cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
obnubilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbˈnjuːbɪlət/
ipa: /ɒbˈnjuːbɪleɪt/
ipa: /ɒbˈnjuːbɪlət/
Forms: form: obnubilates
form: obnubilating
form: obnubilated
form: obnubilated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin obnūbilō, as above.
Senses: examples: text: There is here fine criticism, classic wit, poetic dreaming, and some grains of sound doctrine, but so obnubilated with the fumes of German metaphysics, that we become giddy.
ref: 1832, “Miscellaneous”, in Biblical Repertory and Theological Review, volume IV, page 143:
glosses: To obscure, to shadow.
glosses: To make cloudy.
Derived terms: word: obnubilated
Related terms: obnubilation
obnubilous
overruffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overruff
overruff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overruffs
form: overruffing
form: overruffed
form: overruffed
Etymology: From over- + ruff.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: To ruff with a higher trump following a prior ruff on the same trick.
Synonyms: overtrump
overruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overruffs
Etymology: From over- + ruff.
Senses: examples: text: Declarer eventually lost one heart, two diamonds and the club overruff for plus 110 to win the board and leapfrog his team from third to second.
ref: 2009 January 3, Phillip Alder, “What to Bid Next? That Depends on the Game You’re Playing”, Bridge, in New York Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: An act of overruffing.
overruffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overruff
overruffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overruff
vulvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌlvɪk/
Forms: form: more vulvic
form: most vulvic
Etymology: From vulva + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Shops along the path are selling live clams, indisputably vulvic in appearance.
ref: 1974, Angela Carter, “A Fertility Festival”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 316:
text: As Jeffrey Kripal explains, in Indian culture ‘feet are the sacred meeting point of the human and the divine’, and ‘for the sake of liberation, the yogi ponders in his heart the lotus feet of Kali’, the vulvic goddess.
ref: 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 116:
glosses: Pertaining to the vulva.
overruffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overruff
nonmedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + medical.
Senses: examples: text: nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals
text: All U.S. states allow exemptions for children with medical conditions that prevent them from getting certain vaccines. Most also allow exemptions for religious or other nonmedical reasons.
ref: 2025 February 14, Collin Binkley, “Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccines”, in Associated Press:
glosses: Not of a medical character; not directly involved with medicine.
Derived terms: nonmedically
unmakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + makable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unmakeable.
uberdork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uberdorks
form: überdork
Etymology: From uber- + dork.
Senses: examples: text: By his own admission there is something autistic about this sort of uberdork obsessiveness.
ref: 2003 August 6, Bruce Dessau, “Drinking, Not Drowning”, in Evening Standard:
text: "You got jumped because you're an uberdork."
ref: 2009 January 3, Abby Aguirre, quoting Micah, “Construction Is Just a Job, but Being a Mom? That Work Is Important”, in New York Times:
glosses: An extremely dorky or geekish person
Synonyms: ubergeek
turndown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turndowns
Etymology: Deverbal from turn down
Senses: examples: text: In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.
ref: 2009 January 3, Amy Zipkin, “Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain”, in New York Times:
glosses: A downturn.
glosses: A rejection.
examples: text: Also, the amenities vary between the paradors: almost all that we visited had hairdryers, many had small refrigerators in the room, and some even had bathrobes and turndown service.
ref: 2006, June Eveleigh Brown, Karen Brown, Lorena Aburto Ramirez, Karen Brown's Spain, page 38:
qualifier: hotels
glosses: The service of turning down the bedcovers and often leaving chocolates, etc., on the pillow.
glosses: A downward pointing extension to a vehicle muffler.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The operational range of a device.
turndown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from turn down
Senses: examples: a turndown lamp
glosses: Capable of being turned down, or decreased in intensity.
examples: a turndown collar
glosses: Made to wear with the upper part turned down.
unmakeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmakeable
form: most unmakeable
form: unmakable
Etymology: From un- + make + -able.
Senses: examples: text: an unmakeable shot
text: an unmakeable contract in bridge
glosses: Unable to be made (in various senses)
uberdorks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uberdork
turndowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turndown
dea ex machina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪə ɛks ˈmakɪnə/
Forms: form: deae ex machina
Etymology: An alteration of Latin deus ex māchinā in English, substituting the masculine or epicene deus (“god”) with the feminine dea (“goddess”).
Senses: examples: text: That's the end of her story—the Cinderella path—but it's not the end of her life, which is just as well, because the poor little rat-boy ends up in desperate need of a dea ex machina in order to save him from the terrible fate towards which the path of his story seems to be taking him.
ref: 1999, Philip Pullman, “The Path Through the Wood”, in Daemon Voices, Vintage, published 2017, page 79:
glosses: A female deus ex machina; a providential intervention (in a story etc.) from a female force or character.
Related terms: word: deus ex machina
howk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: howks
form: howking
form: howked
form: howked
Senses: examples: text: But Tom […] he pecked and howked the poor water-things about sadly, till they were all afraid of him, and got out of his way, or crept into their shells; so he had no one to speak to or play with.
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
glosses: To disturb by digging.
Asbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asbo
anticonsumerist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonsumerist
form: most anticonsumerist
Etymology: From anti- + consumerist.
Senses: examples: text: The movie has an anticonsumerist message.
glosses: Opposed to consumerism
anticonsumerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticonsumerists
Etymology: From anti- + consumerist.
Senses: glosses: A person who opposes consumerism.
minicanals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicanal
minizones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minizone
leam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: leams
form: leaming
form: leamed
form: leamed
form: leem
form: leme
Etymology: From Middle English lemen, from Old English lȳman, from Proto-West Germanic *liuhmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, bright”).
Senses: glosses: To gleam; shine; glow.
Derived terms: leamer
leam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: leams
form: leem
form: leme
Etymology: From Middle English leme, from Old English lēoma (“ray of light, beam, radiance, gleam, glare, lightning”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmô (“light, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljómi (“gleam, ray, beam, flash of light”), Latin lumen (“light”).
Senses: examples: text: The Leams of the morning sun streamed through the half-closed shutters
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
Related terms: gleam
leam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: leams
form: leem
form: leme
Etymology: See leamer, lien.
Senses: examples: text: The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.
ref: 1808, Joseph Strutt, [Walter Scott], “Section [IX]. Chapter II.”, in [Walter Scott], editor, Queenhoo-Hall, a Romance: And Ancient Times, a Drama. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for John Murray, […]; and Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 48–49:
synonyms: lead
leash
glosses: A cord or strap for leading a dog.
minicanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicanals
Etymology: From mini- + canal.
Senses: glosses: A small canal
minizone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minizones
Etymology: From mini- + zone.
Senses: examples: text: There are several minizones within the Green Zone.
glosses: A small zone; especially one which is part of a larger zone
antifibrotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifibrotic
kickoff returner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kickoff returners
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player on the receiving side whose primary job is to catch the football during a kickoff and carry the ball.
prepositional pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepositional pronouns
Senses: glosses: A type of pronoun used in Celtic and Semitic languages, where a preposition followed by a personal pronoun creates a new word.
glosses: In certain Romance languages, the pronoun form which must be used following a preposition.
punt returner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punt returners
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player on the receiving team whose primary job is to catch the football during a punt and carry the ball.
kickoff returners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kickoff returner
punt returners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punt returner
anthropomorphizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anthropomorphize
antifreezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifreeze
ascendencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascendency
autoantibodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoantibody
-se
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-n-s/
/-n-z/
/-s/
/-ʒ/
/-d-ʒ/
Etymology: From Middle English -sen (verbal ending), from Old English -sian (verbal ending), from Proto-Germanic *-isōną.
Senses: glosses: Forms verbs from adjectives or nouns. When attached to certain adjectives, it forms a transitive verb whose meaning is, to make (adjective). The same construction could also be done to certain (fewer) nouns, as, bless, in which case the verb means roughly, to make bloody/sanctify.
Derived terms: sense: verbal suffix
word: bless
sense: verbal suffix
word: cleanse
sense: verbal suffix
word: halse
sense: verbal suffix
word: mince
sense: verbal suffix
word: rinse
sense: verbal suffix
word: rix
sense: verbal suffix
word: wanse
sense: verbal suffix
word: whinge
baleens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baleen
badmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badman
bagpiped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bagpipe
JE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Jōmon Era.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A hypothetical intermediate stage in the development of the Torah, consisting of a combination of the Jehovist (J) and Elohist (E) sources.
JE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of journal entry.
glosses: Initialism of Japanese encephalitis.
coolboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coolbox
cordectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cordectomy
coursed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of course
coursed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For example, when a coursed rubble or block-in-course wing-wall or spandril of a bridge has to support an ashlar parapet, a string course must first be placed on the wall, to give a steady base for the parapet, and to distribute its weight over the smaller stones below.
ref: 1862, William John Macquorn Rankine, A Manual of Civil Engineering, page 388:
text: A coursed-ashlar wall is shown in Fig. 1, and a broken-ashlar wall in Fig . 2.
ref: 1915 July, George M. Petersen, “Building a Home”, in Popular Mechanics Magazine, volume 24, number 1, page 127:
text: The Thomas Bowman Barn No. 2 is a large two-and-a-half-story structure of wood frame construction built on a coursed stone foundation.
ref: 2008, Ohio Historic Places Dictionary - Volume 2, page 420:
text: It [St Pinnock Viaduct] has seven piers of roughly-dressed, coursed slatestone from Westwood quarry.
ref: 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 58:
glosses: Laid out in courses or rows.
examples: text: Daniel, in his Rural Sports (vol. i. p. 446, and Suppl. p. 694(, mentions several instances of white hares; and Scott, in his British Field Sports (p. 361), gives an account of a coursed hare which was said to have become white from fright!
ref: 1897, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport: A-Leo, page 503:
text: By this means it will be found little, if at all, inferior to a coursed or hunted hare.
ref: 2013, A. C. Crossley, The Eton College Hunt - A Short History Of Beagling At Eton:
text: One point, however, is clear:—if the brush of a coursed fox is to be awareded according to the rules with a hunted fox, "Brush" is the very last man in the field that can claim it; for it appears that when Reynard was killed, "Brush" was coursing a fresh fox in an opposite direction!
ref: 2023 July, “Fox Hunting, &c.”, in The Oriental Sporting Magazine, volume 1, page 245:
glosses: Chased by hunters with dogs.
Derived terms: uncoursed
craniectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craniectomy
chubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He had his back to me, and was coughing, and I saw that he held a peculiar cigarette with a long cork-tip in his right hand. "It's me chubes," he gasped, "It's me chubes" and I knew that all was not well.
ref: 1962, Michael Campbell, Oh, Mary, this London:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of tubes.
craniotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craniotomy
cyborgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyborg
cyborgs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cyborg
eroticises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eroticise
eroticising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eroticise
eroticised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eroticise
firelighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firelighter
flagmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagman
fledges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fledge
gowks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gowk
haxx0rs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haxx0r
jawlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jawline
kettlebells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kettlebell
kugels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kugel
lumpectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumpectomy
mammoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammoplasty
coronary arteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronary artery
mamograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamogram (non-standard spelling)
metamorphosizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metamorphosize
metamorphosizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metamorphosize
metamorphosized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metamorphosize
metamorphosises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metamorphosise
metamorphosising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metamorphosise
metamorphosised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metamorphosise
heavy metal umlauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavy metal umlaut
deadly nightshades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadly nightshade
tropical storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropical storm
round bracket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round brackets
Senses: glosses: Each of the signs ( and ); parenthesis, bracket (in a strict sense).
semiquote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiquotes
form: semi-quote
Etymology: From semi- + quote.
Senses: glosses: A single quotation mark, ('). This is often used for a quote within a quote, as in "Tom said 'What?'"
glosses: A punctuation mark to indicate that the text is a semi-quote, i.e. a close paraphrase that uses some of the author's original words.
examples: text: "A fanatic is someone who will not change his mind or the subject of discussion" is a semiquote of Winston Churchill.
glosses: A partly paraphrased quotation.
semiquote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: semiquotes
form: semiquoting
form: semiquoted
form: semiquoted
form: semi-quote
Etymology: From semi- + quote.
Senses: glosses: To make a close paraphrase of a quotation, using some of its words.
sweetshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetshops
form: sweet shop
form: sweet-shop
Etymology: From sweet + shop.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise, when I go into my local sweetshop to buy a chocolate bar, the shopkeeper doesn't look me up and down, notice I'm a bit overweight, and suggest I pop round to the greengrocers next door and buy an apple instead.
ref: 2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, Rail, page 54:
synonyms: candy shop
candy store
glosses: A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
glosses: A drug dealer.
sweetshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetshop
corbeil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corbeils
Etymology: From French corbeil, from Latin corbicula, from corbis (“a basket”). Doublet of corbicula.
Senses: glosses: A decorative basket for the display of flowers or fruits.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A basket filled with earth and set up as a protection from the fire of the enemy.
Synonyms: sense: decorative basket
word: pannier
corbeils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corbeil
semi-quotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-quote
semi-quotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of semi-quote
semiquoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of semiquote
semiquoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of semiquote
semiquotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiquote
semiquotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of semiquote
editorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of editorship
groove fricative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groove fricatives
Senses: examples: text: Groove fricatives all have more or less of an [s]-like quality, and are for this reason sometimes called sibilants.
ref: 1955, H. A. Gleason, An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics, page 194, section 14.7:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
Synonyms: topics: phonetics
phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: sibilant
Related terms: fricative
lateral fricative
slit fricative
groove fricatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groove fricative
Caesarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Caesarist
form: most Caesarist
Etymology: From Caesar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Caesarism
Caesarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caesarists
Etymology: From Caesar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of Caesarism
microcytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcyte
yellow anemone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow anemones
Senses: glosses: Any of the flower species Anemone ranunculoides.
Synonyms: yellow wood anemone
buttercup anemone
metallizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metallize
metallizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metallize
metalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metalize
metalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metalize
metalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metalize
metallises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metallise
metallising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metallise
metallised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metallise
metalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metalise
metalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metalise
metalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metalise
metastisizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metastisize
metastisizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metastisize
metastisized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metastisize
metricizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metricize
metricizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metricize
metricized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metricize
cruiserweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruiserweights
Etymology: From cruiser + weight.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: super middleweight (sometimes synonymous)
coordinate_terms: superheavyweight
superweight
heavyweight
middleweight
welter-weight
lightweight
superlightweight
glosses: Any of several weight classes in boxing or wrestling.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
coordinate_terms: superheavyweight
superweight
heavyweight
middleweight
welter-weight
lightweight
superlightweight
glosses: Any of several weight classes in boxing or wrestling.
light heavyweight
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
coordinate_terms: superheavyweight
superweight
heavyweight
middleweight
welter-weight
lightweight
superlightweight
glosses: Any of several weight classes in boxing or wrestling.
A boxer weighing less than 200lb; heavier than a light heavyweight and lighter than a heavyweight.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
coordinate_terms: superheavyweight
superweight
heavyweight
middleweight
welter-weight
lightweight
superlightweight
glosses: Any of several weight classes in boxing or wrestling.
A wrestler weighing less than 210lb; heavier than a light heavyweight and lighter than a heavyweight.
cruiserweights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruiserweight
misconjugating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misconjugate
misconjugated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misconjugate
lingually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lingual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Towards, or in relation to, the tongue.
glosses: In a lingual manner, relating to language or linguistics.
Derived terms: anterolingually
laterolingually
mesiolingually
vestibulolingually
hosebeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hosebeasts
Etymology: From hose + beast.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh God. I made eye contact. Psycho hosebeast."
ref: 1992, Mike Myers, Wayne's World:
text: He called her a "psycho hosebeast" in print, and she responded with uncharacteristic (if pointed) restraint […]
ref: 1998, Poppy Z. Brite, Courtney Love: The Real Story:
text: Look what's standing in the ring right now. You've got a man beast and hosebeast. I mean we're dealing with the Gore and the Whore!
ref: 2001, Chris Jericho, Monday Night Raw:
text: Corrine is a conniving hosebeast was carved into the wall off to his right and had been recently been slapped with a coat of semi-gloss […]
ref: 2005, Ken Hattaway, Sin City Refugees:
text: "Look, Bonnie, we all think you're a skanky hagfish psycho hosebeast bitch, and you're fucking up the band."
ref: 2008, Gabriel Llanas, David Agranoff, The Vault of Punk Horror:
glosses: An objectionable woman.
hosebeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hosebeast
monomachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monomachy
mortaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortarium
mundanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mundanity
Mormondom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mormon + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: I fretted about dying an old maid—which in Mormondom starts at around 21 years old—and ending up a plural wife to a stranger in heaven.
ref: 2012, Steve Cuno, Joanne Hanks, It's Not About the Sex, My Ass, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Mormons collectively; Mormonism.
berlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berline
noms de plume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nom de plume
abacosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abacost
abonnés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abonné
coleoptile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒliːˈɒptɪl/
Forms: form: coleoptiles
Etymology: A classical compound of the Ancient Greek κολεός (koleós, “sheath”) + the English -ptile (“leaf”) – the suffix representing the Ancient Greek πτῐ́λον (ptĭ́lon) – probably after the French coléoptile.
Senses: examples: text: This kinetic scheme was proposed to account for the observed responses of Avena coleoptiles, and it was thought that it could also be applied to the phototropic responses of corn coleoptiles.
ref: 1965, Barbara Ann Koch, Phototropic responses of corn coleoptiles:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pointed sheath that protects the emerging shoot in monocotyledons such as oats and grasses.
wikipedia: classical compound
Related terms: coleoptilar
coleoptiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coleoptile
falls under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall under
falling under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall under
fell under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall under
myrmecophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrmecophile
naysaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of naysay
naysaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naysayings
Senses: glosses: A refusal, denial, or negation.
neologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neologist
nephrectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrectomy
nephroliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrolith
nephrotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrotomy
newswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newswoman
obfuscations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obfuscation
orchiectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchiectomy
originations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of origination
ornamentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornamentation
osculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of osculate
osculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of osculate
osmosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of osmose
osmosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of osmose
ostracizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostracization
outdoorsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outdoorsman
outgases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outgas
outgases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outgas
outgassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outgas
outguesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outguess
outguessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outguess
outguessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outguess
outmatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outmatch
outmatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outmatch
outmatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outmatch
outmatched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outmatched
form: most outmatched
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: outgunned, in too deep, out of one's depth, over one's head
text: The company's executives mistakenly assumed that they could have a 20-person team cover the work of a 40-person team, causing the staff to be wholly outmatched and thus leading to missed quality defects.
antonyms: undermatched
coordinate_terms: mismatched#Adjective
glosses: Overwhelmed by adversarial forces or circumstances (either animate or inanimate), so as to be facing likely defeat or to have already been defeated.
outshouts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outshout
outshouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outshout
outshouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outshout
outstares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outstare
outstaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstare
outstared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outstare
epiphenomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪfəˈnɒmɪnə/
ipa: /-fɪ-/
ipa: /ˌɛpəfəˈnɑmənə/
Forms: form: epiphænomena
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁epi
From epi- (prefix meaning ‘above, on, over; in addition to’) + phenomena.
Senses: glosses: plural of epiphenomenon
flipflopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flipflop
flipflop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flipflops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flip-flop.
flipflop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flipflops
form: flipflopping
form: flipflopped
form: flipflopped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flip-flop.
tipsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipsheets
Etymology: From tip + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: A gross-gutted, bulb-nosed, bourbon-stanky Boston flatfoot in plain clothes wrinkled white sox, with a race track tip-sheet stuffed in his back pocket trying real hard to mingle unnoticed at an elegant Buddies "do" to glean inside-dope.
ref: 1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 13:
text: A website called Debt Proof Living launched a daily email tipsheet last summer which now has 100,000 subscribers.
ref: 2009 January 4, Paul Harris, “Frugality is cool in the cash-strapped US”, in The Observer:
glosses: A page or mailing of information and hints
tipsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tipsheet
strugglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of struggler
unimaginably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unimaginably
form: most unimaginably
Etymology: From unimaginable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As it prepares to inaugurate a new president, America is also trying to forge a fresh identity in a world unimaginably different from the one inherited by George W Bush only eight years ago.
ref: 2009 January 4, Paul Harris, “Paul Harris: Frugality is cool in the cash-strapped US”, in The Observer:
glosses: To an extent or in a way that cannot be, or could not have been, imagined
Related terms: imaginably
unimaginable
massacrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massacrists
Etymology: From massacre + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The paranoia of the Turkish Sultan Abdul, the massacrist, did not go further. To him, as to us, the choice seemed 'Thy life or mine'.
ref: 1935, Gerald Heard, The Source of Civilization:
text: Hence, as with Montreal Massacrist Marc Lepine, who murdered 14 women in 1989, it was an act devoid of anything other than personal context.
ref: 2001, James P Winter, Mediathink:
glosses: One who commits a massacre.
massacrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massacrist
flipflopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flipflop
flipflops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flipflop
flipflops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flipflop
undisputedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From undisputed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Whatever one's view about Wilde's life he is undisputedly famous and widely honoured," he said.
ref: 2009 January 4, Tracy McVeigh, “Seaside town Worthing split over honouring Oscar Wilde”, in The Observer:
glosses: In a way, or to an extent, that is not disputed
Related terms: indisputably
tradeshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradeshows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trade show.
abrim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology: From a- + brim.
Senses: examples: text: the stand-place / Of carriages a-brim with Florence Beauties
ref: 1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Dance”, in Poems before Congress,, London: Chapman and Hall, page 21:
text: Dyke and drain were everywhere abrim and here and there the water stood in the soaked fields as though they needed but little more to sink back into their ancient desolation of mere and fen.
ref: 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 263:
text: […] we began taking turns stirring an enormous copper kettle abrim with New England clam chowder.
ref: 2014, James K. Morrow, chapter 2, in The Madonna and the Starship, San Francisco: Tachyon, page 48:
glosses: Brimming, full to the brim.
abrim
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology: From a- + brim.
Senses: glosses: Brimming, full to the brim.
batoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baton
batoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baton
euphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphists
Etymology: Contraction of euphoniumist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A euphoniumist.
euphists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphist
deradicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deradicalisation
Etymology: From de- + radicalization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of deradicalizing.
deradicalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + radicalisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deradicalization.
hyperconsumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmpʃən
Etymology: From hyper- + consumption.
Senses: glosses: Excessive consumption of goods (as a sociological phenomenon).
neurophysicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurophysicists
Etymology: From neuro- + physicist.
Senses: glosses: A person engaged in neurophysics.
neurophysicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurophysicist
neurophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + physics.
Senses: glosses: The branch of physics dealing with the nervous system
reinstallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinstallations
Etymology: From re- + installation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of reinstalling.
compresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compress
compresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compress
replaster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: replasters
form: replastering
form: replastered
form: replastered
Etymology: From re- + plaster.
Senses: glosses: To plaster (a wall, ceiling, etc.) again.
replasters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replaster
replastering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replaster
replastering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replasterings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent plastering; a new application of plaster to a surface.
replastered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replaster
ambulancemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambulanceman
bevacizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɛv.əˈsɪz.ʊˌmæb/
Etymology: From beva- (of unknown origin) + -ci- (“cardiovascular”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anticancer drug that is a genetically engineered monoclonal antibody administered intravenously to slow or inhibit tumor growth especially in some metastatic forms of cancer (such as colorectal cancer). It acts by binding to and inhibiting the activity of vascular endothelial growth factor, a protein that promotes the growth of new blood vessels which supply a spreading tumor. It is marketed under the trademark Avastin.
oleoresin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oleoresins
Etymology: From oleo- + resin.
Senses: examples: text: Pine oleoresin is a complex mixture of about 30 to 50 different terpene molecules, comprised chiefly of diterpene resin acids and monoterpene essential oils, which impart different physical and biotic properties (Zinkel and Russell 1989).
ref: 2007, Shibu Jose, Eric J. Jokela, Deborah L. Miller, editors, The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem: Ecology, Silviculture, and Restoration, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A homogeneous mix of essential oil and resin.
Derived terms: oleoresin capsicum
oleoresins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oleoresin
sunitinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An oral small-molecule receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor used in the treatment of renal cell carcinoma and imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumour.
Synonyms: word: sunitinibmalaat
word: SU11248
sense: brand name
word: Sutent
imatinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Origin unknown; the suffix -tinib denotes a pharmaceutical drug that is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug used to treat certain types of cancer.
sorafenib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A small molecule drug used to treat cancer of the kidney and liver.
kampongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kampong
decivilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decivilises
form: decivilising
form: decivilised
form: decivilised
Etymology: From de- + civilise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of decivilize.
decivilises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decivilise
decivilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decivilise
decivilised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decivilise
yuzus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yuzu
exorcizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exorcizers
Etymology: From exorcize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of exorciser.
exorcisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exorciser
exorcizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exorcizer
nepotistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nepotistic
form: most nepotistic
Etymology: From nepot(ism) + -istic.
Senses: related: word: nepotistical
antonyms: antinepotistic
;
self-made
coordinate_terms: cronyish
glosses: Of or pertaining to nepotism; favoring relatives because of their relationship rather than their abilities.
Derived terms: antinepotistic
nepotistically
Related terms: nepotism baby
nepo baby
pitful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitfuls
form: pitsful
Etymology: From pit + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a pit will hold.
pitfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitful
pitsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitful
stovies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a blend of stoved (“stewed”) + tatties (“potatoes”).
Senses: examples: text: At home, after the fun of Dookin′ for Apples was over we sat round a huge dish of delicious stovies, which had cooked very slowly on the top of the stove in a covered pan, with salt and pepper and knobs of butter. Threepenny bits and charms were hidden in the stovies.
ref: 1975, Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min′ Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood, page 203:
text: During the winter months my granny always made me stovies on a Saturday and she would spoon them on top of the hot pie and I would sit at a table in front of the fire eating contentedly and thinking about the films I had seen that morning. Stovies, as my grandmother made them, were potatoes and onions cut into pieces and cooked slowly in a pan with only a covering of water at the bottom of the pan, a tablespoonful of roast beef dripping and some salt and pepper. They were delicious.
ref: 2008, Alan Bews, One Boy′s Dinner Please, page 44:
text: They accepted her offer graciously, not having a clue what ‘stovies’ might be. Meg soon explained that stovies was a traditional hearty scots meal made from potatoes, onions and left over meat served as a stew.
ref: 2012, Jessie Macquarrie, Camus Calling, UK: AuthorHouse, page 8:
glosses: A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
nepotistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nepotistical
form: most nepotistical
Senses: glosses: nepotistic
nepotistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nepotistically
form: most nepotistically
Etymology: From nepotistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a nepotistic manner.
antilock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-lock.
antiterror
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + terror.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
glosses: Opposing or preventing terrorism.
ballcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballcaps
Etymology: From ball + cap.
Senses: glosses: A baseball cap.
Derived terms: ballcapped
ballcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballcap
ballcapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ballcap + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a ballcap.