cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anticonglomerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonglomerate
form: most anticonglomerate
Etymology: From anti- + conglomerate.
Senses: glosses: Opposing a conglomerate.
anticlericalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticlericalists
Etymology: From anti- + clerical + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of anticlericalism.
anticlericalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticlericalist
antiassimilation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiassimilation
form: most antiassimilation
Etymology: From anti- + assimilation.
Senses: glosses: Opposing assimilation.
antiadrenergics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiadrenergic
antiacademics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiacademic
sneaksman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneaksmen
Etymology: From sneak + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The “Cadgers,” again, are to the class of cheats what the “Sneaksmen” are to the thieves, the lowest of all, being the least distinguished for those characteristics which mark the other members of the same body. As the “Sneaksmen” are the least daring and expert of all the thieves, so are the “Cadgers” the least intellectual and cunning of all the cheats.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: A thief who operates by stealth.
sneaksmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneaksman
empty as a pauper's purse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: empty as the tomb on Easter
word: empty
word: empty as a pauper's purse
word: empty as the tomb on Easter
word: clean
word: leer
word: toom
word: unfilled
word: vacant
word: vacuumlike
word: vacuous
word: void
qualifier: simile
glosses: Completely empty.
unswabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + swabbed.
Senses: glosses: Not swabbed.
beatsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beatsmen
Etymology: From beat + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Police authorities are similarly aware that motor cars and wireless and infra-red photography and photo-telegraphy will not avail in the crime war without the familiar, slow-moving beatsman as the broad base of the whole organisation.
ref: 1948, The Spectator, volume 180, page 730:
glosses: A policeman who walks the beat.
Synonyms: beat cop
beatsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beatsman
hyperfemininity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperfemininities
Etymology: From hyper- + femininity.
Senses: examples: text: Femceldom represents a sort of self-constructed exile, a dark, rotting core beneath the soft frills of hyperfemininity.
ref: 2024, Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn, “The return of the femcel”, in The Griffith Review:
glosses: The condition of being extremely feminine; excessive femininity.
anthropophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthropophobic
form: most anthropophobic
Etymology: From anthropo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Disliking human beings.
anthropophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropophobics
Etymology: From anthropo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: One who dislikes human beings.
anthropophobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropophobic
anthropophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropophobes
Etymology: From anthropo- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: One who dislikes human beings.
anthropophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropophobe
hyperfemininities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperfemininity
forefix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forefixes
form: forefixing
form: forefixed
form: forefixed
Etymology: From fore- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: It pleased the Father of mercies in his matchless wisdom and boundless goodness, to will the existence of Sin, and graciously to decree, and immutably forefix the fall of his creatures, [...]
ref: 1836, John Benson, The revival and rejection of an old traditional heresy ... or, The doctrine of God decreeing all sin examined and refuted:
text: Yea, thou art forefixing the verdict of the Judgment-seat of God.
ref: 1890, Robert T. Jeffrey, The Salvation of the Gospel: A Series of Discourses - Page 409:
text: It can't be doubted that the Powers above / Forefix some unions in the bonds of love.
ref: 1891, William B. Felts, Hernarne: A Comedy - Page 3:
glosses: To fix or secure in advance
forefix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forefixes
Etymology: From fore- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: Here they placed the forefix dia to enarmosis and called this condition a di-enarmosis, This projection of the upper jaw might amount to a few millimetres or more.
ref: 1897, Dental Record: A Monthly Journal of Dental Science Art and Literature, Volume 17
text: [...] a rebuke to Merrygreek's rude mode of speech: to have an M under one's girdle = to use a respectful forefix (Mr., Mrs., &c.) when addressing or mentioning a person.
ref: 1906, Nicholas Udall, The Dramatic Writings of Nicholas Udall - Page 128:
text: The attributive adjective has no particular forefix, as the noun has.
ref: 1985, Bruno Novelli, A Grammar of the Karimojong Language - Page 59:
glosses: A prefix (all senses)
hypermasculinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypermasculinity
forefixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forefix
anthropographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to anthropography.
anthropocentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anthropocentrically
form: most anthropocentrically
Etymology: From anthropocentric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anthropocentric manner.
anthropocentricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthropocentric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being anthropocentric.
anthomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthomaniac
anisogametes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anisogamete
anhydrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhydrite
unexpansive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexpansive
form: most unexpansive
Etymology: From un- + expansive.
Senses: glosses: Not expansive.
angiosarcomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiosarcoma
anemographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anemographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of anemography.
androgenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of androgenize
androgenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of androgenize
Rasennae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Rasennae; see Rasenna for more.
Senses: examples: text: The soldiers could get wives across the river among the Rasennae.
ref: 1922, Children of Ancient Rome, page 198
glosses: Alternative form of Rasenna (“the Etruscans, collectively”).
anchovetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchovettas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anchoveta.
anchovettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchovetta
anchovetas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchoveta
anarchosyndicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anarcho-syndicalism.
anarchise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anarchises
form: anarchising
form: anarchised
form: anarchised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anarchize.
anarchised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anarchise
anarchises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anarchise
anarchising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anarchise
analyzabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analyzability
analyticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From analytical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being analytical.
anacreontically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anacreontically
form: most anacreontically
Etymology: From anacreontic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anacreontic manner.
anacoluthically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anacoluthic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anacoluthic manner.
anachronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anachronic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anachronic manner.
amphiploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphiploid
amphidiploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being amphidiploid.
amperzand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amperzands
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ampersand.
amperzands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amperzand
amoxycillins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoxycillin
amitryptyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of amitriptyline.
amitotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From amitotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of amitosis.
aminotriazoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminotriazole
aminophyllines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminophylline
amboina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amboinas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amboyna.
amboinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amboina
ambushable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ambush + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being ambushed.
ambuscaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambuscader
amelioratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amelioratory
form: most amelioratory
Etymology: From ameliorate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Serving to ameliorate or improve.
ameliorants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ameliorant
heebies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heebie-jeebies.
synonyms: word: heebie-jeebies
apoliticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apolitical + -ity
Senses: glosses: The quality of being apolitical.
aplombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aplomb
aplanospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aplanospore
apanaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apanage
apanaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apanage
appanaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appanage
appanaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appanage
apartmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From apartment + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to apartment buildings.
unhelping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhelping
form: most unhelping
Etymology: From un- + helping.
Senses: glosses: unhelpful
apathetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apathetical
form: most apathetical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of apathetic.
synonyms: word: apathetic
apagogically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From apagogic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an apagogic manner.
fixless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fixless
form: most fixless
Etymology: From fix + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And oft upon yon craggy mount, Where threat'ning cliffs hang high, Have I observ'd him stop to count With fixless stare the sky.
ref: 1813, Washington Allston, The sylphs of the seasons: with other poems - Page 167:
text: Two essential elements to public acceptance of the meters are : (1) the use of "fixless" traffic tags, issued in quadruplicate and excused only by the municipal court; and (2) maintenance of the meters in first class operating condition at all times.
ref: 1939, Western Construction - Volume 14 - Page 335
text: The fixless algorithm increments by integer parameter n both the less fields of those ancestors or (pointer parameter) node p which have p as a left-descendant, and the size of the tree. Integer n may be negative, as after a deletion.
ref: 1984, James Pirie Hart, A Lagrangian Relaxation and Branch-and-bound Procedure for Solving Problems with Workload Balancing Constraints:
glosses: Without a fix (attachment, repair, predicament, etc.); unfixed
antischizophrenia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + schizophrenia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antischizophrenic.
synonyms: word: antischizophrenic
antirecessionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + recessionary.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antirecession.
synonyms: word: antirecession
antipollutionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipollutionists
Senses: synonyms: antipolluter
glosses: An opponent of pollution.
antipollutionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipollutionist
antievolutionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + evolutionism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to the theory of evolution.
antidesegregation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidesegregation
form: most antidesegregation
Etymology: From anti- + desegregation.
Senses: glosses: Opposing desegregation.
apothegmatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apothegmatises
form: apothegmatising
form: apothegmatised
form: apothegmatised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apothegmatize.
apothegmatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apothegmatise
apothegmatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apothegmatise
apothegmatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apothegmatise
applewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applewomen
Etymology: From apple + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who sells apples.
applewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applewoman
apriorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apriorists
Etymology: From a priori + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Durkheim took from the apriorists a conception of human categories but infused that notion with social history.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A believer in apriorism.
apriorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apriorist
aquaphobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquaphobic
aquariist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquariists
Senses: glosses: One who keeps fish in an aquarium.
aquariists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquariist
aquicultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aquacultural.
aquicultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquiculture
aquiculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquiculturist
aquifoliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Aquifoliaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging to the Aquifoliaceae.
aquilinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquilinities
Etymology: From aquiline + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: These idols, though representing the softer sex as often as the masculine, were by no means remarkable for personal beauty. Not one had been permitted to retain its entire complement of limbs, and if a lady had managed to preserve the aquilinity of her nose, she might consider herself a fortunate exception.
ref: 1866, James Payn, chapter 2, in The Clyffards of Clyffe,, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 24:
text: Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles.
ref: 1933, John Galsworthy, chapter 5, in Over the River, Toronto: The Ryerson Press, page 32:
text: […] & so it came to pass that, on the same week Sissee Nar’s nose was Enhanced into eternal aquilinity, Nar & Tri-Stan’s much-ballyhooed Satyr-Nymph Network was born & licensed for analog broadcast.
ref: 1999, David Foster Wallace, “Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Boston: Little, Brown:
synonyms: aquilineness
glosses: The quality of being aquiline (resembling an eagle).
aquilinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquilinity
arabesks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabesk
araponga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arapongas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese araponga, from Old Tupi gûyrapunga.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bare-throated bellbird (Procnias nudicollis)
synonyms: word: bare-throated bellbird
extra: Procnias nudicollis
arapongas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of araponga
Kaelynn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 20th-century coinage.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Kaylyn.
arapunga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arapungas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of araponga.
arapungas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arapunga
archaeometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to archaeometry.
Derived terms: bioarchaeometric
archeologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archeology
archidiaconate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archidiaconates
Etymology: From archi- + diaconate.
Senses: glosses: archdeaconry
archidiaconates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archidiaconate
archontates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archontate
arhatship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arhat + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being an arhat.
Synonyms: arhathood
unlax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlæks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: unlaxes
form: unlaxing
form: unlaxed
form: unlaxed
Etymology: Blend of unwind + relax?
Senses: examples: text: Episode or segment titled "Check and double check (Don't hold your breath, unlax)." (ref. "Black Radio: Telling it Like it Was", Indiana University Archive, Collector's No. BROS0429, Shelf No. cass 1696; http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=VAC0316 retrieved 2017-02-09)
ref: 1926, Amos 'n' Andy:
text: Inside the dollhouse they unlaxed and had a drink.
ref: 2003, Alice Denham, My Darling from the Lions, page 164:
text: “Unlax, Doc. Remember when Phil was having that squirrel problem with his cedar siding? The little bastards ate a couple of holes in his eaves and built a nest in his attic. I'm just going to ask him if he still has that problem, Sam.”
ref: 2010, Harrison Lee Rodebaugh, Gently Into The Night, page 60:
text: There's one neighborhood tavern where the regulars and irregulars go after a hard day to unlax and rewind, throw back a few, and just hang out - you know the one.
ref: 2015, Brian Cook, Hands Across The Sea, page 190:
glosses: To relax.
unlaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlax
unlaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlax
unlaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlax
arraignings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arraigning
arrivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arrivisme.
arsenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arsenic
artificialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of artificialise
artificialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of artificialise
artisanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artisanship
ascared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ascared
form: most ascared
Etymology: From a- + scared.
Senses: examples: text: "I can beat every kid in this place," he proclaimed, "and they're all ascared of me." He used his belt to beat the ranch animals and his fists to knock down or threaten other boys, even if they were bigger than he was.
ref: 1952, LIFE, volume 33, number 22, page 121:
glosses: scared; afraid
aschelminths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aschelminth
ashcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ashcake
anapeiratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Anapeiratic paralyses are those due to excessive use of certain muscles.
ref: 1895, Maryland Medical Journal - Volume 32, page 471:
text: "It is," said Dr. Buccom, " what Dr. Hammond terms anapeiratic paralysis, where the organs most used are the ones affected, such as writer's or telegrapher's paralysis."
ref: 1888, John Chester, Ruth, the Christian Scientist: Or, The New Hygeia, page 290:
text: A somewhat randydandy in the past I came by the usual passes and frenzies and anapeiratic fatigue to that final pass and found myself in harness with a woman for whom, the long and lively honeymoon over, I not only had no desire but had also no patience, neither, even experiencing (a luxury for Riley) a positive sexual aversion.
ref: 1970, Maurice Duggan, O'Leary's orchard and other stories, page 167:
glosses: Caused by prolonged exercise of a muscle.
asexualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asexuality
ashiver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈʃɪvɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvɚ
Etymology: From a- + shiver.
Senses: examples: text: Father Christmas, behold, all ashiver with cold,
But the parent of blessings too vast to be told;
ref: 1865, Henry Alford, “The Seasons: A Masque”, in The Poetical Works of Henry Alford, London: Alexander Strahan, page 337:
text: The wind that sets the yellowed grass ashiver ’neath the Sun.
ref: 1908, Rudyard Kipling, Letters to the Family, Toronto: Macmillan, Letter 6, p. 47:
text: He walked in the direction of Rooble’s, his lips ashiver with the shibboleths of the pious, thanking Allah for the loan of breath, life and soul; praying that Allah, the Prophets and the Saints would stay him during these most tempting hours.
ref: 1983, Nuruddin Farah, Close Sesame, London: Allison & Busby, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 97:
text: The pipal tree — of course! She stared at its massive trunk, pale in the moonlight, and the sinuous branches and twigs silvery and ashiver […]
ref: 2001, Anita Desai, “The Rooftop Dwellers”, in Diamond Dust and Other Stories, New York: Vintage, page 186:
synonyms: aquiver
atremble
glosses: Shivering.
asepticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asepticises
form: asepticising
form: asepticised
form: asepticised
Etymology: From aseptic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asepticize.
asepticised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asepticise
asepticises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asepticise
asepticising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asepticise
askoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of askos
askos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: askoi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀσκός (askós, “tube”): a modern name for this kind of vessel. Doublet of ascus.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek pottery vessel used to pour small quantities of liquids such as oil.
Related terms: ascon
asconoid
ascus
aspersively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aspersively
form: most aspersively
Etymology: From aspersive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an aspersive manner.
asphalters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asphalter
asrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asramas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ashrama.
asramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asrama
bursts into flame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burst into flame
assailments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assailment
bursting into flames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burst into flames
burst into flames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bursts into flames
form: bursting into flames
form: burst into flames
form: burst into flames
Senses: examples: text: People on their way to work / And baby, what do you expect? / Gonna burst into flames
ref: 1983, Talking Heads, “Burning Down the House”, in Speaking in Tongues:
glosses: Alternative form of burst into flame.
assorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assorters
Etymology: From assort + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who assorts, or arranges by class or category.
assorters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assorter
jassendar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jassendars
form: jachendar
Senses: glosses: A person employed to sort cloth made by weavers based on its quality.
jassendars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jassendar
gumasta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumastas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gomashta.
gumashta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumashtas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gomashta.
gomasta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gomastas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gomashta.
gomastas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gomasta
gumastas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumasta
gumashtas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumashta
gomushta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gomushtas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gomashta.
gumusta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumustas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gomashta.
gomushtas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gomushta
gumustas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumusta
Gallicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A trade name.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, Gallicide, being a liquid, may be added at any point […]
ref: 1950, L. D. Post, Paper Mill News: News Magazine of the Paper and Pulp Industry, volume 73, page 12:
text: For the control of slime-forming bacteria, slug additions of organo-mercurials (Gallicide, Puratized SC or PMA) and Preventol GDC (a dichlorodiphenyl compound) will prove effective.
ref: 1952, Institute of Paper Chemistry, Abstract Bulletin, volume 23, Wisconsin: Appleton, page 668:
text: […] phenylmercurymonoethal-ammonium acetate (sold under the trade name of Gallicide).
ref: 1952, James P. Casey, “Pulping and Papermaking”, in Pulp and Paper: Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Interscience Publishers, page 688:
glosses: The chemical phenylmercury monoethanolammonium acetate, used for the control of slime-forming bacteria in pulp and paper mills.
jachendar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jachendars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jassendar.
jachendars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jachendar
astrodynamicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrodynamicists
Etymology: From astrodynamic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies astrodynamics.
astrodynamicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrodynamicist
astronomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: astronomises
form: astronomising
form: astronomised
form: astronomised
Senses: examples: text: Each loves to sit there and astronomise
The floating specks that swim before his eyes […]
ref: 1931, Roy Campbell, The Georgiad:
text: We were incompetent to map the country we passed through, to chart the waters, to geologise, botanise, zoologise, astronomise, or to any other ise.
ref: 1906, James Barr, Laughing through a wilderness, page 261:
glosses: Alternative form of astronomize.
astronomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of astronomise
astronomises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of astronomise
astronomising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of astronomise
swimming bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swimming baths
Senses: glosses: A public swimming pool.
swimming baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swimming bath
aswim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈswɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology: From a- + swim.
Senses: examples: text: The mules […] were alternately aswim and walking, the length of our team constituting our greatest safety; for when the wheel mules would be out of their depth, the lead and middle ones might not be over knee-deep, and vice versâ,
ref: 1851, William Kelly, chapter 8, in An Excursion to California,, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 138:
text: […] his mind was aswim with imagined conspiracies;
ref: 1988, Peter Carey, chapter 30, in Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, page 120:
text: […] he looked to our own Greek diet—our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads […]
ref: 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book 3, p. 287:
text: By this generous, almost communistic imagery, we are all aswim in the same great gene pool, or fishers from the river of human perpetuity. If my line comes up empty, perhaps you will share your catch with me.
ref: 2014, Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Revised and Updated):
glosses: Swimming or immersed (in or with something).
examples: text: eyes aswim with tears
glosses: Brimming with liquid.
anapnea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναπνέω (anapnéō, “to breathe (again)”).
Senses: examples: text: Patients with anapnea-hypopnea index (AHI) of greater than ten events per hour were selected for this study.
ref: 1997, Kazuo Chin, Masashi Hirai, Takanobu Kuriyama, Motonari Fukui, Kenshi Kuno, Yanosuke Sagawa, Motoharu Ohi, “Changes in the arterial PCO₂ during a Single Night's Sleep in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.”, in Internal medicine, volume 36, number 7:
text: Arrest of anapnea or heartbeat happened in 2 cases.
ref: 2005 February, Xu Hong-zhen, Bai Lin, “Aspiration of gastric contents in pediatric anaesthesia: analysis of 49 cases”, in Chongqing Medical Journal:
text: The anapnea, circulation, cerebral state index (CSI) and the Observer Assessment of Alertness/Sedation(OAA/S) score were assessed in 60 patients with abdominal operation patients, who underwent propofol and remifentanil target controlled infusion (TCI).
ref: 2008 August, Zhang Jing, Chen Yong-liang, Chao Ji-hong, et al., “Coadministration of propofol and remifentanil eliminates awareness during continuous epidural anesthesia in patients undergoing operation”, in Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resumption of breathing after a period of halted respiration.
athrill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈθɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology: From a- + thrill.
Senses: examples: text: […] an unfrequented path which lay still in the April sunshine, the lilac bushes standing up on each side all athrill and rustling with the spring,
ref: 1884, Margaret Oliphant, chapter 8, in Sir Tom, volume 3, London: Macmillan, page 121:
text: As Anne would have said at one time, it was “an epoch of her life,” and she was deliciously athrill with excitement of it.
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 33, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston: L.C. Page, page 371:
text: the passion of sublime emotion which seemed to set every living force in his body athrill
ref: 1926, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 10, in The Black Hunter, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation:
glosses: Thrilled, feeling a thrill; trembling or vibrating (with an emotion, movement, etc.).
atmosphered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From atmosphere + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a specified kind of atmosphere.
atonicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atonicities
Etymology: From atonic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Gross Anatomical — in the form of contractures, atonicities, hypertrophies, hyperplasms, atrophies, fatty infiltrations, tumors, etc.
ref: 1940, Carter Harrison Downing, Simplified Spinal Technique, page 3:
glosses: The property of being atonic.
attemptability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attempt + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being attemptable.
attorneydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attorney + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of attorneys.
anastasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anastasis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Early depictions were anastasic, the empty cross symbolizing the resurrection and hiding the manner of Jesus' death.
ref: 2005 September, Rita Nakashima Brock, “Communities of the Cross: Christa and the Communal Nature of Redemption”, in Feminist Theology, volume 14, number 1:
text: The event to which Paul is faithful (“subject to” and a loving “subject of”) is in fact a scissiparous one, at once anastasic and apocalyptic, incarnate and excarnate, physical and metaphysical, now-here and no-where (topos and outopos).
ref: 2008 Autumn, Dan Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, “Paulitics”, in Symposium, volume 12, number 2:
text: Universality has its provenance in the absolute singularity of this death-destroying anastasic moment at the impossible interface between time and eternity.
ref: 2015, Carl Raschke, Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to resurrection.
attuitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From attuition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to attuition.
autarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autarch
authoriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authorisers
Etymology: From authorise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of authorizer.
authorisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of authoriser
authoritarianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of authoritarianism
automan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automen
Etymology: From auto + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man involved in automobile manufacture.
automen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automan
autosexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + sexing.
Senses: glosses: The identification of the sex of newborn chicks by their physical appearance, possible with certain breeds of poultry.
autosexing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + sexing.
Senses: glosses: Identifiable in this manner.
autotimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotimers
Etymology: From auto- + timer.
Senses: examples: text: Not all the early autotimers were easy to use: one owner awoke at 3.00 am on Christmas morning to smell his turkey cooked and ready for eating twelve hours too soon!
ref: 1981, Anthony Byers, Centenary of Service: A History of Electricity in the Home, page 29:
text: On December 7, 1941, a California surfer named Don James set the autotimer on his camera and took a photo of himself and two friends standing with their boards in front of a rented bungalow […]
ref: 2011, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 87:
glosses: An automatic timer.
autotimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autotimer
Aubrianna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
autotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autotype
autotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autotype
autotomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From autotomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to autotomy.
avengingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more avengingly
form: most avengingly
Etymology: From avenging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In mercy ye skies to my woes,
Let your thunders avengingly roll,
And death kindly hush to repose
The Etna that bursts on my soul.
ref: 1764, anonymous author, “The Fair Penitant”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 34, page 540:
text: The remembrance of the engagement that I had broken came back on me avengingly […]
ref: 1852, Wilkie Collins, chapter 8, in Basil, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 139:
text: His cheeks grew tight with fury at the thought that he had just been duped into humiliation by a man who was almost the same age as he was and still only a captain, and he swung upon the chaplain avengingly with a look of such murderous antagonism that the chaplain began to tremble.
ref: 1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 19, in Catch-22, New York: Dell, published 1962, page 196:
glosses: So as to avenge.
avidest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of avid: most avid
photomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photomatics
Senses: glosses: A series of still photographs edited together and presented on screen in a sequence.
photomatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photomatic
owendaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of awendaw.
awendaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owendaw
Senses: glosses: spoonbread
awkwardish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From awkward + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat awkward.
awners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awner
axoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axoplasm
baaskap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baasskap.
baaskaap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baasskap.
digimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digimatics
Senses: qualifier: film making
glosses: a series of still photographs digitally edited and presented on screen in a sequence
digimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 2007, {unattributed}, GD2 Ganglioside-specific Immunotherapy of Cancer
"The increase in ear thickness was measured using a digimatic caliper (Mitutoyo, 12 13 14 Kawasaki, Japan) at 24, 48 and 72 hr post-challenge."
glosses: that has both mechanical and digital parts
digimatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digimatic
babirousa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babirousas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of babirusa.
babirousas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babirousa
overfix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfixes
form: overfixing
form: overfixed
form: overfixed
Etymology: From over- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: Caution dictated a strategy not to "overfix" the dilemma of slavery, whose future was not clear and whose capacity to sow discontent was high.
ref: 1998, Mark E. Brandon, Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure:
text: It is better to overfix rather than underfix.
ref: 2008, K. H. Andy Choo, In Situ Hybridization Protocols - Page 328:
glosses: To fix exceedingly or excessively; fix beyond what is required
underfix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underfixes
form: underfixing
form: underfixed
form: underfixed
Etymology: From under- + fix.
Senses: glosses: To fix inadequately, or below what is required or expected
backchain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backchains
form: backchaining
form: backchained
form: backchained
Etymology: From back + chain.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.
backchained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backchain
backchains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backchain
backchaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backchain
bacillicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacillicide
backspacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backspacers
Etymology: From backspace + -er.
Senses: examples: text: All have automatic backspacers and shift keys, and some have special devices for controlling touch pressure, and special mechanisms for expansion of space between the cylinder roller and the platen when doing multiple copy work.
ref: 1968, Herbert Webster Johnson, William G. Savage, Administrative office management, page 121:
glosses: A mechanism in a typewriter that controls backspacing.
backspacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backspacer
backswordman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backswordmen
Etymology: From backsword + -man.
Senses: glosses: One who fights with a backsword or singlestick.
backswordmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backswordman
faggot marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faggot marriages
Senses: examples: text: There really isn't a tuppence worth of difference between a straight marriage and a faggot marriage. There's no difference at all. The only difference is you don't breed - thank God.
ref: 1982, Charles Silverstein, Man to Man: Gay Couples in America, Quill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 232:
text: "I will under no circumstances permit a faggot marriage in this county," the judge told The NEWS, pointing out that Indiana law prohibits marriage between two men or two women.
ref: 1988 December 13, Weekly World News, Weekly World News, Weekly World News, →ISSN Invalid ISSN:
text: This Government destroys Christian marriages while encouraging faggot marriages. So .... We do as we must in the battle and stand before God in Christ's righteousness and liberty, though I would be proud to be Eileen's husband legally, and would love to be using my last name.
ref: 1995 March 24, Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn, The Breathing Dead and Cement Children (Phoenix journal), Phoenix Source Distributors, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: Synonym of gay marriage.
synonyms: word: gay marriage
unomitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + omitted.
Senses: glosses: not omitted
Guantánamo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Guantanamo.
un-omitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unomitted.
bailiffship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bailiffships
Etymology: From bailiff + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a bailiff.
bailiffships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bailiffship
balefullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of baleful: most baleful
balefulest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of baleful: most baleful
balibuntals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balibuntal
ballpens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballpen
banefullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of baneful: most baneful
banefulest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of baneful: most baneful
banqueteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banqueteers
Etymology: From banquet + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: The dinner and the soiree too were done,
The supper too discuss’d, the dames admired,
The banqueteers had dropp’d off one by one—
The song was silent, and the dance expired:
ref: 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XVI:
text: The banqueteers forsook their scented alcoves, and men of all stations withdrew from the outlying sectors […]
ref: 1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 101, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
text: After a trumpet had given the starting sign each banqueteer tried to empty his jug as fast as possible, which must have been quite a feat, since a jug contained about three liters of wine!
ref: 1983, Jan N. Bremmer, The Early Greek Concept of the Soul, Princeton University Press, page 112:
glosses: One who attends a banquet.
Synonyms: banqueter
banquetgoer
feaster
banqueteer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: banqueteers
form: banqueteering
form: banqueteered
form: banqueteered
Etymology: From banquet + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: I had been banqueteering and making speeches two or three times in every week for six months […]
ref: 1907, Mark Twain, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3, Oakland: University of California Press, published 2015, page 189:
glosses: To attend a banquet or banquets (particularly as a frequent or habitual activity).
Derived terms: banqueteering
banqueteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banqueteer
banqueteers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of banqueteer
barazas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baraza
bardcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bard + -craft.
Senses: glosses: The poetic arts of a bard.
bariatricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bariatrician
barndoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barndoor
barodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baro- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to barodynamics.
barodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baro- + dynamics.
Senses: glosses: The science of the support and mechanics of bridges.
barracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrackers
Etymology: From barrack + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who barracks.
barrackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barracker
barristership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barristerships
Etymology: From barrister + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a barrister.
barristerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barristership
baryspheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barysphere
bashawship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bashaw + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a bashaw.
basqued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basque + -ed.
Senses: examples: a basqued bodice
glosses: Having a basque.
bathcube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathcubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bath cube.