cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
multisiliquous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multisiliquous
form: most multisiliquous
Etymology: From multi- + siliquous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many pods or seed vessels.
matrimoiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matrimoieties
Etymology: From matri- + moiety.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A descent group coming from the mother's side.
patrimoiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patrimoieties
Etymology: From patri- + moiety.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A descent group coming from the father's side.
patrimoieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrimoiety
matrimoieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matrimoiety
Pintupi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪndəbi/
Forms: form: Pintupis
form: Pintupi
form: Pintubi
Senses: glosses: Any member of an Australian Aboriginal group whose homeland is in the area west of Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay in Western Australia.
Pintupi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪndəbi/
Forms: form: Pintubi
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in central Australia; part of the Western Desert language group.
Pintupis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pintupi
Lardil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaːdɪl/
Forms: form: Leerdil
Senses: glosses: A moribund Tangkic Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Related terms: Gayardild
Ayapaneco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A near-extinct Mixe-Zoque language of Mexico.
palusami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palusamis
Senses: glosses: A Polynesian dish consisting of coconut pudding wrapped in leaves
Mabire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A nearly extinct Chadic language spoken in Oulek village in Chad.
Tehuelche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mapudungun, meaning "fierce people".
Senses: glosses: A group of indigenous peoples of Patagonia and the southern pampas regions of Argentina and Chile.
Tehuelche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mapudungun, meaning "fierce people".
Senses: glosses: A nearly extinct Chonan language spoken in Patagonia.
Lengilu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A nearly extinct Kelabitic language.
allographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allograph
Sandawe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sandawi
Senses: glosses: A tonal language isolate of Tanzania.
claypans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claypan
taupo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taupos
form: taupou
Senses: glosses: In Samoan culture, a ceremonial virgin, the daughter of a village chief.
aumaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aumagas
Senses: glosses: A Samoan social class of untitled men, mostly young, who perform most of the heavy labour and have ceremonial responsibilities.
bushwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bush + work.
Senses: examples: text: Fencing, dam-making, horse-breaking, stock-riding, from making hay to building a shed, all bushwork came easy enough to us[…]
ref: 2009, Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, page 61:
glosses: Work carried out in the bushland.
Yolngu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒlŋu/
Forms: form: Yolngu
form: Yolŋu
form: Yolñu
form: Yuulngu
Etymology: From a word meaning "person" in the Yolngu lects.
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Yolngu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒlŋu/
Forms: form: Yolŋu
form: Yolñu
form: Yuulngu
Etymology: From a word meaning "person" in the Yolngu lects.
Senses: glosses: The Pama-Nyungan lects spoken by these people, when regarded as a single language or language group; the Murngic languages.
Kelabit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kelabits
form: Kelabit
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous tribe in the interior of Sarawak, Malaysia.
Kelabit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Malayo-Polynesian language.
Related terms: Kelabitic
Kelabits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kelabit
crinicultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin crinis (“hair”) + cultura.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the growth of hair, or hairstyles.
brettice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brettices
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brattice.
brettice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brettices
form: bretticing
form: bretticed
form: bretticed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brattice.
brettices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brettice
cosmopolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cosmopolitical
form: most cosmopolitical
Senses: glosses: Relating to cosmopolitics.
examples: text: Cosmopoliticall gouernment
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having the character of a cosmopolite.
recurvities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recurvity
recurvity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recurvities
Senses: glosses: recurvation
unsonsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsonsy
form: most unsonsy
form: unsoncy
form: unsonsie
Etymology: From un- + sonsy.
Senses: glosses: Not fortunate.
manaia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manaias
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori manaia.
Senses: glosses: A bird-headed mythological creature and symbol of protection in Māori mythology.
innominable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English innominable, from Latin innominabilis, from in- (“not”) + nominare (“to name”). Compare French innominable.
Senses: examples: text: Your fathers toforne you have cleped such lusty lyvenges after the flessh, “passions of desyre,” which are innominable tofore God and man both.
ref: c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love:
text: It is the measure of things, and their time (that is, their measure, as to space and time), and yet it is above, and prior to, time: it is full in needy things, and overflows in full things; it is unutterable, innominable: it is above understanding […]
ref: 1861, Isaak August Dorner, Patrick Fairbairn, History of the development of the doctrine of the person of Christ:
glosses: Not to be named.
tausi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog tausi, from Philippine Hokkien 豆豉 (tāu-sīⁿ). Doublet of douchi.
Senses: examples: text: Foods with high sodium content (not allowed or limited in high blood pressure): […] beans with added salt such as tausi, tahure, misu; […]
ref: 1979, Sugar News, volume 55, Manila, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43, column 2:
text: Other additions: salted duck eggs, tomatoes, tausi [salted black beans], and garlic
ref: 2012, Amy Besa, Romy Dorotan, “Chilled Lobster Kinilaw”, in Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Food That Was Always Ours), page 51, column 3:
text: At Fely J’s, the dilis or dried mini anchovies are crisp fried with a slight hint of tausi and served atop hot steaming jasmine rice.
ref: 2014 November, Claude Tayag, Mary Ann Quioc, “Dilis-cious rice”, in Linamnam: Eating One’s Way Around the Philippines, 2nd edition, Mandaluyong: Anvil Publishing, →ISBN, “Metro Manila” section, page 76:
text: 2 Tablespoons tausi salted black beans […] Once the onion softens, add vinegar, tahure and tausi.
ref: 2022 March 7–13, “Tochong Bangus”, in Mindanao Examiner, Mindanao, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2025, page 9, columns 3–4:
glosses: Salted black beans.
stannotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stannotypes
Etymology: From stanno- + type.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A tintype.
stannotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stannotype
forray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forrays
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of foray (“predatory excursion”).
forray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forrays
form: forraying
form: forrayed
form: forrayed
Senses: examples: text: For they that morn had forrayed all the land.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of foray.
forrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forray
bumbard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumbards
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bombard.
bumbards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumbard
surling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surlings
Etymology: From surly + -ing? Related to surly.
Senses: examples: text: And as for theſe ſowr ſurlings, they are to be commended to Sieur Gaulard
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: A sour, morose fellow.
surlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surling
perverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pə(ɹ)ˈvɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: perverters
Etymology: From pervert + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a perverter of the justice system
text: a child finds his own parents his perverters
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: a perverter of his law
ref: 1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church:
glosses: Someone or something that perverts.
Synonyms: corrupter
perverters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perverter
blandation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blandations
Etymology: Compare Latin blanditia, blandities, from blandus. See bland, blandishment.
Senses: glosses: flattery
blandations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blandation
rebracketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebracketings
form: re-bracketing
Etymology: From re- + bracketing.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: metanalysis
misdivision
resegmentation
glosses: The process by which a word originally derived from one source is broken down or bracketed into a different set of factors.
Related terms: folk etymology
libfix
reanalysis
surface analysis
rebracketings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebracketing
bellicous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bellicous
form: most bellicous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bellicose.
reobtainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reobtain + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be reobtained; obtainable again.
bullist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullists
Etymology: From French bulliste.
Senses: examples: text: […]the Bullists and Datances at Rome
ref: 1602, Simon Patericke (translator), Innocent Gentillet (original), A discourse upon the meanes of wel governing and maintaining in good peace, a kingdome, or other principalities:
glosses: One who writes or draws up papal bulls.
bullists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullist
malconformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malconformations
Etymology: From mal- + conformation.
Senses: glosses: Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
malconformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malconformation
agible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒɪbəl/
Forms: form: more agible
form: most agible
Etymology: Compare Latin agibilis, from Latin agere to move, do. See agent.
Senses: examples: text: In my first years my friends bestowed on me those learnings which were fit for a gentleman's ornament without directing them to an occupation; and when they were fit for agible things, they bestowed them and me on my Prince's service, in which I ran many courses of divers fortunes according to the condition of the wars, in which as I was most exercised , so was I most subject to accidents.
ref: 1825, Sir Anthony Sherley, The Three Brothers:
text: Their relation, then, is the same as that between "making" and "doing” or between the factibile and the agible.
ref: 1939 ·, Catholic University of America, Philosophical Studies - Issues 48-51, page 150:
text: In the Relations exposition of Cyrus's Persian empire's waning ability to mediate English political interests and economic pursuits, and in Anthony's strained formulations of what is now 'agible'' between England and Persia, we can find seeds of ideas about the new realities of England's international economic and political relations with the countries of the east.
ref: 2014, J. Grogan, The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622:
glosses: Possible to be done; practicable.
examples: text: The persons who are their agible subjects are the persons whose acts are in question—the persons whose acts are the objects of the mandate.
ref: 2016, Bhikhu Parekh, Bentham's Political Thought, page 138:
glosses: Involving or pertaining to actions.
priggism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priggisms
Etymology: From prig + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Earl Grey is an elegant man in his person; and his usual dress is tight and trim, bordering upon priggism.
ref: 1825, Robert Mudie, chapter 9, in Babylon the Great: A Dissection and Demonstration of Men and Things in the British Capital, volume I, London: Charles Knight, page 175:
text: 1903, Julia Frankau (as Frank Danby), Pigs in Clover, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Chapter 11, p. 211,
He was even satisfied, secretly gratified at the correctness of demeanour of his proposed bride, the reluctance of her maidenhood, it all fitted in with his priggism […]
text: Snobbism, […] like priggism, to which it is closely akin, really indicates a lack of mental perspective. Unlike priggism, however, which seldom obtains any substantial advantage for those suffering from it, certain forms of snobbery can be turned to profitable account […]
ref: 1922, Ralph Nevill, chapter 1, in Yesterday and To-day, London: Methuen, page 18:
text: This writing will work as the artist imagines it, exhibiting the eros that we mistakenly attache to Clinton in our involuntary defense of him, as if puritanical fundamentalism and whiggish priggism weren’t essentially replicated by him in his policies, where it really counts […]
ref: 2001, Frederick C. Moten, B. Jenkins, “The Return of the Oppressed”, in Lauren Berlant, Lisa Duggan, editors, Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest, New York University Press, page 147:
glosses: The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig; exaggerated propriety, fussiness about trivialities.
examples: 1743, Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great (published as Miscellanies, Volume 3), London: A. Millar, 2nd edition, Book 4, Chapter 3, p. 309,
Now, Gentlemen, when we are no longer Prigs, we shall no longer have these Fears or these Desires. What remains, therefore, for us, but to resolve bravely to lay aside our Priggism, our Roguery, in plainer Words, and preserve our Liberty, or to give up the latter in the Preservation and Preference of the former.
glosses: Roguery; thievery.
Synonyms: sense: quality or state of being priggish
word: priggery
sense: quality or state of being priggish
word: priggishness
demonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonships
Etymology: From demon + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: first they commenced heroes who were as Probationers to a demonship ; then after a suitable time demons
ref: a. 1639, Joseph Mede, The Apostasy of Latter Times:
glosses: The state of a demon.
demonships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonship
pedanticly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pedanticly
form: most pedanticly
Etymology: From pedantic + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pedantically.
strumstrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strumstrums
form: strum-strum
form: strum strum
Etymology: Probably from strum; compare also humstrum.
Senses: examples: text: […] in the Churches belonging to Indian Towns they have all sorts of Vizards, and strange antick Dresses both for Men and Women, and abundance of Musical Hautboys and Strumstrums. The Strumstrum is made somewhat like a Cittern; most of those that the Indians use are made of a large Goad cut in the midst, and a thin Board laid over the hollow, and which is fastned to the Sides: this serves for the Belly; over which the Strings are placed.
ref: 1697, William Dampier, chapter 5, in A New Voyage Round the World, London: James Knapton, page 127:
text: 1728, George Carleton (attributed to Daniel Defoe), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 279,
Their Guitars, if not their Sole, are their darling Instruments, and what they most delight in: Tho’ in my Opinion our English Sailors are not much amiss in giving them the Title of Strum Strums.
text: [The orator’s] cry […] was a species of musick to the mob, as agreeable as the sound of a bagpipe to a mountaineer of North Britain, or the strum-strum to the swarthy natives of Angola.
ref: 1769, Tobias Smollett, “The History and Adventures of an Atom”, in London, volume 1, Robinson and Roberts, page 106:
text: Banjo Byron that twangs the strum-strum there—
ref: 1876, Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, London: Smith, Elder, page 43:
text: They sent ashore for some Sing-Song girls, which, with the fellers that brought them, all night made the cabin thick with cigarettes and the stringing of a strum-strum.
ref: 1903, Chester Bailey Fernald, “A Yarn of the Pea-Soup Sea”, in Under the Jack-Staff, New York: Century, pages 247–248:
glosses: Any stringed musical instrument that is played with the fingertips, especially one considered to be foreign.
strumstrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strumstrum
edaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From edacious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: voracity
greed
glosses: The quality of state of being edacious
unorgasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unorgasmic
form: most unorgasmic
Etymology: From un- + orgasmic.
Senses: glosses: Not orgasmic; sexless; dull.
subcartilaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cartilaginous.
Senses: examples: text: subcartilaginous tumour
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages.
apathistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apathistical
form: most apathistical
Senses: synonyms: word: emotionless
word: nonemotional
word: alexithymic
word: apathistical
word: clinical
word: dull
word: cold-blooded
word: cold-hearted
word: dead inside
word: dispassionate
word: emotionless
word: immovable
word: impassible
word: impassive
word: insensible
word: nonemotional
word: nonfeeling
word: nonpassionate
word: nonsentimental
word: stolid
word: unemotional
word: unfeeling
word: unmovable
word: unpassionate
word: unsentimental
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: apathetic; unemotional
decipiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪpɪənsi/
Etymology: From Latin decipiens, present participle of decipere. See deceive.
Senses: examples: text: […]mean while Physicians, who know that many are mad but in a single depraved Imagination, and one prevalent Decipiency;[…]and tho they behold such mad covetous Passages, content to think they dye in good Understanding, and in their sober Senses.
ref: 1690, Sir Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend:
glosses: hallucination or deception.
melaniline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white crystalline substance; diphenyl guanidin.
sopranoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soprano
earthpea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthpeas
Etymology: From earth + pea.
Senses: synonyms: American hogpeanut
hog-peanut
ground bean
glosses: Any of a species of pea, Amphicarpaea bracteata, a climbing leguminous plant with hairy underground pods.
glosses: A pea
glosses: A peanut, (Arachis hypogaea).
Synonyms: Amphicarpea monoica
earthpeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthpea
clearedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cleared + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: The quality of being cleared.
bimembral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin bis (“twice”) + membrum (“member”).
Senses: examples: text: This will be more easily apprehended, if we consider that all combination is bimembral; i. e. consists of two members, one of which is subordinated to the other by the intonation, and thus becomes compacted with it […]
ref: 1858, Josiah Willard Gibbs, A Latin Analyst on Modern Philological Principles:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having two members.
autographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an autograph, or one's own handwriting.
examples: text: autographic ink, paper, or press
glosses: Relating to, or used in, the process of autography (in lithography).
nakabandis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nakabandi
papalagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papalagis
form: papalagi
form: papalangi
Etymology: From Samoan papālagi, Tongan papālagi. Compare palagi.
Senses: examples: text: Yet those whom the Tongas called papalangi, or men from the sky, introduced into these islands a new language of politics, class and organisation.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 53:
glosses: In Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand, a white person; a palagi.
indeclinably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From indeclinable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: c. In the older language, the numerals for 5 and upward are sometimes used in the nom.-acc. form (or as if indeclinably) with other cases also: thus, páñca kṛṣṭíṣu among the five races; saptá rṣīṇām of seven bards; sahásram ṛ́ṣibhiḥ with a thousand bards; çatám pūrbhíḥ with a hundred strongholds. Sporadic instances of a like kind are also met with later.
ref: 1889, William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Without declination (variation of termination in a word).
disembitter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disembitters
form: disembittering
form: disembittered
form: disembittered
Etymology: From dis- + embitter.
Senses: glosses: To free from bitterness, remove bitterness
disembittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disembitter
disembittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disembitter
disembitters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disembitter
adjunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjunction
corradial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + radial.
Senses: examples: text: It is neither parallel nor corradial with the line of Argument in either of the two Epistles, or with any one line; but it is a chord that traverses them all, and only touches where it cuts across.
ref: 1825, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: […], London: […] Thomas Davison, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Radiating to or from the same point.
preadamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: preadamitic
form: preadamitical
form: pre-Adamic
Etymology: From pre- + Adamic.
Senses: examples: text: preadamic era
text: preadamic garden
text: preadamic universe
coordinate_terms: postadamic
glosses: Prior to the existence of the Adam (the first man, according to the Bible).
Hellespontine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hellespont + -ine?
Senses: examples: text: […]War of Macedonia with the Hellespontine cities
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Hellespont.
Iudas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And surely none can continue neare, and deare vnto our kyng Christ but suche, for others that euer prolle for priuate profite, bee hypocrites and flatterers as was Iudas.
ref: 1870, Thomas Lever, Sermons, page 73:
text: And it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren & gatt him to a man called Hira of Odollam, and there he sawe the doughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte.
ref: 1884, Jacob Isidor Mombert, Five Books of Moses (Genesis, XXXVIII: 1), page 115:
text: Ped: Iudas I am. Dum: A Iudas? Ped: Not Iscariot sir. Iudas I am ycliped Machabeus.
ref: 1904, William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, Loves Labour's Lost, page 288:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Judas.
glosses: Archaic form of Jude.
fayle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: If they ſhoulde gyue battayle it was to be doubted, leaſt through treaſon amõgſt themſelues, the armie ſhould be betrayed into the enimies hands, the which would not fayle to execute all kinde of crueltie in the ſlaughter of the whole nation.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, page 249, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fail.
advowtries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advowtry
honde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hondes
Senses: examples: text: They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wᵗ nales and hammers, that it moue not.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of hand.
THAAD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /θæd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: Thad
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense.
whyle
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of while.
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A United States Army system designed to shoot down ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.
Synonyms: word: THAAD
wth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: wᵗʰ
Senses: examples: text: […]others to make sporte wᵗʰ all of this last sorte were they whome they call Fresh-menn Punies of the first yeare, […]
ref: c. 1610, anonymous author, “The Election of the Prince”, in Boas Frederick Samuel, editor, The Christmas Prince, London: Malone Society, published 1923, page 3:
synonyms: wt
w/
w
glosses: Abbreviation of with.
wth
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: related: word: WTH
synonyms: wtf
glosses: Initialism of what the hell or what the heck.
smot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She mightily aventred towards one,
And downe him smot ere well aware he weare
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of smote.
grasseater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grasseaters
Etymology: From grass + eater. Originally in reference to the Irish potato famine, implying that grass was all the Irish had left in their diet.
Senses: examples: text: When the "green mouths," as the impoverished Irish grasseaters were dubbed, entered the United States, they brought cholera, consumption, and typhus with them.
ref: 2002, Jan Pottker, Janet and Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, page 12:
glosses: A white person, especially an Irishman.
glosses: Alternative spelling of grass-eater (type of police officer)
examples: text: And most of those grasseaters like horses, ox, camels, and llamas had shown early appearance on earth and since its early Cainozoic.
ref: 2010, Anwar A Abdullah, East West - Sword and Word, page 289:
glosses: A herbivore or similar grazing animal.
examples: text: Founded in 1898, when vegetarians were regarded as “grasseaters,” this restaurant has more than proved its staying power.
ref: 2009, Robert I. C. Fisher, Fodor's Switzerland, page 51:
glosses: A vegetarian or vegan.
grasseaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grasseater
hook above
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooks above
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A tone mark ( ̉) that indicates falling then rising tone in Vietnamese.
Related terms: horn
chickenlips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickenlips
Etymology: From chicken + lips, from a stereotype of white people having small lips, since a chicken has none.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A white person.
wonderbread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonderbreads
Etymology: From Wonder Bread, a brand of white bread.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white bread (“the food”).
synonyms: word: white bread
extra: the food
examples: text: One of the wonderbreads had motioned me to rack up.
ref: 2003, Elizabeth Stromme, Joe's Word, page 97:
glosses: Synonym of white bread (“white person”).
synonyms: word: white bread
extra: white person
wonderbread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wonderbread
form: most wonderbread
Etymology: From Wonder Bread, a brand of white bread.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white bread (“bland, boring; conventional”).
synonyms: word: white bread
extra: bland, boring; conventional
glosses: Synonym of white bread.
synonyms: word: white bread
glosses: White with brightly-colored spots.
raw_tags: of a fishing lure
Synonyms: white bread
wonderbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wonderbread
Camagüey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Camagüey, renamed after Chief Camagüebax in 1898. Both names probably derive from Taino camagua (Wallenia laurifolia).
Senses: glosses: A city in eastern central Cuba of over 300,000 people.
Mayagüez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Mayagüez.
Senses: glosses: A coastal city in Puerto Rico.
appaling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of appalling.
appaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of appalled.
siliculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siliculose
form: most siliculose
Etymology: From Latin silicula.
Senses: examples: text: siliculose capsule
text: siliculslose pods
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing silicles.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or resembling, silicles.
glosses: Full of, or consisting of, husks; husky.
nDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nDNAs
form: ncDNA
form: nucDNA
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: nuclear DNA (the DNA found within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells)
Coordinate terms: mtDNA
cpDNA
Related terms: DNA
nRNA
mDNA
nRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nRNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: nuclear RNA (the RNA found within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells)
Related terms: RNA
nDNA
mRNA
deoxyribose nucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxyribose nucleic acids
form: desoxyribose nucleic acid
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: deoxyribonucleic acid
Related terms: ribose nucleic acid
nucleic acid
deoxyribose
ribose
ribose nucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribose nucleic acids
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: ribonucleic acid
Related terms: deoxyribose nucleic acid
nucleic acid
ribose
ribose nucleic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribose nucleic acid
deoxyribose nucleic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxyribose nucleic acid
desoxyribose nucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desoxyribose nucleic acids
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Archaic form of deoxyribonucleic acid.
desoxyribose nucleic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desoxyribose nucleic acid
desoxyribonucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desoxyribonucleic acids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deoxyribonucleic acid.
desoxyribonucleic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desoxyribonucleic acid
desoxyribonucleic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From desoxyribose + nucleic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deoxyribonucleic.
desoxyribose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desoxyriboses
Etymology: From desoxy- + ribose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of deoxyribose.
Derived terms: desoxyribonucleic
desoxy-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From des- + oxy-.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deoxy-.
Derived terms: desoxyribonucleic
Related terms: desoxyribose nucleic acid
desoxyribonucleic acid
threonucleic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of threose + nucleic
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a cell nucleus and being based on threose.
Derived terms: threonucleic acid
threonucleic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threonucleic acid
taxibus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxibuses
Etymology: From taxi + bus.
Senses: glosses: A minibus operated as a shared taxi, departing only once minimally full.
Synonyms: shared taxi
innundated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of inundated.
break cover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks cover
form: breaking cover
form: broke cover
form: broken cover
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, cover.
examples: text: Government MPs sympathetic to the opposition's arguments are starting to break cover.
synonyms: show one's true colors
show one's true stripes
glosses: To disclose one's real thoughts and intentions.
Related terms: break character
oilnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilnuts
Etymology: From oil + nut.
Senses: glosses: Any nut from which oil may be commercially extracted.
glosses: The buffalo nut (from Pyrularia oleifera).
olamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ethanolamine
Derived terms: ciclopirox olamine
piroctone olamine
oleandomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleandomycins
Etymology: A blend of oleandrose + -mycin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A macrolide antibiotic produced by Streptomyces antibioticus.
Derived terms: triacetyloleandomycin
troleandomycin
oleanolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to oleanolic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: oleanonic
olefiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French gaz oléfiant, from olé (“oil”) + -fiant (“producer”), present participle of -fier (“-fy”).
Senses: glosses: That produces oil
Derived terms: olefiant gas
olefiant gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: ethylene
corn poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn poppies
Senses: synonyms: red poppy
Flanders poppy
field poppy
corn rose
red weed
coquelicot
glosses: The common poppy (Papaver rhoeas), of Eurasia.
red poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red poppies
Senses: glosses: the common poppy (Papaver rhoeas), native to western Eurasia and north Africa.
glosses: Any poppy with red flowers.
Synonyms: sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: corn poppy
sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: Flanders poppy
sense: Papaver rhoeas
word: field poppy
Derived terms: taxonomic: Papaver glaucum
word: Turkish red poppy
gutterwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gutter + work.
Senses: examples: text: Grander still were the stone houses on the ground, and Arien's was the grandest of all, shining with gemstones, edged by intricate, crafted gutterwork, gargoyles of young elves at play and the like[…]
ref: 2000, R. A. Salvatore, Bastion of Darkness:
glosses: The guttering of a building.
drainwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drainworks
Etymology: From drain + work.
Senses: examples: text: Such drainwork should be laid with a compressible layer above and immediately over the pipework[…]
ref: 2003, Peter Glover, Building surveys:
glosses: The drains of a building etc.
drainworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drainwork
epipetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + petro- + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Many ferns are epipetric, including the spleenworts.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Found growing on rocks.
spleenworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spleenwort
lampshaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lampshade + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He would read and write in the draped and lampshaded living room with its carpeted floor, and he would welcome her with the fond yet pitying smile and say, “Did you have a good time with your family?"
ref: 1992, Mario Puzo, The fortunate pilgrim, page 49:
text: There were lots of lampshaded lamps of different sizes all around him, maroon mainly, or red and fringed, and they were all full on, making him look pink.
ref: 2008, Jim Cartwright, Supermarket supermodel, page 128:
text: And even the destroyed lampshades had pieces unblocking off of a fallen lampshaded being, the head maybe dead, but all its limbs, its poles, its blocks, went flipping and adding to other lampshaded beings, adding to them, making them larger, bulkier and able to stretch taller.
ref: 2019, AndyRay Patton, Shakey Quakey Ride, →ISBN:
glosses: Incorporating a lampshade.
examples: text: A middle-aged bellboy carried her luggage through the lampshaded glow of the lobby, up the elevator, and into her rooms.
ref: 1984 -, Lynn Cartier, Intimates, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Diffused through a lampshade. (of light)
lampshaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lampshade + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lampshade
disnaturalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disnaturalizes
form: disnaturalizing
form: disnaturalized
form: disnaturalized
Etymology: From dis- + naturalize.
Senses: examples: text: [he][…]having served his prince well both in Afric and India, and being ill rewarded, renounced his country , disnaturalizing himself as the custom then was
ref: 1704, John Locke, The Whole History of Navigation from Its Original to this Time:
glosses: To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.
disnaturalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disnaturalize
disnaturalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disnaturalize
disnaturalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disnaturalize
insensuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insensuous
form: most insensuous
Etymology: From in- + sensuous.
Senses: examples: text: That intermediate door / Betwixt the different planes of sensuous form / And form insensuous.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Ninth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Not sensuous; not pertaining to or detectable to the senses.
paradoxid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradoxids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Paradoxides of large trilobites.
paradoxids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradoxid
viatecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin via (“way”) + -tecture, as in architecture.
Senses: examples: text: We propose the term Viatecture , as nearly synonymous with Civil Engineering , to include the construction of roads and bridges , railroads , and canals , and water works ; and the improvement of rivers ' and harbors .
ref: 1842, Roswell Park, Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge:
glosses: The art of making roads or other patha travelling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
bronchotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronchotomy
bronchotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchotomies
Etymology: From broncho- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision into the windpipe or larynx.
Hyponyms: laryngotomy
tracheotomy
Derived terms: bronchotomist
semivitreous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + vitreous.
Senses: glosses: Partially vitreous.
cutinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cutinizes
form: cutinizing
form: cutinized
form: cutinized
form: cutinise
Etymology: From cutin + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Sulphuric acid and chromic acid, even when concentrated, produce little effect on cutinized membranes, beyond removing traces of cellulose present in the cell-wall.
ref: 1885, Asa Gray, Physiological botany, volume 2, page 39:
text: Leaves normally or experimentally developed as underground scales cutinize both upper and lower surfaces, and diminish the formation of collenchyma, palisade cells and intercellular spaces.
ref: 1903, Daniel Trembly Macdougal, The influence of light and darkness upon growth and devlopment, volume 2, page 32:
text: They may be separated early from the mother tissue by cutinizing their surface.
ref: 2013, Rudolf Endress, Plant Cell Biotechnology, page 113:
glosses: To change into cutin.
Synonyms: cuticularize
Related terms: cutinization
cutinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cutinize
cutinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cutinize
cutinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cutinize
tongkang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongkangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay tongkang (“barge”). Cognate with Burmese တုန်ကင်း (tunkang:).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A kind of light wooden boat used in the early 19th century to carry goods along rivers in Maritime Southeast Asia.
glosses: bumboat
tongkangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongkang
coggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coggery
coggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɡəɹi/
Forms: form: coggeries
Etymology: From cog + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore can I not but often smile in my sleeue to heare and see the Iesuits coggery in euery thing […]
ref: a. 1603, William Watson, A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions:
glosses: trick; deception
animalculist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/
Forms: form: animalculists
Etymology: From animalcule + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.
examples: text: All at once a botanist, already celebrated, proclaimed that he had seen the embryo forming in the grain of pollen and penetrating the ovule with the pollenical tube. This unexpected animalculist was Schleiden.
ref: 1882, “Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 22:
glosses: Someone who studies animalcules.
animalculist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/
Forms: form: more animalculist
form: most animalculist
Etymology: From animalcule + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:
glosses: Pertaining to animalculism.
animalculists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animalculist
scholastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scholastical
form: most scholastical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scholastic.
scholastical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scholasticals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scholastic.
scholasticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scholastical
recreancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recreancy