cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scalled
form: most scalled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scald (“scabby, scurfy”)
Synonyms: reef
scabrous
scabby
Derived terms: scalled head
Related terms: scall
tranquillizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tranquillization
tranquilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tranquilizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tranquillization.
tranquilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tranquilization
coenenchym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenenchyms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coenenchyme.
coenenchyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coenenchym
coenenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenenchymata
Senses: glosses: coenenchym
coenenchymata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coenenchyma
sonsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒnsi/
rhymes: -ɒnsi
Forms: form: more sonsy
form: most sonsy
form: soncie
form: soncy
form: sonsie
Etymology: From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sonasach.
Senses: examples: text: […]as black a Jacobite as the auld leaven can make him; but a sonsy, merry companion, that none of us think it worth while to break wi' for all his brags and his clavers.
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 10, in Redgauntlet:
text: The housemaid at the boarding-house where we have stayed since we left Heathstock is a fat, sonsy, good-natured girl, perfectly ignorant and stupid, but she has not been long in the colony, and seems willing to learn.
ref: 1866 January 24, Mary Anne Barker, “Letter VI”, in Station Life in New Zealand, London: Macmillan & co, published 1870, page 44:
antonyms: unsonsy
glosses: lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump
Synonyms: voluptuous
scorce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scorse (“barter”).
cessers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cesser
corregidors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corregidor
winily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more winily
form: most winily
Etymology: From winy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a winy manner; drunkenly.
wininess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From winy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being winy; drunkenness.
moralizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more moralizingly
form: most moralizingly
Etymology: From moralizing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He sat himself down in an arbor, and looked moralizingly over the initials, the dates, and the witticisms, that hands, long since mouldering, have consigned to the admiration of posterity.
ref: 1840, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Flower Basket; Or, A Selection of Interesting Stories, page 79:
glosses: In a moralizing fashion.
moralizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moralizing
sea bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea bats
Senses: glosses: batfish
sea bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea bat
Streisand effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Other notable Canadian censorship attempts are have had such strong Streisand Effects, they might as well have directed and starred in the romantic drama Prince Of Tides.
ref: 2008 November 19, Joshua Errett, “Khalid mosque sings Streisand”, in Now, volume 28, number 12, →ISSN:
text: It's not even the right venue for this guy to complain about his privacy. This is an open Map Maker forum where it is visible to all (or until the message is deleted). This link should be the right place to complain (and avoid any potential Streisand effects)
ref: 2012 January 22, geopgeop Level 7, “Lock the Message to New Mappers?”, in General Map Maker (Usenet):
glosses: plural of Streisand effect
Punchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Punchmen
Etymology: From Punch + -man.
Senses: glosses: The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show.
Synonyms: professor
Punchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Punchman
flashlightfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashlightfishes
form: flashlightfish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flashlight fish.
flashlightfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flashlightfish
flashlight fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashlight fishes
form: flashlight fish
form: flashlightfish
Senses: glosses: Any of various fishes with large bioluminescent organs, mostly in family Anomalopidae.
Synonyms: sense: fish in Anomalopidae
word: lanterneye fish
shawlette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shawlettes
Etymology: From shawl + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small shawl.
shawlettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shawlette
techniphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of techniphone
cornerpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornerpieces
Etymology: From corner + piece.
Senses: glosses: Part of an object that fits at its corner.
cornerpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornerpiece
maple syrup urine disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maple-syrup urine disease
form: maple-syrup-urine disease
Senses: glosses: Branched-chain ketoaciduria, an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder affecting branched-chain amino acids and causing the urine to have a distinctive sweet odour.
Synonyms: word: MSUD
Krabbe disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Krabbe's disease
Etymology: Named after the Danish neurologist Knud Haraldsen Krabbe (1885-1965).
Senses: glosses: globoid cell leukodystrophy, or galactosylceramide lipidosis; a rare, often fatal degenerative disorder that affects the myelin sheath of the nervous system
d@
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: d@ is 4 u — that is for you
glosses: Abbreviation of dat (colloquial form of that).
oppressours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oppressour
damnations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damnation
scourse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scourses
form: scoursing
form: scoursed
form: scoursed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scorse.
sarcocol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑːkəkɒl/
Etymology: From Middle English sarcocol, from Latin sarcocolla, from Ancient Greek σαρκοκόλλα (sarkokólla), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue, adhesive”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sarcocolla as a resin.
sulcated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sulcated
form: most sulcated
Etymology: From sulcate + -d.
Senses: glosses: sulcate
sideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sideratio.
Senses: glosses: The state of being siderated, or planet-struck.
glosses: A blast or blight in plants.
glosses: A sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis.
surquedous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surquedous
form: most surquedous
form: surquedrous
Senses: examples: text: Mine office did full surquedous of chere.
But now this day I am arested her
ref: 1673, William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum:
glosses: Having or exhibiting surquedry; arrogant; insolent.
supralunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supralunar
form: most supralunar
form: supralunary
Etymology: From supra- + lunar.
Senses: examples: text: supralunar world
synonyms: superlunar
superlunary
glosses: Beyond the Moon
pervial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pervial
form: most pervial
Senses: glosses: pervious
Derived terms: pervially
Related terms: impervial
pluggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplʌɡɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of plugging
colophanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colophany
colophany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colophanies
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of colophony
vibrios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibrio
panspermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + -spermy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria may develop.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis.
Derived terms: panspermic
panspermia
panspermial
panspermically
Related terms: monospermy
oligospermy
ichthyoplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyoplanktons
Etymology: From ichthyo- + plankton.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: zooplankton derived from fish, such as fish eggs, fry and larvae
ichthyoplanktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ichthyo- + planktonic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ichthyoplankton.
simploce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simploces
Senses: glosses: Dated form of symploce.
simploces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simploce
pexophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The selective autophagy of peroxisomes
Derived terms: macropexophagy
micropexophagy
pexophagic
pexophagosome
macropexophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The macroautophagy of peroxisomes
Related terms: micropexophagy
micropexophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + pexophagy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The microautophagy of peroxisomes
Related terms: macropexophagy
preoculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preocular
syrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syrop
harloted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harlot
harloting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harlot
harlotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harlot
harlotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harlot
petrographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrography
musrole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musroles
form: musrol
Etymology: Borrowed from French muserolle.
Senses: glosses: The noseband of a horse's bridle.
musroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musrole
diodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diodonts
Senses: glosses: A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.
Synonyms: sense: genus Diodon
word: balloonfish
sense: genus Diodon
word: porcupinefish
diodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diodont
antherozoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antherozoids
form: antherozooid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνθηρός (anthērós, “flowery”) + ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
Synonyms: sperm
antherozoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antherozoid
antherozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antherozooids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antherozoid.
antherozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antherozooid
cudbear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cudbears
form: cudbeard
Etymology: Corrupted from the name of Dr. Cuthbert Gordon, a Scotsman, who patented the process of manufacture.
Senses: examples: text: ORCHELLA WEEDS. The cylindrical and flat species of Roccella used in the manufacture of Orchil or Archil, and Cudbear, are so called by the makers.
ref: 1878, Andrew Ure, Robert Hunt, Frederick William Rudler, Ure̓'s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practice, volume 3:
glosses: A violet-red powder, difficult to moisten with water, prepared from certain lichens, especially Ochrolechia tartarea (syn. Lecanora tartarea), and used for making violet or purple dye.
glosses: A rim lichen, crabseye lichen (Ochrolechia tartarea, syn. Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.
Synonyms: sense: lichen
word: cudweed
cudbears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cudbear
Pierides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πιερίδες (Pierídes).
Senses: glosses: The Muses.
trombiculosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rash caused by trombiculid mites.
Synonyms: trombiculiasis
trombiculidiasis
diphyodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek διφυής (diphuḗs, “double”) + ὀδόντος (odóntos) (genitive of ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”)).
Senses: examples: a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other.
Related terms: monophyodont
polydont
diphy-
diphyodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphyodonts
Etymology: Ancient Greek διφυής (diphuḗs, “double”) + ὀδόντος (odóntos) (genitive of ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”)).
Senses: glosses: Any creature with two successive sets of teeth.
diphyodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphyodont
sleid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sleɪd/
homophone: slayed
homophone: slade
Forms: form: sleids
form: sleiding
form: sleided
form: sleided
Etymology: See sley.
Senses: examples: text: sleided silk
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: To sley, or prepare for use in the weaver's sley, or slaie.
sleided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleid
sleiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleid
sleids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleid
autopsical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autopsical
form: most autopsical
Senses: glosses: autopsic
ploughlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ploughland
epizoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epizoa
form: epizoans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of epizoon.
synonyms: word: epizoon
epizoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epizoan
dumous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dumous
form: most dumous
form: dumose
Etymology: Latin dumōsus (“overgrown with thorns or briars”)
Senses: glosses: Abounding with bushes and briars.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a compact, bushy form.
hopbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopbines
form: hopbind
Etymology: From hop + bine.
Senses: examples: text: I was […] hurtling along […] past cottages at whose doors women sat on chairs to pick the hopbines heaped about them.
ref: 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 162:
glosses: The climbing stem of the hop.
hopbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopbine
danaide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danaides
Etymology: From the mythical Danaides, who were condemned to fill a hole-filled vessel with water.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A water wheel having a vertical axis and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
wikipedia: Danaides
danaides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danaide
cayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cay
aborigin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aborigins
form: aborigen
Senses: glosses: Aboriginal.
aborigins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aborigin
doing it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do it
did it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do it
done it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do it
does it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do it
dimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪmps
Senses: glosses: plural of dimp
micronekton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micronekton
Etymology: From micro- + nekton.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any very small crustacean and other free-swimming marine animal(s)
Derived terms: micronektonic
midoceanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-oceanic
Etymology: From mid- + oceanic.
Senses: glosses: That occurs in the middle of the ocean
paralarva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralarvae
Etymology: From para- + larva.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The planktonic (moving about with the water current) stage of a young cephalopod just after it has hatched.
paralarvae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralarva
precultivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + cultivated.
Senses: glosses: cultivated in advance
pregrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + grown.
Senses: glosses: grown in advance
proglucagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proglucagons
Etymology: From pro- + glucagon.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of polypeptides that are cleaved to produce glucagon.
Derived terms: preproglucagon
preproglucagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preproglucagons
Etymology: By surface analysis, prepro- + glucagon, or, by surface analysis, pre- + proglucagon.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: preprohormone
coordinate_terms: proglucagon
;
preproinsulin
glosses: Any polypeptide precursor of a proglucagon.
shelterin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelterins
Etymology: From shelter + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex of proteins associated with telomeres that protect the ends of chromosomes
spinoculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: inoculated by means of spinoculation
subtelomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtelomere
trophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trophic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a trophic manner
glosses: With regard to nutrition
tyloxapol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nonionic polymer that is used as a detergent to aid liquefaction of sputum
vildagliptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪl.dəˈɡlɪp.tɪn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -gliptin (“dipeptidyl aminopeptidase-IV inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular antidiabetic drug.
Yaquina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈkwɪnə/
rhymes: -ɪnə
Senses: glosses: A Native American people from Oregon.
Yaquina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈkwɪnə/
rhymes: -ɪnə
Senses: glosses: A river and bay of Oregon.
Derived terms: yaquinae
stomatologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stomatological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With reference to stomatological matters
mediævalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediævalistic
form: most mediævalistic
Senses: examples: text: But this piece is to be comedy, pure and simple : not comedy of the modern, drawing‐room species, but comedy of the genuine, old‐fashioned sort, wherein even the diabolesque dénouement is not without the true “ comic ” flavour of the mediævalistic stage‐play.
ref: 1628, Eustace John Breakspeare, Mozart, page 155:
qualifier: archaic or archaizing
glosses: Alternative form of medievalistic.
jolley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jolleys
Senses: glosses: One who jigs.
examples: text: When she had to leave work because of silicosis at the beginning of this century, the period of female makers at jolleys was over, with some insignificant temporary exceptions.
ref: 2005, Gertjan De Groot, Women Workers And Technological Change In Europe In The Nineteenth And twentieth century:
qualifier: pottery
glosses: A concave horizontal lathe used in producing bowls and cups.
Synonyms: jigger
Derived terms: jolleyman
jolley
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jolleys
form: jolleying
form: jolleyed
form: jolleyed
Senses: qualifier: pottery
glosses: To use a jolley.
Synonyms: jigger
Derived terms: jolleyer
jolleyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jolleyers
Etymology: From jolley + -er.
Senses: qualifier: pottery
glosses: The operator of a jolley.
jiggerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jiggerers
Etymology: From jigger + -er.
Senses: qualifier: pottery
glosses: Operator of a jigger.
Synonyms: jigger
hopbind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopbinds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hopbine.
hopbinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopbind
trombiculiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: trombiculosis
trombiculidiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trombiculid + -iasis.
Senses: glosses: trombiculosis
xtr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of extra.
ctlg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of catalogue/catalog.
semifossorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + fossorial.
Senses: glosses: Partly or sometimes fossorial.
reproable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From repro + -able.
Senses: examples: a reproable bug
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being reproduced.
laidbackness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laidback + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being laidback or behaving in a laidback manner.
retrognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retrognathous
form: most retrognathous
Senses: glosses: retrognathic
retrognathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retrognathic
form: most retrognathic
Etymology: From retro- + gnathic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a retrusive jaw.
Synonyms: retrognathous
Related terms: retrognathism
retrognathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Untreated retrognathism can lead to complications like: […]
ref: 2025 January 16, “Retrognathia”, in Cleveland Clinic:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The quality of being retrognathic.
underbreeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + breeches.
Senses: glosses: breeches worn underneath other clothing
Synonyms: underbritches
understitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: understitches
form: understitching
form: understitched
form: understitched
Etymology: From under- + stitch.
Senses: glosses: To stitch through the facing of a garment, etc. but not through the surface.
understitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: understitches
Etymology: From under- + stitch.
Senses: glosses: A stitch that passes through the facing of a garment, etc. but not through the surface.
understitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of understitch
understitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of understitch
understitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of understitch
understitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of understitch
Charcot-Leyden crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Charcot-Leyden crystals
Etymology: They were described (though not first discovered) by Jean-Martin Charcot and Charles-Philippe Robin in 1853, then in 1872 by Ernst Viktor von Leyden.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Elongated, double-pyramidal crystal of eosinophils found in the sputum in bronchial asthma
Charcot-Leyden crystals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charcot-Leyden crystal
maintenance hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maintenance holes
Etymology: From maintenance + hole. The first word may have been chosen partly to preserve the same initials as manhole.
Senses: glosses: manhole
hell money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Joss money burnt in East Asian ancestor worship.
in the final analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in the last analysis
form: in the ultimate analysis
Etymology: Calque of French en dernière analyse.
Senses: examples: text: I have not been personally in a conversation with anybody in the Astronaut Office that is antirobotic for some philosophical reason. They are a group of people who, in the final analysis, have the responsibility to get the job done.
ref: 1990, United States. Congress House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, page 90:
glosses: All things considered; when all is said and done; in conclusion, basically and fundamentally.
Synonyms: at bottom
fundamentally
osteoconductivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteoconductive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The fibrous structure of these two products results in significantly greater osteoconductivity compared with the gel formulation and, hence, show an enhanced ability to serve as an osteoconductive graft substitute.
ref: 2003 January 1, Ashley R. Poynton with Joseph M. Lane, “Review of the State of the Art: Allograft-Based Systems for Use as Bone Graft Substitutes”, in Cato T. Laurencin, editor, Bone Graft Substitutes, ASTM International, →ISBN, →OL, page 19:
glosses: Property of a biomaterial that encourages osteoconduction.
encephalometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encephalometric
form: most encephalometric
Etymology: From encephalometry + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Altukhov, with the help of the encephalometer, determined the cortical areas within the boundaries of the bony defect and transferred the contour to the encephalometric map for children compiled by the author.
ref: 1989 January 28, Edward I. Kandel, Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Springer, →ISBN, →OL, page 69:
glosses: Pertaining to measurement of the brain.
geogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geogenic
form: most geogenic
Etymology: From geogeny + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the history of the earth.
examples: text: Geogenic emissions are primarily the result of oil or natural gas seeps and soil wind erosion. In addition, lightning may also be a significant contributor to natural NO₂ emissions in an inventory area. Volcanoes and fumaroles (i.e., vapor or gas vents in a volcanic region) can be additional sources of geogenic emissions.
ref: 2005, William Kuykenda, Emissions Inventory Guidance for Implementation of Ozone and Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and Regional Haze Regulations, DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Resulting from geological processes.
intramatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intramatrix
form: most intramatrix
Etymology: From intra- + matrix.
Senses: examples: text: These intramatrix correlations among the matrix elements reflect their relative positional importance, endowed by the evolutionary relationship among the corresponding reference genomes. In other words, same values, depending on where they are located in the matrices, may carry different weight in telling us about the coevolvedness of the two proteins.
ref: 2009 September 8, Li Liao, “Inferring Protein Functional Linkage Based on Sequence Information”, in Jake Y. Chen, Stefano Lonardi, editors, Biological Data Mining, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 364:
glosses: Situated or occurring within a matrix.
SUFC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Sheffield United Football Club, a famous English football club from Sheffield.
hæmopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hæmopoietic
form: most hæmopoietic
Senses: examples: text: In some the intoxication is so sever as to so depress the hæmopoietic tissues as to paralyze their powers of producing leucocytes, and a fatal termination is the invariable result, while in others, although an excess of leucocytes is discharged into the blood, the patient is so depressed by the toxæmia that his powers soon fail and death is almost inevitable.
ref: 1910, Alexander McPhedran, Monthly Cyclopædia and Medical Bulletin, page 330:
glosses: Obsolete form of hemopoietic.
hæmatoporphyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Even with 2 per cent. hydrochloric acid a certain amount of hæmatoporphyrin is formed, and if the strength of the acid be increased to 15 per cent. the whole of the iron is split off and the hæmochromogen is converted entirely into hæmatoporphyrin.
ref: 1920, Ernest Henry Starling, Hamilton Hartridge, Principles of Human Physiology, page 873:
glosses: Archaic form of hematoporphyrin.
multishirk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multishirks
form: multishirking
form: multishirked
form: multishirked
Etymology: From multi- + shirk by analogy to multitask.
Senses: examples: text: But in reality you are doing what one Dilbert reader calls multishirking, i.e., doing two nonwork activities at once.
Multishirking is not only fun; it doubles the odds that an observer will think you're doing at least one work-related activity.
ref: 1999 September 8, Scott Adams, The Joy of Work: Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers, Harper Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OL, page 53:
text: Sometimes those office workers with a basic grounding in drama will find it easier to multishirk while giving all the outward appearances of working diligently. Multishirking is, of course, preferable to multitasking, which generally means you do two jobs instead of one, for the same money.
ref: 2005 October 1, Karen Farrington, The Law of the Office: A Guide to the Culture of Working Nine to Five, London: Robson Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 86:
glosses: To do more than one non-work activity at once.
homœopathicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Often he says they are used empirically upon the authority of some distinguished physician; mostly he denies that their action is homœopathic; at times, by circumlocution, their action is explained in verbiage which the terse phrases of a homœopathist would render quite unnecessary; and on some rare occasions, we are most devoutly thankful to say the homœopathicity of their action is frankly conceded—but then our gratitude is short‐lived, for they hasten to inform us that this is only one of those accidental and casual occurrences in Nature which scientists tell us are impossible.
ref: 1918, Theodore J. Gramm, The Hahnemannian Monthly, page 333:
glosses: Archaic form of homeopathicity.
multishirking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of multishirk
multishirks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multishirk
multishirked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of multishirk
cloudwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cloudwashes
form: cloudwashing
form: cloudwashed
form: cloudwashed
Etymology: From cloud + -wash.
Senses: glosses: To add the word "cloud" to a service or product in order to suggest support for cloud computing, with minimal changes to the product or service itself.
waint
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Well tha may think folks like it cos it's packed up to door, I've come here tonight but I wain't come no more. Cos it's all made o' plastic, it's plain tha can see. Well it may do for others but it waint do for me.
ref: 2011, “Awterations” (track 14), in Bread and Fishes, performed by Houghton Weavers:
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of won't and wouldn't.
Caturday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætədeɪ/
ipa: /ˈkætədi/
enpr: kăʹtər-dā
ipa: /ˈkætɚdeɪ/
enpr: kăʹtər-dē
ipa: /ˈkætɚdi/
Forms: form: Caturdays
Etymology: Blend of cat + Saturday.
Senses: examples: text: I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.
ref: 2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, “Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong”, in Time:
text: Lolcats - images of anthropomorphic felines captioned with mis-spelt web-speak ("im in ur bed zleepin" and so on) - made their first appearance on the site, during its regular "Caturday" slot, but went on to dominate blogs and sites the length and breadth of the internet.
ref: 2010 August 31, Jon Kelly, Jude Sheerin, “The strange virtual world of 4chan”, in BBC News:
text: When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday.
ref: 2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, Free Press, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Saturday, as the day of the week for posting lolcats or other pictures of cats.
Related terms: roman: kotoponedílok
word: котопонеді́лок
word: equivalent in Ukraine
stonegall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonegalls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of staniel.
stonegalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonegall
thunderstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderstrikes
Etymology: From thunder + strike.
Senses: glosses: The striking of lightning.
thunderstrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thunderstrike
thunderstrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunderstrike
thunderstriking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thunderstrike
thunderstriking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thunderstriking
form: most thunderstriking
Senses: examples: text: He then took shelter from the rage that might be expected to follow such thunder-striking intelligence under the bed clothes,
ref: 1797, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 19, in Family Secrets: Literary and Domestic, volume 3, London: T.N. Longman, page 176:
text: The opening of territory to slavery […] was the arousing, astounding, thunderstriking event that brought Lincoln back into politics and lifted him to a new level of public moral argument.
ref: 2002, William Lee Miller, chapter 9, in Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, New York: Knopf, pages 238–239:
synonyms: astonishing
astounding
devastating
mind-blowing
stupefying
glosses: Causing great amazement or shock.
hypostatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypostatical
form: most hypostatical
Senses: glosses: hypostatic
paraplegy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraplegies
Senses: glosses: Dated form of paraplegia.
paraplegies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraplegy
piassava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: piassavas
form: piacaba
form: piasaba
form: piassaba
form: piasava
form: pissaba
Etymology: From Portuguese piaçaba, from Tupian.
Senses: examples: text: Common brushes and brooms made of bristles, rice straw, piassava, and other animal or vegetable stuffs; also mounted with wood or iron, not colored, without polish or varnish:
ref: 1893, United States Congressional serial set, page 150:
text: In Santa Cruz, for instance, where laborers are scarce and the means of communication bad, the gatherers of piassava are paid at the rate of from 2 to 3 milreis (the milreis is equivalent to about 30 cents) per arroba; [...]. The British syndicate above referred to uses [...] steel cleaves for cutting the piassava into uniform strips;
ref: 1909, Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, page 678:
text: Piassava Industry. At a recent meeting of the West African section of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce a letter was read from the colonial secretary of Gambia inclosing the following report on the development of the piassava industry ...
ref: 1914, Daily Consular and Trade Reports, page 972:
text: The revised export-tariff schedule provides for Increased duties on palm kernels, palm oil, ginger, groundnuts, and piassava, and coffee, cocoa, benneseed, and kola nuts were made subject to export duties for the first time.
ref: 1951, Foreign Commerce Weekly:
glosses: A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia piassaba), formerly used in making brooms and for other purposes.
glosses: Either of these two trees.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Attalea funifera
word: Bahia piassava palm
taxonomic: Leopoldinia piassaba
word: Para piassava
taxonomic: Leopoldinia piassaba
word: piassava palm
taxonomic: Leopoldinia piassaba
word: piassava fiber palm
piassavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piassava
swarve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)v/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: swarves
form: swarving
form: swarved
form: swarved
Etymology: See swerve.
Senses: examples: text: I holde it meet that there were onelye sewerties taken of them , and one bounde for another , wherbye , if anye shall swarve , his sewerties shall for safegarde of ther bandes bringe hyme in , or seeke to serve upon him
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: To swerve.
examples: text: Feede your eyes (quod you) the reason from my wisdom swarveth, / I stared on you both, and yet my belly starveth.
ref: 1571, Edwards, Damon and Pythias:
glosses: To climb.
sermonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sermonical
form: most sermonical
Etymology: From sermon + -ical.
Senses: glosses: sermonic
palmerworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmerworms
form: palmer-worm
form: palmer worm
Etymology: From palmer + worm, because wandering about like a palmer.
Senses: examples: text: And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joel 2:25:
glosses: Any small, terrestrial invertebrate, usually an agricultural pest and having many legs and a hairy body.
examples: text: If history repeats itself in the case of the palmerworm, fruit growers are not likely to encounter this insect in injurious numbers more than once in a lifetime, since in the past outbreaks have occurred only at intervals of[…]
ref: 1922, Altus Lacy Quaintance, Edouard Horace Siegler, The More Important Apple Insects, page 58:
glosses: A gelechiid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, destructive to fruit trees.
palmerworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmerworm
abortiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abortive
abortived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abortive
accidental abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛn.tl̩ əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: accidental abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A spontaneous abortion.
accidental abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accidental abortion
ampullar abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmˈpʊ.lɑɹ əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: ampullar abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tubal abortion occurring near the ampulla of the oviduct.
ampullar abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampullar abortion
artificial abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑɹ.təˈfɪʃ.l̩ əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: artificial abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgically induced abortion.
artificial abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificial abortion
complete abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈplit əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: complete abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abortion where all products of conception have been expelled.
complete abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complete abortion
habitual abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈbɪt͡ʃ.u.l̩ əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /həˈbɪt͡ʃ.ju.l̩ əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: habitual abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The third (or later) of a set of spontaneous abortions that occur simultaneously.
habitual abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habitual abortion
imminent abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪm.ɪn.ənt əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˈɪm.ən.ənt əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: imminent abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An impending miscarriage indicated by bleeding and pain along with an effaced cervix.
imminent abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imminent abortion
incomplete abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.kəmˈplit əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: incomplete abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abortion or miscarriage that does not fully remove all product traces of the fetus.
Synonyms: incomplete miscarriage
incomplete abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incomplete abortion
inevitable abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɛv.ɪt.ə.bl̩ əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: inevitable abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abortion that is beyond stopping
inevitable abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inevitable abortion
infected abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɛkt.əd əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: infected abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abortion with an infection and high fever.
infected abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infected abortion
missed abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪst əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: missed abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: delayed miscarriage
early fetal demise
missed miscarriage
overdue abortion
prolonged abortion
silent miscarriage
glosses: A miscarriage where the products of that miscarriage are not expelled.
missed abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missed abortion
nontherapeutic abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɔn.θɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: nontherapeutic abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abortion not required for medical reasons.
nontherapeutic abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontherapeutic abortion
septic abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛp.tɪk əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: septic abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abortion accompanied by an infection of the abortive tissue and/or portions of the uterus.
septic abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septic abortion
spontaneous abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spontaneous abortion
therapeutic abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: therapeutic abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abortion indicated by need for the health of the mother or due to the inviable nature of the fetus.
therapeutic abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of therapeutic abortion
threatened abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹɛt.n̩d əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: threatened abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition approximating an imminent abortion, where there is bleeding but the fetus remains attached to the uterine wall.
threatened abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threatened abortion
tubal abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtu.bl̩ əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: tubal abortions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abortion where the abortive products are expelled through the distal opening.
tubal abortions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubal abortion
abulias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abulia
Halford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Halfords
Etymology: From Old English healh (“nook, corner; recess”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO435833).
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Stratford-upon-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2545).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Deuel's halo sign
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Described by H. Deuel in 1947.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray finding of intrauterine death, where the usual zone of reduced density visible around the head of a relatively mature fetus before delivery appears separate from the cranium.
oxymatrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in the plant Sophora flavescens.
sophoridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in the plant Sophora flavescens.
oxysophocarpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxy- + sophocarpine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in the plant Sophora flavescens.
sophocarpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in the plant Sophora flavescens.
Derived terms: oxysophocarpine
antifoulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifoulants
Etymology: From anti- + foulant.
Senses: glosses: Any antifouling substance.
antifoulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifoulant
coxsackieviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to coxsackieviruses.