cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cablework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cable + -work.
Senses: examples: text: By custom of the Navy the first lieutenant, or "Jimmy the One" as he is called, is in charge of cables and cablework on the forecastle.
ref: 1943, Sir Reginald Bacon, Britain's Glorious Navy, page 28:
glosses: Cables generally; cabling.
job and finish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: job and knock
glosses: The situation where a worker can leave as soon as the work is completed, rather than having to work for a fixed period of time.
Jack Dusty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A jack-of-the-dust: a storekeeper in charge of dry foodstuffs.
Johnny Armstrong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A play on the surname Armstrong and the words arm and strong.
Senses: topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
glosses: Strenuous manual work; pulling or hauling; muscle power.
JEEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Joint Emergency Evacuation Plan.
jet shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet shoes
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A shoe with a manually-operated thruster, developed by NASA in the 1960s for use in zero gravity.
jet shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet shoe
pseudolocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + locking.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The situation where a person has difficulty flexing or extending a joint, as though it were locked in place, but without any structural cause.
joint mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint mice
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A loose body, such as a bone fragment, inside a joint of the body.
joint mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joint mouse
running W
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running Ws
Senses: examples: text: He became one of the industry's top horsemen, specializing in Running Ws, pit falls, and cable jerk-offs.
ref: 2014, Gene Scott Freese, Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A dangerous stunt used to trip a horse by means of a tripwire.
running Ws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of running W
jam roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jam rolls
Senses: glosses: A kind of pudding, a roly-poly with jam filling.
examples: text: What a fucking place this is! Giant nonces trying to get famous for helping Huntley to die. He's even admitted it! That's how brain dead Andrews is. That's fucked up his jam roll (parole).
ref: 2011, Charles Bronson, Loonyology: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner:
glosses: Parole.
jam rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jam roll
Ebionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Having the religious views of the Ebionites.
ectotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectotrophs
Etymology: From ecto- + -troph.
Senses: glosses: Any ectotrophic organism.
ectotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectotroph
eelwrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: eelgrass (Zostera species)
enamoradoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enamorado
epidositic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epidositic
form: most epidositic
Etymology: From epidosite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mineral epidosite.
epidosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈpɪdəsaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: epidosites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A highly altered epidote- and quartz-bearing rock.
Derived terms: epidositic
epidosites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epidosite
episcia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: episcias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the flowering plant genus Episcia; a flame violet.
flame violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flame violets
Senses: glosses: Any of genus Episcia of flowering plants.
episcias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of episcia
flame violets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flame violet
epistasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epistasy
escapadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escapado
quit lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A genre of confessional writings by people who have left academia.
evertors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evertor
exarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exarchists
Etymology: From exarch + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the exarch.
exarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exarchist
eurybaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eurybath
ensteep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ensteeps
form: ensteeping
form: ensteeped
form: ensteeped
Etymology: From en- + steep.
Senses: glosses: To steep or submerge.
ensteeped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensteep
ensteeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensteep
ensteeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ensteep
submark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submarks
Etymology: From sub- + mark.
Senses: examples: text: Figure 26.23(b) shows a mark that is itself composed of submarks. The mark is a line segment with four smaller line segments protruding from the ends.
ref: 2007, Andrew Sears, Julie A. Jacko, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook:
glosses: A mark making up part of a larger mark.
submark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: submarks
form: submarking
form: submarked
form: submarked
Etymology: From sub- + mark.
Senses: glosses: To mark with a lesser or subsidiary mark.
submarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submark
submarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of submark
submarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of submark
submaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submarium
submariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submarium
submarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of submark
submarking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submarkings
Etymology: From sub- + marking.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of a marking of a Petri net.
submarkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submarking
idiot sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiot sheets
Senses: glosses: cue card; idiot card
idiot sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiot sheet
idiot string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiot strings
Senses: glosses: The string that connects a pair of idiot mittens.
idiot strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiot string
idiot girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiot girls
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A woman employed to hold up the "idiot boards" used to prompt the presenters.
idiot girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiot girl
iconics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Their aesthetic, if you haven't noticed, is about benign skin cancers, supernumerary nipples. Conventional tattoos belong firmly among the iconics of the hegemon. […]”
ref: 2014, William Gibson, “Death Cookie”, in The Peripheral, G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: The study of images and symbols as a form of communication.
Junin grebe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Junin grebes
Senses: glosses: A grebe, Podiceps taczanowskii, that lives on Lake Junin in Peru
aberroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aberroscopes
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: An instrument used to observe aberration of the eye
aberroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aberroscope
protruder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protruders
Etymology: From protrude + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Muscles of the Tongue are: the Genio-hyoglossus, which is the protruder; — the Hyoglossus, which is the depressor or retractor, or muscle which draws the tongue in; […]
ref: 1895, Edmond Souchon, Resume of Lectures on Anatomy, page 10:
glosses: That which protrudes.
acanthodiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acanthodiforms
Senses: glosses: A sharklike fish of the order Acanthodiformes
acanthodiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acanthodiform
protruders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protruder
metaxenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + xenia.
Senses: glosses: ectogeny
acritolepid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acritolepids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct sharklike fish of the family †Acritolepidae
acritolepids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acritolepid
ectogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecto- + -geny.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: metaxenia
glosses: The effect of pollen on parts of the seed and fruit lying outside the embryo and endosperm.
Related terms: ectogenic
acropleustophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acropleustophytes
Etymology: From acro- (“top”) + pleustophyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: benthopleustophyte
mesopleustophyte
glosses: An aquatic plant that floats near the water surface.
acropleustophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acropleustophyte
adrenotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adreno- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: toxic to the adrenal glands
alliesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Michel Cabanac and Stylianos Nicolaïdis in 1971. From Ancient Greek ἀλλοῖος (alloîos, “changed, different”) + -esthesia (“sensation”).
Senses: glosses: The relationship between the pleasure associated with a stimulus and the internal state of an organism
Related terms: allesthesia
Sorokinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sorokinian
form: most Sorokinian
Etymology: From Russian Соро́кин (Sorókin) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pitirim Sorokin (1889–1968), Russian-American sociologist.
idiot tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A basic form of computer tape that holds unjustified text, and is later processed automatically by a machine that determines where line breaks should appear in the properly formatted output.
Ricœurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ricœurian
form: most Ricœurian
Etymology: From French Ricœur + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.
eidetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eidetic + -s.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The study of eidetic reduction.
elshin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elshins
Senses: examples: text: D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan Forbes, and that other Arniston chield there, without muckle greater parts, if the close-head speak true, than mysell, maun be presidents
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An awl.
elshins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elshin
elutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elutors
Etymology: From elute + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Elution of virus from erythrocytes. The strains were divided into those that eluted at 24 hours or longer (slow elutors) and those that eluted in less than 24 hours (fast elutors).
ref: 1979, Avian Diseases, volume 23, page 568:
glosses: That which elutes.
elutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elutor
emonges
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of amongst.
emongest
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of amongst.
endiron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endirons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of andiron.
endirons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endiron
enscroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enscrolls
form: enscrolling
form: enscrolled
form: enscrolled
Etymology: From en- + scroll.
Senses: glosses: To ornament with scrollwork.
glosses: To write upon, or as if upon, a scroll; to enroll; to add to a list or register.
Synonyms: sense: add to a list or register
word: put down
word: register
word: enlist
enscrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enscroll
enscrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enscroll
enscrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enscroll
skale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skales
Senses: examples: text: Now againſt coming the authority of the Greeke Church, which neuer liked of the maidenleſſe maidenhood of their Prisſts: they anſwer, that Epiphanius a Greek Doctor, telleth them, that they do it against order: doe you hold the skales euen? you haue neither skales nor weights of Scripture, nor you dare ſcarce profeſſe to haue any.
ref: a. 1603, Thomas Cartwright, A Confvtation of the Rhemists Translation, Glosses and Annotations on the Nevv Testament, published 1618, page 39:
glosses: Obsolete form of scale.
ennage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From en + -age.
Senses: examples: text: On the Linofilm the 'ennage' per hour falls sharply with the number of grid changes, particularly if you are setting mathematics. Will the same thing apply on the Linotron?
ref: 1965, Institute of Printing, Report of Proceedings, page 230:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The number of ens involved in a typesetting job.
antiglobal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiglobal
form: most antiglobal
Etymology: From anti- + global.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to globalization.
iceberg theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An allusion to the greater part of an iceberg being hidden below the water.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A minimalist literary approach used by Ernest Hemingway, according to which the writer should omit as much as possible, leaving the reader to infer it.
square john
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square johns
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally reputable persons, or "square johns," commit a felony of the type that leads to arrest […]
ref: 1987, John Irwin, The Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society, page 38:
text: Like thieves, square johns are a shrinking proportion of the American inmate population.
ref: 2017, David Musick, Kristine Gunsaulus-Musick, American Prisons: Their Past, Present and Future, page 27:
glosses: A prisoner who generally obeys the rules and avoids trouble.
square johns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square john
illegitimate theater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illegitimate theaters
form: illegitimate theatre
Senses: glosses: Lightweight, mass-appeal theatrical productions such as pantomimes and musicals, as opposed to the "legitimate theater" of serious drama.
glosses: A theater that performs this kind of lightweight production.
illegitimate theaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illegitimate theater
Maxwell's otter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maxwell's otters
Etymology: Named after Gavin Maxwell, who brought one of these otters to Scotland from Iraq.
Senses: glosses: Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli, a subspecies of the smooth-coated otter.
wikipedia: Gavin Maxwell
flashlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flashlight
flashlit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flashlight
lightsources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightsource
know someone from a hole in the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows someone from a hole in the wall
form: knowing someone from a hole in the wall
form: knew someone from a hole in the wall
form: known someone from a hole in the wall
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know someone from Adam.
synonyms: word: know someone from Adam
know someone from a hole in the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows someone from a hole in the ground
form: knowing someone from a hole in the ground
form: knew someone from a hole in the ground
form: known someone from a hole in the ground
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know someone from Adam.
synonyms: word: know someone from Adam
Related terms: know one's ass from a hole in the ground
Oprahish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oprahish
form: most Oprahish
Etymology: From Oprah + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Feeling just a tad Oprahish, I take a deep breath and ask Brigid if she loved her mother.
ref: 2003, Simon Doonan, Wacky Chicks:
text: One does not wish to play down the obviously valiant efforts Mr. Vilsack must have made to rise above his circumstances, but his story does sound rather Oprahish. On the other hand, given the demands of mass politics, that is hardly a disadvantage. Had Oprah featured Mr. Vilsack on her show to relate his story, it is not inconceivable that he rather than John Edwards might have ended up on the ticket with John Kerry.
ref: 2008, Rick Shenkman, Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter:
text: Bush ignored the Oprahish questions of the press corps […]
ref: 2004, U.S. News & World Report, volume 136, numbers 11-19, page 130:
glosses: Reminiscent of Oprah Winfrey (born 1954), US talk show host who pioneered an intimate confessional style of television.
israelane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: israelanes
Etymology: From Israel + -ane, in reference to the Star of David on the Israeli flag.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A certain isomer of [12] prismane, shaped like a six-pointed star.
Related terms: helvetane
israelanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of israelane
specialers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specialer
helvetane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helvetanes
Etymology: From Helveto- + -ane, in reference to the design of the Swiss flag.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A certain isomer of [12]prismane, shaped like a plus sign.
Related terms: israelane
helvetanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helvetane
polyprismane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyprismanes
Etymology: From poly- + prismane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A structure consisting of multiple prismanes stacked base to base.
polyprismanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyprismane
clipshear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clipshears
Senses: examples: text: I looked over the stair-windows, however, and saw the back green, which smells of clipshears and clockers, as of yore.
ref: 1888, David Gray, Josephus Nelson Larned, Life, letters, poems, etc, page 7:
text: I also learned from my father how to drown baby mice in a rain barrel, crush a clipshear between my thumbnails, and assist in the skinning of a rabbit.
ref: 2004, Jennie Erdal, Ghosting: A Memoir, page 20:
text: Those tapestries were like a zoological garden, seething with slaters and clipshears.
ref: 2017, Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble, →ISBN:
glosses: Earwig
clipshears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clipshear
sprauchle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sprauchles
form: sprauchling
form: sprauchled
form: sprauchled
form: sprackle
form: sprachle
form: spraickle
Etymology: From Icelandic spraukla, "to sprawl".
Senses: examples: text: We'll sprauchle yont life's roughsome way, / As canny as we dow; / An' souther oor affections aye, / In love's heart-warmin' lowe.
ref: 1881, David Thomson, Musings Among the Heather: Being Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect:
text: We've routh o' disappointments as / We sprauchle up the brae, / We dinna get the things we want, / We lose the things we hae ;
ref: 1897, Robert McLean Calder, William Shillinglaw Crockett, A Berwickshire Bard: The Songs and Poems of Robert McLean Calder:
text: However far he might sprauchle up the brae, he never forgot — or patronised — an old friend.
ref: 1931, Arthur Alexander Thomson, The Burns We Love, page 86:
text: Sandra, her man, Raymond an his wife, sprauchle ower roots an bushes, hurryin through the trees.
ref: 2001, Janet Paisley, Not for Glory, page 265:
glosses: To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty.
sprauchle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprauchles
form: sprackle
form: sprachle
form: spraickle
Etymology: From Icelandic spraukla, "to sprawl".
Senses: examples: text: Well, Sir, just when the gentlemen had got within three yards of her, Nelly geid a bit awckward sprauchle, an' shot out a leg, but whether Nelly had mistaken her distance, or whether the men were up to her fa'en system an' wadna bite, never clearly appeared; but they werna forward in time to catch the lassie in their arms as she expected, an' after a sprauchle an' a stumble, down she came in good earnest, an' broke her arm.
ref: 1830, Andrew Picken, The dominie's legacy, by the author of 'The sectarian'., page 137:
text: But, with the planks bein' jammed as they were, he didn't sink as deep as his waist, an' after a sprauchle or two, that cost him his hat, he struggled out on the far side, an' moved on towards home, more muddled in his intellects than ever.
ref: 1930, The Strand Magazine - Volume 80 -, page 535:
text: ... this didn't instil a sense of security so with an incredibly awkward manoeuvre the axe was driven into the floor and a cowardly sprauchle backwards performed to stand secured by slings above the void.
ref: 1969, Mountain - Issues 6-19, page 114:
glosses: An awkward or struggling movement; stumble.
sprauchles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprauchle
sprauchles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sprauchle
sprauchling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprauchle
sprauchled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sprauchle
Islamosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Islamo- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The Islamic world.
Chézy formula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Chézy formula
Etymology: Named after Antoine de Chézy, the French hydraulics engineer who devised it in 1775.
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A formula that describes the mean flow velocity of steady, turbulent open-channel flow.
lacunaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæk.jʊˈnɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌlæk.jəˈnɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: sunken panels; coffers
Related terms: lacunar
lamprophyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lamprophyric
form: most lamprophyric
Etymology: From lamprophyre + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to lamprophyre.
lapillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the lapillus
gypsify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gypsifies
form: gypsifying
form: gypsified
form: gypsified
Etymology: From gypsum + -ify.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To diagenetically alter to gypsum.
Related terms: gypsification
gypsify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gypsifies
form: gypsifying
form: gypsified
form: gypsified
form: gypsyfy
Etymology: From gypsy + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Now, his instrument was not hard to identify as a concert grand, by its enormously hard wood block, by the astounding coldness of tone, by the gypsifying strings which were fatter than a female jurisprudent, fatter than a woman with a law degree;
ref: 2013, Jürg Laederach, Whole of Life:
glosses: To become or make gypsy.
lethals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lethal
suicide seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide seeds
Senses: qualifier: genetic engineering
glosses: A proposed kind of modified seed whose use would be restricted by having important genes activated only in response to some stimulus (such as a special chemical), and which would otherwise produce infertile second-generation seeds.
suicide seeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicide seed
lianoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lianoid
form: most lianoid
Etymology: From liana + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The lianoid growth form, characterized by structural parasitism and a slender stem supporting a relatively large canopy […]
ref: 2014, Stefan Schnitzer, Frans Bongers, Robyn J. Burnham, Ecology of Lianas, page 289:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a liana.
Lib-Lab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lib-Labs
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A Liberal candidate who was financially maintained by trade unions and supposed to represent the working classes.
Lib-Labs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lib-Lab
loading dock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loading docks
Senses: glosses: An area where goods are loaded and unloaded into and out of vehicles.
long-life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: long-life milk
long-life lamp
glosses: Designed to last for a long time, said especially of food and drink
loose head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loose heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of loosehead.
tight head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tight heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tighthead.
lounge car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lounge cars
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A buffet car.
Lowlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lowlanders
Etymology: From Lowlands + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from the Scottish Lowlands.
Synonyms: word: southron
Hypernyms: Scot
Coordinate terms: Highlander
licencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licencers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of licensor.
licencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licencer
living quarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This coach also incorporates living quarters for the resident instructor, who will be with the train throughout the period it is on tour.
ref: 1957 October 24, “Diesel Instruction Train in the Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 711:
glosses: The rooms where people reside.
lichenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lichen + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The symbiotic relationship that gives rise to a lichen.
leptose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a lichen: having a powdery appearance.
linecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From line + casting.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The use of a linecaster to cast entire lines of type in metal slugs.
lineamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lineament + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a lineament.
lushier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lushy: more lushy
lushiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lushy: most lushy
lushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lusher
yellow-billed egret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-billed egrets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of intermediate egret.
synonyms: word: intermediate egret
intermediate egret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermediate egrets
Senses: synonyms: median egret
yellow-billed egret
glosses: A white, medium-sized species of egret found in Africa, Asia, and Australia, Ardea intermedia.
median egret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: median egrets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of intermediate egret.
synonyms: word: intermediate egret
great white egret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great white egrets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of great egret.
synonyms: word: great egret
common egret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common egrets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of great egret (Ardea alba)
synonyms: word: great egret
extra: Ardea alba
great white heron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great white herons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of great egret.
synonyms: word: great egret
threshing sledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threshing sledges
form: threshing-sledge
Senses: synonyms: threshing board
threshing sled
threshing roller
glosses: A rectangular wooden plank designed to separate grain from chaff.
wikipedia: Giresun
Related terms: flail
thresher
threshing machine
combine harvester
threshing-sledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threshing-sledges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of threshing sledge.
threshing-sledges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threshing-sledge
threshing board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threshing boards
form: threshing-board
Senses: glosses: Synonym of threshing sledge.
synonyms: word: threshing sledge
threshing boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threshing board
threshing-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threshing-boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of threshing board, synonym of threshing sledge.
threshing-boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threshing-board
threshing sledges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threshing sledge
beta females
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beta female
lymiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymiters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of limiter.
lymiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymiter
spur-winged goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spur-winged geese
Senses: glosses: An anatid bird native to sub-Saharan Africa, Plectropterus gambensis.
hamulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hamulous
form: most hamulous
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a little hook, or hamule.
hapterons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hapteron
hayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hayers
Etymology: From hay + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] the men do the mowing, the women the raking, and with the exception of two villages, the men carry the hay on their backs and load the hay sleds and wagons. Children help with the raking, and carry hot meals from home to the hayers.
ref: 1989, William A. Christian, Person and God in a Spanish Valley, page 31:
glosses: One who cuts hay for animal fodder.
hayer
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: 1896, Author not recorded, I Will Not Leave You Comfortless, Edna Chaffee Noble (compiler), Jacob W. Shoemaker (series editor), Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations, Number 20, The Penn Publishing Company, page 176,
"Please, God A'mighty—ef ye kin hear me 'way out hayer in the rocks en' lonesomeness—don't take away my pore boy. […] I bin a-workin' hard to feed en' keep 'im; en' please, God A'mighty, don't leave me hayer all alone."
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of here.
hayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hayer
yellow-billed kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-billed kites
Senses: glosses: A kite, closely related to the black kite, found in most of Africa (Milvus aegyptius).
hempweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hempweeds
Etymology: From hemp + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Eupatorium.
Derived terms: climbing hempweed
hempweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hempweed
African fish eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African fish eagles
Senses: examples: text: Despite being compellingly photogenic, many eagles are difficult photographic targets, particularly when there is bright sunlight. This is due to the huge dynamic range in the light they reflect. In a Bald Eagle or African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), for example, the head and tail can be as white as a field of fresh snow in sunshine, while the underside of the wings can be like a dark alley at night. Although the human eye can discern detail at both ends of this wide spectrum, the camera is unlikely to be as successful.
ref: 2021, Peter Cavanagh, “1. Eagles”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: A species of fish eagle found in much of Africa, Haliaeetus vocifer.
Synonyms: African sea eagle
red-necked francolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-necked francolins
Senses: synonyms: red-necked spurfowl
glosses: A gamebird found in much of Africa, Pternistis afer.
haciendado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haciendados
form: haciendadoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hacendado.
hacendadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hacendado
haciendadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haciendado
haciendados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haciendado
flaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flasers
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of sedimentary bidirectional bedding created when a sediment is exposed to intermittent flows, leading to alternating sand and mud layers.
flasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaser
Eurasian bittern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian bitterns
Senses: synonyms: common bittern
great bittern
glosses: A bittern found in Europe, Asia, and Africa (Botaurus stellaris).
common bittern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common bitterns
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
synonyms: word: Eurasian bittern
extra: Botaurus stellaris
great bittern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great bitterns
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
synonyms: word: Eurasian bittern
extra: Botaurus stellaris
flyoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyoffs
Etymology: From fly + -off.
Senses: glosses: A competitive demonstration of aircraft or other equipment to determine which will be selected by the client.
flyoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyoff
common bitterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common bittern
great bitterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great bittern
Eurasian bitterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurasian bittern
fogash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fogas (“the fish”).
forebye
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forby.
forecloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecloths
Etymology: From fore- + cloth.
Senses: glosses: antependium
forecloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forecloth
Germanophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germanophobia
Etymology: From Germano- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: If we deal with state Germanophobia, the first observation concerns the uniqueness of war in the sense that it means that the government became overtly rather than covertly xenophobic in order to create a level of support on the home front necessary for victory on the battlefield, especially before conscription was introduced at the beginning of 1916. In Britain during the First World War, the government established various agencies for the propagation of Germanophobia.
ref: 1996, Panikos Panayi, Germans in Britain Since 1500, page 115:
text: "Van," as he was known to friend and foe alike, has been accused of Germanophobia, criticized for being indifferent to events outside of his Eurocentric perspective, and castigated for possessing an inflexible mind.
ref: 1997, Michael Lawrence Roi, Alternative to Appeasement, page 1:
text: In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.
ref: 2017, Juliet Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia:
glosses: The hatred or fear of Germany, its people and culture.
glosses: The hatred or fear of the presence of the German language and its native speakers.
Synonyms: Teutonophobia
Teutophobia
Related terms: Germanophobe
Germanophobic
hindcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hind-cloth
Etymology: From hind + cloth.
Senses: qualifier: pillow-making
glosses: A protective cloth used to cover a pillow from dust when not in use.
Synonyms: heller
hiller
Silozi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lozi (“language”).
synonyms: word: Lozi
extra: language
Barotseland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Barotse + -land.
Senses: glosses: A region between Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Angola; the homeland of the Lozi or Barotse people.
frigot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frigots
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of frigate.
frigots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frigot
Depo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Researchers find that the women who lived in places affected by the Planned Parenthood cuts had 27 percent more births than the women using Depo in the year prior.
ref: 2016 February 3, Sarah Kliff, “When Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, women got less birth control and had more babies”, in Vox, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023:
glosses: Depo-Provera (trademarked name for medroxyprogesterone acetate).
fructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fructive
form: most fructive
Etymology: From Middle English fructife, fructyff, from Latin frūctus + -yf (modern -ive).
Senses: examples: text: Not high Olympus—nor your fructive earth, / E’er to such fairy-forms gave birth: […]
ref: 1843, J[ohann] Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jonathan Birch, Faust: A Tragedy, […], 2nd part, London: Chapman and Hall, […]; Leipsic: F[riedrich] A[rnold] Brockhaus, act II, scene vii, page 164:
glosses: fructuous; fruitful
frutification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frutifications
Etymology: From fruit + -ification.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of fructification.
frutifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frutification
fruticultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fruticulture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to fruticulture.
fulgural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fulgural
form: most fulgural
Etymology: From Latin fulguralis, from fulgur (“lightning”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”), from Proto-Italic reconstructed as *folgos and related to the idea of flashing or lightening.
Senses: examples: text: The Fulgural Books were an Etruscan guide to understanding the will of the gods through their supposed messages in lightning.
glosses: Of or related to lightning, particularly (historical) in reference to its use in divination.
fumerole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumeroles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fumarole.
fumeroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fumerole
fungoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fungoidal
form: most fungoidal
Senses: glosses: fungoid
Triple Gem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Pali tisaraṇaṃ, Sanskrit त्रिशरण (triśaraṇa).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The three main elements of Buddhism, i.e., Buddha, his teachings, and his clergy
five aggregates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Pali pañcakkhandhā.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: five skandhas (aggregates) of being
three fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Sanskrit त्रिविष (triviṣa).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Three Poisons; three primary causes of unskillful action that lead to the creation of "negative" karma
Four Noble Truths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Four Noble Truths
Etymology: Calque of Sanskrit चत्वार्यार्यसत्यानि (catvāryāryasatyāni).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Four central Buddhist teachings: (i) that suffering is an innate characteristic of existence with each rebirth; (ii) that it is caused by cravings or desires; (iii) that it can be ended by eliminating the cravings or desires; and (iv) that the noble eightfold path is the way to achieve this.
Jezierski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jezierskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Jezierski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Five Precepts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Pali pañcasīla, Sanskrit पञ्चशील (pañcaśīla).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Five precepts
spark out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sparko
Senses: examples: text: I steamed in and was promptly knocked spark out by one of them. I came round just in time to see them running for the exit.
ref: 2008, Michael Lutwyche and Steven Fowler, Hardcore, VHC Publishing, "Birmingham City Vs Aston Villa Division 2 12th December 1987"
text: You were asleep. I came home from work and saw you. I thought you might not have intended to spend the whole night spark out in the car.
ref: 2011, Val McDermid, The Retribution, Atlantic Monthly Press, page 7:
text: This ended in tears for him, the wrong person was one of our friends, Errol, who was then serving in the army, the husband attacked him at Ken's flat and Errol knocked him spark out, having no clue what this guy was going on about.
ref: 2012, Thomas Appleby, Life in the Harsh Lane: The Nine Lives, Mishaps, and Adventures of a No-Body, Xlibris, page 125:
glosses: Completely asleep or unconscious.
spark out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sparks out
form: sparking out
form: sparked out
form: sparked out
Senses: examples: text: "I didn't care if I sparked him out or it went 12 rounds, but people wanted to see him unconscious."
ref: 2017 October 29, Nick Parkinson, “Eddie Hearn wants Anthony Joshua to make three title defences in 2018”, in espn.co.uk:
text: A YOUNG man from Ellesmere Port had to be sprayed with tear gas after he threatened to “spark out” a police officer, a court heard.
ref: 2019 June 18, Steve Creswell, “Ellesmere Port man threatened to 'spark out' police officer in Chester”, in Chester Standard:
text: Tottenham had a power struggle when Edgar Davids joined in 2005, but Robbie Keane was quick to show him who the main guy was as he sparked him out during a training bust-up.
ref: 2022 March 13, Joseph McBride, “Robbie Keane sparked out Edgar Davids in training bust-up”, in Daily Star:
glosses: To render unconscious; to knock out.
alphostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phosphopeptide, 1-O-[(2S,3S)-2-[[(2S,3S)-2-amino-3-methylpentanoyl]amino]-3-methylpentanoyl] 5-O-phosphono (2S)-2-[[(2S)-5-amino-2-[[(2S)-2-amino-3-hydroxypropanoyl]amino]-5-oxopentanoyl]amino]pentanedioate, that is a phosphatase inhibitor
amaninamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cyclopeptide amatoxin that inhibits an RNA polymerase
ampullaceal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ampullae
analysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analysates
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Material that has been, or is about to be analysed
analysates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analysate
anelloviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to anelloviruses
angioregression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛʃən
Etymology: From angio- + regression.
Senses: glosses: The regression of angiogenesis
angroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angrosides
Senses: glosses: A derivative of harpagoside
antiluteolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + luteolytic.
Senses: glosses: That counters luteolysis
arabinocytosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cytosine arabinoside
Synonyms: cytarabine
arabinoxylooligosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabinoxylooligosaccharides
Etymology: From arabino- + xylooligosaccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomer of arabinose and xylose
arabinoxylooligosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabinoxylooligosaccharide
archaeothanatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + thanatological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to archaeothanatology
archaeothanatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archaeo- + thanatology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archeothanatology.
Related terms: archaeothanatological
ascostroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascostromata
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fungal fruiting body in which the asci develop within a stroma
Related terms: ascostromatal
ascostromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascostroma
ascostromatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ascostromata
autodispenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autodispensers
Etymology: From auto- + dispenser.
Senses: glosses: An automatic dispenser