cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mutatoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
neochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
nonaprenoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
okenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
oscillaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
paracentrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
pectenolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
pectenoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
phleixanthophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
phoeniconone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
phoenicopterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
phoenicoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
physalien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
pyrrhoxanthininol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
rhodopin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
rhodopinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
rhodopinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
rhodovibrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
rubixanthone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
siphonaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
siphonein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
spheroidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spheroid + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
tangeraxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
torularhodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
torularhodinaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
triphasiaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
trollichrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid obtainable from Trollius europaeus.
vaucheriaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
warmingone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
warmingol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
zeacarotene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zea + carotene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular carotenoid.
sexy times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexytimes
Senses: examples: text: "Know what, Grayson? That nobody will hire me just as a pilot? That all my flying jobs come with a side order of sexy times? […]
ref: 2012, Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush, Gallery Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: Time dedicated to sexual activity; by extension, sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: sexy time
candock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candocks
Etymology: Probably can (“from use to polish cans and other metal objects”) + dock (“plant”). Compare German Kannenkraut (“horsetail”), literally "canweed".
Senses: glosses: A plant or weed that grows in rivers.
glosses: A horsetail of species Equisetum telmateia.
glosses: A yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).
candocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candock
circumfered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circumfer
circumfering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circumfer
circumferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circumfer
circumferring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circumfer
lingets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linget
paragogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paragogic
form: most paragogic
Etymology: From paragoge + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In the Semitic languages, paragogic letters are added to the ordinary forms of words to express additional emphasis or a change in the meaning.
text: The loss of final -n is irregular. We would rather expect *teón to develop into **θòno, with a paragogic vowel as in (Log.) sámbene' ‘blood’ < sanguen, nòmene ‘name’ < nōmen and báttoro ‘four’ < quatt(u)or.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 137:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word.
Synonyms: paragogical
Derived terms: paragogically
paragogic future
schame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schames
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shame.
up-tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: up-ticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uptick.
up-ticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of up-tick
on par
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on a par.
go missing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes missing
form: going missing
form: went missing
form: gone missing
Senses: examples: text: United's defence went missing in the 47th minute when Kolarov and Negredo combined and the predatory Aguero was once more the beneficiary with a simple side-footed finish.
ref: 2013 September 22, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: There is a strong link between transport and the 170,000 people (almost half of them children) who go missing each year by taking one-way journeys away from home.
ref: 2023 November 1, “Network News: SWR support for Missing People”, in RAIL, number 995, page 21:
glosses: To disappear without explanation; to become lost.
Sothis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σῶθῐς (Sôthĭs).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star given great significance by the Ancient Egyptians, believed to be Sirius by modern scholars.
Derived terms: Sothiac
Sothic
succubae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succuba
sarcodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A name applied by Dujardin in 1835. Ancient Greek σαρκώδης (sarkṓdēs, “fleshy”). Compare sarcoid.
Senses: examples: text: In the sarcodo there takes place a process which may be in some measure compared with what occurs in the vitellus after the fecundation of an ovum. The granules becoming united together form groups, which soon divide and subdivide […]
ref: 1861, F. Rymer Jones, The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom, page 48:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.
Debussyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Debussyan
form: most Debussyan
form: Debussian
Etymology: From Debussy + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Claude-Achille Debussy (1862–1918), French composer.
Debussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Debussian
form: most Debussian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Debussyan.
phylogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylogenesis
mudcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudcats
Etymology: From mud + cat.
Senses: glosses: A catfish, Ameiurus natalis (yellow bullhead), native to the Mississippi Delta.
glosses: A flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris, syns. Silurus olivaris, Leptops olivaris), flatty or shovelhead cat, of central North America.
mudcats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudcat
biradiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + radiated.
Senses: glosses: biradiate; having two rays
sea cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea card
shough
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Shough, shough, up to your coop, Pea-Hen.
ref: 1623, John Fletcher, William Rowley, The Maid in the Mill, page Act 5, scene 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of shoo.
shough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoughs
Senses: examples: text: Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept
 All by the name of dogs: […]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: A shockdog.
hemiopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemianopsia.
sagittated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sagittated
form: most sagittated
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: sagittal
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: sagittate
close-fights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊs ˈfaɪts/
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: close quarters
paguma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pagumas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: synonyms: gem-faced civet
Himalayan palm civet
glosses: The masked palm civet (Paguma larvata), resembling a weasel.
pagumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paguma
ribaudred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ribaudred
form: most ribaudred
Etymology: From Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (see quotation), with uncertain etymology. Perhaps from ribaudry + -ed. Alternatively, perhaps an error for some other item: proposed candidates include ribauld, ribald-rid, among others.
Senses: examples: text: Yon ribaudred Nagge of Egypt, (Whom Leprosie o're-take) i'th'midst o'th'fight,[…]
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene x]:
text: The Censor of Plays, who has a kindly feeling for the inanities of musical comedy and the ribaudred revelries of revue.
ref: 1922 July 10, “Shelley's "Cenci." A memorable performance.”, in The Times, number 43079, London, page 8:
text: We escape from the prison house of Puritanism and hurry to riot with the ribaudred rabble of Comus.
ref: 1924 December 24, Henry Arthur Jones, “Christmas Meditations Upon Alcohol”, in The English Review, volume 39, London:
glosses: filthy; obscene; ribald
wikipedia: Antony and Cleopatra
ribaudrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ribaudrous
form: most ribaudrous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ribaldrous.
stamenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stamen + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no stamen.
biaxal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + axal.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of biaxial.
quadriaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + axial.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to four axes.
epiphloeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛ.pɪˈfliː.əm/
Etymology: From epi- + phloem.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A corky envelope or outer portion of bark, lying next beneath an epidermis.
mesophloeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”) + φλόος (phlóos, “bark”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: cortex
Related terms: epiphloeum
babyfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.biː.fɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.bi.fɜɹ/
rhymes: -eɪbiːfɜːɹ
Forms: form: babyfurs
Etymology: From baby + fur.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A furry character that is a baby or toddler.
examples: text: Nothing in the world says you have to accept babyfurs, but simple commonsense demands that, if you don't want to be singled out yourself, then you have to tolerate them, just as you want to be tolerated.
ref: 2005 January 20, Snow Leopard [username], “Re: Constaff point of view....Re: All babyfurs get out of furry!”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: I have never seen a babyfur at a convention wearing diapers openly.
ref: 2005 January 26, Gray Fox [username], “Re: I like to think I'm fairly tolerant...”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
text: Research shows that the fandom is often harsh toward subgroups such as babyfurs, who enjoy behaving like young or infantile characters.
ref: 2013, Amanda Sims, "Tails from the Underground", Echo (Columbia College Chicago), Winter/Spring 2013, page 62
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: littlefur
glosses: A member of the furry subculture with an interest in roleplaying as a baby.
Related terms: ABDL
diaperfur
cubfur
babyfurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babyfur
bambinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bambino
boorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boort
blennophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλέννος (blénnos, alternative form of βλέννα "mucus, slime") + -phobia, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: examples: text: "Well, maybe what you've really got is blennophobia — fear of slime," he said.
ref: 2002, Kate White, If Looks Could Kill, Warner Books, Inc., →ISBN:
text: He approaches with snurffly sounds and a twitching nose, and your blennophobia (fear of slime) kicks in, producing a hurried word of encouragement and a carrot.
ref: 2003, Joanne M. Friedman, It's a Horse's Life!: Advice and Observations for the Humans Who Choose to Share It, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Oh, they seem to be the picture of contentment, tripping about with their triple-sanitized trowels and weeding forks, but in reality these neatniks are a seething cauldron of aversions. They're beset by blennophobia, the fear of slime, and spend long hours plotting the annihilation of slugs and snails.
ref: 2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: The irrational fear of slime.
Related terms: blennophobe
houstonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈstəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /h(j)uˈstoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Forms: form: houstonias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Houstonia of rubiaceous flowering plants.
houstonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houstonia
sight rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sight rhymes
Etymology: From sight + rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eye rhyme.
synonyms: word: eye rhyme
scorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəs
Forms: form: more scorious
form: most scorious
Etymology: From scoria + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: For by the fire they omit not only many drossie and scorious parts, but whatsoever they had received either from the earth or Loadstone;
ref: 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: scoriaceous
slent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slents
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of slant.
slent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slents
form: slenting
form: slented
form: slented
Senses: examples: text: […]a ſlenting ſtroke[…]
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of slant.
slents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slent
slented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slent
slenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slent
overaccumulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + accumulation.
Senses: glosses: accumulation of too much
glosses: action and effect of accumulating capital without productive purposes.
overreactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ.vəɹ.ɹiˈæk.tɪv/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəɹiˈæktɪv/
Forms: form: more overreactive
form: most overreactive
form: over-reactive
Etymology: From over- + reactive.
Senses: examples: text: overreactive parenting
text: Heʼd seen it in her eyes, and even though he knew that his mind could become overreactive in such situations, he was convinced that what heʼd seen in her was contempt.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 491:
glosses: Too reactive; tending to overreact.
overcurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcurrents
Etymology: From over- + current.
Senses: examples: text: Overcurrent can lead to excessive heat generation and the risk of fire or damage to equipment.
synonyms: overamperage
coordinate_terms: overvoltage
glosses: A larger-than-intended electric current.
Derived terms: overcurrent protective device
overcurrents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcurrent
bow pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow pens
Senses: glosses: bow compasses, one leg of which carries a pen
Related terms: bow pencil
bow pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bow pen
paviors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavior
stethoscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: stethoscopic
stethoscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stethoscopic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The patient was examined stethoscopically.
glosses: By means of a stethoscope.
sassarara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of certiorari (“a kind of writ”).
Senses: examples: text: Lest misfortune enter here, Let us now debar her, Tossing off Canary cups With a Sassarara!
ref: 1660, The Bonfire at Temple-Bar:
text: Out she shall pack, with a sassarara.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:
text: In pages 419-423, we give you a sweetly somnific dose; but hark! we wake our readers, at last, with a flaming sassarara in thunder : viz . "Who shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
ref: 1808, A Surry Belwether, “Evangelical Magazine for October, 1808”, in Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor, volume 3, page 357:
text: I'll stop it out o' your 'lowance, mind that now—and mighty brazen in him it was for to dar for to hoik it off wi him, but I'll give him a sassarara for it.
ref: 1820, The Orientalist; Or Electioneering in Ireland; a Tale:
text: If ye don't, I ' ll sarve ye wi ' a sassarara, and have ye arranged and parsecuted according to law, that's all.
ref: 1828, Charles Marsh, The Clubs of London, page 196:
text: they and I were talking of one thing or other, one night, over our punch, when, all of a sudden, there comes the sorrows of a sassarara at the door; and Lord save us, says I; who have we got here?
ref: 1835, Michael Banim, The Mayor of Wind-gap, page 270:
text: He denounced the coffee as ditch-water—the bacon as musty—the eggs as tasting of straw—and the butter as train-oil; and he was just inflicting a sassarara upon the waiter for not keeping up a cheerful fire , when the door opened, and , to the ineffable dismay of the commercial traveller, Mr. Hodson entered the room.
ref: 1849, George William M. Reynolds, The mysteries of the court of London, page 16:
glosses: Siserary.
saymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sayman
acceed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acceeds
form: acceeding
form: acceeded
form: acceeded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of accede.
shirrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirring
serolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seroline
Etymology: From serum + Latin oleum (“oil”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterol, etc.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance found in faeces, thought to be formed in the intestines from the cholesterol of the bile.
Synonyms: sense: body found in faeces
word: stercolin
sense: body found in faeces
word: stercorin
salixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salix
slackener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slackeners
Etymology: From slacken + -er.
Senses: examples: text: His only reference to the envoy who had denounced him is in respect of his conduct when Minister-General of the Franciscans as slackener of the Rule.
ref: 1902, Anne Macdonell, Sons of Francis, page 391:
glosses: One who slackens.
glosses: Part of a loom that slackens the threads.
slackeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slackener
floricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floricides
Etymology: From Latin flōs + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: However, as I have said, through innumerable failures and guilty of a thousand floricides, I came to learn that a flower bed must be prepared, that seedlings must be protected from frost, sun and drought and too much water[…]
ref: 1910, Helen Rickey Albee, Hardy plants for cottage gardens, page 4:
glosses: The killing of a flower.
floricides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floricide
fusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuser
folk religion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk religions
Senses: glosses: Ethnic or regional religious customs under the umbrella of an organized religion, but outside of official doctrine and practices.
Hypernyms: religion
Hyponyms: Chinese folk religion
Derived terms: folk religionist
footpeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footpegs
Etymology: From foot + peg.
Senses: glosses: Part of a motorbike, kayak, etc. to be pushed against with the foot.
footpegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footpeg
Waddingtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɒdɪŋˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɑdɪŋˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Waddingtonian
form: most Waddingtonian
Etymology: From Waddington + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Conrad Hal Waddington (1905–1975), biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology.
from the heart
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: to come from the heart
text: to speak straight from the heart
glosses: sincerely
glosses: passionately
Related terms: the bottom of one's heart
freeze up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freezes up
form: freezing up
form: froze up
form: frozen up
Senses: examples: text: But these precautions lost some of their merit when the L.T. trains themselves became frozen up at depots overnight.
ref: 1962 March, “Lessons of the Freeze-up”, in Modern Railways, page 146:
glosses: To be adversely affected by ice, and not function.
examples: text: Since the last update, the program freezes up after a few minutes of use.
glosses: (of machines and software) To come or bring to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
examples: text: Despite all of the rehearsals, as soon as I got on stage I froze up.
glosses: (of people and other animals) To stop or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
glosses: To become cold and formal in demeanour.
Derived terms: word: freeze-up
freeze over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freezes over
form: freezing over
form: froze over
form: frozen over
Senses: examples: text: The lake in the park freezes over every winter.
glosses: To freeze on the surface.
supraauricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + auricular.
Senses: examples: the supraauricular feathers of certain birds
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars.
consimilitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consimilitudes
Etymology: From con- + similitude.
Senses: synonyms: consimility
glosses: mutual resemblance
consimility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: mutual resemblance
attemperance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English attemprance, from Old French atemprance.
Senses: glosses: temperance; temperament
Related terms: attemperament
attemperate
attemperly
isosbestic point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isosbestic points
Senses: qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: A specific wavelength at which two chemical species have the same molar absorptivity.
toddy cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toddy cats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Asian palm civet.
synonyms: word: Asian palm civet
toddy cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toddy cat
musangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musang
saluters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saluter
sikerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sickerness.
specificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of specificate
specificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of specificate
thermodilution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermodilutions
Etymology: From thermo- + dilution.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Determination of cardiac output by measurement of the change in temperature in the bloodstream after injection of a known amount of cooled saline fluid
Derived terms: thermodilutional
thermodilutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermodilution
seminals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seminal
pikelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pikelins
Senses: glosses: A light, thin cake or muffin; a pikelet.
pikelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pikelin
Solano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Solanos
form: Solano
Senses: glosses: One of an indigenous people of southern Texas and the northern portion of the Mexican state of Coahuila.
Solano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The little-known extinct language spoken by the Solano.
glosses: A hot, oppressive wind in parts of Spain.
Solano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Related terms: Solano County
saheb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sahebs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sahib.
sahebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saheb
sublettor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublettors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subletter.
sublettors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublettor
spawling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spawlings
Etymology: From spawl + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Whose marble floors with drunken spawlings shine.
ref: 1693, William Congreve, Juvenal's Satires:
glosses: That which is spawled, or spat out.
spawlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spawling
spawled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spawl
dogwhipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dogwhip
dogwhipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dogwhip
spagyrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spagyrical
form: most spagyrical
Senses: glosses: alchemical; spagyric
compescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compesce
compesced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compesce
mucronated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: mucronate
Derived terms: submucronated
mucronately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mucronately
form: most mucronately
Etymology: From mucronate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mucronate fashion.
Bayes' theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bayes theorem
form: Bayes's theorem
Etymology: Named after English mathematician Thomas Bayes (1701–1761), who developed an early formulation. The modern expression of the theorem is due to Pierre-Simon Laplace, who extended Bayes's work but was apparently unaware of it.
Senses: examples: text: The starting point for many techniques in probabilistic classification is Bayes' theorem, which provides a way of relating evidence to a hypothesis.
ref: 2010, Jonathan Harrington, Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora, page 327:
text: Bayes's theorem is a relationship between the conditional probabilities of two events.
ref: 2011, Allen Downey, Think Stats, O'Reilly, page 56:
text: We have now seen how Bayes' theorem enables us to correctly update a prior probability for some unknown event when we see evidence about the event.
ref: 2013, Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 131:
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
synonyms: Bayes' law
Bayes' rule
glosses: A theorem expressed as an equation that describes the conditional probability of an event or state given prior knowledge of another event.
wikipedia: Pierre-Simon Laplace
Thomas Bayes
Related terms: Bayesian
conditional probability
Laplacean
posterior probability
prior probability
priors
posteriors
CPB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “Because CPB is not a federal agency subject to the President’s authority, but rather a private corporation, we have filed a lawsuit to block these firings,” the corporation said in a statement.
ref: 2025 April 29, Brian Stelter, “Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues Trump over attempted firings”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Communist Party of Britain.
Related terms: PBS
aquacultured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: cultivated using aquaculture
astacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astacins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: astaxanthin
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of endopeptidases containing a motif that binds zinc
Derived terms: ovastacin
disbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disbalances
Etymology: From dis- + balance.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1901, The Living Races of Mankind, New York: C.L. Bowman & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 8, part 3, p. 215,
I may remind the reader that if Southern Tibet were at a lower elevation its climate would be hot, the latitude of Lhassa being given as practically the same (if anything slightly south) as that of Cairo. So that the intense cold is merely produced by the elevation, and the heat of the sun’s rays is intensified by the great clearness of the rarefied air; hence the great disbalances in the temperature, which make the problem of dressing a difficult one.
text: The mismanagement of money can disrupt our technological production by disrupting business transactions, but a proper management of money can not eliminate the disbalance between job seekers and job opportunities that already exists.
ref: 1932, Arthur Dahlberg, chapter 2, in Jobs, Machines, and Capitalism, New York: Macmillan, page 63:
text: A particularly robust intervention will be required if Ireland’s disbalance between Dublin’s primacy and its laggard provincial cities, is to be addressed.
ref: 2016 November 30, Emma Gilleece, “Take the spat out of spatial”, in Village:
glosses: A lack of balance, imbalance.
Derived terms: disbalancement
disbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disbalances
form: disbalancing
form: disbalanced
form: disbalanced
Etymology: From dis- + balance.
Senses: examples: text: Remove all flowers, and pinch back shoots threatening to disbalance or spoil the forms of the plants.
ref: 1867 June, A. Kerr, “Hints on Conservatory Decoration in Autumn”, in The Gardener, a magazine of horticulture and floriculture, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, page 223:
text: c. 1870, Alexander Stewart, A Practical Bible Temperance Commentary, Aberdeen: William Lindsay, p. 74,
The conduct of the Nazarite was virtuous in a two-fold sense. On the one hand, he exemplified the advantages of an abstaining life, and on the other, he symbolically represented separation from immorality which beclouds the intellect and dissipates the will, by totally refraining from that intoxicating principle, which darkens and disbalances reason.
text: For women the menopause can be quite upsetting. When the ovarian productivity declines, the total biochemical controls of the body are affected. Powerful psychological reactions may be even more disbalancing.
ref: 1961, Justin Pikunas, chapter 21, in Psychology of Human Development, New York: McGraw-Hill, page 279:
glosses: To cause to be unbalanced.
euryhalinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From euryhaline + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition (or extent) of being euryhaline
geneticin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aminoglycoside antibiotic that blocks polypeptide synthesis
Agapemone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɡəˈpiːm(ə)ni/
ipa: /aɡəˈpɛm(ə)ni/
Etymology: Irregular formation from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē, “love”) and μονή (monḗ, “abode”).
Senses: examples: text: Four Nottidge sisters fell under the sway of the Agapemone cult, and lived in a commune whose megalomaniac leader forced them to marry his henchmen but forbade consummation of these unions: arguably, they did need rescuing.
ref: 2012, Gillian Tindall, “The Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society”, in Literary Review, section 403:
glosses: The base of a religious sect established in Sussex by the Rev. Henry James Prince in the mid-19th century, or a successor establishment in London, which were associated with free love and polygamy.
examples: text: This whole war was an agapemone…. You went to war when you desired to rape innumerable women. It was what war was for…. All these men, crowded in this narrow space….
ref: 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 397:
glosses: Any community characterised by mutual love or free love.
Derived terms: Agapemonian
Agapemonist
Agapemonite
Related terms: Abode of Love
Princeite
immunocytofluorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + cyto- + fluorescence.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of immunofluorescence to label cells
Related terms: immunocytofluorescent
minimotif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimotifs
Etymology: From mini- + motif.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A short contiguous peptide motif
minimotifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimotif
muscarinergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muscarinergic
form: most muscarinergic
Etymology: From muscarine + -ergic.
Senses: glosses: Producing muscarine
glosses: Functioning in the same way as muscarine
Related terms: muscarinic
osmolarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osmolarity
subsidisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsidisations
Senses: examples: text: [...] it is equally obvious that if the present C.I.E. [Córas Iompair Éireann] system is to be kept - and even C.I.E. appear to favour its retention almost as it now stands - subsidisation in some form is inevitable.
ref: 1964 January, L. Hyland, “The railways of Ireland in 1963”, in Modern Railways, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of subsidization.
tetramerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetramerisations
Etymology: From tetramer + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetramerization.
nephewly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nephewly
form: most nephewly
Etymology: From nephew + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Before committing that nephewly act, I would have had her call on you with me that I might apologize for my seeming rudeness, and we would have asked you to complete our little party."
ref: 1918, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Miss Livingston's Nephew:
text: “Fair enough,” Charlie said and, as Isabel came into the kitchen he added, in a bonhomous, nephewly voice, “Tea's ready, Aunt Isabel. And cake. Sit down, do.”
ref: 1984, Hilary Bailey, All the Days of My Life:
text: Wasting no nephewly tears, he dashed off an "insider" book about the murder and used the resulting money and fame to launch himself in the capital [...].
ref: 2012, Claire Harman, “How They Roared”, in Literary Review, section 403:
glosses: Pertaining to a nephew.
Synonyms: nephewish
trifluoroethanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trifluoroethanols
Etymology: From tri- + fluoro- + ethane + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomers of an alcohol formally derived from ethanol by replacing three hydrogen atoms by those of fluorine, but especially 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol
Synonyms: word: TFE
word: trifluoroethyl alcohol
Hyponyms: 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol
Derived terms: word: TFE
Related terms: ethane
ethanol
fluoroethane
fluoroethanol
trifluoroethane
trifluoro
crim con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crim. con..
crim. con.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crim con
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: examples: text: And then he had good looks;—that point was carried
Nem. con. amongst the women, which I grieve
To say leads oft to crim. con. with the married—
A case which to the juries we may leave.
ref: 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, XV.84:
text: In fact, it was not unknown for husbands and wives to collude in the wife's adultery, either to collect a large crim. con. settlement or to secure a divorce.
ref: 1999, Kirsten Olsen, Daily Life in 18th Century England:
text: If she was unfaithful, a civil action for ‘crim con’ could be brought by her husband to assert his property rights over her and obtaion financial redress for infringement of them.
ref: 2012, Catherine Peters, “Feminist Fatale”, in Literary Review, section 403:
topics: law
glosses: Criminal conversation.
criminal conversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It then charged the defendant, William Atkinſon, with having ſeduced the plaintiff's wife, and with having had criminal converſation with her.
ref: 1789, Adultery: The Trial of Mr. William Atkinson, Linen-Draper, of Cheapside for Criminal Conversation with Mrs. Conner, page 1:
text: Gentlemen of the Jury, This is an action for a compensation by damages, in consequence of a criminal conversation with the Plaintiff's wife, the circumstances of which are more serious and more painful than any I ever met with.
ref: 1809, The Trial of the Right Honorable Lord Paget, for Criminal Conversation with Lady Charlotte Wellesley, page 28:
text: The main object now was not necessarily to punish or even to prevent immorality, but to improve the law of divorce and to restrict private suits for ‘criminal conversation’.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 77:
topics: law
glosses: Unlawful sexual intercourse with a married person; adultery; a common law tort arising from adultery, abolished in many jurisdictions.
Synonyms: crim. con.
Related terms: alienation of affections
breach of promise
wit-cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wit-crackers
form: witcracker
Senses: examples: text: DON PEDRO. How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?
BENEDICK. I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannout flout me out of my humour.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
glosses: One who makes jests; a joker.
Related terms: crack wise
keykeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keykeepers
Etymology: From key + keeper.
Senses: glosses: The holder of a key.
Synonyms: keyholder
keykeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keykeeper
aneugen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aneugens
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An aneugenic agent.
chlozolinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An oxazole fungicide ethyl 3-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-5-methyl-2,4-dioxo-5-oxazolidinecarboxylate
corticomedullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + medullary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or joining, the renal medulla and cortex.
-ometer
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -meter.
cystathionase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cystathionine + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of cystathionine into cysteine
deactylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of deacetylase.
deoxygenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxygenases
Etymology: From de- + oxygenase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes a deoxygenation reaction
Derived terms: dideoxygenase
deparaffination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + paraffin + -ation.
Senses: glosses: deparaffinization
deparaffinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + paraffin + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The removal of paraffin wax from slides prior to staining
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: The removal of paraffin and ceresin from petroleum products
star pickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star picket
tirocinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrocinium
Etymology: From Latin tirocinium (“first military campaign; raw recruit; inexperience; first attempt”), from tīro (“beginner, recruit, novice”) + -cinor (“forming verbs: to be a ...”) + -ium (“forming nouns: the state of ...”), used in the title of William Cowper's 1784 poem on schools Tirocinium, or A Review of Schools. Doublet of tyrociny.
Senses: glosses: Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.
wikipedia: William Cowper
FGF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FGFs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of fibroblast growth factor.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of fresh gas flow.
mediastine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediastines
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: mediastinum
mediastines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediastine
syenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syenite
paleophytology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeophytology
Etymology: From paleo- + phytology.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of paleobotany
synonyms: word: paleobotany
palaeophytology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleophytology.
paleopolyploidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleopolyploidizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeopolyploidization.
paleopolyploidizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleopolyploidization
antimateriel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + materiel.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Targeting materiel.
petiolary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petiole + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of petiolar.
Derived terms: interpetiolary
sollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sollars
Etymology: From Old French soler, solier, from Latin solarium (“a terrace or flat roof”), from sol (“sun”).
Senses: glosses: A solar, or garret room.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.
sollar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sollars
form: sollaring
form: sollared
form: sollared
Etymology: From Old French soler, solier, from Latin solarium (“a terrace or flat roof”), from sol (“sun”).
Senses: glosses: To cover, or provide with, a sollar.
sollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sollar
spelican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spelicans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spilikin.
spelicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spelican
nanocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocarbons
Etymology: From nano- + carbon.
Senses: glosses: A carbon-based material whose constituents are of nanoscale dimensions, or which is produced by nanotechnology.