cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
iceboating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ice + boat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of iceboat
bareboating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of chartering, navigating and living on, a boat, for a holiday etc.
boater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊt.ə/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɐʉt.ɘ/
rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: boaters
Etymology: From Middle English botere; equivalent to boat + -er. The use of the term for a straw hat stems from the fact that straw hats were the preferred head covering during sunny boat trips on canals and rivers.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Someone who travels by boat.
examples: text: In the summer of 1992, eight beaches were closed and swimmers were warned away because of colliform bacteria, caused by boaters emptying toilets directly into the lake or onto nearby shores. Park officials may soon supply the lake with floating waste disposal systems.
ref: 1994, Bruce Berger, There Was a River, Tucson, A.Z.; London: The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 61:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of boatman, particularly its captain.
synonyms: word: boatman
word: particularly its captain
examples: text: Technically, Melania Trump was in attendance, but she chose to make herself almost invisible. Her dark boater hat was worn so low that it threw her entire face into shadow, and made eye contact with cameras or guests impossible.
ref: 2025 January 20, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Brimful of menace? Melania strikes sombre note at Trump inauguration”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: leghorn
basher
skimmer
Panama
glosses: A straw hat, very stiff, with a flat brim and crown.
Derived terms: jetboater
blood relation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood relations
Senses: glosses: A person who is relation through birth, as opposed to marriage or adoption.
Synonyms: blood relative
Derived terms: blood relationship
howler monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howler monkeys
Senses: examples: text: At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parrakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A Central American and South American monkey of the genus Alouatta, noted for their loud call.
cloud cuckoo-land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Anyone who thinks the ANC will form the government of South Africa is living in cloud cuckoo-land.
ref: 1980s. Bernard Ingram
glosses: Alternative spelling of cloud-cuckoo-land.
Hypernyms: land
Hanseatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Medieval Latin hanseaticus, from hansa, of Germanic origin, from Old High German hansa (“troop, company”), from Proto-West Germanic *hansu (“crowd, company”).
Senses: examples: text: The Hanseatic museum is housed in a carefully-preserved gaard, or store-house and offices of the Hanseatic League of German merchants, who inhabited the German quarter (Tydskenbryggen) and were established here in great strength from 1445 to 1558 (when the Norwegians began to find their presence irksome), and brought much prosperity to the city in that period.
ref: 1911, “Bergen”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 3, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 772:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the German Hanse.
Derived terms: Hanseatic city
Hanseatic League
Hanse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæns/
ipa: /hænzə/
rhymes: -æns
rhymes: -ænzə
Forms: form: Hanses
form: hanse
form: Haunce
form: Hans
Etymology: From Middle English hanse, from Old French hanse (“guild; guild fee”), from Medieval Latin hansa, from Old High German hansa, from Proto-West Germanic *hansu, from Proto-Germanic *hansō (“gathering; coalition; gang of men”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱómsōd (“union; gathering”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, with, along”) + *sed- (“to sit”). In reference to the Hanseatic League, via German Hanse.
Cognate with Old English hōs (“company, retinue, escorts”),
Senses: glosses: A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.
glosses: The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.
glosses: A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.
glosses: The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.
glosses: Alternative form of hanse, the fees payable to a Hanse or its guildhall.
Synonyms: sense: merchant guild
word: guild
sense: league of German cities
word: Hanseatic League
sense: fees or residence
word: hanse and guildhall
Derived terms: Hansard
Hanse association
Hanseatic
Hanseatic League
Hanse city
hanse-gild
hanse-house
Hanse league
Hanse merchant
hanse-penny
Hanse town
hansing
hansing-silver
systems biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The systematic study of the complex interactions in biological systems, with integral help from computational and mathematical analysis and modeling.
glosses: The study of the self-organizing behaviour of complex, dynamic non-biological systems.
neopentane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nē'ōpĕnʹtān
ipa: /ˌni(ː)oʊ̯ˈpɛnteɪ̯n/
Etymology: From neo- + pentane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic alkane 2,2-dimethylpropane; isomeric with pentane and isopentane
Synonyms: word: tetramethylmethane
Derived terms: neopentyl
isopentane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopentanes
Etymology: From iso- + pentane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aliphatic hydrocarbon with the chemical structure CH₂CH₂CH(CH₃)₂; isomeric with pentane and neopentane.
Synonyms: 2-methylbutane
methylbutane
riant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more riant
form: most riant
Etymology: From French riant.
Senses: glosses: Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.
glosses: Of a place, landscape or view: having a pleasant appearance, looking bright or cheerful.
droits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droit
talkie-walkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talkie-walkies
Etymology: Borrowed from French talkie-walkie.
Senses: examples: ref: 1996 August 14, Philippe Cadic, “Can We modify GSM to be talkie walkies ? How”, in alt.cellular-phone-tech (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: Mr "secret agent" who carries a talkie-walkie that is not really a talkie-walkie (stupid guy boasting about his VHF as if it was a 48 caliber on his Web Page!!)
ref: 1997 December 21, Madjid BOUKRI, “ANTENNA LENGTH”, in rec.radio.amateur.misc (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
text: But they seem to be designed to work with talkie-walkies. I remind i do not need a talkie-walkie as my transmitter (noone has to talk to me ) but a^([sic]) input jack for the transmitter. It is the mp3 player that plays music. Unless there are talkie-walkies with jack input?
ref: 2003 April 30, alex, “Discrete Wireless mp3 player How to”, in sci.electronics.components (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: A walkie-talkie.
fifty-fifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: other: /ˌfɪfti ˈfɪfti/
Forms: form: 50-50
form: 50/50
form: 50 50
form: 50.50
form: fifty fifty
form: fifty/fifty
Senses: examples: text: I'll handle production, you handle sales, and we'll split profits fifty-fifty.
text: Throughout our discussions and searching inquiries one object figured ever more prominently—the moon. We learned that it was technologically possible to develop a program to reach the moon, and we came to realize that since the Russians did not then have the ability to reach the moon any more than we did, we had at least a fifty-fifty chance of beating them there. Moreover, a moon-landing goal would give a dramatic focus to a space program designed to develop our skills and capacities on a broad technological front.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 281:
glosses: In half: in two equal parts, shares, etc.
fifty-fifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: other: /ˌfɪfti ˈfɪfti/
Forms: form: 50-50
form: 50/50
form: 50 50
form: 50.50
form: fifty fifty
form: fifty/fifty
Senses: examples: text: In this recipe, the flour and sugar are fifty-fifty.
text: In this recipe, the flour and sugar are in fifty-fifty proportions.
glosses: Half and half.
examples: text: It is fifty-fifty that the employee who made the mistake will end up fired.
glosses: Used to describe two possible outcomes as being equally likely.
Related terms: as likely as not
as often as not
even chances
fifty-fifty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /ˌfɪfti ˈfɪfti/
Forms: form: fifty-fifties
form: 50-50
form: 50/50
form: 50 50
form: 50.50
form: fifty fifty
form: fifty/fifty
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of fifty-fifty grind, a rail or edge grind, using both trucks to grind along, longitudinally aligned.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of fifty-fifty slide, a rail slide where the snowboard is longitudinally aligned with the direction of the slide, down the centerline.
Coordinate terms: sense: boarding
word: boardslide
Related terms: go halfsies
go halves
halfsies
half and half
six of one, half a dozen of the other
Quebecer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quebecers
form: Québecer
form: Québécer
form: Quebecker
form: Québecker
form: Québécker
Etymology: From Quebec + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the province of Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Quebec City, Quebec.
Related terms: Quebecois
Québécois
pure laine
Quebecers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quebecer
Quebecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quebeckers
Etymology: From Quebec + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Quebecer.
Related terms: Quebecois
Quebeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quebecker
Yukoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yukoners
Etymology: From Yukon + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Yukon Territory, Canada.
touch-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch-papers
Senses: glosses: a strip of paper impregnated with nitre, used as a fuse for firing gunpowder, fireworks etc.
Yukoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yukoner
reflectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectivities
Etymology: From reflective + -ity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property or quality of being reflective.
Derived terms: hyperreflectivity
thermoreflectivity
Related terms: reflectance
New Yorkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Yorker
comprises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɹaɪzɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of comprise
westernized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of westernize
westernized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more westernized
form: most westernized
Senses: glosses: Having been made culturally Western.
inhabits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inhabit
distributes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distribute
molded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mold
Graham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪ.əm/
ipa: /ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪ.əm/
homophone: graham
homophone: gram stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: Graeme
form: Grahame
Etymology: Scottish surname originating from a place Grantham in Lincolnshire, possibly from Old English grand (“gravel”) + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname from Old English and clan name.
examples: Alexander Graham Bell (credited with inventing the first practical telephone; 'Graham' pronounced as /ˈɡɹeɪ.əm/)
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Appling County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Daviess County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fountain County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Alamance County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Young County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Washington.
Derived terms: Graham biscuit
Graham bread
Graham County
Graham cracker
Grahamesque
Grahamism
grahamite
Grahamite
Graham Land
Graham-Little-Piccardi-Lassueur syndrome
Graham-Little syndrome
Graham's number
Grahamston
Mount Graham red squirrel
bubblin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Crying, weeping, action of the verb to bubble.
borns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of born
bornin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of born
bornt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Apparently born + -t; compare kilt (“killed”).
Senses: examples: text: "Oughtta been bornt sooner," the little runt piped up.
ref: 1983 September 15, Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 32:
text: they might as well not have been bornt at all. […] Maybe we all should’ve bornt ourselves in another time, another place.
ref: 2017 October 3, Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Akashic Books, →ISBN:
qualifier: Geordie and some other dialects
glosses: simple past and past participle of born
bornt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Next to that went Israell forth the Madianits to kyll / And slue ye males & bornt ther towns and led the rest at wyll.
ref: 1551, Samuel, William (fl. 1551-1569), The abridgemente of goddes statutes in myter
text: accept this bornt sacrifcie O heauenly Father,
ref: 1559, John Bradford, The complaynt of veritie:
text: And how that Warres bryngs wo and waest, and leaues a kyngdom baer. The people spoyld, the howsis bornt, the freends and neighbour slayn:
ref: 1575, Thomas Churchyard, The firste parte of Churchyardes chippes contayning twelue seuerall labours:
glosses: Obsolete form of burnt.
streetcorner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streetcorners
Etymology: From street + corner.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of street corner.
Related terms: intersection
junction
streetcorner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From street + corner.
Senses: examples: text: December 5 2016, Andrew Barbano writing in Sparks Tribune, The Barbwire Billion-Dollar Cure for What Ails Us
The ghost of Al Davis has played Nevada like a streetcorner hooker, schmoozing, seducing, then stealing the working girl's purse.
text: a streetcorner preacher
glosses: Acting or appearing on the street corner
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: streetcorner man
retransliterate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retransliterates
form: retransliterating
form: retransliterated
form: retransliterated
Etymology: From re- + transliterate.
Senses: glosses: To transliterate again.
glosses: To take a word, name, spelling, etc., which has been transliterated from one language to another, and transliterate it back to the first language, using standard transliteration rules instead of merely returning it to its original form.
ordinal indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinal indicators
Senses: glosses: A sign adjacent to a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number.
Related terms: english: feminine ordinal indicator
translation: feminine ordinal indicator
word: ª
english: masculine ordinal indicator
translation: masculine ordinal indicator
word: º
ordinal indicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinal indicator
Torontonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Torontonian
nekton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nektons
Etymology: From German Nekton which was coined in 1890 by Ernst Haeckel. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek νηκτός (nēktós, “swimming”) + -on.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: All organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents.
wikipedia: Ernst Haeckel
Coordinate terms: plankton
neuston
Derived terms: micronekton
nektonic
boll weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boll weevils
Senses: examples: text: “[…]What do you reckon the boll-weevils’ll eat if you dont^([sic]) get those cultivators in shape to raise them a crop?” I says, “sage grass?”
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, “The Sound and the Fury”, in The Sound and the Fury & As I Lay Dying, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1946, →OCLC, page 248:
glosses: A beetle (Anthonomus grandis) measuring an average length of six millimeters (¼ inch), which feeds on cotton buds and flowers, native to Central America.
examples: text: As the veteran columnist John Chamberlain put it back in 1982, the ATARI Democrats ‘include many of the Southern “boll weevil” contingent that has supported Reagan on taxes, [and]^([sic]) is for using government to channel investment money to the newer “high tech” industries.
ref: 2019, Richard Carr, quoting John Chamberlain, March of the Moderates […] , Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A conservative Southern Democrat.
linsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linseys
Senses: examples: text: My rule is to give for winter a linsey suit, one shirt of best towelling, one hat, one pair of shoes, a good blanket, costing $2 to $2 50, every other year […]
ref: 1852, J. D. B. De Bow, The Industrial Resources of the Southern and Western States:
glosses: A cloth made of linen and wool.
glosses: A kind of clayey rock.
Derived terms: linsey-woolsey
barramunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Australian lungfish.
synonyms: word: Australian lungfish
-ical
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɪkəl/
Forms: form: more -ical
form: most -ical
Etymology: From Middle English -ical, a combination of -ic from Old French -ique, from Latin -icus, related to Ancient Greek suffix Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós), plus -al from Latin adjective suffix -alis, or Old French -el.
By surface analysis, -ic + -al.
Senses: examples: mythical, quizzical, theistical, whimsical
glosses: Used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning "of or pertaining to"; adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Greek or Latin origin, but used with other words also.
Related terms: -ic
-etic
-al
enantioenriched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enantioenrich
enantioenriched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enantioenriched
form: most enantioenriched
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
The final section will describe the elaboration of the highly enantioenriched cyclopropanes into a variety of other ring systems.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: enriched in either of a pair of enantiomers
enantioenrich
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enantioenriches
form: enantioenriching
form: enantioenriched
form: enantioenriched
Etymology: From enantio- + enrich.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To enrich a mixture such that it contains more than 50% of either of a pair of enantiomers.
Derived terms: enantioenriched
alimentativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alimentative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being alimentative.
alikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alikenesses
Etymology: From alike + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being alike.
glosses: The result or product of being alike.
algidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From algid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being algid.
VLBI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of very-long-baseline interferometry.
very-long-baseline interferometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: VLBI
glosses: A technique used to improve the angular resolution of a radio telescope by using multiple synchronized antennas very far apart.
Raman optical activity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ROA
Etymology: After Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The differential Raman scattering of left and right circularly polarized light by chiral molecules.
wikipedia: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
almightiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlˈmaɪtinəs/
ipa: /ɔːlˈmaɪtinəs/
ipa: /ɔːlˈmaɪtinɪs/
ipa: /ɔːlˈmaɪtinɛs/
Forms: form: almightinesses
Etymology: From almighty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Such is the almightiness of habit, that it can overcome the original disposition, even when it be fortified by the force of precept; then how much more easily so unprincipled a mind as the Chevalier's?
ref: 1806, Joshua Pickersgill, The Three Brothers: A Romance, John Stockdale, page 128:
text: They rejoice in his almightiness and infinite wisdom, they exult in his supremacy and absolute sovereignty, and are ravished in a view of his universal government, because it is absolutely perfect.
ref: 1811, Joseph Bellamy, The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, D.D.: In Three Volumes, Stephen Dodge, page 520:
text: The mere assumption of a doubt for the purpose of the inquiry, is painful to him, for it presents to his mind illimitable space, dark, desolate and blank; void of the benignity, the almightiness and the perfect intelligence of the Supreme, and his own existence as a transient flame, and his moral constitution and sense of obligation and duty merely as machinery vainly to regulate his actions to which there are to be no corresponding consequences.
ref: 1836, William Frend De Morgan, The North American Review: Volume XLII, O. Everett, page 468:
glosses: The state or quality of being almighty.
circularly polarized light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Light (or other electromagnetic radiation) whose electric or displacement vector rotates in a plane perpendicular to the propagation direction with constant angular velocity
Related terms: plane polarized light
anatopisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anatopism
transliterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transliterate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of undergoing transliteration
legislatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legislatresses
Etymology: From legislator + -ess.
Senses: synonyms: legislatrix
glosses: A female legislator.
juxtaposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of juxtapose
likenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪknəsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of likeness
peacemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpiːsˌmeɪ.kɪŋ/
Forms: form: peacemakings
Etymology: From peace + making.
Senses: glosses: The act of reconciling two people or groups who disagree.
Derived terms: peacefaking
Related terms: peacemaker
peacetime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːstaɪm/
Forms: form: peacetimes
form: peace time
form: peace-time
Etymology: From peace + time.
Senses: examples: text: When the country was blockaded during the second world war and the nation’s farmers were told to convert scrub and pasture to sown fields, arable land doubled. In peacetime, the patriotic drive for self-sufficiency continued
ref: 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The period of time when a nation or people is at peace, not fighting a war.
peashooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːˌʃuːtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpiˌʃutəɹ/
ipa: [-ɾəɹ]
Forms: form: peashooters
form: pea-shooter
Etymology: From pea + shooter.
Senses: synonyms: beanshooter
bean-shooter
glosses: A toy weapon consisting of a tube through which dried peas or small objects are blown.
glosses: A person who uses such a device.
examples: text: Compared to my forty-five, it's a toy. Christ, Thanet, why did you buy it in the first place? I would have given you one of mine, a real weapon, one with knock down power, compared to that peashooter on your hip.
ref: 2012, Wayne Greenough, The Ferguson Murder, page 41:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Any small or ineffective gun or weapon.
Hypernyms: blowgun
blowpipe
Related terms: peashooting
peashooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peashooter
pectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Etymology: From pectin + -ic, from Ancient Greek πηκτικός (pēktikós, “curdling”), from πηκτός (pēktós, “curdled”), from πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “stiffen”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pectin or pectin-like substances.
glosses: Relating to pectic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: metapectic acid
pectate
pectose
peristalses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peristalsis
peristaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛr.ɪˈstal.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛr.əˈstɒl.tɪk/
Forms: form: peristaltick
Etymology: From peristalsis + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to peristalsis
Derived terms: antiperistaltic
hyperperistaltic
hypoperistaltic
interperistaltic
isoperistaltic
nonperistaltic
normoperistaltic
peristaltically
retroperistaltic
prettiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prettinesses
Etymology: From pretty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pretty.
Related terms: pretty
prettily
hoarseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoarsenesses
Etymology: From Middle English hosnesse, from Old English hāsnes; equivalent to hoarse + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The hoarseness of her voice was caused by years of smoking.
synonyms: word: dysphonia
english: medical
translation: medical
glosses: The quality of being hoarse, of having a dry harsh voice.
intensifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intensifier
spars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spar
spars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spar
cater-cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cater-cousin
demeaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demean
demeaning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demeaning
form: most demeaning
Senses: glosses: Degrading; that degrades.
Derived terms: demeaningly
demeaningness
undemeaned
undemeaning
fencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fencer
detainees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detainee
holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holder
prorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prorate
gratifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gratification
castigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castigation
sinophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinophile
confectionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confectionary
pole-axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pole-axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of poleaxe.
Related terms: twibill
commorancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commorancies
Etymology: From stem of Latin commorāns, present participle of commorārī (“to remain, delay”), from mora (“a delay”), + -cy.
Senses: glosses: A house for a place of residence, usually a temporary one.
examples: text: Commorancy consists in usually lying there.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Act of dwelling or residence in a place; habitation.
Related terms: commorance
commorant
demonstrative adjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonstrative adjective
selfconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more selfconscious
form: most selfconscious
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-conscious.
badgerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more badgerlike
form: most badgerlike
Etymology: From badger + -like.
Senses: glosses: Similar to a badger.
examples: a badgerlike stripe
a badgerlike smile
glosses: Similar to that of a badger.
work ethic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work ethics
Senses: glosses: The value that one ought to work hard at one's job or duties.
examples: text: Badenoch, asked about Philp’s claim that Britons needed a better work ethic, told broadcasters: “I think everybody should be working hard, including myself.”
ref: 2025 January 31, Rowena Mason, quoting Kemi Badenoch, “Tory Chris Philp accused of ‘brass neck’ after saying UK needs better work ethic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: industry
diligence
glosses: The tendency to work hard at one's job or duties.
Derived terms: Protestant work ethic
Puritan work ethic
Related terms: Protestant work ethic
Puritan work ethic
wormlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wormlike
form: most wormlike
form: worm-like
Etymology: From worm + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The plastic fishing lure was remarkably wormlike.
text: He has a wormlike view of the universe.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a worm.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a smoothly curved form when heated.
raw_tags: of the molecules of a polymer
Derived terms: wormlike chain
Related terms: helminthic
vermian
vermiform
dovelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dovelike
form: most dovelike
form: dove-like
Etymology: From dove + -like.
Senses: examples: text: a dovelike wing
text: dovelike grace
text: dovelike eyes
text: Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dove.
synonyms: word: dovish
word: anti-bellicist
word: dovelike
word: dovish
word: irenic
word: irenical
word: non-violent
word: pacific
word: pacifist
word: pacifistic
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: unaggressive
glosses: Peaceful; innocent; pacifist.
Derived terms: undovelike
Related terms: columbine
dovelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dovelike
form: most dovelike
form: dove-like
Etymology: From dove + -like.
Senses: glosses: In a manner similar to a dove
examples: Montanus
Phoebe's eyes Dovelike mild
glosses: As much so as those of a dove
coma vigil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A state in which the patient lies with eyes open, yet unresponsive to the outside world.
coma vigile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coma vigil.
billa vera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin, literally "the bill is true".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Signifying that a presenter has furnished probable evidence, and is worthy of further consideration, presented to a party to indict them of the crime, and legally must confess or follow through the indictment.
binary quasar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary quasars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A pair of quasars which gravitationally interact with each other, unlike a standard double quasar, which does not interact.
Related terms: binary star
binary planet
binary asteroid
double quasar
twin quasar
biophase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biophases
Etymology: From bio- + phase.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The effect site of a drug
Related terms: biophasic
illui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈluːiː/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈiːluj/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈiːlɔɪ/
Forms: form: illuim
form: ilooy
form: iluy
form: illuy
Etymology: From Hebrew עִילּוּי (ilúi, “prodigy”).
Senses: glosses: A young Talmudic prodigy or genius.
posthegemony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + hegemony.
Senses: glosses: The theory that hegemony and ideology of discourse can no longer properly reflect the social order. Posthegemony also finds that history is not, as Karl Marx described it, a class struggle, but rather a "struggle to produce class".http://www.doi.org/10.1111/1470-9856.00067
astonishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of astonish
allegoricalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allegorical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being allegorical.
alreadiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From already + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being or happening already.
alliterativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alliterative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being alliterative.
alterableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alterable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being alterable.
classifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classification
bolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bold
bolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boldings
Senses: examples: text: […] text was produced only to be consumed visually — with tables, indents, boldings, typeface changes, and the like, as well as various styles of visual jargon — […]
ref: 2004, Randy Allen Harris, Voice Interaction Design, page 409:
glosses: The process of putting text in boldface.
metaethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meta-ethics
form: metaëthics
form: metethics
Etymology: From meta- + ethics. First attested in the 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: However, he holds that ethics is not capable of proving cruelty—or happiness, for that matter—to be either good or bad. This view of the limitations of the reasoning of normative ethics belongs to metaethics.
ref: 1985, Kenneth Blackwell, The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell, volume 1, →ISBN, page 6:
text: With respect to metaethics, some philosophers, known as cognitivists, believe that it is possible to identify objective criteria for determining what is ethically right or wrong, or good and bad. Others, however, question whether this is possible.
ref: 2006, Frederic G. Reamer, Social Work Values and Ethics, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 62:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The study of the nature and meaning of moral judgments, and the foundations and the possibility of ethical reasoning as such.
Derived terms: metaethical
metaethic
metaethical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: meta-ethical
Etymology: From meta- + ethical.
Senses: examples: text: In particular, I argue that (i) moral folkism leads us to the deflationary conclusion that many of the normative and metaethical questions that philosophers discuss are settled by empirical facts about what ordinary folk happen to mean by their words — and so they're not settled by mind-independent facts about reality.
ref: 2020, Mark Balaguer, “Moral Folkism and the Deflation of (Lots of) Normative and Metaethics”, in José L. Falguera, Concha Martínez-Vidal, editor, Abstract Objects: For and Against, page 297:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to metaethics.
Derived terms: metaethically
bolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bold
distributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distribution
Montrealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montrealers
form: Montréaler
Etymology: From Montreal + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Montrealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Montrealer
Abigaille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Abigaille.
glosses: A female given name, variant of Abigail.
differentiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of differentiate
alluringness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alluring + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being alluring.
alternateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alternate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being alternate.
pre-exist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-exists
form: pre-existing
form: pre-existed
form: pre-existed
form: preexist
form: preëxist
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of preexist.
alimentariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alimentary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being alimentary.
alwayness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alway + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of occurring always.
pre-existing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preexisting
form: preëxisting
Senses: examples: text: It is also an outcome that would have been difficult to predict ten years ago, with Bolton-born Greenwood admitting to having no pre-existing interest or particular enthusiasm for road, rail or any other form of transport.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 31:
glosses: present participle and gerund of pre-exist
amativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈam.ə.tɪv.nɪs/
Etymology: From amative + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Combe felt her bumps and pronounced that she had an unusually large cerebellum, the seat of Amativeness.
ref: 2012, Catherine Peters, “Court in the Act”, in Literary Review, number 399:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences
glosses: The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.
preexisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preëxisting
form: pre-existing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preexist
preexisting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: preëxisting
form: pre-existing
Senses: glosses: Already in existence before something else.
Derived terms: preexisting condition
amazedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amazed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [V]pon a ſodaine, / As Falſtaffe, ſhe, and I, are newly met, / Let them [children dressed like "urchins, ouphes and fairies"] from forth a ſaw-pit ruſh at once / With ſome diffuſed ſong: Vpon their ſight / We two, in great amazedneſſe will flye: […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 56, column 1:
glosses: The state or quality of being amazed.
ambagiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ambagious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being ambagious.
ambagious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăm-bā'jəs
ipa: /æmˈbeɪd͡ʒəs/
Forms: form: more ambagious
form: most ambagious
form: ambaginous
Etymology: From Latin ambāgiōsus, from ambāgēs (“roundabout path”).
Senses: glosses: Roundabout, circuitous, vague.
glosses: Obscure, enigmatic.
Derived terms: ambagiously
ambagiousness
ambidextrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ambidextrous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
ambiguousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambiguousnesses
Etymology: From ambiguous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being ambiguous; ambiguity
amenableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amenable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being amenable.
amendableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amendable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being amendable.
amiableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amiablenesses
Etymology: From amiable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being amiable.
amicableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amicablenesses
Etymology: From amicable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being amicable.
amissness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amiss + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being amiss.
amphibiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amphibious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being amphibious.
amusingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amusing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being amusing.
amusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being amusive.
amusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amusive
form: most amusive
Etymology: From amuse + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Swain […] amaz'd / Beholds th' amusive Arch before him fly, / Then vanish quite away.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Illusive, deceitful.
examples: text: As I have regarded these amusive birds with no small attention, if I should advance something new and peculiar with respect to them, and different from all other birds, I might perhaps be credited, especially as my assertion is the result of many years' exact observation.
ref: 1789, Gilbert White, Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne:
glosses: Giving entertainment or interest; recreative, diverting, engaging.
glosses: Amusing, humorous.
Derived terms: amusively
amusiveness
unamusive
knickknackery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knickknack + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: As Hortense says of the gilded knicknackery of her saloon,—
"Est-ce utile?
C'est plus, c'est nécessaire."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XII. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: Various trinkets or novelties; bric-a-brac.
novelties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novelty
analogicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From analogical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being analogical.
anarthrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anarthrous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being anarthrous.
anfractuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anfractuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being anfractuous.
angelicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angelical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being angelical.
angularness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angular + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being angular.
angulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angular
anileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anile + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being anile.
kissing cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissing cousin
Elohim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈloʊˌhɪm/
other: /ˌɛ.loʊˈhɪm/
other: /ˌɛ.loʊˈhim/
other: /ɛˈloʊˌhim/
Etymology: From Hebrew אֱלֹהִים/אֱלוֹהִים (ʾélôhím, “god(s), heavenly power”), plural of אֱלוֹהַּ (ʾélôah, “god”), often taken to be an expanded form of אֵל (ʾēl, “god”) (whence El).
Senses: examples: text: Elohim (Elohim)
 I shall not forgive
 Adonai (Adonai)
 I shall not forgive
 Living God (Living God)
 I shall not the forgive
 Jesus Christ (Jesus Christ)
 I forgive Thee not
ref: 2018, “God = Dog”, performed by Behemoth:
glosses: God; the name used for God in Hebrew scriptures, and used for the Father by Latter-day Saints.
glosses: The extraterrestrial creators of humans; the Raelian gods.
Derived terms: Elohist
Related terms: word: El
english: God; cognate to singular Eloh
translation: God; cognate to singular Eloh
word: Allah
word: Yahweh
ratel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪtəl/
ipa: /ˈɹɑːtəl/
rhymes: -eɪtəl
rhymes: -ɑːtəl
Forms: form: ratels
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans ratel.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of honey badger.
synonyms: word: honey badger
honeyguide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeyguides
Etymology: From honey + guide.
Senses: glosses: Any of several brood-parasitic Old World tropical birds, of the family Indicatoridae, that primarily feed on wax, especially beeswax.
metameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting metamerism.
glosses: (chemistry) Exhibiting structural isomerism.
Derived terms: hemimetameric
intermetameric
metamerically
nonmetameric