cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
metalimnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalimnion
telerobotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From telerobotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of telerobotics.
televillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: televillages
Etymology: From tele- + village.
Senses: examples: text: […] they have had to restrict the televillage to an initial development of thirty four houses instead of the originally envisaged four hundred.
ref: 1996, Werner B. Korte, Richard Wynne, Telework: Penetration, Potential and Practice in Europe, page 274:
text: The final area where new media policy is becoming directly linked with policies for particular urban spaces is the emergence of information districts and urban televillages.
ref: 2000, James O. Wheeler, Yuko Aoyama, Barney Warf, Cities in the telecommunications age: the fracturing of geographies, page 88:
glosses: A communal site containing telecottages where teleworkers can work.
televillages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of televillage
telepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepoints
Etymology: From tele- + point. A marketing coinage.
Senses: examples: text: When it started in September, Phonepoint had 174 telepoints or public base stations […] Ferranti has a more intensive network, with 300 telepoints concentrated around London […]
ref: 1989 November 4, New Scientist, volume 124, number 1689, page 38:
text: BT has also been prevented from holding a majority share of a telepoint operator.
ref: 1991, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Sixth International Conference on Mobile Radio and Personal Communications:
text: These telepoints can be thought of as cordless phone base units that work with all cordless receivers in operation. Some telepoints register the presence of a customer when the person comes within range — say at a train station.
ref: 1995, Scott D. Elliott, Daniel J. Dailey, Wireless communications for intelligent transportation systems:
glosses: A base station to which users of early mobile phones could connect in order to place (but not receive) calls.
telepoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepoint
pur sang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French pur-sang (“pure blood or thoroughbred (as used of a horse)”), from pur (“pure”) and sang (“blood”).
Senses: examples: text: the Art Deco painter pur sang
text: The Duke of Punch is too true an Aristocrat, pur sang, to be afraid of avowing his liking for anything […]
ref: 1860 May 26, “Punch’s Essence of Parliament”, in Punch, volume XXXVIII, page 209:
text: For it is only the old-fashioned sort, not girls of the period pur sang, that marry for love, or put the husband before the banker.
ref: 1868, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Modern women and what is said of them: Reprint of a series of articles in the Saturday review, J.S. Redfield:
text: Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang. First, an irrepressible wrinkle or two in the waist of his frock-coat—denoting that he had not damned his tailor sufficiently to drive that tradesman up to the orthodox high pressure of cunning workmanship.
ref: 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘We Frolic while ’Tis May’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 20:
text: But she had the grand reach forward! I never saw such a line! / Smooth-bored, clean-run, from her fiddle head with its dainty ear half-cock, / Hard-bit, pur sang, from her overhang to the heel of her off hind sock.
ref: 1906, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “The Famous Ballad of the Jubilee Cup”, in From a Cornish Window:
glosses: Beyond doubt or being a model example; the ne plus ultra or epitome; the definitive.
televirtuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + virtuality.
Senses: examples: text: And, most of the experimental work on VR networking or televirtuality involves digital pipelines to carry the data.
ref: 1993, Linda Marie Harasim, Global Networks: Computers and International Communication, page 8:
glosses: Shared virtual reality by remote participants over a telecommunication link.
Related terms: televirtual
howja
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: houʹjə
ipa: /ˈhaʊd͡ʒə/
Etymology: "How d'you" /ˈhaʊdju/ becomes /ˈhaʊdʒə/ ("howja") by yod-coalescence (whereby /j/ assimilates to /ʒ/) and reduction of the unstressed /u/ (which becomes /ə/).
Senses: examples: text: “Selby.” ¶ “Howja spell it?” ¶ “S-e-l-b-y.”
ref: 1920 June 19, P. G. Wodehouse, The Little Warrior, part IX, in Collier's, page 14
text: ‘Howja do! Howja do! Howja do! Hellooooo everybardy!…’
ref: 1972, Ian Whitcomb, After the Ball, 2nd Limelight Edition (1994), pages 112–113
text: “Howja do that?” she mumbled thickly. “Howja make firecrackers sound just like guns indoors?” Boy, they sure got some smart guys there, she thought.
ref: 2010, Charisse Goodman, The Starved Senses, Dog Ear Publishing,, →ISBN, page 257:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of how d'you.
polyparia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyparium
televirtual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + virtual.
Senses: examples: text: Wag the Dog emphasizes this political news dimension of the televirtual world and the way it drives and is reflected back through the public's perceptions of reality.
ref: 2003, Jack Boozer, Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique, page 224:
glosses: Relating to televirtuality.
megahype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mega- + hype.
Senses: examples: text: When we look for signs of what awaits us in cyberspace, we realize that what we have already got, in addition to mountains of undigested facts, is megahype, the vastly optimistic exaggeration about the power and wizardry of computers.
ref: 2004, Marshall William Fishwick, Probing popular culture on and off the Internet, page 179:
glosses: Extreme hype.
megazoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megazoos
Etymology: From mega- + zoo.
Senses: examples: text: […] some nature reserves will inevitably become megazoos or zooparks.
ref: 1983, Alan Howard Brush, George Alfred Clark, Perspectives in Ornithology, page 32:
text: It may be necessary to reorganize some species of animals into new populations, some in captivity, some in the wild, with the animals being managed as a whole as a megazoo.
ref: 1993, J. S. Hutchinson, Controlling Reproduction, page 6:
text: Zoos are returning to the integrated, environmental animal parks of ancient Mesopotamia, but in a more sophisticated manner. And at the same time, wild nature itself is becoming a megazoo — just a different kind of captivity.
ref: 2001, Vernon N. Kisling, Zoo and Aquarium History:
glosses: A very large zoo.
megazoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megazoo
rhabdosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdosomes
Etymology: From rhabdo- + -some.
Senses: glosses: A graptolite colony.
rhabdosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhabdosome
megacarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacarriers
Etymology: From mega- + carrier.
Senses: examples: text: It was only because of concerns about how to maintain viability as a regional airline in a megacarrier environment that both Western's management and its employees responded positively to overtures by Delta, resulting in Western becoming a significant part of Delta's entry into the megacarrier class.
ref: 1995, Peter Cappelli, Airline Labor Relations in the Global Era: The New Frontier, page 224:
text: But, actually, three virtual megacarriers have emerged – the Star, Skyteam, and Star Alliances.
ref: 2016, Paul Stephen Dempsey, Routledge Handbook of Public Aviation Law, page 6:
text: The three tiers include: regional/feeder carrier, new-entrant/low-cost/no-frills carrier, and the “megacarrier.
ref: 2016, John G. Wensveen, Air Transportation: A Management Perspective, page 283:
glosses: A very large certified airline.
examples: text: Twenty-one Sheltok megacarriers vanished without a trace, and others had close calls.
ref: 2010, Julian May, The Sagittarius Whorl: Book Three of the Rampart Worlds Trilogy:
text: The ship's company for each megacarrier topped 25,000 men, not counting the pilots and air crews for the aircraft on board.
ref: 2013, Mack Maloney, The Sky Ghost:
text: The studied period goes across different dominant ship technologies, such as sail, steam, combustion, specialized vessels (e.g. container, tanker), and megacarriers.
ref: 2015, César Ducruet, Maritime Networks: Spatial structures and time dynamics:
glosses: A large aircraft carrier or other ship.
examples: text: According to Metz, megacarriers will evolve gradually, first with common ownership of several individual companies, followed by integrated marketing among subsidiaries, integration of operations will occur very slowly and cautiously.
ref: 1982, Modern Railroads, volumes 37-38, page 69:
text: The multimodal, transcontinental megacarriers of the future will probably coalesce around the capital assets represented by today's major railroad rights-of-way.
ref: 1983, “How Megacarriers May Emerge”, in Forbes, volume 132, page 436:
text: Along with intramodal mergers, intermodal carrier buy outs and diversification into businesses completely divorced from transportation, rail megacarriers continue the "rationalization* of their lines.
ref: 1987, Handling & Shipping Management, volume 28, page 30:
text: Another transportation innovation is the development of megacarriers, freight transportation companies that offer several shipment methods, including rail, truck, and air service.
ref: 2016, William M. Pride, Foundations of Marketing, page 357:
topics: transport
glosses: A freight transport company offering many shipment methods, such as rail, truck, and air service.
megacarriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacarrier
hypernets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypernet
cubelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubelets
Etymology: From cube + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small cube, or one making up part of a larger cube or structure.
cubelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubelet
archwire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archwires
Etymology: From arch + wire.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: An orthodontic wire conforming to the alveolar or dental arch.
archwires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archwire
preposted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + posted.
Senses: glosses: posted in advance
preroute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preroutes
form: prerouting
form: prerouteing
form: prerouted
form: prerouted
Etymology: From pre- + route.
Senses: glosses: To route in advance.
prerouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preroute
prerouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preroute
preroutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preroute
moss animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moss animals
Etymology: Calque of Bryozoa, which is from Ancient Greek βρύον (brúon, “moss”) + ζῷα (zōîa), plural of ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bryozoan.
lamp shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamp shells
form: lampshell
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A brachiopod (Brachiopoda).
Petri nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Petri net
lampshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampshells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lamp shell.
bridgeworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridgework
buccodistally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From buccodistal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a buccodistal orientation.
metaconids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaconid
noneroded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + eroded.
Senses: glosses: Not eroded.
nonerosional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + erosional.
Senses: glosses: Not erosional.
nonevasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + evasive.
Senses: glosses: Not evasive.
megaevent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaevents
Etymology: From mega- + event.
Senses: examples: text: In terms of viewing audience and revenue, the FIFA World Cup is the largest sport megaevent of its kind[…]
ref: 2012, John Nauright, Charles Parrish, Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice, page 127:
glosses: A very large-scale event.
megaevents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaevent
Paradise Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of the Bahamas.
Synonyms: english: former name
translation: former name
word: Hog Island
megasmash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megasmashes
form: mega-smash
Etymology: From mega- + smash.
Senses: examples: text: Soul-blues luminary Johnnie Taylor's megasmash "Good Love!" (Malaco), one of the abiding blues titles of 1996, rested near the top of the pack for '97 as well.
ref: 1997 December 27, Billboard, volume 109, number 52, page 41:
text: No beautiful girl had ever dated him in thirty-three years before Totality - his first megasmash. Movies had changed that.
ref: 2007, John David, Let Not The Left, page 111:
glosses: A very successful smash hit.
megafirm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megafirms
Etymology: From mega- + firm.
Senses: examples: text: These megafirms are ranked by size; all had 1986 sales in excess of $1 billion (Cdn.) and derive at least 25 percent of their sales from foreign markets.
ref: 1991, Fredric C. Menz, Sarah A. Stevens, Economic Opportunities in Freer U.S. Trade With Canada, page 58:
glosses: A very large firm.
megafirms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafirm
megadump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megadumps
Etymology: From mega- + dump.
Senses: examples: text: Standing on top of Trash Mountain (our local megadump) and affirming the Messianic promise of the kingdom of heaven, we cannot help but take responsibility for recycling and reducing consumption.
ref: 2000, Ari Elon, Naomi M. Hyman, Arthur Waskow, Trees, Earth, and Torah, page 414:
text: Down in McDowell County, nothing symbolized the region's tragic fall like a plan hatched in the early 1990s and recently revived to build a 50,000-ton-per-month megadump for garbage in the old coalfields.
ref: 2007, Jeff Goodell, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, page 36:
glosses: A very large dump, or site for discarding waste.
megadumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megadump
necklacings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necklacing
unconcludent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconcludent
form: most unconcludent
Etymology: From un- + concludent.
Senses: glosses: inconclusive
Synonyms: unconcluding
Related terms: unconcludingness
homodromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + -dromous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Running in the same direction; said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Moving in the same direction (said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis).
cultus cod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌl.təs ˈkɑd/
Forms: form: cultus cod
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon cultus (“worthless, of little worth”), probably from a Chinook word kaltas/kə́ltas ("only", "in vain").
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus).
synonyms: word: lingcod
extra: Ophiodon elongatus
cedrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cedrols
form: cedorol
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene alcohol found in the essential oil of conifers (cedar oil), especially in the cypress and juniper.
Derived terms: epicedrol
Related terms: cedrene
cedryl
cedrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cedrol
parasuicidality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + suicidality.
Senses: examples: text: This chapter provides a set of guidelines for how to assess and manage suicidality and parasuicidality in an integrated care setting.
ref: 2005, William T. O'Donohue, Michelle R. Byrd, Nicholas A. Cummings, Behavioral Integrative Care, page 109:
glosses: The quality of being parasuicidal.
fraternism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: April 13, 1820, Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short
The old schism of Federal and Republican threatened nothing, because it existed in every State, and united them together by the fraternism of party.
glosses: fraternization
stomatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomatic
headmould-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headmold-shot
form: head-mold-shot
form: head-mould-shot
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of the skull in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures.
alveoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alveole
symphyseotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of symphysiotomy.
mendole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mendoles
Etymology: Compare French mendol, mendole.
Senses: glosses: A fish, Spicara maena, the cackerel.
mendoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mendole
oathless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oathless
form: most oathless
Etymology: From oath + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an oath or oaths.
work smarter, not harder
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Problems are solved more effectively by intelligence rather than by hard hustle.
glosses: Any type of task or project is performed more effectively using intelligent methods, rather than through overwork.
barbacans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbacan
shrewdity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrewdities
Etymology: From shrewd + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: They have hooted at the devils, shouted with laughter over the stupidities and shrewdities of the hermit.
ref: 1928, Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs, Theatre arts magazine: Volume 12:
text: The few flags that could be seen above various turrets hung limply from their mastheads. This prospect never failed to please the pale young man. His eye ran over it with shrewdity.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: shrewdness
shrewdities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrewdity
cakestand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cakestands
Etymology: From cake + stand.
Senses: examples: text: There was less 'give' in her body than in a cakestand.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: A stand for a cake.
cakestands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cakestand
gilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gillies
Senses: examples: text: Before we knew it, we were on a Fokker, twin engine, jet aircraft out of Copenhagen bound for Stavenger, Bergen and Trondheim, Norway, where we rested up for two days before boarding a four passenger float plane in the tiny Village of Hell. The Land Rover manned by our gilly (guide) waited where the A-Elv River joined the sea at the head of the fjord.
ref: 2010, John W. Stevens, “Atlantic Salmon from Hell and Back”, in Memorable Fish and Fishermen, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gillie (“a guide”).
gilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drink torpedo juice.
castored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From castor + -ed.
Senses: examples: a castored table
glosses: Equipped with castors.
Graham's number
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after American mathematician Ronald Graham (1935–2020).
Senses: glosses: An extremely large number that is an upper bound on the solution to a certain problem in Ramsey theory.
neurochordal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neurocordal.
howel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howels
Etymology: From the same source as German Hobel. Related to Danish høvl and Swedish hyvel.
Senses: glosses: A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering their work, especially the inside of casks.
howel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: howels
form: howeling
form: howelling
form: howeled
form: howeled
form: howelled
form: howelled
Etymology: From the same source as German Hobel. Related to Danish høvl and Swedish hyvel.
Senses: examples: text: to howel a cask
glosses: To smooth; to plane.
howelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of howel
howelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of howel
howels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of howel
neurochord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurochords
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neurocord.
neurochords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurochord
neurocordal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neurocord + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the neurocord.
ragabash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃ
Forms: form: ragabashes
form: ragabrash
form: raggabash
Senses: glosses: An idle or ragged person.
ragabashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragabash
land-locked salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land-locked salmon
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of landlocked salmon.
historicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From historical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being historical.
historicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From historic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being historic.
ragabrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃ
Forms: form: ragabrashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ragabash.
ragabrashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragabrash
ruds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rud
butterscotchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more butterscotchlike
form: most butterscotchlike
Etymology: From butterscotch + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A touch of butterscotchlike diacetyl.
ref: 1992, Institute for Fermentation and Brewing Studies (Boulder, Colorado), The New Brewer: Volumes 9-10
text: Carob is a dark sweet powder made from ground carob beans. It looks like chocolate, but there the resemblance ends; it has a butterscotchlike flavor[…]
ref: 2010, Susan Restino, Mrs. Restino's Country Kitchen, page 67:
text: Blondies are brownies of a different color with a butterscotchlike flavor.
ref: 2010, Debbie Moose, Fan Fare, page 231:
glosses: Resembling butterscotch.
Synonyms: butterscotchy
unburnished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + burnished.
Senses: glosses: Not burnished.
eudemonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eudemonisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eudaemonism.
eudemonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudemonism
blackgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackgames
form: blackgame
Etymology: From black + game.
Senses: glosses: black grouse, Tetrao tetrix.
three-and-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-and-outs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The situation where a team is forced to punt the football without having made any first downs.
three-and-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-and-out
lunules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunule
stereotomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stereotomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to stereotomy.
Synonyms: stereotomical
spelding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speldings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of speldring.
speldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spelding
prested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prest
presting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prest
autecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to autecology.
Derived terms: autecologically
autecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autecologists
Etymology: From autecology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies autecology.
autecologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autecologist
syncword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncwords
Etymology: From sync + word.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A short marker used to synchronize a transmission by indicating the end of the header information and the start of the data.
Synonyms: preamble
syncwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syncword
tut-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutwork
Senses: examples: 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
Tut-work is also employed upon the lode itself, though from the advantages generally considered to arise from the tribute system […]
topics: business
mining
glosses: Work done by the piece, as in non-metalliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom.
Related terms: tutworker
tutworkman
umbrettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbrette
enneahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enneahedron
enneahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enneahedra
form: enneahedrons
Etymology: From ennea- + -hedron.
Senses: examples: text: The enneahedron is a simple all-space filler discovered by myself, based on the cubic antiprism, again omitted by Wood.
ref: 1968, Design, numbers 229-234, unnumbered page:
text: 1996, Michael O'Keeffe, Bruce G. Hyde, Crystal Structures, Number 1: Patterns & Symmetry, page 350,
This is based on a packing of 36-vertex icosahedra [5¹².6⁸] and enneahedra (4³.5⁶].
text: In Figure 9.10.3 we see a projection of the skeleton of an enneahedron (a solid with nine faces). All the faces of this enneahedron are quadrilaterals.
ref: 2015, Claudi Alsina, Roger B. Nelsen, A Mathematical Space Odyssey: Solid Geometry in the 21st Century, page 191:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron with nine faces.
Synonyms: nonahedron
Related terms: enneagon
enneahedral
manywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From many + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In many different ways; variously.
creditress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creditresses
Etymology: From creditor + -ess; compare with Latin creditrix.
Senses: glosses: A female creditor.
Synonyms: creditrix
creditresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creditress
opuscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opuscles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of opuscule.
opuscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opuscle
pannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pannels
Etymology: Old spelling of panel which became standard in falconry.
Senses: examples: text: He carefully directed his eye over the wainscot, across every pannel; […]
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter VIII, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 111:
glosses: Obsolete form of panel.
examples: text: Glut is the slimy substance that lies in the hawk's pannel.
ref: 1860, John Potter Hamilton, Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: The stomach of a hawk.
Derived terms: unpannel
pannel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pannels
form: panneling
form: pannelling
form: panneled
form: panneled
form: pannelled
form: pannelled
Etymology: Old spelling of panel which became standard in falconry.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of panel.
pannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pannel
rearmice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rearmouse
reremice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some to kill cankers in the musk - rose buds , Some war with reremice for their leathern wings To make my small elves coats , and some keep back The clamorous owl , that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits .
ref: 1995 July 10, William Shakespeare, Comedies, Volume 1: Introduction by Tony Tanner, Everyman's Library, →ISBN, page 545:
glosses: plural of reremouse
lantanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of lanthanum.
apologeticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apologetic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The landlady asked with plaintive apologeticness if they could make a shade less noise. The hour was late. Some guests on the upper floor suffered from insomnia.
ref: 1930, William Babington Maxwell, To what green altar?:
text: The apologeticness of his public confession that he is a burakumin can be seen in his decision to leave his job and home and flee to Texas rather than to carry on the path charted by the activist Inoko, for example.
ref: 1993, James A. Fujii, Complicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative, page 93:
glosses: The quality of being apologetic.
monadelphian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of monadelphous.
pulicous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulicous
form: most pulicous
Etymology: From Latin pulicosus, from pulex (“flea”).
Senses: examples: text: An emaciated dog sprang out from behind a tree, its coat pulicous, more swarming flees[sic] than fur in fact
ref: 2007, Michael J. A. Speyer, The Chronicles of Samuel Sassodoro, Book One:
glosses: flea-ridden
Synonyms: pulicose
Jacobinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more Jacobinic
form: most Jacobinic
Etymology: From Jacobin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jacobin, of or relating to the Jacobins of France.
synonyms: word: Jacobin
word: of or relating to the Jacobins of France
examples: text: Sneer on, ye dark and Jacobinic crew! Too long the witless in your fangs ye drew!
ref: 1821, Thomas Travers Burke, The Royal Visit:
glosses: Synonym of revolutionary.
synonyms: word: revolutionary
Derived terms: Jacobinical
Jacobinically
digynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Digynia + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two styles or pistils.
Synonyms: word: digynian
punctuators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punctuator
akilter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more akilter
form: most akilter
Etymology: From a- + kilter?
Senses: examples: text: All of their gardens had been crushed by winter storms and their corn patches were defeated and all akilter.
ref: 1995, Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn, page 109:
glosses: crooked, out of alignment, askew
examples: text: He knew something was wrong by the smell of the house and the sounds and colours of uneasy light that told him the mood of things was all akilter.
ref: 2002, Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels, page 297:
glosses: twisted, dysfunctional
pandanuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandanus
diapentes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diapente
certioraris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of certiorari
rivetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riveting
Sebat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shevat (month of Hebrew calendar)
dingies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dingy
dingies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dingy
telesmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more telesmatic
form: most telesmatic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to telesms; magical.
Synonyms: telesmatical
telesmatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more telesmatically
form: most telesmatically
Etymology: From telesmatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of a telesm, or magical charm.
polylinguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polylinguists
Etymology: From poly- + linguist.
Senses: synonyms: polyglot
glosses: A person who is fluent in numerous languages.
poor house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poor houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poorhouse.
smoke stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke stands
Senses: examples: text: There were blue leather easy chairs with smoke stands beside them.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 22:
glosses: A piece of furniture consisting of a free-standing ashtray, often with other smoking paraphernalia and a drawer or compartment for tobacco etc.
smoke stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke stand
pin seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinseal
Senses: examples: text: He took a pin-seal wallet with gold corners from his pocket and showed the blonde something.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 25:
glosses: A leather made from the skin of a young seal.
overparked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈpɑːkt/
Forms: form: more overparked
form: most overparked
Etymology: From overpark + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I was long overparked, but the cops were too busy carrying girls and blowing whistles to bother about that.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 32:
glosses: Parked for longer than allowed by road markings, meter regulations etc.
big talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Old English micelsprecende [lit. "much speaking"] ("boasting").
Senses: examples: text: "Me, I just dropped in to hear yore big talk. Reminds me of old Geronimo. Like you, he gets all filled up with words about every so often and has to steam off. Go ahead, Gurley. Don't let me interrupt you. Make heap oration."
ref: 1919, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 14, in Oh, You Tex!:
text: Classmates remembered him as brash and jug-eared and full of big talk about his sexual experience.
ref: 2007 November 11, Charles McGrath, “Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With a Matching Ego, Dies at 84”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Sep 2012:
text: In an industry built on big talk and swagger, Bank of America's Kenneth Lewis is an anomaly.
ref: 2008 January 17, “Savior of Countrywide?”, in Time:
synonyms: big words
glosses: Statements which are boastful or exaggerated.
examples: text: At the annual livestock convention in Toronto's Royal York Hotel last week, the big talk was about Holsteins.
ref: 1949 February 14, “Canada: Los Holsteinos”, in Time:
text: "The big talk of the street at the moment is that the Fed will raise the discount rate 50 basis points," said Kenneth Ducey.
ref: 1994 August 12, “3-Day Stock Rally Ends As Dow Retreats 15.86”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Sep 2012:
glosses: Major topic of conversation; current gossip.
Synonyms: sense: boastful or exaggerated statements
word: braggadocio
sense: major topic of conversation
word: the buzz
Related terms: talk big
small talk
fantasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fantastic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The worship of phalluses which is another frequently-met feature of early religions leaves the superficial modern observer equally aghast on account of its fantasticity when he is not overwhelmed by its indecency.
ref: 1937, Nagendra Nath Ghosh, The Aryan Trail in Iran and India, page 257:
text: Again to give you some idea of the fantasticity of crassitude and of violence, Balitsky, head of the G.P.U. in the Ukraine, estimated eight to nine million died in the Ukraine alone in the nineteen-thirties, not to mention those who died of starvation in the Urals, Trans-Volga and Eastern Siberia.
ref: 1976 November 7, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, “Conversations With Mikhail Borodin (Part II)”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 44, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D:
text: Imagine the fantasticity of a 120 square-yard plot in the F.B. Area selling at Rs. 60,000 to Rs. 70,000!
ref: 1978, Pakistan Economist, volume 18, page 34:
text: Perhaps the ancient authors all exaggerated the fantasticity or the universality of the rite, omitting to mention that a large proportion failed each year to see the "great light," or become "possessed" by the gods, or know the "rivalry between seeing and hearing."
ref: 1993, DAvid Fideler, Alexandria 2, volume 2, page 86:
glosses: The state of being fantastic.
Synonyms: fantasticalness
licitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of licitation
pony glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pony glasses
Etymology: From the small size; see etymology of pony.
Senses: examples: text: I unlocked my deep drawer and got out my office bottle and two pony glasses.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 64:
glosses: A small glass for alcoholic drinks.
glosses: A quarter-pint glass (formerly 5 imperial fl oz, metrized to 140 ml).
pony glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pony glass
sepat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sepats
Senses: glosses: A regional division of Ancient Egypt.
Hanseatic city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanseatic cities
Etymology: A calque of the German Hansestadt.
Senses: glosses: A member city of the Hanseatic League.
glosses: A former member city of the Hanseatic League.
Synonyms: Hanse city
Hanse town
Related terms: word: the Hanses
bristlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bristlets
Etymology: From bristle + -et.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive bristle.
basketbrawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basketbrawl
discerptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Capability or liability to be discerped.
Synonyms: discerpibility
lifetaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifetakers
Etymology: From life + taker.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I don't know hell's first whisper about you. You might be a lifetaker for all I know.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 86:
glosses: A murderer; an assassin.
lifetakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifetaker
rangefinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From range + finding.
Senses: glosses: The act of determining the distance to a target.
Related terms: rangefinder
discerpibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of discerptibility.
primordials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primordial
caudated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a tail, or a termination resembling a tail; caudate.
dilateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dilate + -eth
Senses: examples: text: For as a Pyramis, beginning at a point, by little and little dilateth into all parts […]
ref: 1838, Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford, Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land: Volume 1, page 95:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dilate
interosseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the interosseal artery
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between bones; interosseous.
Roosevelt elk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roosevelt elk
Etymology: Named after US president Theodore Roosevelt.
Senses: glosses: Cervus canadensis roosevelti, the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk in North America.
wikipedia: Theodore Roosevelt
Synonyms: Olympic elk
sea slater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea slaters
Senses: glosses: A littoral woodlouse of species Ligia oceanica.
sea slaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea slater
assimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assimulate
assimulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assimulate
assimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Such it was———or rather such would it have seem'd upon any other brow; but the sweet look of goodness which sat upon my uncle Toby's, assimulated every thing around it so sovereignly to itself, and Nature had moreover wrote GENTLEMAN with so fair a hand in every line of his countenance, that even his tarnish'd gold-laced hat and huge cockade of flimsy taffeta became him;
ref: 1767, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
glosses: simple past and past participle of assimulate
sarcoscyphaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Sarcoscyphaceae + -ous
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the family Sarcoscyphaceae, a family of cup fungi.
exciple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exciples
Etymology: From Latin excipere.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer part of an apothecium of those ascomycete fungi which have that sort of fructification. Most lichens come into that category.
exciples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exciple
gobbeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gobbet
gobbeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gobbet
excipulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excipula
Senses: glosses: An exciple.
excipula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excipulum
stromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: strō-măt′ĭk
ipa: /stɹəʊ̯ˈmat.ɪk/
note: conservative
ipa: /stɹəʊ̯ˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /stɹoʊ̯ˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /stɹəʉ̯ˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /stɹɐʉ̯ˈmɛt.ək/
ipa: /stɹoˈmat.ɪk/
ipa: /sʈɾoːˈmaʈ.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Etymology: From stroma + -tic or stromata + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a stroma.
glosses: Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
Derived terms: distromatic
monostromatic
phytostromatic
scrubbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrubbable
form: most scrubbable
Etymology: From scrub + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] a Polyvinyl-Acetate paint that gives a lustrous satin finish plus a durable, scrubbable surface. No messy clean-up jobs.
ref: 1958 March 24, LIFE, volume 44, number 12, page 11:
glosses: Suitable for being scrubbed.
dolichocephalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
Synonyms: dolichocephaly
dolichocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dolicho- + -cephaly.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
Synonyms: dolichocephalism
chinook salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinook salmon
form: chinook salmons
Senses: glosses: Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, the largest species in the Pacific salmon group.
Synonyms: king salmon
Quinnat salmon
spring salmon
Tyee salmon
black salmon
blackmouth
tchaviche
surrogate advertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When I saw that everybody in the hotel ad was smoking the same brand of cigarette, I knew it was surrogate advertising.
glosses: The advertising of one product or service within an advertisement ostensibly for something else.
bidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biding
ingas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inga
prenasalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prenasalises
form: prenasalising
form: prenasalised
form: prenasalised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prenasalize.
prenasalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prenasalise
prenasalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prenasalise
prenasalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prenasalise
compaginated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compaginate
Lollardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lollard + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.
Synonyms: Lollardy
amiiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Amiiformes
amiiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amiiforms
Senses: glosses: Any bowfin of the order Amiiformes
self-actualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + actualisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-actualization.
talcy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more talcy
form: most talcy
Etymology: From talc + -y.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.
Synonyms: talcose
talcous
six bob a day tourists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of six bob a day tourist
garnetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of garnett
garnetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of garnett
garnetts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of garnett
garnetts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garnett
honest-to-God
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: honest to God
Etymology: See honest to God.
Senses: examples: text: He's an honest-to-God saint; I don't know what I would do without him!
glosses: real, true, actual, genuine, bona fide
Synonyms: word: honest-to-goodness
english: polytheistic
translation: polytheistic
word: honest-to-gods
word: honest-to-Hannah
honest-to-God
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: honest to God
Etymology: See honest to God.
Senses: examples: text: She is honest-to-God brilliant.
glosses: Alternative form of honest to God.
adrogating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adrogate
adrogates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adrogate