cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
besylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛsɪleɪt/
Forms: form: besylates
form: besilate
Etymology: From besyl(ic) (acid) (“benzenesulfonic (acid)”) + -ate (“a salt or ester derived from an acid whose name ends in -ic”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: benzenesulfonate
glosses: A salt or ester of benzenesulfonic acid.
Derived terms: dibesylate
besylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of besylate
flaccider
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæsɪdɚ/
Senses: examples: text: But I pretermitted it, finding that my hand is no longer the hand it was, or rather that the breed of geese is very much degenerated, and that their quills, like men's manners, are grown softer and flaccider.
ref: 1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough, Clerk:
glosses: comparative form of flaccid: more flaccid
BLV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bovine leukemia virus.
bladderworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladderworms
Etymology: From bladder + worm.
Senses: glosses: A bladderlike larva of a tapeworm.
bladderworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bladderworm
diotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
-ɒtɪk
Etymology: From di- + otic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to both ears.
Derived terms: diotically
bindin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bindins
Etymology: From bind + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein involved in the process of sea urchin fertilization.
Related terms: calphobindin
bindin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Garcinia indica, a plant in the mangosteen family.
bindins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bindin
dangerouser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒəɹəsə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: For error and mistake, the less th' appear, / In th' end are found to be the dangerouser; / As no man minds those clocks that used to go / Apparently too over-fast or slow.
ref: 1854, Samuel Butler, “Miscellaneous thoughts”, in The poetical works of Samuel Butler, page 244:
text: "—and de letter say: 'It's getting dangerouser and dangerouser every minute over where de fighting is at.'"
ref: 1928, Charles E. Mack, Two Black Crows in the A.E.F., page 55:
text: “Oh jeez, if it isn't dangerous and dangerouser.” Sandy Sandburg, the sheriff of Campbell County, pulled out a chair, sat at our table, and propped up a large manila folder on the windowsill beside him, careful to pick a spot where the condensation wouldn't do any damage.
ref: 2014, Criag Johnson, Any Other Name: A Longmire Mystery, page 11:
glosses: comparative form of dangerous: more dangerous
seriouser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪəɹɪəsə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of serious: more serious
Reinholdian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Reinholdian
form: most Reinholdian
Etymology: From Reinhold + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823), Austrian philosopher.
gloriouser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɔːɹɪəsə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of glorious: more glorious
blastocystosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Blastocystis + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: infection with Blastocystis parasites
subdew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subdews
form: subdewing
form: subdewed
form: subdewed
Senses: examples: text: Where whenas death shall all the world subdew […]
ref: 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:
glosses: Obsolete form of subdue.
blepharochalasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An inflammation of the eyelid, characterized by exacerbations and remissions of eyelid edema, which results in a stretching and subsequent atrophy of the eyelid tissue resulting in redundant folds over the lid margins.
horrorsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɹɚsəm/
ipa: /ˈhɒɹəsəm/
Forms: form: more horrorsome
form: most horrorsome
Etymology: From horror + -some.
Senses: examples: text: There are monsters and creatures with horrorsome features / And shapes to drive men to insanity.
ref: 2001, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Macintyre's Improbable Bestiary:
text: [...] the merciless massacres, plunders, outrages, rapes and abductions perpetrated by Islamic terrorists in India and in its frontiers for almost a thousand years stand as glaring examples of despicable and horrorsome human depravity, which extends to the twentyfirst century through Pakistan and its terrorist groups with more ferocity and terrific cruelty.
ref: 2003, Mahendra Narayan Behera, Brownstudy on Heathenland:
glosses: Characterised or marked by horror.
boldine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boldo + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aporphine alkaloid found in the boldo tree and in Lindera aggregata.
Derived terms: isoboldine
advantageouser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Of both their suavities, experience gives much advantageouser notions than descriptions can.
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC:
glosses: comparative form of advantageous: more advantageous
Bloch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bloch.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.
ref: 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Bloch function
Bloch norm
Bloch oscillation
Bloch space
Bloch spectrum
Bloch sphere
Bloch's theorem
Bloch wall
Bloch wave
ambitiouser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ambitious: more ambitious
blite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blīt
ipa: /blaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: blight
Forms: form: blites
Etymology: From Latin blitum.
Senses: glosses: The plant Amaranthus blitum, purple amaranth.
glosses: Any of various plants in the genus Chenopodium.
glosses: Any of various plants in the genus Atriplex.
Derived terms: frost-blite
sea blite
blites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blite
blepharoconjunctivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blepharo- + conjunctivitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
anxiouser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋkʃəsɚ/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of anxious: more anxious
Bohm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Böhm.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Aharonov-Bohm effect
Bohm diffusion
Bohmian
Bohm interpretation
Bohm sheath criterion
de Broglie-Bohm theory
Related terms: Boehm
bogbean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bogbeans
form: bog-bean
form: bog bean
Senses: glosses: buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata)
bogbeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogbean
Beotians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beotian
comfortabler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.blɚ/
ipa: /ˈkʌmf.tɚ.blɚ/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of comfortable: more comfortable
boldo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boldos
Etymology: From Spanish boldo, from Mapudungun foḻo.
Senses: glosses: Peumus boldus, a monimiaceous tree.
examples: text: Fossilized boldo leaves more than 13,000 years old with human teeth imprints have been found in Chile. Perhaps they were used medicinally by ancient Chileans or chewed simply for their pleasant, refreshing taste.
ref: 2000, Charles W. Fetrow, Juan R. Avila, The Complete Guide To Herbal Medicines, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: The leaves of this tree, used in traditional medicine for hepatic troubles and genitourinary inflammation.
Derived terms: boldine
monimiaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Monimiaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Monimiaceae.
bioptome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioptomes
Senses: glosses: A pincer-shaped cutting and grasping instrument used in medicine for taking biopsy specimens.
bioptomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioptome
biopterins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopterin
hyperphenylalaninemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperphenylalaninemias
Etymology: From hyper- + phenylalanine + -emia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of excessive phenylalanine in the blood.
Derived terms: hyperphenylalaninemic
hyperphenylalaninemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperphenylalaninemia
pseudocrystals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocrystal
pseudocrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudocrystalline
form: most pseudocrystalline
Etymology: From pseudo- + crystalline.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a pseudocrystal.
cautiouser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːʃəsə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cautious: more cautious
borreliosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borrelioses
Etymology: From Borrelia + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: infection with Borrelia bacteria; Lyme disease
Derived terms: dermatoborreliosis
neuroborreliosis
bionomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to bionomics.
bionomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + -nomics.
Senses: glosses: The study of an organism and its relation to its environment; ecology.
Related terms: bionomic
bionomy
blennorrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blennorrhagias
Etymology: From blenno- + -rrhagia, New Latin combining forms based on Ancient Greek roots.
Senses: glosses: Excessive blennorrhea, or mucous discharge, especially as seen in gonorrhea.
blennorrhagias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blennorrhagia
enucleator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enucleators
Senses: examples: text: The typical enucleator gouges the eyes out, but he doesn't normally take them with him.
ref: 2009, Criminal Minds, "The Eyes Have It", Season 5, Episode 6 (DVD subtitles)
glosses: A device that or person who enucleates.
enucleators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enucleator
boxology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxologies
Etymology: From box + -ology.
Senses: glosses: A representation of an organized structure as a graph of labelled nodes ("boxes") and connections between them (as lines or arrows).
boxologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boxology
botryomycosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: bacterial pseudomycosis; a rare chronic granulomatous bacterial infection that affects the skin and sometimes the viscera
Related terms: botryomycotic
pseudomycotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + mycotic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pseudomycosis.
petrolatums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrolatum
bephenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From be(nzyl) + phen(oxy) + -ium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anthelmintic agent formerly used in the treatment of hookworm infections and ascariasis.
Derived terms: bephenium hydroxynaphthoate
bothrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bothria
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βοθρίον (bothríon, “small trench”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A protruding cup or small groove used for adhesion, especially in cestodes.
Coordinate terms: bothridium
Derived terms: bothrial
trichobothrium
Related terms: Bothrus
Stenobothrus
bothria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bothrium
billbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billbugs
Senses: glosses: weevil
billbugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billbug
brachydactylia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: brachydactyly
brachycranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brachy- + cranic.
Senses: glosses: brachycephalic
brachycranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəl
Etymology: From brachy- + cranial.
Senses: glosses: brachycephalic
Derived terms: hyperbrachycranial
camphane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camphanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Bornane.
Derived terms: mecamylamine
camphanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camphane
norbornanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norbornane
norbornadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norbornadiene
bornane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bornanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: camphane
glosses: (1S,4S)-1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptane, an organic compound closely related to norbornane; any derivative of this compound.
Derived terms: glibornuride
Boltzmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Boltzmann brain
Boltzmann equation
Boltzmannian
lattice Boltzmann method
brachyonychia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brachy- + onychia.
Senses: glosses: A condition in which the end of the thumb is widened and flattened, the nail plate is flattened, and the distal phalanx is abnormally short.
brachydont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having low-crowned, short teeth.
brachydont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachydonts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism with brachydont teeth.
brachydonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachydont
hypsodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypsodont
brachymetatarsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition with one or more abnormally short metatarsals.
Hyponyms: Morton's syndrome
barognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baro- + gnosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The ability to evaluate the weight of objects, or to differentiate objects of different weights by holding or lifting them.
Synonyms: baresthesia
baresthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bar- + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: barognosis
ladybro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladybros
Etymology: From lady + bro.
Senses: examples: text: Leaving feminist blog Jezebel to declare: “I have a dream that one day ladies can be considered ladybros without having to show their ladylumps.”
ref: 2011 November 22, Jaclyn Tersigni, “Why is GQ's 'Bro of the Year' wearing lingerie?”, in The Globe and Mail:
text: It doesn’t make sense that bros get paid more than ladybros for the same job.
ref: 2012 July 16, Ruby Mahoney, “feminist of the week: kat muscat”, in Lip:
text: I can forgive ladybros, who were reared on a diet of sassy women's magazines and Sex And The City clichés, for succumbing to titles like Men Are From Uranus and Become a Man Whisperer.
ref: 2012 October 31, Angela Clarke, “Blonde's Eye View: What are you reading?”, in Wharf:
glosses: A female comrade or friend.
Synonyms: broette
brosephine
dudette
sister
ladybros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladybro
arithmetitian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetitians
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of arithmetician.
clinitian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of clinician.
metaphysitian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphysitians
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of metaphysician.
HBP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HBPs
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of hit-by-pitch.
HBP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Human Brain Project.
glosses: Initialism of Half-Blood Prince.
preludium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈluːdiəm/
ipa: /-ˈljuːdiəm/
ipa: /ˈpɹəˈluːdiəm/
Forms: form: preludiums
form: preludia
form: praeludium
form: præludium
Etymology: From Latin praeludium.
Senses: examples: text: […]and ſo the dyſputation beganne, ſette a woꝛke by the Prolocutor with a verye ſhoꝛte pꝛæludium.
ref: 1563, Iohn Foxe, “Book 5”, in Actes and Monuments of theſe latter and perillous dayes […] , London: Iohn Day, page 1006:
text: Maybe they would learn to raiſe the picke. / I am for 'um. They are very modeſt; tis a fine preludium.[…]
ref: 1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A Comoedy. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Leonard Lichfield […], published 1640, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 3:
text: This Menelaus knows, expos'd to ſhare / With me the rough Preludium of the War.
ref: 1717, Catcott, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe, Temple Stanyan, “Book XIII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 445:
glosses: prelude, portent
kicked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of kick out
kicks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick out
kicking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick out
wāli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wālis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wali.
valis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vali
caprichio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of capriccio.
Davos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdævɒs/
ipa: /ˈdɑːvoʊs/
Etymology: First attested as Tavaus, from Romansch tavau (“behind”), referring to the valley in which it lies, from Latin de- (“from, of”) + post (“behind”).
Senses: glosses: A mountain resort and municipality in Grisons, Switzerland, host of the World Economic Forum.
examples: text: “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”
ref: 2019 January 29, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Former Starbucks CEO heckled at book event for weighing independent run: ‘Don’t help elect Trump!’”, in CNN:
glosses: An annual meeting of business leaders, major politicians, economists, and other celebrities hosted by the World Economic Forum in the town of Davos, Switzerland at the end of January.
Derived terms: Davos Man
Carniola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹniˈoʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Senses: examples: text: Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...
ref: 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:
glosses: A historical region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires that comprised parts of what is now Slovenia.
Derived terms: Inner Carniola
Lower Carniola
Upper Carniola
Related terms: Carniolan
Carniolan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Carniola + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Carniola.
Derived terms: Carniolan honeybee
Carniolan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Carniola + -n.
Senses: glosses: Any of the languages spoken in Carniola (depending on context), such as Slovene or Gottscheerish.
Carniolan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carniolans
Etymology: From Carniola + -n.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Carniola.
Carniolan honeybee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carniolan honeybees
form: Carniolan bee
form: Carniolan honey bee
Senses: glosses: Apis mellifera carnica, a subspecies of the western honeybee
wikipedia: Carniolan honeybee
bond order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bond orders
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The number of bonds between a pair of atoms in a molecule
Related terms: single bond
double bond
triple bond
drinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪŋkl̩/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Forms: form: drinkles
form: drinkling
form: drinkled
form: drinkled
form: drenkle
Etymology: From Middle English drinklen, drinkelen, drenklen (“to plunge, drown”), from Old English *drenclian (“to drown”), frequentative form of Old English drenċan (“to give to drink, give drink to, drench, make drunk, ply with drink; soak, saturate; submerge, drown, plunge; sink”), equivalent to drink + -le and drench + -le. Compare dronkle, drunkle.
Senses: examples: text: We built a fire in the huge fireplace, then sat around drinkling bootleg beer and whiskey, compliments of Joe himself, Valley High's greatest athlete.
ref: 1965, John Treadwell Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo:
glosses: To drink (an alcoholic beverage); also, to cause (someone) to drink such a beverage; to drench; to drown.
examples: text: 'Get this one into bed and it's a royal flush!' His face twinkled, his gums sparkled, his eyes kindled, his brow darkened. I bridled and bristled, nettled and rankled, then drinkled and drankled some more.
ref: 2009, Claire Kilroy, All Names Have Been Changed:
glosses: To drink an alcoholic beverage; also, to become intoxicated; to get drunk.
examples: text: And the Mercury states that "the heavy rain drenched the field, and most betook themselves to a retreat, but the rats were all drinkled".
ref: 1900, George Borrow, “Notes to Lavengro, with Corrections, Identifications and Translations”, in Lavengro […], new edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 562:
glosses: To drown.
Derived terms: drinkling
apogeotropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From apogeotropic + -ally.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In an apogeotropic manner; of leaves and other botanical structures, in a manner that bends away from the ground.
Blitzen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blixen
form: Blixem
Etymology: First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. Named from Dutch bliksem (“lightning”), and perhaps influenced by the German form Blitz.
Senses: glosses: The eighth and last reindeer of Santa Claus.
wikipedia: A Visit from St. Nicholas
Coordinate terms: sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Comet
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Cupid
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Dancer
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Dasher
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Donner
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Prancer
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
sense: Santa Claus's reindeer
word: Vixen
Derived terms: donder and blitzen
boat-hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat-hooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boathook.
boat-hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boat-hook (alternative spelling of boathooks).
bonassus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonassuses
form: bonasus
Etymology: From Latin bonāsus, from Ancient Greek βόνᾱσος (bónāsos).
Senses: examples: text: There follows a series of exotic animals from the East, such as panthers, bonassuses, rhinoceroses, unicorns, and rare serpents (11.13).[…]References to panthers may be found in 26, to rhinoceroses in 39, to unicorns in 64, and to bonassuses and serpents in 52 (The Excellent and Pleasant Worke of Iulius Solinus, trans. Arthur Golding [London: Thomas Hacket, 1587]. Accessed August 23, 2010, <[…]>).
ref: 2012, Christina H. Lee, “Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish Epic”, in Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522–1657, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A bonnacon.
glosses: The aurochs, or European bison.
break-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of break-up (alternative spelling of breakups).
backsaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backsaw
backsaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backsaw
bargainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bargainable
form: most bargainable
Etymology: From bargain + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be bargained; subject to negotiation.
Derived terms: nonbargainable
beakless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beak + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having a beak.
Derived terms: beaklessness
besmircher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besmirchers
Etymology: From besmirch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of besmirch: one who besmirches.
besmirchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of besmircher
beau joueur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaux joueurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French beau joueur (“handsome player”).
Senses: examples: text: With refilled purses they will visit one of the thousand foreign towns, so glad to receive the beaux joueurs of England.
ref: 1861, John Kemp, Wild Dayrell, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, page 71:
text: Either the child is frightened by her three consecutive losses, and hesitates, or else the combination for which she is waiting has not yet arisen. Ninety-nine people in the hundred would surmise the former. I, who know Angélique better, and know if ever beau joueur—or rather, I suppose, belle joueuse—was born, it is that small slight child at my side, think otherwise.
ref: 1878 November 30, “Angélique's Martingale”, in All The Year Round, number 522, page 520:
text: "You are a heart and soul gambler." ¶ "Confess, however, I am beau joueur. I know how to lose."
ref: 1904, Charles Lever, The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly, Little, Brown, and Company, page 352:
glosses: A gambler, especially if skilled.
examples: text: Beau joüeur, One that plays fair, and never frets at play.
ref: 1728, Abel Boyer, The Royal Dictionary: Abridged in Two Parts, I French and English, II English and French, 5th Corrected and Impro'd edition:
text: In all the "adventures" in life, in peace and in war, the Super-man must exhibit the serenity of the beau joueur, the smiling grace of the dancer, the joyous simplicity of a child at play.
ref: 1909, E. T. H., “Nietzsche and Madame Blavatsky”, in Theosophical Quarterly Magazine, volume VI, number 4, page 336:
text: "Beau joueur," she had called him. How much fuller of fragrance was the Gallic phrase than the English "sport" or "sportsman"; it was perfumed with breeding; it conjured up gesture, a pinch of snuff and a dust of lace ruffles and—
ref: 1923, William John Locke, Moordius & Co, page 123:
text: There is no culture in which knowing how to win or lose loyally, without reservations, with self-control in victory, and without rancor in defeat, is not desired. One wants to be en beau joueur.
ref: 1959, Meyer Barash, Man and the Sacred, University of Illinois Press (2001 reprint), translation of L'homme et le sacré by Roger Caillois, 2nd edition, published 1950, Appendix II, page 162:
text: She was this beau joueur of suffrage and its martyr, had he not always thought, and should he be surprised by this last logic of her life, by her ambivalence splitting her apart into the lover and the loved?
ref: 1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Scribner, page 502:
glosses: A good sport, a gallant sportsman.
Related terms: belle joueuse
good loser
neverthrivings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neverthriving
rear projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear projections
Senses: glosses: Synonym of back projection.
synonyms: word: back projection
factor market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factor markets
Senses: examples: text: The instance of a few buyers and many sellers in the factor market with many buyers and sellers in the product market is typified by the classic cases of unorganized wage-earners in company towns, for instance, textile and coal.
ref: 1942, John T. Dunlop and Benjamin Higgins, "“Bargaining Power” and Market Structures," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 50, no. 1 (Feb.), p. 24
text: In China, for instance, there is still the need to liberalize the factor market, especially in the land and labor market.
ref: 2010 January 13, Maria Monica Wihardja, “G20 and East Asia: A forum for the Asian agenda”, in Jakarta Post, retrieved 25 Jan 2013:
text: Fiji Commerce Commission chairman Dr Mahendra Reddy said . . . "They want no price control in the product market but they want price control in the factor market."
ref: 2011 June 6, Mary Rauto, “Price control to remain”, in Fiji Times, retrieved 25 Jan 2013:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The system or infrastructure for economic exchange within which factors of production (such as labor, materials, or capital) are purchased or sold.
Related terms: product market
bromoviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to bromoviruses.
bromovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the virus genus Bromovirus.
bromoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromovirus
BMV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Brome mosaic virus
BMV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the equivalent to a Department of Motor Vehicles for the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Maine.
bromodiphenhydramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bromazine
bullnose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullnoses
Etymology: From bull + nose.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A rounded ceramic trim, especially in masonry and ceramic tile.
glosses: A bacterial disease of suckling or weanling pigs, characterized by sores in the mouth or upon the lips.
Related terms: bull's nose
bullnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullnose
brochureware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brochure + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Promotional material converted directly from existing printed brochures into a website, and thus lacking interactive features.
brinolase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: brinase
Braxton Hicks contraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Braxton Hicks contractions
Etymology: Named after John Braxton Hicks, English doctor who described them.
Senses: topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: A sporadic uterine contraction during pregnancy; false labour.
wikipedia: John Braxton Hicks
Braxton Hicks contractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Braxton Hicks contraction
bronchiolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchioli
Senses: glosses: A bronchiole.
bromosuccinimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromosuccinimides
Etymology: From bromo- + succinimide.
Senses: examples: text: Bromosuccinimide is a convenient source of cationic bromine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical reagent used in radical substitution and electrophilic addition reactions in organic chemistry.
bromosuccinimides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromosuccinimide
Wohl-Ziegler reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wohl-Ziegler reactions
Etymology: Named after Alfred Wohl and K. Ziegler.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical reaction that involves the allylic or benzylic bromination of hydrocarbons using an N-bromoimide and a radical initiator.
bromoimides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromoimide
bromsulphthalein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromsulfthalein
Senses: glosses: A dye used in liver function tests.
bromsulfthalein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bromsulphthalein.
Brunner's gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brunner's glands
Etymology: Named for the Swiss physician who first described them, Johann Conrad Brunner.
Senses: glosses: One of the compound tubular submucosal glands found in that portion of the duodenum which is above the hepatopancreatic sphincter. Their main function is to produce a mucus-rich alkaline secretion to protect the duodenum from acidic chyme and to lubricate the intestinal walls.
wikipedia: Johann Conrad Brunner
Brunner's glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brunner's gland
hepatopancreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + pancreatic.
Senses: examples: the hepatopancreatic ampulla
the hepatopancreatic sphincter
the hepatopancreatic duct
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to (or connecting) the liver and pancreas
urogastrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A substance secreted by the Brunner's glands that inhibits parietal cells and chief cells of the stomach from secreting acid and their digestive enzymes, in order to protect the duodenum.
bufalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular bufadienolide.
bromoderma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bromo- + -derma.
Senses: glosses: A dermatological condition caused by hypersensitivity to bromides and characterized by an eruption of papules and pustules on the skin.
Synonyms: bromoderma tuberosum
puffbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puffbirds
Etymology: From puff + bird, because their loose abundant plumage and short tails make them look stout and puffy.
Senses: glosses: Any of various tropical passerine birds in the family Bucconidae, related to the jacamars.
puffbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puffbird
bromouracil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromouracils
Etymology: From bromo- + uracil.
Senses: glosses: A brominated derivative of uracil.
bromouracils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromouracil
ASPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASPDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of antisocial personality disorder.
glosses: A person with antisocial personality disorder.
glosses: Initialism of advanced sleep phase disorder
Related terms: BPD
NPD
HPD
bronchographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broncho- + -graphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bronchography.
bronchography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From broncho- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Bronchography is rarely performed, as it has been made obsolete with improvements in computed tomography and bronchoscopy.
glosses: radiography of the bronchus, involving the use of contrast
Bunsens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bunsen
bromocryptine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of bromocriptine.
Bamar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bamars
form: Bamar
Etymology: From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma). Doublet of Burma.
Senses: glosses: A member of the majority ethnic group of Burma (Myanmar).
Synonyms: Burman
Bamars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bamar
butethal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: butobarbital
butobarbitone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: butobarbital
butobarbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hypnotic barbiturate drug.
Synonyms: butobarbitone
butethal
xanthobacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthobacters
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Xanthobacter of gram-negative bacteria.
xanthobacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xanthobacter
astrocytomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrocytoma
astrocompasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrocompass
astrodomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrodome
bytesexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of byte + bisexual
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of operating in either big-endian or little-endian mode.
Synonyms: bi-endian
bursectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: bursectomies
Etymology: From bursa + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of a bursa.
Derived terms: bursectomize
Related terms: bursectomized
row back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rows back
form: rowing back
form: rowed back
form: rowed back
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. "I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either," Kurtz wrote.
ref: 2013 January 19, Paul Harris, “Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession”, in The Guardian:
text: Labour has rowed back from a plan for new rolling stock to be procured and owned in the public sector - with the party's rail spokesman saying it is not a priority.
ref: 2022 October 5, “Network News: Private sector's role in a publicly-owned railway”, in RAIL, number 967, page 16:
text: Speaking to the Guardian in one of his first campaign interviews, Timmermans said the UK government was one of the countries rowing back on green pledges.
ref: 2023 October 10, Senay Boztas, “Frans Timmermans urges European left to unite against right’s climate backlash”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To change or revise a previous opinion or decision.
Derived terms: row-back
row back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: row backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of row-back.
Related terms: roll back
bursectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bursectomy
Burkitt's lymphoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burkitt's lymphomas
form: Burkitt's lymphomata
Etymology: Named after British surgeon Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911–1993), who first described the disease in 1956.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A cancer of the lymphatic system, particularly B lymphocytes found in the germinal center.
wikipedia: Denis Parsons Burkitt
Burkitt's lymphomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Burkitt's lymphoma
Burkitt's lymphomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Burkitt's lymphoma
bulbocavernosus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊsəs
Forms: form: bulbocavernosi
Senses: glosses: The bulbospongiosus muscle
Related terms: bulbocavernous
bulbocavernosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulbocavernosus
roof rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roof racks
form: roofrack
Senses: glosses: A rack attached to the top of a car or other vehicle, used to hold luggage or similar items.
Hypernyms: luggage rack
bromthymol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bromothymol.
Ross Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for James Ross, who discovered the sea in 1841.
Senses: glosses: A bay of the Southern Ocean, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land
wikipedia: James Ross
Related terms: Ross Dependency
tarhanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarhana
butamben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortened from butanol and aminobenzoic.
Senses: glosses: A local anesthetic, the ester of 4-aminobenzoic acid and butanol.
Derived terms: isobutamben
neepery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neep-neep, slang for a computer enthusiast, which reportedly arose at the California Institute of Technology in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: But all this, he realized, was something he'd learned over the course of years with the Rebellion, years of dealing with the sophisticated technologies and scientific neepery available on Coruscant and its inner worlds.
ref: 1997, Barbara Hambly, Star Wars: Planet of Twilight, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 154:
text: "…so we've got a LAN hooking up the office, the stable, and the kitchen, since your mom has access to the database if we get a call from a customer and I'm out in the fields," Dad said, as Tannim's head spun under the burden of all the computer neepery.
ref: 1999, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, The Chrome Borne, Baen Books, →ISBN:
text: Technical neepery -- it is not necessary or desirable for rope to grip pulleys.
ref: 2012 July 13, David Dyer-Bennet, “Re: purchase”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
glosses: Technological jargon.
examples: text: Thank you, SF-FWs, bryant street, IAMTW, and novelscribes for various neepery and encouragement; […]
ref: 2006, Nancy Holder, Daughter of the Flames, Silhouette Books (2006), unnumbered page (acknowledgements)
text: […] to Susan McCrackin for financial aid neepery, […]
ref: 2007, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Supernatural: Nevermore, HarperEntertainment (2007), page ix (acknowledgments)
text: C. C. Finlay's marvelous book Patriot Witch, the first in his Traitor to the Crown Series, is a beautiful example of a novel that inserts necessary neepery without bogging down the story.
ref: 2011, Steven Harper, Writing the Paranormal Novel: Techniques and Exercises for Weaving Supernatural Elements into Your Story, Writer's Digest Books, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: Trivia or highly-detailed information, especially that which an author includes in a work of fiction as a result of research.
bunyaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to bunyaviruses.
brazilein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A neoflavanoid that is the main colouring matter in the red dye derived from brazilwood.
busulphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of busulfan.
aquaponic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Relating to aquaponics.
Derived terms: aquaponically
aquaponist
butylacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butylacetates
Etymology: From butyl + acetate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butyl acetate.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of butylacetic acid
butylacetates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butylacetate
expender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expenders
Etymology: From expend + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, expends.
expenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expender
gammabutyrolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gamma-butyrolactone.
bromobenzylcyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of bromobenzyl cyanide.
bromobenzyl cyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromobenzylcyanide
form: BBC
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A lachrymatory agent (aka tear gas) introduced in World War I.
wikipedia: bromobenzyl cyanide
bunchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buncher
browplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: browplasties
Etymology: From brow + -plasty.
Senses: glosses: A browlift.
browplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of browplasty
browlift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: browlifts
Etymology: From brow + lift; compare facelift.
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic surgery procedure used to elevate a drooping eyebrow that may obstruct vision and/or to remove the worry lines from the forehead.
Synonyms: browplasty
browlifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of browlift
worry line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worry lines
Senses: examples: 1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I just got high & went in front of the mirror, to really LOOK at myself & really try to see myself as others do. I immediately see the worry lines carved into my face, now aging & showing all the fighting.
glosses: A permanent wrinkle on the forehead.
worry lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worry line
motogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motogen
octobasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octobass
motherfunker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherfunkers
Etymology: Bowdlerization of motherfucker.
Senses: examples: text: (If Rhino follows up with Volumes 6 through 10, extending up through 1982 and Dazz Band's "Let It Whip," those sets should be absolute motherfunkers.)
ref: 1993 September, Mark Coleman, “In Yo' Face: The History of Funk”, in Vibe:
text: From the initial weirdness of their songs about space aliens to B.O.B. (Bombs over Baghdad), their millennial drum-and-bass gospel opus, they have proved that it's possible to be unusual, ambitious and immensely popular. In their own words, "We are/ The coolest motherfunkers on the planet."
ref: 2004 April 26, Josh Tyrangiel, “OutKast”, in Time:
text: Some players stress over their game, but Houston's Devin the Dude is one slack motherfunker, worrying only about weed, women, and…uh, what was the question?
ref: 2005, Joe Gross, To Tha X-Streme review, "Ten Best Albums You Didn't Hear", Spin, January 2005
glosses: Motherfucker.
Synonyms: motherhumper
motherlover
muhfugga