cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coursemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coursemate
thankyouverymuch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: American Express will do nicely, thankyouverymuch.
ref: 1987, Geoff Crowther, East Africa: a travel survival kit:
text: Changing a spark plug was easier than building a computer – which she had done, thankyouverymuch – or even just making a really good risotto.
ref: 2007, Lucy A. Snyder, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger:
text: Dress pants (pleated, thankyouverymuch) with a hole in the back pocket? Sure thing.
ref: 2008, Cara Freie, I Love Ranch Dressing: And Other Stuff White Midwesterners Like:
glosses: Alternative form of thank you very much.
testingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more testingly
form: most testingly
Etymology: From testing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I have lived as a spoiled child and you have lived as an exposed child, and now those children are looking testingly at each other.
ref: 1994, Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate, The Best Intentions:
text: At the same time she lifts her left leg testingly in a kind of skip or dance step, before exiting quietly stage right.
ref: 1997, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Jo Riley, The show and the gaze of theatre: a European perspective:
glosses: In a tentative and experimental manner.
examples: text: ...whether the exercises took place in recognized military training areas or in territory testingly unfamiliar to the troops.
ref: 2005, Thom Burnett, Conspiracy Encyclopedia:
glosses: In a challenging manner; so as to test the stamina, patience, etc.
warwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From war + wood. Perhaps at least partly an allusion to koa (Acacia koa), a tree endemic to Hawaii with wood similar in quality to Juglans nigra, black walnut, and whose name in Hawaiian can also mean warrior, or to beefwood (Casuarina equisetifolia) which also has deep-colored, hard wood and in some Polynesian languages shares the same association between the name and words for warriors (both cognate with the Hawaiian term).
Senses: examples: text: Sons of battle! Hunters of men!
Raise high your war-wood!
Hack away merry men, hack away.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi:
text: Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea warwood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers.
...little canoes of dark wood, like the rich warwood of his native isle.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: 1880, Gerald Manley Hopkins, "Spring and fall to a young child" in T.M. Flormata-Ballesteros, Speech and Oral Communication, page 144, →ISBN.
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of warwood leafmeal lie
glosses: Wood used for military materiel, especially in the context of historical warfare
wartier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of warty: more warty
wartiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of warty: most warty
prescriptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: imprescriptible
glosses: Subject to prescription.
renderest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: render + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of render
yrneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɝni/
ipa: /ˈɜːni/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
homophone: ERNIE
homophone: Ernie
Forms: form: yrnehs
Etymology: henry reversed; compare daraf, mho.
Senses: glosses: A reciprocal unit of measurement for electrical inductance.
yrnehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yrneh
motorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorisations
Etymology: From motorise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of motorization.
motorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From motor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a motor (machine or device).
synonyms: carless
glosses: Without a motor car.
motorbiker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorbikers
Etymology: From motorbike + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Motorbikers must wear helmets, but Sikh motorbikers may wear their traditional turban; school students must wear uniforms, but Muslim schoolgirls may wear their headscarf, as long as it is in the uniform colors.
ref: 2002, Gerd Baumann, The Multicultural Riddle: Rethinking National, Ethnic and Religious Identities, page 47:
text: The catastrophic injury ratio of male-to-female motorbikers is 8.5, probably reflecting a higher proportion of male motorbike riders in the Ontario population (Table 18.2).
ref: 2008, Vanessa I. Paesani, Charles H. Tator, “18: Motorbiking”, in Charles H. Tator, editor, Catastrophic Injuries in Sports and Recreation: Causes and Prevention, unnumbered page:
text: “I don't think I've ever seen a gang of Viking-clad motorbikers before,” I confessed. “Do you think it's a convention?”
ref: 2011, Gregory Blecha, The Land of Magical Thinking: A Fable, page 18:
glosses: A motorcyclist.
Synonyms: biker
bikie
motorcyclist
Related terms: motorbike
motorbiking
motorbikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorbiker
motorisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorisation
Wollemi pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wollemi pines
Etymology: From the Wollemi region in New South Wales.
Senses: glosses: An Australian coniferous tree (Wollemia nobilis) in the family Araucariaceae, not a true pine.
wikipedia: Wollemi
versional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From version + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Against some scholars, who regard the double readings phenomenon as a versional one, Talmon insists that in fact the translator's primary task was to translate and it was only fairly late in the versional process that the translator started to base his work on more than one MS at a time (Talmon 1960:152).
ref: 2001, Aulikki Nahkola, Double narratives in the Old Testament:
glosses: Of or pertaining to versions.
vertiginousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vertiginous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being vertiginous.
untouchedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untouched + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not having been touched.
overcalculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcalculations
Etymology: From over- + calculation.
Senses: glosses: Calculation producing too large a result.
overcalculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcalculation
undercalculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercalculations
Etymology: From under- + calculation.
Senses: glosses: Calculation producing too small a result.
undercalculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercalculation
underbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbrush
undercalculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercalculates
form: undercalculating
form: undercalculated
form: undercalculated
Etymology: From under- + calculate.
Senses: glosses: To calculate as being smaller than is actually the case.
undercalculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undercalculate
undercalculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercalculate
undercalculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercalculate
overbuying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbuy
overbuys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbuy
underbuy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underbuys
form: underbuying
form: underbought
form: underbought
Etymology: From under- + buy.
Senses: glosses: To buy at less than the value of.
glosses: To buy at less than the price of another.
examples: text: Well, just as you can overbuy when selecting a home, you can underbuy. That's what Nathan and Rebecca did when they bought their first home. They believed in living within their means — a good thing — but they took it to an extreme.
ref: 2009, Eric Tyson, Ray Brown, Home Buying for Dummies:
glosses: To buy too little.
underbuys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underbuy
underbuying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underbuy
underbought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underbuy
droughtless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drought + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without drought.
adiabaticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adiabaticity
benzenediamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzenediamines
Etymology: From benzene + diamine.
Senses: glosses: diaminobenzene
diversificated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diversificated
form: most diversificated
Senses: glosses: Synonym of diversified.
synonyms: word: diversified
diversificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diversificate
Related terms: diversification
nontopological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + topological.
Senses: glosses: Not topological
semileptonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semileptonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a semileptonic manner
allosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allosaurs
Senses: glosses: Any of several huge carnivorous dinosaurs, of the superfamily Allosauroidea, from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods
nondiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diverse.
Senses: glosses: Not diverse.
allowedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more allowedly
form: most allowedly
Etymology: From allowed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: admittedly, as conceded.
nondiving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diving.
Senses: examples: a nondiving medical emergency
a nondiving vertebrate
glosses: Not pertaining to, or taking part in, diving.
allosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allosaur
scathingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scathing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For all his scathingness, and despite his unremitting intellect, Mr. Joyce was a romantic when it came to women.
ref: 2003, Jefferey Simons, Silverpowdered olivetrees: reading Joyce in Spain:
glosses: The quality of being scathing.
benzenediamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzenediamine
changeout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changeouts
Etymology: From change + out.
Senses: glosses: The replacement of a part for a better one, especially during maintenance
divulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divulgences
Senses: glosses: The act of divulging.
glosses: Something that is divulged.
icinglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more icinglike
form: most icinglike
Etymology: From icing + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of icing.
divulgences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divulgence
changeouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of changeout
endgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endgates
Etymology: From end + gate.
Senses: glosses: tailboard
nonmaturity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + maturity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nonmature; absence of maturity.
nonpaging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + paging.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not paging.
endgates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endgate
everblooming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ever + blooming.
Senses: glosses: Describes a plant that blooms throughout the growing season.
undared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dared.
Senses: examples: text: […] we discover the fine impulses we failed to act upon, the kind words we left unsaid, the ambitions we left undared.
ref: 1982, Ann Ulanov, Barry Ulanov, Primary speech: a psychology of prayer:
glosses: Not dared.
everbloomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: everbloomers
Etymology: From ever + bloomer.
Senses: glosses: A plant that blooms throughout the growing season.
Related terms: everblooming
everbloomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of everbloomer
hesitater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hesitaters
form: hesitator
Etymology: From hesitate + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hesitates.
hatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hating
haltings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halting
hesitaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hesitater
hesitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hesitators
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hesitater.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word, such as "er" or "um", expressing hesitation on the part of the speaker.
hesitators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hesitator
unhesitatingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unhesitating + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unhesitating.
hesitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hesitative
form: most hesitative
Etymology: From hesitate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Distinguished by hesitation; hesitating.
Derived terms: hesitatively
hesitativeness
Related terms: hesitant
walk away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks away
form: walking away
form: walked away
form: walked away
Senses: examples: text: Company lawyers told him to walk away from the deal.
text: Green adds: "Luckily, nobody did walk away. Railtrack stayed with it, so did the government, so did the Strategic Rail Authority.
ref: 2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 35:
text: When John Lithgow was announced as Dumbledore, he revealed that a friend had sent him a link to an article entitled: “An open letter to John Lithgow: Please walk away from Harry Potter.”
ref: 2025 June 11, Stuart Heritage, “‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To withdraw from a problematic situation.
glosses: Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
glosses: To free oneself from a debt such as a mortgage by abandoning the collateral to the lender. To make a strategic default.
examples: text: The football team walked away with a 1-0 victory.
glosses: To survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm.
examples: text: I took one last look at the house and walked away.
text: Shepard: Mordin, walk away.
Mordin: Can't do that, Shepard.
Shepard: I don't have a choice here. Walk away, or I will fire.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, away.
Derived terms: walk away from
walk away with
Related terms: walk-away
walkaway
Panafricanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pan-Africanism.
hydatid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydatids
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑδατίς (hudatís, “watery vesicle”).
Senses: examples: text: Your sacred Majesty, he has the dropsy;—
We shall find pints of hydatids in’s liver,
He has not half an inch of wholesome fat
Upon his carious ribs—
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
glosses: A cyst due to infection by larvae of some species of the tapeworm Echinococcus.
Derived terms: antihydatid
hydatidiform
hydatid of Morgagni
hydatidosis
hydatiduria
hydatiform
Pan-Africanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan-Africanism
form: Panafricanism
Etymology: From pan- + African + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A sociopolitical movement seeking to unify native Africans and those of African heritage into a global community.
Related terms: Afrocentrism
Black liberation
Garveyism
Nkrumaism
Sankarism
woeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From woe + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of woe.
inquorate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + quorate.
Senses: examples: text: We should treat them as individual exceptions; the agreement class is inquorate and is not the basis for a fifth gender value, with just two nouns.
ref: 2012, Greville G. Corbett, Features, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 85:
text: None of these three classes should be recognized as a gender value, since they have insufficient members: they are “inquorate”.
ref: 2013, Greville G. Corbett, The Expression of Gender, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: That lacks the number sufficient to form a quorum.
sorrowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sorrow + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of sorrow.
hesitativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hesitative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being hesitative.
hesitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hesitative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hesitative manner or fashion.
Derived terms: unhesitatively
journalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːn(ə)laɪz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝnl̩ˌaɪz/
Forms: form: journalizes
form: journalizing
form: journalized
form: journalized
Etymology: From journal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To record in a journal.
examples: text: I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
ref: 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 162
glosses: To write in a journal; to keep a journal.
Derived terms: churnalize
journalizer
unjournalized
unhesitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhesitative
form: most unhesitative
Etymology: From un- + hesitative.
Senses: glosses: Not hesitative; doing something without hesitating.
Derived terms: unhesitatively
plugback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plugbacks
Etymology: From plug + back.
Senses: glosses: A large plug, usually of cement, used to shut off an oil well.
plugbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plugback
unhesitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From un- + hesitatively.
Senses: glosses: In an unhesitative manner or fashion.
layshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: layshafts
Etymology: From lay + shaft.
Senses: glosses: A subsidiary transmission shaft.
layshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of layshaft
monzonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monzonites
Etymology: From Monzoni in the Italian Tyrol, + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Crumbling silvery stone beneath her hand and in front of her face: monzonite, maybe, or one of the lesser schists.
ref: 2015, N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season, Orbit (2016), page 277:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of plagioclase and orthoclase
Derived terms: micromonzonite
monzonitic
quartz monzonite
noisecore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noise + -core.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of hardcore punk music characterized by distorted feedback
overreadiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + readiness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being overready
overready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overready
form: most overready
Etymology: From over- + ready.
Senses: glosses: Too ready
Derived terms: overreadily
playscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playscapes
Etymology: From play + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A designed landscape for play
glosses: A designed landscape for play that includes settings and features beyond traditional playground equipment (e.g. logs, planted play settings, sand or mud play, paths for wheeled toy use, etc.)
glosses: A playground where the playground equipment is cohesively integrated with topography, plantings, and circulation systems.
playsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playsuits
Etymology: From play + suit.
Senses: examples: text: Like Marsha, his hair was tinged a faint rusty red. Sound asleep in a chair in the corner was a small girl, perhaps three, in a rumpled playsuit.
ref: c. 1950, Philip K. Dick, Voices From the Street, published 2007, →ISBN:
glosses: A one-piece stretch garment worn by very young children.
examples: text: To some, the very word "playsuit", with its frolicsome associations, will induce the conviction that this is not an item of clothing to be seen alive in. But playsuits are the natural second stage of the shorts revolution.
ref: 2007 May 10, “Pick of the week - playsuits”, in The Guardian:
text: The playsuit combines shorts, a skirt, and a backless bodice.
ref: 2010, Mary Beth Klatt, Chicago's Fashion History: 1865–1945, →ISBN:
glosses: A one-piece item of clothing for women.
glosses: A one-piece undergarment for women.
Derived terms: playsuited
presswork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressworks
Etymology: From press + -work.
Senses: glosses: The operation of a printing press.
glosses: Printed material.
glosses: The act or process of pressing or drawing with dies or presses; or the product of such work.
qualifier: cabinet-making
glosses: Work consisting of a series of cross-grained veneers united by glue, heat, and pressure.
glosses: Pottery produced by pressing clay into moulds.
printery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printeries
Etymology: From print + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A printworks.
printeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printery
rootball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootballs
form: root ball
Etymology: From root + ball.
Senses: glosses: The mass of roots and associated soil that comes up with a plant lifted from the soil or from a container.
semirigid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semirigids
form: semi-rigid
Etymology: From semi- + rigid.
Senses: examples: text: Semirigids were less expensive to build than rigids, and could be laid flat when deflated, making them much more convenient to store or transport long distances, while a semirigid's internal structural reinforcement allowed it to be built larger than a nonrigid and to fly faster without buckling or telescoping.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: semirigid balloon
glosses: An airship or dirigible which maintains its shape using a combination of internal pressure and a rigid structural framework.
Coordinate terms: rigid
nonrigid
semirigid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-rigid
Etymology: From semi- + rigid.
Senses: glosses: Partially rigid.
Related terms: semirigidity
semirigidly
speechreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speech + reading.
Senses: glosses: Lipreading.
spodosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spodosols
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A type of soil that has a spodic horizon; includes most podsols.
spoilsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoilsmen
Etymology: From spoils + man.
Senses: examples: text: Cameron's notoriety as a spoilsman who had been in turn a Democrat, a Know-Nothing, and had flirted with Whiggery, militated against his candidacy among delegates concerned that the party should appear to be as pure as Caesar's wife.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 217:
glosses: A politician who serves only for a share of the spoils.
traumatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traumatisms
Senses: glosses: A physical or mental injury that is the result of trauma
Derived terms: microtraumatism
myotraumatism
polytraumatism
psychotraumatism
undersoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersoils
Etymology: From under- + soil.
Senses: examples: text: It is a singular fact, that on the two great continents in the northern hemisphere […] we have the zone of perpetually frozen under-soil in a low latitude […]
ref: 1845, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, Chapter , p. 249:
text: But comfort me, my love, now the fires are low,
Now I am broken to earth like a winter destroyed, and all
Myself but a knowledge of roots, of roots in the dark that throw
A net on the undersoil, which lies passive beneath their thrall.
ref: 1916, D. H. Lawrence, “Discipline”, in Amores, London: Duckworth, page 37:
text: The childish levels, the undersoil of the mind, had been turned up. She wanted to be with Nice people, away from Nasty people—that nursery distinction seeming at the moment more important than any later categories of Good and Bad or Friend and Enemy.
ref: 1945, C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, London: The Bodley Head, published 1965, Part Two, Chapter 5, p. 166:
text: Dougal pointed out to his policemen friends the evidence of the Thames silt in the under-soil. ‘One time,’ he said, ‘the Thames was five miles wide, and it covered all Peckham.’
ref: 1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 7, in The Ballad of Peckham Rye, London: Macmillan:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The soil underneath the surface / topsoil and above the bedrock.
unsurmountable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsurmountable
form: most unsurmountable
Etymology: From un- + surmountable.
Senses: glosses: insurmountable
vacillator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacillators
Etymology: From vacillate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who vacillates.
Synonyms: willow in the wind
watchcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchcases
Etymology: From watch + case.
Senses: examples: Holonym: watch
related: word: watch case
word: watch face
word: watchface
word: watchband
word: watchwork
hypernyms: case#Noun
casing#Noun
glosses: The casing that holds the mechanism of a watch.
Related terms: watch paper
wittedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From witted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being witted
Related terms: dim-wittedness
keen-wittedness
nimble-wittedness
quick-wittedness
shallow-wittedness
slow-wittedness
pencil sharpeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencil sharpener
parki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parkis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parka (hooded jacket)
autopositioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + positioning.
Senses: glosses: automatic positioning
autodocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + docking.
Senses: glosses: automatic docking
redelete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redeletes
form: redeleting
form: redeleted
form: redeleted
Etymology: From re- + delete.
Senses: glosses: To delete again.
redeleting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redelete
redeleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redelete
nondissemination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + dissemination.
Senses: examples: text: Nations joining the organisation had to sign a nondissemination treaty.
glosses: Lack of dissemination (especially of nuclear weapons).
chaturanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Indian game, its rules not fully known, presumed to be the ancestor of chess and similar games.
Related terms: shatranj
nondisjointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + disjointed.
Senses: glosses: Not disjointed.
beys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bey
beks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bek
biopharma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening; compare pharma.
Senses: glosses: The biopharmaceutical industry.
drygulcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drygulchers
Etymology: From dry + gulch + -er.
Senses: glosses: In the Wild West, a hired assassin who shoots his targets from a concealed location.
drygulchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drygulcher
drygulched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drygulch
flopdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flop + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: But, in truth, Guy is a flop for a reason: despite his artistic talent, he's embraced flopdom with open arms!
ref: 2003, Josquin Des Pres, Mark Landsman, Reality Check: Priceless Advice for Musicians:
text: Exhibit A in the case for the country’s new love affair with flopdom would have to be “American Idol,” arguably the most influential showbiz phenomenon of the last decade.
ref: 2007 April 8, Charles Isherwood, “Take a Bow, Loser, the Spotlight’s Yours”, in New York Times:
glosses: The realm of flops or failures.
frappuccinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frappuccino
limousinelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more limousinelike
form: most limousinelike
Etymology: From limousine + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a limousine.
Synonyms: limolike
limolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more limolike
form: most limolike
Etymology: From limo + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a limousine.
Synonyms: limousinelike
slingshotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slingshot
datepalm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datepalms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of date palm.
Bayoud disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic أَبْيَض (ʔabyaḍ, “white”), in reference to the whitish discoloration of diseased fronds.
Senses: glosses: A disease of date palms, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum.
datepalms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datepalm
uncheated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cheated.
Senses: glosses: Not cheated.
slingshotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slingshot
nonpharma
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pharma.
Senses: examples: text: To this end, some developers use plants like rice and safflower that self-pollinate, reducing the risk of contaminating nonpharma plants by wind and insect pollination.
ref: 2007 April 8, Denise Caruso, “How to Confine the Plants of the Future?”, in New York Times:
text: To the objection that user fees might end up merely funding other, nonpharma departments of the FDA, Mossinghoff made sure the new legislation mandated that all user fees be strictly dedicated to hiring and supporting drug reviewers.
ref: 2007, Greg Critser, Generation Rx:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry.
nonslaveholding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + slaveholding.
Senses: glosses: Not slaveholding.
nonslaveholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonslaveholders
Etymology: From non- + slaveholder.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a slaveholder.
nonslaveholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonslaveholder
nonutility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonutilities
Etymology: From non- + utility.
Senses: glosses: A company, etc. that is not a utility.
nonutilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonutility
Isadore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɪzədɔɹ/
Etymology: A non-standard variant of Isidore, possibly inspired by the well-known feminine variant Isadora of Isidora.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
off-speed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: offspeed
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Being a pitch thrown at a slower speed than a fastball, such as a change-up.
offspeed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of off-speed.
parbake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parbakes
form: parbaking
form: parbaked
form: parbaked
Etymology: Formed by analogy with parboil, from bake.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To bake (bread or dough) partially so it can be rapidly frozen for storage.
Related terms: parcook
parfry
prebake
precook
parbakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parbake
parbaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parbake
parbaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parbake
commandership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commanderships
Etymology: From commander + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role of a commander.
commanderships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commandership
nonformalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + formalized.
Senses: glosses: Not formalized.
halftimbered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half-timbered.
intellegent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Put on your thinking cap and go see an intellegent, intensly well thought out noir/science fiction film with a plot that makes sensable, practical use of phenominal special effects.
ref: 2010, "American" (username), Great, Intellegent Brain Twister, Yahoo Movies, 2010-07-20, accessed on 2011-10-26
glosses: Misspelling of intelligent.
parkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parki
crookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crookeries
Etymology: From crook + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.
ref: 1959, Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure:
text: But this is small time crookery to the real manipulators and deceivers.
ref: 2003, Martin Howell, Predators and profits: 100+ ways for investors to protect their nest eggs:
text: What the people never knew at the time was the scale and audacity of the crookeries of Harding's advisers. In 1923 the Senate investigated 'irregularities' in the Veterans' Bureau. It had been defrauded of tidy sums by its chief […]
ref: 2008, Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America:
glosses: The activities of crooks; crime.
Chelm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /xɛlm/
rhymes: -ɛlm
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Chełm. Doublet of holm.
Senses: examples: text: The fool I am, the fool. A citizen of Chelm, an idiot, one of those characters my grandfather's legends are made of.
ref: 1999, Martha Blum, The Walnut Tree, Coteau, →ISBN, page 100:
text: You are the quintessential Chelmsman, Art -- indeed, you are the prince of the Sages of Chelm.
ref: 2010 January 27, "nordicskiv2" <David.L.Webb@Dartmouth.edu>, "Re: HELMsman", message-ID <6dd30c30-f7a7-4c45-b737-bf2cf44c9e49@l19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare, Usenet http://google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/msg/929cd7405c1a35a3
glosses: A city in Poland, known for the Jewish stories about its (mythical) stupid residents.
sermonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sermonlike
form: most sermonlike
Etymology: From sermon + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sermon.
relinquisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relinquishers
Etymology: From relinquish + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who relinquishes.
proddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodding
relinquishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relinquisher
reregulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reregulates
form: reregulating
form: reregulated
form: reregulated
Etymology: From re- + regulate.
Senses: glosses: To regulate again or anew.
Related terms: reregulation
reregulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reregulate
reregulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reregulate
reregulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reregulate
restructurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restructurers
Etymology: From restructure + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, restructures.
restructurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restructurer
sidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sida
ROFLMDAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: ROFLMAO with the insertion of damn for emphasis: Abbreviation of rolling on the floor laughing my damn ass off.
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate amusement.
Related terms: LMAO
ROFL
ROTFL
ROFLOL
ROFLMFAO
shortcode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortcodes
form: short code
form: short-code
Etymology: From short + code.
Senses: glosses: A special short telephone number for an SMS or MMS service, designed to be easier to remember.
shortcodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortcode
deplorability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deplorable + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: deplorableness
glosses: The quality of being deplorable.
hash brownie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæʃ ˈbɹaʊni/
rhymes: -aʊni
Forms: form: hash brownies
form: hashbrownie
Etymology: From hash (“hashish”) + brownie.
Senses: examples: text: See, I'm a city slicker, I, I ain't no townie / Right now, I wish I had another hash brownie
ref: 1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:
glosses: A brownie laced with hashish and eaten for its psychoactive effects.
Related terms: pot brownie
deplorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deploration
deplorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deplorers
Etymology: From deplore + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who deplores.
deplorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deplorer
devascularisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of devascularization.
devascularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devascularizations
Etymology: From de- + vascularization.
Senses: glosses: The destruction or blocking of blood vessels and concomitant loss of blood supply to an organ
brandylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brandylike
form: most brandylike
Etymology: From brandy + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of brandy.
freezables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freezable
erythrodifferentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erythro- + differentiation.
Senses: glosses: differentiation to form the five different types of white blood cells
interstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + stroke.
Senses: glosses: Between strokes (in any context)
benchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more benchlike
form: most benchlike
Etymology: From bench + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bench.
mesorectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + rectal.
Senses: examples: See total mesorectal excision
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the middle part of the rectum
Derived terms: extramesorectal
Thousand Island dressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thousand Island dressings
form: thousand island dressing
form: Thousand Islands dressing
form: thousand islands dressing
Etymology: From Thousand Island + dressing, because the dressing has often been said to have originated in the Thousand Islands region, located along the upper St Lawrence River, near its head at Lake Ontario, between the United States and Canada. As Wikipedia explains, this etymology is not known with certainty.
Senses: glosses: A salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables.
Synonyms: Thousand Island sauce
Thousand Islands sauce
thousand island sauce
thousand islands sauce
Thousand Island salad dressing
Thousand Islands salad dressing
thousand island salad dressing
thousand islands salad dressing
Coordinate terms: sense: a sauce derived from Thousand Island sauce
word: burger sauce
sense: a sauce derived from Thousand Island sauce
word: secret sauce
sense: a sauce derived from Thousand Island sauce
word: special sauce
sense: a sauce derived from Thousand Island sauce
word: Big Mac sauce
noncertifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + certifiable.
Senses: glosses: uncertifiable
straitlacedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From straitlaced + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strait-lacedness.
fret saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fret saws
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fretsaw.
Derived terms: fret-sawyer
straightfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more straightfaced
form: most straightfaced
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of straight-faced.
Derived terms: straightfacedly
straightfacedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more straightfacedly
form: most straightfacedly
Etymology: From straightfaced + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a straight face.
facedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From faced + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He straight-facedly told me that he'd been to the Moon.
text: She two-facedly advised Lisa about how to keep the boyfriend she herself had been cheating with.
glosses: With a particular kind of face.
Related terms: two-facedly
paintlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paintlike
form: most paintlike
Etymology: From paint + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of paint.
paintmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paint + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of paint.
Squaresville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From square + -s- + -ville, evoking a fictional town.
Senses: examples: text: But too often it reads like the second-rate movies that in the ’60s tried to cash in on the Bond success, the Matt Helm and Derek Flint pictures in which 007’s cool was reduced to swinging bachelor squaresville, a place where it was believed that all the right accouterments — the right stereo system, the right booze, the right sex — equaled style and wit.
ref: 2007 April 8, Charles Taylor, “My Favorite Spy”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fictional or generic location occupied by unfashionable people.
subadviser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subadvisers
Etymology: From sub- + adviser.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of subadvisor.
subadvisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subadviser
tenon saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenon saw
widowmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widowmakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of widow-maker.
widowmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of widowmaker
widow-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of widow-maker
lawnmowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lawn + mowing.
Senses: glosses: The mowing of a lawn.
lawnmowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From lawn + mowing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lawnmow
Related terms: grasscutting
grasscutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grass + cutting.
Senses: glosses: The cutting of grass.
Related terms: lawnmowing
grasscycled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grasscycle
tartlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tartlike
form: most tartlike
Etymology: From tart + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The custom of preparing rich, tartlike cheesecakes with eggs, mild fresh cheese, lemon, and often raisins or currants dates back centuries in Europe.
ref: 2005, Nancy Baggett, The All-American Dessert Book:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tart (confection).
examples: text: We're talking about a workplace where any young woman with a sufficiently tartlike demeanor could reportedly enjoy the President's precious affections
ref: 2008, Ashley Herzog, Feminism Vs. Women:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tart (prostitute or loose woman).
chillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chill + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being chilled.
Derived terms: unchillable
batteree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batterees
Etymology: From batter + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is battered (beaten by spouse etc.).
batterees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batteree
as you know
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: as it is already known.
uncredentialled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uncredentialed
Etymology: From un- + credentialled.
Senses: glosses: Without credentials.
uncredentialed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + credentialed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uncredentialled.
underworkman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underworkmen
Etymology: From under- + workman.
Senses: glosses: An inferior or subordinate labourer.
underworkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underworkman
upzone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upzones
form: upzoning
form: upzoned
form: upzoned
Etymology: From up- + zone.
Senses: examples: text: For example, a neighborhood of single-family homes may be upzoned to multifamily residential or a mixed-use (commercial plus residential) zone.
ref: 2001, Randal O'Toole, The vanishing automobile and other urban myths:
text: This won't be easy. The pronatalists combine conservative social nudges (get married, start a family) with liberal policy objectives (give parents more money, upzone the suburbs), which makes for tricky politics.
ref: 2025 February 23, Marc Novicoff, “The Loneliness of the Conservative Pronatalist”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To rezone for more intensive use.
upzoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upzone
upzoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upzonings
Senses: glosses: A rezoning for more intensive use.
upzones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upzone
upzoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upzone
bombmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bomb + making.
Senses: examples: text: […] reposted bombmaking and narcotics manuals from notorious publishers like Paladin and Loompanics.
ref: 2020, Mark A. Tallman, Ghost Guns, page 138:
glosses: The manufacture of bombs.