengdu Plain, both of which have entered the list of top 10 archaeological discoveries in China.
ref: 2001, 邓天梅 [Deng Tianmei], 四川 [Sìchuān, Sichuan] (中国西部开发丛书 [Introduction to West China Series]), Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 74:
english: Introduction to West China Series
roman: Sìchuān
translation: Introduction to West China Series
text: China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported two cases of swine fever in Sichuan in March, one in the east in Huaying city, and another in the far west.
ref: 2021 July 9, Dominique Patton, “Swine fever surge hits small farms in China's Sichuan”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2021, China:
glosses: A county-level city of Guang'an, Sichuan, China.
unstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstrikes
form: unstriking
form: unstruck
form: unstruck
Etymology: From un- + strike.
Senses: examples: text: Now I unstrike, and at my whistle heard, Upcircling skyward springs my gentle bird Condemned through many centuries to search For some true Christian whereupon to perch.
ref: 1859, Frederick William Wyon, Poems, page 92:
text: I wish I could as easily unstrike The strings that keep my memories in hood, And let them down the wind.
ref: 1870, James White, The King of the Commons:
text: Either sportsman, as they reached the marshy ground, attended to the falcon on his wrist, and began to unstrike her hood.
ref: 1876, Elizabeth Kerr Coulson, Dante and Beatrice, from 1282 to 1290, by Roxburghe Lothian:
text: He then stopped, turned about, and suddenly unstriking her hood, tossed her into the air with an encouraging shout.
ref: 1965, The North American Review - Volume 68, page 217:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To loosen the strings that attach the hood on the bird's head.
examples: text: This case involves the power of the trial court to strike an answer, keep it stricken, and enter a default judgment. Woodruff tried to "unstrike" her answer by filing an amended one.
ref: 1987, West's South Western Reporter - Volume 721, page 870:
text: I would like to unstrike the two-thirds and leave it as is.
ref: 1999, The National Rural Letter Carrier - Volume 98, page 668:
glosses: To restore text that has been struck out.
examples: text: Sare, you apologise at me, you shake hands to me, you beg pardon from me, but can you unstrike me?
ref: 1834, Thomas Hood, Tylney Hall:
text: Ye can't unspeak ane oath, or unstrike ane blow.
ref: 1862, Hawksview; a family history, page 162:
glosses: To cause a blow not to have occurred.
unstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unstrikes
Etymology: From un- + strike.
Senses: examples: text: As collective bargaining was going poorly, the Union membership had approved the implementation of an "unstrike" campaign, which included a refusal to wear uniforms.
ref: 1985, Canadian Labour Relations Boards Reports - Volume 9, page 328:
text: Starbucks courageously faced an "unstrike" by employees in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
ref: 2002, Wayne Grytting, American Newspeak: The Mangling of Meaning for Power and Profit, →ISBN:
glosses: A collective action by members of a trade union in which they appear at work but protest in some way such as passing out leaflets or refusing to wear a uniform.
unstrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstrike
unstrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unstrike
unstriking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstrike
jabillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jabillo
clawy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clawier
form: clawiest
Etymology: From claw + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or resembling a claw; clawlike.
unimpress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unimpresses
form: unimpressing
form: unimpressed
form: unimpressed
Etymology: From un- + impress or back formation from unimpressed.
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas on a morning, ere the Spring Had quickened ev'ry mortal thing, Within a place where students bring Their stomachs pranky, heads not full, Fresh as the sod, and raw from school ; To gather aids from dusty books Which unimpress their varied looks.
ref: 1881, William Richardson, Alma Mater: and Other Poems, page 127:
text: Thinking it now more important to impress Julia than it was to unimpress Charles, Chad smoothed the sleeves of his new light-blue shirt, then bent to make certain the pant legs of his black trousers fell smoothly over his new boots.
ref: 1993, Rosalyn Alsobrook, Passion for Hire, →ISBN, page 317:
text: ... and that the court was "therefore unimpressed by Mr Gill's assertion that incidents of this kind are deviant behaviour and an aberration on the part of individual members of the force." But there was more to unimpress the Supreme Court.
ref: 1999, Inderjit Singh Jaijee, Politics of genocide: Punjab, 1984-1998, page 112:
text: But today, Maria wanted us to meet her new and slightly older boyfriend, Walter, who seemed to thoroughly unimpress her, so I wasn't sure why we were here.
ref: 2012, Rene Gutteridge, Heart of the Country, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Too fail to impress positively; to leave very little impression or a bad impression;
unimpresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unimpress
unimpressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unimpress
rattoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹætənə(ɹ)/
/ˈɹætnə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English ratoner; equivalent to ratton + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It̃m pᵈ to yᵉ seid Rattoner for leyeng of yᵉ cham's for ratts
ref: 1834 [1521], Daniel Gurney, Household and Privy Purse Accounts of the Lestranges of Hunstanton, from A.D. 1519 to A.D. 1578, page 28:
text: Also, for 8d. paid to a rattoner, who destroyed the rattons (rattones, rats) in the chambers of the Fellows...
ref: 1874, Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Volume 2, page 129:
text: Some of the children would grow up to be Rattoner's ^([sic]) / This was never a fancy job, but it paid the bills
ref: 2014, Tiffany Simar, The Window, page 146:
glosses: A ratcatcher.
adjunctification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adjunct + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: [...] but I especially favor it when one looks at the adjunctification of the profesoriate (now 400,000 adjuncts across the country [...])
ref: 1999 March 24, Arthur Sowers, “PhD Revolutionary and Other Cop-outs....”, in sci.research.careers (Usenet):
text: Among the responses by full-time faculty to the problem of adjunctification is a line of argument that I find rather curious. It goes something like this: grant that the abuse of adjuncts is unfortunate (which concession is often accompanied by the disclaimer that there is nothing we can do about the low pay and lack of benefits), the system is a meritocracy and those who are truly worthy do end up on the tenure track.
ref: 2004 April 30, Scott Smallwood, Disappearing Act: The Invisible Adjunct shuts down her popular Weblog and says goodbye to academe, in The Chronicle of Higher Education (also quoted by Desio, in Adjunctification, misc.education, Usenet)
text: I have in mind here, of course, the classic victim of adjunctification: the person who finished a PhD at great financial and emotional expense, would have been willing to go anywhere for a tenuretrack job, [...]
ref: 2015, Michael Bérubé, J. Ruth, The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom, Springer, →ISBN:
text: Yet the adjunctification of part of the management faculty raises some concerns.
ref: 2017, Stéphanie Dameron, Thomas Durand, The Future of Management Education: volume 1, Springer, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: The tendency of universities to have as many faculty members as possible be adjuncts (who receive lower pay and/or benefits, lack tenure, etc).
galactofuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactofurans
Etymology: From galacto- + furan.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of galactofuranose.
synonyms: word: galactofuranose
near space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: near-space
form: nearspace
Etymology: From near + space.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A region of the Earth's (or another planet's) atmosphere or exosphere which is near outer space:
The region of the atmosphere between the Armstrong limit (above which atmospheric pressure is sufficiently low that water boils at the normal temperature of the human body) and the Kármán line (one boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space); the region of the atmosphere near space.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A region of the Earth's (or another planet's) atmosphere or exosphere which is near outer space:
The mesosphere and lower thermosphere.
synonyms: MLT
ignorosphere
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A region of the Earth's (or another planet's) atmosphere or exosphere which is near outer space:
The region of the exosphere between the lower bound of space and the lower bound of orbit; the region of space near the Earth.
Coordinate terms: space
outer space
solar system
heliosphere
galactosylsphingolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactosylsphingolipids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of galactosphingolipid.
galeaspidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of aspidin present in galeaspid fish
galvoscanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galvoscanners
Etymology: From galvo- + scanner.
Senses: glosses: A form of scanning galvanometer
galvoscanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galvoscanner
gaussmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaussmeters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of magnetometer.
synonyms: word: magnetometer
gaussmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaussmeter
gentiopicroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of gentiopicrin.
synonyms: word: gentiopicrin
glutaminylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glutaminylates
form: glutaminylating
form: glutaminylated
form: glutaminylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To react with a glutaminyl radical or with a derivative of glutamine
Related terms: glutaminylation
glutaminylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glutaminylate
glutaminylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glutaminylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with a glutaminyl radical or with a derivative of glutamine
Related terms: glutaminylate
transglutaminylation
glutaminylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glutaminylation
gobiesociform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gobiesociforms
Senses: glosses: Any clingfish of the order Gobiesociformes
gobiesociforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gobiesociform
golgiosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golgiosomes
Etymology: In reference to the Golgi apparatus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dictyosome.
synonyms: word: dictyosome
golgiosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golgiosome
graviperceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graviperceptors
Etymology: From gravi- + perceptor.
Senses: glosses: The organ responsible for graviperception
graviperceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graviperceptor
gustometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gustometer
gymnodimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnodimines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic spirocyclic imine present in the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium
unblank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unblank
form: most unblank
Etymology: From un- + blank.
Senses: examples: text: The symbols treated here have the following properties : i) there are many kinds of symbols, ii) the distributions of the characteristic points are biased, iii) in many cases unblank lines follow unblank lines.
ref: 1971, Information Processing in Japan - Volumes 11-14, page 39:
text: When I got to the office and opened it up, I went to turn off the alarm and suddenly my mind went blank. Well, you only have thirty seconds to get "unblank."
ref: 2001, Mary Jenson, Taking Flight from the Empty Nest, →ISBN, page 162:
text: In the eighteenth century, blank places on a map became a symbol of rigorous standards and lent authority to all on the map that was unblank (Turchi, Maps, 37).
ref: 2006, Michael D.C. Drout, J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, →ISBN:
text: So Ushikawa could do as he pleased and let the music filter from right to left, as the unblank half of his brain toyed with random thoughts.
ref: 2012, Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, 1Q84, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: Not blank.
unblank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unblanks
form: unblanking
form: unblanked
form: unblanked
Etymology: From un- + blank.
Senses: examples: text: Energy selection can be included by single-channel-analysing (SCA) the height of the prompt signal and using this output to unblank the display pulses.
ref: 1980, W. H. Tait, Radiation detection, page 199:
text: Thus, I could collectively blank all orbital features, unblank all eye features, and key in commands to translate or rotate “all displayed” entities.
ref: 1991, Journal of Biological Photography - Volume 18, page 38:
text: When the kernel wants to unblank the screen, it sends a SIGQUIT signal to the process running /sbin/screenblanker.
ref: 1998, John Purcell, Robert Kiesling, Linux: The Complete Reference - Book 1, →ISBN, page 1782:
text: I could unblank your blinking memories of it, but as I have now told you most of the same for the third time, I will finish for Therle's benefit.
ref: 2012, Ewart R N Jowett, The Wizard of the Stove Pipe Mountains, →ISBN:
glosses: To restore content to something that is blank.
unblanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unblank
unblanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unblank
unblanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unblank
unblanked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having been blanked.
houseboundness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From housebound + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being housebound.
nonhousebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + housebound.
Senses: glosses: Not housebound.
McSwiggen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
thrallage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thrall + -age.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirlage.
outsucken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From out- + sucken.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Pertaining to a district not astricted to a particular mill.
Related terms: thirlage
insucken
haemanthamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemanthamines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haemantamine.
haemanthamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemanthamine
haloduricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of haloduracin.
helminthosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helminthoses
Etymology: From helminth + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of helminthiasis.
synonyms: word: helminthiasis
hematocytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hematocyte + -penia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormally low number of hematocytes in the blood
hentriacontadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hentriacontadienes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon that has thirty-one carbon atoms and two double bonds
hentriacontadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hentriacontadiene
hepatopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + -pathic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to a hepatopathy
tower house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tower houses
Senses: glosses: A tall, fortified stone building intended for habitation.
tower houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tower house
hepatopathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + pathogenic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pathogenic to the liver
Related terms: hepatopathy
top round
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top rounds
Senses: glosses: A cut of beef taken from the round, or hind leg of a cow.
top rounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of top round
heptacosene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptacosenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon that has twenty-seven carbon atoms and one double bond
heptacosenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptacosene
heterospermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to heterospermy
heterospermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: dimorphism in sperm cells
Related terms: heterospermous
tow-away zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tow-away zones
Senses: glosses: An area where car parking is not allowed, and where illegally parked cars will be removed by tow truck.
tow-away zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tow-away zone
holomycotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + mycotrophic.
Senses: glosses: Wholly mycotrophic
Related terms: holomycotroph
town manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town managers
Senses: topics: government
glosses: A municipal official responsible for the operations of a town, usually appointed by a town or city council rather than elected.
Related terms: city manager
town managers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town manager