cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hyperphrenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + -phrenia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A state of mental overactivity such as occurs in flights of ideas or in a manic episode.
hypertaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypertax
contralesional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contra- + lesion + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing the half of a patient's brain or body away from the site of a lesion, as for example with hemispatial neglect after a stroke.
Derived terms: contralesionally
Related terms: contralateral
spherosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherosomes
Etymology: From sphero- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small plant organelle that stores fat
Synonyms: oleosome
splinter bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splinter bars
Senses: glosses: A crossbar in a coach, which supports the springs.
glosses: The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.
cotransfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotransfections
form: co-transfection
Etymology: From co- + transfection.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The simultaneous transfection with two, unrelated nucleic acids, one of which carries a marker gene
Related terms: cotransfectant
cryoturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoturbations
Etymology: From cryo- + turbation.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several forms of disturbances within soils and subsoils as a result of freeze–thaw processes in periglacial conditions.
Synonyms: cryopedoturbation
Derived terms: cryoturbational
antidumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-dumping
Etymology: From anti- + dumping.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, it relied on antidumping actions to combat what it said were unfair Chinese trade practices.
ref: 2007 April 2, David Lague, “China Says New U.S. Duty Disrupts Relations”, in New York Times:
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
trading
glosses: Intended to combat or prevent dumping, the sale of goods below cost for anticompetitive purposes
alataes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alatae
spherosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spherosome
splinter bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splinter bar
locknotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locknote
cryptomaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: mare basalt deposits, buried under the regolith of the moon
cycloneuralian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloneuralians
Etymology: From Cycloneuralia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of protostomes of the clade Cycloneuralia
cycloneuralians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloneuralian
decurved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decurve
decurved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more decurved
form: most decurved
Etymology: From de- + curved.
Senses: glosses: Curved downward.
prescreened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prescreen
prescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prescreens
form: prescreening
form: prescreened
form: prescreened
Etymology: From pre- + screen.
Senses: examples: text: We'll prescreen with a questionnaire, and for candidates who get past that stage, we'll screen further with an interview.
text: Opting out of prescreened offers of credit might also be useful when you apply for a mortgage.
ref: 2007 January 20, Damon Darlin, “Don’t Call. Don’t Write. Let Me Be.”, in New York Times:
glosses: To screen in advance for potential problems, especially as a preliminary screening before further screening.
prescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prescreens
Etymology: From pre- + screen.
Senses: glosses: A prescreening.
preteenagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preteenager
defensin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defensins
Etymology: From defense + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of cysteine-rich proteins that are active against bacteria, fungi and viruses
Derived terms: preprodefensin
prodefensin
preteenager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preteenagers
Etymology: From pre- + teenager.
Senses: examples: text: In the first season of the British reality TV show “Rock Star” (which was broadcast in America on VH1), Gene Simmons of Kiss tried to turn a bunch of boarding-school preteenagers into a rock band.
ref: 2007 January 7, Kelefa Sanneh, “Years in Review, and New-Year Surprises”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person of less than 13 years of age.
Synonyms: preteen
Related terms: prepubescent
deutocerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌd(j)uːtoʊsəˈɹiːbɹəl/
/ˌd(j)uːtoʊˈsɛɹəbɹəl/
Forms: form: more deutocerebral
form: most deutocerebral
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the deutocerebrum
renamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renaming
deutocerebrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəm
-iːbɹəm
Forms: form: deutocerebra
form: deuterocerebrum
Etymology: From deuto- + cerebrum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
rootstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootstocks
Etymology: From root + stock.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: rootstalk
glosses: A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
examples: text: We know more - vastly more - about how we are governed, and that knowledge is the rootstock of consent.
ref: 2009 January 30, Simon Jenkins, “For real secrets we already have the one-and-a-half-year memoir rule”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The necessary basis for something to develop.
dimethylglycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimethylglycines
Etymology: From di- + methyl- + glycine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of glycine in which both hydrogen atoms of the amino group are replaced by methyl groups
Related terms: trimethylglycine
rivalrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪv(ə)lɹəs/
ipa: /ˈɹaɪvəlɹəs/
ipa: /ɹaɪvl̩ɹəs/
Forms: form: more rivalrous
form: most rivalrous
Etymology: From rivalry + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: In “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” Mr. Lumet’s 45th film, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke play rivalrous brothers whose bungled robbery of their parents’ modest jewelry store in Westchester County begins a cycle of quasi-Greek family tragedy without a catharsis.
ref: 2007 October 12, Stephen Holden, “At New York Film Festival: Upheaval in Iran, fiasco in Westchester”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
text: Western universalism was real, if rivalrous.
ref: 2015 September 12, Steven Erlanger, “Are Western values losing their sway? [print version: Did liberalism win? It's not clear, International New York Times, 14 September 2015, p. 7]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Having a relationship of rivalry.
examples: text: Rivalrous goods are those which can be consumed by only one person at the same time – for example, a candy bar or a suit; […]
ref: 20th–21st century, Thomas A. McGahagan, “Public Goods”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, archived from the original on 05 May 2015:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Which can be consumed by no more than one person at the same time.
raw_tags: of a good
Derived terms: rivalrously
rivalrousness
prescreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prescreen
prescreening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prescreenings
Senses: glosses: A screening for problems in advance.
internuclear ophthalmoplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical sign indicative of a particular cause of extraocular muscle weakness, in which the affected eye shows impairment of adduction.
Derived terms: pseudointernuclear ophthalmoplegia
Related terms: ophthalmoparesis
rootstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootstock
dimethylserotonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dimethyl + serotonin.
Senses: glosses: bufotenine
prescreens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prescreen
prescreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prescreen
dimethylsilyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dimethyl + silyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical (CH₃)₂SiH-
Related terms: trimethylsilyl
boho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊhəʊ/
ipa: /ˈboʊhoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊhəʊ
Forms: form: bohos
Etymology: From bohemian.
Senses: examples: text: After all, […] the last thing this country needs is a mannered bunch of Manhattan bohos who use textured harmonics and jingly guitars to create a carpetbagger's vision of the heartland.
ref: 1988 April 1, Roger Moore, “Silos”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A bohemian.
examples: text: In pockets of downtown Manhattan and in cities as far-flung as Miami and Los Angeles, young women in the vanguard are setting aside their trapeze and baby-doll dresses — and as often as not, their drainpipe jeans — in favor of a breezier, more audaciously colorful interpretation of boho chic.
ref: 2007 June 21, Ruth La Ferla, “Another Summer of Love”, in New York Times:
text: “Ooh, look at that Martina McBride boho peasant blouse. 40% off. I'm about to put you 100% on.”
ref: 2021 April 11, Lauren McGuire, “Hot Tub-tation” (3:29 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 17, spoken by Betty Hart (Maya Rudolph):
glosses: A style of female fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, popular in the mid-2000s.
boho
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊhəʊ/
ipa: /ˈboʊhoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊhəʊ
Forms: form: more boho
form: most boho
Etymology: From bohemian.
Senses: examples: text: Down in the cellar in the Boho zone / I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well / Just another hard time band / With Negro affectations
ref: 1975, Joni Mitchell, “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing Of Summer Lawns:
text: Enter Benedict Bridgerton, the boho son of the family at the centre of Netflix's much-loved series, handsomely striding into the masquerade ball.
ref: 2025 September 13, Daniel Thomas, “Lunch with the FT: Shonda Rhimes”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: Bohemian.
carpetbagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carpetbag
carpetbagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carpetbag
douncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douncers
Etymology: Named after Alexander Dounce, + -er.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A homogenizer, consisting of a glass tube with a tight-fitting pestle, used to homogenize biological samples
wikipedia: Alexander Dounce
Synonyms: Dounce homogenizer
Related terms: dounce
dueting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: duetting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of duet
ophthalmoparesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophthalmopareses
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + paresis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
Hyponyms: ophthalmoplegia
Derived terms: ophthalmoparetic
ophthalmoplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophthalmoplegias
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + -plegia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
Hypernyms: ophthalmoparesis
Derived terms: internuclear ophthalmoplegia
ophthalmoplegic
pseudointernuclear ophthalmoplegia
maneuverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maneuvering
mirrorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mirrorlike
form: most mirrorlike
form: mirror-like
Etymology: From mirror + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The blinding lights seen on Fifth and Madison Avenues are mirrorlike silver and gold daytime handbags from Louis Vuitton.
ref: 2007 February 4, Bill Cunningham, “Dazzlers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a mirror; reflective
milonga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milongas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish milonga, in turn from Brazilian Portuguese milonga (“chant”). Theories connect the word to the nineteenth century slave trade between South America and Africa. The ultimate source is unknown, but may relate to Kimbundu mulonga (“word”), or Kongo nlonga or Punu mulonga (“line, row”) in reference to dancers.
Senses: examples: text: In “Gath & Chaves,” a section named after a department store, women pose as mannequins but come to life to dance a tango, a waltz, a milonga and, finally, a mystifying number called “Hound Dog.”
ref: 2007 January 26, Gia Kourlas, “Watching a History Lesson That’s Told Through Tango”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of music originating in Argentina, Uruguay, and Southern Brazil.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dance which accompanies this music.
Derived terms: milonguero
multihued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multihued
form: most multihued
Etymology: From multi- + hued.
Senses: examples: text: […] marchers — if you could call them that — pranced in grass skirts, leopard-skin warrior costumes and the multihued wings of butterflies.
ref: 2007 January 27, Dennis Hevesi, “Carlos Lezama, 83, Dies; Shaped West Indian Parade”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having multiple hues; colorful
Synonyms: motley
multicolored
polychromatic
megayacht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megayachts
Etymology: From mega- + yacht.
Senses: examples: text: A fitness center, a lounge and a swimming pool with cabanas will be built, but owners and their guests will also be granted access to all the resort’s amenities, which include […] a marina capable of accommodating megayachts.
ref: 2007 February 23, Nick Kaye, “One Thousand Ocean and the Club at Black Rock”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: “Demand for the megayachts above 130 to 140 meters has definitely increased in the last few years,” said Mark Duncan, group commercial director of yacht brokerage house, Yachting Partners International.
ref: 2014 April 15, Eoghan Macguire, “Size matters: How sheikhs and oligarchs transformed the yachting industry”, in CNN:
text: The megayacht concept is equipped with its own port with enough space for a second yacht measuring up to 30 meters, as well as three swimming pools.
ref: 2020 November 25, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The $550 million megayacht concept that looks like a shark”, in CNN:
text: After that, definitions are debated, but people generally agree that anything more than 230 feet is a megayacht, and more than 295 is a gigayacht.
ref: 2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
synonyms: superyacht
coordinate_terms: gigayacht
glosses: A very large luxury yacht.
milongas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milonga
multiscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + screen.
Senses: examples: text: That theater's a multiscreen movie complex now, but it used to house an in-the-round stage with fat, soft, fall-asleep seats and lots of garish red carpeting.
ref: 1988 October 7, Anthony Adler, “Some Men Need Help”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Having multiple screens.
multiscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiscreens
Etymology: From multi- + screen.
Senses: examples: text: Multiscreens can show blockbusters which have not yet attracted their full audience.
ref: 1997, AIMAC Proceedings, page 492:
text: Conventional cinemas had now mostly been converted to 'multiscreens'; […]
ref: 2017, Stephen Dowle, The National Bus Company: The Middle Years:
glosses: A cinema with more than one screen.
megayachts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megayacht
curbsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curbside
congressionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From congressional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But the 15-member Shadow Wolves unit, part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is recruiting members to reach the congressionally authorized complement of 21.
ref: 2007 March 7, Randal C. Archibold, “In Arizona Desert, Indian Trackers vs. Smugglers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: The Bethesda Declaration, signed by 484 NIH staff, directly accused NIH director Jay Bhattacharya of “a failure of your legal duty to use congressionally appropriated funds for critical NIH research. Each day that the NIH continues to disrupt research, your ability to deliver on this duty narrows.”
ref: 2025 August 7, Hannah Harris Green, “‘Impossible to rebuild’: NIH scientists say Trump cuts will imperil life-saving research”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
glosses: By a congress; often specifically by the United States Congress.
lores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lore
dramaturgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dramaturgy + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Lloyd's Prayer was developed at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, where you'd expect it to have gotten a good dramaturgical going-over.
ref: 1988 September 30, Anthony Adler, “Lloyd's Prayer”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Of or pertaining to dramaturgy
Derived terms: dramaturgically
dropoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropoffs
Etymology: Deverbal from drop off.
Senses: examples: text: […] Ms. Wallace will be charged with maintaining the program’s lead in the ratings […] while trying to staunch a dropoff in the program’s viewership.
ref: 2007 March 6, Jacques Steinberg, “NBC Names New Chief for News Program”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of drop-off.
multitiered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multitiered
form: most multitiered
Etymology: From multi- + tier + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It is a miraculous, multitiered balancing act of Classical grace and Romantic ardor, musical taste and dazzling display, formal structure and impetuosity.
ref: 2009 January 30, The New York Times, “Mendelssohn Favorites Offer Precision, Grace and Grit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having multiple tiers; thus by extension, complex or ornate
multistrategy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + strategy.
Senses: examples: text: Amaranth, the $9 billion multistrategy fund that failed, had roots in a traditional investment strategy that then expanded aggressively into energy trading.
ref: 2007 January 8, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Highbridge Hedge Fund Buys Stake in Louis Dreyfus Energy Business”, in New York Times:
glosses: Following or employing multiple strategies
handpainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hand-painted
Etymology: From hand + painted.
Senses: examples: text: Your vase is entirely handpainted and the two S’s on the bottom refer to the artist who did the work, Samuel Schellink (1876-1958).
ref: 2009 January 17, John Sewell, “Telescope is the real deal”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Painted by hand, not mechanically
handclaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handclap
handclap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handclaps
Etymology: From hand + clap.
Senses: examples: text: The other good news: This new song recaptures the sunny feel of "Collapsing," complete with ethereal vocals, lush strings and, of course, plenty of handclaps.
ref: 2009 February 7, John Sakamoto, “The Anti-Hit List”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A single clap of the hands.
Related terms: handclapping
floodwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floodwall
floodwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floodwalls
form: flood wall
Etymology: From flood + wall.
Senses: examples: text: The New Orleans levees and floodwalls were built to withstand a hypothetical storm […].
ref: 2007 May 29, John Schwartz, “Can Science Outwit Storms Like Katrina?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
outraised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outraise
nonself
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonselfs
form: nonselves
Etymology: From non- + self.
Senses: examples: text: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
glosses: Any entity other than oneself.
examples: text: In his classic monograph describing the clonal selection theory of the immune response, Burnet (1959) suggested that the immune system distinguishes between self (no antibody response) and nonself (antibody response).
ref: 1961, George F. Vande Woude, George Klein, Advances in Cancer Research:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: All agents and substances that are not the body's own.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Anatta.
nonself
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + self.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of nonself origin.
outraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outraises
form: outraising
form: outraised
form: outraised
Etymology: From out- + raise.
Senses: examples: text: Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts also greatly outraised President Bush over the Internet in 2004.
ref: 2007 July 13, Michael Luo, “Democrats Lead in Raising Money Online”, in New York Times:
glosses: To raise more of something than (someone else); often used specifically in reference to fundraising
outraises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outraise
outraising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outraise
needlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more needlelike
form: most needlelike
form: needle-like
Etymology: From needle + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It has a needlelike tower rising above a 23-foot-8-inch-wide street front.
ref: 2007 March 18, Josh Barbanel, “Tall and Thin, Back in Fashion”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: pinlike
dartlike
spindlelike
fusiform
wirelike
glosses: Resembling a needle in shape.
overinflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹɪnˈfleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overinflate
overinflated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹɪnˈfleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more overinflated
form: most overinflated
Senses: examples: text: As a callow sixth-former with an overinflated sense of my own poetic importance, I was in need of friendly advice and encouragement.
ref: 2009 January 29, “Obituary letter: John Fairfax”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Inflated; exaggerated
overinflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overinflates
form: overinflating
form: overinflated
form: overinflated
Etymology: From over- + inflate.
Senses: examples: text: The tires had been overinflated, leading to a blowout.
glosses: To inflate excessively; to provide too much inflation
Coordinate terms: underinflate
Derived terms: underinflation
overinflates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overinflate
overinflating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overinflate
panko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese パン粉 (panko).
Senses: examples: text: Japanese "Panko" bread crumbs upgrade the quality of shrimp and other frozen prepared foods with their exceptionally crisp, yet tender, bite. (Photo courtesy of National Sea Products.)
ref: 1978, Quick Frozen Foods, volume 40, page 50:
text: Sprinkle stuffed side evenly with panko.
ref: 1986, Martin Yan, The Chinese Chef, page 169:
text: But, she added, more modern interpretations could include anything from rhubarb and blueberries to panko, goat cheese and broccoli.
ref: 2007 September 12, Melissa Clark, “Extra Crunch for the Kugel”, in New York Times:
glosses: Coarse, dry breadcrumbs used in Japanese cuisine.
unacademic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: more unacademic
form: most unacademic
Etymology: From un- + academic.
Senses: examples: text: Some unacademic enthusiastic upright soul called it a pear because it happened to remind him of a pear, though it is really a cactus-berry.
ref: 1913, John Bertram Andrews, The American Labor Legislation Review:
text: They have to cope with the unacademic behaviour of faculty and administration...
ref: 1990, S N Mukherji, Satya Pal Ruhela, Rajendra Pal Singh, Trends in Modern Indian Education:
text: But today a quiet educator entering for the first time this world of radio will be alarmed by its unacademic atmosphere. Brisk technicians will elbow him...
ref: 2007, Frank Ernest Hill, Listen and Learn: Fifteen Years of Adult Education on the Air:
glosses: Not academic.
baby daddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby daddy
nondance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-dance
Etymology: From non- + dance.
Senses: examples: text: Much has been made in recent interviews of Mr. Bourne’s intense interest in satisfying his audiences, particularly nondance audiences who, he feels, may need a way into scarily wordless dance-dramas.
ref: 2007 March 19, Jennifer Dunning, “The Strange Career of a Boy With an Edge, or Several”, in New York Times:
glosses: Unrelated to the world of dance
nondance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondances
form: non-dance
Etymology: From non- + dance.
Senses: examples: text: Angel 8 PM, a solo, began with a wonderfully funny nondance.
ref: 1988 March 4, Justin Hayford, “Ambiguous Gestures”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Something that is not exactly a dance
newsmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more newsmaking
form: most newsmaking
Etymology: From news + making.
Senses: examples: text: Bonds saved a newsmaking announcement for Pittsburgh.
ref: 2007 August 14, The Associated Press, “Bonds Receives an Ovation and Talks About His Future”, in New York Times:
glosses: Making news; important or newsworthy
newsmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From news + making.
Senses: examples: text: In a rare moment of newsmaking, Barry M. Meyer, the chairman of Warner Brothers, issued a sharp rebuke to the president of the Consumer Electronics Association, Gary Shapiro, who warned in January that antipiracy efforts could “smother” technological progress and said that “private conduct may be unauthorized, but that does not mean it is piracy.”
ref: 2007 February 7, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Takes Its Concerns About Piracy and Taxes to Washington”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of making news, of doing or saying something that is newsworthy
Related terms: newsmaker
pitchout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitchouts
Etymology: From pitch + out.
Senses: examples: text: The only thing that had kept the bases from being loaded was that Zimmer (or someone, but let's give him the credit because it was a tough weekend for him) caught the Dodgers stealing with a pitchout on a hit-and-run.
ref: 1988 July 22, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch that is intentionally thrown high and outside of the strike zone in order to prevent a stolen base
pitchouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitchout
parklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parklike
form: most parklike
Etymology: From park + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But it does mean that what began as the most quixotic of efforts — a plan to turn an abandoned railroad bridge into a parklike path across the Hudson — might actually be close to gaining critical mass, if not quite the critical mass its original visionary had in mind.
ref: 2007 October 7, Peter Applebome, “A Job for Spider-Man, or a Former Boy Scout”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a park
Synonyms: parkish
Hypernyms: parky
overprescribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overprescribes
form: overprescribing
form: overprescribed
form: overprescribed
Etymology: From over- + prescribe.
Senses: examples: text: The drug maker Purdue Pharma has agreed […] to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe its painkiller OxyContin.
ref: 2007 May 9, The Associated Press, “Painkiller’s Maker Settles Complaint”, in New York Times:
antonyms: underprescribe
glosses: To prescribe (a drug) more frequently than appropriate.
Related terms: overmedicate
outpointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpoint
outmanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outman
evoked potential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evoked potentials
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An electrical potential recorded from a human or animal following presentation of a stimulus, as distinct from spontaneous potentials as detected by electroencephalograms or electromyograms.
nonleague
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-league
Etymology: From non- + league.
Senses: examples: text: Top-ranked Maryland (16-0) opened Atlantic Coast Conference play in the same fashion it handled the nonleague portion of its schedule: with a blowout victory.
ref: 2007 January 4, Bill Finley, “Seton Hall Starts Big East Play on Right Track, Beating Rutgers”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Not part of a league.
overprescribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overprescribe
overprescribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overprescribe
overprescribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overprescribe
nondances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondance
outman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outmans
form: outmanning
form: outmanned
form: outmanned
Etymology: From out- + man.
Senses: examples: text: The United States dominated, and then in extra time outworked the outmanned Mexicans, with Jozy Altidore and Donovan setting up Bradley’s second goal.
ref: 2009 February 12, George Vecsey, “Brisk Wind Infuses the U.S. With Zip and Zing”, in New York Times:
glosses: To have more people than (one's competitor); to outnumber in men.
glosses: To outdo in manliness.
outmans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outman
outmanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outman
rainfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainfall
moral fibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral fibres
form: moral fiber
Senses: examples: text: He lacked the moral fibre to be a leader.
glosses: The inner strength to do what one believes to be right; often an ability to make difficult decisions.
Derived terms: LMF
moral fibres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moral fibre
sensibilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For in the past I have been aware of sensibilia; and I have sensed instances of sensibilia temporally related to one another.
ref: 1950, Winston H F Barnes, The Philosophical Predicament:
text: Russell also brought in the sense-data sensed by other persons and even unsensed sense-data, to which he gave the name of sensibilia.
ref: 1969, Alfred Jules Ayer, Metaphysics and Common Sense:
text: It is because their being as sensibilia does not depend upon their being intentional objects for anyone […]
ref: 1988, Ramon M Lemos, Metaphysical Investigations:
text: Among the things which human beings do are (a) think of sensibilia in their absence, (b) make mental or verbal pictures of sensibilia, […]
ref: 1989, Anthony John Patrick Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Things that can be sensed; stimuli.
felicifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more felicifically
form: most felicifically
Etymology: From felicific + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a felicific way.
unscholarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscholarly
form: most unscholarly
Etymology: From un- + scholarly.
Senses: glosses: Not scholarly.
Derived terms: unscholarliness
antiheroines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiheroine
apicectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apicectomy
filthy dirty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filthy dirty
form: most filthy dirty
Senses: glosses: Extremely dirty; filthy.
degreelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From degreeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property or state of lacking a degree bestowed by a university.
glosses: The property of lacking extent or measure.
Related terms: degreeless
indiscriminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indiscriminant
form: most indiscriminant
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of indiscriminate.
Caddoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Caddoan
form: most Caddoan
Etymology: From Caddo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Caddo.
apastrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apastron
Caddo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkædəʊ/
rhymes: -ædəʊ
Forms: form: Caddo
form: Caddos
Etymology: Clipping of French Kadohadacho, from Caddo kadawdáachuh.
Senses: glosses: A member of a confederacy of several southeastern Native American tribes, who inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma in the 16th century.
Caddo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkædəʊ/
rhymes: -ædəʊ
Etymology: Clipping of French Kadohadacho, from Caddo kadawdáachuh.
Senses: glosses: A Caddoan language of the Southern Plains of the United States, spoken by the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.
glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
Derived terms: Caddoa
Caddo County
Caddo Parish
arseniases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arseniasis
biographizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biographize
biographizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biographize
biographized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biographize
hammerspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hammer + space.
Senses: examples: text: Okay, now just picture what you want to pull out of hammerspace and just reach in and grab it.
ref: 1996, Vincent Tagle, “Love and a single Ukclone...”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: ...it's a commonly known fact that dust is physically incapable of collecting in Hammerspace, so everything is always looking brand new! I for one would want to keep my collection of--I think it's sixty-four--manga spotless!
ref: 2000, Jason Howe, “Hammerspace Cleaning”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):
text: I just learned how to take my sword out of my hammerspace, and I'm not afraid to use it.
ref: 2008, Meljean Brook, Demon Night:
text: Each incident involved some implement or skill SCP-6549 could not possibly utilize without additional anomalous qualities, a lack of detail or proper observation of which currently prevents concrete inference from being made regarding its ability to actually carry out said attacks. Usage of telepathically-linked accomplices, ectoentropic nanotechnology, and/or an antimemetic extradimensional hammerspace have not been ruled out as possibility.
ref: 2023 December 28, Billith, “SCP-6549”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2025:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A notional extradimensional storage space able to contain objects larger than itself.
Related terms: out of thin air
biographise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biographises
form: biographising
form: biographised
form: biographised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of biographize.
biographises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biographise
biographising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biographise
biographised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biographise
exradio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ex (“from”) + radio (“radium”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of radon (“radon-222”), an isotope of radon (element 86).
Coordinate terms: alt: radon-219
word: exactinio
alt: radon-220
word: exthorio
biomineralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biomineralize
biomineralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biomineralize
blivets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blivet
bedabbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedabble
cartographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartography
chawbacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chawbacon
curvets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curvet
curveting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: curvetting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of curvet
curveting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curvetings
form: curvetting
Senses: examples: the curvetings of a horse
glosses: The motion of a horse or other animal that curvets.
examples: text: One humiliation had succeeded another—the false smiles of the market sellers, the curvetings and oglings of the barmaids with whom his father flirted, the compliments and encouraging words of his father's friends.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, chapter 2, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
text: And when they were back again going through the figure, they made a real pantomime of it, with coquettish smiles and curvettings on her part, roguish glances and bold advances on his.
ref: 1940, Sigrid Undset, chapter 9, in Arthur G. Chater, transl., Madame Dorthea, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 239:
glosses: Caper, frisking, often with a nuance of flirtation. (of a person)
curveted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curvet
cyberwars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberwar
downwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downwash
fleys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fley
fleying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fley
fleyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fley
purple coral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple corals
Senses: glosses: A species of forest mushroom, Alloclavaria purpurea
Synonyms: sense: mushroom
word: purple fairy club
sense: mushroom
word: purple spindle
ghostbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghostbuster
glitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glitch
glitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Forms: form: more glitched
form: most glitched
Senses: glosses: Affected by a glitch.
glitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glitch
gildings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪldɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of gilding
colectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colectomy
hemicolectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicolectomies
Etymology: From hemi- + colectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A colectomy involving the removal of only the ascending (right) colon or the descending (left) colon.
hemicolectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemicolectomy
sigmoid colons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigmoid colon
sigmoidectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: sigmoidectomies
Etymology: From sigmoid + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A colectomy in which the sigmoid colon is removed.
bedabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedabbles
form: bedabbling
form: bedabbled
form: bedabbled
Etymology: From be- + dabble.
Senses: examples: text: Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers,
I can no further crawl, no further go.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: The rest was fill’d somewhat indiscriminately, with Philosophers, Antiquarians, Mathematicians, and Mechanics. A Scotch Peasant produc’d a New Orrery; a German Mechanic, a Table Fountain contriv’d to play in a Desert, to the great Entertainment, and Bedabbling of every body present […]
ref: 1751, John Hill, chapter 7, in The Adventures of Mr. George Edwards, A Creole, London: T. Osborne, page 163:
text: A vision of her pale, sweet face, with her bright hair all bedabbled with gore, seemed to float constantly before his aching eyes.
ref: 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 14, in Mary Barton:
text: 1912, Charles Egbert Craddoc (pseudonym of Mary Noailles Murfree), “The Crucial Moment” in The Raid of the Guerilla and Other Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott,
[…] the weapon in Jeffrey's hand was discharged in his latest impulse of action after he fell to the floor, the blood gushing from a wound that crimsoned all the delicate whiteness of his shirt-front and bedabbled his snowy hair and beard.
glosses: To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.
sigmoidectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigmoidectomy
sigmoidoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigmoidoscopy
proctoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctoscopies
Etymology: From procto- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: The examination of the anal cavity, rectum or sigmoid colon by means of a proctoscope
Related terms: proctoscopic
proctoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctoscopy
proctosigmoidoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctosigmoidoscopies
Etymology: From procto- + sigmoidoscopy.
Senses: examples: text: Proctosigmoidoscopy revealed many ulcerations with slightly raises, sharply defined edges.
ref: 1911 December 16, Dudley Roberts, “Observations on the influence of ipecac upon intestinal amœbiasis”, in International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics, volume 94, page 1231:
text: Gilbertsen reported on a long-term follow-up of rigid proctosigmoidoscopies of 21,140 adenomatous polyp patients attending a cancer detection center.
ref: 2012, Anthony B. Miller, editor, Advances in Cancer Screening:
text: Proctosigmoidoscopy is endoscopic examination of the lining of the distal sigmoid colon, rectum and rectal canal.
ref: 2014, Gayle McKenzie, Clinical Companion: Medical-Surgical Nursing, page 228:
glosses: A combined proctoscopy and sigmoidoscopy.
Related terms: proctosigmoidoscope
proctosigmoidoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctosigmoidoscopy
proctocolectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctocolectomies
Etymology: From procto- + colectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of the rectum and all or part of the colon.
proctocolectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proctocolectomy
salmon and trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: snout: tobacco or cigarettes.
Synonyms: salmon
ascidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascidium
bondslave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒndsleɪv/
Forms: form: bondslaves
Etymology: From bond + slave.
Senses: examples: text: To whom they shewed, how those marchants were / Arriv'd in place their bondslaves for to buy […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: One who works as a slave under an indenture; a bondsman or bondswoman.
lacets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacet.
bondswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bondswomen
form: bondwoman
Etymology: From bond + -s- + woman.
Senses: glosses: The female equivalent of a bondsman.
bondslaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bondslave
bondswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bondswoman
whoopsadaisy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whoops-a-daisy.
bumpsadaisy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Apparently related to bump and whoops-a-daisy.
Senses: examples: text: The Big Apple had been introduced that year, and Kathleen and her friends loved forming the big circle and ending with a bumpsadaisy […]
ref: 1983, Lynne McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, Her Life and Times:
text: […] the wild gyrations of the "Big Apple," in which everyone formed a circle and ended with a "bumpsadaisy," and the Lambeth Walk, […]
ref: 1996, Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman:
text: (MOTH on his way back with the drinks. Bumps into someone. Dolly bird.) / MOTH. Oops sorry love. Bumpsadaisy. You all right […]
ref: 1999, Michael Earley, Philippa Keil, Contemporary Scenes for Actors, Women:
glosses: Used to accompany, or to apologise for, a bumping motion.