cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fadmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fadmongers
Etymology: From fad + monger.
Senses: glosses: One who peddles fads or trends.
Kazakhism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kazakhisms
Etymology: From Kazakh + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A custom peculiar to the Kazakh people.
glosses: A word, phrase or linguistic feature typical of the Kazakh language.
Kazakhisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kazakhism
fagopyrismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of fagopyrism.
fairyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairyships
Etymology: From fairy + -ship.
Senses: examples: their fairyships
qualifier: "her"
glosses: Title applied to a fairy.
raw_tags: with "your"
fairyships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairyship
faipule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faipules
Senses: coordinate_terms: pulenuku
glosses: The leader of an atoll of Tokelau.
pulenuku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulenukus
Senses: coordinate_terms: faipule
glosses: The village mayor of an atoll of Tokelau.
pulenukus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulenuku
faipules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faipule
fadmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fadmonger
fadmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fadmongering is a colossal industry. It endures because conforming to fashion trends and directives helps us to fit in.
ref: 2011, Kate Bridger, Nest Building: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Interior Designer, page 104:
glosses: The peddling of fads or trends.
fairtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairtimes
Etymology: From fair + time.
Senses: examples: text: At fairtimes, the mix was further complicated by the arrival of itinerant dentists, conjurors, cardsharps, […]
ref: 1993, The Literary Review, numbers 181-185, page 15:
glosses: The period of time during which a fair takes place.
fairtimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairtime
fairyfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fairy folk.
Pheme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.mi/
rhymes: -iːmi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φήμη (Phḗmē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The personification of fame and renown, her favour being notability, her wrath being scandalous rumours.
Related terms: english: Roman equivalent
translation: Roman equivalent
word: Fama
pHEMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate.
polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyhydroxyethylmethacrylates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: pHEMA
glosses: A polymer, with chemical formula (C₆H₁₀O₃)ₙ, that forms a hydrogel in water.
polyhydroxyethylmethacrylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate
fanmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fan + making.
Senses: examples: text: It was true about the fanmaking; the table and floor were littered with snips of paper.
ref: 1967, Elizabeth George Speare, The Prospering, page 293:
glosses: The manufacture of fans.
fanmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanmakers
Etymology: From fan + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of fans.
fanmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanmaker
tetratonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The two Creek Indian "Duck Dance Songs" from the north- eastern United States illustrate the use of a tetratonic scale, A, C, D, E ( Example 5a ), and a pentatonic scale, A, C, D, E, G ( Example 5b ).
ref: 1976, Bruno Nettl, Helen Myers, Folk Music in the United States, page 38:
text: Pentatony can also come about through the simple complement and melodic development of the tetratonic melodic nucleus.
ref: 1994, János Kárpáti, Bartók's Chamber Music, page 111:
text: This four-note pattern is called a tetratonic, or also sometimes referred to as a melodic structures (by saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi, and others). […] This is powerful because applying this tetratonic formula R235 or R345, you have something that works(!) to play on every chord change and on every beat.
ref: 2015, Andy McWain, Jazz Practice Ideas with Your Real Book:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Made of four different musical notes.
examples: text: Of course such tetratonic music is capable of powerful expression in its own particular mood but there has apparently been no attempt to evolve form as such.
ref: 1974, I. E. N. Chauhan, Ethnomusicology-tribal Music: The Music of Kinnaur, page 20:
text: Beyond these areas Sasak music largely diverges from pélog and slendro tonality, and there are a number of tetratonic forms — in compositions for gamelan beleq and kamput, for example.
ref: 2006, David D. Harnish, Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, And Cultural Politics, page 232:
text: Tetratonic music was noted as common in Polynesia and Melanesia.
ref: 2020, Zhengbing Hu, Sergey Petoukhov, Matthew He, Advances in Artificial Systems for Medicine and Education III, page 197:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Pertaining to or using a tetratonic scale.
examples: text: PHOSPORUS/ELECTRON-MOLECULE COLLISIONS: High temperature negative ions, Electron impact study of tetratonic phosphorus vapor
ref: 1974, Nuclear Science Abstracts - Volume 30, Part 5, page 139:
text: This tetratonic polymer proved to be more active than any of the tritonic polymers, showing the maximal inhibition recordable under standard test conditions.
ref: 2009, G. E. W. Wolstenholme, David W. FitzSimons, Julie Whelan, Submolecular Biology and Cancer, page 179:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Made of four amino acids.
fanweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fan + weed.
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Thlaspi arvense.
farcist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farcists
Etymology: From farce + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer of farces.
farcists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farcist
farinulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farinulent
form: most farinulent
Senses: glosses: farinose
farmhousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farmhousy
form: most farmhousy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of farmhousey.
farmhousey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farmhousey
form: most farmhousey
form: farmhousy
Etymology: From farmhouse + -y.
Senses: examples: a big farmhousey kitchen with an open fire
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a farmhouse.
Faroeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Faroe + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Faroese
farsalah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farsalahs
Senses: glosses: An old unit of weight used in trading, equal to 35 pounds.
farsalahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farsalah
ill-deserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-deserved
form: most ill-deserved
Senses: examples: text: King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but ill-deserved. Except over the French portion of their journey they have no right to the title of express"—he was writing of conditions before the great speed-up of the last decade— [...].
ref: 1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
glosses: undeserved, unwarranted
tulip snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tulip snails
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tulip shell (Fasciolaria spp.)
synonyms: word: tulip shell
extra: Fasciolaria spp.
tulip snails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulip snail
fasciolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the fasciole.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the fasciola.
fashionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fashionizes
form: fashionizing
form: fashionized
form: fashionized
Etymology: From fashion + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Dressing the body and fashionizing it is, therefore, attributed more to females than to males.
ref: 2021, Viola Thimm, (Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style, page 6:
glosses: To make fashionable; to bring into the realm of fashion.
Derived terms: fashionization
fashionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fashionize
fashionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fashionize
fashionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fashionize
pygmy tyrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pygmy tyrants
Senses: glosses: Any of the passerine birds in the genera Euscarthmus, Myiornis, Lophotriccus, Atalotriccus, and Pseudotriccus.
fatherlandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatherlandish
form: most fatherlandish
Etymology: From fatherland + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of the fatherland, especially in the context of Nazi Germany.
nothingish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nothingish
form: most nothingish
Etymology: From nothing + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nothingy.
synonyms: word: nothingy
fatalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fatalizes
form: fatalizing
form: fatalized
form: fatalized
Etymology: From fatal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make fatal or deadly.
fatalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fatalize
fatalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fatalize
fatalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fatalize
pressure switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure switches
Senses: glosses: A switch that operates an electrical contact when a specified fluid pressure is reached on its input. The switch may be designed to make contact either on pressure rise or on pressure fall.
glosses: A switch that operates in response to mechanical force, such as a pressure-sensitive mat used to automatically open doors or a pressure-sensitive floor that operates a security alarm.
guama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɐ.ma/
Forms: form: guamas
form: gua ma
Etymology: From Hokkien 外媽 /外妈 (gōa-má, “maternal grandmother”). Compare Tagalog guwama.
Senses: examples: text: "Your family, friends, and connections are your real treasure." says my guama 外婆 (in Hokkien) or grandmother, Hermiña. I was only around six years of age when she said it. Yet I still hear it in my ears now and then. That and the quote, "Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are." from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
ref: 2022, Casey Huang, Move on Quick: How to Get Your Life Back and Never Break Your Heart Again, Cazh Enterprise, page 155:
text: This adobo dish is perfect because it uses three of the most important ingredients for replenishment: black sesame oil, ginger and black chicken. It not only recharges the qi but also satisfies the appetite as it is very delicious. That's why we always ask our maternal grandmother Guama Susanna to make it for us even if nobody in the family has given birth. And whenever she does, I go on a rice binge. Yes, it is that tasty.
ref: 2014, Jin Perez, Susanna Ng Ting, “Chicken in Chinese Wine and Black Sesame Oil - Chinese-style Black Chicken Adobo”, in Angelo Comsti, The Filipino Family Cookbook: Recipes and stories from our home kitchen, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, page 60:
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: maternal grandmother; maternal grandma
Coordinate terms: sense: maternal male
word: guakong
sense: paternal female
word: ama
sense: paternal male
word: angkong
fathomage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fathomages
Etymology: From fathom + -age.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The amount of money paid to a miner based on fathoms of material worked.
fathomages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fathomage
favellidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favellidia
Senses: glosses: A compound algal fruit (favella).
favellidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of favellidium
featherdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feather + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Why they should make their homes on Pike's and Gray's Peaks and neglect Tillie Ann is another of those puzzles in featherdom that cannot be solved.
ref: 1902, Leander S. Keyser, Birds of the Rockies, page 146:
glosses: The world or sphere of birds.
feathermonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feathermongers
Etymology: From feather + monger.
Senses: synonyms: plumer
glosses: A person who sells feathers.
feathermongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feathermonger
plumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumer
featherpated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more featherpated
form: most featherpated
Etymology: From feather + pated.
Senses: glosses: foolish; giddy-headed
feeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fee + -able.
Senses: examples: text: And, after all, John, it is indeed a feeable service.
ref: 2012, William Schnurr, Johnnie Death:
glosses: For which a fee may be charged.
feedbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedbins
Etymology: From feed + bin.
Senses: glosses: A bin for holding feed to be fed later to an animal.
glosses: A bin for holding material to be fed into an industrial process.
Synonyms: sense: bin for industrial materials
word: feeder
sense: bin for industrial materials
word: hopper
Coordinate terms: sense: bin for animal feed
word: feedroom
sense: bin for animal feed
word: feedsack
Related terms: sense: bin for animal feed
word: feedstore
sense: bin for industrial materials
word: feedstock
feedbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedbin
feedway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedways
Etymology: From feed + way.
Senses: glosses: The channel along which material is fed into a machine for processing.
feedways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedway
feldspathize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feldspathizes
form: feldspathizing
form: feldspathized
form: feldspathized
Etymology: From feldspath + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert into feldspar.
feldspathization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feldspathizations
Senses: glosses: The process of conversion into feldspar.
feldspathized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feldspathize
feldspathizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feldspathize
feldspathizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feldspathize
feldspathizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feldspathization
fellage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fell + -age.
Senses: glosses: The felling of trees.
Morosaglia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Morosaglia.
Senses: glosses: A town and commune of Haute-Corse department, Corsica, France.
code up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: codes up
form: coding up
form: coded up
form: coded up
Senses: examples: text: Have a look at this cool website I coded up last night!
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To create by coding or programming.
Downsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Downsmen
Etymology: From Downs + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man from the South Downs, Sussex, England.
Downsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Downsman
fellsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellsmen
Etymology: From fell + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who inhabits or walks on the fells (wild fields or upland moors).
fellsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellsman
felonwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From felon + wood; see felonwort.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of felonwort (“Solanum dulcamara”).
synonyms: word: felonwort
extra: Solanum dulcamara
feltmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feltmongers
Etymology: From felt + monger.
Senses: glosses: A person who sells felt.
feltmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feltmonger
feltyfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feltyfares
Senses: glosses: The fieldfare.
feltyfares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feltyfare
felfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felfares
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fieldfare.
felfares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felfare
femorocaudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From femoro- + caudal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the femur and the tail.
Goppenstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Valais canton, Switzerland.
feministics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: feminism
Morayvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Morayvian
form: most Morayvian
Etymology: From Moravia + -ian, influenced by the spelling Moray.
Senses: examples: text: […]onward transportation to the Morayvian salt mines.
ref: 1970, HMS Eagle Commissioning Book 1969-1970, page 29:
glosses: of or pertaining to Moray in Scotland
Synonyms: Moravian
Morayvian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Morayvians
Etymology: From Moravia + -ian, influenced by the spelling Moray.
Senses: glosses: an inhabitant of Moray
Synonyms: Moravian
Fenouillet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fenouillets
Etymology: From French fenouillet.
Senses: glosses: A French variety of apple with a taste like fennel.
Fenouillets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fenouillet
Fenny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, short for Fenella.
Related terms: Bletchley and Fenny Stratford
Fenny Bridges
Uriah Heeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Uriah Heep
Uriah Heeped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Uriah Heep
Feramorz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
fermentology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of fermentation.
fermentatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to fermentation.
Fermatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Fermat + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665), French mathematician.
Dubachs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dubach
Shiffrins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shiffrin
Westacott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Westacotts
Etymology: Variant of Westcott.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
festivally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more festivally
form: most festivally
Senses: examples: text: So you're much more part of the community if you go out and do festivally things.
ref: 2016, Jodie Taylor, Andy Bennett, The Festivalization of Culture, page 120:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a festival.
festivally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more festivally
form: most festivally
Senses: examples: text: These three days of Byram they spend festivally, rejoicing with abundance of illuminations all night, shooting of guns, and fireworks flying in the air; for they reckon that all their sins are now done away, […]
ref: 1857, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, page 346:
glosses: In a festive manner.
Meccah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Mecca: the capital of Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia; the holiest place in Islam.
festivalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of festivalizing.
festivalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: festivalizes
form: festivalizing
form: festivalized
form: festivalized
Etymology: From festival + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The sharp edges of this, the bits that people notice, tend to be in spaces that we understand instinctively as belonging to all of us: parks and commons, which are increasingly “festivalised” – gated off for ticket holders.
ref: 2023 September 19, Zoe Williams, “Corporation creep: why London’s Bond Street became Burberry Street - and caused outrage”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To make into, or like, a festival.
festivalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of festivalize
festivalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of festivalize
festivalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of festivalize
Reisenwitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Reisenwitz
fetishic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fetishic
form: most fetishic
Etymology: From fetish + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Planetary worship was, certainly, in some sense, fetishic, but this is no explanation of its origin.
ref: 1870, “The Anthropological Review”, in Anthropological Society of London, page 158:
glosses: Of or relating to a fetish.
Related terms: fetishistic
feudatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of feudatory.
synonyms: word: feudatory
Gellises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gellis
fiberglas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the brand name Fiberglas. See the online Oxford English Dictionary entry: fiberglas (earliest quote: 1937
‘Fiberglas’ products. American Dyestuff Reporter vol. XXVI. P182 (heading)): https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=Fiberglas.
Senses: examples: text: Made of fiberglas, the 100 to 150 pound saucers are guided simply by shifting body weight in the desired direction; they seem to slide downhill on air.
ref: 1963, Popular Mechanics, volume 119, number 6, page 97:
text: A rather unusual application of fiberglas. This huge structure was built by Mahaffey Greenhouse, Apopka, Florida, for foliage.
ref: 1963, Grower Talks, volume 27, page 2:
text: The fiberglas we used was a roll of 50 ' X 4 ' "clear" fiberglas, which actually is sort of frosty and diffuses the light, so I only have to shade in spring and fall.
ref: 1980, American Orchid Society Bulletin, volume 49, number 10, page 1110:
glosses: Dated form of fiberglass.
fiberizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiberizers
Etymology: From fiberize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine that fiberizes.
fiberizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiberizer
Westacotts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Westacott
Westcotts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Westcott
Michelin star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Michelin stars
Senses: glosses: A classification given to a restaurant by the Michelin Guide. Up to three stars can be awarded, depending on the quality of the establishment.
Brunty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bruntys
Etymology: Variant of Prunty.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Derived terms: Brontë
fibrilliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more fibrilliferous
form: most fibrilliferous
Etymology: From fibril + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing fibrils.
ficklety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fickleties
Etymology: From fickle + -ty.
Senses: glosses: fickleness
fickleties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ficklety
goes west
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go west
going west
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go west
went west
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go west
gone west
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go west
Cavallero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cavalleros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Cavallero.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
solomonar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solomonars
form: solomonari
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A dragon-riding wizard who controls the weather, in Romanian folklore.
Cavalleros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cavallero
Bruntys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brunty
fictionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The book belongs to the tale, story, or fictionistic class — a species of literature by far too common in the present day.
ref: 1855, The Wesleyan Methodist Association Magazine, volume 18, page 397:
text: […] applies to the constructs purported to represent material things, but not to the rest: it is realistic with respect to the former, and fictionistic with regard to the constructs of logic and pure mathematics.
ref: 1985, Mario Bunge, Philosophy of Science and Technology (issue 3, part 1, page 33)
glosses: Fictional.
laughs on the wrong side of one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
laughing on the wrong side of one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
laughed on the wrong side of one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
fictionmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fictionmongers
Etymology: From fiction + monger.
Senses: glosses: A writer of fiction.
glosses: A teller of lies.
fictionmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fictionmonger
laughs on the other side of one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh on the other side of one's face
laughing on the other side of one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laugh on the other side of one's face
laughed on the other side of one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laugh on the other side of one's face
Catterson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cattersons
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Uaitéir (“son of Walter”) + the patronymic suffix -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dexheimer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dexheimers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dexheimer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Dexheimers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dexheimer
Cattersons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Catterson
end-Triassic mass extinction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Triassic-Jurassic extinction event.
synonyms: word: Triassic-Jurassic extinction event
Brazilianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Brazilianizes
form: Brazilianizing
form: Brazilianized
form: Brazilianized
Etymology: From Brazilian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Brazilian.
Related terms: Brazilianization
Brazilianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Brazilianize
Brazilianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Brazilianize
Brazilianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Brazilianize
Triassic-Jurassic extinction event
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: end-Triassic mass extinction
glosses: A mass extinction between the Triassic and Jurassic periods 201.3 million years ago.
DeArcos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: DeArcoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish de Arcos. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Doughtie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doughties
Etymology: Variant of Doughty.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Doughties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Doughtie
DeArcoses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DeArcos
Enslow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Enslows
form: Enloe
form: Enlow
form: Inlow
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Bletchingdon parish, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4818).
glosses: A habitational surname.
Escalons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Escalon
Enslows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Enslow
fideicommission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fideicommissions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fideicommissum.
synonyms: word: fideicommissum
fideicommissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fideicommission
fideicommiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fideicommisses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fideicommissum.
synonyms: word: fideicommissum
fideicommisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fideicommiss
Fidelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
goodbyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goodbye
Eary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Earys
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Airey.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Geerts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geertses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Geerts.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Geertses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Geerts
Earys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eary
Gerringer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gerringers
Etymology: Variant of Geringer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Goodheart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goodhearts
Etymology: Variant spelling of Goodhart.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Goodhearts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goodheart
Gerringers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gerringer
McCarville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCarvilles
form: McCarver
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Cearbhaill (“son of Cearbhall”), a personal name of uncertain origin. Compare McCarroll, which shares the same etymology
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
fiendfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fiendfully
form: most fiendfully
Etymology: From fiendful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fiendful manner.
Ribas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ribases
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish Ribas.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
fierasfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fierasfers
Etymology: From New Latin, from Provençal fielat-fèr, fierasfèr, from fielat, fieras (“net, moray”) (from Old Provençal filat, from fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum) + fèr (“fierce, wild”), from Latin ferus.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain fishes of the genus Carapus.
glosses: A fish of species Echiodon dentatus.
fierasfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fierasfer
Ribases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ribas
McCarvilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCarville
Pescadore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pescadores
Senses: examples: text: Standing from the shore, with topsails and courses close reefed, M. de Peyrouse hoped, that he might double the PESCADORE ISLES, by keeping the ship's head to the N. W., before a N. N. E. wind.
ref: 1798, A Voyage Round the World : Which was Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by M. De la Peyrouse, Edinburgh, pages 131–132:
text: In 1624, the Dutch established themselves on Fischer's I., one of the Pescadore group, in order to control the coast trade of Fuhkien province.
ref: 1867, Wm. Fred. Mayers, N. B. Dennys, Chas. King, The Treaty Ports of China and Japan, London: Trübner and Co., page 244:
text: China sued for peace, and under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, signed in April 1895, Port Arthur and the part of the Liaotung Peninsula on which it stood were ceded to Japan, as were Formosa and the Pescadore Islands, situated between Formosa and China.
ref: 1970, 40 Years of Conflict: 1904-1945, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 6–7:
glosses: Alternative form of Pescadores.
figury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more figury
form: most figury
Etymology: From figure + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This tree is somewhat dwarfish in height, and stout in the stem; plentiful; yielding timber of a reddish colour, with darker alternating shades of a figury character; […]
ref: 1887, Colonial and Indian Exhibition: Reports on the Colonial Sections of the Exhibition, page 458:
glosses: Bearing or resembling figures.
filchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From filch + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Theft.
filemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From file + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of files (rasping tools).
filemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filemakers
Etymology: From file + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of files (rasping tools).
filemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filemaker
filipuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The operation of passing wire into an aneurysmal cavity.
vacciners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacciner
fillemot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of filemot.
filmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filmists
Etymology: From film + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Painters, composers, writers, choreographers, and even filmists are becoming less contentious. They are not concerned about attributing values to things. Their presentation of things is direct, without exterior significance.
ref: 1995, Gregory Battcock, Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, page 197:
glosses: A filmmaker.
examples: text: Devoted filmists are still jealous of the medium they admire, especially jealous because, even after films assumed a secure place as a medium of human expression, the arrival of the soundtrack made words into a major element of film, […]
ref: 2000, Adams P. Sitney, Film Culture Reader, page 376:
text: Using special guidelines outlined within this introduction, filmists relax, focus, and afterward discuss with others their reactions to magnify the value of film viewing.
ref: 2009, Mary Banks Gregerson, The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching, page 2:
glosses: One who watches or studies films.
filmists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filmist
tectofilosid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tectofilosids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the order Tectofilosida of filose amoebae with shells.
tectofilosids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tectofilosid
fimbry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fimbries
Senses: glosses: Any of various sedges of the genus Fimbristylis.
fimbries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fimbry
filterman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filtermen
Etymology: From filter + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man employed to manage a physical process of filtration.
filtermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filterman
finchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fincheries
Etymology: From finch + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A structure into which finches are decoyed so that they can be caught in a net.
fincheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finchery
firestopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: General points where firestopping was removed shall be tightly filled with asbestos, mineral wool, or other incombustible insulating material.
ref: 1938, Building Materials and Structures Report, volumes 82-108, page 17:
text: Firestopping, even if installed, is often made ineffective by maintenance work or new installations, for example, cable TV.
ref: 2006, Francis L. Brannigan, Building Construction for the Fire Service, page 543:
glosses: Material used as a firestop.
higher-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The conjecture, therefore, is that the E.R. has proved its claim to a higher-powered Type 4 than any existing design as running-mates for the "Deltics"; [...].
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: More Type 3 and Type 4”, in Trains Illustrated, page 2:
glosses: comparative form of high-powered: more high-powered
highest-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Sulzer 12LDA28-C 12-cylinder, twin-bank engine underwent the U.I.C. (International Union of Railways) 100hr test on July 16-20 at a rating of 2,750 h.p., which makes it the highest-powered diesel engine to complete this trial.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Sulzer engine completes U.I.C. tests”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
glosses: superlative form of high-powered: most high-powered
Himba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Simba
glosses: A moribund Bantu language of Gabon.
Himba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of northern Namibia.
Himba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The dialect of the Herero language spoken by the Himba people.
fissury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fissury
form: most fissury
Etymology: From fissure + -y.
Senses: examples: a fissury rock
glosses: Full of fissures.
fish-wraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish-wrap
fishwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishwrap
fish wraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish wrap
fisherboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fisherboats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fisher-boat.
fisherboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fisherboat
fishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fishing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Monk enquired fishingly whether Presbytery, to which he was well inclined on the whole, might not be thought somewhat rigid.
ref: 1858, Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, page 285:
text: But the pen-tongued and compulsive verbalizer / Goes fishingly groping for words
ref: 2012, Samuel Whittemore Fowler, Alive! Volume 2, page 96:
glosses: In a manner that suggests fishing, such as groping in search of something, or seeking compliments.
fistwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fist + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Suppose that while you are comatose, I use your fist, as if it were a hammer, to shatter the window. It seems quite plausible that, although your atoms arranged fistwise cause the window to shatter, you do not.
ref: 2003, Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons, page 153:
glosses: In the manner of a fist.
examples: text: Sometimes the heroes were foolhardy enough to try taking on the Mummy fistwise.
ref: 1990, Darrell Schweitzer, Weird Tales 296 (Spring 1990), page 57:
text: Fistwise, Erog was going to beat me.
ref: 2013, Bill James, In Good Hands:
glosses: By means of the fists; by fighting with the fists.
flaggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flaggish
form: most flaggish
Etymology: From flag + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flagging (“becoming tired or less dynamic; declining in strength”).
synonyms: word: flagging
extra: becoming tired or less dynamic; declining in strength
flamenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamenships
Etymology: From flamen + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a flamen.
flamenships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamenship
Tom Bawcock's Eve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An annual festival held on 23 December in Mousehole, Cornwall, to celebrate the efforts of legendary Mousehole resident Tom Bawcock to save the village from famine by going out to fish in a severe storm.
flashly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flashly
form: most flashly
Etymology: From flash + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flash manner.
flashproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flashproof
form: most flashproof
Etymology: From flash + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to sparks and fire.
flautinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flautino
dumb like a fox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Very stupid or foolish.
glosses: Sly and cunning, while deliberately giving the misleading impression of being stupid or foolish.
Related terms: crazy like a fox
sly as a fox
Marchessault
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marchessaults
Etymology: Borrowed from French Marchessault.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
flavanilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flavaniline.
mitre box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitre boxes
form: miter box
Senses: glosses: A wood working appliance used to guide a handsaw or backsaw for making precise cuts, usually 45° and 90° mitre cuts. The mitre boxes are made of wood or plastic.
Coordinate terms: mitre saw
flaxwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaxworts
Etymology: From flax + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any of the flax plants of genus Linum.
flaxworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaxwort
miter box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miter boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mitre box.
shatter cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shatter cones
form: shattercone
Etymology: Compound of shatter + cone.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of geologic feature consisting of a branching network of multiple stacked conical or spoon-shaped striated fractures produced by high-intensity shock waves, with the apex of the cones pointing back towards the point of origin of the shock waves; only known to be produced by hypervelocity meteorite impacts or underground nuclear explosions.
shatter cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shatter cone
flexility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being flexile.
flexured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flexure
flexuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flexure
flightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flight + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Able to fly.
flirtable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flirtable
form: most flirtable
Etymology: From flirt + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I had from principle avoided the society of ladies, that is, when they were of the flirtable or marriageable kind.
ref: 1929, Joseph Hocking, The Weapons of Mystery:
glosses: Suitable for flirting with.
flitterbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flitterbats
Senses: glosses: A bat (flying mammal).
flitterbats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flitterbat
flockowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flockowners
Etymology: From flock + owner.
Senses: glosses: Someone who owns a flock of animals.
flockowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flockowner
scorey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scaurie.
anthropogenise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anthropogenises
form: anthropogenising
form: anthropogenised
form: anthropogenised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthropogenize.
anthropogenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anthropogenise
biofortifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biofortify
biomanufactured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biomanufacture
biomanufactured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: manufactured by biomanufacture
burination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burinations
Senses: glosses: A mark made (as if) with a burin
burinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burination
calenduloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calendulosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several glycosides present in calendula
retarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːtɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: retarcs
Etymology: From crater reversed, signifying the formation of an elevated mound rather than the typical sunken crater.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: nuclear testing
glosses: A rubble mound occasionally formed by a powerful underground explosion (usually nuclear) in solid rock, due to the chimney of shattered rock above the explosion occupying a greater volume than the solid rock previously present.
retarcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retarc
chemosaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Treated by chemosaturation
chemosaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemosaturations
Etymology: From chemo- + saturation.
Senses: glosses: saturation of an individual organ with a chemotherapy while it is sealed from the rest of the body
chondrosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondrospheres
Senses: glosses: A type of chondrocyte implantation
chondrospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondrosphere
coimplanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coimplant
coimplanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: implanted along with another