cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
equitriangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + triangular.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of an equilateral triangle
eristostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disintegrin present in Eristicophis macmahoni
acrichin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrichine
Senses: glosses: The antimalarial drug quinacrine hydrochloride.
acrichine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acrichin.
erithroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of erythroid.
ethnoclassification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnoclassifications
Etymology: From ethno- + classification.
Senses: glosses: ethnological classification
ethnoclassifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnoclassification
dinonylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Typically, this might occur as the deposition of solid dinonylamine hydrofluorides and/or as the carry-through of low-boiling volatiles to the HF product.
ref: 1965, CPE: Chemical and Process Engineering and Atomic World:
text: Suitable amines thus include octadecylamine, methyl dioctylamine, dinonylamine, dilauryl butylamine, trilaurylamine and trinonylamine, and they may be used in any amount from an effective trace up to an equal weight with the alcohol.
ref: 1967, Robert Noyes, Phosphoric acid by the wet process, page 255:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The secondary amine (CH₃(CH₂)₈)₂NH
ethoxyethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethoxyethyls
Etymology: From eth- + oxy- + ethyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ethoxy derivative of an ethyl radical
trilaurylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Trilaurylamine extracts plutonium from HNO₃ solutions.
ref: 1958, Reactor Fuel Processing, volume 1, page 12:
text: Suitable amines thus include octadecylamine, methyl dioctylamine, dinonylamine, dilauryl butylamine, trilaurylamine and trinonylamine, and they may be used in any amount from an effective trace up to an equal weight with the alcohol.
ref: 1967, Robert Noyes, Phosphoric acid by the wet process, page 255:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: TLA
glosses: An amine with three lauryl radicals, used primarily as an extractant.
trinonylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Trinonylamine stability of this order appears to be very tolerable under the proposed mode and temperatures of operation.
ref: 1965, CPE: Chemical and Process Engineering and Atomic World:
text: Suitable amines thus include octadecylamine, methyl dioctylamine, dinonylamine, dilauryl butylamine, trilaurylamine and trinonylamine, and they may be used in any amount from an effective trace up to an equal weight with the alcohol.
ref: 1967, Robert Noyes, Phosphoric acid by the wet process, page 255:
glosses: An amine with three nonyl radicals, used primarily as an extractant.
kikepas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kikepa
euthecosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euthecosomes
Senses: glosses: Any sea snail of the infraorder Euthecosomata
euthecosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euthecosome
exoperidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + peridial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an exoperidium
extraembryonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extra- + embryonically.
Senses: glosses: In an extraembryonic manner
ferrithiocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrithiocyanates
Etymology: From ferri- + thiocyanate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The complex ion Fe(SCN)₆³⁻; any salt containing this ion
Related terms: ferrothiocyanate
ferrithiocyanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferrithiocyanate
cookables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookable
fibrothecoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrothecomas
form: fibrothecomata
Etymology: From fibro- + thecoma.
Senses: glosses: A fibrous thecoma
fibrothecomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrothecoma
ravs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rav
fluoreophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fluorophore.
formalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formalisation
cemetery gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cemetery guns
Senses: glosses: A gun triggered by a tripwire near a grave, intended to deter body snatchers.
cemetery guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cemetery gun
furimazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A luminescent imidazopyrazinone
imidazopyrazinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imidazopyrazinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic heterocycle composed of a fused imidazole and pyrazinone rings
scalefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalefishes
form: scalefish
Etymology: From scale + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any fish bearing scales.
Coordinate terms: finfish
flatfish
scalefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalefish
imidazopyrazinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imidazopyrazinone
rawstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rawstocks
Etymology: From raw + stock.
Senses: examples: text: These fluctuations result from the interaction between the supply of hides and skins and the demand for the leather that is tanned from the rawstock.
ref: 1991, Employment and Working Conditions and Competitiveness in the Leather and Footwear Industry, Geneva: International Labour Office:
text: A plump rawstock is necessary because thickness reduction from high-pressure embossing exceeds the plumping effects of vegetable tanning. Native steer or branded steer hides are appropriate rawstock.
ref: 2009, A. M. Pearson, T. R. Dutson, Inedible Meat by-Products, page 356:
glosses: Hides or skins that have been preserved to be tanned later.
rawstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rawstock
moderatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to the role of moderator.
quadricriticoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadricriticoids
Etymology: From quadri- + criticoid.
Senses: examples: text: I retain the word quantoid to signify the sinister of a linear differential equation whereof the dexter is zero; and that a general quantoid has a quadricriticoid and a cubicriticoid I have already shown.
ref: 1864, James Cockle, Mathematical Researches, page 115:
text: The form of the quadricriticoid s does not vary with the order of the equation.
ref: 1881, The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A quadratic criticoid.
quadricriticoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadricriticoid
penalty envelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty envelopes
Senses: examples: text: The voter should take their absentee ballot to a post office, ask for a penalty envelope and mail it with the ballot inside.
glosses: An envelope whose mailing for an authorized purpose does not requiring postage, while its unauthorized use may be penalized.
conda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condas
Etymology: Clipping of anaconda (“a morph of hognose snake”).
Senses: glosses: A pattern morph of hognose snake that results in fewer but larger spots and often a completely black belly.
glosses: A hognose snake of this morph.
Synonyms: anaconda
galacticol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of galactitol.
galactoglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A simple disaccharide composed of a galactose moiety and glycerol
gastrorenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + renal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the stomach and the kidneys
saltwater soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltwater soaps
Senses: glosses: A potassium-based soap for use with seawater.
saltwater soaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltwater soap
salt wedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salt wedge
saltwedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltwedge
geogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geogenetics
Hollywood shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hollywood showers
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A long, luxurious shower, as opposed to a "navy shower".
Hollywood showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hollywood shower
geogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + genetics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
geography
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of geographic variation in genetics
Related terms: geogenetic
navy shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navy showers
Etymology: Originated on naval ships, where supplies of fresh water were often scarce.
Senses: antonyms: Hollywood shower
glosses: A shower where the flow of water is turned off while the person is lathering, to conserve water and energy.
navy showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navy shower
elephant toothpaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elephant's toothpaste.
geonuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + nuclear.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to the study of isotopic variation in rocks
elephant's toothpaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephant toothpaste
Etymology: The foamy texture and size of the resulting mass suggest a large amount of toothpaste, as might be imagined to be used by a large creature like an elephant.
Senses: glosses: A foamy substance caused by the rapid decomposition of hydrogen peroxide using potassium iodide as a catalyst; the outcome of a popular educational experiment in chemistry.
goniotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goniotomes
Etymology: From gonio- + -tome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An angled knife used in goniotomy
goniotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goniotome
lateralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lateralist
rod machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rod machines
Senses: glosses: A woodworking machine for cutting cylindrical sticks such as broom handles.
rod machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rod machine
rod line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rod lines
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fishing line that is not wound on a reel.
rod lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rod line
sproutless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sprout + -less.
Senses: examples: text: This sproutless tree looks like a difficult thing to get, and so it is. But, is anything too difficult when you consider that the tree will probably live and produce for 100 years?
ref: 1923, Oregon. Board of Horticulture, Biennial Report, page 214:
text: My favorite was the Japanese Summer Noodles, a sproutless steaming bowl of thin whole wheat noodles in a tamari soy sauce broth with mushrooms, zucchini, celery.
ref: 1987, Cincinnati Magazine, page 145:
text: Is this not too high a price to pay for a sproutless potato or a mosquitoless patio?
ref: 2002, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: without sprouts.
short short
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short shorts
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A very short film, typically of a length less than three minutes.
examples: text: Fifty Short Shorts. An omnibus of entertaining short short stories by America’s favorite tellers of tales
ref: 1945, Mary Anne Howard, Fifty Short Shorts: an Omnibus of Short Stories, Cleveland: World Publishing Company, →OCLC, front cover:
text: Verga’s Wolf cannot but repeat her passions, Tolstoy’s Alyosha his passivity. Themes of obsession work especially well in this kind of short short.
ref: 1982, Irving Howe, “Introduction”, in Irving Howe, Ilana Wiener Howe, editors, Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories, page xvi:
text: The most often cited example of a classical short-short, Petronius’ “The Widow of Ephesus,” is no rude prototype.
ref: 1986, Robert Shapard, “Introduction”, in Robert Shapard, James Thomas, editors, Sudden Fiction: American Short-short Stories, page xiv:
glosses: Ellipsis of short short story.
Greuel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Greuels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Greuel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
peakism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peak + -ism, where "peak" refers to peak oil.
Senses: examples: text: Specifically, peakism is marked by many of the same characteristics of recognized ideologies, including internal coherence, intellectual abstractness, specificity, sophistication, dogmatism, and affective investment.
ref: 2015, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture, page 18:
text: Peak oil bashing is not entirely the province of the petroleum industry: a very few leftist writers have argued that peakism is a conspiracy covertly organized by the industry itself to talk up prices (and profits) through invoking a false anticipation of scarcity.
ref: 2015, Richard Heinberg, Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels:
text: Peakism has been called a sort of Left Behind for liberals, and apocalyptic sects are known, after all, for proving remarkably resilient.
ref: 2015 November 4, Scott McLemee, “Past Its Peak”, in Inside Higher Ed:
glosses: The belief that the world has reached peak oil.
Related terms: peakist
unwhisperables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now Mr. Daniel Pimple was clad in white corduroy unwhisperables, and Mrs. Coffin was robed in Lyons black velvet ; anon by design, not by accident, did Mr. Daniel Pimple bring his right white knee in contact with the widow's left black one.
ref: 1839, Henry De la Pasture, Real pearls in a false setting, page 250:
text: Madam, the good Yankee housewife, who has reminiscences of having sold her husband's second best unwhisperables one day in the earlier period of her wedded life, to a young Israelite with a big basket, rich with gaudy mantel ornaments, who rode down contemptuously, and annihilated before her very face, the testimony of her very eyes, and made her think the unwhisperables aforesaid a bundle of worthlessness, "all tattered and torn"—mandam, I say, who remembers this, and the paltry gilt vase she got (and which the first baby luckily knoced over and broke with its excursive little fist one day), will hardly read with much sympathy these romantic rhapsodies concerning the children of Israel.
ref: 1867, The Northern Monthly Magazine - Volume 1, page 109:
text: The lady gives a brief account of her experience, and puts on the unwhisperables [emphasis added] in order to show her rank and regimentals [emphasis added] to an expectant crowd.
ref: 2006, William Christen, Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland:
glosses: Trousers.
waistache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waistaches
Senses: examples: text: Having asked him for explanation, he told us that he had waistache and was unfit to do heavy work.
ref: 1973, G. Jansen, The Doctor-patient Relationship in an African Tribal Society, page 88:
glosses: Pain in the waist; backache of the lower back.
waistaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waistache
takes up the slack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take up the slack
taking up the slack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take up the slack
took up the slack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take up the slack
taken up the slack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take up the slack
John Roscoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: John Roscoes
Etymology: See roscoe.
Senses: examples: text: “Why,” Joe the Joker says, “the joke is, I will not be asleep in the sack, and my hands will not be tied, and in each of my hands I will have a John Roscoe, so when the sack is delivered to Frankie Ferocious and I pop out blasting away, can you not imagine his astonishment?”
ref: 1934, Damon Runyon, Sense of humor:
glosses: Alternative form of roscoe (“a handgun”).
weirdlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weirdlike
form: most weirdlike
Etymology: From weird + -like. Compare English weirdly.
Senses: glosses: Indicative of weirdness; odd, bizarre, fanciful.
weirdlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weirdlike
form: most weirdlike
Etymology: From weird + -like. Compare English weirdly.
Senses: glosses: In a weird manner, weirdly.
happy-go-luckies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happy-go-lucky
Establishment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Establishment
Senses: examples: text: By the late 1780s, it was clear that many French had had it with the Establishment.
text: Maybe there was a time when readers would sit still for sober, dull opinion pieces — history’s most boring headline, “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative,” was the title of a Times op-ed — because they were seen as representing the views of The Establishment. And I have the feeling that Times management still thinks it’s living in that world. But in today’s wide-open information (and misinformation) environment, boring writing just vanishes without a trace.
ref: 2025 January 28, Paul Krugman, “Departing the New York Times. I left to stay true to my byline”, in The Contrarian:
glosses: Any particular establishment (ruling class) that is construed as the sole one within a given context (such as a specific country).
griselmycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of griselimycin.
griselimycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griselimycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cyclopeptide antibiotics used against tuberculosis
griselimycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of griselimycin
hematogeneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hematogeneous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematogenously.
hematopneumothorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemopneumothorax.
hematothorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemato- + thorax.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemothorax.
hemiclitoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + clitoral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hemiclitoris
hemiclitoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiclitorises
form: hemiclitorides
Etymology: From hemi- + clitoris.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: An erectile organ in female snakes and lizards, in the latter of which it is eversible.
Synonyms: hemiclit
Coordinate terms: clitoris
hemipenis
penis
Related terms: hemiclitoral
heptamethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptamethylenes
Etymology: From hepta- + methylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent radical obtained by removing a hydrogen atom from each end of a n-heptane molecule.
generally speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Generally speaking, today's teenagers aren't much interested in hearing about historical details of typewriter design.
text: It's worth asking Susan before asking anyone else, generally speaking. She usually knows more than the rest of them put together.
glosses: Synonym of in general; generally.
synonyms: word: in general
extra: generally
Related terms: english: likewise often disjunctive
translation: likewise often disjunctive
word: speaking of
in the distance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: While Hefzur was adjusting, conditions for the Rohingya in Myanmar, where his family was still living, were deteriorating. His parents described villages burning in the distance. They had to go, they informed him.
ref: 2019 September 22, Miriam Jordan, “Refugee Cutbacks Could Isolate Rohingya Children in the U.S.”, in New York Times:
text: After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 17:
text: It was, by my watch, nearly an hour and a half from the time of our leaving the station before I heard the sound of the sea in the distance
ref: 1860, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
glosses: far away; a long distance away
dakhma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dakhmas
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Synonym of tower of silence (“a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary”).
synonyms: word: tower of silence
extra: a low, cylindrical, open-topped tower where Zoroastrians place the bodies of deceased people to disintegrate from exposure and consumption by carrion birds such as vultures, the remaining bones being kept in an ossuary
dakhmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dakhma
heterodiasporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + diasporic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In which the seeds and fruit are dispersed separately
Related terms: heterodiaspory
homologomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of homooligomer.
hydrocycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocycles
Etymology: From hydro- + cycle.
Senses: synonyms: hydrobike
glosses: A small watercraft powered by pedals.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hydrologic cycle.
hydrocycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrocycle
hypermetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hyper- + metrically.
Senses: glosses: In a hypermetric manner
hypermineralised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + mineralised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypermineralized.
hypertaurodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + taurodont.
Senses: glosses: Very taurodont
hyperthrombotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + thrombotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hyperthrombosis
hyperthrombosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + thrombosis.
Senses: glosses: Extreme thrombosis
Related terms: hyperthrombotic
littl'un
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: littl'uns
Senses: examples: text: She's popped in a couple of times on her way back from the fields to see if there's any news of the littl'un.
ref: 2009, Ann Neve, Footsteps in the Sea, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 217:
glosses: Contraction of little un; littlun.
hypoconal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + conal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a hypocone
hypotaurodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + taurodont.
Senses: glosses: Less than normally taurodont
Amirul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”). A case of rebracketing, the -l probably comes from Arabic ال (al-), through it being a shortening of Arabic أمير المؤمنين (ʔamīr al-muʔminīn). Doublet of admiral.
Senses: examples: text: Amirul says CHT Treaty in no way contradicts constitution
ref: 1997 December 4, soc.culture.bangladesh (Usenet):
glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
immunoagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoagents
Etymology: From immuno- + agent.
Senses: glosses: An immunological agent
immunoagents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunoagent
immunocarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunocarriers
Etymology: From immuno- + carrier.
Senses: glosses: An immunological carrier
Synonyms: paratope
immunocarriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunocarrier
Purse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːs/
ipa: /pɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: Purses
Etymology: A metonymic occupational surname for someone who made bags or purses, from Middle English purse.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
purse puppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purse puppy
immunochip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunochips
Etymology: From immuno- + chip.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
immunology
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several chips used in computational immunology
immunochips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunochip
immunocomplexation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + complexation.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The formation of an immunocomplex
immunocomplexemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of an immunocomplex in the blood
immunocompromisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunocompromisations
Etymology: From immuno- + compromisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of immunocompromization.
reretreat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reretreats
Etymology: From re- + retreat.
Senses: examples: text: However, the ice sheet did not pass away by continuous and steady recession but by oscillations, readvances and reretreats; and some of the readvances may have covered considerable territory and have seriously changed the drainage.
ref: 1913, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 145:
text: The ice margin had many oscillations, readvances and reretreats, each probably covering many thousands of years.
ref: 1920, Science, page 285:
text: Nuruddin feigned reretreat.
ref: 1968, Mohammed Akbar Khan, Sultan Salahuddin Yousaf Ayubi versus the crusaders:
glosses: a second retreat.
immunopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunopathies
Etymology: From immuno- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the immune system
immunopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunopathy
interpretivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to interpretivism
interpretivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpretivists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of interpretivism.
intracranical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of intracranial.
intraionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + ionic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Within an ion
intrathalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + thalline.
Senses: glosses: Within a thallus
inviscidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being inviscid
fragnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fragnets
Etymology: Blend of fragmentary + network
Senses: glosses: An activity, or group of related activities, on a PERT chart, that accounts for a delay in a project
fragnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fragnet
hektographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hektograph
hektographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hektograph
hektography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hectography.
hektographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hectographic.
isothankunisode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpenoid centelloside present in a pennywort
interpretivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpretivist
kauranoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kauranoids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of kaurenoid.
kauranoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kauranoid
kleptochloroplastidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From klepto- + chloroplastidic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to kleptochloroplasts
laminectomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laminectomised.
lectotypify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lectotypifies
form: lectotypifying
form: lectotypified
form: lectotypified
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: To identify and document a lectotype
Related terms: lectotypification
lectotypified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lectotypify
lectotypification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lectotypifications
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: The process, or the result of lectotypifying
lefamulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular antibiotic
linguaflexid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linguaflexids
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A stylid between the metastylid and metaconid
lectotypifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lectotypification
lectotypifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lectotypify
lectotypifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lectotypify
lipograft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipografts
Etymology: From lipo- + graft.
Senses: glosses: A graft of adipose tissue
lipograft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lipografts
form: lipografting
form: lipografted
form: lipografted
Etymology: From lipo- + graft.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To graft adipose tissue
lipografts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipograft
lipografts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lipograft
lipografting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lipograft
lipoprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipo- + protection.
Senses: glosses: The protective action (on the heart) of certain lipids
lipothrixvirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipothrixviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the family Lipothrixviridae
lipothrixviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipothrixvirus
lobiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a lobe
chest down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chests down
form: chesting down
form: chested down
form: chested down
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: to control a high ball with the chest (for example, in order to shoot, dribble, or pass it)
BECCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɛks/
Senses: examples: text: Plus, even if we somehow managed to get BECCS online tomorrow, we don't have enough land on the planet to make it work.
ref: 2017, Jason Hickel, “False Promises”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
text: This chapter uses the TIAM‐UCL global energy‐system model to investigate the extent to which BECCS is critical for meeting global CO₂ reduction targets under different long‐term scenarios during 2005–2100.
ref: 2018, Clair Gough […] , editors, Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 224:
glosses: Acronym of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage.
sleeps with the fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep with the fishes
sleeping with the fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleep with the fishes
slept with the fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleep with the fishes
ice out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ices out
form: icing out
form: iced out
form: iced out
Senses: examples: text: Instead, she chose to ice him out without a glance as they passed on the stairs.
ref: 2012, Abby Grahame, Wentworth Hall:
text: In listening to him, I came to believe that the same personality type who would ice out or attack someone without talking to them first out of false “loyalty” would be the same person who would later be unable to apologize.
ref: 2016, Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse:
text: He's really more the type to ice you out until whatever the issue is passes.
ref: 2017, Genevieve Shaw Brown, The Happiest Mommy You Know:
text: “Why do I get the feeling that you're mad at us?” Sloane asked. I didn't respond. If they could ice me out, I could ice them out, too.
ref: 2019, Kristy Woodson Harvey, The Southern Side of Paradise:
text: Getting iced out by the tech giants turned Parler into a cause célèbre for conservatives who complained they were being censored, as well as a test case for the openness of the internet.
ref: 2021 February 15, Jack Nicas, “Parler, a Social Network That Attracted Trump Fans, Returns Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To shun or snub; to give the cold shoulder.
examples: text: He pay it on time when the rent due
Made him ice out my neck and the wrist too
ref: 2019 March 29, “Leave Em Alone” (track 18), in Layton Greene (lyrics), Quality Control: Control the Streets, Vol. 2:
text: Diamonds bitin heavily […]
Ice out my bitch, I get fried and do bougie things
ref: 2022 February 18, “ENEMIES” (track 3), in DC The Don (lyrics), My Own Worst Enemy:
synonyms: bust down
glosses: To cover with diamonds.
Related terms: freeze out
ices out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ice out
icing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ice out
vapor pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapor pens
form: vape pen
Senses: examples: text: From party-sized accessories to individual vapor pen electronic “cigarettes,” the ways to enjoy your weed have multiplied at a dizzying rate.
ref: 2015, Cheri Sicard, Mary Jane: The Complete Marijuana Handbook for Women:
text: After about 15 hits, I sat down the vapor pen and had to exclaim that I feel like I've never had schizophrenia at all; I felt uplifted from the illness, and in a noticeable way.
ref: 2018, Larry Podsobinski, In The Grip of Paranoid Schizophrenia, page 149:
text: “Take this,” she says as she puts a cannabis vapor pen in my outstretched palm. I draw on the vapor pen and within minutes the medicine has us care-free, pain-free, and relaxed, laughing and cracking jokes.
ref: 2018, Aalia Lanius, Tough Love:
synonyms: e-cig
glosses: An electronic cigarette, especially when used to deliver a dose of a drug other than nicotine.
Related terms: word: vape
word: vape
word: vaping
vapor pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapor pen
bretheling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brethelings
Etymology: From Middle English bretheling.
Senses: examples: text: The palmer rod forth ase a king, And Beues wente alse a bretheling.
ref: 1838, William Barclay Turnbull, Sir Beves of Hamtoun: A Metrical Romance, page 81:
text: Ensured — what — what — do you play the bretheling in our house?
ref: 1941, Best One-Act Plays, page 190:
text: Marck was relieved last month, lordling, and that bretheling Count of St Pol given such a buffet as he will not speedily forget.
ref: 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, page 380:
glosses: Wretch; worthless person.
brethelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bretheling
reescape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reescapes
form: reescaping
form: reescaped
form: reescaped
Etymology: From re- + escape.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, the pursuit detachments, within the compass of such a large scale pursuit action, have to launch a relentless pursuit of escaped prisoners of war who disregard a challenge while in flight or offer resistance or attempt to reescape after having been recaptured,
ref: 1949, Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone), Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946-April, 1949: Case 11: U.S. v. von Weizsaecker (Ministries case), page 8
text: But they did not go to Pondy not to reescape from the struggles.
ref: 1988, Ma. Po Civañāṉam, History of Freedom Movement in Tamil Nadu, page 170:
text: The energy of the projectile determines how deep it can penetrate into a solid, make a large angle collision with a target atom and reescape from the solid again in order to yield information on the mass and the subsurface depth of the scattering target atom.
ref: 2008, Joseph A. Eichmeier, Manfred Thumm, Vacuum Electronics: Components and Devices, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:
glosses: to escape again.
reescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reescapes
Etymology: From re- + escape.
Senses: examples: text: and haled them all to the mission, where lands were allotted to them and where they were carefully guarded by the ecclesiastics — until opportunity came for reescape; and to this congregation Escalante added a few Seri prisoners taken on Tiburon, as noted above.
ref: 1898, W. J. McGee, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, The Seri Indians, page 70:
text: Tracer entering the blood from the upstream end of the tissue has a higher probability of reescape into the tissue than does tracer entering the blood from the downstream end of the tissue.
ref: 1977, Handbook of Physiology: The cardiovascular system. v. 1, The heart. v. 2, Vascular smooth muscle, v. 3, pt. 1-2. Peripheral circulation and organ blood flow. v. 4, pt. 1-2. Microcirculation, page 570:
text: […] Lyon she heard the story of Hardy's escape, arrest and reescape.
ref: 2002, Patrick Marnham, Resistance and betrayal: the death and life of the greatest hero of the French Resistance, Random House Inc:
glosses: a second escape.
saruj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sarooj.
pound salt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pounds salt
form: pounding salt
form: pounded salt
form: pounded salt
Senses: glosses: To grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device.
examples: text: He still persisted and, at that point, I guess, being born and raised in New York City, I had had enough of him and I said, 'Hey, you can go pound salt.'
ref: 1987, Charles R. Ashman, Pamela Trescott, Diplomatic Crime, page 278:
text: I was so mad I had a good mind to tell them to go pound salt.
ref: 2007, Joseph L. Aiello, Rightsizing Inventory, page 367:
text: But instead of telling her to go pound salt, I realize, as Yogi Berra might say, you can hear a lot just by listening.
ref: 2007, William Edgar Schmickle, The Politics of Historic Districts, page 74:
glosses: Alternative form of pound sand.
pounds salt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pound salt
pounding salt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pound salt
pounded salt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pound salt
pounding dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pound dirt
pounded dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pound dirt
nail Jell-O to a wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nails Jell-O to a wall
form: nailing Jell-O to a wall
form: nailed Jell-O to a wall
form: nailed Jell-O to a wall
Senses: examples: text: We know how much the Internet has changed America. And we are already an open society. Imagine how much it could change China. Now, there is no question – China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. Good luck. That's sort of like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.
ref: 2000 March 8, 32:26 from the start, in Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China, spoken by Bill Clinton, via C-SPAN, retrieved 17 Jun 2025:
text: Writing objective history or raising a teenager may be like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall, as those and other challenging tasks have been popularly analogized.
ref: 2016, Robert Kerr, How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism:
glosses: Alternative form of nail Jell-O to a tree.
nails Jell-O to a wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nail Jell-O to a wall
nailing Jell-O to a wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nail Jell-O to a wall
nailed Jell-O to a wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nail Jell-O to a wall
pound sand into a rathole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pounds sand into a rathole
form: pounding sand into a rathole
form: pounded sand into a rathole
form: pounded sand into a rathole
Senses: examples: text: ...but I wouldn't want it taught from the textbook, because then the ordinary teacher would pound it into the pupils just as you would pound sand into a rathole, ...
ref: 1910, Iowa. Dept. of Agriculture, Iowa Book of Agriculture, page 111:
text: Before we can even interest a bank in us we must prove where we stand and must show that we haven't been engaged in pounding sand into a rathole.
ref: 1925, The Soda Fountain - Volume 24, page 40:
text: Month or so ago a turrible sound started coming out of his room. Drove me nuts. Would remind you of someone pounding sand into a rathole.
ref: 2001, Sister Carol Anne O'Marie, Advent of Dying:
text: “If I had something better to do,” Butch said, “I'd tell you to go pound this sand into a rathole."
ref: 2013, Thomas Pluck, Blade of Dishonor:
glosses: Alternative form of pound sand.
Derived terms: enough sense to pound sand into a rathole
pounds sand into a rathole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pound sand into a rathole
pounding sand into a rathole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pound sand into a rathole
pounded sand into a rathole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pound sand into a rathole
enough sense to pound sand into a rathole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sense enough to pound sand into a rathole
Senses: examples: text: Texas Boy Cousin : 'Why Coz, you hain't got sense ernuf to pound sand in a rat hole ! That ther's a prairie dog, en never had no tail. Oh, lordy ! '
ref: 1888, The Wasp, San Francisco, California, page 2:
text: But now you take that long-legged college kid of mine. Course he ain't got sense enough yet to pound sand in a rat hole, but you know what he claims he is ?
ref: 1940, Arizona, the Grand Canyon State: A State Guide, page 155:
text: They had tried hiring Indians to work in the fields during haying, but as far as machinery went, they didn't have sense enough to pound sand in a rathole.
ref: 2009, Thomas Savage, Annie Proulx, The Power of the Dog:
text: When Newsweek magazine ran a survey of fifty journalists, all of whom predicted Truman would lose, the president countered, "I know every one of those fifty fellows and not one of them has enough sense to pound sand into a rathole.”
ref: 2014, Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen, A Patriot's History of the United States, page 666:
glosses: The most basic level of intelligence.
Related terms: pound sand
way out of a paper bag
uncumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncumbers
form: uncumbering
form: uncumbered
form: uncumbered
Etymology: From un- + cumber.
Senses: examples: text: ... St. Wilgeforte (famous for praying for a beard to protect her virtue, and getting one as long as the Persian king's) obtained the name of St. Uncumber in England because, for a peck of oats, she would uncumber any woman who was tired of her husband;...
ref: 1856, Robert Southey, John Wood Warter, Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, page 44:
text: "But we call her Saint Uncumber," Mrs. Nicholson explained, "because, if you've got a bad husband, she uncumbers you."
ref: 1966, Alison Macleod, The heretic: a novel, page 158:
text: The subcommittee concludes FDA should become less involved in the early stages of clinical research by streamlining and uncumbering its regulations governing them.
ref: 1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, The Food and Drug Administration's Process for Approving New Drugs, page 64:
text: It is our regard for the body that uncumbers us.
ref: 1987, Christin Lore Weber, Womanchrist: A New Vision of Feminist Spirituality, page 35:
glosses: To disencumber.
uncumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncumber
uncumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncumber
don't get above your raising
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: don't get above your raisin'
form: getting above your raising
form: getting above your raisin'
Senses: glosses: Do not act in a manner not in keeping with the way you were brought up.
Related terms: act above one's station
forget where one came from
pretense
snobbery
Gwozdz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gwozdzes
form: Gwosdz
Etymology: From Polish Gwóźdź or Gwoźdź.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Gwosdz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gwozdz
Etymology: From Polish Gwóźdź or Polish Gwoźdź.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
picks up the slack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pick up the slack
picking up the slack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pick up the slack
picked up the slack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pick up the slack