cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dorsocarpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dorso- + carpal.
Senses: examples: text: The dorsocarpal ligament is incised in a T-shape vertically over the scaphoid in the direction of the trapezoid and horizontally over the distal radius.
ref: 1999, David P. Green, Robert N. Hotchkiss, William C. Pederson, Green's Operative Hand Surgery, volume 1, page 173:
glosses: Pertaining to the back of the carpal.
stacklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stackless + -ness.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The property of being stackless.
ticket gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket gates
Senses: examples: text: ... which leads into a substantial lobby area. As this precedes the ticket gate line this may prove a popular meeting place, particularly during inclement weather.
ref: 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “Crossrail Update:Whitechapel barrels on”, in Modern Railways, page 92:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: a ticket barrier
ticket gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticket gate
Manhattanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Manhattanizes
form: Manhattanizing
form: Manhattanized
form: Manhattanized
Etymology: From Manhattan + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: San Francisco's Board of Supervisors last month approved a new zoning law designed to limit the height and size of office towers and to reduce by half the projected employment growth downtown over the next 15 years. ¶ Adoption of the plan came after more than a decade of complaints from San Franciscans that their city was being "Manhattanized."
ref: 1985 August 4, Robert Lindsey, “The Struggle to Keep Skylines in Line”, in New York Times:
glosses: To construct many tall or densely situated buildings in (a city).
Derived terms: Manhattanization
Manhattanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Manhattanize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The city's urban plan prescribes a 500‐foot height limit there to preserve the area's present character, and Mr. Starbuck, long‐time foe of “Manhattanization,” said be feared that granting the variance would lead to unwanted office towers up and down the street.
ref: 1979 February 12, “‘Manhattanization’ Fears Snag Crocker Bank Plan”, in New York Times:
text: Throughout the country, “Manhattanization” is a scary term that gets thrown at any developer who wants to increase density. And yet the number of Americans who want to live in NYC is not small; it’s huge. NYC 1-bedroom rents have been soaring, even as they stagnate nationwide: [data graph shown]. Someone wants to live in NYC, obviously.
ref: 2025 August 15, Noah Smith, “America has only one real city. We need a few more of them. How can we get them?”, in Noahpinion [Substack], retrieved 15 Aug 2025:
glosses: The construction of many tall or densely situated buildings in a city.
Manhattanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Manhattanize
Manhattanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Manhattanize
Manhattanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Manhattanize
savorlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From savorless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of savourlessness.
savourlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savorlessness
Etymology: From savourless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tasteless or insipid.
spanlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spanless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being spanless; limitless extent.
bus replacement service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus replacement services
Senses: examples: text: ... - just a decade ago, Robin Gisby, then operations supremo at Network Rail, told me enthusiastically of a 'seven-day railway' enabled by widespread signalling improvements that would do away with the dreaded bus replacement services within a couple of years. Instead, most people in the know now avoid travelling at weekends because of the proliferation of such services, fewer and fewer of which are advertised in advance.
ref: 2019 October, Alan Williams, Modern Railways, page 98:
topics: transport
glosses: A special bus service which replaces a train service when engineering work is carried out, or when the train service is temporarily suspended for other reasons such as flooding, track damage etc.
Synonyms: rail replacement service
Related terms: bustitution
stocklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stockless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of stock.
bus replacement services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bus replacement service
trivanadate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trivanadates
Etymology: From tri- + vanadate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: an ion or salt with three vanadium atoms in oxidation state 5. Varieties include V₃O₁₀⁵⁻ (linear), V₃O₉³⁻ (cyclic), V₃O₈⁻ (network)
drinks the Kool-Aid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drink the Kool-Aid.
drank the Kool-Aid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of drink the Kool-Aid
drunk the Kool-Aid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drink the Kool-Aid
sitelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From siteless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of a site.
taintlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From taintless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Freedom from taint.
theatrelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theatreless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of theatre.
undecazinc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undeca- + zinc.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound containing eleven zinc atoms per formula: Zn₁₁.
welinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Welin + -ite; named after Swedish mineralogist Eric Welin (1923–2014).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A red trigonal mineral which is a manganese, tungsten silicate.
'coon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːn
Forms: form: 'coons
Etymology: Clipping of raccoon
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coon (quadruped)
negative interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A fee deducted from money to be stored in a bank, instead of interest paid on that money.
factiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux, the principle that things could be other than they are — we can imagine reality as being fundamentally different even if we never know such a reality — part of a critique of correlationism.
Related terms: factial
negative deficit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative deficits
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: profit; surplus
negative deficits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negative deficit
papreg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paper and impregnated.
Senses: glosses: A kind of paper laminate treated with phenolic resin.
opinionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinionaires
Etymology: Blend of opinion + questionnaire
Senses: glosses: opinion poll
opinionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opinionaire
meterful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meterfuls
Etymology: From meter + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: If well constructed the latter class are most certain as to accurate measurement, but the former possess the advantage of allowing an uninterrupted current of water to pass through, which of course the latter cannot do, as the inlet and outlet valves must alternately be opened and closed to allow each meterful to be discharged and the registering vessel to be refilled.
ref: 1869, Principles and Construction of Machinery: A Practical Treatise on the Laws of the Transmission of Power, and of the Strength and Proportions of the Various Elements of Prime Movers, Mill-work, and Machinery Generally ..., page 140:
text: Had I gone across the street to the brilliant premises of the Cut Rate Pharmaceutical where they burn electric light by the meterful I should no sooner have said “tooth-brush,” than one of the ten clerks in white hospital jackets would have poured a glittering assortment over the counter—prophylactic, lactic and every other sort.
ref: 1916, Stephen Leacock, Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, London : J. Lane, the Bodley Head, page 185
text: The type of tree from which shields were made is not often identified in Latin epic, perhaps because the adjective for lindenwood in Latin was too much of a mouthful or meterful, but more likely because a difterent wood (namely, willow) was used in Italy.
ref: 2008, Jennifer R. Davis, Michael McCormick, The Long Morning of Medieval Europe: New Directions in Early Medieval Studies, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 200:
glosses: enough to fill a meter.
slamdancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slamdancers
Etymology: From slam + dancer.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in slam dancing.
slamdancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slamdancer
clout chasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clout chaser
Raphson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Newton-Raphson method
Halley's method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after its inventor, Edmond Halley.
Senses: qualifier: numerical analysis
glosses: A root-finding algorithm used for functions of one real variable with a continuous second derivative.
wikipedia: Edmond Halley
Householder's method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Householder's methods
Etymology: Named after the American mathematician Alston Scott Householder.
Senses: qualifier: numerical analysis
glosses: Any of a class of iterative root-finding algorithms used for functions of one real variable with continuous derivatives up to some order d + 1, each method being characterized by the number d.
Householder's methods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Householder's method
dodecanophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The normalized retentions of alkylphenones and secondary metabolites are determined relative to butyrophenone and dodecanophenone to minimize coelution of secondary metabolites in extracts and alkylphenone standards.
ref: 1994, R. R. M. Paterson, P. D. Bridge, Biochemical Techniques for Filamentous Fungi, page 69:
text: The migration time for dodecanophenone was more than 40 min when +20 kV was applied. In order to reduce the migration time without generating temperature gradient, external air pressure was applied.
ref: 2003, Journal of Chromatography, volumes 1006-1007, page 205:
glosses: An organic marker, C₁₈H₂₈O, that is used for the determination of electroosmotic velocity.
stadiumful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stadiumfuls
form: stadiumsful
Etymology: From stadium + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Tradition by the stadiums-ful and bids by the bowls-ful await three—and possibly four—Southeastern Conference teams Saturday.
ref: 1957 November 30, Paul Atkinson, “Bowl Bids Await Winners: Rebel-Maroon Clash Headlines Season Finales in SEC Warfare”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume XC, number 141, Atlanta, Ga., page 9:
text: I’ve watched the “magic” and the “mystery” of the Bible from soul-winning clinics, Salvation Army curb services, and stadiumsful-on-crusade to perjury-proofing on Perry Mason (“Swear to tell the whole truth . . . so help me God.”) to prophesies of submarines by desert-dwellers!
ref: 1975 December, The Student, volume LV, number 3, Nashville, Tenn.: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention:
text: He orchestrates the nuclear freeze choir, that includes bishops of the Pope’s own church, leaders of the Protestant churches enrolled in the National Council, professors by the thousands, and campus rioters by the stadiaful.
ref: 1983 February 17, Reporter, 94th year, number 41, Martinsville, Ind., page 1:
text: Later the distaff draftees drew stadiumsful of cheering, dedicated fans.
ref: 1992 July 14, Andrea Brunais, “On domes, diamonds and dames”, in The Tampa Tribune, 98th year, number 168, Tampa, Fla., page 4:
text: Tyrants want praise so much they demand it by the stadiumful, but forced praise is near screams and weeping.
ref: 2007, Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: He had a beautiful, faithless wife and a stadiumful of friends who drank his drinks and indulged his whims and privately considered him a fool.
ref: 2008, Edward Gorman, Rough Cut and New, Improved Murder, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 37:
text: And yet we’re stymied by the challenge of building affordable housing for what amounts to six stadiumsful of people.
ref: 2011, J. R. Dunn, Death by Liberalism: The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies, Broad Side, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Imagine a stadiumful of Millwall supporters compressed into one streamlined, gold-feathered body seven feet tall at the wing, and you're mind's-eyeball to eyeball with a phoenix, age two minutes.
ref: 2012, Tom Holt, chapter 4, in Open Sesame, Orbit, →ISBN:
text: All this would take place on a planet already copiously polluted with the chindi of innumerable millions of deceased humans, a planet of nasty, snarling ghosts, of stadiumsful of Ahrimanic Doubles looking for trouble.
ref: 2015, Richard Leviton, Theosophon 2033: A Visionary Recital About the World Event and Its Aftermath, iUniverse, →ISBN:
glosses: the amount that fills a stadium.
Tlacaxipehualiztli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tlacaxipeoaliztli
form: Tlacaxipeualiztli
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Tlācaxīpēhualiztli, from tlācatl (“person”) + xīpēhua (“to skin”) + -liztli (action suffix).
Senses: examples: text: THere was an other kinde of ſacrifice which they made in divers feaſts, which they called Racaxipe Velitzli^([sic]), which is as much as the fleaing of men.
ref: [1604, José de Acosta, translated by E. G., The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies, London, translation of Historia natural y moral delas Indias, page 386:
glosses: An Aztec religious festival.
examples: text: Tlacaxipeualiztli, the second Mexican month according to some authorities and the first according to others, began in 1521 on March 8th of our present calendar.
ref: 1916, Herbert J. Spinden, “The question of the zodiac in America”, in American Anthropologist, volume 18, number 1, page 66:
glosses: A month of the Aztec calendar.
brittle fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brittle fractures
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: type of fracture without plastic deformation
Related terms: ductile fracture
ductile fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ductile fractures
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: type of fracture with plastic deformation and ductile rupture
Related terms: brittle fracture
Salf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Salford taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: University of Salford, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate
raw_tags: after a qualification
framerule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: framerules
form: frame rule
Etymology: From frame + rule.
Senses: examples: text: to save a framerule
text: In this run, I arrived two framerules earlier.
text: When I play the game there's no accidentally saving a frame rule. That's physically impossible. You have to do some really crazy specific strategies to save any time beyond what the current record does.
ref: 2017 October 12, David Snyder, Speedrunning: Interviews with the Quickest Gamers (Studies in Gaming), McFarland, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: A multiple of frames (video pictures), at the beginning of which the game performs a check, typically as to whether the player reached an area.
framerules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of framerule
ardennite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ardennites
Etymology: Named after the Ardennes Mountains in Belgium + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellowish orthorhombic mineral that is a mixed silicate and vanadate, and may also have arsenate.
high licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high licences
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high license.
argentoroméite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of argentoromeite.
high licences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high licence
high license
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high licenses
form: high licence
Senses: glosses: A means of regulating sales of alcoholic drinks by charging retailers a comparatively large sum for the privilege of selling them.
argentoromeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From argento- + romeite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A silver-containing antimonite mineral
high licenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high license
argentobismutite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From argento- + bismutite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: matildite a silver bismuth sulfide.
xanthophyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthophyls
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of xanthophyll.
xanthophyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xanthophyl
chrysophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chryso- + -phyll.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: xanthophyll
glosses: The yellow colouring matter in the green chlorophyll pigment of plants.
icebelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icebelts
form: ice belt
Etymology: From ice + belt.
Senses: synonyms: icefoot
glosses: A belt of ice forming round the shores in Arctic regions.
icefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ice + foot.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of icebelt.
synonyms: word: icebelt
icebelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icebelt
diblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibling
biogenealogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + genealogical.
Senses: examples: text: As the child of an egg donor, I have been investigating my biogenealogical heritage.
glosses: Relating to a person's biology and genealogy.
water lot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒt
Forms: form: water lots
Senses: glosses: A piece of property (real estate) that is underwater.
water lots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water lot
water smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Water evaporating as visible mist.
water box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water boxes
Senses: glosses: A water jacket having the form of a box.
water boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water box
water mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water mantles
Senses: glosses: A water jacket.
water mantles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water mantle
mastery learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A teaching philosophy stating that students must achieve a level of mastery in each topic (e.g. 90% in a test) before moving on to further topics.
Related terms: flipped mastery
flipped mastery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The combination of flipped learning and mastery learning.
waterboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterboats
Etymology: From water + boat.
Senses: glosses: A boat carrying water in bulk to supply ships.
waterboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterboat
dialumino
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + alumino-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: containing two aluminium atoms
arenaful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arenafuls
form: arenasful
Etymology: From arena + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Called "Texania 72", the show blossomed with Texas talent and some nice international touches: an arenaful of flags of Rotary countries posted in by scores of galloping horsemen
ref: 1972, The Rotarian, page 27:
text: My initial thought was: 'It's what we call “vergüenza torera,” literally “a bullfighter's sense of shame,”' and then: 'Because bullfighters, of course, have loads of witnesses, a whole arenaful, plus sometimes a TV audience of millions,
ref: 2009, Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 4:
text: He had all the goods to make him a great lead singer: hot looks, an animal-like sexuality, a mysteriousness, and the ability to deliver to an arenaful of people and touch the person in the back row.
ref: 2010, Belinda Carlisle, Lips Unsealed: A Memoir, Crown Archetype, →ISBN, page 116:
text: It was our sincere hope that though they were singing for Jesus now, our new idols had once snorted their weight in cocaine and boinked arenasful of groupies.
ref: 2010, Matt Labash, Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: as much as an arena would hold.
diborate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diborates
Etymology: From di- + borate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or anion with oxygen and two boron atoms in the formula, (BO₃)₂ or B₂O₅
shepherd's rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dipsacus pilosus, a small kind of teasel.
Synonyms: shepherd's staff
small teasel
on the strength of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Compare Polish na mocy.
Senses: examples: text: The police arrested him on the strength of some rather flimsy evidence.
synonyms: upon the strength of
glosses: In reliance upon; on the basis of; using as a guide or support.
Hausers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hauser
smouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smous
glosses: plural of smouse
smouses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smous
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smouse
smouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smouses
form: smousing
form: smoused
form: smoused
form: smouze
Etymology: Borrowed from German schmausen (“to feast”).
Senses: examples: text: "Here, Honeſty, take this bill of fare: here is a liſt of ſome plain diſhes, which I ſhall neyer be averſe from; and which I could ſafely venture to ſmouze plentifully upon."
ref: 1775, [Francis Blackburne], A Few Strictures on the Confessional: […], London: T. Payne, page 12:
text: On the summer berries brousing, / On the garden fruits carousing, / All the grubs and vermin smousing.
ref: 1839, Aristophanes, translated by J[ohn] Hookham Frere, The Acharnians and Two Other Plays of Aristophanes;, London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., published 1909, page 149:
glosses: To feast (on something).
smouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smous.
smouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smouses
form: smousing
form: smoused
form: smoused
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smous.
honors easy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: honours easy
Senses: glosses: The situation where the honors are evenly divided.
honours easy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honors easy.
chemogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + genetics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A variant of optogenetics that uses chemically-engineered molecules instead of light
chemostability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemostabilities
Etymology: From chemo- + stability.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chemical stability
Related terms: chemostable
chemostable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + stable.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chemically stable
Related terms: chemostability
chitodisaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitodisaccharides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any disaccharide derived from chitin
chitodisaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitodisaccharide
chemostabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemostability
chitooligosaccharidolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That breaks down chitooligosaccharides
Clarenceux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clarencieux
Etymology: So named from the Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III.
Senses: glosses: The second king-of-arms in England.
Clarencieux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Clarenceux.
chlorocresols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorocresol
cinnarazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cinnarizine.
cleanerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleanerfishes
form: cleanerfish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cleaner fish.
clivorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pyrrolizidine alkaloid that induces apoptosis in some liver cells
select committees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of select committee
coinfuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coinfuses
form: coinfusing
form: coinfused
form: coinfused
form: co-infuse
Etymology: From co- + infuse.
Senses: glosses: To infuse along with another material.
coinfused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coinfuse
concurvity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concurvities
Etymology: From con- + curvity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of having the same curvature
consistantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of consistently.
coproparasitological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From copro- + parasitological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to coproparasites
coproparasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coproparasites
Etymology: From copro- + parasite.
Senses: glosses: Any parasite present in feces
Related terms: coproparasitological
corticographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to corticography
Derived terms: electrocorticographic
corynomycolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corynomycolates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of corynomycolic acid
corynomycolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corynomycolate
counterattitudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + attitudinal.
Senses: glosses: Having an opposing attitude
counterstereotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + stereotypic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counterstereotypical.
cripavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cripaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Cripavirus
cripaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cripavirus
Prytula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prytulas
form: Pritula
Etymology: From Ukrainian Притула (Prytula).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Притула (Prytula).
hybrid bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid bills
Senses: examples: text: 'Similarly, I intend to continue to progress the next stages of the hybrid bill for Phase 2a, West Midlands to Crewe, in the House of Lords while the review is ongoing'.
ref: 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
topics: government
glosses: A parliamentary bill that combines the characteristics of a private bill and a public bill.
hybrid bills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hybrid bill
rangered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ranger
unranged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ranged.
Senses: glosses: Not ranged.
nonranged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ranged.
Senses: glosses: Not ranged.
private bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private bills
Senses: topics: government
glosses: A parliamentary bill promoted by an organisation such as a local authority or company in order to obtain powers to do something.
examples: text: The Senate to-day passed upwards of fifty private bills, and the House quite as many. None of them, however, were of much magnitude.
ref: 1860 April 7, “From Washington”, in The New York Times:
text: A similar bill was passed in 2012 to give permanent residency to a Nigerian student who sought to pursue a medical degree and continue receiving treatment for a rare genetic disorder that caused large facial tumors. It was the last time a “private bill” became law.
ref: 2017 July 11, Emily Cochrane, “Lawmakers Push to Give Terminally Ill British Baby U.S. Residency”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
glosses: An item of legislation for the benefit of a particular individual, not codified with generally applicable laws.
private bills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private bill
Batfan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Batfans
Etymology: Blend of Batman + fan
Senses: glosses: A fan of the Batman comic-book franchise.
Synonyms: Batmaniac
Batfans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Batfan
Pritula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pritulas
form: Prytula
Senses: glosses: A surname.
telling-to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tellings-to
form: telling to
Etymology: From telling (“past participle of tell”) + to.
Senses: examples: text: We all watched the reaction, as Sergeant Rich received a good telling to.
ref: 2011 December 30, James III Brokaw, Waiting for War, Hedgie Press, →ISBN, page 97:
text: I suspect the Tories are desperate for a good telling to from someone like May who has authority and energy – and great optimism about the future, albeit expressed in more measured tones than her rather more hyperbolic rival.
ref: 2016 July 8, Judith Woods, “'Red boxes are very much banned from the bedroom'”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, retrieved 06 Oct 2019:
glosses: A reprimand, reproach, or lecture.
Synonyms: sense: reprimand
word: telling off
dalazatide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + [Term?] + -tide (“peptide, glycopeptide”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic peptide used to treat multiple sclerosis.
decaploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deca- + -ploidy.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of being decaploid
declumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of declump
declumped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: From which the clumps have been removed
deferrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The removal of iron, typically from a mineral
depletability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being depletable
detritusphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detrituspheres
Senses: glosses: The area of the sea in which detritus accumulates
diagrammatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diagrammatises
form: diagrammatising
form: diagrammatised
form: diagrammatised
Senses: glosses: To represent in the form of a diagram
diagrammatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diagrammatise
diagrammatised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Represented as a diagram
disconfirmability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being disconfirmable
disconfirmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Able to be disconfirmed
dotriacontanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic aldehyde that has 32 carbon atoms (CH₃(CH₂)₃₀CHO)
doxepine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doxepin.
dyseidetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + eidetic.
Senses: glosses: dyslexic with regard to the visual aspect of written words
dysphonetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + phonetic.
Senses: glosses: dyslexic with regard to the sounds of written words
Related terms: dyseidetic
four-minute warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-minute warnings
Senses: glosses: A UK government public alert system in use during the Cold War to advise of an imminent nuclear attack.
four-minute warnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-minute warning
speech fright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speech frights
form: speech-fright
form: speechfright
Etymology: From speech + fright.
Senses: examples: text: Do you know how Winston Churchill cured himself of speechfright? Yes, he used lo have it, just like most of us.
ref: 1958, Electrical West, volume 120, page 8:
glosses: The fear of speaking in public, especially of giving speech presentations.
glosses: A frightful incident brought about by one's fear of public speaking.
Related terms: stage-fright
speechfright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speechfrights
Etymology: From speech + fright.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of speech fright.
Circassienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Circassian
Etymology: Borrowed from French circassienne.
Senses: glosses: A kind of light cashmere of silk and mohair.
Cherkess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cherkesses
Etymology: From Russian черке́с (čerkés), of disputed origin, with suggestions including Turkic or Mongolic. See Circassians.
Senses: glosses: A Circassian.
Cherkesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cherkess
cherishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cherishably
form: most cherishably
Etymology: From cherishable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cherishable manner.
odorosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being odorous.
Moscowesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Moscow + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: But they were Moscowesque incidents and if they were planned to stir indignation against the Japanese, they partly succeeded.
ref: 1937, Percy Noël, When Japan Fights, page 36:
text: I sat through the meeting, studying the Moscowesque murals that bordered the Guild hall, garish daubs depicting the evolution of human society from slavery and barbarism, to the triumphant march of the intemational proletariat
ref: 1972, Ralph Chaplin, Wobbly, the rough-and-tumble story of an American radical, Da Capo Pr, page 381:
text: One then passes through a dank, Moscowesque underground passageway where a shade-craving old Russian busker with a synthesizer, a cotton cap, and a morose look is almost always playing 1960s Israeli schmaltz, lento.
ref: 2016, Adina Hoffman, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 249:
glosses: resembling Moscow.
cliquery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliqueries
Etymology: From clique + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: He was a keen observer of manners, and had a wholesome contempt for the little cliqueries which are generally formed by persons of narrow mind and sparse acquirements.
ref: 1883, George Bentley, After Business: Papers Written in the Intervals of Work, page 58:
text: Instances of loyalty to the smaller group as against the larger are innumerable, ranging from the strife of ' organized labor ' with ' organized capital ' through intra-labor-union and intracorporate conflicts, to the cliqueries and cabals of departmental groups in universities and the petty snobberies of medical men of different ' schools in their dealings with one another and the laity.
ref: 1926, Theodore Hildreth Eaton, Education and vocations: principles and problems of vocational education, page 103:
text: As mentioned earlier, in the strange cliqueries of South Africa, even a wayward white remains white, and is judged by standards of his own tribe.
ref: 1967, Eugene Heimler, Resistance Against Tyranny, page 54:
glosses: A social structure characterized by cliques.
examples: text: Democracy, Whiggery, and Cliquery will attract their elements and foment divisions among the people, to accomplish fancied schemes and accumulate power, while poverty, driven to despair, like hunger forcing its way through a wall, will break through the statutes of men, to save life and mend the breach in prison glooms.
ref: 1844, Joseph Smith, Views on the Government and Policy of the United States, page 10:
text: What garnered contempt from the pair were the criteria upon which admission to the poshocracy depended, criteria founded on the cliquery of the English upper classes, a cliquery that, disseminated as 'team spirit' (14) in public schools and perpetuated by the most privileged and credulous of undergraduates, found its way full-circle in the mentality of the graduating elite.
ref: 2016, Benjamin Kohlmann, Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain, page 26:
text: ...or to the nursery assistant who cannot progress to a more senior level because taking a full-time job would mean losing more in childcare costs than she would gain in salary, as it does to the vice-president or deputy CEO blocked from the top job by covert discrimination or male cliquery.
ref: 2017, Tom Schuller, The Paula Principle:
text: As well as the growing cliquery of school, where the girls had taken to forming and reforming into tiny splinter groups in accordance with a logic as convoluted as it was unspoken, work was becoming harder.
ref: 2018, Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading:
glosses: Cliquishness.
cliqueries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cliquery
poshocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From posh + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists are taken at their word, which has little to do with their character. A poshocracy exists in which scientists from smart universities and research centers can tell us anything and it is widely accepted as gospel.
ref: 1996, James R. Fisher, The Taboo Against Being Your Own Best Friend, page 166:
text: This, and perhaps a remark I made about the silly playfulness of the poshocracy, gave deep offence and led to the 'wrecking', as I called it, of my allotted rooms in the Old Court.
ref: 2003, M. E. Bury, E. J. Winter, Corpus Christi: Within Living Memory, page 26:
text: 'Too confoundedly poshocracy for my liking,' grunted Philip.
ref: 2006, The Wentworths: Alias 'un-named', page 256:
text: We used to watch the Poshocracy from our window as they walked about the court, met, waved gaily, exchanged suitably jolly greetings.
ref: 2013, Christopher Isherwood, Lions and Shadows, page 37:
text: What garnered contempt from the pair were the criteria upon which admission to the poshocracy depended, criteria founded on the cliquery of the English upper classes, a cliquery that, disseminated as 'team spirit' (14) in public schools and perpetuated by the most privileged and credulous of undergraduates, found its way full-circle in the mentality of the graduating elite.
ref: 2016, Benjamin Kohlmann, Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain, page 26:
glosses: A social elite.
bumphle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumphles
Senses: examples: text: At the risk of sounding like Walter Scott's Antiquary, seeing Roman remains in ilka bumphle in the landscape, I would like to point out that a third of all Roman coin finds in Fife have come from the centre of the modern town of Kirkcaldy.
ref: 1994, Scottish Language - Issues 13-16, page 9:
text: I look down at the dressing gown belt, the big bumphle in the knot and try to look casual.
ref: 2010, Janice Galloway, Where You Find It:
text: SADIE: I wondered what the bumphles were.
ref: 2015, John Byrne, The Slab Boys Trilogy:
glosses: A lump or mound where fabric does not lie smoothly.
bumphle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bumphles
form: bumphling
form: bumphled
form: bumphled
Senses: examples: text: I don't look in the mirror but it seems to fit as much as this sort of stuff ever does and the feather bits don't bumphle the material as much as you'd think.
ref: 1994, Andrew Motion, Candice Rodd, New Writing 3 - Volume 3, page 341:
text: 'Because the cushions have just been bumphled,' I replied. 'We're not allowed to use it until Thursday.'
ref: 2012, Lucy Mangan, My Family and Other Disasters:
text: Even her legs, bare and mottled beneath her bumphled skirts, have a healthy growth about them.
ref: 2015, Karen Campbell, Rise:
glosses: To form or cause a bumphle.
khella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kella
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic خِلَّة (ḵilla).
Senses: glosses: The plant Visnaga daucoides (syn. Ammi visnaga).
Synonyms: Ammi visnaga
bisnaga
bishop's weed
lesser bishop's weed
toothpick ami
toothpickweed
Derived terms: khellin
khellol
khelloside
bumphles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumphle
bumphles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bumphle
bumphling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bumphle
bumphled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bumphle
Holota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holotas
Etymology: From Ukrainian голота (holota), Czech holota, or Polish hołota.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
staggart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staggarts
form: staggard
Senses: examples: text: Now the antler'd monarch springs From his lair in tangled glade ; Now through waken'd forest rings Echo with the music made ; Now the bass of manly throat (As the bounding staggart flies) Mingles with the softer note, As some dame or maiden tries With her silv'ry voice to cheer Laggard hound, who panting hies Baying deeply in the rear;
ref: 1876, James Harris, Logs for the Christmas fire, page 79:
text: Over came all the herd, one by one, hinds and calves, “brockets” and “staggarts,” then the “warrantable deer,” the rear brought up by a magnificent old stag.
ref: 1888, The Christian Union - Volume 37, page 10:
text: Stumberleap reared up on his hind legs, then plunged down his head, and his antlers rattled against the antlers of the staggart.
ref: 1937, A Century of Nature Stories, page 535:
text: I feel like an old stag squired by a staggart: but as Windles and the fan get on happily together, all is well.
ref: 1938, Henry Williamson, Goodbye, West Country, page 212:
glosses: A four-year-old male deer, identified by having three-pronged antlers.
staggarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staggart
rhymier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rhymey: more rhymey
rhymiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rhymey: most rhymey
rhymy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rhymier
form: rhymiest
Senses: examples: text: Her rhymes now and then become just a trace too "rhymy" — almost "doggerel" in a few instances.
ref: 1969, Stanley Dehler Mayer, Fantasy - Volumes 1-3:
text: His rhymy feeling, as Pound and Eliot suspected, is the final word back to and towards which the book is written.
ref: 1996, Adam Piette, Remembering and the Sound of Words:
text: He reeled off several rods of poetry now, of his usual spiritual pattern — rhymy and jingly and all that, but not good, for his mind had decayed since he died.
ref: 2011, Mark Twain, Walter Blair, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories, page 245:
text: I forget how the lines run, but they've got rhymy words on the ends.
ref: 2012, James Still, Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still:
glosses: Alternative form of rhymey.
plane fright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plane-fright
Etymology: From plane + fright.
Senses: examples: text: Ali craves motion (although he used to have drastic plane fright) and during his exile he had to keep going even though there was no place to go, like a retired businessman starting for the office.
ref: 1975, Wilfrid Sheed, Muhammad Ali, page 89:
text: By the time we arrived at the hotel, Nick had recovered from his plane-fright.
ref: 1998, Jordan Cray, Dead Man's Hand, page 27:
glosses: Fear of planes, especially fear of air-travel on planes.
Related terms: aviophobia
aerophobia
bean clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean clams
Senses: synonyms: coquina
glosses: A bivalve of the genus Donax.
wedge shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedge shells
Senses: glosses: Any of multiple bivalves, particularly a bean clam, but sometimes also a tellin or close relative.
two-hourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From two + hourly.
Senses: examples: text: The proposed service, outlined earlier this year [...] would begin in May 2021 and would initially operate at two-hourly intervals between Cardiff Central and London Paddington, with calls at Newport, Severn Tunnel Junction and Bristol Parkway.
ref: 2019 October, “South Wales open access bid”, in Modern Railways, page 15:
text: Commencement of a two-hourly service pattern by GWR marked the return of regular services to Okehampton for the first time since their withdrawal in 1972. There are plans to extend this to hourly.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Thousands savour Okehampton visit”, in RAIL, number 948, page 11:
glosses: Every two hours.
Synonyms: bihourly