cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overconservatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overconservatively
form: most overconservatively
Etymology: From overconservative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overconservative manner.
overcopious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcopious
form: most overcopious
Etymology: From over- + copious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively copious.
Derived terms: overcopiously
overcourteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcourteous
form: most overcourteous
Etymology: From over- + courteous.
Senses: glosses: Excessively courteous.
overcovetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcovetous
form: most overcovetous
Etymology: From over- + covetous.
Senses: glosses: Excessively covetous.
overcultivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcultivates
form: overcultivating
form: overcultivated
form: overcultivated
Etymology: From over- + cultivate.
Senses: glosses: To cultivate excessively.
overcultivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcultivate
overcultivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcultivate
overdainty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdainty
form: most overdainty
Etymology: From over- + dainty.
Senses: glosses: Excessively dainty.
overdiscipline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdisciplines
form: overdisciplining
form: overdisciplined
form: overdisciplined
Etymology: From over- + discipline.
Senses: glosses: To discipline excessively.
overdisciplines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdiscipline
overdisciplining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdiscipline
overembroider
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overembroiders
form: overembroidering
form: overembroidered
form: overembroidered
Etymology: From over- + embroider.
Senses: glosses: To embroider excessively.
overembroiders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overembroider
overembroidered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overembroider
overembroidering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overembroider
overfestooned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfestooned
form: most overfestooned
Etymology: From over- + festooned.
Senses: glosses: Excessively festooned.
overflorid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overflorid
form: most overflorid
Etymology: From over- + florid.
Senses: glosses: Excessively florid.
overfoolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfoolish
form: most overfoolish
Etymology: From over- + foolish.
Senses: glosses: Excessively foolish.
overfurnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfurnishes
form: overfurnishing
form: overfurnished
form: overfurnished
Etymology: From over- + furnish.
Senses: glosses: To furnish excessively.
overfurnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfurnish
overfurnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfurnish
overillustrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overillustrates
form: overillustrating
form: overillustrated
form: overillustrated
Etymology: From over- + illustrate.
Senses: glosses: To illustrate excessively.
overillustrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overillustrate
overillustrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overillustrate
overillustrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overillustrate
overimitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overimitates
form: overimitating
form: overimitated
form: overimitated
Etymology: From over- + imitate.
Senses: glosses: To imitate excessively.
overimitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overimitate
overimitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overimitate
overimitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overimitate
overjocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overjocular
form: most overjocular
Etymology: From over- + jocular.
Senses: glosses: Excessively jocular.
overjudicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overjudicious
form: most overjudicious
Etymology: From over- + judicious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively judicious.
overlascivious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlascivious
form: most overlascivious
Etymology: From over- + lascivious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively lascivious.
overlaudatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlaudatory
form: most overlaudatory
Etymology: From over- + laudatory.
Senses: glosses: Excessively laudatory.
overlicentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlicentious
form: most overlicentious
Etymology: From over- + licentious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively licentious.
overlively
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overlively
form: most overlively
Etymology: From over- + lively.
Senses: glosses: Excessively lively.
overmerciful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overmerciful
form: most overmerciful
Etymology: From over- + merciful.
Senses: glosses: Excessively merciful.
wivesless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wives + -less.
Senses: examples: text: They were, of course, really not out on the town in the true sense of the word but they found themselves wivesless and didn’t know what to do and didn’t want to stay home and merely watch TV and so they got together and had dinner and then drove around.
ref: 1956 June 26, Elm, “Summer Bachelors”, in The Ottawa Herald, volume 60, number 171, Ottawa, Kan., page 4, column 1:
text: And the professors read the law from heavy tomes to the Roman abductors of their wives (the rights of the people), and then marching two steps forward, one step backward, they return, wivesless!
ref: 1968, New Review, New York, N.Y.: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, page 145:
text: Many persons meet untimely deaths, children become homeless; husbands become wivesless and vice versa.
ref: 1987, Em E Aṃsārī, Tribals in Criminal Web, Jaipur: Publication Scheme, page 148:
glosses: Without wives.
Related terms: wifeless
overrationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrationalizes
form: overrationalizing
form: overrationalized
form: overrationalized
Etymology: From over- + rationalize.
Senses: glosses: To rationalize excessively.
overrationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrationalize
overrationalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrationalize
overrationalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrationalize
overrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrational
form: most overrational
Etymology: From over- + rational.
Senses: glosses: Excessively rational.
overquiet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overquiet
form: most overquiet
Etymology: From over- + quiet.
Senses: glosses: Excessively quiet.
Derived terms: overquietness
overregular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overregular
form: most overregular
Etymology: From over- + regular.
Senses: glosses: Excessively regular.
overreligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overreligious
form: most overreligious
Etymology: From over- + religious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively religious.
overreward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrewards
form: overrewarding
form: overrewarded
form: overrewarded
Etymology: From over- + reward.
Senses: glosses: To reward excessively.
overrewarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overreward
overrewards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overreward
overscribble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overscribbles
form: overscribbling
form: overscribbled
form: overscribbled
Etymology: From over- + scribble.
Senses: glosses: To scribble over.
overscrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overscrawls
form: overscrawling
form: overscrawled
form: overscrawled
Etymology: From over- + scrawl.
Senses: glosses: To scrawl over.
overscribbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overscribble
overscribbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overscribble
overscribbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overscribble
overscrawled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overscrawl
overscrawls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overscrawl
overscrawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overscrawl
oversentimentalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversentimentalizes
form: oversentimentalizing
form: oversentimentalized
form: oversentimentalized
Etymology: From over- + sentimentalize.
Senses: glosses: To sentimentalize excessively.
oversentimentalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversentimentalize
oversentimentalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversentimentalize
oversentimentalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversentimentalize
overshort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overshort
form: most overshort
Etymology: From over- + short.
Senses: glosses: Excessively short.
overspacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overspacious
form: most overspacious
Etymology: From over- + spacious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively spacious.
overspeculative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overspeculative
form: most overspeculative
Etymology: From over- + speculative.
Senses: glosses: Excessively speculative.
oversuperstitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversuperstitious
form: most oversuperstitious
Etymology: From over- + superstitious.
Senses: glosses: Excessively superstitious.
oxalodiacetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ketipic acid.
synonyms: word: ketipic acid
Oxfordist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oxfordists
Etymology: From Oxford + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the Oxford movement.
Oxfordism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Oxford + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles of the Oxford movement.
Oxfordists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oxfordist
miceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mice-less
Etymology: From mice + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Her height was a trifle over the medium; her eyes a soft expressive brown, shaded by masses of hair which exactly matched their color, and, at that rat-and-miceless day, fell in such graceful abandon as to show at once that nature was the only maid who crimped their waves into them.
ref: 1867, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, “A Brace of Boys”, in Little Brother; and Other Genre-Pictures, Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard, pages 263–264:
text: Cats come from all directions when thresher starts. They can’t understand why newly-built ricks are miceless, and look puzzled as they search barren sheaves …
ref: 1940, The Countryman: A Quarterly Non-Party Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Work for the English-speaking World, page 18:
text: “REMEBERING AMERICA is a delightful assembly of 10,000 curious things: Chanteymen, snow sailing, a miceless house, courting lamps, a spasm band, an anvil salute, and the wondrous city of Diddy-Wah-Diddy: Our country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of peculiarity, of thee this sings.”—William Least Heat-Moon
ref: 1985, The Atlantic, page 92, column 2:
text: Certainly, it would be impossible to replace Sweetie or Sparky. I thought our almost worthless cat, P. J., might possess Sweetie’s quality since we rescued him from death by bottle-feeding him. Wrong! He keeps the house miceless, but does not appreciate a good quiet time of bonding and sky-gazing.
ref: 2000, Iris Lee Underwood, Encouraging Words for All Seasons, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Without mice.
Related terms: mouseless
zoopharmacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + pharmacology.
Senses: glosses: The observation of how animals use plants, in order to locate possible bioactive compounds of medical value.
Somersetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Somersetian
form: most Somersetian
Etymology: From Somerset + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Somerset in England.
Somersetian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Somersetians
Etymology: From Somerset + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Somerset.
Somersetians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Somersetian
sootproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: soot-proof
Etymology: From soot + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: A spark plug which will stay sootproof and give long service in any of the Ford cylinders, must be a specially built plug.
ref: 1921, Chilton's Motor Age: Volume 39, Part 2, Chilton Company, page 128:
text: […] only a sootproof plug is of any use to a Mathis owner.
ref: 1914, The Autocar: Volume 33, London: Iliffe, Sons & Sturmey Limited, page 648:
glosses: Resistant to soot.
sonneteeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonneteeresses
Etymology: From sonneteer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female writer of sonnets.
sonneteeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonneteeress
specificality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specificalities
Senses: glosses: specificity
specificalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specificality
speciology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of taxonomic species.
spectatordom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spectator + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: He was there to represent spectatordom, and help make this seemingly insignificant event one with the removal of the gods of Troy.
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 49:
text: Most important, Manet seems intuitively to have recognized that Courbet’s attempt to abolish the very possibility of spectatordom was doomed in every instance to (ontological not artistic) failure, or at any rate that success in that attempt was literally inconceivable, and that it was necessary to establish the beholder’s presence abstractly—to build into the painting the separateness, distancedness, and mutual facing that I have associated with the painting-beholder relationship in its traditional or unreconstructed form—in order that the worst consequences of theatricalization of that relationship be averted.
ref: 1986, Stephen W. Melville, Philosophy Beside Itself: On Deconstruction and Modernism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14, →ISBN:
text: He considers spectatordom as the fundamental condition ordering social life, but the state of being he characterizes as theatrical must always be staged in a nontheatrical mental field that much more closely resembles the transparency of the realist novel than the non-narrative fictions of theater.
ref: 1989 December 15, John Bender, Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 227:
glosses: The role or status of spectator.
spermatocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to spermatocysts.
spermiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spermy: most spermy
splanchnotomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to splanchnotomy.
splatterdock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splatterdocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spatterdock (“species of water lily”).
splatterdocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splatterdock
spatter cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spatter cone
splenauxe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The principal findings were splenauxe, pulmonary congestion and extravasation of blood.
ref: 1929, Japanese Journal of Medical Sciences, page 324:
text: His health was failing; splenauxe and tremblings afflicted him constantly.
ref: 2006, Jo-Shui Chen, Liu Tsung-yüan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819, page 82:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Enlargement of the spleen.
spookological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spook + -o- + -logical.
Senses: examples: text: In an autobiographical essay published in 1997, Money explains “[t]he general tendency is to want to say that gender identity is either biological or not biological — to which my jocular response is that if it’s not biological, then it must be spookological or occult, for there is a biology of learning and remembering, and it does affect the brain, doesn’t it?”
ref: 2017 June 30, Michaela Koch, Discursive Intersexions: Daring Bodies Between Myth, Medicine, and Memoir, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123, →ISBN:
glosses: Relating to the study of ghosts.
commissionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commissionary
wheated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: using a certain percentage of wheat in their mashbills instead of the more common rye
raw_tags: of bourbon whiskeys
mashbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashbills
Senses: glosses: The ingredients used in a brewing process to produce the wort that is then fermented into alcohol
raceday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racedays
form: race day
Senses: topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A day on which a race is held
shoreworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoreworkers
Senses: glosses: Someone who works on land in the fishing industry
outbent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: bent outwards
oilhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilhouses
Senses: examples: text: Co-ordination of roundhouse tool rooms and oilhouses with storehouse facilities will be found practical and economical in many instances
ref: 1937, Central Railway Chronicle:
coordinate_terms: bunker
;
coalhouse
glosses: A building for storing and dispensing fuel oil.
Related terms: oiler
oil tanker
dashdotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Marked with alternate dashes and dots
hypertriglyceremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hypertriglyceridemia.
isostable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + stable.
Senses: glosses: Equally stable
Martinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, K-K-K-K. First day back's gonna be a busy one. First, I need you to go to the dry cleaners for me and find out how Martinizing works. I've always been curious. Then I need you to be back by noon to make the bathroom smell like sandalwood before I wreck it. You got that, K-PAX-O-Gum?” “I'm not Kenneth, sir. My name's Brian. Kenneth got fired at the end of last season.” “Of course. I knew that.”
ref: 2010 September 23, Tina Fey, “The Fabian Strategy” (3:26 from the start), in 30 Rock, season 5, episode 1, spoken by Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan):
glosses: present participle and gerund of Martinize
outload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outloads
form: outloading
form: outloaded
form: outloaded
Senses: examples: text: It was found that the Division could outload itself almost entirely with the equipment normally found in a division. This was possible either by use of equipment organic to an airborne division or like equipment.
ref: 1943, United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps, Q.M.C. Historical Studies, page 256:
text: The division outloaded over the following three days and sailed for Pusan at mid-morning on the 15th.
ref: 1961, Billy C. Mossman, United States Army in the Korean War: Ebb and Flow:
text: The choice of outloading equipment is influenced by the size of ship to be filled and type of material to be handled.
ref: 2016, Sean Moran, Process Plant Layout:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: to load (a watercraft etc.) with supplies or personnel.
Related terms: loadout
refenestrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refenestrates
form: refenestrating
form: refenestrated
form: refenestrated
Senses: glosses: To fit with new windows
superfinalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfinalists
Senses: glosses: A competitor who reaches the superfinal
subcipher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: subciphers
Etymology: From sub- + cipher.
Senses: glosses: A secondary cipher
refranchise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refranchises
form: refranchising
form: refranchised
form: refranchised
Senses: glosses: to franchise again
subchart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcharts
form: sub-chart
Etymology: From sub- + chart.
Senses: examples: text: In an age when the charts have become an algorithmic spaghetti of streaming plays, radio and downloads, the purest way of measuring who is up and who is down in pop might be the Billboard Social 50, a sub-chart that measures reach across social networks.
ref: 2017 May 23, Gavin Haynes, “Why BTS are the K-pop kings of social media”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A secondary chart.
willowfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willowflies
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of species of stoneflies in the Oemopteryx genus
Home Guard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Later in the year the title of Local Defence Volunteer was changed to the more appropriate one of Home Guard.
ref: 1940 December, “Railways and the War—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 629:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An armed citizen defence force supporting the British Army during the Second World War, in particular, defence against any invasion by enemy forces.
Derived terms: Home Guardsman
Home Guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Home Guards
Senses: examples: text: Some 100,000 railwaymen have been released to join the fighting forces, 90,000 are training as Home Guards in addition to their railway work, 170,000 members of the railway staffs have been fully trained in A.R.P. duties, and 100,000 railwaywomen are now employed.
ref: 1943 March-April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:
synonyms: Home Guardsman
glosses: A member of this defence force.
Aurillac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Aurillac.
Senses: examples: text: A unusual attack by bees in the French town of Aurillac has left 24 people injured, including three who were in critical condition but have since improved, according to local authorities.
ref: 2025 July 7, “Bee attack leaves dozens of people injured in French town”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN:
glosses: A prefecture of Cantal department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Bar-le-Duc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune, the capital of Meuse department, Grand Est, France.
Bar-le-Duc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the statement published […] with respect to Bar le Duc, the Department found there had been a uniform practice of classifying Bar le Duc as jelly or jam under paragraph 751 and issued a new ruling requiring customs officers to classify Bar le Duc as berries, prepared or preserved […]
ref: 1956, United States Customs Court Reports: Cases Adjudged..., page 347:
glosses: A kind of French jelly/jam originally composed of select whole currants (usually red currants or white currants) with seeds removed, made in the Bar-le-Duc region.
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
Tunceli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turkish Tunceli.
Senses: glosses: A province in the Eastern Anatolia region, Turkey.
glosses: A district of Tunceli Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital of Tunceli district and Tunceli Province, Turkey, with a Zaza Kurdish majority and formerly a significant Armenian presence.
skilifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skilift
railtracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railtrack
racedays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raceday
subciphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcipher
superfinalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfinalist
refranchising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refranchise
refranchises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refranchise
refranchised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refranchise
polykinetids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polykinetid
refenestrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refenestrate
refenestrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refenestrate
refenestrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refenestrate
shoplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoplot
railworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railworkers
Senses: coordinate_terms: railman
railwoman
railwayman
railwaywoman
glosses: Someone who works on a railway.
railworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railworker
outloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outload
outloads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outload
outloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outload
swimoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swimoffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swim-off.
swimoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swimoff
vicecomital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vice- + comital.
Senses: synonyms: vicontiel
viscomital
glosses: Of or pertaining to a viscount.
Related terms: comital
reintensification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reintensifications
Senses: glosses: The act of reintensifying
stakeswin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stakeswins
Etymology: From stakes + win.
Senses: topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A win at a stakes race
stakeswins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stakeswin
reintensifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reintensification
pruinosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pruinosed
form: most pruinosed
Etymology: From pruinose + -d.
Senses: glosses: pruinose
screenplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of screenplay
screenplayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of screenplay
pitwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitwalls
Etymology: From pit + wall.
Senses: glosses: The wall of a pit
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: The wall to the side of the pit lane
pitwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitwall
tonehole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toneholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tone hole.
Llansteffan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Llanstephan
Etymology: From Welsh llan + Steffan (“Saint Stephen”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and community (served by Llansteffan and Llanybri Community Council) in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN3510).
tone hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tone holes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An opening in the body of a wind instrument which, when alternately closed and opened, changes the pitch of the sound produced.
Related terms: register hole
trill hole
upper joint
toneholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonehole
tone holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tone hole
watchpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchposts
Etymology: From watch + post.
Senses: glosses: A watchtower
watchposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchpost
runchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runchases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of run chase.
runchases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runchase
shiploader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiploaders
Senses: glosses: a large machine used for loading and unloading large materials onto ships
shiploaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiploader
Dahingganling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A prefecture of Heilongjiang, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Daxing'anling
word: Greater Khingan
Daxing'anling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: däʹshǐngʹänʹlǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大興安嶺 /大兴安岭 (Dàxīng'ānlǐng).
Senses: examples: text: Twenty-three-year-old Chi Zijian graduated from Daxing’anling Normal School, Heilongjiang in 1984, and now teaches there.
ref: 1991, Contemporary Chinese Women Writers (Panda Books), volume II, Beijing: Chinese Literature Press, published 1997, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 315:
text: Yang Yongxia, 24, the chief accountant of Tahe Tax Bureau, and her one-year-old son Han Yang were found dead in the cellar of her house in Daxing’anling Prefecture, Tahe County. The evidence seemed to point to her husband, Han Jianxun.
ref: 2004 December 31, Wang Fang, Duan Hongqing, “Personal Power Treads on Justice”, in Beijing Today, number 187, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 3:
text: May 6, 1987
China
The Daxing'anling Wildfire in China was not the first wildfire in the Daxing'anling Mountains, but it was the worst. It burned for almost a month, destroying more than 2 million acres (971,245 ha), killing more than 200 people, and leaving more than 50,000 homeless.
ref: 2014, Rebecca Rowell, “Ten Destructive Wildfires”, in Wildfires, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: More than 8,300 people are helping to fight a huge forest fire in northern China, according to media reports.
The blaze in Daxing’anling prefecture in Inner Mongolia has spread to over 5,000 hectares with two fronts of the blaze each stretching about 7km, the reports said.[…]
Daxing’anling is a mountainous forested area and the State Forestry Administration said a sudden change in the direction and force of the wind had spread the fire quickly to the southwest, putting firefighters in “extreme danger” and severely hampering efforts to put out the blaze.
ref: 2017 May 3, Pinghui Zhang, “Thousands tackling huge forest fire in northern China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2017, Society:
glosses: Synonym of Dahingganling: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Dahingganling
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
laicisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of laicization.
admortisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of admortization.
Mi-chih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 米脂 (Mǐzhī) Wade–Giles romanization: Mi³-chih¹.
Senses: examples: text: CCP district organizations in the Shen-Kan-Ning Border Region were often named after a prominent county (hsien) located in the district. Thus, there are documents in the BIC from bother the Sui-teh and Mi-chih county and district organizations of the CCP.
ref: 1976, Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 64:
text: Yang-chia-kou village, known throughout northern Shensi as the home of the “Kuang-yü t'ang”? Ma, was located in the sixth hsiang of Ho-ch’a ch’ü, Mi-chih county. The village was approximately forty li from the county seat, an equal distance from Chi-chen town, an additional forty li from Ssu-shih-li p’u, and fifteen li from T’ao-hua mao chen.
ref: 1986, Evelyn Rawski, “The Ma Landlord of Yang-chia-kou in Late Ch'ing and Republican China”, in Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250:
glosses: Alternative form of Mizhi.
AFAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɐˈfam/
note: non-Philippine
ipa: /ˈeɪfæm/
Forms: form: AFAMs
form: afam
form: Afam
Etymology: Possibly an initialism of A Foreigner Around Manila.
Senses: topics: LGBT
synonyms: kano
qualifier: women's speech
glosses: a foreigner in the Philippines (usually male)
glosses: any foreigner in the Philippines
Eulerangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eulerangles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Euler angle.
Eulerangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eulerangle
Quangsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: There are ſeveral other Iſlands beſide, which pay alſo Tribute: Amongſt which the Iſland Haman^([sic – meaning Hainan]) is the chiefeſt, lying in the Sea over againſt the Province of Quangſi.
ref: 1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 6:
text: XVII. Quansi, lies Eaſt from Tonquin, and South from Queicheu. It is for the most part mountainous, and abounds with Elephants, Tygers, and other Wild Beaſts.
ref: [1721, John Senex, A New General Atlas, Containing A Geographical And Historical Account Of All The Empires, Kingdoms And Other Dominions Of The World, London, →OCLC, page 216:
glosses: Alternative form of Guangxi.
Hararis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harari
balance of equities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balances of equities
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A judicial analysis under which a court weighs factors like the public interest, injury to the parties, fairness, etc. in deciding on a matter.
Rhum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Rùm.
Colonsay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, located north of Islay and south of Mull.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada, within the rural municipality.
glosses: A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan; in full, the Rural Municipality of Colonsay No. 342.
Eigg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡ/
ipa: /ɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
homophone: egg
Senses: glosses: An island of the Inner Hebrides, in Highland council area, Scotland; one of the Small Isles. It lies to the south of the Isle of Skye and to the north of the Ardnamurchan peninsula.
all one word
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: In Spanish, "neozelandés" is spelled all one word and in English "New Zealander" is two words.
text: The hosue is called Porthousekeeper (all one word) Mansion.
glosses: written in a single word.
Treffgarne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tɹɛfˈɡɑː(ɹ)n/
Etymology: From Welsh tref (“settlement”) + carn (“rock”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Wolfscastle community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9523).
sure as eggs are eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sure as eggs is eggs.
as sure as eggs are eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sure as eggs is eggs.
as sure as eggs is eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sure as eggs is eggs.
teethless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teethless
form: most teethless
form: teeth-less
Etymology: From teeth + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In those combats every thing is opprobrious and repulsive—ay, every thing, from the teethless mouth, and the brutal looks of those degraded beings, to the preparations and precautions destined to prolong the combat.
ref: 1842 February 17, “Sport”, in The Morning Post, number 22,180, London, page 7, column 4:
text: In Elena Castedo’s “Paradise,” delicious tropical fruits and sweets are the food of the rich, while teethless peasants lose their children to malnutrition and disease.
ref: 1990 November 18, Maria Nieves de Abajo, “South of the border: “Paradise” / By Elena Castedo […]”, in The Sunday Journal, 110th year, number 322, Albuquerque, N.M., section G, page 8:
text: People with teethless smiles, pudgy arms and near-bald heads don’t usually win beauty contests.
ref: 1998 July 19, “ET Infant Named ‘Little Baby Texas’ in Dallas Pageant”, in Tyler Courier-Times--Telegraph, volume 120, number 47, Tyler, Tex., page 4, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of toothless (“without teeth”).
synonyms: word: toothless
extra: without teeth
examples: text: [Valerie] Brown’s attempt to impose “regional government” on the North Bay deservedly failed, her bill requiring government agencies to develop strategic plans is “teethless,” and another failed measure to cut government expense was “political farce,” [Roger] Williams said.
ref: 1994 October 6, Kevin Courtney, “Redistricting makes 7th District race quiet for candidates”, in The Napa Valley Register, 132nd year, number 56, Napa, Calif., page 2A, columns 2–3:
text: Senate Republican leader John McKinney, who has argued strongly against hedge-fund regulations in the past, dismissed the bill as “teethless” legislation.
ref: 2009 May 27, Christopher Keating, “Clamping Down On Hedge Funds”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXIII, number 147, Hartford, Conn., page A2, column 2:
text: Now they’ve come back with an ordinance that is completely teethless. It is way weaker than the one they had.
ref: 2015 April 10, Carmen George, “Tenants, advocates rally against poor rentals”, in The Fresno Bee, Fresno, Calif., page A4, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of toothless (“weak”).
synonyms: word: toothless
extra: weak
teeth-less
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teeth-less
form: most teeth-less
Senses: examples: text: After the inquiry had been received the teeth were located under the counter. Now the proprietor is seeking the identity of the teeth-less person in order that they may be restored.
ref: 1925 March 29, The Oregon Statesman, seventy-fourth year, Salem, Or., page 5:
text: Remembered for his generosity, kindness, quick sharp wit, teeth-less smile, wisdom and godly advise.
ref: 2006 May 22, “Burnell Arlos Raphael “Pops” / Chicago, IL”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., page C2, column 4:
text: “A full-face helmet is the best thing to have, otherwise you’d be going around teeth-less,” [Nylah] Rogers said.
ref: 2019 July 23, Sara Karnes, “Ditching the car for a unicycle”, in Springfield News-Leader, volume 129, number 204, Springfield, Mo., page 6A, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of teethless.
topped oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of top oneself
tops oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of top oneself
topping oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of top oneself
Shio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃi.ɔ/
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Georgian male given name შიო (šio)
bottomed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bottom out
bottoms out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bottom out
bottoming out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bottom out
Wea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of Waiatanwa and other forms, derived from Miami waayaahtanwa, from waayaahtanonki (“place of the whirpool”).
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of western Indiana, USA and surrounding regions .
Wheal Busy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cornish hwel.
Senses: glosses: An old mining locality in Chacewater parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7344).
ball gag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball gags
form: ball-gag
form: ballgag
Senses: examples: text: Here is a model with an alluring docile expression, wearing a ball gag. Her arms and breasts also are bound.
ref: 1978–79, Teresa Hommel, “Images of Women in Pornography and Media”, in New York University Review of Law and Social Change, volume 8, number 2, →ISSN, page 209:
text: Miserable, violated and looking like a rag doll, Marsellus, red ball gag still in his mouth, opens his watery eyes to see Butch coming up behind.
ref: c. 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (screenplay); quoted in Kathryn Bond Stockton, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer”, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2006, →DOI, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A gag with a rubber or silicone sphere that is strapped into the mouth behind the teeth.
Related terms: pacifier gag
ball gags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ball gag
runs like a dry creek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run like a dry creek
running like a dry creek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run like a dry creek
ran like a dry creek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run like a dry creek
runs for the exercise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run for the exercise
running for the exercise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run for the exercise
ran for the exercise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run for the exercise
hyperexplosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperexplosions
form: hyper explosion
form: hyper-explosion
Etymology: From hyper- + explosion.
Senses: examples: text: Impacts versus Hyperexplosions as a cause of circular structures on Earth.
ref: 1982, Jennifer M. Groh, Tectonics & Structural Geology Newsletter, Volume 8, Specialist Group in Tectonics & Structural Geology. Geological Society of Australia, page 52:
text: His "inflation theory" posits that the universe began in a hyperexplosion that makes the big bang look like a whimper; it answers mysteries of cosmologyon which earlier theories had been mute."
ref: 1993 September 26, Sharon Begley, “The Puzzle Of Genius”, in www.newsweek.com, archived from the original on 09 May 2021:
text: His shadow-form would be immune to the resulting singularity hyperexplosion.
ref: 2009, John C. Wright, Null-A Continuum, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 215:
glosses: An extremely severe explosion; a superexplosion.
hyperexplosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperexplosion
Dondo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and district in Sofala Province, Mozambique.
sucked and blown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of suck and blow
sucks and blows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suck and blow
sucked and blew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of suck and blow
sucking and blowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suck and blow
Vila Machado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Nhamatanda, Mozambique.
Nhamatanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Former name: Vila Machado
glosses: A town and district in Sofala Province, Mozambique.
Headlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Makoni District, Manicaland, Zimbabwe.
OIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OIS
Senses: examples: text: But an objective overview of the current literature and research associated with post-OIS officer support compared to various aspects of the research ...
ref: 2007, David E. Hatch, Randy Dickson, Officer-Involved Shootings and Use of Force: Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 188:
text: Officer-involved shooting (OIS) investigations are directed at the determination of whether the shooter officer's decision to use deadly force was "objectively reasonable […]"
ref: 2017, Darrell L. Ross, Gary M. Vilke, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody, Routledge, →ISBN, page 285:
text: The SHOT database gathered a dataset of 4283 officer-involved shootings (OIS) that have occurred in 50 states between January 2000 and December 2017 […]
ref: 2019, James F. Albrecht, Garth den Heyer, Perry Stanislas, Policing and Minority Communities: Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN, page 117:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of officer-involved shooting.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
coordinate_terms: EIS
IBIS
glosses: Initialism of optical image stabilization.
stepping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of step up
stepped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of step up
truck bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truck bomb
depth charged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depth charge
depth charging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depth charge
depth-charges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depth-charge
depth-charging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depth-charge
depth-charged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depth-charge