cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Biggs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭgz
ipa: /bɪɡz/
Forms: form: Biggses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Butte County, California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
dribble glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dribble glasses
Senses: glosses: A drinking glass with hidden holes that spill the drink when tilted, used as a prank.
Related terms: dirty trick vase
fuddling cup
puzzle jug
dribble glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dribble glass
explementary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From explement + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Two angles whose sum is a circle (360°) are explementary angles, and either is the explement of the other.
ref: 2002, Nathaniel Bowditch, American Practical Navigator, page 317:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the explement
Derived terms: explementary angles
Bosworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bosworths
Etymology: From Old English boswurþ (“cattle enclosure”), from *bōs (attested in derivative bōsih, bōsiġ, bōsg (“cattle-stall”)) + wurþ, weorþ, worþ (“an enclosed place”). See also boose.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
glosses: A city in Carroll County, Missouri, United States.
Related terms: Hinckley and Bosworth
Market Bosworth
Booker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊkɚ/
Forms: form: Bucker
Senses: examples: text: U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to send a letter to President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, following up on previous requests that the administration use its authority to deschedule cannabis and pardon non-violent cannabis-related offenders.
ref: 2022 June 7, “Senators Warren, Sanders, Markey, and Gillibrand Urge Administration to Deschedule Cannabis and Pardon Nonviolent Cannabis Offenders”, in warren.senate.gov:
glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for either a scribe or bookbinder, or a bleacher of cloth.
glosses: A suburban area in West Wycombe parish, Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Wycombe district (OS SP8391).
glosses: A town in Lipscomb County and Ochiltree County, Texas, United States.
Boone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bun/
homophone: boon
Forms: form: Boon
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A statutory town in Pueblo County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Boone County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Franklin County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Boone County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Boone Township.
Derived terms: Boone County
Booneville
pseudoscutum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + scutum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure resembling a scutum.
Related terms: pseudoscutal
pseudoscutal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + scutal.
Senses: examples: text: Surface, especially pseudoscutal area, shining, faintly shagreened.
ref: 1943, Public Health Reports, page 1870:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a pseudoscutum.
submarginally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From submarginal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a submarginal manner; below a margin.
Bracken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹækən/
Etymology: * As an Irish surname, from Ó Breacáin (“descendant of Breacán”), from Breacán, a name diminutive of breac (“spotted”)
* As an English surname, from Middle English bracken (“fern”)
* As an English habitational surname, from Bracon Ash in Norfolk, Bracken in Yorkshire
* As a German surname, from Middle Low German braak (“fallow”)
Also compare Brackeen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Huntington County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Webster County, Missouri, United States, named after Bracken Creek.
glosses: A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: Bracken County
Brogan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brogans
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Ó Brógáin (“descendants of Brógán”), probably from a diminutive of bróg (“shoe”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.
UIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UICs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Unit Identification Code
topics: railways
transport
glosses: International Union of Railways – from Union Internationale des Chemins de fer
UIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: University of Illinois at Chicago
Buck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: Bucke
form: Book
Etymology: * For both the English surname and given name, originally a nickname for someone who resembled a buck.
* Also as an English topographic surname, from Middle English buk (modern beech).
* As a German and Dutch surname, shortened from Burkhard, compare Burkhart.
* As a north German and Danish surname, from Middle Low German bûk (“belly”), from Old Saxon būk, from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Compare Bauch.
* Also as a German and Dutch surname, variant of Bock.
* Also as a German surname, variant of Puck.
* As a Germanized Lower Sorbian surname, from buk (“beech”).
Senses: examples: text: The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.
ref: 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN:
glosses: An English surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A male given name from Old English.
glosses: A German surname, a variant of Buch.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A township in Hardin County, Ohio, United States.
Derived terms: Buck's extension
Buck's fascia
Related terms: Buck House
Buck Island
Buck Rogers time
Buckner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌknɚ/
Forms: form: Bucknor
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Burleson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Johnson County and Tarrant County, Texas, United States, named after Rufus Columbus Burleson.
Derived terms: Burleson County
Burr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɝ/
ipa: /bɜː/
ipa: /bʌr/
ipa: /bøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /beː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bɛː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: bur
homophone: burr
homophone: birr (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: bare
homophone: bear (both fair–fur merger)
Senses: examples: text: One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.
ref: 2015 May 12, Alexandra Jaffe, “First on CNN: New Rove-linked group spends $2M to boost GOP incumbents”, in CNN:
text: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its insider trading investigation into stock trades made by then-Sen. Richard Burr and his brother-in-law at the outset of the pandemic, the former senator announced Friday.
ref: 2023 January 6, Manu Raju and Devan Cole, “SEC closes insider trading probe into former Republican senator”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Florida Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Otoe County, Nebraska, named after burr oak trees.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wharton County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
glosses: A community in Rural Municipality of Wolverine No. 340, central Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: Burrton
browline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: browlines
Etymology: From brow + line.
Senses: examples: text: Face B has prominent arched browlines, wide eyes, well-proportioned nose with recessed nostrils, indistinct smiling mouth, knob-like chin, and fat cheeks.
ref: 1995, E. M. Stern, Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First Through Sixth Centuries (page 243)
glosses: The line of the brow.
browlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of browline
plasmolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plasmolyse
plasmolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmolysis
plasmolysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plasmolyse
plasmolysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plasmolyse
Hechtian strand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hechtian strands
Etymology: Named after K. Hecht, who was the first to study them in detail. See -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stretched plasma membrane extending from the plasmolysed protoplast to the cell wall in plants.
confocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From confocal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being confocal.
Hechtian strands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hechtian strand
hechshers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hechsher
hechsherim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hechsher
bandcenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandcenter
brainwipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brainwipes
form: brainwiping
form: brainwiped
form: brainwiped
Etymology: From brain + wipe.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To mindwipe.
brainwiping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brainwipe
brainwiped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brainwipe
brainwipes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brainwipe
Ubykh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ubykhs
form: Ubykh
Etymology: Borrowed from Adyghe Убых (Wubəx).
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of people who spoke the Ubykh language, inhabiting an area in what is today Sochi in Russia.
Related terms: Ubykhia
Ubykh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Adyghe Убых (Wubəx).
Senses: synonyms: Ubyx
glosses: The extinct ergative and agglutinative language spoken by the Ubykh people, notable for its large number of distinct consonants and only two vowels.
Ubykhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ubykh
Ubyx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ubykh (an extinct language)
agglutinativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agglutinative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being agglutinative.
raindrift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raindrifts
Etymology: From rain + drift.
Senses: examples: text: The fierce wind drove a raindrift in at the open door, as two men, drenched from head to foot, but vested as Benedictine monks, entered.
ref: 1843, John Mason Neale, Agnes de Tracy, page 55:
text: Tiny pools diversified the surface of the well-made road, which, as they advanced farther and farther into the open country, was swept by raindrifts, driven furiously before the rising wind, that whistled through the naked trees[…]
ref: 1864, James Augustus St. John, Weighed in the balance, page 40:
text: Then there was stamping on the gravel and murmurs of voices; then silence preceding the snap of a whip, and, finally, a rolling of wheels down the avenue, lost in the roaring of the wind and the rattle of the dismal raindrifts[…]
ref: 1905, The Irish Monthly, volume 33, page 379:
glosses: A sheet of rain blown by the wind.
raindrifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raindrift
cleft sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleft sentences
Senses: examples: text: 1978, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, The Syntax and Semantics of Cleft Constructions, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, page 28,
Quirk et al (1972) say about the cleft sentence that it is "...so called because it divides a single clause into two separate sections, each with its own verb".
text: Following Bolinger (1972, 1977) and Gundel (1977), I assume that the introductory it of cleft sentences is referential[…].
ref: 1984, Ann Borkin, Problems in Form and Function, Ablex Publishing Corporation, page 120:
text: Similar analyses of cleft sentences have been repeated in the linguistic literature ever since.
ref: 2007, Joachim Crass, Ronny Meyer, editors, Deictics, Copula and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area, page 170:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A complex sentence whose meaning could be expressed by a simple sentence, that has a dependent clause in front of the main clause, and that typically stresses a particular constituent.
Related terms: pseudocleft
cleft sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleft sentence
pseudocleft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + cleft.
Senses: examples: text: Given that Malagasy has wh-in-situ questions, the pseudocleft analysis is simply an extension of this strategy, in which the wh-phrase is in-situ as a predicate.
ref: 2006, Hans-Martin Gärtner, Paul S. Law, Joachim Sabel, Clause Structure And Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages, page 201:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.
Related terms: pseudoclefting
belocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belock
influenceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more influenceless
form: most influenceless
Etymology: From influence + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking influence; uninfluential.
desmocollins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmocollin
splatterdash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splatterdashes
form: splatterdashing
form: splatterdashed
form: splatterdashed
Etymology: From splatter + dash. In the "haphazard work" sense, perhaps influenced by slapdash.
Senses: examples: text: Uncle Samuel's house was an old-fashioned one of rough stone, "splatterdashed" with fine pebbles on the outside.
ref: 1910, William Dudley Foulke, The Quaker Boy, page 53:
text: What a cozy little breakfast room — and the wall is so artistically splatterdashed.
ref: 1930, The Earth Mover - Volume 17, page 19:
text: Many like to splatterdash the floor of a bed or kitchen, and the process is simple to do.
ref: 1948, American Poultry Journal - Volume 79, page 62:
text: Interior walls are plastered, those subject to the most wear being splatterdashed.
ref: 1961, Betongen idag - Volumes 26-27, page 84:
glosses: To apply a splatterdash coat.
examples: text: "I could splatterdash it for you," she said. "We used to wear daub-stick cottons when I was a girl, and we thought them pretty fine."
ref: 1959, Children's Activities - Volume 25, page 9:
glosses: To affix splatterdashes to.
examples: text: How he found himself stepping up when he was told to step down, down when he was told to step up; how he passed through a long box against a cold sponge splatterdashed in his face; how he opened his astonished eyes to see the knife of the guillotine descending on his innocent neck; how he was tossed up and down in the cruel blanket, until brains and bowels were both "discombobulated," and he felt more than ever like a "cat in a strange garret."
ref: 1871 June, “A Cat in a Strange Garret”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 36, number 320, page 402:
text: “Dat frisky li'l nigger suah will be splatterdashed ef he fall offen dat mule's back !” And indeed it did look bad for the small colored boy.
ref: 1921, Laura Lee Hope, Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South, page 93:
text: He was turning around and splashing and splatterdashing with intense spizzerinktum —which is the over-mastering will to succeed.
ref: 1963, Eugene Endrey, Beg, Borrow and Squeal, page 293:
text: Splatterdashing pearls of spring rain carelessly aimed multiple minor blows all over the above Raman passerby's body.
ref: 2019, Karen S. Cole, The Rainbow Horizon: A Tale of Goofy Chaos, page 348:
glosses: To splash violently; to splatter with water and/or mud.
splatterdashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splatterdash
splatterdashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of splatterdash
subpulvinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subpulvinate
form: most subpulvinate
Etymology: From sub- + pulvinate.
Senses: glosses: Almost or imperfectly pulvinate.
pulvinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulvinated
form: most pulvinated
Etymology: From pulvinate + -d.
Senses: glosses: pulvinate
apron strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apron string
apron-string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apron-strings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apron string.
rhinoscleromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinoscleroma
scleroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scleromas
form: scleromata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”) + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: induration of the tissues
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: rhinoscleroma
scleromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scleroma
Hamletian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hamletian
form: most Hamletian
Etymology: From Hamlet + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (circa 1600), with themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
Related terms: Hamlet
Hamletic
Hamletism
scleromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scleroma
scleromalacias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scleromalacia
sclerophylls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerophyll
subregular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subregular
form: most subregular
Etymology: From sub- + regular.
Senses: examples: text: However, there are verbs for which past participle formation is irregular (e.g. sleep, slept; write, wrote) and within these irregular verbs there are subregular classes (as well as purely lexical exceptions, such as go, went).
ref: 2006, Ted Briscoe, Ann Copestake, Valeria de Paiva, Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon, page 8:
glosses: Almost or imperfectly regular.
staired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛɹd/
ipa: /stɛəd/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
homophone: stared
Etymology: From stair + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In a device of the kind described, a plurality of platforms normally horizontally disposed in staired arrangement, each of said platforms comprising a pair of elongated platform elements[…]
ref: 1961, Canadian Patent Office record, volume 89, page 7750:
text: They are variously described as simple, compound, hanging, tandem or two-staired, intersecting and nivation cirques.
ref: 1968, William David Thornbury, Principles of geomorphology, page 358:
text: There is also speculation that the name Galata comes from the Italian word for descent (calata), an appropriate description of the steep and staired streets that slope down the hill from Beyoglu to the Golden Horn.
ref: 2010, Lynn A. Levine, Frommer's Istanbul, page 147:
glosses: Having (a specified kind or number of) stairs.
geomorphologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geomorphological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In geomorphological terms.
stairheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stairhead
pyrophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + -phor + -ous.
Senses: glosses: producing light or sparks
glosses: of or relating to pyrophorus
Related terms: pyrophoric
corporases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporas
malkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malkin
carboned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carbon
glosses: simple past and past participle of carbone
carboning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carbon
glosses: present participle and gerund of carbone
pouncet-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pouncet-boxes
form: pouncet box
Etymology: Compare French poncette.
Senses: examples: text: Carrying a pouncet-box was a common custom among the upper classes in the 16th and 17th centuries.
text: And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 37-38:
text: 1866, Septimus Piesse, Pouncet Box and Pomander, entry in Notes and Queries: 3rd Series, Volume 9: January—June 1866, page 392,
The pouncet box mentioned by Shakespeare in the Midsummer Night's Dream, I have always considered as a similar article to the pomander worn by "fashionable people" in the time of Elizabeth, containing powdered perfumery, such as musk, civet, and various spices.
text: 1894 (1819), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Ginn & Company, page 364,
" […] besides what is broken and spoiled among their rude hands, such as my pouncet-box and silver crisping-tongs."
text: 1957, George Bernard Hughes, Small Antique Silverware, Bramhall House, page 186,
More usually, however, the pouncet box hung from the waist by a black cord, until early in the seventeenth century. To Elizabethans the ceremonial of inhaling the piquant odour from the pouncet box was a social grace.
glosses: A box with a perforated lid, used to contain pounce or perfume.
Related terms: pomander
pouncet-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pouncet-box
cantref
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantrefs
form: cantrefi
form: cantred
form: cantrev
Etymology: From Middle Welsh cantref, from cant (“hundred”) + tref (“village, settlement”), the notional basis of the division.
Senses: glosses: A mediaeval land division in Wales.
cantrefi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantref
cantred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantreds
Etymology: From Welsh cantref, possibly under influence from -red.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cantref.
cantreds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantred
cantrefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantref
swellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweller
microfragrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfragrances
Etymology: From micro- + fragrance.
Senses: examples: text: The 3M Company has had spectacular success with its scratch-and-sniff scents. These are microfragrances encapsulated in millions of tiny plastic bubbles — more than fifty million to a square inch of paper.
ref: 1976, Ruth Winter, The smell book: scents, sex, and society, page 106:
glosses: A fragrance stored in tiny amounts in a material, formerly used in scratch and sniff products.
microfragrances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfragrance
casketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of casket
casketed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having a casket
Derived terms: uncasketed
casketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of casket
monodelphian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monodelphians
Etymology: From Monodelphia + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Monodelphia.
monodelph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monodelphs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Monodelphia.
monodelphians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monodelphian
monodelphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monodelph
serrulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serrulations
Senses: examples: text: The margin[…]in the older leaves[…]marked by about four serratiform indentures, scarcely deserving the appellation of serrulations.
ref: 1821, William Paul Crillon Barton, A Flora of North America:
glosses: The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw.
glosses: One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.
serrulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serrulation
lantanurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lantanuric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of lantanuric acid.
pancratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pæŋˈkɹætɪkəl/
Forms: form: more pancratical
form: most pancratical
Etymology: See pancratium.
Senses: examples: text: For as relations declare, he was the most pancratical man of Greece, and as Galen reporteth, and Mercurialis in his Gymnastics representeth, he was able to persist erect upon an oiled plank[…]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to the pancratium; athletic.
Related terms: pancratic
relatest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: relate + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of relate
relateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: relate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relate
antiscolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiscolic
form: most antiscolic
Etymology: From anti- + Ancient Greek σκώληξ (skṓlēx, “worm”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: anthelmintic
cross-tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-ties
Senses: examples: text: The track consists of relatively light running rails spiked and bolted to cross-ties, with a central steel rack securely bolted to the ties by steel angles.
ref: 1954 November, Robert F. Legget, “The Mount Washington Cog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 790:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
cross-ties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-tie
X boson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X bosons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical elementary particle that couples quarks to leptons, analogous to the W boson and Z boson, but corresponding to a new type of force predicted by the Georgi–Glashow model.
Related terms: Y boson
X bosons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X boson
lawn billiards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A lawn game related to croquet, played with heavy balls, large-headed cues called tacks, rings (the argolis or port), and sometimes an upright pin (the sprigg or king), popular from the 17th century to the early 20th century.
Synonyms: troco
trucco
trucks
unrecking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrecking
form: most unrecking
Etymology: From un- + recking.
Senses: examples: text: Look! see yonder Turkish cheeks of spotted tawn—living, breathing pictures painted by the sun. The Pagan leopards—the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: heedless
phyllotaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllotaxy
peperinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peperino
peperine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peperines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peperino.
peperines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peperine
pteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “feather, wing”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A peristyle raised on a podium, differing from an ordinary peristyle raised only on a stylobate.
bauhinias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bauhinia
cadew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadews
Senses: glosses: A caddis.
Derived terms: cadew fly
cadews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadew
caddice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caddices
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caddis (“larva”).
glosses: Alternative form of caddis (“rough woolen cloth”).
caddices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caddice
perbend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perbends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of perpender.
perbends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perbend
twankay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twankays
form: Twankay
form: Twankey
Etymology: From Chinese 屯溪 (Túnxī, “Tunxi district, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, China”).
Senses: examples: text: Hyson, including superior Twankay, at 3s.
ref: 1827 December 24, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, volume 24, page 798:
text: The varieties of green tea are, twankay, and several kinds of hyson: the former is a coarse article.
ref: 1837, “On Dietetic Chemistry”, in Magazine of Popular Science, and Journal of the Useful Arts, volume 3, page 252:
text: There is now scarcely any bohea or twankay imported (at least under those names) to what there was formerly.
ref: 1856, Leone Levi, Annals of British Legislation, volume 1, page 18:
glosses: A variety of green tea.
twankays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twankay
samajes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samaj
somaj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somajs
form: somajes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of samaj.
somajs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somaj
somajes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somaj
samajs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samaj
spatterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spattering
smeeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smeeths
form: smeething
form: smeethed
form: smeethed
Senses: examples: text: A polishing, Smeething or hiking
ref: 1586, Ambrogio Calepino, Dictionarium Latinum:
glosses: To smooth.
glosses: To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.
preterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + terminal.
Senses: glosses: Before the end.
cultrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultrate
form: most cultrate
form: cultrated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cultrātus (“knife-shaped”), from culter + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: cultrate beak of certain birds
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: cultriform
glosses: Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife
Derived terms: subcultrate
cultrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultrated
form: most cultrated
Etymology: From cultrate + -d.
Senses: glosses: cultrate
curculios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curculio
balbutiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balbutiates
form: balbutiating
form: balbutiated
form: balbutiated
form: balbucinate
Etymology: Latin balbutire, from balbus (“stammering”): compare French balbutier.
Senses: examples: text: five times in foure and twenty houres praying (or rather balbutiating) orderly
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: To stammer.
balbutiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balbutiate
balbutiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balbutiate
balbutiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balbutiate
teahadists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teahadist
Cage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Cagean
Carmichael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑɹmaɪkəl/
Forms: form: Carmichaels
form: Carmical
form: Carmicheal
Etymology: From Cumbric *cayr (cognate of Welsh caer (“fort, stronghold”)) + the personal name Michael.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9238).
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A rural municipality (Rural Municipality of Carmichael No. 109) and special service area therein, in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms: carmichaelite
Carmichael number
Castle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Castles
Etymology: English surname, from the noun castle.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the common noun referring to someone who lived in or worked in a castle
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Castle class, a class of steam locomotives used on the GWR
glosses: The first part of the name of certain nuclear tests by the US: Castle Bravo, Castle Romeo, Castle Yankee etc. See Operation Castle.
qualifier: Durham University slang
glosses: University College, Durham, a constituent college located in Durham Castle
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet in Bowerchalke parish, south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0122).
glosses: A place name:
A community (without a council) in Cardiff, Wales; it includes Cardiff Castle.
glosses: A place name:
A community (without a council) in Swansea, Wales; it includes Swansea Castle.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States, derived from the surname.
Derived terms: Castle bob
Related terms: Kessel
Cardwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹd.wɛl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dwɛl
Etymology: The civil parish is named after British politician Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell (1813 - 1886).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A minor city in Dunklin County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana, United States.
glosses: A coastal town in Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
Derived terms: Cardwellian
Cargill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːɡɪl/
Forms: form: Cargills
Etymology: Probably from Pictish. The first element is equivalent to Welsh caer (“fort, ramparts”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Perthshire, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO1536).
glosses: A community in Brockton municipality, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
examples: text: When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.
ref: 2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2022:
glosses: A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms: Invercargill
Cannon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænən/
Forms: form: Cannons
form: Channon
Etymology: * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Canann, Ó Canáin (“descendant of Cano, Canán”), the name being from cano (“wolf cub”). Comparable to McCann, McConnon, Connon.
* As an English surname, from the noun canon.
* As a French surname, variant of Canon.
Senses: examples: text: The hearing in front of Judge Aileen M. Cannon at a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla., could touch on other issues, including the scheduling of the trial.
ref: 2023 July 18, Charlie Savage, “Trump Documents Hearing Could Set Off Lengthy Fight Over Classified Evidence”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Cannon County
Cannonism
Callaway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləweɪ/
Forms: form: Calloway
form: Calaway
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Callaway County
Carver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Carver, Kerver, Kervor, Kervour, Kervoure, Kervere, from Middle English carver, kervere (“carver, wood-cutter, sculptor”). More at carver.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A former unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Carver County
Carverian
South Carver
Cave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Senses: glosses: The 18th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place name:
A town and comune in Lazio, Italy.
glosses: A place name:
A village in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A settlement in Timaru district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Related terms: Cave Junction
North Cave
South Cave
Chalmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːməz/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A town in Big Creek Township, White County, Indiana, United States.
Derived terms: Chalmersian
Port Chalmers
Szilard-Chalmers effect
Childs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, named after George William Childs.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
An unincorporated community and former town in Wilkin County, Minnesota, named after Job W. Childs.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
Cobb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cobbs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Lake County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sumter County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Nevins Township, Vigo County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stoddard County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bryan County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Iowa County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Cobb County
Cobb syndrome
Related terms: Cobbe
Corrigan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Connors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Connor
Crocker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Craker
Etymology: From crocker (“potter”).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Derived terms: Crocker Land
low loader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low loaders
Senses: glosses: a lowboy semi-trailer
Synonyms: float
lowboy
Craft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kraft
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun craft.
* Also as an English surname, from Croft in Leicestershire.
* As a German, Jewish, Danish, and Swedish surname, Americanized from Kraft.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
car transporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car transporters
Senses: examples: text: The normal methods of road delivery are by driving the cars individually, or by car transporters which convey as many as eight vehicles on massive articulated double-deck trailers.
ref: 1960 June, “British cars go by rail: I-The L.M.R wins new Anglo-Scottish traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 335:
glosses: a car carrier
Crenshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crenshaws
Etymology: (melon): Named after American horticulturist Edwin Crenshaw.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Panola County and Quitman County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
glosses: Ellipsis of Crenshaw County.
Derived terms: Crenshaw County
Crenshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crenshaws
Etymology: (melon): Named after American horticulturist Edwin Crenshaw.
Senses: glosses: A kind of melon with a hard yellow-green rind.
car transporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car transporter
Crane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɛɪn/
Forms: form: Cranes
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun crane.
* As a Dutch surname, spelling variant of Krane.
* As a German surname, adaptation of Krahn and Krahnich.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename:
A minor river in Dorset, England, which becomes the Moors River near Verwood; the name is a back-formation from Cranborne.
glosses: A placename:
A minor river in Greater London, England, which joins the Thames near Twickenham.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Martin County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Stone County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Harney County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city, the county seat of Crane County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Crane County
Cranford
Cranston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹænstən/
Forms: form: Cranstons
Etymology: From the genitive form of Old English cran (“crane”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A locality and parish in Midlothian council area, Scotland.
glosses: A city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
low loaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low loader
Cruise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuːz/
homophone: cruise
homophone: crews
homophone: Crews
homophone: Cruz
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: Cruce
form: Cruse
Senses: glosses: A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Related terms: Cruz
Erskine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəːskɪn/
Forms: form: Erskines
form: Erskin
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A town in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland, close to the River Clyde (OS grid ref NS4671).
glosses: A placename:
A city in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Sherman County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname.
Ericson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ericsons
form: Erekson
form: Erickson
form: Ericsson
form: Erikson
form: Errickson
Etymology: From Eric + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Ericsson
Eriksson
Faber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.bə/
ipa: /ˈfeɪ.bɚ/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Etymology: From the French occupational surname meaning "smith" or "ironworker," variant of Favre, both from Latin faber (“craftsman”). Doublet of Dobry.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Faberian
Farley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑɹli/
Forms: form: Farleigh
Etymology: From Old English fearn (“fern”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent to fern + -ley (“lea”) and doublet of Farnley.
Senses: glosses: A village in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A hamlet north of Pontesbury, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3807).
glosses: A hamlet north of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6302).
glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0744).
glosses: A village in Wiltshire, England.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States.
glosses: A city in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in McCracken County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A village in Platte County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English derived from the place names.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Fairchild
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Seminole County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A town and village therein, in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States.