cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mambo sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mumbo sauce.
still lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Freud's paintings from these months included still lives of lemons and a tangerine …
ref: 2015 William Feaver, "Freud, Lucian", ODNB
text: … portraits, landscapes and still lives.
ref: 2015 (18 January) Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, "Miracle Village: the sleepy Florida town for sex offenders"
glosses: plural of still life
colorification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorifications
Etymology: From color + -ification.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of coloration.
colorifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colorification
choker chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choker chains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of choke chain.
diabology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diabologies
Etymology: From Latin diabolus (“devil”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the Devil in religion.
dragfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dragfooted
form: most dragfooted
Etymology: From drag + footed.
Senses: glosses: Dragging the feet while walking, as if lame.
extinctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extinctors
Etymology: From extinct + -or.
Senses: examples: text: […] can be extrapolated robustly to the energy scales of civilization-ending impacts and perhaps even to mass extinctors.
ref: 2002, Christian Koeberl, Kenneth G. MacLeod, Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond:
glosses: A cause of extinction.
examples: text: These chemical extinctors are of all sizes; they range from small bottles upward, to large double-tank machines, and drawn by horses.
ref: 1899, Frederic Morell Holmes, Firemen and their exploits, page 136:
glosses: An extinguisher.
extinctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extinctor
lick and a promise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a lick and a promise
Senses: examples: text: She'd given her face a lick and a promise, drawn her hair back tight and walked in.
ref: 2007, Joy Dettman, One Sunday:
text: He never felt quite clean with “cat baths”—as Marcel called them, or “a lick and a promise,” the way Renaud put it.
ref: 2010, Nina Ansley, The Plague of Provence, page 47:
text: She had not had time for a proper bath in the week since this journey had begun. She had been forced to bathe in the washbasins of the inns along the route, giving herself what her old nursemaid would have called “a lick and a promise.”
ref: 2014, Margaret Weis, Robert Krammes, The Seventh Sigil:
glosses: A quick, not-very-thorough wash.
examples: text: Now this is not the way to get a house in order. What this place needs is a real thorough old-fashioned cleaning. A lick and a promise won't do, no, sir!
ref: 1955, Max Shulman, Robert Paul Smith, The Tender Trap: A Comedy, page 14:
text: The snowplows had made what Myles would call a lick-and-a-promise attempt to partially clear the accumulated snow from West End Avenue.
ref: 2000, Mary Higgins Clark, While My Pretty One Sleeps:
text: Well, he knows hes supposed to make his bed before he goes to school, so he gives it a lick and a promise and walks out of the room.
ref: 2013, David Jeremiah, God in You: Releasing the Power of the Holy Spirit in Your Life:
text: Rising out of poverty will require not a lick and a promise but deep reform.
ref: 2014 May 22, “EDITORIAL: India's Modi wins voter mandate for economic growth”, in Washington Times:
text: Workers scrambled to slap it all together on nothing but a lick and a promise—unlike the pristine whiteness of the court, the haphazard shacks ahead clashed in color and stripe, some tall, some short, each roof at an awkward angle to the other.
ref: 2014, Timothy Schaffert, The Swan Gondola, page 74:
glosses: The hasty or incomplete performance of a task.
bottle-tight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Completely watertight, without any leaks.
Leadite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lead + -ite, a former trademark.
Senses: glosses: A joint-sealing compound made from iron, sulfur, etc., that was used instead of lead-containing compounds.
Latinophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latinophiles
Etymology: From Latino- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: An enthusiast of the Latin language.
Latinophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latinophile
fam-bam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fam-bams
form: fam bam
form: fambam
Senses: glosses: Family.
malacotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to malacosis.
theesee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thitsee.
thietsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thitsee.
neuromechanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neuromechanical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of neuromechanics.
eccyesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eccyeses
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ectopic pregnancy.
synonyms: word: ectopic pregnancy
Edman degradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Edman degradations
Etymology: Developed by Pehr Edman.
Senses: glosses: A method of sequencing amino acids in a peptide. The amino-terminal residue is labelled and cleaved from the peptide without disrupting the peptide bonds between other amino acid residues.
wikipedia: Pehr Edman
egersis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔγερσῐς (égersĭs).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: awakening; resurrection
Eglin steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Eglin Air Force Base; the US Air Force was involved in its development.
Senses: glosses: A high-strength, high-performance, low-alloy, low-cost steel.
wikipedia: Eglin Air Force Base
mulberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mulberry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The gathering of mulberries.
bilberried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bilberry + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I know / That bilberried bank, that thick tree, that black wall, / Which are there yet and not changed.
ref: 1957, Ted Hughes, “Six Young Men”, in The Hawk in the Rain:
glosses: On which bilberries grow.
erythredema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erythroedema.
freedom of panorama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Panoramafreiheit.
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: A provision in copyright law that permits taking photographs or video footage, or creating other images (such as paintings), of buildings and sometimes artworks that are permanently located in a public place, and publishing such images without infringing copyright.
wikipedia: Louvre Pyramid
old-fashioneds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old-fashioned
emboliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈbɑl.əˌfoɹm/
ipa: /ɛmˈbɒl.ɪˌfɔːm/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”) + -form, from ἐμβάλλω (embállō, “to lay or put in”) + -ος (-os, nominal suffix).
Senses: glosses: Plug-shaped.
Derived terms: emboliform nucleus
erythrocythaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erythrocythemia.
erythrocythaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erythrocythemic.
uncounseled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncounselled.
Étard reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Étard reactions
Etymology: Named for the French chemist Alexandre Léon Étard (1852–1910).
Senses: glosses: A chemical reaction that involves the direct oxidation of an aromatic or heterocyclic bound methyl group to an aldehyde using chromyl chloride.
Eumenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juˈmɛnɪdiːz/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὐμενίδες (Eumenídes, “gracious ones”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Erinyes.
glucosaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glucosemia.
Euparal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A synthetic microscopy mountant, used extensively in the mounting of entomological and histological specimens.
bootstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootstrings
Etymology: From boot + string.
Senses: glosses: bootlace
bootstrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootstring
Eolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aeolis.
lidden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪdən
Forms: form: liddens
Etymology: From earlier leaden, ledden, leden, from Middle English leden, liden, lyden, from Old English lēoden, lȳden (“speech, language”), related to Scots leid (“language”). See leid.
Alternative etymology derives lidden from Old English hlȳd, hlȳden (“sound, noise, clamour, din”) or Old Norse hljóð (“sound, clap, roar, ringing, tone, tune”). Compare also Old English lēoþ (“song, tune, poem”).
Senses: glosses: A noise or din.
examples: text: She kept up this lidden all through breakfast, and the meal was no sooner cleared away than she slipped on a shawl and stepped across to the churchyard to discuss the robbery.
ref: 1905, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “Frenchman's Creek”, in Shakespeare's Christmas and other stories:
glosses: A saying, song or story.
Ewing family
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of cancers including the Ewing sarcoma and others.
insha'Allah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inshallah.
enzymopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enzymopathies
Etymology: From enzyme + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of diseases involving genetic defects that cause problems with enzymes.
Derived terms: enzymopathic
erythroenzymopathy
electromassage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + massage.
Senses: glosses: A form of body massage incorporating electrotherapy.
electrotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrotherapists
Etymology: From electro- + therapist.
Senses: glosses: One who administers electrotherapy.
electrotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrotherapist
Nissl granule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nissl granules
Senses: glosses: Nissl body
Nissl granules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nissl granule
electromyographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electromyographical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, electromyography.
bye, Felicia
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: bye, Felisha
Etymology: A line from the comedy film Friday (1995), used to dismiss the character Felisha (not Felicia), who irritates people in the neighborhood by begging and borrowing.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Used as an abrupt sarcastic dismissal of somebody who is present.
wikipedia: Friday (1995 film)
Becker muscular dystrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Becker's muscular dystrophy
Etymology: Named after Peter Emil Becker, German doctor who published an article about it in 1955.
Senses: glosses: benign pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy: an X-linked recessive inherited dystrophinopathy characterized by slowly progressive muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis
Friedreich's ataxia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the German physician Nikolaus Friedreich, who first described it in the 1860s.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inherited disease in which reduced expression of frataxin causes progressive damage to the nervous system.
Isaacs' syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Described in a 1961 paper by Isaacs.
Senses: glosses: neuromyotonia
rushfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rushfoil
karagane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karagan
Senses: glosses: A grey fox found in the former Russian Empire.
linking r
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linking rs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: An "r" that is pronounced only because it is closely followed by another morpheme beginning with a vowel sound, as in water ice, in non-rhotic varieties of English.
Related terms: intrusive r
sandhis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandhi
movable nu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movable nus
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The letter nu placed on the end of some grammatical forms in Attic or Ionic Greek, to avoid two vowels in a row (hiatus) or to create a long syllable in poetic meter.
Synonyms: ephelcystic nu
nu movable
Qarluk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qarluks
form: Qarluk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Karluk.
Qarluq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qarluqs
form: Qarluq
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Karluk.
Karluk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karluks
form: Karluk
form: Qarluk
form: Qarluq
Senses: glosses: A member of a nomadic Turkic tribal confederacy residing in Kara-Irtysh and the Tarbagatai Mountains, closely related to the Uyghurs.
Qarluks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qarluk
Qarluqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qarluq
Karluks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karluk
gormandise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gormandises
form: gormandising
form: gormandised
form: gormandised
Etymology: From gormand + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gourmandise.
QOR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quality of results.
gormandising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gormandise
gormandises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gormandise
gormandised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gormandise
pipsqueakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pipsqueak + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being small and insignificant.
cyrtos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The basket-like feeding apparatus of the protists, especially in the genus Nassula.
cytopharyngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-iːəl
-ɪndʒəl
Etymology: From cyto- + pharyngeal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cytopharynx.
peniculid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peniculids
Senses: glosses: Any of the order Peniculida of ciliate protozoa.
peniculids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peniculid
shitweasels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitweasel
synhymenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A hypostomial frange.
nassophorean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nassophoreans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Nassophorea.
nassophoreans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nassophorean
colpodean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpodeans
Etymology: Colpodea + -an
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Colpodea.
colpodeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colpodean
remonetise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remonetises
form: remonetising
form: remonetised
form: remonetised
Etymology: From re- + monetise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of remonetize.
remonetises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remonetise
remonetising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remonetise
remonetised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remonetise
paccans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paccan
partheniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Partheniac
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden; virgin”) + -ac.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: of or pertaining to some form of irregular anapestic meter
anapestic dimeter catalectic, paroemiac
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: of or pertaining to some form of irregular anapestic meter
anapestic trimeter hypercatalectic
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: of or pertaining to some form of irregular anapestic meter
anapestic tetrameter catalectic
partheniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partheniacs
form: Partheniac
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden; virgin”) + -ac.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: a line of partheniac meter
parthenaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρθένειᾰ (parthéneiă, “songs sung by a chorus of maidens”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the partheneia (παρθένειᾰ, an Ancient Greek song performed by maidens)
Partheniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: partheniac
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden; virgin”) + -ac.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Alternative form of partheniac.
Partheniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Partheniacs
form: partheniac
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden; virgin”) + -ac.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Alternative form of partheniac.
homoantagonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + antagonism.
Senses: examples: text: Engaging in homoantagonism (taunting and possibly behaving violently toward gays), avoiding public intimacy with men, "acting like a thug/hard criminal," and "butching up," defined by one interviewee as "acting manly" and "cocking your hat back" (kp 36), are macho extreme behaviours.
ref: 2002 November, Bianca Della Marie Wilson, Robin Lin Miller, “Strategies for Managing Hetereosexism Used Among African American Gay and Bisexual Men”, in Journal of Black Psychology, volume 28, number 4, page 381:
text: Both Indian homeland and transoceanic East African and US diasporas are represented in contexts of racism, Orientalism, and homoantagonism, but in ways that cut across intersections of oppression that lean one way and, instead, critique, celebrate, and complicate geographies, ethnicities, patriarchies, religions, and sexualities.
ref: 2015, Shamira A. Meghani, “Queer South Asian Muslims: the ethnic closet and its secular limits”, in Claire Chambers, Caroline Herbert, editors, Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Collectively, hip-hop feminist theorists developed new ideas about and approaches to eradicating patriarchy, misogyny, homoantagonism, and transphobia both within hip-hop and in our communities.
ref: 2015 January, Treva B. Lindsey, “Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Futures in Theory and Praxis”, in Urban Education, volume 50, number 1, page 57:
glosses: Hostile or violent behavior toward gay people.
Derived terms: homoantagonistic
predeployed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + deployed.
Senses: glosses: deployed in advance
kitchenhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchenhands
Etymology: From kitchen + hand.
Senses: glosses: A person who is employed to assist a cook in a kitchen.
kitchenhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitchenhand
tapochki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian та́почки (tápočki).
Senses: examples: text: The first order of business upon arrival was to select a pair of tapochki (slippers) from the dozen or so scattered in messy stacks about the foyer.
ref: 1997, Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel, PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 174:
text: Flat-soled, cloth house slippers, tapochki are worn by family members and guests alike. Upon entering homes, Russians remove their outer footwear, which could be muddy or wet from the harsh climate, and don tapochki, in order to protect […]
ref: 2007, Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Karen Evans-Romaine, Helena Goscilo, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 607:
text: Your introduction to this homely world will be a pair of tapochki — the slippers which Russians wear indoors to avoid tramping in mud — followed by a cup of tea or a shot of vodka.
ref: 2009, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Moscow, Penguin, →ISBN, page 334:
text: If you’ve played any of these, Night Witches will fit like a pair of comfortable old tapochki.
ref: 2015, Jason Morningstar, Night Witches, Bully Pulpit Games, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Russian house slippers.
zygopleural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From zygo- + pleural.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having bilateral symmetry
Related terms: dipleural
tetrapleural
zygopleura
zygopleurid
alarmins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alarmin
calumenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium-binding protein localized in the endoplasmic reticulum
elutriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elutriate
glycophosphoinositol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycophosphoinositols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glycophosphatidylinositol.
hyperlactatemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + lactatemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An increased level of lactate in the blood
Related terms: hyperlactatemic
lactatemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lactate + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The (normal) presence of lactate in the blood.
Derived terms: hyperlactatemia
hypolactatemia
manumycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manumycins
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of antibiotics that exhibit antitumor activity via the inhibition of farnesyltransferase
mercaptopropyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercaptopropyls
Etymology: From mercapto- + propyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical formally derived from a propyl radical by replacing a hydrogen atom with a thiol group
micrographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of micrograph
preinjury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-injury
Etymology: From pre- + injury.
Senses: glosses: prior to an injury
pseudohypoxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + hypoxia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the symptoms of hypoxia are caused by metabolic complications, such as those associated with diabetes
Related terms: pseudohypoxemia
pseudohypoxic
tetraphenylphosphonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraphenylphosphoniums
Etymology: From tetra- + phenyl + phosphonium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent cation formally derived from phosphonium by replacing each hydrogen atom with a phenyl group.
PB&Js
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PB&J
JWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JW
Wahhabize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Wahhabizes
form: Wahhabizing
form: Wahhabized
form: Wahhabized
Etymology: From Wahhabi + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Wahhabi.
Wahhabization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Wahhabi + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Process of making Wahhabi
manumea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manumeas
Etymology: From Samoan.
Senses: examples: text: Stirnemann saw her first manumea when she was working on conserving another local bird, the mao.
ref: 2018 April 9, Jeremy Hance, The Guardian:
glosses: The tooth-billed pigeon.
without a hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: So far Mr. Martindale's journey had been without a hitch
ref: 1908, Herbert Strang, Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo:
text: Lima beans blend into recipes without a hitch.
ref: 2025 February 3, Andrew Gray, “7 Tasty Green Peas Substitutes: Explore New Flavors”, in CooksCrafter:
glosses: Of an event or process, without any problems.
examples: text: The truck he'd bought was without a hitch.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see without, hitch.
long story
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A situation that is too complicated or extensive to talk about.
glosses: A situation that is too embarrassing to talk about.
Related terms: long story short
Malayan night heron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malayan night herons
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized heron, Gorsachius melanolophus, distributed in southern and eastern Asia, and breeding in India, Taiwan, China, and the Philippines.
Synonyms: sense: Gorsachius melanolophus
word: Malaysian night heron
ethnic studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An interdisciplinary academic discipline that involves the study of the culture of one or more ethnic groups.
Africology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Africa + -o- + -logy.
Senses: qualifier: humanities
glosses: An interdisciplinary academic discipline that studies the history and culture of African people around the world.
Synonyms: Black studies
ethnise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ethnises
form: ethnising
form: ethnised
form: ethnised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ethnize.
autotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autotropic
form: most autotropic
Etymology: From auto- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: Growing in a straight line.
aspidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aspidate
form: most aspidate
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ασπίδα (aspída, “shield”).
Senses: glosses: Shield-shaped; having the form of a flat plate.
asynartetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˌsɪnɑːˈtɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more asynartetic
form: most asynartetic
Etymology: From a- + synartetic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Having or containing two different types of metre
delexically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From delexical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a delexical manner.
Britpopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Britpoppers
Etymology: From Britpop + -er.
Senses: glosses: A Britpop musician.
Britpoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Britpopper
Janowitzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Janowitzian
form: most Janowitzian
Etymology: From Janowitz + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Morris Janowitz (1919–1988), American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism.
Carverian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Carverian
form: most Carverian
Etymology: From Carver + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Raymond Carver (1938–1988), American writer of short stories and poems.
ghost orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost orchids
Senses: glosses: An American ghost orchid (Dendrophylax lindenii).
glosses: An Eurasian ghost orchid (Epipogium aphyllum).
ghost orchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost orchid
delopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delope
gofio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish gofio, from Guanche [Term?].
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: tsamba
glosses: Flour made from roasted grains or other starchy plants, a staple in the Canary Islands.
Arabic studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: humanities
glosses: An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Arabic language, Arabic linguistics, and Arabic sociolinguistics.
Chinese studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: humanities
glosses: An academic discipline that includes the study of literature written in the Chinese language, Chinese linguistics, and Chinese sociolinguistics.
Synonyms: sinology
Japanese studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese + studies.
Senses: synonyms: word: Japanology
qualifier: humanities
glosses: An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Japanese language, Japanese linguistics, and Japanese sociolinguistics.
Korean studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: Koreanology
word: Koreanistics
qualifier: humanities
glosses: An academic discipline that includes the study of literature written in the Korean language, Korean linguistics, and Korean sociolinguistics.
Siegel zeros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Siegel zero
smaragdes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smaragde
mixible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mixible
form: most mixible
Etymology: From mix + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of miscible.
paynimry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of paganry.
paganries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paganry
humourful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humourful
form: most humourful
Etymology: From humour + -ful.
Senses: glosses: humorous; comical
humorful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humorful
form: most humorful
Etymology: From humor + -ful.
Senses: glosses: humorous; comical
YAGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YAG
electroneuromyography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + neuromyography.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A method for diagnostic assessment of the peripheral neuromuscular system, technically consisting of combined use of electromyography and electroneuronography.
Synonyms: ENMG
electromyoneurography
Related terms: electroneuromyograph
electroneuromyographical
electromyoneurography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: electroneuromyography
electroneuronography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A non-invasive neurological test used to examine the integrity and conductivity of a peripheral nerve. It consists of a brief electrical stimulation of the nerve at one point underneath the skin, while recording the electrical activity (compound action potentials) at another point of the nerve's trajectory in the body.
Synonyms: electroneurography
ENoG
electromyoneurographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to electromyoneurography.
electroneuronographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to electroneuronography.
Derived terms: electroneuronographically
electroneuronographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electroneuronographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, electroneuronography.
electroneuronogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroneuronograms
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic image produced by electroneuronography.
electroneuronograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroneuronogram
Israelify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Israelifies
form: Israelifying
form: Israelified
form: Israelified
Etymology: From Israel + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make Israeli.
Derived terms: Israelification
Israelifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Israelify
Israelifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Israelify
Israelified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Israelify
Israelification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Israelifications
Etymology: From Israel + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The process of Israelifying.
extradiegetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extradiegetic
form: most extradiegetic
Etymology: From extra- + diegetic.
Senses: examples: text: This voice-over functions very differently from the extradiegetic narrator of the radio soap opera however, who tended to impose ideological coherence on the text, as well as serve as spokesman for the products being sold.
ref: 2011, Harry M. Benshoff, Dark Shadows, Wayne State University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 38:
text: However, in this sequence Colleen's actions alone do not make her horrific. Rather, the extradiegetic music condemns her.
ref: 2011, Alison Peirse, “Horrible Women: Abjection, Gender and Ageing in Nip/Tuck”, in Roz Kaveney, Jennifer Stoy, editors, Nip/Tuck: Television That Gets Under Your Skin, I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Instead, an extradiegetic narrator renders detached testimony of the hero's traumatic story in the Thatcher era.
ref: 2011, José M. Yebra, “A Terrible Beauty: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Trauma of Gayness in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty”, in Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau, editors, Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 183:
synonyms: Doylist
out-of-universe
antonyms: intradiegetic
Watsonian
in-universe
glosses: External to the narrative.
intradiegetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intradiegetic
form: most intradiegetic
Etymology: From intra- + diegetic.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most famous examples of an intradiegetic narrator is Scherezade, the narrator of the tales in Arabian Nights (1954), who does belong in the general narrative frame despite that not involving her own but other people's stories.
ref: 2010, Nina Nørgaard, Beatrix Busse, & Rocío Montoro, Key Terms in Stylistics, Continuum, published 2010, →ISBN, page 125:
text: Intradiegetic music continues to be used to very stirring effect throughout the film, especially a solo performance of the sixties folk hymn “Five Hundred Miles” sung by Croxen's daughter, […]
ref: 2011, Thomas Waugh, The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film, University of Minnesota Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 169:
text: One well-known example of an intradiegetic narrator is Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, who recounts his African adventures to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary.
ref: 2014, Susanne Klinger, Translation and Linguistic Hybridity: Constructing World-View, Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN:
synonyms: diegetic
in-universe
Watsonian
antonyms: extradiegetic
out-of-universe
Doylist
glosses: Part of the narrative.
midiron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midirons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mid-iron.
Matheus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Matheuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and Portuguese Matheus.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Nathans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nathan
Lashawndra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name of African-American usage.
Rafa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rafas
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the female given name Raphaela, variant of Raffa.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given name Raphael, variant of Rafe.
healthie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlθi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈheld̪i/
rhymes: -ɛlθi
homophone: healthy
Forms: form: healthies
Etymology: From health + -ie, after the pattern of selfie.
Senses: examples: text: Healthies are about showboating your exercise credentials to inspire others.
ref: 2013, "50 Coolest Things in Health", Women's Health, November/December 2013, page 95
text: But she understands that sometimes healthies can be misunderstood.
ref: 2014, Karen Villarreal, "Because Selfies", Panorama Magazine (University of Texas–Pan American), Spring 2014, page 26
text: But the benefits of ‘healthies’ aren’t always positive, with many experts warning these kind of images increase our self-obsession and need for external validation, potentially creating greater body image problems within society.
ref: 2014 April, Jo Ebsworth, “Healthy selfies”, in Health & Fitness, UK, page 10:
glosses: A selfie taken during a workout session, typically to show one's commitment to health and fitness.
healthies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of healthie
fitspiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of fit + inspiration.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, fitspiration operates under such mantras as "strong is the new skinny" and "fit not thin". Its focus on images of athletic women have led some to hail it as a positive step, and it has now been transposed offline, with the model Daisy Lowe fronting a newspaper campaign.
ref: 2013 August 6, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, “Our obesity crisis won't be solved by 'fitspiration'”, in The Guardian:
text: The craze on Instagram and Tumblr within the last year has been for blogs and accounts devoted to ‘fitspo’ or ‘fitspiration’.
ref: 2013 October 14, Harriet Williamson, “Beware of the dangerous fetishising of fitness on social media”, in The Telegraph:
text: This situation is particularly clear within certain facets of fitness culture, which employ “fitspiration” slogans to berate those considered unfit or unhealthy, asking “What is your excuse?” or declaring “Every excuse is a decision to fail.”
ref: 2015, Lianne McTavish, Feminist Figure Girl: Look Hot While You Fight the Patriarchy, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Photographs or other material intended to provide motivation to exercise and be physically fit.
Synonyms: fitspo
Coordinate terms: thinspiration
Derived terms: fitspo
fitspo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fit + -spo.
Senses: examples: text: It's packed with get-off-your-butt fitspo from the author's journey from 1-miler to marathoner.
ref: 2013, book review from Elle, quoted in Alexandra Heminsley, Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run, Scribner (2013), unnumbered page
text: Both thinspo and fitspo sites do one thing very well: make people feel bad about themselves.
ref: 2013, Jennifer J. Thomas, Jenni Schaefer, Almost Anorexic: Is My (or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem?, Hazelden, →ISBN, page 137:
text: The idea that ‘fitspo’ images have anything to do with health or fitness is entirely spurious and the use of my picture is proof of this.
ref: 2013 October 14, Harriet Williamson, “Beware of the dangerous fetishising of fitness on social media”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: Clipping of fitspiration.
Synonyms: fitspiration
Related terms: thinspo
one-time pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-time pad
skifield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skifields
Etymology: From ski + field.
Senses: glosses: An area of snow used for skiing.
aeromonad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeromonads
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the genus Aeromonas.
aeromonads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeromonad
allohexaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + hexaploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having six complete sets of chromosomes derived from different species
allohexaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allohexaploids
Etymology: From allo- + hexaploid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Such an organism
Related terms: allopolyploid
allohexaploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allohexaploid
biliopancreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bilio- + pancreatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the bile duct and the pancreas
Derived terms: biliopancreatic diversion
hepatobiliopancreatic
dandelion and burdock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: During the summer holidays I wait around for him to arrive so that I can get at the dandelion and burdock before my brothers do.
ref: 2005, Nigel Slater, Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: We had fizzy dandelion and burdock, because it was pop man day. Dandelion and burdock is like shandy, only nicer.
ref: 2006, Zoompad, Tip, Trafford Publishing →ISBN, page 16
text: Dandelion and burdock is for many people a taste of childhood. I remember becoming a fan one summer and refusing to drink anything else.
ref: 2011, Andy Hamilton, Booze for Free, Random House, →ISBN:
text: "Dandelion and burdock! A local delicacy, I believe. Regrettably, no alcohol." She brought cups from the table in the corner and they tried it.
ref: 2012, Wendy Robertson, A Thirsting Land, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A drink traditionally flavoured with dandelion root and burdock root, sometimes fermented.
Related terms: root beer
cholangiodrainage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cholangio- + drainage.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: drainage of the bile duct
hindcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: testing by use of hindcasts
hypofilamentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + filamentous.
Senses: glosses: Less filamentous than normal
immunocompromising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + compromising.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That compromises (impairs) an immune system
Related terms: immunocompromised
immunocompromising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From immuno- + compromising.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immunocompromise
intestinotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intestinotrophic
form: most intestinotrophic
Etymology: From intestine + -o- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: That stimulates or regulates growth of intestinal tissue
intracolonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + colonic.
Senses: glosses: Within the colon
isopoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopolls
Etymology: From iso- + clipping of pollen.
Senses: examples: text: Isopoll maps can be reinterpreted to show the migration of a particular genus or ecotone through time by isochrones (equal time lines).
ref: 2013, Raymond S. Bradley, Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, page 420:
topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: A line on a map showing places having the same amounts of a particular pollen.
FRBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FRB
fast radio burst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fast radio bursts
Senses: examples: text: This would confirm a cosmological origin of the fast radio burst, although this was disputed because the afterglow could also be caused by conventional AGN activity.
ref: 2016, Günter Sigl, Astroparticle Physics, Springer, →ISBN, page 571:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A tight band of radio-frequency waves that lasts only a millisecond, which packs the energy of millions of years of Solar output.
glosses: An instance of one of the phenomena which generate such a burst.
glosses: An object from which the phenomenon occurs.
Coordinate terms: english: gamma ray burst
translation: gamma ray burst
word: GRB
Derived terms: word: FRB
word: fast radio burster
fast radio bursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fast radio burst
blitzar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blitzars
Etymology: Blend of blitz + star. Proposed in 2013 by Heino Falcke and Luciano Rezzolla. By surface analysis, blitz + -ar.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A phenomenon that emits a fast radio burst.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The object type that generates the phenomenon which emits the burst.
Hypernyms: alt: FRB
word: fast radio burst
Related terms: english: blazing star (blazing quasi-star)
translation: blazing star (blazing quasi-star)
word: blazar
english: collapsed star
translation: collapsed star
word: collapsar
english: magnetic star
translation: magnetic star
word: magnetar
english: pulsing star
translation: pulsing star
word: pulsar
english: quasi-star
translation: quasi-star
word: quasar
word: Blitzer
word: blitzer
blitzars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blitzar
heresiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heresiac
form: most heresiac
Etymology: From Medieval Latin haeresiacus (“heretical”).
Senses: glosses: heretical
heresiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heresiacs
Etymology: From Medieval Latin haeresiacus (“heretical”).
Senses: glosses: heretic
heresiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heresiac
sweet lemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet lemons
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants that produce fruit resembling lemon or lime, but less acidic than lemon.
glosses: Any of several plants that produce fruit resembling lemon or lime, but less acidic than lemon.
A plant of the species Citrus medica (syn. Citrus limetta) or its fruit.
Synonyms: sense: Citrus limetta
word: sweet lime
sense: Citrus limetta
word: limetta
sense: Citrus limetta
word: bitter orange
Vilks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Since the publication of the cartoons, Vilks had been living under round-the-clock police guard following threats against his life.
ref: 2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
midirons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midiron
imageabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imageability
Lojbanistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Lojban + -i- + -stan.
Senses: examples: text: “Lojbanistan” is both an imaginary country where Lojban is the native language, and a term for the actual community of Lojbanspeakers, scattered over the world.
ref: 1997, John Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language:
glosses: An imaginary nation where Lojban is the native language.
examples: text: “Lojbanistan” is both an imaginary country where Lojban is the native language, and a term for the actual community of Lojbanspeakers, scattered over the world.
ref: 1997, John Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language:
glosses: The entire community of Lojbanists (Lojban users)