cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
barrelmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrelmakers
Etymology: From barrel + maker.
Senses: coordinate_terms: manufacturer
glosses: A maker of barrels, especially a cooper or a container manufacturer.
barrelmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrelmaker
barotos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baroto
DPR Korea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
baseballdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baseball + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: When the batteries were announced, however, and Herb Pennock of the Boston Red Sox, probably the best pitcher in all baseballdom, was named to twirl for the invading team, we felt we had been tricked.
ref: 1949, Mark Raymond Murnane, Ground Swells: Of Sailors, Ships, and Shellac, page 302:
text: Their sensational exploits galvanized baseballdom. Their snow-white knickers and crimson stockings changed uniforms forever.
ref: 2015, Jim Bresnahan, Play It Again: Baseball Experts on What Might Have Been, page 14:
glosses: The world of baseball.
gravity drag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For GTO missions, the launch vehicle follows a significantly shallower flightpath than for LEO missions, considerably reducing gravity drag at the expense of a significantly increased thermal loading and somewhat greater structural loads and aerodynamic drag.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The resistance felt by a vehicle ascending against the force of gravity; reduction in delta-v experienced as a result of the partial cancellation by gravity of the vertical component of the thrust applied by a vehicle's engine(s).
basketware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketwares
Etymology: From basket + -ware.
Senses: glosses: basketwork goods collectively
basketwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basketware
basipoditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the basipodite.
bassanello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbæsəˈnɛləʊ/
Forms: form: bassanelli
Etymology: From the name of Giovanni Bassano (Johann Bassanello), who may have been the inventor.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Renaissance double-reed woodwind instrument.
wikipedia: Giovanni Bassano
bassanelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bassanello
bastionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a bastion (fortification).
bathmotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bathmotropy.
synonyms: word: bathmotropy
Bialowases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bialowas
silcrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silcrows
Etymology: Either a blend of section + pilcrow or a blend of pilcrow and Latin signum sectiōnis (“section sign”), or a derived form thereof.
Senses: glosses: The section sign, or §.
Bielanskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bielanski
baublery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bauble + -ry.
Senses: glosses: gaudy decoration; baubles; trinkets
brake fade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To help prevent a runaway caused by brake fade, heavy trucks are required to stop at the top of the downgrade to give their brakes time to cool.
topics: automotive
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
vehicles
glosses: Partial or total loss of braking force with prolonged continuous or repetitive application of a heavy vehicle's brakes, due to the effects on the brake system of the heat generated by heavy braking.
Baxterianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Baxterian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The religious principles of Richard Baxter (1615–1691), English Puritan church leader, poet, and theologian.
bawarchee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bawarchees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bawarchi.
bawarchees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawarchee
bawarchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bawarchis
form: bawarchee
Senses: glosses: A cook.
bawarchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawarchi
bayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bayish
form: most bayish
Etymology: From bay + -ish.
Senses: examples: a bayish horse
glosses: Somewhat bay in colour.
baylet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baylets
Etymology: From bay + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little bay.
baylets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baylet
bayoneteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayoneteers
Etymology: From bayonet + -eer.
Senses: glosses: A soldier armed with a bayonet.
Bierces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bierce
bayoneteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayoneteer
beaproned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + apron + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing an apron.
beanweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bean + weed.
Senses: glosses: Scytosiphon lomentaria, a littoral brown filamentous seaweed.
bearlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearlets
Etymology: From bear + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little bear.
Synonyms: bear cub
bearling
bear-whelp
bearlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearlet
beastlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beastlily
form: most beastlily
Etymology: From beastly + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a beastly manner.
Bigbys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bigby
bebannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + banner + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Decorated with a banner or banners.
bebouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bebouldered
form: most bebouldered
Etymology: From be- + boulder + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered or scattered with boulders.
becassocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + cassock + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a cassock.
bedragglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedragglements
Senses: glosses: The state of being bedraggled.
bedragglements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedragglement
beefishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beefish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being beefish.
beerishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beerishly
form: most beerishly
Etymology: From beerish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a beerish manner.
forrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forrids
Senses: qualifier: representing dialect or variant pronunciation
glosses: forehead.
befetished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more befetished
form: most befetished
Etymology: From be- + fetish + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing amulets or talismans.
for'ead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: for'eads
Senses: qualifier: representing dialect or variant pronunciation
glosses: Forehead.
beforetimes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Previously; in the past.
befuddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: befuddlers
Etymology: From befuddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who befuddles.
befuddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of befuddler
beggarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beggarers
Etymology: From beggar + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who beggars another.
beggarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beggarer
bekko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bekkos
form: bekko
Etymology: From Japanese 鼈甲 (“tortoiseshell”).
Senses: glosses: A koi carp with black markings on white, red or yellow skin.
bekkos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bekko
Belgophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgophiles
Etymology: From Belgo- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who likes Belgium or its people and culture.
Belgophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belgophile
bellmouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bell-mouthed.
forread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forreads
Senses: qualifier: representing dialect or variant pronunciation
glosses: Forehead.
beltmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From belt + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of belts.
forred
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: qualifier: representing dialect pronunciation
glosses: Forward.
forred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: representing dialect pronunciation
glosses: Forward.
forred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forreds
Senses: qualifier: representing dialect or variant pronunciation
glosses: forehead.
beltwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From belt + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a belt, looped around something.
Lady Presidentress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lady Presidentresses
Etymology: From lady + president + -ress.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: FLOTUS
glosses: Former name of First Lady (of the United States).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lady, presidentress.
bemuddlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bemuddle + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The state of being bemuddled.
bemuslined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + muslin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed or covered in muslin.
benedictively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more benedictively
form: most benedictively
Etymology: From benedictive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a benedictive manner.
priestships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priestship
Presidentress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Presidentresses
Etymology: From President + -ress.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: Mrs. President
Ms. President
glosses: The title of a female president; a presidentress.
examples: text: She was more than America’s “first, First Lady” and “Presidentress,” she was an incredible force for good. […] Together, but perhaps not alone, they merit the title of one of America’s greatest Presidents and Presidentresses.
ref: 2020, Rodney K. Smith, Dolley and James Madison: An Unlikely Love Story that Saved America, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 111:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Mrs. President
Ms. President
glosses: The title for the wife of a President, a First Lady.
benefactorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefactorships
Etymology: From benefactor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of benefactor.
beneficiaryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beneficiaryships
Etymology: From beneficiary + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of beneficiary.
benefactorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benefactorship
beneficiaryships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beneficiaryship
beneficeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From benefice + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a benefice.
benzinduline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzindulines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of indulines derived from phenazine.
naphthinduline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthindulines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of indulines derived from naphthazine.
naphthindulines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthinduline
benzindulines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzinduline
rosinduline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosindulines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of indulines derived from naphthophenazine.
Derived terms: isorosinduline
rosindulines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosinduline
isorosindulines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isorosinduline
summonables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summonable
beperiwigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + periwig + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a periwig.
Mister President
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mr. President
form: Mr President
Senses: glosses: Honorific used in addressing a president.
Coordinate terms: Ms. President
Ms President
Mrs. President
Mrs President
Missus President
bergaptene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bergapten.
Mrs. President
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mrs President
form: Missus President
Etymology: From missus + president.
Senses: synonyms: Mr. President
Ms. President
glosses: The honorific used in addressing a female president.
glosses: The honorific used in addressing a wife of a President, a First Lady; the companion of Mr. President.
Bergsonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bergson + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher who argued that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.
Mrs President
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mrs. President.
Ms. President
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ms President
Etymology: From Ms. + president.
Senses: synonyms: Mr. President
Mrs. President
glosses: The honorific used in addressing a female president
Ms President
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ms. President.
Bergsonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bergsonian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bergsonism.
synonyms: word: Bergsonism
bessemerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bessemerize
bessemerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bessemerize
Bessemer converters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bessemer converter
betokener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betokeners
Etymology: From betoken + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which betokens.
betokeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betokener
Betsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Derived terms: Betsey bug
Betsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Modern variant of Betsy.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Republican Queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Republican Queens
Etymology: From republican + queen. From the United States being a republic, and queens being the martial consort of the leader of a kingdom (a king), where the US had recently became independent from such an entity (Great Britain, under King George); thus terming the consort of the male president a form of queen.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Former name of First Lady (of the United States of America); FLOTUS.
beuniformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + uniform + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a uniform.
beydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beydoms
Etymology: From bey + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The rank or status of bey.
beydoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beydom
beylikal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beylical.
bhabar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhabhar
form: bhabhur
form: bhabur
Senses: glosses: A tall Indian grass, Eulaliopsis binata, used to make paper and rope.
bodhisvatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodhisvattas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bodhisattva.
bodhisvattas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodhisvatta
bikkhu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bikkhus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bhikkhu.
bhikku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhikkus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bhikkhu.
bhikkus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bhikku
bikkhus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bikkhu
Bhumij
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Munda ethnic group of India.
Bhumij
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Munda language spoken by the people in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal; often considered to be a dialect of Mundari.
bhutatathata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The unchanging essence of all things.
bibliophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bibliophagic
form: most bibliophagic
Senses: glosses: devouring books (literally or figuratively)
Related terms: bibliophage
bibliopolery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bookselling
Related terms: bibliopole
bibliographize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bibliographizes
form: bibliographizing
form: bibliographized
form: bibliographized
Senses: glosses: To compile a bibliography of.
bibliographizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bibliographize
bibliographizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bibliographize
bibliographized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bibliographize
bicollaterality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being bicollateral.
bibliotaphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a bibliotaph; hiding away books.
bibliomanianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bibliomanian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Great enthusiasm for books; bibliomania.
bibliopolically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bibliopolic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of bookselling.
bibracteolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + bracteolate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two bracteoles.
biciliated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biciliate.
shift one's ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shifts one's ground
form: shifting one's ground
form: shifted one's ground
form: shifted one's ground
form: shift ground
Senses: examples: text: Since then, and after high-level in-person talks between ScotRail and TSSA General Secretary Maryam Eslamdoust, "the company has done nothing to suggest they are prepared to shift their ground", the union said.
ref: 2024 April 3, “Network News: Fresh manager strikes at ScotRail”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 9:
glosses: To change one's opinion in a way that contradicts what one has previously held.
bicorporeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + corporeal.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of mutable (“being one of the signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, associated with adaptability, flexibility and sympathy”).
synonyms: word: mutable
extra: being one of the signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, associated with adaptability, flexibility and sympathy
examples: a bicorporeal uterus
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of bicornuate.
synonyms: word: bicornuate
bicrofarad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicrofarads
Senses: glosses: A billionth of a farad.
Related terms: bicron
bicrofarads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicrofarad
shift ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shifts ground
form: shifting ground
form: shifted ground
form: shifted ground
Senses: examples: text: Confronted now with a growing list of unhelpful textual clues, Mr. Pereida seeks to shift ground.
glosses: Alternative form of shift one's ground.
bigamistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bigamistic
form: most bigamistic
Senses: glosses: bigamous
bigamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bigamic
form: most bigamic
Senses: glosses: bigamous
bigwigism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigwiggism
Etymology: From bigwig + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bigwiggery.
synonyms: word: bigwiggery
bigwiggism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘I didn't like what I saw when I was studying there—so much empty bigwiggism, and obstructive trickery.’
ref: 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book II, chapter 17:
glosses: Bigwiggery.
bijasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bijasals
Senses: glosses: The Indian tree Pterocarpus marsupium.
bijasals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bijasal
bilharzic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bilharzia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to bilharzia.
billiardist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billiardists
Senses: glosses: A player of billiards.
billiardists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billiardist
bilaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bilaminate.
dead-stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-stocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deadstock.
dead stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead stocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deadstock.
Bilaan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Blaan (“Austronesian language”).
bimaculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bimaculate.
binauricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biauricular.
Bilskirnir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The hall of the god Thor in Asgard, containing 540 rooms.
binomialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From binomial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The use of a binomial system, as in taxonomy.
binomenclature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + nomenclature.
Senses: glosses: The use of a binomial system, as in taxonomy.
biologese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biology + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The jargon used by biologists.
biophysiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biophysiologists
Senses: glosses: One who studies biophysiology.
biophysiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biophysiologist
bintangor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bintangors
Senses: glosses: A hardwood tree of the genus Calophyllum.
bintangors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bintangor
biseriately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biseriate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In two rows or series.
bisexuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Bisexual, hermaphroditic.
Related terms: bisexous
destructive reads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destructive read
Scale Hall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A northern suburb of Lancaster, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4662).
bishoplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bishoplets
Etymology: From bishop + -let.
Senses: glosses: A petty bishop.
bishoplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bishoplet
bismerpund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bismerpunds
Senses: glosses: An old Swedish unit of weight, equivalent to 5.101 kilograms.
bismerpunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bismerpund
Atton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Meurthe-et-Moselle department, France.
work backward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works backward
form: working backward
form: worked backward
form: worked backward
Senses: glosses: To derive a process, rationale, etc. from its conclusions or results.
Related terms: reverse-engineer
bisulfid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisulfids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bisulphide.
bisulfids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisulfid
bisyllabism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of disyllabism.
synonyms: word: disyllabism
Bithynian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bithynian
form: most Bithynian
Etymology: From Bithynia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Bithynia.
Bithynian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bithynians
Etymology: From Bithynia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Bithynia.
Bithynians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bithynian
biggishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biggish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being biggish.
bitterishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bitterish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bitterish.
blackleggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blackleg + -ery.
Senses: glosses: strikebreaking
scabbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scab + -ery.
Senses: glosses: strikebreaking
Chas.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Charles; A male given name.
Derived terms: Chas
Chaz
blandiloquous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blandiloquous
form: most blandiloquous
Senses: glosses: blandiloquent
ten-shun
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: 'ten-shun
Etymology: Eye dialect spelling of attention.
Senses: examples: text: Company, 'ten-shun—(More violently.) 'ten-shun, please... (He draws himself up exaggeratedly.) Stand straight, like soldiers!
ref: 1946, Harry Lester Baum, Prelude to Victory: A Masonic Play:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Used to bring a marching band or group of soldiers to attention.
Related terms: at-ten-shun
ten-hut
T forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T form
'ten-shun
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ten-shun.
St Charles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saint Charles
form: Saint-Charles
form: St-Charles
form: St.-Charles
form: St. Charles
Etymology: Abbreviation of Saint Charles.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of St. Charles.
blarneyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blarneyers
Etymology: From blarney + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who blarneys.
blarneyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blarneyer
blatjang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blatjangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans blatjang, from Malay belacan.
Senses: glosses: A spicy South African chutney.
blatjangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blatjang
blauwboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blauwbok
at-ten-shun
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: a-ten-shun
Etymology: Respelling of attention to emphasize the syllables.
Senses: examples: text: "At-ten-shun !" commanded he, with that peculiar inflexion only attainable after considerable service.
ref: 1906, Joseph Edgar Crowell, The Young Volunteer: The Everyday Experiences of a Soldier Boy in the Civil War:
text: At-ten-SHUN! ¶ The United States Marine Corps wants your children.
ref: 2003, “Family Fare”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Used to bring a marching band or group of soldiers to attention.
Related terms: ten-shun
ten-hut
blennorrheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to blennorrhea.
a-ten-shun
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of at-ten-shun.
blitzbuggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blitzbuggies
Etymology: From blitz + buggy.
Senses: glosses: A jeep (military vehicle).
blitzbuggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blitzbuggy
blockheadish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blockheadish
form: most blockheadish
Etymology: From blockhead + -ish.
Senses: glosses: stupid
bloodmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌdˌmʌŋ.ɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈblʌdˌmʌŋ.ɡə/
Forms: form: bloodmongers
Etymology: From blood + monger.
Senses: synonyms: butcher
glosses: A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
bloodmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodmonger
Bluebeardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bluebeard + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Behaviour or attitudes reminiscent of the fictional Bluebeard.
bluestockingish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bluestockingish
form: most bluestockingish
Etymology: From bluestocking + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.
blueside wrasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blueside wrasses
Senses: glosses: Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura, a wrasse native to the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
blueside wrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blueside wrasse
blueside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluesides
Etymology: From blue + side.
Senses: glosses: A half-grown harp seal, older than a whitecoat but not yet fully adult.
Related terms: blueside wrasse
bluesides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blueside
blueprinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blueprinters
Senses: glosses: A person or machine that produces blueprints.
blueprinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blueprinter
photostater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photostaters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photostatter.
photostaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photostater
blurrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blurrers
Etymology: From blur + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Other boundary-blurrers: the leper is "a walking oxymoron; violating the sacrosanct boundary between life and death, he had long been a figure of anomaly and hence of pollution"; […]
ref: 1992, Linda Woodbridge, Edward I. Berry, True Rites and Maimed Rites, page 294:
glosses: One who or that which blurs.
blurrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blurrer
blushwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blushworts
Etymology: From blush + wort.
Senses: glosses: A European common centaury (Centaurium erythraea).
glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Aeschynanthus.
blushworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blushwort
Bobadilish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bobadilish
form: most Bobadilish
Etymology: From Bobadil + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a Bobadil, or swaggering boaster.
Bobadilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bobadil + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The behaviour of a Bobadil, or swaggering boaster.
bob jeroms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bob jerom
Guyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guyons
Etymology: Borrowed from French Guyon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
boglander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boglanders
Etymology: From bogland + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who lives in the bogland.
boglanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boglander
bohereen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bohereens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boreen.
bohireen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bohireens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boreen.
bohereens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bohereen
bohireens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bohireen
boilerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boiler + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a boiler.
Sunday girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunday girls
Senses: examples: text: Are you taking your Sunday girl to the dance?
text: Just as one is rounded, too late to entirely avoid it, is seen exactly at the turn a single chaise containing a youth and his Sunday girl.
ref: 1884, Edwin A. Frear, From Pier 39:
text: In twenty-four hours the pot had filled to three dollars, and Charlie, who was going to town to see his Sunday girl, was delegated to subscribe to “some good newspaper.”
ref: 1960, Arizona and the West:
text: I've been waiting
A long time now
Now here's the answer
You're all mine now
Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl
ref: 1999, “Down”, in No. 4, performed by Stone Temple Pilots:
glosses: girlfriend
bolectioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having a bolection.
Sunday girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sunday girl
giving a shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give a shit
bokadam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bokadams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bockadam.
bokadams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bokadam
bockadam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bockadams
form: bokadam
Senses: glosses: Any of various snakes of the family Homalopsidae.
bockadams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bockadam
Bolshevikian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bolshevikian
form: most Bolshevikian
Etymology: From Bolshevik + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Bolsheviks.
Bolshevistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Bolshevistically
form: most Bolshevistically
Senses: glosses: In a Bolshevistic manner.
Bondelswart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bondelswarts
Senses: glosses: A member of a Nama ethnic group of Southern Africa, living in the extreme south of Namibia.
Bondelswarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bondelswart
botryoidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more botryoidally
form: most botryoidally
Etymology: From botryoidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a botryoidal manner.
bovovaccine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A vaccine to prevent tuberculosis in cattle.
bovovaccination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bovovaccinations
Senses: glosses: The vaccination of cattle with bovovaccine to prevent tuberculosis.
bovovaccinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bovovaccination
bowerlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowerlets
Etymology: From bower + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little bower.
bowerlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowerlet
braggishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more braggishly
form: most braggishly
Etymology: From braggish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a braggish manner.
branchful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchfuls
Etymology: From branch + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: All last week, trees simultaneously released entire branchfuls of leaves with exasperated sighs. They came clattering down like breakfast cereal.
ref: 2009, Lee Ann Roripaugh, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, page 23:
glosses: As much as a branch can hold.
branchfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branchful
brasslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brasslike
form: most brasslike
Etymology: From brass + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the metal brass.
bratstva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bratstvo
bratstvos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bratstvo
bratticer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bratticers
Etymology: From brattice + -er.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A worker who erects brattices.
bratticers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bratticer
breakably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From breakable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Everything that Constantine and Aiah run up against is dangerously solid, breakably real.
ref: 1997 February 23, Gerald Jonas, “Science Fiction”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a breakable manner.
breba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brebas
Senses: glosses: A fig that develops in the spring on the previous year's shoot growth.
brebas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breba
breezelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breezelike
form: most breezelike
Etymology: From breeze + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a breeze.
Builth Wells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in Builth community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0451).
Related terms: Builth Road
proseparatist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proseparatist
form: most proseparatist
Etymology: From pro- + separatist.
Senses: examples: text: Because of Bothmer’s prominence in the party, the B.K.P. was marked thereafter as not only promonarchist, but also proseparatist.
ref: 1997, James Pool, Suzanne Pool, chapter 7, in Who Financed Hitler, U.S.A., →ISBN, page 326:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pro-separatist.
proseparatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proseparatists
Etymology: From pro- + separatist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pro-separatist.
brinishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brinish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being brinish.
bromvogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromvogels
Senses: glosses: The southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri).
bromvogels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromvogel
brontephobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brontophobia.
Browningesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Browningesque
form: most Browningesque
Etymology: From Browning + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet and playwright.
Brummagem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A dialectal variant of Birmingham.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Birmingham: a major city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
Derived terms: Brum
Brummagem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brummagems
Etymology: A dialectal variant of Birmingham.
Senses: synonyms: Brummie
glosses: A person from Birmingham.
glosses: A counterfeit coin.
Brummagem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A dialectal variant of Birmingham.
Senses: examples: text: He was “great” (as he expressed it) with the Bloomer who kept the bar where their club was held, and whom he styled “a spiffy girl,” and who had been graciously pleased to accept of a pair of very Brummagem-looking earrings, set with paste diamonds, with which he had presented her.
ref: 1852, “How Jeremiah Tubbs became engaged in the Irish elections of 1852”, in New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 66:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of brummagem (“cheap and showy”).
brushproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brushproof
form: most brushproof
Etymology: From brush + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to damage caused by brushing.
buckishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From buckish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being buckish.
budgereegah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budgereegahs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of budgerigar.
budgereegahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budgereegah
buffoonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buffoonesque
form: most buffoonesque
Etymology: From buffoon + -esque.
Senses: glosses: buffoonish
bulaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulakis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bulak.
bulaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulak
bulakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulaki
bullimong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullimongs
Etymology: From Middle English bulimong from bule (“bull”) + imong (“mixture”).
Senses: synonyms: dredge
glosses: A mixture of oats, barley, etc. sown to provide cattle feed.
Caerau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Maesteg community, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS8594).
glosses: A suburb and community in west Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1375).
glosses: A hamlet in Cylch-y-Garn community, Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH3291).
hits a lick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit a lick
hitting a lick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit a lick
hittin' a lick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of hit a lick
bunyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunyahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bunya (“banyan; Hindu caste member”).
Related terms: bunyah-bunyah
bunyahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunyah
kinkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kinkly
form: most kinkly
Etymology: From kinkle + -y?
Senses: examples: text: and were addicted to short kinkly curls, exaggerated, in the case of villains of more than ordinary atrocity, into a stream of raven locks[…]
ref: 1873, “Reminiscences of the Royal Pasteboard Theatre”, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal:
text: When I knew him he was forty years of age, a thin, spare creature, with a bush of kinkly hair, negro lips, and a long face like that of a horse.
ref: 1895, Vance Thompson, “Two Nigger Poets of Paris”, in M'lle New York, volume 1:
text: Hair has different form, texture, weight and shape in cross section, like, straight, wavy, curly, kinkly and woolly or peppercorn.
ref: 1980, Journal of Tamil Studies:
glosses: Liable to kink or curl; kinky.
bupleurol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Bupleurum + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alcohol with chemical formula C₁₀H₂₀O, derived from the essential oil from the flowers and leaves of Bupleurum fruticosum.
bushlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushlets
Etymology: From bush + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little bush.
bushlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushlet
butcherless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From butcher + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In this new type butcherless butcher shop all meat is displayed packed in cartons and with soft lights and easy chairs the shop looks like a women's wear store, rather than a meat market.
ref: 1931, Popular Science, volume 118, number 3, page 32:
glosses: Without a butcher.
butlerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From butler + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The status or sphere of butlers.
LGAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LGA
buttermonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttermongers
Etymology: From butter + monger.
Senses: glosses: A seller of butter.
buttermongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttermonger
buttressless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From buttress + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without buttresses.
PGAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PGA
buzzerphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzzerphones
form: buzzer phone
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A portable buzzer system for transmitting messages in Morse code.
buzzerphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzzerphone
buzzer phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzzer phones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buzzerphone.
buzzer phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzzer phone
gender binaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gender binary
TOGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you encounter windshear on approach, apply TOGA power and rotate the nose up to just below the stickshaker activation threshold to maximize the aircraft's climb capability.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of takeoff / go-around (an engine thrust setting, usually the highest).
scatterplotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scatterplot
Gabbard diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gabbard diagrams
Etymology: Developed by John Gabbard at NORAD.
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: A scatter plot on which the periapses and apoapses of the pieces of space debris from a single fragmentation event are plotted with respect to the pieces' orbital periods.
Gabbard diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gabbard diagram
Balranald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
glosses: A town in Balranald Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: Balranald Shire, a local government area in the Riverina, New South Wales, Australia.
purpleleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From purple + leaf.
Senses: examples: text: He sat and waited. Stared out of the café and across at Église de la Sainte-Trinité, its front lawn lined with purpleleaf trees.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 18, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 102:
glosses: Having purple leaves, especially of plants within the genus Prunus.
tone police
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tone polices
form: tone policing
form: tone policed
form: tone policed
Senses: examples: text: Many white women will tone police, dominate conversation, and then when challenged follow the following playbook[…]
ref: 2017, Fobazi M. Ettarh, “Equality is not Pie; Libraries and the Insidiousness of Subtle Racism”, in fobaziettarh.com:
text: When his commenters try to tone-police him, [Hasan] Piker will often single one of them out and say, “Congratulations, chatter, you’ve won Woke of the Day.” It’s not a compliment.
ref: 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
glosses: To complain about the tone of one or more participants in a debate or discussion, especially one perceived as heated, disrespectful, etc.
Related terms: tone policing