cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
homocarnosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + carnosine.
Senses: examples: text: Lutein concentrations correlated with lipid pathway metabolites, energy pathway metabolites, brain osmolytes, amino acid neurotransmitters, and the antioxidant homocarnosine.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Exploratory Metabolomic Analyses Reveal Compounds Correlated with Lutein Concentration in Frontal Cortex, Hippocampus, and Occipital Cortex of Human Infant Brain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The amino acid (E)-N-(4-amino-1-hydroxybutylidene)-L-histidine
Derived terms: homocarnosinosis
homocomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homocomplexes
Etymology: From homo- + complex.
Senses: glosses: A complex formed from multiple copies of the same compound
homocomplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus, it could be speculated that, upon proteotoxic stress, HSF1 transactivating homocomplexes may be preferentially recruited to the distal elements, while HSF1/HSF2 heterocomplexes with repressing function are probably assembled on the proximal HSE. In addition, HSF2 exhibits two alternative splicing isoforms, at least in mice, one of which is able to reduce HSF1 activity by forming heterocomplexes with the HSF1β isoform under MG132 treatment [20 ].
ref: 2015 August 29, “Molecular Dissection of the Human Ubiquitin C Promoter Reveals Heat Shock Element Architectures with Activating and Repressive Functions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of homocomplex
hyperacetylating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + acetylating.
Senses: examples: text: The results suggest that Bnip3 regulates cardiac gene expression and perhaps myocyte morphology by activating nuclear p300 acetyltransferase activity and hyperacetylating histones and p300-selective transcription factors.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Bnip3 Binds and Activates p300: Possible Role in Cardiac Transcription and Myocyte Morphology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That generates excessive acetylation
hypofractionation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypofractionations
Etymology: From hypo- + fractionation.
Senses: examples: text: Treatment with hypofractionation has been successfully carried out for a variety of tumors which can provide treatment for a larger number of patients compared to conventional photons over the same period of time.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Induction of Non-Targeted Stress Responses in Mammary Tissues by Heavy Ions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: radiation therapy in which the total dose is divided into a smaller than usual number of higher doses
Derived terms: ultrahypofractionation
Related terms: hypofraction
hypofractional
hypomyelinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + myelinated.
Senses: examples: text: A strongly hypomyelinated PNS and increased Schwann cell apoptosis as well as proliferation was observed in mice in which Dicer was ablated specifically in Schwann cells [19 ].
ref: 2015 August 29, “SncRNA715 Inhibits Schwann Cell Myelin Basic Protein Synthesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Less than usually myelinated
immunoclearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + clearing.
Senses: examples: text: Supernatants were collected and diluted in ChIP dilution buffer, followed by immunoclearing with gentle rotation with 80 μl protein A-agarose slurry for 1 h at 4°C. An aliquot of each sample was used as “input” in the PCR analysis.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Protein Phosphatase 2A in Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression in Murine Lymphatic Endothelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The physical removal of antigens
intercalibrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The monitors used were calibrated according to the instruction manual and intercalibrated (i.e., compared with each other) weekly.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Effects of Classroom Ventilation Rate and Temperature on Students’ Test Scores”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of intercalibrate
intercalibrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intercalibrates
form: intercalibrating
form: intercalibrated
form: intercalibrated
Etymology: From inter- + calibrate.
Senses: glosses: To calibrate by means of mutual comparison
interperitoneally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: interperitoneal + -ly
Senses: examples: text: Next, to investigate the degree of stimulated lipolysis, isoproterenol was injected interperitoneally and serum FFAs were measured before and 6 hours after the injection.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Suppressive Role of PPARγ-Regulated Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase in Adipocyte Lipolysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of intraperitoneally.
lymphaticovenular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lymphatico- + venular.
Senses: examples: text: In the original study protocol, the subjects were patients who were scheduled to undergo a transperineal prostate brachytherapy or lymphaticovenular anastomosis, but were broadened as written above after the Ethics Committee approved our intention of the change.
ref: 2015 August 29, “The Effect of Preoperative Oral Carbohydrate or Oral Rehydration Solution on Postoperative Quality of Recovery: A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to lymph glands and venules
F.A.B.
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FAB.
Kitzmiller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Maryland.
Accident
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.
Related terms: accident
The Accident
unshaveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Rare form of unshavable.
unshavable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unshaveable
Etymology: From un- + shavable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being shaved.
'nough
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'nuff.
'nough
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'nuff.
dental fricative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental fricatives
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The phoneme produced when the tongue touches the upper teeth and air is blown. It can be voiced (ð) or unvoiced (θ).
kisbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kisbets
form: kispet
Etymology: From Turkish kispet, from Arabic كِسْوَة (kiswa).
Senses: topics: fashion
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A pair of loose-fitting leather trousers worn by wrestlers in Turkish oil wrestling competitions.
kispets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kispet
kisbets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kisbet
barrel drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A drum (membranophone) with a shape that bulges in the middle, forming a barrel-like appearance, usually very large and made of wood with a one-headed and open-bottomed body.
Related terms: double-conical drum
barrel drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrel drum
footed drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footed drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A drum (membranophone) whose resonance is improved by an open bottom that is held by the player's feet.
footed drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footed drum
vertical flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical flutes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any type of flute that is held vertically when played.
vertical flutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertical flute
transverse flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transverse flutes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any type of flute that is held sideways when played.
Synonyms: side-blown flute
transverse flutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transverse flute
pellet drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pellet drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A drum (membranophone) that has two heads and produces sound through two pellets, tied to the body of the drum and manipulated so as to strike the heads.
Related terms: roman: lùtáo
word: 路鞀
roman: lùtáo
word: 路鼗
roman: táogǔ
word: 鞀鼓
roman: táogǔ
word: 鼗鼓
roman: táo
word: 鞀
roman: táo
word: 鼗
roman: bōlànggǔ
word: 波浪鼓
roman: bōlanggǔ
word: 撥浪鼓
roman: bōlanggǔ
word: 拨浪鼓
word: でんでん太鼓
word: 振鼓
pellet drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellet drum
conical drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conical drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A typically single-headed drum (membranophone) with one end larger than the other, and a body that slopes towards one end, forming a conical shape.
Derived terms: double-conical drum
conical drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conical drum
double-conical drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-conical drums
form: double conical drum
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of barrel drum with two heads instead of one.
double-conical drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double-conical drum
double conical drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double conical drums
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double-conical drum.
double conical drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double conical drum
yoke lute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoke lutes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any chordophone (stringed instrument) with two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
Synonyms: lyre
yoke lutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoke lute
Racibórz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Racibórz.
Senses: glosses: A city in Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
eat a dick
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Truancy-bot: Aren’t you boys supposed to be in class right now?
ref: a. 2007, Nicholas Gurewitch, Perry Bible Fellowship
roman: Student: Go eat a dick, Truancy-bot.
synonyms: eat a bag of dicks
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: A dismissive remark.
Synonyms: bugger off
fuck off
go to hell
piss off
sod off
go fuck yourself
get fucked
Related terms: suck dick
eat cunt
eat pussy
ftw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of FTW.
dickweasel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪkwiːzəl/
Forms: form: dickweasels
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of dick + weasel.
Senses: examples: text: The moral to the story being: Mr. Binks was a cheating dickweasel, but, you know, marriage is compromise
ref: 2012, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Broadway Book, published 2014, →ISBN, page 120:
text: He's a crazy bastard and a complete dickweasel, but not a moron.
ref: 2012, Dianne Sylvan, Shadow's Fall, Ace Books, →ISBN:
text: "Busy." Marinating in her disgust for a certain smooth-talking dickweasel.
ref: 2015, Kate Meader, Playing with Fire, Pocket Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
dickweasels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dickweasel
fuck you very much
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Blend of fuck you + thank you very much
Senses: glosses: An ungrateful and dismissive remark.
bag of dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags of dicks
Senses: examples: text: Shepard: Sorry. If you were human, you'd both be called the mother, regardless of which one gave birth.
Aethyta: Well, I'm not human, am I? Anthropocentric bag of dicks.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Apollo's Cafe, Presidium Commons, Citadel:
text: “Cas. I'm sorry I was a bag of dicks.”
ref: 2014, Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters, Mullholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
text: “Igor is a bag of dicks!” Ingrid yelped.
ref: 2015, Dakota Cassidy, Accidentally Aphrodite, Book Boutiques, →ISBN:
text: "Of course I remember. How could I forget? I think I blew twenty bucks in quarters until a ring came out. I'm still going to marry you someday. Wait, no I'm not...you're engaged to that bag of dicks, Creed."
ref: 2015, A. Wilding Wells, A Mess of Reason, →ISBN:
glosses: A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
Related terms: eat a bag of dicks
suck a bag of dicks
proper time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proper times
Senses: coordinate_terms: coordinate time
qualifier: relativity
glosses: Time as measured by a clock following a timelike world line.
landwhale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landwhales
form: land whale
Etymology: From land + whale.
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing else to hit on here except fat girls so the landwhales just assume that since they have no problem getting dates that it's all right to be fat.
ref: 1985, John J. Burke IV, "One male's opinion" [letter to the editor], The Pointer (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), Volume 29, Number 13, 21 November 1985, page 28
text: That's less lazy people getting Social Security, or taking jobs that us normal-sized people need. Eat yourself to death, landwhales!
ref: 2006 October, “Hearsay”, in Skinnie Magazine, page 24:
text: The Captain guy was talking now. Sounded official. Trim build. Looked in good shape for someone in his fifties. From what he could scope out. Interesting. Not all Americans were landwhales by thirty.
ref: 2014, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, published 2010, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled
word: butterball
word: chubster
word: chunker
word: chunky monkey
word: elephant
word: fat
word: fatfuck
word: fatso
word: fattie
word: fatty
word: fatty bom bom
word: fatty boombalatty
word: fat-ass
word: fatass
word: fat fuck
word: fatshit
word: fussock
word: gorbelly
word: hambeast
word: hamplanet
word: heffalump
word: landwhale
word: lardass
word: lardbucket
word: lardo
word: oinker
word: obeast
word: pig
word: podge
word: porker
word: pudge
word: roly-poly
word: salad dodger
word: swagbelly
word: thunder thighs
word: tubbo
word: tub of guts
word: tub of lard
word: whale
glosses: An obese person.
examples: text: That jerk did such a bad job parking his landwhale that it's taking up four parking spaces!
text: "It's getting close to Timmy's bedtime, so we won't stay long. I suppose you heard us arrive. We'll be staying outside tonight in that land whale we drove up in."
ref: 2012, Linda Townsley, The Dream Singer, WestBow Press, published 2012, →ISBN:
glosses: An excessively large motor vehicle.
landwhales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landwhale
rooting interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rooting interests
Senses: examples: 1945, {Unknown author}, Town Meeting
"The very essence of drama is the creation of a rooting interest. In all your successful pictures, Connie, that rooting interest was the heroine, the character you played."
glosses: a desire for, or interest in, the success of a particular person or group, often a sports team
contrabass bugle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrabass bugles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of tuba designed for marching. It is preferred by drum corps with large tuba sections because it offers a more rich sound than a sousaphone at the expense of volume.
intransigentism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intransigent + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: "Clerical intransigentism became a phrase as common as political intransigentism. It opposed innovations."
ref: 1899, Charles Melville Pepper, To-morrow in Cuba:
glosses: The principles of intransigents; refusal to compromise.
Barbosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barbosas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place name:
A municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
glosses: A place name:
A town and municipality in Antioquia department, Colombia.
glosses: A place name:
A town and municipality in Santander department, Colombia.
Bastos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Basto
Vatter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vatters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Vatter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Brodowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brodowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Brodowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
LNT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LNTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lean nitrogen oxide trap.
glosses: Initialism of linear no-threshold model.
LNT
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Initialism of leave no trace.
Chavantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chavante
enoughly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From enough + -ly. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of enough.
synonyms: word: enough
merroir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Neologism from French mer (“sea”) + terroir.
Coined by Seattle Times food writer Greg Atkinson in March 2003.
Senses: examples: text: But unlike the nuanced terroir in the wine bottle, which can be difficult to grasp, the “merroir” in an oyster shell is quite easily detected.
ref: 2011, Greg Atkinson, At the Kitchen Table: The Craft of Cooking at Home:
text: Without them, not only are we deprived of an excellent food source, but also the environment, the merroir they live in, is far poorer for it.
ref: 2012, Eric D. Lehman, A History of Connecticut Food:
glosses: The complete set of local conditions in which seafood is raised. The total characteristics or phenotype of an organism due to attributes such as harvest and cultivation technique, salinity, tides, local food sources, seasonality, and climate.
anachronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæk.ɹə.nɪm/
rhymes: -ækɹənɪm
homophone: anacronym
Forms: form: anachronyms
Etymology: Blend of anachronous + acronym.
Senses: hypernyms: folk etymology
glosses: Synonym of backronym.
synonyms: word: backronym
hypernyms: misnomer
glosses: A term which is used in an anachronistic way, by referring to something in a way that is appropriate only for a former or later time. A type of misnomer. Misnomers are not necessarily incorrect; for example, chalk for a chalkboard is normatively called chalk despite it not being made of chalk.
Related terms: anachronism
retronym
anachronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anachronym
supertasker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertaskers
Etymology: From super- + tasker, modelled after multitasker.
Senses: glosses: Someone who can do an unusually high number of tasks simultaneously.
supertaskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertasker
typogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typograms
Etymology: From type + -o- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A word that is written in such a manner that it illustrates what it means.
typograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typogram
Bangkokian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bangkokians
Etymology: From Bangkok + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Bangkok
Bangkokian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bangkok + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Bangkok
Synonyms: Bangkoker
Bangkokians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bangkokian
Lins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lin
Quintana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quintanas
Etymology: From Romance (Spanish Quintana and Portuguese Quintana).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A placename
An island of Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
glosses: A placename
A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
glosses: A placename
A district of Puerto Rico, United States.
glosses: A placename
A town in Brazoria County, Texas, United States.
law firms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of law firm
dope dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Impotence caused by heavy drinking.
Synonyms: erectile dysfunction
Related terms: coke dick
crystal dick
whiskey dick
brewer's droop
code blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code blues
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of the occurrence of a medical emergency.
Derived terms: english: to experience a code blue situation in a patient
translation: to experience a code blue situation in a patient
word: code
Related terms: code blue • code brown • code red • code silver • code white • code yellow
colour code
kemenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kemenche
code red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code reds
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition on the occurrence of a fire at the medical facility.
glosses: An extrajudicial punishment.
examples: text: Last week, some of the world’s leading climate change scientists confirmed that humans are making irreversible changes to our planet and extreme weather will only become more severe. This news is a “code red for humanity,” said the United Nations secretary general.
ref: 2021 August 19, Greta Thunberg, Adriana Calderón, Farzana Faruk Jhumu, Eric Njuguna, quoting António Guterres, “This Is the World Being Left to Us by Adults”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2021:
text: Although ChatGPT still has plenty of room for improvement, its release led Google’s management to declare a “code red.” For Google, this was akin to pulling the fire alarm.
ref: 2022 December 21, Nico Grant, Cade Metz, “A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2022:
glosses: A condition of immediate urgency.
Related terms: code blue • code brown • code red • code silver • code white • code yellow
colour code
code brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code browns
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of the occurrence of a hazmat situation at a medical facility.
examples: text: I hear the store speaker call for a cleanup crew: "Code brown on Aisle 2 with a possible runaway cart track to 16."
ref: 2005 September 9, Bruce Michaud, “Dog-day misery in Aisle 16”, in North of Tampa, St. Petersburg Times, page 2:
coordinate_terms: code yellow
glosses: The situation where a person defecates in an undesirable location (e.g. hospital bed or retail store), requiring cleanup.
Related terms: code blue • code brown • code red • code silver • code white • code yellow
colour code
number two
slavenapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave napping
form: slave-napping
Etymology: Blend of slave + kidnapping
Senses: glosses: A kidnapping for the purpose of making the victim a slave.
Santa Isabel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Santa Isabel and Portuguese Santa Isabel.
Senses: glosses: A place name:
A town in La Pampa province, Argentina.
glosses: A place name:
A municipality in Goiás state, Brazil.
glosses: A place name:
A municipality in São Paulo state, Brazil.
glosses: A place name:
A parish on Boa Vista, Cape Verde.
glosses: A place name:
A neighbourhood of Bogotá, Colombia.
glosses: A place name:
A town and municipality in Tolima department, Colombia.
glosses: A place name:
A volcano in Tolima department, Colombia.
glosses: A place name:
A city in Mexicali municipality, Baja California, Mexico.
glosses: A place name:
A town and municipality in Chihuahua, Mexico.
glosses: A place name:
A corrigimiento and district in Colón province, Panama.
glosses: A place name:
A barangay of San Pablo, Laguna province, Philippines.
glosses: A place name:
A town and municipality on the south coast of Puerto Rico.
glosses: A place name:
An island in the Solomon Islands.
digital brownshirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital brownshirt
ergatotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergatotypes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs, “worker”) + -type.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: An additional type specimen chosen as a paratype to exemplify the worker caste in a hymenopteran taxon.
ergatotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergatotype
hymenopterology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hymenoptera + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of the Hymenoptera.
Related terms: hymenopterologist
hymenopterological
hymenopterologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymenopterologists
Etymology: From hymenopterology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Many other cases could be cited, but these, I think, will do to show the difficulty of the study of the Pompilidae, and how deficient our generic definitions must be when our most able hymenopterologists are so easily led astray by superficial resemblances.
ref: 1900, The Canadian Entomologist, volume 32, page 153:
synonyms: hymenopterist
glosses: One who studies the Hymenoptera.
Related terms: hymenopterology
hymenopterological
hymenopterologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hymenopterologist
dipterology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Diptera + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of flies, the Diptera.
Related terms: dipterologist
dipterological
dipterologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipterologists
Etymology: From dipterology + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: dipterist
glosses: One who studies flies, the Diptera.
Related terms: dipterology
dipterological
dipterologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipterologist
dipterological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dipterology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to dipterology, the scientific study of flies.
Related terms: dipterology
dipterologist
hymenopterological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hymenopterology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hymenopterology.
Related terms: hymenopterology
hymenopterologist
lepidopterological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lepidopterology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to lepidopterology.
Derived terms: lepidopterologically
lepidopterologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepidopterologists
Etymology: From lepidopterology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies lepidopterology.
Synonyms: lepidopterist
lepidopterologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepidopterologist
fartface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fartfaces
form: fart-face
form: fart face
Etymology: From fart + face.
Senses: glosses: An unappealing, annoying or contemptible person.
lectostratotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lectostratotypes
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stratotype used to describe a stratigraphic unit that does not already have a sufficient holostratotype.
lectostratotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lectostratotype
holostratotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holostratotypes
Etymology: From holo- + stratotype.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The original stratotype used to designate a stratigraphic unit.
parastratotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parastratotypes
Etymology: From para- + stratotype.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stratotype designated by the original author alongside the holostratotype as an additional example of a stratigraphic unit.
parastratotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parastratotype
hypostratotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypostratotypes
Etymology: From hypo- + stratotype.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stratotype designated after the holostratotype as an additional example of a stratigraphic unit, usually in a different geographic context.
hypostratotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypostratotype
neostratotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neostratotypes
Etymology: From neo- + stratotype.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stratotype designated after the holostratotype as a replacement for it (in the case of it being rendered inaccessible to geologists) to describe a stratigraphic unit.
neostratotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neostratotype
lean nitrogen oxide trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lean nitrogen oxide traps
Senses: glosses: A device that adsorbs nitrogen oxides produced by a lean-burn engine, such as a diesel.
Synonyms: LNT
fanglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanglomerates
Etymology: Blend of fan + conglomerate.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stratigraphic unit in which conglomerates that were deposited in an alluvial fan are common.
fanglomerates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanglomerate
Roddie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutives, + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Roderick.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Roderica.
Buddie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Buddy.
fortune stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔːtʃuːn ˈstɪk/
ipa: /ˌfɔɹtʃən ˈstɪk/
Forms: form: fortune sticks
Senses: examples: text: 6 Fortune sticks used in Chinese temples. Yunan.
ref: 1871 September 11, Indian Museum: Minutes of the Trustees, page 143:
text: Ho chun thought that while they were there, they had better try throwing the fortune sticks, as he knew it would please them, so he picked up a tall round box, full of bamboo sticks, and explained it to them.
ref: 1904, Jessie Juliet, Little Almond Blossoms: A Book of Chinese Stories for Children, page 142:
text: Mei Li ran happily down the hill. Surely, if the fortune sticks said she was going to rule a kingdom she would.
ref: 1938, Thomas Handforth, Mei Li:
text: Ah Ching went to the temple on her behalf on every major festival to kou chim, that is to ask one's fortune through the use of fortune sticks.
ref: 2000, Mimi Chan, All the King’s Women: The Story of a Hong Kong Family, page 32:
glosses: One of a set of numbered bamboo slips that correspond to messages concerning the future, drawn by a supplicant in Taoist divination.
fortune sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortune stick
Socorro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish socorro.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Socorro County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A city in El Paso County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Socorro County
Tremembé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Teremembé
Senses: glosses: An extinct and unattested language of Brazil.
Tremembé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teremembé
Senses: glosses: The northern Brazilian coastal people who spoke this language.
Vera Cruz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of Veracruz.
Coroados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Coroado.
Dumont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clear Creek County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Butler County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Traverse County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Bergen County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in King County, Texas.
Jaci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Starbucks’ store leadership have advised their employees on how to work around the outage manually, and the company will make sure everyone gets paid for all hours worked, according to Starbucks spokesperson Jaci Anderson.
ref: 2024 November 25, Sean Lyngaas, “Starbucks forced to pay its baristas manually because of a ransomware attack on third-party software”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A female given name.
Parisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Parisii (“ancient tribe”).
Ribeira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Sabino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sabinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Sabino.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saleses
Etymology: From Spanish, from Catalan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Catalan.
Silveiras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Silveira
Uru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Urus
form: Uru
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of Peru and Bolivia.
Uru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct language formerly spoken by these people.
Uru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Central Kilimanjaro language of Tanzania.
Cantagalo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative district of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Mendes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Mendes.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
examples: text: A year ago, the director Sam Mendes collected his "director of the year" prize at a star-studded but still otherwise obscure, untelevised gala called the Hollywood Awards, two weeks before his film "Jarhead" was even released.
ref: 2006 October 18, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Film Chain’s Latest Link”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025:
glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
São Gonçalo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: São Gonçal
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Arcos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arcoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Arcos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Barroso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barrosos
Etymology: Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Barroso, a topographic surname for someone who lived in a muddy and loamy area, from barroso (“muddy”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Caldas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Colombia.
Carvalhos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Carvalho
Coromandel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A peninsula in Waikato, North Island, New Zealand; in full, Coromandel Peninsula.
glosses: A mountain range in the Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand; in full, Coromandel Range.
glosses: A geographic region of southeast coastal India, bounded by the Utkal Plains to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Kaveri delta to the south, and the Eastern Ghats to the west; located in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; in full, Coromandel Coast.
Derived terms: coromandel
Coromandel Coast
Coromandel Peninsula
Coromandel Range
Coromandel Ranges
honey-colored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honey-colored
form: most honey-colored
Senses: examples: text: In honey-colored stones, the “milk-and-honey” effect can often be quite spectacular as the half hit by the light turns a brilliant white and the half in dark turns a deep, burnished brown.
ref: 2012, David Federman, Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: having the color of honey; golden
Diamantina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Portuguese.
Esmeraldas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in north-west Ecuador.
glosses: A coastal city, the capital of Esmeraldas province, Ecuador.
Fama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin fāma.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Roman equivalent of the Greek Pheme, a personification of fame and renown.
Gonzaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gonzagas
Etymology: From Romance (Portuguese Gonzaga Spanish Gonzaga, Italian Gonzaga) and Philippine (Cebuano Gonzaga, Tagalog Gonzaga).
Originally from Italian Gonzaga, the name of the ruling family of Mantua. This surname is now predominantly found in Brazil. The Portuguese and Philippine name originates from Spanish. The Spanish name originates from Italian.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
A surname from the Romance languages.
A surname from Italian.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from the Romance languages.
A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from the Romance languages.
A surname from Portuguese.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from the Philippine languages.
A surname from Cebuano.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from the Philippine languages.
A surname from Tagalog.
Ipanema
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Ipanema, ultimately from Old Tupi.
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of Zona Sul district, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
glosses: A beach located in the neighborhood.
jelly blubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛli ˌblʌbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: jelly blubbers
Senses: examples: text: I listened to little oral essays on jelly blubbers, men-o'-war, sea slugs, blue-bottles, giant crabs, and even prawns.
ref: 1943 March 1, ABC Weekly, page 22:
text: His bum looks like one of those jelly-blubbers pulsating through the water.
ref: 2002, J.A. Mawter, So Feral!, page 26:
glosses: a jellyfish.
jelly blubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly blubber
Medeiros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Medeiroses
form: Madaris
form: Madeiros
Etymology: Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Medeiros.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
counterbetrayal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterbetrayals
Etymology: From counter- + betrayal.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Atwood’s spins out her plot as busily as a spider, constructing an intricate web that ensnares Charmaine and Stan in a dizzying game of betrayal and counterbetrayal involving extramarital affairs, human-organ trafficking, blackmail, espionage, identity theft and sex-bot manufacturing.
ref: 2015 September 29, Sarah Lyall, “Review: Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’ Conjures a Kinky Dystopia”, in New York Times:
glosses: A betrayal in response to a previous betrayal.
counterbetrayals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterbetrayal
unregulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unregulates
form: unregulating
form: unregulated
form: unregulated
Etymology: From un- + regulate.
Senses: examples: text: Vowing to fight some regulations imposed by the Obama administration, Mr. Bush said he was “not suggesting unregulating the world,” merely “common-sense 21st-century rules.”
ref: 2015 September 29, Matt Flegenheimer, “Jeb Bush Calls for Ending Ban on Crude Oil Exports”, in New York Times:
glosses: To exempt from regulation; to deregulate.
unregulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unregulate
unregulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unregulate
Hughina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Mutum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯃꯨꯇꯨꯝ (mutum).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Mutumcha
Mutumba
Kanglei
Meetei
Oinam
blue wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue wrens
Senses: examples: text: The winter has been long and somewhat severe, and the robins, therefore, have been well in evidence, also Jacky Winters, double-bars, and blue wrens.
ref: 1933 October 21, “The Courier Mail”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 21:
text: As we went along, Mother had to look this way and that to follow the line of some excited finger pointing out a blue wren's nest or the place where Charlie killed the snake.
ref: 1962, Elizabeth Lane, chapter 13, in Mad As Rabbits, page 107:
glosses: Any of various species of fairywren (tribe Malurini in the family Maluridae), the male of which acquires blue adult or breeding plumage.
blurp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blurps
Etymology: Imitative; compare burp, bleep, etc.
Senses: examples: text: It would start, then stall, then start again with a blurp, while clouds of blue smoke and sickening gas fumes polluted the air.
ref: 2006, Hughina Harold, Totem Poles and Tea, page 43:
glosses: An explosive low-pitched sound resembling a burp.
Derived terms: blurpy
blurps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blurp
Kipfler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kipflers
Etymology: From German Kipfler or Bavarian Kipfler. Related to German and Bavarian Kipfl and Kipferl (“croissant”).
Senses: glosses: A small elongated variety of potato with yellow flesh.
Kipflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kipfler
Oliveira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oliveiras
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Oliveira.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
cringefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒˌfɛst/
Forms: form: cringefests
Etymology: From cringe + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: What makes “Dr. Ken” such a cringefest is the disconnect between Mr. Jeong’s florid persona — pitched at the edge of desperation — and everything else on screen, which stays within the boundaries of a network family series.
ref: 2015 September 30, Mike Hale, “Review: In ‘Dr. Ken’ on ABC, Ken Jeong Is a Physician With Jokes”, in New York Times:
glosses: A work or a situation that induces cringing; something very embarrassing.
cringefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cringefest
gaokao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaʊˈkaʊ/
enpr: gouʹkouʹ
Forms: form: gaokao
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 高考 (gāokǎo, literally “higher [education] [entrance] examination”).
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, education officials have made a number of proposals, including revising elementary and middle school textbooks to increase the proportion of guoxue, or the study of Chinese culture, and reducing the importance of English on some versions of the gaokao, or university entrance examination, in favor of a greater emphasis on the Chinese language.
ref: 2015 September 30, Amy Qin, “A Fervor to Glimpse ‘China’s Mona Lisa’”, in New York Times:
topics: education
glosses: The National Higher Education Entrance Examination held annually in China as a prerequisite for entrance into most forms of higher education.
sitcommish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sitcommish
form: most sitcommish
Etymology: From sitcom + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sitcomish.
blue wrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue wren
coapplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + application.
Senses: examples: text: In trials with T3, oocytes were preincubated with T3 (1–100 μM) for 15 s, followed directly with coapplication of T3 and GABA, ALLOP or IVM, for 30s.
ref: 2015 October 1, “Interactions of L-3,5,4'-Triiodothyronine, Allopregnanolone, and Ivermectin with the GABA A Receptor: Evidence for Overlapping Intersubunit Binding Modes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: joint application
complementisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complementiser
empoascan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Empoasca + -an.
Senses: examples: text: More work is also needed to clarify whether Empoasca onukii injures other plants besides tea, or if there are other empoascan species attacking tea shrubs in these areas.
ref: 2015 October 1, “Clarification of the Identity of the Tea Green Leafhopper Based on Morphological Comparison between Chinese and Japanese Specimens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to Empoasca, a genus of leafhoppers.
homotopicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homotopic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the condition of homotopicity needs to be satisfied.
ref: 2015 October 1, “Action in Perception: Prominent Visuo-Motor Functional Symmetry in Musicians during Music Listening”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being homotopic.
hymenialdisine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, marine sponge metabolite hymenialdisine was found to be a potent inhibitor of IL-2 and TNF-α production.
ref: 2015 October 1, “Evaluation of the Anti-Inflammatory, Antioxidant and Immunomodulatory Effects of the Organic Extract of the Red Sea Marine Sponge Xestospongia testudinaria against Carrageenan Induced Rat Paw Inflammation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance found in marine sponges that inhibits cyclin-dependent kinases, glycogen synthase kinase-3beta, and casein kinase 1.
hyperossified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperossified
form: most hyperossified
Etymology: From hyper- + ossified.
Senses: examples: text: This applies especially to the massive, hyperossified skull in which the maxilla is sutured posteriorly with the quadratojugal-quadrate, and the supratemporal opening is much reduced in size.
ref: 2015 October 1, “An Extremely Peramorphic Newt (Urodela: Salamandridae: Pleurodelini) from the Latest Oligocene of Germany, and a New Phylogenetic Analysis of Extant and Extinct Salamandrids”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Ossified to an abnormal extent.
hypoketonemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypoketonemic
form: most hypoketonemic
Etymology: From hypoketonemia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In other experiment, dexamethasone resulted in hyperglycemic and hypoketonemic effect lasting 4 to 6 days in ketotic cows.
ref: 2015 October 1, “Effects of Dexamethasone and Insulin Alone or in Combination on Energy and Protein Metabolism Indicators and Milk Production in Dairy Cows in Early Lactation – A Randomized Controlled Trial”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Exhibiting hypoketonemia.
hypoketonemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + ketone + -emia.
Senses: glosses: An abnormally low level of ketone in the blood.
Derived terms: hypoketonemic
hypoketonaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypoketonemia.
hypoketonaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypoketonaemic
form: most hypoketonaemic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hypoketonemic.