cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chrysolaminarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chryso- + laminarin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A storage polysaccharide typically found in photosynthetic heterokonts.
Synonyms: leucosin
superfitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superfit + -ness or super- + fitness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being superfit; extreme fitness.
holohedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holohedrons
form: holohedra
Etymology: From holo- + -hedron.
Senses: glosses: A holohedral crystal.
holohedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holohedron
oviraptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oviraptor
nonalethic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + alethic.
Senses: glosses: Not alethic.
periagua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periaguas
Etymology: From Spanish piragua, in turn from Kari'na [Term?] (“dugout”). Doublet of pirogue.
Senses: examples: text: That there were ſeventeen bearded Men there, and therefore, without any more Delay, I went to work with Friday to find out a great Tree proper to fell, and make a large Periagua or Canoe to undertake the Voyage.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 269:
synonyms: pirogue
dugout
logboat
glosses: A dugout canoe.
glosses: A vessel made by cutting a canoe in two lengthwise and inserting a large plank.
glosses: A large keelless flat-bottomed boat for shoal-water navigation, decked at the ends only, propelled by rowing, or by sails on two masts capable of being struck.
glosses: Any small boat.
Related terms: pirogue
herpeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herpes
apoptoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apoptosis
apoptoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apoptose
battlebuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battlebus
bitesize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bitesize
form: most bitesize
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bite-size.
crosswort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossworts
Etymology: From cross + wort.
Senses: glosses: Crucianella stylosa, an ornamental plant.
glosses: Cruciata laevipes, the smooth bedstraw.
glosses: Lysimachia quadrifolia, a herbaceous plant of North America.
crossworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosswort
joewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joewoods
Senses: glosses: Jacquinia keyensis, a perennial West Indian tree.
joewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joewood
blolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blollies
Etymology: Short for loblolly.
Senses: glosses: Guapira obtusata, a shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies, with smooth oval leaves and a hard, ten-ribbed fruit.
glosses: The rubiaceous shrub Chiococca alba, of the same region.
blollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blolly
continuedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From continued + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If you whip them, you make them bad tempered and continuedly vicious[…]
ref: 1832, Sharon Turner, The sacred history of the world, page 292:
glosses: In a continued manner; ongoingly.
winnest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: win + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of win
infobahns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infobahn
expirest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: expire + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of expire
expireth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: expire + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expire
kagoul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kagouls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cagoule.
kagouls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kagoul
ratteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratteens
form: ratine
form: rateen
Etymology: From French ratine, from Old French rastin, from Latin raster (“to scrape”), ultimately from Latin rādere (“rash”).
Senses: glosses: A thick, coarse, woolen twill.
trihexagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + hexagonal.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane with two triangles and two hexagons alternating on each vertex.
ratteens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratteen
semiregularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + regularity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being semiregular.
cyathium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyathia
Senses: glosses: One of the specialised pseudanthia ("false flowers"), surrounded by involucral bracts, especially those forming the inflorescence of euphorbias.
cyathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyathium
intertext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertexts
Etymology: From inter- + text.
Senses: glosses: A reference to one text within another.
Related terms: intertextuality
intertexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intertext
sticharia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sticharion
periaguas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periagua
connexives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connexive
ideaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: idea'd
Etymology: From idea + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I was a one-ideaed man, and a one-ideaed man is only one remove from a dead man.
ref: 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Desert Drama:
glosses: Having a specified style or number of ideas.
noncorrecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + correcting.
Senses: glosses: That does not correct.
noncorrective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + corrective.
Senses: glosses: Not corrective.
spriteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spriteful
form: most spriteful
Etymology: From sprite + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Spoke like a spriteful noble gentleman.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sprightful.
inhabitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inhabitor
inhabitest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: inhabit + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of inhabit
inhalest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: inhale + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of inhale
inhaleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: inhale + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inhale
spiteless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiteless
form: most spiteless
Etymology: From spite + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from spite.
Derived terms: spitelessly
pepperiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of peppery: most peppery
pepperier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of peppery: more peppery
succot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succah
sukkot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sukkah
lurved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lurve
sukkos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sukkah
feldspath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feldspaths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feldspar.
Derived terms: feldspathize
feldspathose
feldspaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feldspath
miserliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of miserly: most miserly
vfib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: v-fib
form: V-fib
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: VF
v-fib
V-fib
glosses: Abbreviation of ventricular fibrillation.
Related terms: afib
F-sharp major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key fis \major fis' gis' ais' b' cis dis eis fis2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major key with the notes F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, and E♯, the key signature of which has six sharps.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with the notes F♯, A♯, and C♯.
C-sharp major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key cis \major cis' dis' eis' fis' gis' ais' bis' cis2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A key with the notes C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, and B♯, the key signature of which has seven sharps
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with the notes C♯, E♯, and G♯
frapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frap
frapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frap
frapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: frappings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Rope lashed tightly over the rigging or other area.
fraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frap
fraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frap
glosses: Acronym of frames per second.
G-flat major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key ges \major ges'aes'bes'cesdeseesfges2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a major key with the notes G♭, A♭, B♭, C♭, D♭, E♭, and F, the key signature of which has 6 flats.
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with a root of G.
C-flat major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: {\key ces \major ces' des' es' fes' ges' aes' bes' ces2}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A major key with the notes C♭, D♭, E♭, F♭, G♭, A♭, B♭, the key signature of which has seven flats
examples: 1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The major chord with the notes C♭, E♭, and G♭
prepublicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + publicity.
Senses: glosses: Publicity for a product or service that is not yet available.
truistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truistic
form: most truistic
form: truistical
Etymology: From truist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a truism.
unvirginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvirginal
form: most unvirginal
Etymology: From un- + virginal.
Senses: examples: text: […]an inarticulate, unvirginal Mary in search of a Joseph[…]
ref: 1960, Leslie A. Fiedler, Love and death in the American novel, page 470:
glosses: Not virginal.
orthophenylphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthophenyl phenol
Etymology: From orthophenyl + phenol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A biocide used as a preservative, consisting chemically of two linked benzene rings and a phenolic hydroxyl group.
SLUDGE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: An acronym used to help remember the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome: salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal upset, emesis.
Synonyms: DUMBELS
GPAL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of gravida, para, abortus, living: used to identify the numbers and types of pregnancies, births, abortions and living children a patient may have had.
bisbenzylisoquinolinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bis- + benzyl + isoquinolinium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of compounds similar in structure to tubocurarine, with two isoquinolinium structures, linked by a carbon chain, containing two ester linkages.
Gould-Jacobs reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gould-Jacobs reactions
Etymology: Named after R. Gordon Gould and Walter Abraham Jacobs, who described it in a 1939 paper.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic synthesis for the preparation of quinolines.
cuckoo's nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckoo's nests
Senses: examples: text: “Those offices have not been entered since Lyman Soap closed down, right after old Afton was hauled off to the cuckoo's nest in 1907,” said van Graven.
ref: 2004, August Schwerdfeger, From Bricks to Dust, page 35:
glosses: A lunatic asylum.
cuckooflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckooflower
NRARP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of normal (rate and depth), regular rhythm, audible (breath sounds), rise and fall of chest, and pink skin color: signs of a patient with adequate breathing.
tripod position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tripod + position.
Senses: examples: text: A patient in the tripod position is likely to have a problem with the ventilatory pump or a need for high levels of ventilation.
ref: 2005, Richard M. Schwartzstein, Michael J. Parker, Respiratory physiology: a clinical approach, page 16:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physical stance a person in respiratory distress takes leaning their hands on their thighs with their arms supported on them; leaning or sitting against a wall in a similar fashion
Related terms: tripoding
tripods
tripoded
hackbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackbolts
Senses: qualifier: Scilly Isles
glosses: A greater shearwater or hagdon (Ardenna gravis).
hagiocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagiocracies
Etymology: From hagio- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.
Related terms: hagiocratic
hagiocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagiocracy
α-particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: α-particles
Senses: glosses: alpha particle
halfpace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfpaces
Etymology: From half + pace.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
Related terms: quarterpace
halfpaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfpace
hairbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairband
hairbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairbells
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of harebell.
hairbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairbell
hairworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairworms
Etymology: From hair + worm.
Senses: glosses: A nematomorph.
hairworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairworm
hairsprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairspray
hair-brown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hair-brown
form: most hair-brown
Senses: examples: text: The rump and upper tail-coverts white; the tips of some of the latter with a hair-brown spot.
ref: 1833, Prideaux John Selby, Illustrations of British Ornithology: Water birds, page 80:
text: […]having the plumage intermixed with a hair-brown tint[…]
ref: 1842, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, page 208:
glosses: Of a colour like brown human hair.
intermixt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of intermixed, simple past and past participle of intermix.
half-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But out vpon this halfe-fac'd Fellowship.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Showing only part of the face; wretched-looking.
macrophenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrophenomena
Etymology: From macro- + phenomenon.
Senses: glosses: A macroscale phenomenon.
microphenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microphenomena
Etymology: From micro- + phenomenon.
Senses: glosses: A microscale phenomenon.
macrophenomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrophenomenon
heating surface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heating surfaces
Senses: examples: text: [...] combined heating surface is 6,151 sq. ft. (tubes, 530 sq. ft., flues, 3,275 sq. ft., firebox, with arches and thermic syphons, 415 sq. ft., and superheater 1,931 sq. ft.); [...].
ref: 1941 January, “Recent North American Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 27:
glosses: In a steam boiler, the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, especially of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces.
Synonyms: fire surface
heartlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartlets
Etymology: From heart + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Now when this pericarp is removed, the seed is found to consist, internally, of a corculum, or heartlet[…]
ref: 1812, Wesleyan-Methodist magazine, volume 35:
glosses: A small heart.
heartlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartlet
healthsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕlth'səm
ipa: /ˈhɛlθsəm/
rhymes: -ɛlθsəm
Forms: form: more healthsome
form: most healthsome
Etymology: From health + -some.
Senses: examples: text: 1544, Peter Betham (translator), The Preceptes of Warre by Jacopo di Porcia, London, Book 1, Section 192 “To kepe thyne armye healthfull,”
The health of thyne Armye is mayntayned by exercyse, by healthsome countrie and swete ayers: but chefelye where is plentye and abundaunce of vytayles.
text: Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: A breeze from the north-west chased the blood to healthsome leaping, and caught the breath like an unexpected kiss.
ref: 1886, George Gissing, chapter 2, in Demos, volume 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 54:
text: And the generative powers of the world are healthsome,
And there is no poison of destruction in them:
Nor hath Hades royal dominion upon earth,
ref: 1894, Revised Version of the Bible, The Wisdom of Solomon 1:14, For he created all things that they might have being
text: ‘It is not healthsome always to be eating meaty things.’
ref: 1982, Roald Dahl, “The Bloodbottler”, in The BFG, Puffin, published 2013:
glosses: Conducive to good health.
Synonyms: salubrious
wholesome
Derived terms: healthsomeness
unhealthsome
hectograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectographs
Etymology: From hecto- (“hundred”) + -graph, so called because it would make about 100 copies.
Senses: glosses: An old printing machine that involved the transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.
Synonyms: jellygraph
Coordinate terms: mimeograph
spirit duplicator
Related terms: hectographic
hectography
hectograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hectographs
form: hectographing
form: hectographed
form: hectographed
Etymology: From hecto- (“hundred”) + -graph, so called because it would make about 100 copies.
Senses: examples: text: The menus are in hectographed handwriting.
ref: 1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux, Alfred A. Knopf, page 39:
glosses: To duplicate (a document) by this process.
hectographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectograph
hectographs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hectograph
helianthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably Latin helianthes (“sunflower”), alluding to its colour.
Senses: glosses: methyl orange
overhope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English overhope, oferhope, equivalent to over- + hope.
Senses: examples: text: If the good turn out less than you hoped for, good though it be, yet because it is not so good, it seems to you more like a loss than a gain, by reason of the overhope.
ref: 1859, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, The works of Francis Bacon: Volume 7:
glosses: Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption.
glosses: Hopefulness; sanguineness.
overhope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhopes
form: overhoping
form: overhoped
form: overhoped
Etymology: From Middle English overhope, oferhope, equivalent to over- + hope.
Senses: examples: text: If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs.
ref: 1919, The Country gentleman, volume 84:
text: I'll cast this observation a little too broadly to make the point clearer: many principals "overhoped" that computers would have miraculous effects on all students exposed to them even if only for a few minutes per week, and now finding …
ref: 1992, David G. Moursund, International Society for Technology in Education, The technology coordinator
glosses: To hope excessively; presume.
glosses: To hope constantly.
Related terms: underhope
Hebrewess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hebrewesses
Etymology: From Hebrew + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A Jewish or Hebrew woman.
Hebrewesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hebrewess
thorybism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θόρυβος (thórubos, “noise”) + -ism. Coined by René Sudre.
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: Poltergeist activity or disturbances.
Related terms: poltergeist
hexoctahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexoctahedrons
form: hexoctahedra
form: hexaoctahedron
Etymology: From hex- + octahedron.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: hexakisoctahedron
tetracontaoctahedron
octakishexahedron
glosses: A solid with forty-eight equal triangular faces.
hexoctahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexoctahedron
hexoctahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexoctahedron
hexodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexode
highmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From high + -most.
Senses: glosses: highest
hippopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippo- + pathology.
Senses: glosses: The science of veterinary medicine of equines; the pathology of the horse.
hobbyhorsical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hobbyhorsical
form: most hobbyhorsical
Etymology: From hobby horse + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas well my father's passions lasted not long; for so long as they did last, they led him a busy life on't, and it is one of the most unaccountable problems that ever I met with in my observations of human nature, that nothing should prove my father's mettle so much, or make his passions go off so like gun-powder, as the unexpected strokes his science met with from the quaint simplicity of my uncle Toby's questions.—Had ten dozen of hornets stung him behind in so many different places all at one time,—he could not have exerted more mechanical functions in fewer seconds,—or started half so much, as with one single quære of three words unseasonably popping in full upon him in his hobbyhorsical career.
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], chapter 41, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
glosses: Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical.
Derived terms: hobbyhorsically
holibut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holibuts
form: holibut
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of halibut.
holibuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holibut
hollownesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hollowness
holocrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + crystalline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Completely crystalline; said of a rock like granite, all of whose constituents are crystalline.
holosiderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holosiderites
Etymology: From holo- + siderite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.
holosiderites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holosiderite
homologon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homologa
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of homologue.
homonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homonomies
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The state of being homonomous.
homonomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homonomy
honeybirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeybird
honeysucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeysuckers
form: honey-sucker
Etymology: From honey + sucker.
Senses: examples: text: There were also many palms, some of them more than one hundred feet high, and the largest and most beautiful tree ferns that I ever saw, about which hung clouds of jewelled honeysuckers and great-winged butterflies.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of the sunbirds.
glosses: A honeyeater.
glosses: A honeyguide.
honeysuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeysucker
homostyled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + styled.
Senses: examples: text: Several genera include both heterostyled (dimorphic or trimorphic forms) and homostyled species
ref: 1876, Charles Darwin, The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only one form of pistils; said of the flowers of some plants.
Related terms: homogonous
honey-tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honey-tongued
form: most honey-tongued
Senses: examples: text: This is the flower that smiles on every one,
To show his teeth as white as whale’s bone;
And consciences, that will not die in debt,
Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: In Iulius Cæsars time […] the famous hony-tong’d Orator Cicero florished; who, amongst many other his eloquent Orations, writ certaine yet extant […]
ref: 1612, Thomas Heywood, “First touching their Antiquity”, in An Apology for Actors, London: Nicholas Okes:
text: As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to liue in Pythagorus: so the sweete wittie soule of Ouid liues in mellifluous and hony-tongued Shakespeare, witnesse his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &c.
ref: 1634, Francis Meres, “A comparatiue discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets”, in Wits Common Wealth, The Second Part, London: William Stansby, page 623:
text: Among his other advantages, Lord Raymond was supremely handsome; every one admired him; of women he was the idol. He was courteous, honey-tongued—an adept in fascinating arts.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 72-73:
text: He was a grey-head with large spectacles and a wide mouth which combined to give him a froglike expression, but nothing could be less froglike than his voice. He was honey-tongued. Every verse he read turned into music on his lips: something midway between speech and song.
ref: 1955, C. S. Lewis, chapter 7, in Surprised by Joy, London: Geoffrey Bles, page 109:
glosses: Sweet-speaking; persuasive; seductive.
Related terms: honey-mouthed
silver-tongued
honeysuckled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From honeysuckle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] the prospect of exchanging his father's whitewashed and honeysuckled cottage […] for the noisy barrack […]
ref: 1845, The Quarterly Review, volume 76:
glosses: Covered with honeysuckle.
honeywort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeyworts
Etymology: From honey + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Cerinthe of flowering plants that attract bees.
honeyworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeywort
hyposkeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + skeletal.
Senses: examples: the hyposkeletal muscles
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial.
scanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scant
scanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scanted
form: most scanted
Senses: examples: text: Subdue desire, and bridle loose delight; / Use scanted diet, and forbeare your fill […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: […] their generations are neither extinct nor scanted, but are as plentiful as any Creatures on the Land.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67
glosses: Diminished; restricted.
scanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scant
hysterophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪstəɹəfaɪt/
Forms: form: hysterophytes
Etymology: From New Latin hysterophȳtum, from Ancient Greek ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb, figuratively the earth”) + φῡτόν (phūtón, “plant”). By surface analysis, hystero- + -phyte.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant or fungus that lives on dead or living organic matter.
Related terms: hysterophytal
hysterophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysterophyte
hyppogriff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyppogriffs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hippogriff.
hyppogriffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyppogriff
hysterogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hysterogenic
form: most hysterogenic
Etymology: From hystero- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: He was delighted, for instance, to discover hysterogenic points, zones of hypersensitivity which, when fingered, provoked an attack; it confirmed his conviction of the reality of ‘latent hysteria’.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 495:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Producing hysteria.
streighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: streightens
form: streightening
form: streightened
form: streightened
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of straighten.
glosses: Archaic spelling of straiten.
underministry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underministries
Etymology: From under- + ministry.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate or inferior ministry.
undergod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undergods
Etymology: From under- + god.
Senses: glosses: A lower or inferior god; a subordinate deity; a demigod.
undergods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undergod
underreckon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underreckons
form: underreckoning
form: underreckoned
form: underreckoned
Etymology: From under- + reckon.
Senses: glosses: To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate.
underreckoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underreckon
underreckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underreckon
underfringe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underfringes
Etymology: From under- + fringe.
Senses: examples: text: But at the point of noon the huge Earl Doorm, / Broad-faced, with under-fringe of russet beard, / Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey, / Came riding with a hundred lances up; […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 74:
glosses: A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something.
mise-en-scène
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mises-en-scène
form: mise-en-scènes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mise en scène.
homogeneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒmə(ʊ)ˈdʒiːnɪəl/
Forms: form: more homogeneal
form: most homogeneal
Senses: examples: text: To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportionall), this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetick, and makes up the best harmony in a Church [...].
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: It is observed by those that are more attentive watchers of the works of Nature, that the fœtus is framed out of some homogeneal liquor or moisture, in which there is no variety of parts of Matter to be contrived into bones and flesh […] .
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 68
glosses: Homogeneous.
windstrewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wind + strewn.
Senses: glosses: Strewn by the wind.
negative verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative verbs
Senses: glosses: An auxiliary verb used for negation in certain languages.
efformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efformations
Senses: examples: text: [describing a horse] […] but as in an Egge for Example, about the third day the Hen has sate on it, in that part where Nature begins to set upon her work of efformation, all is turned into a Crystalline liquid substance about her […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 68
glosses: The act of giving shape or form; formation.
palatableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palatable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Out of the fact of this palatableness on the part of the one and repulsiveness on the part of the other has grown a singular condition in the southern states, where the trees as here once grew in equal profusion, side by side in the forests.
ref: 2011, Winthrop Packard, Forests and Fields Through the Year, page 343:
glosses: The quality of being palatable.
puzzledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From puzzle + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The domain of puzzles; puzzles collectively.
shoepac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoepacs
form: shoepack
form: shoepak
Etymology: Borrowed from Unami chipakw/chipàkw (“shoe”); the spelling altered under the influence of the English words shoe and pack.
Senses: glosses: A shoe, especially a warm, waterproofed boot.
shoepack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoepacks
Etymology: Variant spelling of shoepac influenced by the word pack.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shoepac.
putridities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putridity
shoepacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoepac
shoepacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoepack
pyxidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a pyxidium.
pyrothonide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + Ancient Greek ὀθόνη (othónē, “linen”) + -ide.
Senses: glosses: A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, formerly used as a remedial agent.
pyromorphites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyromorphite
pyrotritartaric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pyrotritaric acid.
pyruvil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex nitrogenous compound obtained by heating together pyruvic acid and urea.
pyrotartrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrotartrates
form: pyrotartrite
Etymology: From pyrotartaric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of pyrotartaric acid.
pyrotartrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrotartrate
pyrolusites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrolusite
putridness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From putrid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: putridity
putlog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putlogs
form: putlock
Etymology: From put + log.
Senses: examples: text: A common type of scaffold for smaller jobs is a single pole or putlog scaffold which consists of a platform resting on horizontal putlogs (called transoms in independent scaffolds) fixed at 90° to the face of the building (figure 15).
ref: 1995, International Labour Office, Safety, Health and Welfare on Construction Sites: A Training Manual, page 21:
text: The platform in this type of scaffold is supported by putlogs and not transoms.
ref: 2005, Malcolm Thorpe, Brickwork, Level 3, page 85:
text: Where putlogs are not required to support boards, a putlog must occur within 300mm of each standard. / When bracing is connected to a putlog, the putlog must be connected to a ledger.
ref: 2008, Construction Confederation, House Builders Health & Safety Manual 2008 (Construction), →ISBN, page 7-15:
topics: architecture
glosses: One of the pieces of timber, or metal, on which the planks forming the platform of scaffolding are supported, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole made in the wall (a putlog hole) for that purpose.
putlogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putlog
pyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pynes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pine.
pyne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pynes
form: pyning
form: pyned
form: pyned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pine.
pynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyne
pyridyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyridyl
pyoxanthose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyo- + xanth- + -ose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A greenish-yellow crystalline colouring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.
purseful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pursefuls
Etymology: From Middle English pursfull, porsful, equivalent to purse + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: After claiming his prize the matador then retrieved his montera from the queen, who returned the hat along with a purseful of gold coins.
ref: 1999, Rebecca Brandewyne, And Gold Was Ours, page 124:
glosses: As much as a purse can hold.
pursefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purseful
purslain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purslains
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of purslane.
pyæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyæmiæ
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pyaemia.
languishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more languishingly
form: most languishingly
Etymology: From languishing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She looked languishingly at him as he danced with another woman.
glosses: In a languishing manner.
lardacein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -in
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein found in tissues affected with amyloid degeneration. It is insoluble in nearly all reagents, is not acted upon by gastric juice, and is not readily subject to putrefaction.
large-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more large-hearted
form: larger-hearted
form: most large-hearted
form: largest-hearted
form: largehearted
Senses: examples: text: He was a hearty man, a large-hearted man that is to say. He was perhaps the largest-hearted man I ever knew. I think he made a nearer approach to obeying the divine precept, “Love thy neighbour as thyself,” than one man in a hundred thousand.
ref: 1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “Charles Dickens”, in What I Remember […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], →OCLC, page 115:
text: Julius Rosenwald was one of the largest-minded and largest-hearted men of modern times. He transcended all barriers of race, religion and nationality.
ref: 1932 January 7, John R[aleigh] Mott, quotee, “Rosenwald Praised by Leaders Here; Spirit Which Marked His Charities Is Emphasized as Sorrow Is Expressed for His Death. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025:
text: However, like your sister in ancient Greece, you make your “darker-hearted” perennial descents. And like Persephone, and also like her predecessor, the goddess Inanna, who went below of her own volition, your experience has made you larger-hearted and wiser-hearted as well.
ref: 2001, Gail Godwin, “‘My Heart of Darkness’: Personal Stories”, in Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, part II (Heart Themes in Life and Art), chapter III (The Heart of Darkness), page 225:
synonyms: bighearted
glosses: Having a generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.
Derived terms: large-heartedly
large-heartedness
larixinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /læɹɪkˈsɪnɪk/
rhymes: -ɪnɪk
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from the larch (genus Larix).
Derived terms: larixinic acid
laryngospastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laryngo- + spastic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to laryngospasm.
larine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the gull family, Laridae.
latchkey child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latchkey children
form: latch-key child
Senses: glosses: Synonym of latchkey kid.
synonyms: word: latchkey kid
latchkey children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latchkey child
lasslorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lass + lorn.
Senses: examples: text: […] thy broome-groues;
Whose shadow the dismissed Batchelor loues,
Being lasse-lorne:
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: 1845, George M. Horton, “To Miss Tempe” in The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, Hillsborough, North Carolina: D. Heartt, p. 91,
Bless’d hope, when Tempe takes her last long flight,
And leaves her lass-lorn lover to complain,
Like Luna mantling o’er the brow of night,
Thy glowing wing dispels the gloom of pain.
text: I suspect Lord Hervey to have been a handsome man, and a favourite with the ladies—perhaps a beau garçon;—keen aggravations of an offence in the eyes of the ugly, the diminutive, the lass-lorn, and the unfashionable.
ref: 1851, Hartley Coleridge, “Notes on British Poets”, in Essays and Marginalia, volume 2, London: Moxon, page 92:
text: “Don’t be absurd, Steve! And for Heaven’s sake don’t look so lackadaisical and lasslorn.”
ref: 1897, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 14, in The King’s Highway, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, page 324:
glosses: Forsaken by one's lass or mistress.
lateritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laterite + -ic.
Senses: examples: lateritic formations
glosses: Of or pertaining to laterite.
latitudinarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latitudinarian
laureateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laureateship
sibo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /siː˨ boː˨˦/
Etymology: Derived from Hokkien 是無／是无 (sī-bô, “is not”).
Senses: examples: text: u dun understand english sibo?
ref: 2009 December 29, GMAudition, “Gamerz Planet”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Ka ni na, ask stupid question sibo?
ref: 2010 September 26, Ang Shi Na, “Sheena’s101”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: You are factoring in the interest sibo?
ref: 2013 August 6, “BlueOldMan, HDB Resales price”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Grin until mouth crooked sibo?
ref: 2015 May 12, May Lee, “Study stress”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: An expression of disbelief, equivalent to Is it so?
lawmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawmongers
Etymology: From law + monger.
Senses: glosses: A trader in law; one who practices law as if it were a trade.
lawmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawmonger
laumontites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laumontite
lauhalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lauhala
lazulites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazulite
lawgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From law + giving.
Senses: glosses: Enacting laws; legislative.
legitimateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From legitimate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being legitimate.
Synonyms: authenticity
genuineness
legitimacy
legibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From legible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: legibility
Zealandia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ziːˈlændi.ə/
Etymology: From Zealand + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A sunken continent east of Sahul and in the west of the Pacific, the profferred eighth continent. A nearly submerged continent or microcontinent that sank after breaking away from Australia many millions of years ago.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Synonyms: sense: sunken continent, 8th continent
word: Tasmantis
sense: sunken continent, 8th continent
english: the hills and valleys of Maui; Maori name, meaning
translation: the hills and valleys of Maui; Maori name, meaning
word: Te Riu-a-Māui
Derived terms: Zealandian
Related terms: word: Sealand
word: Seeland
word: Zealand
word: Zeeland
word: Zeelandia
sense: proposed sunken continents
word: Arctica
sense: proposed sunken continents
word: Atlantis
sense: proposed sunken continents
word: Lemuria
sense: proposed sunken continents
word: Mu