cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
divacancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divacancy
divacancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divacancies
Etymology: From di- + vacancy.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A pair of vacancy defects in a crystal
homologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more homologically
form: most homologically
Etymology: From homological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a homological manner
glosses: With reference to homology
immunodegradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + degradation.
Senses: examples: text: The inhibition of immunodegradation was most pronounced at low temperature […]
ref: 1975 May 1, Joel F. Habener, “Radioimmunoassay of Human Proparathyroid Hormone: Analysis of Hormone Content in Tissue Extracts and in Plasma”, in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism:
text: A special group must be mentioned: 4. artificial immunodegradation (immunosuppression)
ref: 1983, Franz Schmid, Cell Therapy: A New Dimension of Medicine, page 168:
text: These mechanisms include enzymatic degradation, immunodegradation, sequestration by the reticuloendothelial system (RES) in the bloodstream, acid hydrolysis in the stomach, mucociliary clearance in the lungs, etc.
ref: 2016 January 22, Guanying Chen, “Nanochemistry and Nanomedicine for Nanoparticle-based Diagnostics and Therapy”, in Chemical Reviews:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Degradation of or by the immune system.
inplane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in + plane.
Senses: glosses: Within a plane.
isocurvature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + curvature.
Senses: glosses: A condition of constant curvature
sposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spose
sposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spose
sposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spose
isostress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + stress.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A condition of constant stress
Related terms: isostrain
acheless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ache + -less.
Senses: glosses: without an ache
Synonyms: painless
unaching
methylidynium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation CH⁺, several isotopic forms of which exist in deep space
unaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + aching.
Senses: glosses: not aching
Synonyms: acheless
painless
monosilicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosilicide
monosilicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosilicides
Etymology: From mono- + silicide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any silicide that has a single silicon atom per molecule or unit cell
multialgebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multialgebra
multialgebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multialgebras
Etymology: From multi- + algebra.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algebra composed of a set and a family of multioperations on that set
Derived terms: submultialgebra
photoconductance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoconductances
Etymology: From photo- + conductance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The conductance of a material as a result of photoconductivity
protention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protentions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An anticipation of a future event
protentional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protentional
form: most protentional
Etymology: From protention + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to protention
qubitope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qubitopes
Etymology: Blend of qubit + chirotope
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A generalization of a chirotope involving qubits
abideable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abideable
form: most abideable
form: abidable
Etymology: From abide + -able.
Senses: glosses: capable of being abided
Synonyms: bearable
supportable
tolerable
retentional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retentional
form: most retentional
Etymology: From retention + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to retention
glosses: retaining
abidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abidable
form: most abidable
Etymology: From abide + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of abideable.
submultialgebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submultialgebras
Etymology: From sub- + multialgebra.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of a multialgebra
submultialgebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submultialgebra
substructured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more substructured
form: most substructured
Etymology: From substructure + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a substructure.
torsionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torsionless
form: most torsionless
Etymology: From torsion + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking torsion
unabideable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unabideable
form: most unabideable
form: unabidable
Etymology: From un- + abideable.
Senses: glosses: not abideable
Synonyms: insupportable
intolerable
unbearable
unabidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unabidable
form: most unabidable
Etymology: From un- + abidable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unabideable.
balcony bra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balcony bras
Senses: examples: text: It was as if I'd stepped into Patrick Bateman's American Psycho flat circa 1986: black cotton sheets and red satin throw, plus, disconcertingly, a pair of translucent lace Agent Provocateur knicks and balcony bra lying casually on the red chaise longue.
ref: 2000 August 26, Jennifer Kabat, “It's Showtime”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: balconette bra
balconette
shelf bra
glosses: A half-cup bra, generally with a low horizontal cut, designed to be worn under a low-cut top.
balcony bras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balcony bra
Kingian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kingian
form: most Kingian
Etymology: From King + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the civil rights movement.
glosses: Of or relating to Stephen King (born 1947), American author of horror and fantasy fiction.
sharashka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharashkas
form: sharaga
Etymology: From Russian шара́шка (šaráška) or шара́жка (šarážka), a diminutive for шара́га (šarága).
Senses: glosses: A secret research and development laboratory in the Soviet gulag.
sharashkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharashka
sharaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharagas
Etymology: From Russian шара́га (šarága).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sharashka.
sharagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharaga
Solzhenitsynian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Solzhenitsynian
form: most Solzhenitsynian
Etymology: From Solzhenitsyn + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian who wrote about the gulag.
prostatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prostatisms
Etymology: From prostate + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of various minor disorders of the prostate gland, typically causing obstructed urination; also called lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS).
gonfanon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑːn.fəˌnɑːn/
/-nən/
Forms: form: gonfanons
Etymology: From Old French gonfanon.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, a companion figure, which from the mutilated superscription in the tapestry appears to be Eustace of Boulogne, lifts this gonfanon high in the air with his left hand while with the right he points to the Duke's face; a significant action, calling attention in a twofold manner to William's presence.
ref: 1922, William Gordon Perrin, British Flags, their early history, and their development at sea, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of gonfalon.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A banner with three "tails", typically with the middle one longer than the others, and three loops at the top representing where it would have been attached to a pole.
gonfanons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonfanon
Manjeshwar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in northern Kerala, India.
unsupportableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsupportable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state or quality of being unsupportable
Synonyms: insupportableness
intolerableness
insufferableness
unsupportability
orthoëpist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoëpists
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of orthoepist.
orthoëpists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoëpist
nonagglutinative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + agglutinative.
Senses: glosses: Not agglutinative.
nonappendiceal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + appendiceal.
Senses: glosses: Not appendiceal.
appendiceal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpənˈdɪsiəl/
ipa: /ˈdɪʃəl/
ipa: /əˌpɛndəˈsiəl/
Etymology: By surface analysis, appendix + -al; formed in a way that reflects the appendic- of the Latin declension's inflections, reflecting the fact that English got appendix from New Latin.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: appendicular
glosses: Of or pertaining to the appendix.
Derived terms: nonappendiceal
periappendiceal
av.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Av.
Senses: examples: text: Massachusetts av.
glosses: Abbreviation of Avenue (used in street names).
doctorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctorships
form: doctourship
Etymology: From doctor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Professional position or title of a doctor.
doctorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctorship
doctor up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doctors up
form: doctoring up
form: doctored up
form: doctored up
Senses: examples: text: A good way to doctor up a basic cake mix is by adding lemon zest, or coffee.
glosses: To falsify, or modify something, so that it appears to be better than it is.
examples: text: This program will help doctor the novices up.
glosses: To train medical students.
Eurabia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jʊəˈɹeɪbiə/
/jəˈɹeɪbiə/
Etymology: Blend of Europe + Arabia.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the fear of an emerging "Eurabia" ignores the vast economic and cultural differences between immigrant populations in the different European countries...
ref: 2006, Hent de Vries, Lawrence Eugene Sullivan, Political theologies: public religions in a post-secular world:
text: Among those who connect the unfolding of Eurabia with a popular reaction that might bring back fascism to Europe is Canadian columnist Mark Steyn.
ref: 2007, José Pedro Zúquete, Missionary politics in contemporary Europe:
text: Cultural Islam and the myth of Eurabia
ref: 2008, Olivier Roy, The politics of chaos in the Middle East:
synonyms: Eurostan
Europistan
glosses: A supposed future, Islamized Europe.
Coordinate terms: Germanistan
Hollandistan
Islamsterdam
Londonistan
Paristan
Swedistan
Derived terms: Eurabian
Related terms: english: America depicted as taken over by Islam
translation: America depicted as taken over by Islam
word: Islamerica
english: India depicted as taken over by Islam
translation: India depicted as taken over by Islam
word: Ghazwa-e-Hind
word: Evropa
raw_tags: as depicted by white supremacists as their utopia
straight men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straight man
epitases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epitasis
like fun
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 16:
text: "The railway's begun The Mormons are cutting / And grading like fun."
ref: c'''. 1868, James Crane, a song, in Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, Stephen E. Ambrose, 2001, page 286
topics: manner
glosses: Intensely.
examples: text: Do they think I have a million dollars and spend it? Like fun I do. Not with the kind of discipline my parents believe in.
ref: 1927 October 7, “Chess Championship.”, in Ottawa Citizen:
text: "Give me that gun!" "Like fun I will," Leigh snapped.
ref: a.''' 1946, Raymond J. Healy, J. Francis McComas, editors, Adventures in time and space: an anthology of modern science-fiction stories, page 607:
glosses: Definitely not.
raw_tags: as response
Synonyms: sense: intensely
word: like hell
sense: intensely
word: like fuck
sense: definitely not
word: like hell
sense: definitely not
word: like fudge
sense: definitely not
word: like fuck
inadmissibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inadmissible
for the fun of it
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Solely for the sake of entertainment.
Synonyms: for kicks
for kicks-and-giggles
bromances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromance
window seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window seat
septennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛpˈtɛniəl/
Etymology: From septennium + -al, from Latin septennis (“7-year”), q.v.
Senses: examples: text: septennial parliaments... septennial elections...
text: "Lawgivers were never more mistaken," said Lady Mary, "than when they ordained that the conjugal tie should last through life for better and worse; the last injunction being strictly complied with. There should be septennial marriages, as well as septennial parliaments!"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 189:
glosses: Of or relating to a 7 year period.
black op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black ops
Senses: examples: text: He describes Russia’s reported attempts to influence the 2016 US election as “the most cost-efficient black op in human history […]”
ref: 2020 February 26, Will Dunn, “William Gibson on the apocalypse: “it’s been happening for at least 100 years””, in New Statesman:
glosses: Clipping of black operation.
black ops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black op
black operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black operations
Senses: synonyms: black op
glosses: A covert operation typically involving activities that are highly clandestine and outside of standard military protocol.
Related terms: black bag operation
black helicopter
black jail
black site
black operations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black operation
shife
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: more shife
form: most shife
Senses: examples: text: And he knew he was shife, he knew he was hype.
ref: 1991, “Nasty Bitch”, performed by Bust Down:
text: Niggas be lookin' shife, so I look shife back.
ref: 1996, “One Day”, performed by UGK (Chad Butler and Bernard Freeman):
text: Why'd the game have to go and take the young boy's life / Only the wicked live shife, payin' the price
ref: 1998, “Betrayal”, in Moment of Truth, performed by Gang Starr:
text: Let me live my life, y'all know y'all ain't right. / Niggas be so shife, can I do one thang.
ref: 2004, “Let Me Live”, performed by Trae (Frazier Thompson III):
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Aggressive-looking, tough.
tetherable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tether + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being tethered.
nonfusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fusional.
Senses: glosses: Not fusional.
fusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fusion + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Tending to overlay many morphemes in a manner that can be difficult to segment.
raw_tags: of a language
Derived terms: nonfusional
postfusional
subnasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From sub- + nasal.
Senses: glosses: Located under the nose.
subnasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: subnasals
Etymology: From sub- + nasal.
Senses: glosses: A scale located below the nasal scale.
milkfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From milk + fed.
Senses: examples: text: Young milkfed animals were eaten as a delicacy...
ref: 1984, Rachael Feild, Irons in the fire: a history of cooking equipment:
glosses: Fed with milk.
milkfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkfish
milkshakelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more milkshakelike
form: most milkshakelike
Etymology: From milkshake + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It is a special drink that can both get your buzz on and leave you looking like Macauley Culkin, the milkshakelike aspect of this cocktail truly calling to the child within.
ref: 2011, Amanda Hallay, Vintage Cocktails: Retro Recipes for the Home Mixologist:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a milkshake.
lungless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lung + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Lungless salamanders breathe through their skin.
glosses: Without lungs.
Derived terms: lunglessly
lunglessness
lungless salamander
noncoercion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + coercion.
Senses: examples: text: Peacekeeping perhaps least resembles war because of its premium on noncoercion.
ref: 1971, Larry L Fabian, Soldiers without enemies: preparing the United Nations for peacekeeping:
glosses: Absence of coercion.
hoodening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodening
Senses: glosses: An old English tradition of ploughing teams, who would carry a wooden horse's head on a pole and ask for money from local landowners.
Related terms: hooden horse
hodening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hoodening.
Qatabanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qatabanian
fqihs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fqih
frabjously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frabjously
form: most frabjously
Etymology: From frabjous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
antennaless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antenna + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A third of the rarest moths of the collection for the man of India were antennaless, legless, wingless, and often headless.
ref: 2007, Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost:
glosses: Without antennae.
nonhalogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhalogens
Etymology: From non- + halogen.
Senses: glosses: A substance that is not a halogen.
nonhalogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhalogen
Schindler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schindlers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schindler. Doublet of Shingler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
schistocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schistocyte
schistocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schistocytic
form: most schistocytic
Etymology: From schistocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to schistocytes.
cyt-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyto-.
suspensionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From suspension + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I mean, I had already driven from Rio Bamba, that makes it two hours total, shaking in this suspensionless Jeep; I always wondered what a spin in a washing machine would feel like, and now I know...
ref: 1998, Steve Fagin, Talkin' with your mouth full:
glosses: Without mechanical suspension.
breakless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From break + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a break; continuous, unbroken.
brakeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brake + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And if you blinked, well, you would have missed the point: ridiculously fast, brakeless, fixed-gear bike racing.
ref: 2014 March 31, Joshua Bright, “Photos: A Damp Spin Through Brooklyn”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Without brakes (device used to slow or stop a vehicle).
Derived terms: brakelessness
brakeshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brakeshoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brake shoe.
brakeshoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brakeshoe
undercarriageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From undercarriage + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an undercarriage.
carriageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carriage + -less.
Senses: examples: a carriageless horse
a carriageless typewriter
glosses: Without a carriage (in various senses).
cliqueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clique + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a clique.
clickless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From click + -less.
Senses: examples: a clickless camera
a clickless language
glosses: Without a clicking sound.
examples: clickless navigation
glosses: Without clicks of a computer mouse.
uncondemned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + condemned.
Senses: glosses: Not condemned.
Kayley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee.
ombuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒmbədz/
Forms: form: ombuds
Etymology: Clipping of ombudsman.
Senses: glosses: ombudsman (as an abbreviated or gender-neutral title, or in apposition, as in "ombuds office").
ombuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒmbədz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ombud
helichopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helichoppers
Etymology: Blend of helicopter + chopper
Senses: examples: text: "I yelled up at all them helichoppers."
ref: 2002, Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Isle of Dogs:
text: "Is it really true what you said about flying to school?" "Uh, yes, because, uh . . ." Bluebell paused to think of a human-sounding answer, as Katie had taught her. "Because my dad's very rich; he's got a helichopper," she finished.
ref: 2008, Kelly McKain, Fairy for a Day:
glosses: helicopter
non-quantitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-quantitative
form: most non-quantitative
Etymology: From non- + quantitative.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonquantitative.
helichoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helichopper
uncape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncapes
form: uncaping
form: uncaped
form: uncaped
Etymology: From un- + cape.
Senses: glosses: To drive (a fox) from its earth.
glosses: To remove a cape (garment) from.
uncapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncape
uncaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncape
uncaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncape
uncaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not dressed in a cape.
sexennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin sexennialis (16th century), equivalent to sexennium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: [T]his evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself, as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
glosses: Pertaining to a period of six years; taking place once every six years.
sexennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexennials
Etymology: From New Latin sexennialis (16th century), equivalent to sexennium + -al.
Senses: glosses: A sexennial event.
boystrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boystrous
form: most boystrous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of boisterous.
Derived terms: boystrously
boysterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boysterous
form: most boysterous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of boisterous.
Derived terms: boysterously
quindecennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quindecennialis, from quindecennium (“15-year period”) + -alis (“-al: forming adjs”). Equivalent to quindec- + -ennial.
Senses: glosses: Lasting fifteen years.
glosses: Happening once in fifteen years.
multilingualisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multilingualism
muslinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muslinlike
form: most muslinlike
Etymology: From muslin + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of muslin.
deafnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deafness
deafferentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deafferentation
nonafferent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + afferent.
Senses: glosses: Not afferent.
subaudition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subauditions
Etymology: From Latin subauditio (“the supplying of a word omitted”), from subaudire (“to supply a word omitted”), from sub (“under”) + audire (“to hear”).
Senses: glosses: The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed.
glosses: That which is understood or supplied from that which is expressed.
Related terms: subaudi
starlinglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more starlinglike
form: most starlinglike
Etymology: From starling + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a starling.
unstarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstarlike
form: most unstarlike
Etymology: From un- + starlike.
Senses: glosses: Not starlike; unlike a star (astral body).
glosses: Not starlike; unlike a celebrity or leading actor.
Norville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈnɔːvəɫ
ipa: -ɪɫ]
ipa: [ˈnɔːɹ̩vəɫ]
Etymology: English and Scottish surname of Norman origin meaning "northern town," shortened from Normanville, equivalent to Norman + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
omnipotences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omnipotence
crash diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash diets
Senses: qualifier: nutrition
glosses: A diet that is extreme in its nutritional deprivations, typically severely restricting calorie intake in order to achieve rapid weight loss.
crash diets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crash diet
artlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more artlike
form: most artlike
Etymology: From art + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of art.
sciencelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sciencelike
form: most sciencelike
Etymology: From science + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of science.
deitylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deitylike
form: most deitylike
Etymology: From deity + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a deity.
Synonyms: godlike
godlinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godliness
godmamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godmammas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of godmama.
godmammas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godmamma
gutterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gutterlike
form: most gutterlike
Etymology: From gutter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gutter.
gaiterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gaiterlike
form: most gaiterlike
Etymology: From gaiter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gaiter.
pre-emption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-emptions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of preemption.
pre-emptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-emption
nonguttural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + guttural.
Senses: glosses: Not guttural.
guttles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of guttle
guttles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guttle
guttling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guttle
guttled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guttle
guttiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gutty: most gutty
preemptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preemptible
form: most preemptible
form: preëmptible
form: pre-emptible
Etymology: From preempt + -ible.
Senses: glosses: capable of being preempted
nongymnastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gymnastic.
Senses: glosses: Not gymnastic.
guttings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌtɪŋz/
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of gutting
Zizekian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zizekian
form: most Zizekian
Etymology: From Žižek + -ian, with the diacritics dropped.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Slavoj Žižek (born 1949), Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist.
Spivakian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Spivakian
form: most Spivakian
Etymology: From Spivak + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942), Indian literary critic and theorist.
Derridean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Derridean
form: most Derridean
Etymology: From Derrida + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Derridan.
Derridean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Derrideans
Etymology: From Derrida + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: Heidegger begins by “destructing” (what the Derrideans prefer to call “deconstructing”) the entire Western ontotheological tradition.
ref: 1978, Leonard Orr, “Bibliography”, in Existentialism and Phenomenology: A Guide for Research, Troy, N.Y.: The Whitston Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 75:
text: [H]e [Derrida] has also gone to extraordinary lengths to provide his readers (and his students, here and in France) with a set of what I would call counterconcepts. The main thing claimed by the Derrideans for these words, and indeed about his deconstructive method, is that they are not reducible to a limited semantic lexicon.
ref: 1978 summer, Edward W[adie] Said, “The Problem of Textuality: Two Exemplary Positions”, in Critical Inquiry, volume 4, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: The Derrideans, for their part, and I think to their ultimate polemical disadvantage, have delighted in portraying the traditionalists as weaklings in hurried retreat (Hartman describes it as “panic”) from the master’s hazardous and difficult message.
ref: 1980, Frank Lentricchia, “History or the Abyss: Poststructuralism”, in After the New Criticism, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part I (A Critical Thematics, 1957–77), page 160:
glosses: Alternative form of Derridan.
unsupportably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsupportably
form: most unsupportably
Etymology: From unsupportable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an unsupportable manner
Synonyms: insupportably
intolerably
unbearably
schoolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskuːlɪʃ/
rhymes: -uːlɪʃ
Forms: form: more schoolish
form: most schoolish
Etymology: From school + -ish. Compare Dutch schools (“scholastic, methodical”), German schulisch (“schoolish, scolastic”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] it has studied the trend of the school, but not the trend of business, its leadership has been scholastic, not commercial. Today, commercial education finds itself of the school, schoolish, and not of the business house, business-like.
ref: 1916, Educational review:
text: By assessing this situation we have come to consider the dimensions of pedagogical–didactic interaction and communication that we, together with Antonio Viñao Frago (1996) and others, consider to be just as essential for examining the particular nature of schoolish institutions.
ref: 2009, Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe, Educational Research: The Educationalization of Social Problems:
text: As a struggling student, Lo was fed up with “schoolish practices” and refused to perform for the sake of pleasing her teachers.
ref: 2010, Laurie MacGillivray, Literacy in Times of Crisis: Practices and Perspectives:
glosses: Of or pertaining to school; scholastic.
examples: text: Its structure, which could strike one as derived from an arithmetic or geometry lesson, is schoolish, as is its content...
ref: 1987, Michel Leiris, Nights as day, days as night:
text: When we reflect on it, many of the things we teachers do are artificial and schoolish. They look very different from how real readers, writers, and speakers operate.
ref: 2008, Arthur T. Costigan, Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era:
glosses: Characteristic of school rather than real life; pedantic, pedagogical, etc.
Derived terms: schoolishly
schoolishness
schoolishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schoolish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being schoolish.
Abkhasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Abkhazian.
Abkhasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abkhasians
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Abkhazian.
Abkhasian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Abkhazian.
Abkhasians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abkhasian
autodefrost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + defrost.
Senses: glosses: A feature in a refrigerator or freezer that regularly defrosts the evaporator automatically.
guib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guibs
form: guiba
Senses: examples: text: The guib is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.
ref: 1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history:
glosses: The harnessed antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), a West African antelope marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground;.
goban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goban
Etymology: From Japanese 碁盤 (goban).
Senses: qualifier: board games
glosses: Alternative form of gobang (“strategy game”).
qualifier: board games
glosses: Alternative form of gobang (“board for playing go”).
honour system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honour systems
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of honor system.
aegir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegirs
Senses: examples: text: A dull roar came up stream, up from the sea. Round the bend in the river rose a grey wall of water, the aegir, the tide wave. Swift and roaring it came, ...
ref: 1906, William Makepeace Thackeray, editor, The Cornhill magazine, volume 21, page 48:
glosses: Alternative spelling of eagre.
BHO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BHOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of browser helper object.
glosses: Initialism of butane honey oil.
BHO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Barack Hussein Obama.
GWB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of George Walker Bush.
examples: text: On the real, just to show proof, hit the GWB and blow the whole roof off the toll booth, bitch ass nigga!
ref: 2003, “Get It on the Floor”, in Kasseem Dean, Earl Simmons (lyrics), Grand Champ, performed by DMX, Ruff Ryders Entertainment:
glosses: Initialism of George Washington Bridge.
GWB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
astrophysics
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of gravitational wave background.
Synonyms: gravitational-wave background
gravitational wave background
cosmic gravitational-wave background
cosmic gravitational wave background
CGB
Related terms: english: gravitational wave
translation: gravitational wave
word: GW
Doctor of Philosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doctors of Philosophy
form: Ph.D.
form: DPhil
Etymology: From Latin philosophiae + doctor.
Senses: glosses: A terminal research degree and one of the highest doctorates awarded by a university.
Doctors of Philosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Doctor of Philosophy
responsability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of responsibility.
wild-asses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild-ass
kofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kofrim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כֹּפֶר.
Senses: glosses: A nonbeliever.
home truths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home truth
kolhoz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolhozes
form: kolhozy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kolkhoz.
kineticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kineticisms
Etymology: * From kinetic + -ism
Senses: glosses: Kinetic art.
examples: text: In his heyday (the late 1960s and '70s) Mr. [Ben] Vereen reigned as Broadway's heir to Sammy Davis Jr. Even at the peak of his career he lacked his idol's cyclonic kineticism.
ref: 2007 February 8, Stephen Holden, “A big, heartfelt serving of the old razzle-dazzle”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
text: And it's probably not a coincidence that the time they evoke was also the beginning of the heyday of Asian commercial cinema, when directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo were reinvigorating moribund movie genres with wild kineticism and an almost insolent indifference to the niceties of narrative logic.
ref: 2008 August 24, Terrence Rafferty, “Images With impact, and with a debt to the late 1980s”, in The New York Times:
text: The usual Sorkinian rhythms – walk and talk; stand and shout; quip and parry – are sped up and syncopated by Mr. Boyle's tireless kineticism.
ref: 2015 October 8, A[nthony] O[liver] Scott, “Review: 'Steve Jobs,' Apple's visionary C.E.O. dissected [print version: Apple's visionary C.E.O. is dissected, International New York Times, 13 October 2015, page 9]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2015:
glosses: Energetic movement, particularly applied to any visual arts.
World Trade Organization
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: WTO
Senses: glosses: An international organization designed by its founders to supervise and liberalize international trade.
Synonyms: WTO
Coordinate terms: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GATT
Derived terms: WTO
oatmeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oatmeal
percurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin percurrens, present participle of percurrere (“to run or pass through”), from per (“through”) + currere (“to run”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Running through the entire length; running through from top to bottom, as the midrib of a dicotyledonous leaf, the nerve of a moss-leas, or a grass-palet, etc.
Derived terms: percurrently
Buren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Gelderland, Netherlands.
glosses: A municipality of Gelderland, Netherlands.
kinetoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetoplasts
Etymology: From kineto- + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A disk-shaped mass of circular DNA inside a large mitochondrion, found specifically in protozoa of the class Kinetoplastea (kinetoplastids).
glosses: A kinetoplastid.
Related terms: kinetoplastic
multikinetoplast
kinetoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinetoplast
kouskous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many of the young girls are compelled, by their mothers, to devour a great quantity of kouskous, and drink a large bowl of camel's milk every morning....
ref: 1899, Henry Theophilus Finck, Primitive Love and Love-Stories:
text: Afterwards came a kouskous of chicken and farina, which she ate with a large spoon whose bowl was of tortoiseshell, the handle of ivory tipped with coral.
ref: 1911, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Golden Silence:
glosses: Alternative spelling of couscous.
knurly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɜː(ɹ)li/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: knurlier
form: more knurly
form: knurliest
form: most knurly
Etymology: From knurl + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It seems too much like a great tree, beautiful, symmetrical, and full of leaves, but raised or desired only for fruit, yet bearing little, and some of that little not of good quality, but knurly or bitter.
ref: 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:
text: "Well, I swow!" ejaculated the Cap'n, rubbing his knurly forefinger under his nose, and glancing first at the parrots and then at the lady.
ref: 1911, Holman Day, The Skipper and the Skipped:
glosses: Gnarled or knotty; hard and misshapen.
knurlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of knurly: more knurly
knurliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of knurly: most knurly
omafiets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omafietsen
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch omafiets, literally "granny bike"
Senses: glosses: A Dutch style of roadster bicycle.
diastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diastyles
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An intercolumnation of three column diameters.
Related terms: pycnostyle
systyle
eustyle
areostyle
intercolumnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercolumnations
Etymology: From inter- + column + -ation.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The regular spaces (or system of spacing) between the columns of a colonnade.
Related terms: pycnostyle
systyle
eustyle
diastyle
areostyle
Kuyper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
diastrophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diastrophisms
Etymology: From dia + strophism.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The deformation of the Earth's crust to form the continents, mountains and other large features
diathermancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diathermancies
Senses: glosses: The condition or degree of being diathermic.
habituals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habitual
laffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laffers
Etymology: From laff + -er (“Variety -er”).
Senses: topics: economics
entertainment
entertainment-industry
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: A comedy.
burnt oranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burnt orange
lacey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lacier
form: laciest
Senses: examples: text: Skirts of white muslin, with pretty frills and lacey trimmings that fall in soft folds and ruffles around one's feet, are mighty dainty things for the summer girl--but is there a colder sound than that of a starched white petticoat in the dead of winter?
ref: 1901, Helen Follett Stevans, The Woman Beautiful:
text: She was dressed in a lacey gown, a size too large for her.
ref: 1914, Virginia Brooks, Little Lost Sister:
text: Michael Brown’s stainless-steel simulation of a cracked mirror freezes an act of anarchy into a lovely, lacey web.
ref: 2008 July 11, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lacy.
sky blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky blue
lighthouse keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lighthouse keeper
reincarcerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reincarcerates
form: reincarcerating
form: reincarcerated
form: reincarcerated
Etymology: From re- + incarcerate.
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t think he’ll kill you over it. He’s not trying to get reincarcerated.”
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 198:
glosses: to incarcerate again.
Synonyms: reimprison
totipotence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: totipotency
speed dial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed dials
Senses: glosses: A function on some telephones allowing a phone number to be dialed by pressing only one or two keys.
glosses: A web browser feature that displays frequently or recently visited websites for quick access.
speed-dial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speed-dials
form: speed-dialing
form: speed-dialling
form: speed-dialed
form: speed-dialed
form: speed-dialled
form: speed-dialled
Etymology: From speed + dial.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: To dial using speed dial.
Southern Sotho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Southern Sesotho
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sotho (“a language”).
synonyms: word: Sotho
extra: a language
speaking clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speaking clocks
Senses: glosses: A person employed to read the time over a telephone line.
glosses: A service provided by telephone companies where people can find out the time by calling a certain number.
Related terms: time lady
phoneline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonelines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phone line.
Special Olympics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Special Olympics
Senses: glosses: A sports competition held every two years for people who have intellectual disabilities.
Derived terms: Special Olympian
Special Olympian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Special Olympians
Senses: glosses: Someone who competes in the Special Olympics.
Deaflympian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Deaflympians
Etymology: Blend of deaf + Olympian
Senses: glosses: someone who competes in the Deaflympics
Deaflympics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛfˈlɪmpɪks/
Etymology: Blend of deaf + Olympics.
Senses: glosses: A sports competition held every two years for deaf people.
Derived terms: Deaflympian
Gay Games
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sports and cultural event held every four years for LGBT people.
speaking clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speaking clock
cruisewear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cruise + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Light clothing suitable for a pleasure cruise.