cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lasallians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lasallian
Little Italy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood.
Derived terms: NoLIta
moletronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to moletronics.
moletronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of molecular + electronics
Senses: glosses: molecular electronics
newsflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsflow
overcrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcrow
overcrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcrow
overcrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcrow
Unix weenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Unix weenies
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Unix system manager.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person enamored of Unix.
Pelusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pelusian
form: most Pelusian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pelusium, an ancient city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile delta.
Pelusian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pelusians
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Pelusium.
Pelusians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pelusian
permissivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permissivists
Etymology: From permissive + -ist.
Senses: topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A supporter of permissivism.
examples: text: The general strategy of the permissivists is to represent all opponents of their outlook as favoring a punitive approach to the treatment and prevention of narcotic addiction.
ref: 1966, United States. Congress. House, Hearings, volume 8, page 249:
glosses: One who holds permissive views.
permissivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From permissive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, permissivism.
permissivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permissivist
decision problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decision problems
Senses: examples: text: The problem "given two numbers x and y, does x evenly divide y?" is a decision problem.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A question in some formal system with a yes-or-no answer, depending on the values of input parameters.
Related terms: decidability
decision problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decision problem
Smartha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Smarthas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Smarta.
Smarthas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Smartha
Smarta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Smartas
form: Smārta
form: Smartha
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit स्मार्त (smārta), an adjective derived from स्मृति (smṛti, “thinking, remembrance, related to memory”). Compare Smriti.
Senses: glosses: A follower of the Smartha Tradition, a denomination of the Vedic Hindu religion that accepts all major Hindu deities as forms of the one Brahman.
Derived terms: Smartism
Smartas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Smarta
Thammuz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tammuz (deity).
tamaraus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamarau
tamaraos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamarao
tamaraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamaraw
between-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: between-times
form: between time
Etymology: From between + time.
Senses: examples: text: Sade therefore calls the pure time of suspended history marking an epoch a revolutionary regime; it is the time of the between-times where, between the old laws and the new, there reigns the silence of the absence of laws, an interval that corresponds precisely to the suspension of speech […]
ref: 1993, Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation:
text: In the case of the time of the event, by contrast, It is no longer time which is between two instants; it is the event which is a between-time [entre-temps, "meanwhile, meantime"]: the between-time is not of the eternal, but it is no longer (of) time, it is (of) becoming.
ref: 1994, Ronald Bogue, Mihai Spariosu, The Play of the Self:
text: It relates to a recurrence in the dead time or the between-time separating inspiration and expiration, the diastole and systole of the heart beating softly against the lining of one's own skin.
ref: 1996, Emmanuel Lévinas, Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak, Simon Critchley, Emmanuel Lévinas:
text: Freedom itself ages; it is not eternal, though perhaps it brings us to a border between time and eternity. Ethical selving is in the between time, the interim of the aging of freedom. Freedom, of course, seems the catch cry of modernity.
ref: 2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between:
text: Turning to the between regressions, the elasticity on fixed capital is particularly high (0.63) in the between-time […] The between-time estimate of capital of agricultural origin is significantly positive, though more modest in value (0.25).
ref: 2012, Keith O. Fuglie, V. Eldon Ball, Sun Ling Wang, Productivity Growth in Agriculture:
glosses: The period or time between two events; interim; meantime; meanwhile.
Synonyms: interim
Related terms: intermission
pause
break
female-assigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: White believes that female-assigned trans people can support the work of her organization […]
ref: 2007, Z magazine, volume 20, numbers 1-6, page 20:
text: […] a world much more complex than one divided into female-assigned women and male-assigned men.
ref: 2009, Eli Clare, Dean Spade, Exile & Pride: disability, queerness & liberation, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Judged at birth to be female.
Synonyms: AFAB
Coordinate terms: male-assigned
male-assigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] a world much more complex than one divided into female-assigned women and male-assigned men.
ref: 2009, Eli Clare, Dean Spade, Exile & Pride: disability, queerness & liberation, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: Judged at birth to be male.
Synonyms: AMAB
Coordinate terms: female-assigned
longyi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑnd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈloʊnd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈlɒnd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: longyi
form: longyis
Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese လုံချည် (lumhkyany), from Hindi लुंगी (luṅgī).
Senses: examples: text: During our conversation, he sat erect and cross-legged on a raised platform, wearing a longyi.
ref: 2008 September, Robert D. Kaplan, “Lifting the Bamboo Curtain”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A sarong-like garment worn around the waist.
Synonyms: lungi
longyis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longyi
golazos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golazo
transfemale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + female.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:transfemale.
glosses: Alternative form of trans female.
transfemale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfemales
Etymology: From trans- + female.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:transfemale.
glosses: Alternative form of trans female.
cis female
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cisfemale
form: cis-female
Senses: glosses: Being biologically female and identifying as female; being a cisgender female.
raw_tags: of a person
Coordinate terms: cis male
Related terms: cis
cissexual
cisgender
cis female
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cis females
form: cisfemale
form: cis-female
Senses: glosses: A cisgender female; a cis girl or cis woman.
Related terms: trans female
cis male
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cismale
form: cis-male
Senses: glosses: Being biologically male and identifying as male; being a cisgender male.
raw_tags: of a person
Coordinate terms: cis female
Related terms: cis
cissexual
cisgender
cis male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cis males
form: cismale
form: cis-male
Senses: glosses: A cisgender male; a cis boy or cis man.
Related terms: trans male
Romagnol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɹoʊməˈnjoʊl/
Etymology: From Romagnol rumagnòl, from the Lombardic name for Romagna.
Senses: glosses: A Gallo-Italic language spoken in central Italy, closely related to Emilian.
glosses: Pigeon breed from Italy.
Synonyms: Romagnolo
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Romagnol terms
genderland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gender + land, perhaps modelled on wonderland.
Senses: examples: ref: 1996, Niela Miller, Counseling in genderland: a guide for you and your transgendered client:
ref: 2003, Cathryn Platine, Cathy's adventure in genderland: cautionary tales for anyone thinking about getting involved in trans-politics or support groups:
text: In the western hemisphere there is a need to date all descriptions concerning diversities in genderland.
ref: 2003, Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, page 226:
ref: 2005, Richard J. Novic, Alice in Genderland: A Crossdresser Comes Of Age, →ISBN:
glosses: An imagined land which is a corporealization of gender stereotypes, transgender issues, etc.
biologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biologizes
form: biologizing
form: biologized
form: biologized
Etymology: From biology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In the "nature vs. nurture" scientific debate, however, those seeking a biological explanation for social phenomena were losing the ideological battle. According to Healey, a political struggle opened up against "biologizing" scientists, charging that to search for the basis of social ills in individual biology was a form of Menshevik idealism.
ref: 2004 October 7, Leslie Feinberg, “Can a homosexual be a member of the Communist Party?”, in Workers World:
text: Most important with regard to the healing capacity of the king's touch, human bodies have the ability to biologize experience. They have the capacity to incorporate or embody events as they are experienced[…]
ref: 2009, Merrill Singer, Introduction to Syndemics, page 139:
text: Consequently, social scientists at turns reify institutions, biologize social categories, anthropomorphize offices, and mentalize corporate groups.
ref: 2011, Edward Slingerland, Mark Collard, Creating Consilience, page 133:
glosses: To make biological; to assimilate into a biological framework or context.
Related terms: biologization
rebiologize
rebiologization
biologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biologize
biologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biologize
biologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biologize
corporealize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: corporealizes
form: corporealizing
form: corporealized
form: corporealized
form: corporealise
Etymology: From corporeal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make corporeal; to give physical form to.
glosses: To come into being.
glosses: To accomplish.
Derived terms: extracorporealize
recorporealize
Related terms: corporealization
corporealisation
corporealise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: corporealises
form: corporealising
form: corporealised
form: corporealised
Etymology: From corporeal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corporealize.
corporealizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corporealize
corporealizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corporealize
corporealized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corporealize
corporealises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corporealise
corporealising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corporealise
corporealised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corporealise
corporealisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporealisations
Etymology: From corporeal + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corporealization.
corporealisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporealisation
corporealization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporealizations
form: corporealisation
Etymology: From corporeal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making corporeal, of giving physical form to.
glosses: The state of having physical form as a result of this process.
glosses: Accomplishment.
Synonyms: reification
entification
corporealizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporealization
syndemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: syndemics
Etymology: Coined by Merrill Singer in the mid-1990s. Blend of synergy + demic (“of a population”). Compare epidemic (literally “upon the people”).
Senses: examples: text: In sum malnutrition, infectious disease, and cognitive impairment constitute a syndemic that is rooted in and perpetuates suboptimal social, political, and economic conditions.
ref: 2009, Elaine Marie Bennett, Understanding Childhood Malnutrition in a Maya Village in Guatemala, page 11:
text: The aggregation of these diseases on a background of social and economic disparity exacerbates the adverse effects of each separate disease. COVID-19 is not a pandemic. It is a syndemic.
ref: 2020 September 26, Richard Horton, “Offline: COVID-19 is not a pandemic”, in The Lancet, volume 396, number 10255, →DOI:
coordinate_terms: epidemic
pandemic
glosses: An aggregation of two or more diseases that interact synergistically within a population.
syndemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: Coined by Merrill Singer in the mid-1990s. Blend of synergy + demic (“of a population”). Compare epidemic (literally “upon the people”).
Senses: examples: text: The syndemic nature of the threat we face means that a more nuanced approach is needed if we are to protect the health of our communities.
ref: 2020 September 26, Richard Horton, “Offline: COVID-19 is not a pandemic”, in The Lancet, volume 396, number 10255, →DOI:
glosses: Describing such a situation
syndemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syndemic
syndesmological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syndesmology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to syndesmology.
synderetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to synderesis.
syndepositionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From syndepositional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a syndepositional fashion; by means of syndeposition.
genderfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of genderfuck
genderfucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of genderfuck
clusterfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clusterfuck
Vistulan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Vistula + -an.
Senses: examples: the Vistulan delta, Vistulan Pomerania
glosses: From, residing or located by, or pertaining to the Vistula.
Vistulan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vistulans
Etymology: From Vistula + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of a medieval West Slavic tribe of Poland's Lesser Poland region.
Synonyms: Vistulanian
Nilean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /naɪ̯lən/
Etymology: From Nile + -an.
Senses: glosses: Nilotic; from, residing or located by, or pertaining to the river Nile.
Nilean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /naɪ̯lən/
Forms: form: Nileans
Etymology: From Nile + -an.
Senses: examples: Nilean farms, Nilean irrigation, Nilean royalty
glosses: An alternative term for South Sudanese people coined by Gordon Muortat Mayen in 1969.
quasicoherent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + coherent.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Belonging to a generalization of coherent sheaves, including the locally free sheaves of infinite rank.
raw_tags: of a sheaf
cosheaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosheaves
Etymology: From co- + sheaf.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The dual of a sheaf.
cosheaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosheaf
deprivals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deprival
deprivatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deprivatization
privatizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From privatize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being privatized.
operative word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operative words
Senses: examples: text: Planes crash rarely, but for the media the operative word is "crash".
glosses: The key word in a sentence.
Yangtzean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Yangtze + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Natural time, social time, remembered time — these are the three kinds of time, the three lenses, through which I will try to view the Yangtzean world.
ref: 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature, History, and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 3:
text: In China, the Yangtzean (or North China) fauna is equivalent to the shelf biofacies including endemic polymeroid ptychoparioids, corynexochids, redlichiids, etc., […]
ref: 1990, Palaeontologia Cathayana, volume 5, page 173:
text: Excepting some outliers — true wildlands, or the Nilotic, Mesopotamian, Yangtzean floodplains — fire and field came to share a mutual geography.
ref: 2001, Stephen J. Pyne, Fire: A Brief History, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Yangtze river.
club steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: club steaks
Senses: glosses: strip steak
club steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of club steak
strip steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strip steak
Gangean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ganges + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Chinese merchants had traded with India and Roman outposts, and Chinese pilgrims had made overland journeys to the Indus and Gangean valleys, often by way of the Oxus and what is now Afghanistan.
ref: 1978, Robert Carver North, The Foreign Relations of China, Duxbury Press, page 10:
text: Careful interpretation of these indicated that the great Pennine River (Fig 13) evolved from a comparatively minor affair early in the Carboniferous to truly Gangean proportions at about the time that the great ice sheets of the southern hemisphere were accumulating about 330 million years ago.
ref: 1993, The University of Leeds Review, volumes 36-37, page 179:
text: In this case, the problem was the Khembalis' little island (fifty-two square kilometers, their website said), which was clearly in all-too-good a location to contribute to ongoing studies of Gangean flooding and tidal storms in the Indian Ocean
ref: 2004, Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain, Spectra, published 2005, →ISBN, pages 118–119:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ganges river.
Synonyms: Gangetic
kyriarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪɹɪˌɑːkl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɪ-/
ipa: /ˈkaɪɹiˌɑɹkl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɪ-/
Etymology: From kyriarchy + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Kyriarchal pyramidal political and social systems are evident in modern society and are stratified by social categories such as gender, class, age, race, and socioeconomic status and result in dominance and superiority and subordination and inferiority (Schüssler Fiorenza, 2005).
ref: 2023, David L. Blustein, Lisa Y. Flores, editors, Rethinking Work: Essays on Building a Better Workplace, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Relating to kyriarchy.
Derived terms: kyriarchally
shagaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shagaholics
Etymology: From shag (“to have sexual intercourse with”) + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: You young 'uns might not believe this, but Michael Caine burst on to the screen as a bona fide sex symbol thanks to Alfie, about a Cockney shagaholic who made the most of the Swinging '60s.
ref: 1999 June 29, “Pianist Steve Koven and the Steve Koven Trio perform at the Downtown Jazz Festival”, in Toronto Star:
text: Myers may still be having fun with his shagaholic spy, as well as the rest of the characters he plays, but he's the only one still laughing.
ref: 2002 December 12, Alison Kerr, “Videos”, in The Herald, Glasgow:
text: "I suppose in some ways I was a shagaholic," [Roger Daltrey] says, chewing on a fig from a fruit platter. "I just liked female company on the road."
ref: 2008 December 7, David Segal, “The Kennedy Center Honors: Roger Daltrey & Pete Townshend”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A person who is addicted to sex.
Synonyms: sexaholic
Orinocan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Orinoco + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Industrial capitalism certainly turns over more calories per capita than does the economy of the Yanamamo of the Orinocan rain forest, […]
ref: 2002, Joseph Fracchia, R. C. Lewontin, “Does Culture Evolve?”, in Philip Pomper, David Gary Shaw, editors, The Return of Science: Evolution, History, and Theory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 246:
text: Our vantage point provides incredible views of the Orinocan jungle stretching out to the horizon, a vast carpet of green life that some describe as the earths' verdant lungs.
ref: 2003, Tim O'Neill, “The Tree of Life”, in The American Alpine Journal: 2003, →ISBN, page 83:
text: These peoples, who for Chanlatte Baik and Narganes Storde were more closely related to Andean societies than to those from the Orinocan corridor, were called by them the "Huecoides."
ref: 2005, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, “The Crab-Shell Dichotomy Revisited: The Lithics Speak Out”, in Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Orinoco river.
urelements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urelement
upwarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upwarp
Euphratean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Euphrates + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Very little is known about it, and there is very little to know, till the limit of Arabia be passed and the Euphratean delta reached.
ref: 1904, David George Hogarth, The Penetration of Arabia: A Record of the Development of Western Knowledge Concerning the Arabian Peninsula, Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 238:
text: To those who would not heed the gently flowing stream of Shiloah he spoke by means of the Euphratean flood.
ref: 1990, F. F. Bruce, The Epistle to the Hebrews, Wm. B. Eardmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Some have viewed the two houses of Judah and Israel "apart like two palms standing solitary and apart on the great Euphratean plain, but they are to be brought near to one another by Ezekiel's ministry, so they will become again as 'one tree.'"
ref: 1998, Daniel I. Block, The Book of Ezekiel: Chapters 25-48, Wm. B. Eardmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 398:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Euphrates river.
foldase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldases
Etymology: From fold + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes protein folding.
Related terms: unfoldase
foldases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foldase
baa-lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baa-lambs
Senses: glosses: A lamb or sheep.
glosses: Someone who is submissive, especially a husband or boyfriend.
undermixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undermix
undermixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undermix
noncoagulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coagulable.
Senses: glosses: Not coagulable.
uncoagulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncoagulable
form: most uncoagulable
Etymology: From un- + coagulable.
Senses: glosses: Not coagulable.
micronational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + national or micronation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: I think when I discovered this republic, which is in Nevada - in one man's house and backyard and front garden - I think I stumbled across what for me really typifies the whole micronational movement.
ref: 2006 November 1, Alex Chadwick, “'Lonely Planet' Explores Micronations”, in NPR, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2025:
glosses: Of or relating to a micronation.
Derived terms: intermicronational
micronational entity
micronationalist
micronational language
micronational leader
micronationally
micronational organisation
ultraviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultravirus
umbrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbrine
axle tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axle teeth
form: axeltooth
form: assiltooth
form: axill tooth
Etymology: From Middle English axyltothe, of North Germanic origin, from axyl, from Old Norse jaxl (“a jaw-tooth, grinder”) + Middle English tothe (“tooth”). Cognate with Scots assletuith, asseltuith (“molar, axletooth”). Compare also Danish axeltand (“molar, axletooth”), Swedish oxeltand (“molar, axletooth”).
Senses: examples: text: […] to loose an axill tooth or an eye, the death of some speciall friend: to dream of bloody teeth, the death of the dreamer […]
ref: 1607, Thomas Walkington, The optick glasse of humors:
text: Many Women would rather endure the Tooth-ach, than their blackness, which not withstanding the Commonalty regard not: yet such a marcour came upon Metrodorus his sons gums, that both his axle teeth, and also his gums, fell out.
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A medicinal dispensatory, translation of original in French:
text: Cynodentes, are those Teeth betwixt the Axel Teeth and the Grinders, called Canini, Columellares, and Oculares, Eye-Teeth, as we say.
ref: 1702, Stephen Blancard, The Physical Dictionary:
text: When the Muscles contract in Length, they swell in Thickness, as may be perceived by laying the Finger upon the Masseter or Muscle of the lower-Jaw, and pressing the Grinders or Axel-teeth together […]
ref: 1738, Henry Bracken, Farriery Improv'd: or, a Compleat treatise upon the art of farriery:
text: The Lamperts in a horse's mouth are known by every person; they are flaps that many do not understand, they are pieces of loose skin that grow in the wicks of their mouths, adjoining the axel teeth, and when they are eating hay or corn, it is apt to get betwixt them, which makes their mouth fore, and they are afraid of eating.
ref: 1790, J. Cundall, The School of Arts; Or New Book of Useful Knowledge:
glosses: A molar tooth; molar.
Synonyms: grinder
wangtooth
shagaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shagaholic
WIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WITs
Senses: topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of waterfowl identification test.
three green
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the green indicator lights on the aircraft panel, one for each wheel or set of wheels.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A confirmation given by the pilots that the landing gear has gone down successfully and has locked.
Weatherby brow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weatherby brows
Senses: examples: text: When the smoke cleared, two more hogs and a Weatherby brow had been added to the day's tally.
ref: 2013, Gary Hall, Sporting Shooter Feb 2103, Yaffa, page 82:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Weatherby eyebrow.
bar-lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar-lambs
Etymology: From baa-lamb, as a pun.
Senses: glosses: A barrister
glosses: A customer at a bar (place that sells alcoholic drinks)
banky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æŋki
Forms: form: more banky
form: most banky
Etymology: From bank + -y.
Senses: glosses: Hilly; sloping.
banky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æŋki
Forms: form: bankies
Etymology: Baby-talk alteration of blanket.
Senses: examples: text: You sound like a little kid wrapped up in his banky watching his favorite t.v. show.
ref: 1998 July 15, Logan7, “Moe's A Joke”, in alt.fan.bob-larson (Usenet):
glosses: A child's blanket.
conkerberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conkerberries
Etymology: Perhaps from Mayi-Kulan / Mayi-Yapi ganggabarri, with the spelling influenced by conker + berry.
Senses: glosses: A large shrub of the dogbane family: Carissa spinarum, the "bush plum".
glosses: The berry of this shrub.
conkerberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conkerberry
beclart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beclarts
form: beclarting
form: beclarted
form: beclarted
Etymology: From Middle English biclarten, equivalent to be- + clart. Cognate with Scots beclairt (“to soil, splash or cover with filth”).
Senses: glosses: To besmear; bedaub; bemire; smear all over with dirt.
Derived terms: beclarted
bead tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bead trees
form: bead-tree
Etymology: Its seeds are used as beads.
Compare Unami manshapiàkw (literally “bead tree”).
Senses: glosses: Melia azedarach, a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree with poisonous fruit, native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.
wikipedia: Uttarakhand
Synonyms: azedarach
chinaberry
white cedar
Persian lilac
pride of China
pride of India
syringa berry
Hypernyms: tree
Related terms: lilac
syringa
sandalwood
Stygian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪd͡ʒiən/
rhymes: -ɪdʒiən
Forms: form: more Stygian
form: most Stygian
Etymology: See stygian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, by or relating to the Plutonian moon named after Styx.
examples: text: Within all was black as the tomb. [...] Feeling before him upon the floor with the butt of his spear, Tarzan entered the Stygian gloom.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 164:
glosses: Alternative form of stygian: dark and gloomy, or infernal and hellish.
Stygian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪd͡ʒiən/
rhymes: -ɪdʒiən
Forms: form: Stygians
Etymology: See stygian.
Senses: examples: text: Stygians – natives of Styx
ref: 1940, Edmond Hamilton, Calling Captain Future, page 55:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of Styx (a moon of Pluto).
euchologion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːkə(ʊ)ˈləʊdʒɪən/
Forms: form: euchologions
form: euchologia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐχολόγιον (eukhológion).
Senses: glosses: A book of prayers or religious ritual.
potassium aluminium sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sulfate double salt of potassium and aluminium KAl(SO₄)₂; occurs naturally as alum
Synonyms: potassium alum
contact print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contact prints
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
synonyms: proof sheet
coordinate_terms: contact sheet
glosses: A print made by exposing the printing paper to light through a negative that is placed directly onto it.
distributaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distributary
Straddie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Stradbroke Island
boat train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat trains
Senses: examples: text: In 1906 the cross-channel service was inaugurated between Fishguard and Rosslare Harbour. For this the Great Southern & Western Railway built two boat trains of corridor stock, with a restaurant car (57½ ft. in length), to run between Rosslare and Cork.
ref: 1943 July and August, “Restaurant-Car Services in Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 210:
text: With extra traffic, numerous boat trains to and from Southampton Docks, and working of empty stock, his job, like that of most signalmen, is no sinecure.
ref: 1954 September, 'South Western', “Shawford Junction Signalbox”, in Railway Magazine, page 604:
text: In January BR were attacked by three of the country's major shipping companies for the poor standards of boat train services run from Tilbury and Southampton Docks.
ref: 1964 March, “News and Comment: Stormy passage for BR boat trains”, in Modern Railways, page 153:
topics: lifestyle
rail-transport
railways
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A travel service with a train timed to arrive at a ferry port in time for the onward travel by ferry (or vice versa). Alternatively, a service scheduled to connect with the arrival or departure of an ocean liner.
buddy movies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buddy movie
buddy film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddy films
form: buddy movie
Senses: glosses: A film where two people of the same sex are paired as the principal characters.
buddy films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buddy film
fanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fangas
Etymology: From Portuguese fanga, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa). Doublet of fanega.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Portuguese dry measure, equal to about 50–75 liters at different places and times.
Coordinate terms: alqueire (1⁄4 fanga)
moio (15 fangas)
noreaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noreasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of northeaster.
noreasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nor'easters plural of noreaster
wongay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wongi
Senses: glosses: Manilkara kauki, a sapotaceous plant with an edible orange-red fruit
Related terms: wongai
befel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of befal
cognisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cognisable
form: most cognisable
Etymology: From cognise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cognizable.
Derived terms: cognisable offence
cognisably
ferulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹəleɪt/
Forms: form: ferulates
Etymology: From ferulic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of ferulic acid
Derived terms: diferulate
ferulated
sodium ferulate
ferulates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferulate
light mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light mills
Etymology: By analogy with windmill and water mill.
Senses: synonyms: Crookes radiometer
glosses: An airtight glass bulb containing a partial vacuum and a set of vanes, mounted on a spindle, which rotate when exposed to light, providing a quantitative measurement of electromagnetic radiation intensity.
light mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light mill
monocoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: monocolored
Etymology: From mono- + coloured.
Senses: glosses: Of a single colour.
monocolored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + colored.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monocoloured.
millitorr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millitorrs
Etymology: From milli- + torr.
Senses: glosses: A unit of pressure equal to one thousandth of a torr. Symbolː mTorr
millitorrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millitorr
kilovoltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilovoltages
Etymology: From kilo- + voltage.
Senses: glosses: A voltage in the region of thousands of volts.
kilovoltages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilovoltage
millivoltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millivoltages
Etymology: From milli- + voltage.
Senses: glosses: A voltage in the region of one thousandth of a volt.
millivoltages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millivoltage
kilounit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilounits
Etymology: From kilo- + unit.
Senses: glosses: A unit equal to one thousand of another unit.
megaunit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaunits
Etymology: From mega- + unit.
Senses: glosses: A unit equal to one million of another unit.
kilounits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilounit
megaunits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaunit
black-jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-jacks
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Sphalerite; zincblende.
glosses: Caramel or burnt sugar, used to colour wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.
glosses: A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
glosses: A water oak or barren oak (Quercus nigra).
qualifier: circa 1700s
glosses: A native African longshoreman or sailor working on a boat.
glosses: A coalfish (Pollachius virens).
glosses: A larva of a sawfly of species Athalia rosae (syns. Athalia centifolia, A. spinarum).
glosses: Alternative form of blackjack.
black-jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-jack
cornutoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornuto
goldware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldwares
Etymology: From gold + -ware.
Senses: synonyms: goldcraft
goldenware
glosses: Anything manufactured from gold.
silverwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silverware
goldwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldware
Muskogean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muskogeans
Senses: glosses: Muskogee
Muskogean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Muskogee
Muskogean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Belonging to a language family spoken in the southeastern United States, consisting of Muscogee, Chickasaw, and others.
Derived terms: Muskogeanist
Muskhogean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muskhogeans
Senses: glosses: Muskogee
Muskhogean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Muskogee
Muskhogean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Muskogee people.
Muskogeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Muskogean
Muskhogeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Muskhogean
spaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaid
backactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backaction
cross-tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-tails
Etymology: From cross- + tail.
Senses: glosses: A bar in a steam engine connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
cross-tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-tail
climacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climacters
Etymology: Compare French climactère.
Senses: glosses: A climacteric (period in life, or critical point).
climacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climacter
spinies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiny
steem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːm
Forms: form: steems
form: stem
Senses: glosses: A gleam of light; a flame.
steem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːm
Forms: form: steems
Etymology: Aphetic form of esteem.
Senses: glosses: Value.
steem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːm
Forms: form: steems
form: steeming
form: steemed
form: steemed
Etymology: Aphetic form of esteem.
Senses: examples: text: His life he steemed dearer than his friend […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To value, esteem.
steems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steem
Dopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doppers
Etymology: From Dutch doper.
Senses: examples: text: This is a Dopper, a she Anabaptist
ref: 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: An Anabaptist or Baptist.
examples: text: His Dopper community of the northeastern districts of the Cape Colony was considered more pious and socially conservative than any other community in the colony.
ref: 2003, Hermann Buhr Giliomee, The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, page 177:
glosses: A member of the Reformed Churches in South Africa, a Calvinistic denomination.
Doppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dopper
Purkinje neuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Purkinje neurons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Purkinje cell.
synonyms: word: Purkinje cell
Purkinje neurons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Purkinje neuron
Purkinje fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Purkinje fibers
form: Purkinje fibre
Etymology: Named after Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869).
Senses: topics: anatomy
cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of a group of fibers in the heart, consisting of specialized cardiomyocytes, that allow the heart's conduction system to create synchronized contractions of its ventricles and thus maintain a consistent rhythm.
Purkinje fibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Purkinje fiber
Purkinje image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Purkinje images
Etymology: Named after Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869).
Senses: synonyms: Purkinje figure
glosses: Any of various reflections of objects within the structure of the eye.
Purkinje images
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Purkinje image
Purkinje shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Purkinje effect
Purkinje effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Purkinje effects
form: Purkyne effect
form: Purkyně effect
Etymology: Named after Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869).
Senses: glosses: The tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the human eye to shift toward the blue end of the spectrum at low illumination levels.
Purkinje fibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Purkinje fibres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Purkinje fiber.
Purkinje fibres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Purkinje fibre
Boerhaave syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First documented by the 18th-century physician Herman Boerhaave.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Rupture of the esophageal wall.
Ukrainianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ukrainianisms
Etymology: From Ukrainian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Ukrainian nationalism.
examples: the presence of Ukrainianisms in Russian
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase characteristic of Ukrainians.
Ukrainianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ukrainianism
biggon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biggons
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of biggin (“hat”).
biggons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biggon
cantel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cantle.
cantels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantel
facilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: facilizes
form: facilizing
form: facilized
form: facilized
form: facilise
Etymology: From facile + -ize, originally after Italian facilitare.
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore in these, it is behooffull not to worke for proper commoditie, but for publike benefit; for that in this maner euery one as interessed, doe agree to effect and facilize the obtaining of that good which is desired.
ref: 1607, Edward Blount, Ars alica: or the courtiers arte, page 2:
glosses: To make something easy; to facilitate.
squir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: squirs
form: squirring
form: squirred
form: squirred
form: squirr
Senses: examples: text: We took a turn or two more, when, to my great surprise, I saw him squir away his watch a considerable way into the Thames
ref: 1711 June 9 (Gregorian calendar), [Eustace Budgell], “TUESDAY, May 29, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 77; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To throw with a jerking motion; to skim.
base on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bases on
form: basing on
form: based on
form: based on
Senses: glosses: To ground (an opinion, a conclusion, etc) on.
glosses: To derive (a work) from.
Synonyms: word: base upon
word: premise
word: base off of
word: bottom on
word: judging by
word: consist in
shapoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shapoos
Etymology: From Tibetan [script needed] (sha-pho).
Senses: glosses: The urial (subspecies of sheep).
shapoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shapoo
punctoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puncto
base upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bases upon
form: basing upon
form: based upon
form: based upon
Senses: glosses: To base on.
colleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colley
bernicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bernicles
Senses: glosses: A barnacle goose.
glosses: A form of torture in which the legs were crushed between pieces of wood.
bernicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bernicle
houss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: housses
form: housse
form: house
Etymology: French housse.
Senses: examples: text: And where man ended, the continued vest,
 Spread on his back, the houss and trappings of a beast.
ref: 1717, John Dryden, “Book XII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A covering, usually of textile (or mail) and attached to a saddle; a saddlecloth.
houss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊs
ipa: /haʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of house (“abode”).
manichords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manichord