cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
extramelanopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extra- + melanopsin.
Senses: examples: text: In squid and octopus rhodopsins, acid metarhodopsin (all-trans form) shows light-dependent conversion mainly to the original rhodopsins (11-cis form) at 0°C [16, 17 ], whereas metamelanopsin (all-trans form) is converted to extramelanopsin (7-cis form) in addition to the original melanopsin (11-cis form) [10 ].
ref: 2015 October 23, “Diversity of Active States in TMT Opsins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An isomeric form of melanopsin
fodinichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fodinichnia
Etymology: From Latin fodīna (“a mine”) + -ichnion.
Senses: examples: text: Distinctive behaviour patterns add to the specific character as they do in recent species. They may also be referred to more general functions such as crawling, feeding or hiding. Distinction of five major groups (dwelling burrows = Domichnia; feeding burrows = Fodinichnia; feeding trails = Pascichnia; crawling trails = Repichnia; resting tracks = Cubichnia) has proved to be satisfactory and useful in environmental interpretations (Seilacher, 1953, 1958).
ref: 1964 September 24, Adolf Seilacher, Sedimentology, volume 3, number 3, page 253:
text: Following this interpretation, Conichnus conosinus isp. n. can be ethologically classified as a fodinichnion (combination of feeding and dwelling).
ref: 1995, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A trace fossil formed by deposit feeders as they excavate the sediment in search of food.
Coordinate terms: pascichnion
mortichnium
fodinichnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All of these ichnogenera pertain to the Scoyenia ichnofacies [20 ] and are fodinichnia type traces.
ref: 2015 October 23, “An Ornithopod-Dominated Tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian–Albian) of Qijiang, South-Central China: New Discoveries, Ichnotaxonomy, Preservation and Palaeoecology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of fodinichnion
hematolymphoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemato- + lymphoid.
Senses: examples: text: These humanized mouse models have been shown to possess different capabilities of engrafting human hematolymphoid cells [21, 22 ].
ref: 2015 October 23, “Atherosclerotic Plaque Destabilization in Mice: A Comparative Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to both blood and lymph
bedraggledly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bedraggledly
form: most bedraggledly
Etymology: From bedraggled + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And there goes the other happy poet bedraggledly back to New York which struck him all of a sheepish never-sleeping heap at first […]
ref: 2006, Chambers Book of Speeches, Chambers:
glosses: In a bedraggled manner.
hypercondensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercondensations
Etymology: From hyper- + condensation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of condensation reaction involving reaction of a carbonyl group with a methylene group to form an alkene with the loss of the elements of water (>C=O + CH₂< -> >C=C<)
examples: text: In addition, PNAP - 6h decreased CDK1 and cyclin B1 expression, most likely leading to G 2 /M arrest, and induced morphological changes, such as nuclear shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, and nuclear hypercondensation, as observed by Hoechst 33342 staining.
ref: 2015 October 23, “Structure-Activity Relationship of Synthetic 2-Phenylnaphthalenes with Hydroxyl Groups that Inhibit Proliferation and Induce Apoptosis of MCF-7 Cancer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The severe compaction of chromosomes
monoreligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + religious.
Senses: examples: text: a monoreligious country
text: On the basis of these criteria, which have to be spelled out and applied, we can describe and evaluate the monoreligious, multireligious and interreligious models for dealing with religious plurality in an educational context.
ref: 2001, Carl Sterkens, Interreligious Learning […] , BRILL, →ISBN, page 49:
coordinate_terms: multireligious
glosses: Adhering to only one religion.
Elvis country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In reference to Elvis Presley.
Senses: examples: text: Elvis country is 'Anywhere there are no Jews and no Italians.'
ref: 2005, Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness, Eliza R. L. McGraw, page 166:
text: Mike continued "[…] I bet you were born in Elvis country."
ref: 2008, Inge Auerabacher, Highway To New York: A Lady Truck Driver Adventure, page 23:
text: […] out here in the middle of Elvis country.
ref: 2013, Danny Falcone, Johnny Angel, page 248:
glosses: A rural or remote area.
wikipedia: Elvis Presley
Synonyms: See: Thesaurus:remote place
monodogmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + dogmatic.
Senses: glosses: Adhering to (and accepting as true) only one dogma.
transasiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + Asiatic.
Senses: glosses: Crossing the whole of Asia.
glosses: Passing through Asia.
auxiliars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auxiliar
gabbagool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabagool
Senses: glosses: capicola
porniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From porny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being porny.
Cape Canaveral
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, from cañaveral (“reed bed”). It is the third oldest surviving European-given place-name in the US after Florida, and Dry Tortugas.
Senses: glosses: A cape in Florida, United States.
glosses: A city in Florida, United States, named after the cape it is located at.
glosses: A military base in Florida, United States, named after the cape it is located at; Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
glosses: A spaceport in Florida, United States; the combination of the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and Spaceport Florida on the Space Coast (Space Florida).
Synonyms: sense: cape, military base, spaceport
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Cape Kennedy (1963-1973)
Derived terms: Canaveral
Port Canaveral
Dry Tortugas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An archipelago of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico.
archisynagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː(ɹ)kɪˈsɪnəɡɒɡ/
Forms: form: archisynagogues
Etymology: From Latin archisynagōgus.
Senses: examples: text: Only one rabbi of Phrygian origin mentioned in a Palestinian inscription is called an archisynagogue, and only indirect evidence for the possibility of rabbinic chazanim exists.
ref: 1997, Catherine Hezser, The Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman Palestine:
glosses: The head of a synagogue.
Selection Monday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Selection Mondays
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The Monday in March on which the teams that participate in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament are selected.
neurocriminology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + criminology.
Senses: glosses: An emerging sub-discipline of biocriminology and criminology in general, which applies brain imaging techniques and principles from neuroscience to understand, predict, and prevent crime.
biocriminology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + criminology.
Senses: glosses: The sub-discipline of criminology that investigates biological and genetic factors and their relation to criminal behaviors.
codepletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + depletion.
Senses: examples: text: We found that codepletion of ERG/FLI-1 resulted in inhibition of NR4A1 dependent H3K27ac at distal enhancers of all three induced genes (Fig 6D) and also strongly prevented NR4A1 dependent recruitment of p300 (Fig 6E).
ref: 2016 March 4, “Genome Wide Mapping of NR4A Binding Reveals Cooperativity with ETS Factors to Promote Epigenetic Activation of Distal Enhancers in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The depletion of one substance in conjunction with the depletion of another.
intralaboratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + laboratory.
Senses: examples: text: Multicenter proficiency studies conducted in 2009 and 2010 demonstrated improvements in both inter- and intralaboratory reproducibility of genotyping results also highlighting specific issues including lack of standardization and poorer performance associated with the PCR fragments separation using manual electrophoresis.
ref: 2016 March 4, “MIRU-VNTR Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains Using QIAxcel Technology: A Multicentre Evaluation Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Within a single laboratory.
multiplace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + place.
Senses: glosses: Of a hyperbaric chamber: suitable for use by more than one person at a time.
oligogalacturonides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligogalacturonide
palaeobiodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + biodiversity.
Senses: examples: text: With such insight, we have the opportunity to investigate palaeobiodiversity through time on the Cayman Islands in order to understand and offer protection to the subterranean cave ecosystem on Cayman Brac.
ref: 2016 March 4, “Collagen Fingerprinting: A New Screening Technique for Radiocarbon Dating Ancient Bone”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of paleobiodiversity.
Sraffan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sraffan
form: most Sraffan
Etymology: From Sraffa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Italian economist Piero Sraffa (1898–1983), credited with founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics.
biocriminological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪkəl
Etymology: From bio- + criminological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biocriminology.
neurocriminological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + criminological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neurocriminology.
facepic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facepics
Etymology: From face + pic.
Senses: glosses: A photograph of a person's face.
facepics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facepic
associate professor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: associate professors
Senses: examples: text: China's current economic challenges will be an "important factor" in Mr Xi's negotiations and "would lead to a stronger desire to stabilise the economic, trade and investment relations with the US", Li Mingjiang, an associate professor at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told the BBC.
ref: 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:
topics: education
glosses: A teacher in a higher education institution who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor.
Synonyms: Assoc. Prof.
Assoc Prof
Related terms: assistant professor
instructor
professor
motor caravan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor caravans
form: motorcaravan
Senses: glosses: A motorised caravan; camper, motor home, recreational vehicle
co-owner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-owners
form: coowner
Etymology: From co- + owner.
Senses: examples: text: […] when a gay man really does die of something other than AIDS, as in the case of Tom Norton, the popular coowner of Unabridged Books, festering doubt will plague his memory.
ref: 1988 February 5, Achy Obejas, “The Press: Averting Our Gays”, in Chicago Reader:
text: She praised Mythic Talent co-owner Asmongold for arguing, “Every trans kid is actually a victim of a parent with a mental illness.”
ref: 2025 April 21, Ana Velans, “Why Is This ‘Gamer Supps’ VTuber Pushing the Great Replacement Theory?”, in VICE, archived from the original on 14 May 2025:
glosses: Someone who owns something together with one or more other people.
Synonyms: joint owner
Related terms: co-ownership
right quick
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I’m just gonna run to the store right quick.
text: Could you help me right quick?
glosses: used to soften a statement or request by suggesting it won’t take much time
flat signed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the signature alone, rather than being accompanied by other words or drawings.
raw_tags: of an autograph
fingerprintable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fingerprintable
form: most fingerprintable
Etymology: From fingerprint + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It appears, under the Leandre C. rationale, a youth could be printed for investigatory police purposes prior to an arrest, but might not be eligible for fingerprinting upon arrest because the charge is not a fingerprintable offense.
ref: 2012, Joseph R. Carrieri, LexisNexis AnswerGuide New York Family Court Proceedings:
qualifier: offense; etc; offense; etc
glosses: That warrants or justifies taking a fingerprint or fingerprints.
raw_tags: of an event
examples: text: Many are silent upon connection until you send them the expected string, but some will actually prompt you for a login in identifiable and fingerprintable ways.
ref: 2011, Russ Rogers, Nessus Network Auditing:
qualifier: data; etc; data; etc
glosses: That can be fingerprinted.
raw_tags: of a person
fingerprintability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fingerprint + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: These features are meant to lower fingerprintability.
text: NoScript is a useful privacy enhancing technology that seems to reduce fingerprintability.
ref: 2010, Mikhail Atallah, Nicholas Hopper, Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 10th International Symposium, PETS 2010 ...:
glosses: The property or quality of being fingerprintable.
Christian Democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A political ideology incorporating traditional family and church values alongside progressive values, such as welfare. It is closely linked with Roman Catholicism and its philosophy of economic and social justice.
Christian Democrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christian Democrats
form: Christian democrat
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of Christian Democracy.
Christian democrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christian democrats
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Christian Democrat.
bottle-shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle-sickness
Senses: glosses: A temporary condition of wine characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors.
bottle-sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bottle-shock.
synonyms: word: bottle-shock
paleobiodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeobiodiversity
Etymology: From paleo- + biodiversity.
Senses: glosses: biodiversity in the past
Archuleta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Archuletas
form: Archuletta
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Archuleta, from Basque Aretxuloeta.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
frighten the horses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frightens the horses
form: frightening the horses
form: frightened the horses
form: frightened the horses
Senses: glosses: To cause alarm or offence.
Synonyms: scare the horses
Christian Democratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Christian Democratic
form: most Christian Democratic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Christian Democracy or Christian Democrats.
single-user
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From single + user.
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Of an operating system, etc., only capable of serving one user at a time, not many users simultaneously.
concience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conscience.
deludee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deludees
Etymology: From delude + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Look at the facts: delusions don't contain information unknown to the deludee.
ref: 2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story:
glosses: One who is being deluded.
libtardation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From libtard + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Politically liberal thinking.
pants on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Clipping of liar liar pants on fire.
undistressful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undistressful
form: most undistressful
Etymology: From un- + distressful.
Senses: glosses: Not distressful.
lalopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lalopathies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λάλος (lálos) + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Conversely a correct thought may be defectively expressed, but as soon as the formation of thoughts is disturbed it becomes a question of dyslogia and logopathy, or, as some would say, of logoneurosis, since every movement of thought takes place through the nerve-substance. The two ideas of logoneurosis and lalopathy consequently do not cover each other.
ref: 1877, Hugo Ziemssen, Albert Henry Buck, George Livingston Peabody, Cyclopædia of the Practice of Medicine - Volume 14, page 613:
text: Stammering. stuttering, apthongia, spasmodic hesitation. and “nervous speech” belong to the domain of lalopathy.
ref: 1913, Medical Record, page 615:
text: As for the symptom of brain metastasis, dyskinesia showed the highest incidence, being seen in 5 cases (56%), followed by headache, nausea, lalopathy, dysopia and aystaria.
ref: 1943, Géza Róheim, The origin and function of culture, page 231:
text: Myasthenoid syndrome (somnolence, hypotonia, ataxy, lalopathy) due to acute intentional poisoning with 0.250g of Diazepan was observed in a child.
ref: 1974, Psychopharmacology Abstracts, page 697:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any speech disorder.
laloplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λαλέω (laléō, “talk”) + -plegia, equivalent to lalo- + -plegia.
Senses: examples: text: He made expressive gestures to manifest his thoughts, and on giving him pencil and paper he was able to write them down. His tongue preserved all its movements and its sensibility. It was evidently a case of laloplegia.
ref: 1878 August 15, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 99, page 220:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Paralysis of the organs of speech.
dislustre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dislustres
form: dislustring
form: dislustred
form: dislustred
Etymology: From dis- + lustre.
Senses: examples: text: […] a radiance hovered about the children as though the buttercups had dislustred their gold upon the air.
ref: 1922, Henry Williamson, “London Children and Wild Flowers”, in The Lone Swallows:
glosses: To give up or lose lustre.
flying colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flying colours.
Gara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garas
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Hungarian Gara, a variant of Garay.
* Reduced form of O' Gara, a surname of Irish origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gaudete Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin gaudēte (“rejoice”), which is the first word of the Latin-language introit for this Sunday.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The third Sunday in Advent
Related terms: Laetare Sunday
Young-Earthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Young-Earther
Sutekh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsuːtɛk/
Forms: form: Seth
form: Set
form: Setekh
form: Suty
Etymology: From Egyptian sw-W-t:x-A40 (swtḫ), a New Kingdom variant of s-t:X (stẖ).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.
Settle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Settles
Etymology: From Old English setl (“sitting, residence”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD816640).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
potter wasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potter wasp
unstudiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstudiable
form: most unstudiable
Etymology: From un- + studiable.
Senses: glosses: Not fit for studying.
ahungry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ahungry
form: most ahungry
form: anhungry
Etymology: From a- + hungry.
Senses: glosses: hungry (for)
Related terms: ahungered
libshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libshits
Etymology: Blend of liberal + shit.
Senses: examples: text: We find tankies tend to use pejorative terms to describe other ideologies in a toxic manner. E.g., anarkiddies, anarchildren, and anarkids instead of anarchists, succdems, succ dems, and succs instead of socdems, and westoids and libshits when referring to liberals. We also find "ultras" & "tankies" and "radlibs" & "tankies" pairs.
ref: [2025 June 13, Utkucan Balci, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn, “Roll in the Tanks! Measuring Left-wing Extremism on Reddit at Scale”, in arXiv, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2025:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of liberal.
synonyms: word: liberal
Colonie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and village in Albany County, New York.
Constable
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Constables
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation from Old French conestable (“constable”).
glosses: A town in Franklin County, New York; named for landowner William Constable.
glosses: John Constable, English painter.
Related terms: Burton Constable
Constable Burton
incompitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of incompetent.
cries over spilt milk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cry over spilt milk
cried over spilt milk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cry over spilt milk
expy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expys
Senses: glosses: Contraction of expressway.
expy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expys
form: expies
Etymology: From a clipping of exported character + -y. Coined by TV Tropes in 2006.
Senses: examples: text: I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.
text: The demon-run Raptor News Network clearly parodies that of the American conservative Fox News Network in both rhetoric and appearance, with its anchorman Bob Barbas being a thinly veiled expy of Bill O’Reilly.
ref: 2014, Jonathon O'Donnell, “Our Demonic World”, in Robert Arp, editor, The Devil and Philosophy: The Nature of His Game, page 120:
text: The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […]
ref: 2018 February 27, Amy Nash, “You should be watching Monster Factory”, in Concrete, University of East Anglia, page 21:
text: […] Thimbleweed Park is an obvious X Files parody with direct expies of Mulder and Scully as protagonists, so a 1990s setting is the natural choice […]
ref: 2019 March 1, Robin Wilde, “The 1990s: A Decade of Adventure”, in Forge Press, University of Sheffield, page 36:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A character in a work of fiction who is a stand-in for or knockoff of a character from an unrelated work or of a real person.
Related terms: Captain Ersatz
Attic Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Attic
Atticism
glosses: The dialect of Ancient Greek used in Attica, the region surrounding Athens, from 500 to 300 B.C.E., closely related to Ionic Greek and a main contributor to Koine. The language of Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Xenophon, etc.
Ionic Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Ionian Greek
Ionic
glosses: The dialect of Ancient Greek used on Euboea and other islands in the Aegean Sea and in parts of Asia Minor, from around 1000 to 300 B.C.E., closely related to Attic Greek and contributing a great deal to Epic Greek. The language of Herodotus, Hippocrates, and Archilochus.
Epic Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛp.ɪk ɡɹiːk/
Etymology: From epic + Greek.
Senses: glosses: A form of Archaic Greek largely based on Ionic, used by Homer and Hesiod.
Tupiniquim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tuːˈpɪnɪkwɪm/
Forms: form: Topinaqui
form: Tupinã-ki
form: Tupinanquin
form: Tupinaqui
form: Tupiniquin
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tupiniquim.
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of Brazil.
carries oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carry oneself
carrying oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carry oneself
carried oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carry oneself
carpet pythons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpet python
designer labels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of designer label
magnetic crochets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetic crochet
magnetic crochet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic crochets
Senses: examples: text: Figure 3 illustrates the short wave fade-out and the magnetic crochet, both of which endure only so long as the burst of x-rays from the flare continues.
ref: 1966, James Robert Place, Magnetic disturbances and the equatorial electrojet, page 7:
text: Back then, the hump was called a magnetic crochet because of its hook-like shape on graphs. Crochets appeared in both the declination and horizontal components. But, the synoptic analyses by Cliver and Svalgaard indicated the magnetic crochet in the horizontal component was among the largest ever reported.
ref: 2010, Taylor A. Cisco, Jr, All Shall Hide, page 70:
text: 1969, John Marshall, R. Alan Plumb, J. Van Mieghem (series editor), Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics: An Introductory Text, International Geophysics Series, page 191,
With regard to the magnetic crochet, we recall that the conductivity per ion pair is so small below 80 km that huge changes of electron concentration would be required to enable sizable electric currents to flow.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A portion of a magnetograph recording showing electric currents in the Earth's ionosphere caused by a solar flare, identified by its characteristic shape, likened to a crochet hook.
Related terms: coronal mass ejection
solar flare effect
bark at print
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barks at print
form: barking at print
form: barked at print
form: barked at print
Senses: glosses: To sound out written words without comprehending the meaning of the text.
attracticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attracticides
Etymology: From attract + -icide.
Senses: glosses: A substance that both attracts and kills an organism.
Derived terms: attracticidal
attracticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attracticide
attracticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From attracticide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to an attracticide.
deflocculant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deflocculants
Senses: examples: text: It has been used as a deflocculant in paper and textile manufacturing, as an emulsifying agent, as binder or lubricant in meat products, and as a replacement of fat in low-calorie foods.
ref: 2016 March 5, “De Novo Transcriptome Analysis of Medicinally Important Plantago ovata Using RNA-Seq”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A deflocculating agent.
deflocculants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deflocculant
hepatopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + pathological.
Senses: examples: text: No apparent hepatopathological alterations were observed in liver tissue sections from the NS3/4A transgenic mice or triple-transgenic mice compared with the WT mice after 3 days of Dox induction (Fig 4B).
ref: 2016 March 5, “Conditional Inducible Triple-Transgenic Mouse Model for Rapid Real-Time Detection of HCV NS3/4A Protease Activity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to hepatopathology.
hepatopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatopathologies
Etymology: From hepato- + pathology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: liver disease
homopositivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + positivity.
Senses: glosses: Positive attitudes toward homosexuality.
homopositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homopositive
form: most homopositive
Etymology: From homo- + positive.
Senses: glosses: Holding or expressing positive attitudes toward homosexuality.
nonsynaptosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + synaptosomal.
Senses: examples: text: After centrifugation, band 2 (the interface between 15% and 23% containing synaptosomes) and band 3 (the interface between 23% and 40% containing nonsynaptosomal mitochondria) were removed from the density gradient.
ref: 2016 March 5, “Synaptosomal Mitochondrial Dysfunction in 5xFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not synaptosomal.
nonlesion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lesion.
Senses: glosses: Not of or relating to a lesion.
Ramalamadingdong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ramadamadingdong
Etymology: From ramalamadingdong, from the similarity in sound.
Senses: examples: text: During Ramalamadingdong, it can be a little tiring to have to do it so many times more each day, but he's willing to do his part.
ref: 2002, cb, “GUN NUT BANK ROBBER CAUGHT BY CITIZENS ARREST”, in soc.culture.indian (Usenet):
text: Of course, it was entirely different when New York City schools sets aside private areas for Muslim students to pray during Ramalamadingdong.
ref: 2004, Jeff, “Re: Graduation Jihad ..”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet):
text: theres no fucking way im going without food all day when it gets to ramalamadingdong matey.
ref: 2006, CAPTAIN MASSIVE COCK, “Re: not such a daft idea after all.”, in alt.horror (Usenet):
glosses: The Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
ulikon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulikons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eulachon.
ulikons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulikon
fowlhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fowlhouses
Etymology: From fowl + house.
Senses: examples: text: "Where's you Uncle Jobson?" he exclaimed. "In the fowlhouse," said Peter.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: A building for keeping fowls; a henhouse.
fowlhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fowlhouse
uglying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ugly
uglied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ugly
ulcering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ulcer + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The formation of ulcers.
unflushing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flushing.
Senses: examples: text: Bumblemore was constantly calling the house elves in to fix this or that thing, but they were unionized and often on strike, so everybody had learned to accept unflushing toilets and small electrical fires […]
ref: 2002, Michael Gerber, Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody, page 25:
text: […] the restaurants with their unflushing lavatories located in the middle of the kitchens, the fingernails of the waiters, the condition of the plates and cutlery, not to mention the food itself […]
ref: 2004, Simon Gray, The Smoking Diaries, page 166:
glosses: That does not flush.
undinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undinted
form: most undinted
Etymology: From un- + dinted.
Senses: glosses: Not dinted; unmarked by a blow.
unquoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unquote
unquotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unquote
Unsicker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
upcoast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upcoast
form: most upcoast
Etymology: From up + coast.
Senses: glosses: Upstream in the direction of coastal currents.
capsule hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capsule hotel
updart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: updarts
form: updarting
form: updarted
form: updarted
Etymology: From up- + dart.
Senses: glosses: To dart upward.
updarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of updart
updarts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of updart
updarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of updart
upheaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upheavers
Etymology: From upheave + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who upheaves.
Related terms: upheaval
upheave
upheavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upheaver
upspear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upspears
form: upspearing
form: upspeared
form: upspeared
Etymology: From up- + spear.
Senses: examples: text: A hundred tents upspear from out the foliage, and countless flocks and herds are safely pasturing around them. That is Beer-sheba, on the borders of the Philistines' land […]
ref: 1883, Robina Forrester Hardy, The Children of the Bible, page 11:
glosses: To rise or point upward like spears.
upspeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upspear
upspears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upspear
usquabae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: VVhat dangers thou canſt make us ſcorn! / VVi' tippeny, vve fear nae evil; / VVi' uſquabae, vve'll face the devil!— […]
ref: 1790 (date written; published 1791), Robert Burns, “Tam o’ Shanter. A Tale.”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 2nd edition, volume II, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, page 201:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of usquebaugh .
usquebae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [A]re the Gael to-day of softer flesh or whiter blood than their fathers were? Knock the head out of a cask of usquebae, let that be their night gear— […]
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 269:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of usquebaugh .
circumcisionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From circumcision + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The advocacy or practice of circumcision.
scrungy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈskrʌndʒi/
Forms: form: scrungier
form: scrungiest
Etymology: From scrunge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Along a scrungy area of Fourteenth Street, a dim light glowed four stories above the white ground. A shadow paced behind the window, sipping from a goblet, pausing occasionally to stare at the wind-swept scene below.
ref: 2000, Jason Fury, His Eyes Were Dark, He Licked His Lips, page 10:
text: His logic overwhelmed me and I found that drinking beer in a scrungy dump featuring dirt floors and a scratching chicken at 9 am, seemed perfectly normal after a couple of days.
ref: 2011, Charles Pflueger, Island Fever: Life Adventures in Search of Island Paradise, page 85:
text: What had once been a bathroom with a toilet was now a scrungy looking tiled room with a hole in the floor where the toilet was missing, and a shower that had neither knobs nor faucet but which contained a pile of ashes […]
ref: 2012, Neil Baker, Delusions, page 89:
glosses: grungy; shabby and dirty
technostressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technostressed
form: most technostressed
Etymology: From techno- + stressed.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from technostress.
jampanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jampanees
Senses: glosses: Dated form of jampani.
jampanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jampanee
jampani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jampanis
form: jampanee
Etymology: From Hindi and Bengali.
Senses: glosses: A jampan-bearer.
Hypernyms: porter
jampanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jampani
jampan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒæmˌpæn/
/ˈdʒhaːmpaːn/
/ˈdʒampan/
Forms: form: jampans
form: jampana
form: janpan
form: jampona
form: jhampan
form: jempana
form: djempana
form: sampan
form: sempana
form: jampaun
form: jaumpaun
form: jhappan
form: jampot
form: jompon
form: chumpaun
form: chumpala
Etymology: From Hindi झँपान (jhãpān) and Bengali.
Senses: examples: text: At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.
ref: 1887, John Cookson Fife-Cookson, Tiger-Shooting in the Doon and Ulwar..., page 139:
glosses: Synonym of dandy or tonjon, a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs of porters.
synonyms: word: dandy or tonjon
extra: a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs of porters
examples: text: ... we find in Crawfurd's Malay Dict. "Jampana... a kind of litter"... It may have been originally in India, as it is now in the Straits, a closed litter for ladies of rank, and the word may have become appropriated to the open conveyance in which European ladies are carried.
ref: 1886, Henry Yule & al., Hobson-Jobson..., s.v. "Jompon"
glosses: Synonym of mihaffa, a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women.
synonyms: word: mihaffa
extra: a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women
Related terms: jampani
jampans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jampan
jeeped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jeep
jeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jeep
glory be
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Shortened from glory be to God.
Senses: glosses: Used to express surprise.
Synonyms: wow
jinglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jinglets
Etymology: From jingle + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little song or jingle.
glosses: A ball serving as the clapper of a sleigh-bell.
jinglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jinglet
jotty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jotty
form: most jotty
Etymology: From jot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They […] will be written in a jotty, easy, rattling style.
ref: 1873, The Living Age, volume 119, page 826:
text: The guard at his desk, a short distance down the low corridor, clinked on the blue shaded light of his desk lamp and turned the pages of his log to the jotty description of his only murder.
ref: 2001, Frank Palescandolo, Son of Murder, Inc., Or, Man in a Cassock, page 3:
glosses: Written as, or like, a brief informal sketch.
resistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resistable
form: most resistable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of resistible.
kabele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabeles
Senses: glosses: A village commune in Ethiopia.
kabeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabele
unto the ages of ages
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: unto ages of ages
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων (eis toùs aiônas tôn aiṓnōn).
Senses: glosses: For all time, forever.
Synonyms: for ever and ever
world without end
kerfuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kerfuffle
kerfuffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kerfuffle
kellaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kellauts
Senses: examples: text: the Rajah did complain to the governor-general and council, that the kellaut (or robes) with which he was to be invested according to their order, is not of the same kind, as that which he received from the late vizier
ref: 1786, Edmund Burke, Articles of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Against Warren Hastings, Esq:
glosses: Alternative form of khalat.
kellauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kellaut
khaph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khaphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khaf.
khaphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khaph
keystoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keystone
keystoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a keystoned arch
glosses: Having a keystone.
keystoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keystone
bioreplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioreplicates
Etymology: From bio- + replicate.
Senses: glosses: A biological replicate
bioreplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bioreplicates
form: bioreplicating
form: bioreplicated
form: bioreplicated
Etymology: From bio- + replicate.
Senses: glosses: To replicate biologically
bioreplicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the second and third bioreplicates, using the same criteria, 88,351 spectra were acquired and 11,092 distinct peptides were identified and translated into 1,235 proteins identified with high confidence.
ref: 2015 October 23, “Multiplex Brain Proteomic Analysis Revealed the Molecular Therapeutic Effects of Buyang Huanwu Decoction on Cerebral Ischemic Stroke Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of bioreplicate
multiplexation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiplexations
Etymology: From multiplex + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of a signal to multiplex form
Derived terms: demultiplexation
demultiplexation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + multiplexation.
Senses: examples: text: Interleaved barcodes must be deinterleaved before their demultiplexation.
ref: 2015 October 23, “DNA Barcoding through Quaternary LDPC Codes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The conversion of a multiplex signal to a simpler form
ichnofabric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnofabrics
Etymology: From ichno- + fabric.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A textured layer of sediment produced by the action of living organisms
ichnofabrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By studying invertebrate traces in the same area, Chen [28 ] identified five ichnofabrics: Arenicolites, Skolithos, Scoyenia, Planolites and Palaeophycus.
ref: 2015 October 23, “An Ornithopod-Dominated Tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian–Albian) of Qijiang, South-Central China: New Discoveries, Ichnotaxonomy, Preservation and Palaeoecology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of ichnofabric
ichnofaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In particular, the site shows the relatively high abundance of Caririchium in a region where saurischian ichnofaunas are often dominant.
ref: 2015 October 23, “An Ornithopod-Dominated Tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian–Albian) of Qijiang, South-Central China: New Discoveries, Ichnotaxonomy, Preservation and Palaeoecology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of ichnofauna
isobolographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An isobolographic analysis of the apoptotic response of the HCT116 cells to several different doses of rosiglitazone and LA-12 used in combination (see Materials and methods ) clearly demonstrated a significant synergic effect (data not shown).
ref: 2015 October 23, “Loss of PTEN Facilitates Rosiglitazone-Mediated Enhancement of Platinum(IV) Complex LA-12-Induced Apoptosis in Colon Cancer Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to isobolograms
Derived terms: isobolographically
kipperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kipperers
Etymology: From kipper + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who kippers fish.
kipperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kipperer
metamelanopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + melanopsin.
Senses: examples: text: In squid and octopus rhodopsins, acid metarhodopsin (all-trans form) shows light-dependent conversion mainly to the original rhodopsins (11-cis form) at 0°C [16, 17 ], whereas metamelanopsin (all-trans form) is converted to extramelanopsin (7-cis form) in addition to the original melanopsin (11-cis form) [10 ].
ref: 2015 October 23, “Diversity of Active States in TMT Opsins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of melanopsin containing the all-trans isomer of retinal
kirimons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirimon
kirimon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirimons
form: kirimon
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 桐紋.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese governmental emblem resembling a stylized paulownia.
monoclonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Assays to detect antibody response to adult filarial antigen were performed using biotinylated monoclonated antibodies (Zymed Laboratories, San Francisco, CA) specific for IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, and IgG4.
ref: 2015 October 23, “Changes in Antibody Levels during and following an Episode of Acute Adenolymphangitis (ADL) among Lymphedema Patients in Léogâne, Haiti”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Converted to monoclonal form
fighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪti/
ipa: /ˈfaɪti/
ipa: [ˈfʌɪɾi]
rhymes: -aɪti
Forms: form: more fighty
form: fightier
form: most fighty
form: fightiest
Etymology: From Middle English fighti, figti, equivalent to fight + -y.
Senses: synonyms: fightsome
glosses: Inclined or prone to fight.
kistful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kistfuls
Etymology: From kist + -ful.
Senses: glosses: A chestful.
kistfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kistful