cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Penobscot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Penobscot Pawanobskewi.
Senses: glosses: An extinct Abenaki (Algonquian) language, spoken in parts of the northeastern United States and in Quebec, related to Western Abenaki.
glosses: A town in Hancock County, Maine, United States.
Synonyms: Eastern Abenaki
Eastern Abnaki
Derived terms: Penobscot County
penobsquisite
Eastern Abenaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Abenaki (Algonquian) language, also called Penobscot, spoken in parts of the northeastern United States and in Quebec, related to Western Abenaki.
Synonyms: Eastern Abnaki
Penobscot
Western Abenaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Abenaki language (an Algonquian) language), originally spoken in the northeastern United States; now spoken in Quebec.
dry needling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of acupuncture used to relieve pain in the muscles
bacillosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bacillo- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: infection with bacilli
Derived terms: actinobacillosis
necrobacillosis
bacilysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An antibiotic produced by Bacillus subtilis
Bungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bʌnˈɡiː/
Forms: form: Bungi
form: Bungis
form: Bungay
form: Bungee
form: Bungie
form: Bungy
Etymology: 1776 sense of people, 1951 language. From Algonquian, compare Cree ᐸᐦᑭ (pahki, “part, thing, a little”), Ojibwe bangii (“part, thing, a little”)/ᐸᓐᑶ.
Senses: glosses: A member of an Ojibwe people of central North America, the Manitoba Saulteaux.
Bungi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bʌnˈɡiː/
Forms: form: Bungay
form: Bungee
form: Bungie
form: Bungy
Etymology: 1776 sense of people, 1951 language. From Algonquian, compare Cree ᐸᐦᑭ (pahki, “part, thing, a little”), Ojibwe bangii (“part, thing, a little”)/ᐸᓐᑶ.
Senses: glosses: A creole language formerly spoken in the Red River settlement of Manitoba.
Bungee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bungee
form: Bungees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bungi.
handwrought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hand + wrought.
Senses: examples: text: handwrought iron nails
glosses: Wrought by hand.
Synonyms: handcrafted
handmade
handworked
nonactinide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonactinides
Etymology: From non- + actinide.
Senses: glosses: Any element that is not an actinide.
nonactinides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonactinide
nontransuranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + transuranic.
Senses: glosses: Not transuranic.
regd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of registered.
womanhunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: womanhunts
Etymology: From woman + hunt, after manhunt.
Senses: examples: text: Insane, this womanhunt in broad daylight, in a busy city.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 50:
glosses: A manhunt in search of a particular woman.
Related terms: womanhunting
womanhunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womanhunt
withdrawingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more withdrawingly
form: most withdrawingly
Etymology: From withdrawing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a withdrawing manner; with shyness or reserve.
unclocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + clocked.
Senses: examples: text: Any information stored in an unclocked bistable is vulnerable to spurious events such as glitches[…]
ref: 2008, Hubert Kaeslin, Digital integrated circuit design, page 756:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Not measured or regulated by a clock; asynchronous.
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: Not recognized as transgender or a drag performer; passing.
yellowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellowing
takeover bids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of takeover bid
nontakeover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + takeover.
Senses: examples: nontakeover discretionary investment in the 1980s
inefficient nontakeover corporate law
glosses: Not being or relating to a takeover.
nonfinanceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + financeable.
Senses: glosses: Not financeable.
whisperest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: whisper + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of whisper
ziram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zinc dithiocarbamate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A zinc salt C₆H₁₂N₂S₄Zn used as a fungicide.
decretorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more decretorily
form: most decretorily
Etymology: From decretory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a decretory or definitive manner; definitively or by decree.
hypercriticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypercriticizes
form: hypercriticizing
form: hypercriticized
form: hypercriticized
Etymology: From hyper- + criticize.
Senses: glosses: To criticize excessively severely.
Related terms: word: hypercritical
word: hypercriticism
hypercriticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hypercriticize
hypercriticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hypercriticize
hypercriticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hypercriticize
toyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toyish
form: most toyish
Etymology: From toy + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: A toyish wanton, when he comes to die, then he looks in his right hand; and what finds he there? Nothing but a lie.
ref: 1822, John Lightfoot, John Rogers Pitman, The Whole Works of the Rev. John Lightfoot, page 308:
glosses: Sportive; trifling; wanton.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a toy.
Related terms: toyishly
toyishness
centiloquies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centiloquy
centiloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centiloquies
Etymology: From Latin centum (“hundred”) + -loquy.
Senses: examples: text: Ptolemæus in his Centiloquy, Hermes, or whosoever else the author of that Tract, attributes all these symptoms, which are in melancholy men, to celestial influences
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: A work divided into a hundred parts.
antichronical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antichronical
form: most antichronical
Etymology: From anti- + chronical.
Senses: glosses: in the incorrect time period.
Synonyms: anachronistic
scratchbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratchbrushes
form: scratch-brush
form: scratch brush
Etymology: From scratch + brush.
Senses: examples: text: If he decide, upon dismounting, that the tyre is punctured, and not merely short of inflation, the car should be jacked up so as to permit free movement of the wheel. The tyre should then be cleaned, the best article for the purpose being a brush with wire bristles; the type is known as a 'jeweller's scratchbrush.
ref: 1902, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Motors and Motor-Driving, Chapter 11:
glosses: A sturdy wire brush used for cleaning iron, silver and other metals.
scratchbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scratchbrush
overhall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhalls
form: overhalling
form: overhalled
form: overhalled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of overhaul.
overhalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overhall
overhalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhall
overhalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhall
mustachoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mustacho + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moustachioed.
maid-servants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maid-servant
reconvention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconventions
Etymology: From re- + convention.
Senses: topics: law
qualifier: civil law
glosses: An action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge
Synonyms: crossdemand
Related terms: reconvene
reconventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconvention
clusterbomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clusterbombs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cluster bomb.
clusterbombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clusterbomb
clusterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clusterable
form: most clusterable
Etymology: From cluster + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of forming, or tending to form, clusters.
Derived terms: clusterability
nonclusterable
unclusterable
bizatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bizatches
form: biz-atch
Etymology: From bitch + -iz-.
Senses: examples: text: “The bizatch. At least my honeypot knows who's boss.” Smiling sweetly, Honeypot took the pitcher, topped off his beer.
ref: 2010, Mary Hughes, Biting Me Softly, page 63:
glosses: Alternative form of bitch.
bizatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bizatch
outbabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbabbles
form: outbabbling
form: outbabbled
form: outbabbled
Etymology: From out- + babble.
Senses: glosses: To utter foolishly or excessively.
examples: text: The rest of this chapter he sacrifices to the echo of his conscience , out-babbling creeds and aves
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To surpass in babbling.
outbabbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbabble
outbabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbabble
outbabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbabble
inextension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + extension.
Senses: glosses: Lack of extension; unextended state.
disembosom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disembosoms
form: disembosoming
form: disembosomed
form: disembosomed
Etymology: From dis- + embosom.
Senses: examples: text: Who , disembosom'd from the Father, bows
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
glosses: To separate from the bosom.
glosses: To disburden oneself of a secret.
disembosomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disembosom
disembosoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disembosom
disembosoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disembosom
biznatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biznatches
Senses: examples: text: All I need to calm me is a good scream and cry to force out my demon and sob myself to sleep Healthy healthy bitty iddy biznatch Fuck why do we learn to systemize each other...
ref: 2005, Brett Alan Coker, Sighs, tears, & darkness, page 110:
text: [She's] just a crazy old biznatch who ran over my brother.
ref: 2015, Peter Gould, “Mijo” (0:52 from the start), in Better Call Saul, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Lars Lindholm (Steven Levine):
glosses: Alternative form of bitch.
biznatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biznatch
ring roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ring road
boniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒnɪfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: more boniform
form: most boniform
Etymology: From Latin bonus (“good”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Happiness is not barely to be placed in the Intellect; but her proper Seat must be called the Boniform Faculty of the Soul […]
ref: 1667, Henry More, Enchiridion Ethicum:
glosses: Naturally good-moraled.
larviform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more larviform
form: most larviform
Etymology: From larva + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the shape or structure of a larva
Genevanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Genevan + -ism, from Geneva, where Calvin resided.
Senses: glosses: Calvinism.
debauchness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From debauch + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being debauched.
coelospermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek hollow + seed
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.
Related terms: orthospermous
ephialtes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ephialtes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἐφιάλτης (Ephiáltēs).
Senses: examples: text: Those that were asleep it [a spirit] terrified with horrible visions; those that were waking it would strike, pull, or press, lying heavy upon them like an Ephialtes: so that there were perpetuall complaints every morning of their last nights rest through the whole Town.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 112
glosses: an incubus; a nightmare
commemorabilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Morphologically, borrowed from Latin commemorābilia, the nominative neuter plural of Latin commemorābilis; semantically, a blend of commemorate + memorabilia.
Senses: examples: text: By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country.
ref: 1997 September 7, “Fairy-Tale Princess”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
glosses: Items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.
copicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copicides
Etymology: From cop + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: Carrie told a police negotiator she didn't have the nerve to shoot herself. Later, she'd tell psychiatrist Gwen Levitt she was hoping to commit what the police call "copicide," in which a suicidal person gets the police to shoot him or her.
ref: 1999, E. J. Montini, "Prosecuting Mentally Ill Is Insane", The Arizona Republic, 20 June 1999 (reprinted in the Observer-Reporter, 4 July 1999)
glosses: A method of suicide in which a person deliberately behaves in a threatening manner to provoke a police officer into shooting him or her.
examples: text: More weird media excretion: Time Warner homey Ice-T can't say enough nice things about the Man, his employer. Time Warner executives were so supportive during his recent difficulties, he says. They were exceptionally supportive of his totally private and personal decision to recall his ode to copicide from record stores.
ref: 1992 October, “It's getting late”, in Spy:
glosses: The act of killing a police officer.
Synonyms: sense: suicide by provoking a police officer to shoot
word: death by cop
sense: suicide by provoking a police officer to shoot
word: suicide by cop
copicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copicide
cowpool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowpools
Etymology: From cow + pool (“small body of water”).
Senses: examples: text: Dried snot on the marijuana pipe tossed into the cowpool built with government subsidy on a Vermont commune.
ref: 1986, Hortense Calisher, The Bobby-Soxer, Doubleday, published 1986, →ISBN, page 278:
glosses: A pond used by cows.
cowpool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowpools
Etymology: From cow + pool (“to put together”), by analogy with carpool.
Senses: examples: text: Others have created so-called "cowpools" to divvy up an entire animal and dole out cuts of meat.
ref: 2008 August 10, Peter Andrey Smith, “The ABCs of the New CSAs”, in Gourmet:
glosses: A group that engages in cowpooling.
cowpool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cowpools
form: cowpooling
form: cowpooled
form: cowpooled
Etymology: From cow + pool (“to put together”), by analogy with carpool.
Senses: examples: text: Brandee Callahan, 32, has lived in Huntersville for about two years and has ordered from GO Local for a year. She cowpools about every three months and supplements with smaller orders.
ref: 2011 June 22, Lukas Johnson, “Company connects local food movement”, in Lake Norman News:
glosses: To jointly purchase all or part of a butchered cow with one or more additional parties and split the meat.
cowpooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cowpool
cowpooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cow + pooling, by analogy with carpooling.
Senses: examples: text: Cowpooling, however, is far more involved than simply grabbing a sirloin from the grocery freezer.
ref: 2008 May 21, Wency Leung, “You take the ribs, I'll take the rump”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: The practice of two or more parties jointly purchasing all or part of a butchered cow and dividing the meat between them.
cowpooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cow + pooling, by analogy with carpooling.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cowpool
cowpools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowpool
cowpools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cowpool
canonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canonships
Etymology: From canon + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of canon.
canonships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canonship
xenohormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenohormones
Etymology: From xeno- + hormone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of natural and artificial compounds showing hormone-like properties.
xenohormones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenohormone
xenoestrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenoestrogens
Etymology: From xeno- + estrogen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A xenohormone that acts as an estrogen.
Hyponyms: phytoestrogen
Derived terms: xenoestrogenic
xenoestrogenicity
xenoandrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenoandrogens
Etymology: From xeno- + androgen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A xenohormone that imitates androgen.
Derived terms: xenoandrogenic
xenoandrogenicity
xenoandrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenoandrogen
xenoestrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenoestrogen
mycoestrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycoestrogens
Etymology: From myco- + estrogen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An estrogen produced by fungi.
mycoestrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycoestrogen
deoxynivalenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxynivalenols
Etymology: By surface analysis, deoxy- + -nival- + -enol
Senses: glosses: vomitoxin
deoxynivalenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxynivalenol
vomitoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɒmɪˈtɒksɪn/
ipa: /ˌvɑmɪˈtɑksɪn/
rhymes: -ɒksɪn
Forms: form: vomitoxins
Etymology: Blend of vomit + toxin, named for the emesis it causes in livestock which eat contaminated grain.
Senses: glosses: A mycotoxin, a type B trichothecene that occurs predominantly in grains.
Synonyms: deoxynivalenol
vomitoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vomitoxin
man orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man orchids
Senses: glosses: Any of several orchids whose flowers are said to resemble a human figure, as those of species Orchis anthropophora and certain other species formerly of the genus Aceras.
cloud street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /klaʊd stɹiːt/
Forms: form: cloud streets
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Long rolls of counterrotating air that are oriented approximately parallel to the ground in the planetary boundary layer.
cloud streets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloud street
amblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ambling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With an ambling walk.
courtbred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From court + bred.
Senses: glosses: Bred or educated at a royal court
glosses: polite; courtly.
emphaticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emphatical + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: emphaticness
glosses: The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
supportance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From support + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Give some supportance to the bending twigs
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 7]:
glosses: support
excuseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excuseless
form: most excuseless
Etymology: From excuse + -less.
Senses: examples: text: What of the weakling, the ignorant criminal? Not who, excuseless,
Breaking my law braved death, knowing his deed and its due —
Nay, but the feeble and foolish, the poor transgressor, of purpose
ref: 1883, Robert Browning, Ixion:
text: To accept these and kindred social sicknesses as fatalities is as excuseless as to accept tuberculosis or hookworm as permanent and unavoidable ills.
ref: 1913, John Graham Brooks, “Chapter 16”, in American Syndicalism:
text: 1922, Judson Eber Conant, The Church The Schools and Evolution /The Logic of Evolution is Destructive
The Bible makes man's fall deliberate and wilful, and his continued attitude of sinful enmity against God, in spite of all God's offered power to change it into love, one of excuseless lawlessness and rebellion.
glosses: Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology.
Derived terms: excuselessness
corybantiasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κορυβαντιασμός (korubantiasmós), from Κορύβας (Korúbas).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and lack of sleep.
fiendful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fiendful
form: most fiendful
Etymology: From fiend + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Fauſtus is gone, regard his helliſh fall, / Whoſe fiendful fortune may exhort the wiſe, / Onely to wonder at vnlawful things, […]
ref: 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [F3], recto:
glosses: Full of fiendish arts or spirit.
Derived terms: fiendfully
retroact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retroacts
form: retroacting
form: retroacted
form: retroacted
Etymology: From retro- + act.
Senses: examples: text: In their eyes the past was good or bad for itself, and the present good or bad for itself, and an evil past could no more shadow a virtuous present than a virtuous present could retroact to brighten or redeem an ugly past.
ref: 1884, Edward Bellamy, “Chapter 15”, in Miss Ludington's Sister:
glosses: To act retrospectively or in opposition
glosses: to be retrospective.
examples: text: Sec. 4. The effectivity of this Act shall retroact to January 1, 2001.
ref: 2001, Republic of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 9010:
topics: law
glosses: To apply (a law) retroactively to situations that predate the enactment of the law.
retroacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retroact
retroacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retroact
retroacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retroact
intervital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + vital.
Senses: examples: text: If Sleep and Death be truly one,
⁠And every spirit’s folded bloom
⁠Thro’ all its intervital gloom
In some long trance should slumber on; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: Between lives.
trispermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a trispermous capsule or fruit
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing three seeds.
semiacid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + acid.
Senses: examples: text: Their semiacid fastness was attributed to the fact that the application of the acid had, purposely , been continued for a shorter time than would have been the case had the preparation been subjected to the routine treatment employed for the distinction of the bacillus of tuberculosis.
ref: 1910 April 9, A. B. Clifford, “Are Acid Fast Bacteria Other Than the tubercle Bacillus Commonly Met in Clinical Laboratory Work?”, in International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics, page 741:
text: Consequently, in an acid or semiacid food there will be a more rapid inactivation of the organisms than in a low-acid product.
ref: 1951, Morris Boris Jacobs, The Chemistry and Technology of Food and Food Products, page 1874:
text: If phenols and polyphenols are to be removed, a semiacid anion exchanger is more appropriate.
ref: 2011, Katerina Stamatelatou, Paraskevi S. Blika, Ioanna Ntaikou, Gerasimos Lyberatos, “Integrated Management Methods fot he Treatment and/or Valorizsation of Olive Mill Wastes”, in Anna McElhatton, Paulo José do Amaral Sobral, editor, Novel Technologies in Food Science, page 73:
glosses: Slightly acid; semiacidic.
semiacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiacids
Etymology: From semi- + acid.
Senses: glosses: A weak acid that does not completely dissociate in solution.
reometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reometers
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of rheometer
reometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reometer
SEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: related: word: JAN
word: FEB
word: MAR
word: APR
word: MAY
word: JUN
word: JUL
word: AUG
word: OCT
word: NOV
word: DEC
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sep (“September”).
examples: text: Saito was with fellow WSWS reporter and SEP member Liz Cabrera when police agents began firing on the crowd.
ref: 2025 June 7, Jacob Crosse, “Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration raids”, in World Socialist Web Site, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Socialist Equality Party.
SEP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SEPs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of sensory evoked potential.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of special enrollment period.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of standard-essential patent.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Surrendered Enemy Personnel.
SEP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of solar energetic particles.
amphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmˈfɒɹɪk/
ipa: /æmˈfɔɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪk
Etymology: From Latin amphoricus (“of or related to an amphora”), from amphora + -icus (“-ic: forming adj.”). Equivalent to amphora + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to an amphora, either as a large vessel or a Roman unit of liquid measure.
examples: text: amphoric respiration or resonance
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Produced by or indicating a hollow cavity in the lungs, giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter.
Related terms: amphoricity
calvish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calvish
form: most calvish
Senses: examples: text: the vain bablings and long frivolous discourses of the Sophifters seduce thee with their Calvish understanding
ref: 1655, Jakob Böhme, Concerning the Election of Grace:
glosses: Like a calf; stupid.
scopulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scopulous
form: most scopulous
Etymology: From Latin scopulosus, from scopulus (“a rock”), from Ancient Greek σκόπελος (skópelos).
Senses: glosses: Full of rocks; rocky.
solar energetic particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar energetic particle
food bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food banks
form: foodbank
Senses: examples: text: Food banks are large warehouses or distribution centers that supply local storefronts known as food pantries, but also hand food directly to some individuals. They are a relatively recent feature of American life.
ref: 2020 April 8, Nicholas Kulish, “‘Never Seen Anything Like It’: Cars Line Up for Miles at Food Banks”, in New York Times:
text: Five Greater Anglia stations will become food bank collection points again until December 12, thanks to an initiative by ticket office clerk Michael King.
ref: 2022 November 16, “News in Brief: Help for food banks”, in RAIL, number 970, page 24:
glosses: A charitable non-profit organization that distributes mostly donated food to a wide variety of agencies to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger.
glosses: A stock of food stored or set aside for use in the event of an emergency or shortage.
Derived terms: food banking
Related terms: food closet
food pantry
food banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food bank
foodbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodbanks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of food bank.
foodbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodbank
Bungis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bungi
Bungay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bungay
form: Bungays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bungi.
Bungay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌŋɡi/
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM3389).
Bungie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bungie
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bungi.
Bungy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bungy
form: Bungies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bungi.
caninal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caninal
form: most caninal
Etymology: From canine + -al.
Senses: examples: text: caninal anger
glosses: canine
veteranize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: veteranizes
form: veteranizing
form: veteranized
form: veteranized
Etymology: From veteran + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make veteran.
examples: text: About this time we were much embarrassed by a general order of the War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize"
ref: 1875, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To reenlist for service as a soldier.
veteranized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of veteranize
veteranizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of veteranize
veteranizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of veteranize
rehibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: rehibitory action
text: rehibitory defect
topics: law
glosses: Of or relating to rehibition.
terrenity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹɛnɪti/
rhymes: -ɛnɪti
Etymology: From terrene + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: a dull and low terrenity
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: earthiness; worldliness
technicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technicists
Etymology: From technic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One skilled in technics or in the practical arts.
technicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technicist
florification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: florifications
Etymology: From Latin flos, floris (“flower”) + facere (“to make”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: florescence.
florifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of florification
mechanurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkænəd͡ʒi/
ipa: /məˈkænəɹd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)d͡ʒi
Etymology: From mechano- + -urgy
Senses: examples: text: Recourse must be had to some positive mechanical contrivance[…]Such a movement involves some of the finest problems in mechanurgy.
ref: 1883 May 5, "Chordal", “Extracts from Chordal's Letters”, in American Machinist, volume 6, number 18, page 3:
text: The character of the instruction given in the regular feldsher schools is indicated by the following curriculum, taken from official sources: Theology. / Russian language. / Latin. […] Surgery. / Desmurgy. / Mechanurgy. / Massage.[…]
ref: 1906 October 1, Reports of military observers attached to the armies in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War (part II), page 131:
text: We moderns in mechánurgy excel,
And crafts whereof Greek history doth not tell
ref: 1907, Edwin Sauter, Satires, page 14:
glosses: The branch of science that deals with moving machines.
naughtly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more naughtly
form: most naughtly
Senses: examples: text: Because my parents naughtly brought me up.
ref: c. 1658, Thomas Phaer, "Owen Glendour", The Mirror for Magistrates, reprinted in Shorter English Poems, Volume 1 of Cassell's library of English literature, Henry Morley (editor), 1876, page 180
glosses: naughtily; wrongly
reflourish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reflourishes
form: reflourishing
form: reflourished
form: reflourished
Etymology: From re- + flourish.
Senses: glosses: To flourish again.
reflourished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reflourish
reflourishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reflourish
reflourishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reflourish
melaphyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melaphyres
Etymology: French, from Ancient Greek, meaning "black porphyry".
Senses: glosses: Various dark-coloured volcanic igneous rocks rich in augite, similar to and in some definitions including basalt, principally of Paleozoic age
melaphyres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melaphyre
sepalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sepal + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having, or relating to, sepals.
Derived terms: antesepalous
asepalous
disepalous
episepalous
gamosepalous
monosepalous
oppositisepalous
polysepalous
synsepalous
tetrasepalous
trisepalous
diaphanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diaphanic
form: most diaphanic
Etymology: See diaphanous.
Senses: glosses: Allowing light to pass through; transparent; diaphanous.
suspectless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌspɛktləs/
Forms: form: more suspectless
form: most suspectless
Etymology: From suspect + -less.
Senses: examples: text: After some initial successes, agencies began to craft coordinated strategies for submitting and accepting unsolved cases. These strategies must include re-educating detectives, who were told for 25 years that suspectless cases would not be worked.
ref: 2001, Norah Rudin, Keith Inman, An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, Second Edition, page 161:
glosses: With no criminal suspects.
examples: text: the innocent princes were , suspectless of danger
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: Not suspecting; having no suspicion.
examples: text: Suspectless have I travell'd all the town thro', / And in this merchant's shape won much acquaintance
ref: c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Not suspected; not mistrusted.
greenth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːnθ/
rhymes: -iːnθ
Etymology: From green + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Dutch groente.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine a rambling, patchy house, […] the mellow darkness of its conical roof surmounted by a weather-cock making an agreeable object either amidst the gleams and greenth of summer or the low-hanging clouds and snowy branches of winter […]
ref: 1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 30, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: A large part of the forest growth on the northern slopes of Mt. Tamalpais is composed of it; and as it is an evergreen, it forms a mountain wall of delightful and refreshing greenth the year around.
ref: 1897, Mary Elizabeth Parsons, The Wild Flowers of California, page 38:
synonyms: greenness
verdure
verdancy
glosses: The state or quality of being green.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Green vegetation.
cynarctomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyno- + Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos) + -machy.
Senses: examples: text: And shall we turn our fangs and claws
Upon our own selves, without cause?
That some occult design doth lie
In bloody cynarctomachy,
Is plain enough to him that knows
How Saints lead brothers by the nose.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: bearbaiting with a dog
Related terms: tauromachy
beseemly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beseemly
form: most beseemly
Etymology: Compare seemly.
Senses: examples: text: In beseemly order sitten there.
ref: 1742, William Shenstone, The Schoolmistress:
text: To Connel's shop my SUSAN will I bring,
To fit her finger with the wedding-ring;
Procure the licence, and all else beside,
Fit and beseemly for my bonny bride
ref: 1805, Ewan Clark, The Rustic:
glosses: fit; suitable; becoming
Derived terms: unbeseemly
sepaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sepaloid
form: most sepaloid
Etymology: From sepal + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a sepal.
sepaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sepaloids
Etymology: From sepal + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The outer sepaloids are triangular scale-like, thick, greenish or variously reddish-colored, and fleshy.
ref: 1997, Beat Ernst Leuenberger, Maihuenia: Monograph of a Patagonian Genus of Cactaceae, page 22:
text: The sepaloids and petaloids range in color from green to lavender to magenta .
ref: 2012, Kerr-McGee Oil and Gas Onshore LP (KMG), Greater Natural Buttes Draft Environmental Impact Statement, pages 3-84:
glosses: A sepaloid structure in a flower.
bencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃɚ
Forms: form: benchers
Etymology: From bench + -er.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).
examples: text: There is Pump Court and Fountain Court, with their hydraulic apparatus, but one never heard of a bencher disporting in the fountain; and can’t but think how many a counsel learned in the law of old days might have benefited by the pump.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.
examples: text: ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers
ref: 1719, Elias Ashmole, The Antiquity of Berkshire:
glosses: An alderman of a corporation.
examples: text: Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter / giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the / Capitol.
ref: c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, lines 76–78:
glosses: A member of a court or council.
glosses: One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
Derived terms: benchership
Royal Bencher
enstate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enstates
form: enstating
form: enstated
form: enstated
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of instate.
enstated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enstate
enstates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enstate
enstating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enstate
dissocialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dissocializes
form: dissocializing
form: dissocialized
form: dissocialized
Etymology: From dis- + socialize.
Senses: glosses: To render unsocial.
dissocialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dissocialize
dissocializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dissocialize
dissocializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissocialize
brandle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ændəl
Forms: form: brandles
form: brandling
form: brandled
form: brandled
Etymology: French brandiller.
Senses: glosses: To shake; to (cause to) totter.
brandled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brandle
brandles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brandle
hoarstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoarstones
Senses: examples: text: The Hoarstone , 9ft . 5in , high 2. Leans Very much inward
ref: 1841, A. Beesley, The History of Banbury:
glosses: A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.
hoarstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoarstone
pseudomonocotyledonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + monocotyledonous.
Senses: examples: text: The live oak and the horse-chestnut are pseudomonocotyledonous.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two coalescent cotyledons.
furciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fə(ɹ)ˈsɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more furciferous
form: most furciferous
Etymology: From Latin furcifer (“yoke bearer, scoundrel”), from furca (“fork, yoke, fork-shaped instrument of punishment”) + ferre (“to bear”).
Senses: examples: text: furciferous knaves
ref: 1853, Thomas De Quincey, Autobiographical Sketches/Oxford:
text: furciferous practices
ref: 1823 April 1, The Monthly Magazine:
glosses: rascally; scandalous
pigeonries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeonry
pigeonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonries
Etymology: From pigeon + -ry.
Senses: glosses: A birdhouse for pigeons; a dovecote.
pitcherful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitcherfuls
form: pitchersful
Etymology: From pitcher + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.
ref: 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Milton”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 255:
glosses: The quantity that a pitcher can hold.
pitchersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitcherful
pitcherfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitcherful
Virgouleuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Virgouleuses
form: virguleus
Etymology: From French virgouleuse, from Virgoulée, variant form of Villegoureix, a village in the Limousin province of France. Compare vergaloo.
Senses: examples: text: Charles had stuffed his pockets with virguleus pears from the table and they ate these as they tramped through the streets which were running with the overflow of rain water from the open gutters.
ref: 1991, Lawrence Norfolk, Lemprière's Dictionary, Grove Press, published 1999, page 231:
glosses: A variety of winter pear.
Virgouleuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Virgouleuse
inexplosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexplosive
form: most inexplosive
Etymology: From in- + explosive.
Senses: synonyms: unexplosive
glosses: Not explosive.
morkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoɹkɪn/
ipa: [ˈmo̞ɹkɪn]
ipa: /ˈmɔːkɪn/
note: rhotic
ipa: /mɔːɹkɪn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /mɔːkɪn/
Forms: form: morkins
Etymology: Probably from mort + -kin (compare mortling); or from Old French mortekine, a variant of mortecine, from Medieval Latin morticinus. Compare also Swedish murken (“putrefied”), Icelandic morkinn (“putrid”).
Senses: examples: text: Could hee^([sic]) not sacrifice / Some sorry morkin that unbidden dies, / Or meagre heifer, or some rotten ewe, […]
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: An animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
morkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morkin