cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
embounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embound
embounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embound
embounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embound
detensioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detension
detensions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detension
detensioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detension
tenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teno- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The diagnostic imaging of tendons.
bursography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From burso- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The diagnostic imaging of the bursa.
bursographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to bursography.
tenographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to tenography.
trichopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tricho- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Any disease of the hair.
St. Hubert's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Saint Hubertus or Hubert (c. 656–727) was traditionally called upon to cure rabies through the use of "Saint Hubert's Key".
Senses: glosses: rabies
wikipedia: Saint Hubert's Key
chicken-heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken-hearts
Senses: glosses: A cowardly person.
Related terms: chicken-hearted
chicken-hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken-heart
anarkids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anarkid
select vestry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: select vestries
Senses: glosses: A board consisting of representatives of the ratepayers, as opposed to the common vestry or assembly of all the ratepayers.
select vestries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of select vestry
per saltum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: At a single leap; all at once.
per mensem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: monthly; by the month
salt of wormwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: potassium carbonate
saltishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more saltishly
form: most saltishly
Etymology: From saltish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a saltish manner.
salt junk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: old horse
topics: naval
navy
military
war
government
politics
glosses: Hard salt beef used as food on board ship.
pixie-led
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pixy-led.
Turkey stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkey stones
Senses: glosses: A turquoise.
synonyms: Turkey hone
glosses: Novaculite, a kind of oilstone brought from Turkey and used for whetstones.
Turkey stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkey stone
work the hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works the hole
form: working the hole
form: worked the hole
form: worked the hole
Senses: glosses: To rob drunks on the subway.
calequestrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of calsequestrin.
calomodulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of calmodulin.
canniniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of caniniform.
carbacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of carbocyclic.
conlanging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnlaŋɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌlæŋɪŋ/
Etymology: From conlang + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The field, then, is open to re-examination, and the recent phenomenon of conlanging is evidence that the art of inventing languages is neither lunatic nor infantile.
ref: 2000, Sarah L. Higley, “Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG: Inventing Languages on the Internet”, in M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, volume 3, number 1:
text: The personalization of language allowed by conlanging is what draws many conlangers to the hobby.
ref: 2012 October 31, Laura Wright, “UT Language Creation Society invites students to learn origins of newer languages”, in The Daily Texan, Austin, Tex.: Texas Student Media, University of Texas at Austin, published 8 April 2013, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020:
text: Should that be a factor in determining whether conlanging is an art form or some other kind of practice?
ref: 2015 September 29, David J. Peterson, The Art of Language Invention, →ISBN, page 260:
text: This period also saw the further development of conlanging as an art form, most notably by JRR Tolkien, setting the stage for the current era of conlanging, discussed in Section 2.5, where conlanging's status as art and even as a profession has been solidified.
ref: 2020 August 12, “A Primer on Constructed Languages”, in Jeffrey Punske, Nathan Sanders, Amy V. Fountain, editors, Language invention in Linguistics Pedagogy, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: gerund of conlang: the creation of conlangs (constructed languages).
conlanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnlaŋɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌlæŋɪŋ/
Etymology: From conlang + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conlang
sprayey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sprayier
form: sprayiest
Etymology: From spray + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: […] the open sea, whose blue bounding waters, lashed by the innumerable oars, spread in a sprayey path for a mile behind them.
ref: 1865, The Dublin University Magazine:
glosses: Full of spray.
examples: text: Their unsuspicious temper makes them not over careful in concealing their nest, it being built on a sprayey part of a horizontal branch of a tree, about 8 ft. or 10 ft. from the ground.
ref: 1832, Magazine of Natural History:
glosses: Branching.
satin paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satin papers
Senses: glosses: A fine, glossy writing paper.
satin papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satin paper
pennable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnəbəl
Etymology: From pen + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be written.
glosses: Able to be confined in a pen.
Derived terms: unpennable
cyclarthrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + arthrosis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A joint that can pivot, moving with a circular or rotating articulation.
working up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work up
unputrefied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unputrefied
form: most unputrefied
Etymology: From un- + putrefied.
Senses: glosses: Not putrefied.
cantharidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Composed of cantharides.
Phanariot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phanariots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Phanariote.
Jambite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jambites
form: jambite
Etymology: From JAMB + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: So Pamela was the much talked about new Jambite. She had been the talk of the campus since he arrived, but he hadn't had the opportunity of asking for her name from his friends who told him about her.
ref: 1993, Funmilayo Adegbite, Bonds of Destiny, page 48:
text: They first met when Tina was a Jambite and had just arrived on the Ife campus and Frankie was a final year student.
ref: 1997, Gbadebo Adeniyi, Barbwire, page 70:
text: I'm a 300 level law student and you're just a fucking Jambite and....
ref: 2013, Justin Udie, Campus Nightmares, →ISBN:
glosses: A first-year student at university; freshman.
Jambites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jambite
jambite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jambites
Senses: examples: text: And I doubt if any jambite can get his legitimate space now because of lateness.
ref: 2002, Chinedu Ogoke, Under fire: a novel, page 25:
text: Chike thought, "If I would get married some day, it would be to no one else but this jambite by my side. So help me God!"
ref: 2003, Pat Ade Ayebola, Love Strokes:
text: 'Stop talking like a jambite!' Uyi said, laughing at his friend's comparison.
ref: 2014, Eunice Sampson, The Distance Too Far, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jambite.
jambites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jambite
morsicatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin morusus (“bite”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A lesion of the oral mucosa (the inside of the cheek) caused by friction, as in repetitive biting or chewing.
arabicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arabicises
form: arabicising
form: arabicised
form: arabicised
Etymology: From Arabic + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: ... its name was arabicised into Bihrasīr ; while the other one in Kirmān was arabicised into Bardashīr.
ref: 1930, Journal of the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute - Issues 17-24, page 94:
text: ... these importations, continued by the successors of this prince and by the Mertnid dynasty, soon drove the Berber element into the mountains or absorbed and arabicised it.
ref: 1936, Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, René Basset, The encyclopaedia of Islām, page 590:
text: Despite the many problems a large part of cultural life was arabicised, including primary and secondary education and many arts faculties in universities, broacasting on radio and TV, new items in cinemas, public signs and the judicial system. But, all of these achievements notwithstanding, the centres of power and administration remained French-dominated.
ref: 2013, Yasir Suleiman, Arabic Sociolinguistics: Issues and Perspectives, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: To make Arabic, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
arabicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arabicise
arabicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arabicise
arabicised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arabicised
form: most arabicised
Etymology: From arabicise + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made Arabic, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style
Synonyms: arabized
arabicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From arabicise + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arabicise
headchair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headchairs
Etymology: From head + chair.
Senses: examples: text: I desire to be understood'as disclaimin g the broad features, first, of making a railway headchair with bearing-cheeks of different heights, one for the flange and the other for the tread of a car-wheel, whereby, in passing over theswitch on either the main or the side track rail, the wheel will have bearing upon respective cheek of the chair; and, second, of providing such side bearings with detachable wearing surfaces, either inclined, plane, or grooved.
ref: 1878, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office:
text: The defendant's roadmaster testified that the flanges of the car wheels would constantly wear the blocking until it got beyond their reach; that frequently the blocking was split the same day that it was put in; and that in the course of two or three days the blocking would be worn down, through its entire length, so that its surface would be practically level with the headchair, which was two inches below the surface of the rail, and an inch and a quarter below the bottom of the head of the rail.
ref: 1895, Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan:
topics: railways
transport
glosses: Part of a block switch on a railway line that the ends of the moveable rails rest on, and to which the stationary rails are attached.
headchairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headchair
prolicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolicide
opara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opara
Etymology: Borrowing from Igbo
Senses: examples: text: Since the opara was the rightful successor to his father, and more or less inherited his father's political and religious functions upon his death, sending him to school, where he became ipso facto a Christian convert, meant that when his ...
ref: 1980, Umoja - Volume 4, Issue 3, page 23:
text: He summoned all the opara (the first sons) of each family in the clan.
ref: 1991, John E. Eberegbulam Njoku, Short Stories of the Traditional People of Nigeria, →ISBN:
text: Many mothers would give an arm and a leg to have an opara like me.
ref: 2009, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, →ISBN:
glosses: The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died.
scarehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛə(ɹ)hɛd/
Forms: form: scareheads
Etymology: Clipping of scare + headline
Senses: examples: text: If then he makes a scarehead of it, and gets in three columns of space and as many photographs, it is his just reward.
ref: 1910, Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat:
text: 1925, Sidney Coe Howard, They Knew What They Wanted (Doubleday, Page and Company), Act III, page 134.
Joe sits on the porch rail outside the window perusing the scareheads of an I. W. W. paper.
text: For sound reasons of literary structure, the Eta Bita Pies had their temporary setbacks, but over the closing scene there always rang out triumphantly that grand, old anthem: "Oh, you've got to be an Eta Bita Pie Or you won't get a scarehead when you die!"
ref: 1952, The Beta Theta Pi, volume 79, number 2, page 271:
text: News, here, is what does not stay news, but is reified into undeviating headlines: the stilldamp neat row of boxes which in the paper's natural order had no scarehead, containing, since there was nothing new in them since time began, likewise no alarm: —that corssection out of timespace as though of a lightray caught by a speed lens for a seconds fraction between infinity and furious and trivial dust:
ref: 2017, Julian Murphet, Faulkner's Media Romance, →ISBN, page 219:
glosses: An alarming or sensational headline.
scarehead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛə(ɹ)hɛd/
Forms: form: scareheads
form: scareheading
form: scareheaded
form: scareheaded
form: scare-head
Etymology: Clipping of scare + headline
Senses: examples: text: As soon as my dead body is found the newspapers will want to know why I did it. I'll tell them. And they may scarehead it as much as they like.
ref: 1923, ???, “The Young Man Who Wanted to Die”, in Weird Tales^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Weird_Tales_v01n01_(1923-03).djvu/136), page 135:
glosses: To write an alarming or sensational headline about.
scareheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarehead
scare-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scare-heads
Senses: examples: text: The scare-head editor of the interviewing paper, looking through his man's copy for suitable prey, came across my admission.
ref: 2012, Arnold Bennett, Your United States Impressions of a first visit, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of scarehead.
scare-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scare-head
schedulee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schedulees
Etymology: From schedule + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: ...the Secretary has declared forfeited and caused to be sold many town lots for payments in default of which the present holders, purchasers from original schedulees, had no notice of amounts declared delinquent, having failed to file in the office of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes any record of the transfer of ownership, of which the commissioner keeps only a record of the original schedulees to whom notices of S K-61-2— Vol 3 41 default were sent.
ref: 1910, Congressional Edition - Volume 5584, page 51:
text: Withers and the clinic director's husband, Ron Tetreau, go over the list of the morning's appointments to verify that all schedulees have arrived.
ref: 1989, Fidelity - Volume 9, page 17:
text: Being impartial will build up a scheduler's credibility and win trust from schedulees; being consistent will help set up a credible standard; being flexible will gain the scheduler a balanced position among different variables; being collegial will ensure that all the communication channels are open to facilitate the working relationship; being diplomatic will assist the scheduler in working through difficulties and conflicts; while being devoted will forge a high sense of responsibility.
ref: 1997, Celia Hales-Mabry, Philosophies of Reference Service, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: One who has been scheduled.
schedulees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schedulee
scheduleds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scheduled
mythopoeist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythopoeists
Senses: glosses: A myth-maker.
mythopoeists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythopoeist
fish louse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish lice
form: fishlouse
Etymology: From fish + louse.
Senses: glosses: Any aquatic crustacean which is a parasite of fish, typically attached to the skin or gills
Certain members of class Copepoda.
glosses: Any aquatic crustacean which is a parasite of fish, typically attached to the skin or gills
Synonym of carp louse (family Argulidae)
synonyms: word: carp louse
extra: family Argulidae
fish lice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish louse
fish scrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish scraps
Senses: glosses: Fish, or their skins, from which oil or glue has been extracted.
fish scraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish scrap
fish-fag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-fags
Senses: glosses: A woman who sells fish.
fish-fags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish-fag
DYJHIW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of don't you just hate it when...?.
anchor ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchor rings
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A torus.
anchor rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchor ring
pseudoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Reversed perception of depth.
Related terms: pseudoscope
pseudoscopic
pseudoscules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoscule
cold without
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ellipsis of cold water, without sugar.
Senses: examples: text: If A. E. B. should assert that a glass of “cold without,” because, by those accustomed to indulge in such potations, it was understood to mean “brandy and cold water, without sugar,” was really a draught from some “well of purest English undefil’d,” the confusion of ideas could not be more complete.
ref: 1850 June 15, Samuel Hickson, “[Notes.] Further Notes on Derivation of the Word ‘News.’”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc., volume II, number 36 (6 July 1850), London: George Bell, […], published 1851, page 82, column 1:
glosses: Brandy with cold water and no sugar.
puparial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːˈpɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /pjuˈpɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to a puparium.
pupoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pupoid
form: most pupoid
Etymology: From pupa + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a pupa.
pupiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pupiform
form: most pupiform
Etymology: From pupa + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a pupa.
twilighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twilight
twilighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twilight
mompreneurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mumpreneurship.
mumpreneurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mumpreneur + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a mumpreneur.
dadpreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dadpreneurs
Etymology: From dad + -preneur, modelled on earlier mumpreneur/mompreneur.
Senses: glosses: A father who works as a business entrepreneur in addition to his family commitments.
dadpreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dadpreneur
explosive gelatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of explosive gelatin.
explosive gelatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A powerful explosive made by gently heating nitroglycerin in a water-bath, then dissolving guncotton in it.
purfly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purfly
form: most purfly
Etymology: From purfle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!
ref: 1832 May, Thomas Carlyle, “[James] Boswell’s Life of [Samuel] Johnson”, in R[alph] W[aldo] E[merson], editor, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, published 1839, →OCLC, page 147:
synonyms: word: bewrinkled
word: rugose
word: wrinkly
word: bewrinkled
word: creased
word: crinkly
word: purfly
word: pruny
word: rimpled
word: rouched
word: ruckly
word: rugate
word: rugose
word: rugous
word: rumpled
word: wrinkled
word: wrinklesome
word: wrinkly
word: writhled
word: wurlie
word: wurly
glosses: Wrinkled.
Thargelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θαργήλια (Thargḗlia).
Senses: glosses: One of the chief Athenian festivals in honour of the Delian Apollo and Artemis, held on their birthdays, the 6th and 7th of the month Thargelion (about May 24 and 25).
sciagrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciagraphers
Etymology: From sciagraphy + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who studies how to draw shadows accurately.
glosses: A radiographer.
glosses: A maker of sundials.
sciagraphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciagrapher
use and wont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Customary practice.
consolatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consolatorily
form: most consolatorily
Etymology: From consolatory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It required an effort to be perfectly composed, at a simily which I imagine has never been used in the Greek language since the days of Medea; but I cast down my eyes, and said consolatorily, “It is difficult to do justice to such men as Pericles and Polus.”
ref: 1836, Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia, volume 1, London: Saunders and Otley, page 167:
text: 2004, Veronica Buckley, Christina, Queen of Sweden, London: Fourth Estate, Part 1, “The Little Queen,” pp. 39-40,
Of the younger Oxenstierna brother, Gabriel Gustavsson, now High Steward, she writes that he was well liked and well spoken, but in the natural way of the Swedes, without the burden of much erudition, since he had “only a smattering of Latin.” But he was, she adds consolatorily, “a very good man.”
glosses: In a consolatory manner.
Synonyms: comfortingly
consolingly
valvated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more valvated
form: most valvated
Senses: glosses: Synonym of valvate.
synonyms: word: valvate
cross-battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-batteries
Etymology: From cross- + battery.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The use of information from multiple batteries of tests in order to guide diagnostic decisions and to gain a fuller picture of an individual.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A pair of batteries commanding the same spot from different directions.
cross-batteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-battery
clotured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cloture
cloturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cloture
ancress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancresses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of anchoress (“female anchorite”).
ankress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ankresses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of anchoress (“female anchorite”).
ancresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancress
ankresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ankress
carboxamidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carboxamidates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or complex of a carboxamide
carboxamidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carboxamidates
form: carboxamidating
form: carboxamidated
form: carboxamidated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To react with a carboxamide
carboxamidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboxamidate
carboxamidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carboxamidate
carboxamidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carboxamidate
carinogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of carcinogenesis.
glosses: Misspelling of cariogenesis.
cellopentose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cellopentaose.
cephaloprothorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephaloprothoraxes
form: cephaloprothoraces
Etymology: From cephalo- + prothorax.
Senses: glosses: The fused head and prothorax of spiders and crustaceans
chelative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or producing chelation
cholestenoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from a cholestene
Derived terms: cholestenoic acid
ciguatoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ciguatoxins
Related terms: ciguatoxicity
circumabdominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + abdominal.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the abdomen (typically, of an insect)
clonogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From clonogenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a clonogenic manner
coherentization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coherentizations
Etymology: From coherent + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: conversion to a coherent form
softscaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of softscape
softscaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of softscape
coherentizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coherentization
coimmunize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coimmunizes
form: coimmunizing
form: coimmunized
form: coimmunized
Etymology: From co- + immunize.
Senses: glosses: To immunize against two diseases
Related terms: coimmunization
coimmunization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coimmunizations
Etymology: From co- + immunization.
Senses: glosses: immunization against two diseases
Related terms: coimmunize
coimmunizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coimmunize
coimmunized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coimmunize
Middle States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Middle States
Senses: glosses: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
coimmunizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coimmunization
coimmunolocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coimmunolocalizations
Etymology: From co- + immunolocalization.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The simultaneous immunolocalization of two species
collagenisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collagenisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of collagenization.
comodulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comodulators
Etymology: From co- + modulator.
Senses: glosses: Anything that comodulates
comodulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comodulator
congenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of congenic.
419er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 419ers
Senses: examples: text: The black paint had washed off, leaving gleaming dollar notes behind. Only the first row of notes in the trunk box were real. The rest were old newspapers, painted black and cut to dollar size. Pray tell, who was that 419er who first thought up these serpentine scams?
ref: 2009, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, →ISBN:
text: A child of a popular 419er or a popular drug dealer or member of the mafia is very vulnerable and suffers social abuse; at school, teachers and fellow students call them names, knowing the source of their parents' wealth.
ref: 2011, The Man Who Forgave God, →ISBN:
text: As the examples of the drug smuggler who returned to Nigeria after a long prison sentence in the United States and the 419er who failed in his bid to become governor suggest, the fate of a criminal in Nigerian society depends a lot on how much money he has and how he spends it.
ref: 2017, Daniel Jordan Smith, To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of 419 scammer.
419ers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 419er
counterinduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterinductions
Etymology: From counter- + induction.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The opposite process to induction (creation of a specific example of a general principle)
roving reel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roving reels
Senses: glosses: A device for measuring a hank of yarn.
roving reels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roving reel
herb Peter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The cowslip or primrose.
herb trinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The pansy.
glosses: The hepatica.
hard metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hard, white, brittle alloy of two parts of copper with one of tin, used in the production of gunmetal.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, metal.
Jeddart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jethart
Senses: glosses: The town of Jedburgh.
Derived terms: Jeddart axe
Jeddart justice
Jeddart staff
Jeddart staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jeddart staffs
form: Jeddart staves
Senses: glosses: A Jedburgh staff.
Jeddart staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jeddart staff
Jeddart staves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jeddart staff
repletively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repletively
form: most repletively
Etymology: From repletive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a repletive manner.
with the skin of one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of by the skin of one's teeth.
synonyms: word: by the skin of one's teeth
straw stem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw stems
Senses: glosses: The fine stem of a wine glass pulled out from the material of the bowl, instead of being attached separately.
glosses: A wine glass having this kind of stem.
straw stems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straw stem
put someone in a false position
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone in a false position
form: putting someone in a false position
form: put someone in a false position
form: put someone in a false position
Senses: glosses: To bring someone into a situation where they are sure to be misunderstood by others.
pulp engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulp engines
Etymology: From pulp + engine.
Senses: glosses: A machine for converting rags etc. into pulp.
pulp engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulp engine
pulmonotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulmonotoxic
form: most pulmonotoxic
Etymology: From pulmono- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: toxic to the lungs
unrapt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrapt
form: most unrapt
Etymology: From un- + rapt.
Senses: glosses: Not rapt.
crenator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crenators
Etymology: From crenatus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any anionic amphipath that inserts itself into the outer layer of a lipid bilayer to form a convex curvature
crenators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crenator
cryoconites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryoconite
Enshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈʃiː/
enpr: ǔnʹshûʹ
Forms: form: Enshih
form: En-shih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 恩施 (Ēnshī).
Senses: examples: text: The line was strung above China’s so-called Grand Canyon, located in Enshi Prefecture in Hubei Province. It is a remote spot, rarely visited by tourists and unexplored even by experienced climbers or other extreme-sport athletes.
ref: 2012 April 26, Mark McDonald, “A Man on a Wire Above China’s ‘Grand Canyon’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2022:
glosses: An autonomous prefecture of Hubei, China.
examples: text: The attack occurred around 8 a.m. on the first day of the semester at the school in Chaoyangpo village of Enshi city in Hubei Province, the local police said.
ref: 2019 September 3, Amy Qin, “Attack at School in China Leaves at Least 8 Children Dead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2019, Asia Pacific:
text: "You have no idea! I was already up around 4 am. I felt so good. My kids are so excited. Mum is finally coming home," said Hao Mei, a 39-year-old single mother rushing to nearby Enshi to see her young children for the first time in two months.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Wuhan exodus sparks virus hope despite mounting death toll”, in France 24, sourced from Wuhan (China) (AFP), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2020:
glosses: A county-level city of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
cryodenervation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryodenervations
Etymology: From cryo- + denervation.
Senses: examples: text: To those who respond to local anesthetic injections with reduction in pain, cryodenervations can be offered as an adjunct to comprehensive physical therapy and rehabilitation.
ref: 2001, Steven D. Waldman, Interventional Pain Management, page 235:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Denervation by the application of low temperatures.
cryodessicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cryodesiccator.
cryodesiccator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryodesiccators
Etymology: From cryo- + desiccator.
Senses: glosses: A device used in cryodesiccation
cryoimmunological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryo- + immunological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to low-temperature immunology
Related terms: cryoimmunology
cryoimmunotherapy
cryoimmunology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + immunology.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: low-temperature immunology
Related terms: cryoimmune
cryoimmunological
cryoimmunotherapy
cryptodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptodonts
Senses: glosses: Any bivalve mollusc of the subclass Cryptodonta
cryptodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptodont
cryptodontian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptodontians
Senses: glosses: Any dicynodont therapsid of the clade Cryptodontia
cryptodontians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptodontian
cyanovirin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanovirins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of virucidal proteins present in some cyanobacteria
cyanovirins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanovirin
cytohistochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + histochemical.
Senses: glosses: cytological and histochemical; relating to cytohistochemistry
superfractals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superfractal
portmanteaued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: portmanteau'd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of portmanteau
portmanteauing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of portmanteau
frozen food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frozen foods
Senses: glosses: Food that is frozen to preserve it, usually being purchased in a frozen state and kept in a freezer before use.
Rommany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rommanies
form: Rommany
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Romani.
Rommanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rommany
crown agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown agents
Senses: glosses: The principal legal adviser to the Lord Advocate on prosecution matters.
crown agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown agent
prosecution association
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosecution associations
Senses: glosses: An organization of citizens, typically in the same community, who paid dues to cover one another's costs of privately prosecuting offenders should a crime be committed against them.
prosecution associations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosecution association
clearing nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearing nuts
Senses: glosses: The seed of the tree Strychnos potatorum, traditionally used for purifying muddy water.
clearing nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearing nut
hash run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hash runs
Senses: synonyms: hash
glosses: A sort of paperchase organised by the Hash House Harriers.
hash runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hash run
afper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afpers
Etymology: Initialism of alt.fan.pratchett + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of the alt.fan.pratchett newsgroup, for fans of the author Terry Pratchett.
Related terms: affzer
asher
motsser
Pratchett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: afper
Pratchettian
shadow stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow stitches
Senses: glosses: A very delicate kind of ladder stitch used in fine openwork.
shadow stitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow stitch
inclearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclearings
form: in-clearing
Etymology: From in + clearing.
Senses: topics: business
finance
antonyms: outclearing
glosses: The total amount in cheques and bills of exchange chargeable to a bank by the clearing house.
inclearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inclearing
bucket rendering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The rendering of a graphical scene in a number of portions ("buckets") that can be assigned to different processors to take advantage of parallelism.
party-spirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more party-spirited
form: most party-spirited
Etymology: From party spirit + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting party spirit.
ceraunite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceraunites
Etymology: Ultimately Ancient Greek κεραυνός (keraunós, “thunderbolt”) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A belemnite.
ceraunites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceraunite
calcarenitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calcarenitic
form: most calcarenitic
Etymology: From calcarenite + -ic.
Senses: examples: a calcarenitic limestone
glosses: Of or relating to calcarenite.
belemnitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belemnitic
form: most belemnitic
Etymology: From belemnite + -ic.
Senses: examples: a belemnitic limestone
glosses: Of or relating to belemnite.
Schumpeter's gale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The principle of creative destruction; the obsolescence of existing products due to the introduction of new products.
wikipedia: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph Schumpeter
Related terms: innovator's dilemma
Schumpeter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Schumpeteresque
Schumpeterian
Schumpeterianism
Schumpeter's gale
decaglycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deca- + glycine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligopeptide composed of ten glycine residues
demihorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demihorns
Etymology: From demi- + horn.
Senses: glosses: Either of two nasal processes that fused to form the horn of some dinosaurs
demihorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demihorn
deneddylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deneddylate
derecruitment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + recruitment.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The failure of the lungs to be fully aerated, typically as a result of closure of an airway, and especially in the setting of ARDS.
Related terms: derecruit
desorptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing desorption
desulfates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desulfate
desulfating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desulfate
digenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + genomic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Derived from two genomes
dimethyldiselenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organoselenium compound CH₃SeSeCH₃
diplococcic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to diplococcus
discohesiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discohesive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being discohesive
discoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discoid
leerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leeries
Senses: examples: text: Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea,
And my papa’s a banker and as rich as he can be;
But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I’m to do,
O Leerie, I’ll go round at night and light the lamps with you!
ref: 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lamplighter:
glosses: a lamplighter
glosses: the light of a lamp, candle, etc.; a lamp
disfunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dysfunctional.
ductoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ductoscopies
Etymology: From duct + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic examination of the mammary ducts
Related terms: ductoscope
ductoscopic
ductoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ductoscopy
dysvascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to vascular disease or malfunction
Related terms: dysvascularity
eartip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eartips
form: ear-tip
form: ear tip
Senses: glosses: The tip of the external ear.
glosses: A small earpiece or earplug.
examples: text: The shape of the nozzle prevents the use of aftermarket eartips.
synonyms: tip
glosses: The part of an earbud that contours to the ear canal.
examples: text: a cat with an eartip
translation: a cat that has had the tip of an ear removed
english: a cat that has had the tip of an ear removed
synonyms: eartipping
glosses: The removal of the tip of a cat's ear, done to indicate that the cat has been fixed.
eartip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eartips
form: eartipping
form: eartipped
form: eartipped
form: ear-tip
form: ear tip
Senses: glosses: To remove the tip of a cat's ear, in order to indicate that the cat has been fixed.
eartips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eartip
ectomycorhizal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ectomycorrhizal.
efrapeptin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efrapeptins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of insecticidal peptides present in Tolypocladium
efrapeptins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of efrapeptin
electrogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electro- + -genically.
Senses: glosses: In an electrogenic manner
electroneuromyographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electroneuromyography + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electroneuromyography
electropharmacological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + pharmacological.
Senses: glosses: electrical and pharmacological
electrotomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + tomography.
Senses: glosses: electromagnetic tomography
Related terms: electrotomographic
endoxyloglucan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoxyloglucans
Etymology: From endo- + xyloglucan.
Senses: glosses: endocellular xyloglucan
endoxyloglucans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoxyloglucan
enteromyxosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease, typically of fish, caused by infection with parasites of the class Enteromyxum
enterotoxogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enterotoxigenic.
episammic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of epipsammic.
euhalophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euhalophytes
Etymology: From eu- + halophyte.
Senses: glosses: Any halophyte that can tolerate the greatest salinity
euhalophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euhalophyte
exocentered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + centered.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exocentric.