cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Molochized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Molochize
Hooverisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hooverising
hooverisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooverising
in one's life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Work it out if that is what you want, just remember that you do not need a man in your life to make you complete as a woman, you are intelligent, suave, and sophisticated.
ref: 2008, Patricia A. Stokes, Marcus: the Secret Place, page 61:
text: It's only right for a child to want their other parent in their life.
ref: 2011, Kumari V. Ghafoor-Davis, Real Talk: Ten Parenting Strategies to Raise Confident Successful Children, page 52:
glosses: Present and involved in the life of a person.
carefronted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carefront
carefronts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carefront
carefronting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carefront
parsemage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Soufflage is a technique in which liquid paint is blown onto a surface; in parsemage charcoal dust is scattered on the surface of water and then skimmed off with a sheet of paper; in fumage images are imprinted on a sheet of paper or canvas by the smoke of a candle or a kerosene lamp […]
ref: 2017, Kari Jormakka, Basics Design Methods, page 37:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A surrealist automatic art technique in which dust from charcoal or chalk is scattered onto water and then skimmed off by passing stiff paper or cardboard just under the surface.
gutter oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 地溝油／地沟油 (dìgōuyóu).
Senses: qualifier: Asia
glosses: Illicit cooking oil that has been recycled from waste oil collected from restaurant fryers, slaughterhouses, sewage, etc.
resorbabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resorbability
transsexualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transsexual + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being transsexual.
Synonyms: list at transness
nisab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic نِصَاب (niṣāb)
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A minimum amount of wealth beyond which one must pay zakat (alms).
supercavitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercavitation
heavy petting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of Ms. Wolf, Ms. Henneberger wrote, “Her last book, ‘Promiscuities,’ is about girls sexually coming of age and prescribes heavy petting as an alternative to early intercourse.” What a pleasure it was to see heavy petting back in use.
ref: 1999 November 21, William Safire, quoting Melinda Henneberger, “On Language; Trope-a-dope”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Sexual groping; erotic horseplay; foreplay.
red bag delivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red bag deliveries
Etymology: Named as such due to the appearance of the placenta surrounding the foal.
Senses: glosses: The birth of a foal that is still wrapped in the placenta (a case of premature placental separation).
perithecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + thecal.
Senses: glosses: Around the theca.
dahk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dahker
form: dahkest
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dark.
dahker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dahk: more dahk
dahkest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dahk: most dahk
wouldn'ta
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of would not have.
Aurland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Vestland county, Norway, previously in Sogn og Fjordane.
Your Royal Highness
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: Your Royal Highnesses
Senses: glosses: A form of address used for certain members of a royal family.
Related terms: Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Your Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Her Holiness
His Holiness
Your Holiness
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
Her Maj
His Maj
Your Maj
Her Majesty
His Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
Her Royal Majesty
His Royal Majesty
Your Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
Your Royal Majesty
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: A form of address used for certain members of a royal family.
Related terms: Her Royal Majesty
Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Your Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Her Holiness
His Holiness
Your Holiness
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
Her Maj
His Maj
Your Maj
Her Majesty
His Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Your Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
His Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
flare tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flare towers
Senses: glosses: a tall structure used for burning off waste gas at oil refineries and other installations.
Synonyms: flare stack
flare towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flare tower
technotopianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From technotopian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: techno-utopian beliefs
flare stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flare stacks
Senses: examples: text: she imagined them demolishing all the equipment used for oil production, including the flare stacks that rose into the skies to burn the natural gas
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 171:
glosses: a tall structure used for burning off waste gas at oil refineries and other installations.
Synonyms: flare tower
flare stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flare stack
teletraffic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + traffic.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: telecommunications traffic
absolute altitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute altitude
autotoxaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] we have autotoxaemias, ailmentary tissue, and reabsorbing toxaemias.
ref: 1913, The North American Journal of Homeopathy, volume 61, Chicago: American Medical Union, →OCLC, page 734:
text: […] errors in refraction, general diseases, such as Bright's disease, diabetes, arterio-sclerosis, malaria, phosphaturia, oxaluria, ingestion of poisons like naphthalene, ergot, tetanic spasms, changes in the ductless glands, autotoxaemias, and finally heredity, which all play part in its aetiology.
ref: 1922, British Journal of Ophthalmology, London: British Medical Association, →OCLC, page 387:
text: This theory renders the hepatoxaemias and autotoxaemias secondary factors, and removes them from the category of primary or essential causes.
ref: 1906, Southern California Practitioner, volume 21, Los Angeles: Stoll & Thayer, →OCLC, page 401:
glosses: plural of autotoxaemia
shitling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitlings
Etymology: From shit + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: I found mouse shitlings on the old abandoned house floor.
text: This fake diamond is such a shitling! It cracks easily.
qualifier: literal
glosses: A little shit (all senses)
examples: text: Ugh! Someone take this noisy shitling away from me!
text: Eileen Kalisz virtually ignored her as she stared over the shoulder of the little shitling in an attempt to get a view of the rainbow everyone in the office was talking about.
ref: 2006, Jew Girl, page 40:
glosses: A child.
shitlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitling
'omics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of omics.
foodomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From food + -omics.
Senses: examples: text: As can be deduced from the low number of proteomic applications in foodomics studies, it is expected that new innovations in proteomic technology will help proteomic profiling to also become a standard practice in foodomics.
ref: 2012, Noureddine Benkeblia, OMICs Technologies: Tools for Food Science, page 92:
glosses: The use of omics as a tool in food science.
food science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The power of food science lies in its ability to break foods down into their nutrient parts and then reassemble them in specific ways that, in effect, push our evolutionary buttons, fooling the omnivore's inherited food selection system.
ref: 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 107:
synonyms: bromatology
glosses: A branch of applied science concerned with food and its production.
Derived terms: food scientist
sledhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sledheads
Etymology: From sled + -head.
Senses: glosses: A fan of snowmobiling. (a snowmobile being a "sled")
glosses: A fan of tobogganing (“sledding”).
sledhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sledheads
Etymology: From sled + head.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sled head (an injury due to sledding)
sled head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sled heads
Etymology: From sled + head. From being an issue with the head due to a sled.
Senses: examples: text: “They would say, ‘I got a real sled head today,’” Morris said. Then they would go take another run, and several more the next day. “You get sucked into thinking it’s not a big deal.”
ref: 2020 July 26, Matthew Futterman, “Sledhead”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
pathology
sciences
sports
glosses: A concussion or subconcussive injury caused by tobogganing, including luging, skeleton, bobsledding, tubing; that stereotypically leaves the victim woozy or muddle-headed.
Related terms: punch drunk
sled head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sled heads
Etymology: From sled + -head.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sledhead (“a fan of sledding”).
sled-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sled-heads
Etymology: * (sledhead): sled + -head
* (sled head): sled + head
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sledhead (a fan)
glosses: Alternative spelling of sled head (an injury)
donicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donicities
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Donor number, a quantitative measure of Lewis basicity.
Related terms: basicity
Svay Rieng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Khmer ស្វាយរៀង (svaayriəng).
Senses: glosses: A province in southeastern Cambodia.
glosses: The capital city of that province.
parallel slalom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallel slaloms
Etymology: From parallel + slalom.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A discipline of alpine skiing, a variant of slalom. A sport where two skiers compete head to head on parallel identical slalom courses.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: An instance of the sports discipline, a course, run or competition.
Synonyms: word: PS
Hypernyms: alpine skiing
technical skiing
Coordinate terms: english: the equivalent event in alpine snowboarding
translation: the equivalent event in alpine snowboarding
word: parallel giant slalom
english: the non-parallel, non-head-to-head version
translation: the non-parallel, non-head-to-head version
word: slalom
english: a non-parallel, non-head-to-head, similar discipline with wider turns
translation: a non-parallel, non-head-to-head, similar discipline with wider turns
word: giant slalom
english: a non-parallel, non-head-to-head, similar discipline with much wider turns
translation: a non-parallel, non-head-to-head, similar discipline with much wider turns
word: super-G
word: downhill
word: downhill skiing
Derived terms: word: PS
parallel giant slalom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallel giant slaloms
Etymology: From parallel + giant slalom.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A discipline of alpine snowboarding, a variant of giant slalom. A sport where two snowboarders compete head to head on parallel identical giant slalom courses.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: An instance of the sports discipline, a course, run or competition.
Synonyms: word: PGS
Hypernyms: alpine snowboarding
Coordinate terms: english: the equivalent event in alpine skiing
translation: the equivalent event in alpine skiing
word: parallel slalom
english: the non-parallel, non-head-to-head version
translation: the non-parallel, non-head-to-head version
word: giant slalom
Derived terms: word: PGS
Pangnirtung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Inuit hamlet on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Five Forks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The place name of many U.S. towns.
downstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downstrike
form: most downstrike
Etymology: From down + strike.
Senses: examples: text: The Earlies Gap Biotite Gneiss may therefore indicate a downstrike lithologic change resulting from original variations of the protolith and from a more thorough.
ref: 1959, Field Trip Guidebook, page 30:
text: Pyroclastics along the southeast shore of Manitou Island appear to be the [downstrike] equivalents of Troutlet Lake pyroclastics.
ref: 1976, Geoscience Report - Issues 141-144, page 20:
text: The second character that contribute to the asymmetry is the convexing of the preprotocrista. The convex preprotocrista enlarges the trigon basin in the downstrike direction of the hypoconid, thus increasing Phase II contact (Fig. 53G).
ref: 1989, Zhexi Luo, Structure of the Petrosals of Multituberculata (mammalia) and Morphology of the Molars of Early Arctocyonids (condylarthra, Mammalia)..:
glosses: downward or further down.
downstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downstrike
form: most downstrike
Etymology: From down + strike.
Senses: examples: text: Amal supracrustals and other rocks were traced from the syncline core to the rest of Magnusson's (1960) 'Gothian' area and thence downstrike across the alleged Gothian-Pregothian boundary into the 'Pregothian' region.
ref: 1981, Forhandlingar, page 46:
text: The spring is downstrike from a fairly large area of low perennial stream density.
ref: 1985, Pellissippi Parkway Extension, I-40-I-75 to TN-115:
text: Analytical results of the IP profiles for both Gold Lake and Crestaurum areas (Katsube et al., 2006), suggest that the mineralization in the shear zones are discontinuous downstrike.
ref: 2006, Carolyn Diane Anglin, Gold in the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt, Northwest Territories:
text: However, a lone foreshock at the southern end of this zone, some 140 km downstrike of the mainshock's epicenter, implies that conditions existed for rupture into that zone.
ref: 2012, Jeanne Sauber, Renata Dmowska, Seismogenic and Tsunamigenic Processes in Shallow Subduction Zones, →ISBN:
glosses: In a downward direction
dishome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishomes
form: dishoming
form: dishomed
form: dishomed
Etymology: From dis- + home.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of a home; to make homeless.
dishomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dishome
dishomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dishome
dishoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dishome
pitisome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pitisome
form: most pitisome
form: pitysome
Etymology: From pity + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Lor', Miss Moggy, you'd think dat man had been married all de days of his life time, he look so lonesome and pitisome like.
ref: 1856, The Night Watch: Or, Social Life in the South, page 344:
text: For a day he did scant else but enhowl himself to a pitisome hoarseness.
ref: 1923, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, page 246:
text: “Perhaps, Husband, the division by classes will have no place in this country. That would be pitisome, for it has taken centuries to form our traditions.”
ref: 2006, Pat Mattaini Mestern, No Choice But Freedom:
text: Davie is loud with pitisome self-justification.
ref: 2013, Clancy Sigal, Weekend in Dinlock:
synonyms: word: pitiful
word: saddening
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: Characterised or marked by pitifulness; piteous
pitysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pitysome
form: most pitysome
Etymology: From pity + -some.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pitisome.
Grotian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Grotian
form: most Grotian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Dutch jurist who laid the foundations for international law.
Derived terms: Grotianism
small final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small finals
Etymology: From petit final, from French petite finale (“small final”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: consolation final
glosses: The secondary final to determine rankings of competitors from the semifinals that did not make the big final.
Synonyms: B final
Coordinate terms: big final
big final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big finals
Etymology: From grand final, from grand finale, from French grande finale (“big final”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The final that determines the winner of a competition, where the event also has a small final (consolation final).
Synonyms: A final
Coordinate terms: small final
disenchain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disenchains
form: disenchaining
form: disenchained
form: disenchained
Etymology: From dis- + enchain.
Senses: glosses: To free from restraint.
disenchaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disenchain
disenchains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disenchain
SBX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of snowboardcross.
petit final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petit finals
form: petite final
Etymology: From French petite finale (“small final”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of small final.
synonyms: word: small final
petite final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petite finals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of petit final.
petite finale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petites finales
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of petit final.
grande finale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grande finales
form: grandes finales
Etymology: From French grande finale.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grand finale.
glosses: Alternative spelling of grand final.
glosses: Synonym of big final.
synonyms: word: big final
red-billed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From red + billed.
Senses: qualifier: Of a bird species
glosses: having a red coloured beak or bill.
Derived terms: red-billed gull
red-billed leiothrix
red-billed woodcreeper
leiothrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leiothrixes
Etymology: From New Latin leio- (“smooth”) + Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).
Senses: glosses: Either of two babblers of the genus Leiothrix within the family Leiothrichidae.
Derived terms: red-billed leiothrix
leiothrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leiothrix
Olympic athletes from Russia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Olympic Athletes from Russia
Senses: glosses: IOC Olympic team name for the Russian Olympians cleared of doping offences while the country of Russia is excluded due to government-sponsored doping.
Derived terms: word: OAR
Olympic Athletes from Russia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Olympic athletes from Russia.
donicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donicity
adenylosuccinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to adenylosuccinic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: adenylosuccinate
adenylosuccinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The adenyl derivative of succinic acid 2-[[9-[3,4-dihydroxy-5-(phosphonooxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]purin-6-yl]amino]butanedioic acid that plays a part in nucleotide metabolism.
Related terms: adenylosuccinate
adfluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ad- + fluvial.
Senses: glosses: Towards the flowing waters of a river or stream
adiaphoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- (“not”) + dia- (“through”) + -phor (“bearer”) + -ia.
Senses: glosses: The failure to respond to stimulation after a series of previously applied stimuli
adiaspiromycosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiaspiromycoses
Senses: glosses: A pulmonary infection, primarily of rodents, that is caused by soil fungi of the genus Emmonsia
Related terms: adiaspore
adipectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: adipectomies
Etymology: From adip- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: excision of adipose tissue, often by liposuction
adipocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adipo- + cellular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Composed of both adipose and cellular tissue
early mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: early marks
Senses: examples: text: The former PBL boss let slip in court this week that he needed an early mark yesterday to attend "a dinner" with the PM.
ref: 2005, “Big night at the Dick Pratts”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
glosses: The permission to leave early (from class, school, workplace, etc.) before the scheduled end time; an early finish.
raw_tags: in Australia
Synonyms: word: early minute
adiponecrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiponecroses
Etymology: From adipo- + necrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: necrosis of adipose tissue
admedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ad- + medial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Near the medial plane
admedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ad- + median.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Near the median plane
adnatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adnata
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A small or secondary bulb
adneural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ad- + neural.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Near a nerve
adrenalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adrenal + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Excessive secretion of steroid hormones of the cortex of the suprarenal gland
Derived terms: hyperadrenalism
cephalo-pelvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cephalopelvic.
adrenoceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to adrenoceptors
adrenocorticoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or produced by the adrenal cortex
Related terms: corticosteroid
adrenogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the adrenal gland or to the adrenal cortex
adrenogenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adreno- + genital.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the effects of adrenocortical hormones
Derived terms: adrenogenital hyperplasia
adrenogenital syndrome
adrenolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adreno- + -lytic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That inhibits the production or function of adrenaline
adrenomegaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adreno- + -megaly.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: enlargement of the adrenal glands
adrenomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adreno- + mimetic.
Senses: glosses: That has an action similar to that of the adrenal hormones
adrenomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenomimetics
Etymology: From adreno- + mimetic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Such a drug
adrenopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenopathies
Etymology: From adreno- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the adrenal glands or the suprarenal glands
Synonyms: adrenalopathy
Sterope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the six stars in the Pleiades cluster, faintly visible to the unaided eye.
action at a distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actions at a distance
Senses: examples: text: For Descartes, as for Aristoteles, the doctrine of the Plenum rested on two self-evident truths: Nature abhors a vacuum, and there can be no action at a distance .
ref: 1984, David Layzer, Constructing the Universe, page 7:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The concept that an object can be affected, changed, moved, or otherwise affected without being physically touched by another object.
Hypernyms: action
Derived terms: spooky action at a distance
actions at a distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of action at a distance
feministy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feministy
form: most feministy
Etymology: From feminist + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Tessa knew she was supposed to feel robbed of her womanhood or something feministy like that, but actually she quite liked it.
ref: 2003, Annabel Giles, Crossing the Paradise Line, page 74:
text: “I am independent,” she said. “But not feministy in that way.”
ref: 2013, Vanessa Furse Jackson, The Revolving Year:
text: And what if you know that it’s shallow to fall for media narratives about women fighting with one another […] and you want to be all feminist-y and everything, yet at the same time Carrie versus Samantha is the only news story you actually care about?
ref: 2018 February 15, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:
glosses: Like a feminist, or like stereotypical feminist beliefs.
prickery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prick + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The women's game isn't blighted with nearly as much preening, posing or all-round prickery.
ref: , Michael Hogan, The Telegraph:
text: “God's blood, Thomas, self-righteous prickery is not the preserve of the English!”
ref: 2017, Jules Radcliffe, Penitent Pirate:
text: It is hard to zone in on a particular Dragon or ex-Dragon, given the strong claims to prickery of both Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne.
ref: 2018 January 25, Marina Hyde, The Guardian:
synonyms: prickishness
glosses: The actions or attitudes of a prick; prickish behaviour.
mugup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mugups
Etymology: From mug + up.
Senses: examples: text: On small hand-liners it was customary for the youngest member of the crew to stir up the fire for the constant mugups.
ref: 1993, Victor Slocum, Capt. Joshua Slocum: The Life and Voyages of America's Best Known Sailor, →ISBN:
text: It seems that anybody going to sea, it makes no odds whether they've had their supper or not, because when they come aboard they always have to have a mugup, hot or cold.
ref: 2000, John Robert Colombo, Ghost Stories of Canada, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Stopped in Niniltna for a mugup at the Riverside Café.
ref: 2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN, page 134:
text: “Mug-up time, fellows,” called the van driver.
ref: 2013, William B. McCloskey, Breakers: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: A short break for coffee, tea, or similar.
rubber-hose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: rubber-hose animation
rubber-hose limbs
glosses: An early American animation style with the use of simple flowing curves for characters' limbs.
Related terms: rubber-hose cryptanalysis
up your nose with a rubber hose
aulochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aulochromes
Etymology: From aulos + -chrome; see chromatic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A modern woodwind instrument consisting of two soprano saxophones that can be played either separately or together.
aulochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aulochrome
vacillatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacillating
fiddle-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪ.dl̩ˌfʊ.tɪd/
Forms: form: more fiddle-footed
form: most fiddle-footed
Senses: glosses: Restlessly wandering.
glosses: Restless, skittish, jumpy.
outborne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outbear
outbears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbear
outbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbear
outbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outbear
overdrug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdrugs
form: overdrugging
form: overdrugged
form: overdrugged
Etymology: From over- + drug.
Senses: examples: text: The conclusion to which I come is that in mania all drugs are uncertain in their effect; that food, restraint in rooms, with confinement to the bed if necessary, are more important than medicine. Especially is it desirable not to overdrug the patient.
ref: 1873, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 88, page 53:
glosses: To drug too heavily.
overdrugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdrug
overdrugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdrug
overdrugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdrug
chemicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemical + -ization. The spiritual sense was used by Mary Baker Eddy (then known as Mary Baker Glover) as early as 1875, in the first edition of Science and Health: “This chemicalization, or change, often follows our explanations of science, the effect of which is that the patient recovers; disease comes to the surface during the chemicalization, like a fermenting fluid, and throws itself off, sometimes in violent perspiration, eruptions, increased secretions, and discharges." p.176. More recent use, with definition: 1906 (current) edition of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "By chemicalization I mean the process which mortal mind and body undergo in the change of belief from a material to a spiritual basis." p 168.
In the spirituality sense, recently further popularised by Catherine Ponder.
Senses: examples: text: the chemicalization of agriculture
text: She would almost certainly have to be on more than one drug and almost certainly the dosages of all of them would have to be high […] So her system has to pay the price of having to adapt to such a degree of chemicalization.
ref: 1985, R. D. Laing, Wisdom, Madness and Folly, page 22:
glosses: The process of making something chemical, or adapting it to use chemical methods.
qualifier: spirituality
glosses: Inner conflict caused by one's initial resistance to spiritual awakening.
antimescaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + mescaline.
Senses: glosses: Inhibiting mescaline.
adrenoreactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adrenoreactive
form: most adrenoreactive
Etymology: From adreno- + reactive.
Senses: glosses: That shows a response to catecholamines
adrenotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adreno- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: That stimulates the adrenal glands
adrenotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adreno- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: That stimulates the adrenal glands or adrenal cortex
adrenotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An adrenotropic hormone
adultomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The tendency to interpret the behaviour of children as if they were adults
Pleiku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Pleiku.
Senses: examples: text: There was strong evidence that the strategists in Hanoi hoped to cut South Vietnam in half along a line roughly from Pleiku, in the Central Highlands, eastward to the coast.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: A city in the central highland region of Vietnam.
adversive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Senses: glosses: opposite, contrary
glosses: causing adversion
aerenchymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having unusually large cells and thus air spaces
Related terms: aerenchyma
recompel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recompels
form: recompelling
form: recompelled
form: recompelled
Etymology: From re- + compel.
Senses: glosses: To compel again.
recompelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recompel
recompels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recompel
recompelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recompel
aerobioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerobioscopes
Senses: glosses: An instrument that collects the bacterial content of air
aerocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroceles
Etymology: aero- + Ancient Greek κήλη (kḗlē, “tumour”)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An air-filled cavity
ultraprocessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraprocessed
form: most ultraprocessed
Etymology: From ultra- + processed.
Senses: examples: text: It’s true that agriculture at the time was organic, food was locally produced and there were no ultraprocessed foods. But fresh fruits and vegetables were in short supply because they were difficult to ship and because growing seasons were so short.
ref: 2025 January 13, Gina Kolata, “Have Americans Ever Really Been Healthy?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ultra-processed.
hyperprocessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperprocessed
form: most hyperprocessed
Etymology: From hyper- + processed.
Senses: glosses: Very heavily processed.
bevoiced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bevoice
bevoices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bevoice
bevoicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bevoice
GEBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GEB
joyport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joyports
Etymology: Blend of joystick + port
Senses: examples: text: With Bracy's, especially if you're using the Apple system, getting the joyports to work and the initial data entered correctly can be difficult.
ref: 1987, Cognitive Rehabilitation, volume 5, page 14:
text: One or more joyports actually exist as an extra option on many floppy controller cards and I/O cards.
ref: 1994, André LaMothe, Teach Yourself Game Programming in 21 Days, page 386:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A port for connecting a joystick.
joyports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joyport
Raman amplifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Raman amplification
emboldenment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From embolden + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The process or occasion of emboldening.
a lot of bit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: a lot a bit
Etymology: Formed as an inverse to a little bit.
Senses: examples: text: I have always been a little bit, okay maybe a lot of bit, “Type A” with my jobs.
ref: 2011, Jim Plagakis R.Ph., The Best From www.jimplagakis.com. JP Enlarged Fully Loaded:
text: “What do you mean wait awhile longer?” I complained, just little bit angry and a lot a bit frustrated.
ref: 2011, M.T. Williams, The Wune's Way, page 44:
glosses: a lot; quite a bit
dormed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dorm
dorming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dorm
scrobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrobic
Senses: glosses: A vigorous, tufted (up to 60 cm diameter) and slender perennial grass (Paspalum scrobiculatum) growing to a height of 0.3-1 m.
aerotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerotherapies
Etymology: From aero- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any therapy that uses some form of air
aerotonometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerotonometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument that is used to measure the partial pressure of gases in the blood
cèntim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cèntims
Senses: examples: text: Revista nova was printed by La Neotípia and cost 20 cèntims an issue.
ref: 2013, Geoffrey West, “‘Noucentisme’ and the Avant-Garde in Barcelona (1916–36): […]”, in Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, Christian Weikop, editors, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volume III (Europe 1880–1940), part I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Spain and Portugal), footnote 19, page 395:
text: Then all of a sudden our young girl marries an infantry lieutenant who hasn’t a cèntim to his name, however many portraits in oils of grandfathers in full military dress hang on their walls or however many handles their names have!
ref: 2014, Joan Sales, translated by Peter Bush, Uncertain Glory, London: MacLehose Press, →ISBN:
text: La Campana’s more popular politics were accessible to all, while L’Esquella’s higher-brow levels of humour were aimed at the cultured and artisan sectors of society.¹¹
ref: 2016, Rhiannon McGlade, “The Golden Age of Catalan Political Cartoons (1898–1931)”, in Catalan Cartoons: A Cultural and Political History (Iberian and Latin American Studies), Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN, pages 24 and 66:
glosses: Alternative form of centim.
aetiolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aetiolated
form: most aetiolated
Senses: examples: text: It is also to be noticed that men who spend their days in the most sedentary occupations, and often in a most confined atmosphere, do not suffer from this pain of the side as women so confined and so occupied do. [...] Tailors, again, who often work under conditions not very dissimilar from those of milliners and dressmakers, and often get almost similarly ætiolated, do not suffer from this form of pain as these latter do.
ref: 1867, Peter Eade, “Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Clinical Remarks on Neuralgic Pain lf the Side.”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News, volume II, London: John Churchill and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 65, column 1:
text: Seedlings are elongated and have closed cotyledons in the dark (aetiolated) while the hypocotyls are short and the cotyledons are open in the light (de-aetiolated).
ref: 2007, László Bögre, “Cell Signalling Mechanisms in Plants”, in Keith Roberts, editor, Handbook of Plant Science, volume 1, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 417–418:
text: Does he go to the museum in order to steal the Mona Lisa if it is there and unguarded; or does he go there anyway, but will seize the chance if it presents himself? [...] Insofar as his intention to steal is not given concrete actualisation, as the meaning or pattern of his actions, its culpability is (like its existence) aetiolated; but I see nothing problematic in saying that he is culpable for forming, maintaining and acting on a wrongful intention.
ref: 2012, R. A. Duff, “Risks, Culpability and Criminal Liability”, in G. R. Sullivan, Ian Dennis, editors, Seeking Security: Pre-empting the Commission of Criminal Harms, Oxford, Oxfordshire; Portland, Or.: Hart Publishing, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of etiolated.
aetiolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aetiolations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of etiolation.
afetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + fetal.
Senses: glosses: Not fetal
affectomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From affecto- + motor.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the effect of emotions on muscle movement
afibrillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + fibrillar.
Senses: glosses: Not having or containing fibrils
afterchroming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The treatment of a tissue sample with chromate after staining
Synonyms: postchroming
postchroming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of afterchroming.
synonyms: word: afterchroming
aftercurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercurrents
Etymology: From after- + current.
Senses: glosses: An electric current that is induced in a muscle when a constant current through it stops
second-guarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-guarders
Etymology: From second + guarder. Used at Stonyhurst College in the United Kingdom.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
qualifier: school slang
glosses: A full-back.
wikipedia: Stonyhurst College
third-guarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third-guarders
Etymology: From third + guarder. Used at Stonyhurst College in the United Kingdom.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
qualifier: school slang
glosses: A half-back.
wikipedia: Stonyhurst College
second-guarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second-guarder
third-guarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third-guarder
agamogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agamogonies
Etymology: From a- + gamo- + -gony.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: schizogony, or any other form of asexual reproduction
agaricic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agaric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to agaricic acid or its derivatives
agaricic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tricarboxylic acid 2-hydroxynonadecane-1,2,3-tricarboxylic acid, isolated from an agaric, once used as an irritant and antidiarrhoeal
agaricinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to agaricinic acid or its derivatives
agaricinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of agaricic acid.
synonyms: word: agaricic acid
agastroneuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + gastro- + neuro- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A loss of nervous control of the stomach
agglutinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an agglutinogen
agglutinoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agglutinoscopes
Senses: glosses: An instrument that is used to observe agglutination in vitro
agitographia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin agitō (“I put something in motion, drive, impel”) + -graphia.
Senses: glosses: Very fast writing, normally with unintentional omission of words
Related terms: agitophasia
punch front
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punch fronts
Etymology: From punch + front. From being a front flip from a hard punch into the ground with the feet to effect the jump.
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A frontal flip by jumping to a landing with both feet and then pushing hard to bounce and flip forward.
qualifier: aerialist skiing
glosses: A bad landing that ends with the skier bouncing off the snow and flipping forward, landing on their skis again.
Coordinate terms: sense: aerials
word: slap-back
aglomerular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + glomerular.
Senses: glosses: Lacking glomeruli
agonadal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + gonadal.
Senses: glosses: Lacking gonads
agretope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agretopes
Etymology: Semi-acronym of antigen restriction + -tope.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of a biomolecule that binds to the major histocompatibility complex molecule
Related terms: allotope
epitope
idiotope
paratope
agroinfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agroinfections
Etymology: From agro- + infection.
Senses: glosses: viral infection via an agrobacterium
Related terms: agroinfectious
agropine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unusual amino acid (opine) found in some crown gall tumours
ahaustral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + haustral.
Senses: glosses: Lacking haustra
airbrasive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbrasives
Etymology: Blend of air + abrasive
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A device that delivers a jet of sodium bicarbonate slurry at teeth in order to remove stains.
Related terms: airbrasion
airsacculitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the case of fluoroquinolones and airsacculitis, a threshold of morbidity and mortality must be reached before the veterinarian would proscribe the use of this antibiotic.
ref: 2005, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause:
glosses: An inflammation of the air sacs of chickens and other birds.
air sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air sacs
Senses: glosses: An alveolus.
glosses: An extension of a lung of some birds.