cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ordie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordies
Etymology: From ordnance + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Helmets nodded approval almost in unison as the ordies began to perform their jobs. The ordnance men checked the MK-84 practice bombs, ensuring they would drop when the pilot pressed the pickle switch in the cockpit […]
ref: 2009, Randy Arrington, Kerosene Cowboys:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: ordnance operative
ordies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordie
allocatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allocate + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to be allocated.
Synonyms: allocable
straight pride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined modelled on gay pride.
Senses: examples: text: At least one Tea Party rally took heat from the gay community and human rights groups for allowing the sale of straight pride clothing and paraphernalia.
ref: 2010, Erin McHugh, Coffee, Tea, or Kool-Aid: Which Party Politics Are You Swallowing?, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: After being arrested and humiliated for being straight, Owen organizes a Straight Pride Parade for himself and others to come out of the closet.
ref: 2015, Vincent Terrace, Internet Lesbian and Gay Television Series, 1996–2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:
text: In June, a group calling itself Super Happy Fun America announced it was planning a Straight Pride Parade in Boston. The group says they requested the same route as the Boston Pride Parade, which marched from Copley Square to Government Square on June 8.
ref: 2019 July 1, Nico Lang, “The distraction of Straight Pride, as explained by LGBTQ activists and historians”, in Vox News, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2019:
text: Many of those who seized the opportunity to mock Straight Pride and its appropriately drab flag were, unsurprisingly, queer, yet a sizable number of straight people could also be found in the fray.
ref: 2019 October 9, Asa Seresin, “On Heteropessimism”, in The New Inquiry, New York, N.Y.: The New Inquiry, Inc.:
text: A Colorado father is suing the state's largest school district, claiming staff refused to let him display a "straight pride" flag alongside the Progress Pride flags on view throughout his children's Denver school.
ref: 2023, Hannah Ray Lambert, “Father sues school district for refusing to display straight pride flag alongside Progress Pride flag”, in Fox News:
glosses: A display of pride in one's heterosexuality, as a reactionary movement to gay pride.
wikipedia: straight flag
Related terms: super straight
white pride
pendom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pen + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: It is the mark of distinction in pendom. It means for you flawless writing guaranteed unconditionally for a lifetime.
ref: 1827, Life:
glosses: The world or sphere of pens.
Peranakan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəɹanəˈkan/
ipa: /pəɹanəˈkɑːn/
ipa: /pəɹænəˈkæn/
ipa: /pəˈɹɑːnəkɑːn/
ipa: /-ɑkɑːn/
Forms: form: Peranakans
form: Peranakan
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay peranakan.
Senses: glosses: A descendant of the 15th- through 17th-century Chinese immigrants to the Malay Peninsula and Nusantara (Indonesian Archipelago), now part of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Southern Thailand) also known as Nanyang.
Hyponyms: word: Baba
word: Nyonya
Coordinate terms: singkek
totok
Derived terms: Peranakan Indonesian
Related terms: Sangley
Chinese mestizo
Mestizo de Sangley
mestizo
mestiza
Peranakans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peranakan
level-headedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more level-headedly
form: most level-headedly
Etymology: From level-headed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a level-headed manner.
perbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perbreaks
form: perbreaking
form: perbroke
form: perbroken
Senses: glosses: To vomit.
perbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perbreak
perbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perbreak
perciatelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian perciatelli.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bucatini (“type of pasta”).
synonyms: word: bucatini
extra: type of pasta
pearl wedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearl weddings
Senses: glosses: A thirtieth wedding anniversary.
pearl weddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pearl wedding
Pekin robin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pekin robins
Senses: glosses: A bird, the red-billed leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea).
Peking robin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peking robins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pekin robin.
Pekin robins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pekin robin
Peking robins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peking robin
pearly everlasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Anaphalis of flowering plants.
premolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: premolts
form: premolting
form: premolted
form: premolted
Etymology: From pre- + molt.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: To undergo the period prior to an animal molting its exoskeleton, shell, skin, etc.
premolt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + molt.
Senses: glosses: Prior to a molt (the shedding of skin).
premoult
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + moult.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of premolt.
postmoult
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + moult.
Senses: glosses: Commonwealth standard spelling of postmolt.
postmolt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: postmoult
Etymology: From post- + molt.
Senses: glosses: After a molt (shedding of skin).
sluttify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sluttifies
form: sluttifying
form: sluttified
form: sluttified
Etymology: From slut + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: She was supposed to help Halley, not use their agreement as an excuse to sluttify — unless, that is, it had actually been Avalon's mission to get a boyfriend.
ref: 2009, Alexa Young, Frenemies #2: Faketastic:
text: All Normal Catholic Schoolgirls had creative ways of sluttifying our pure-as-the-driven-snow required attire.
ref: 2010, Donna Freitas, The Possibilities of Sainthood:
glosses: To make slutty.
Related terms: sluttification
sluttified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sluttify
sluttifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sluttify
sluttifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sluttify
pepsinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pepsin + -ated.
Senses: examples: text: At ten days old we began to give them Bartlett's pepsinated food with milk, and since that time to within a few days I have not attempted to replace it with anything else.
ref: 1891, Leroy Milton Yale, Babyhood: The Mother's Nursery Guide, volume 7, page 25:
text: She kept a supply of pepsinated milk on hand and insisted that he use it to dilute his whiskey.
ref: 1994, Terry Reksten, The Dunsmuir Saga:
glosses: Treated with pepsin.
glucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡluːkʊs/
rhymes: -uːkʊs
Forms: form: more glucous
form: most glucous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”).
Senses: glosses: Sweet-tasting.
glosses: Of or containing glucose.
glucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡluːkʊs/
rhymes: -uːkʊs
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of glaucous.
glucous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡluːkʊs/
rhymes: -uːkʊs
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of glucose.
pendulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pendulent
form: most pendulent
Senses: glosses: pendulous; hanging
cellularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cellularizes
form: cellularizing
form: cellularized
form: cellularized
Etymology: From cellular + -ize.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To separate into distinct cells.
Derived terms: intracellularize
recellularize
cellularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cellularize
cellularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cellularize
cellularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: separated into distinct cells
Derived terms: uncellularized
carbolically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From carbolic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Personally I had these suspicions at the time, and I took every precaution, by washing my hands carbolically after seeing a patient with a sore throat of any kind […]
ref: 1881, Veterinary Journal:
text: The young minds had first to be emptied, and then carbolically scoured, before they could be filled with The Truth.
ref: 2012, Ken Chadwick, Evacuee: Or Sins and Comeuppances:
glosses: With carbolic acid.
Sunday saint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunday saints
Senses: glosses: One who is pious and well-behaved on Sunday (when attending church) but not so well-behaved at other times.
Sunday saints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sunday saint
Gcaleka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A major subgroup of the Xhosa found in the Transkei area of the Eastern Cape.
boss boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boss boys
Senses: glosses: The black leader of a gang of miners.
boss boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boss boy
Englishify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Englishifies
form: Englishifying
form: Englishified
form: Englishified
Etymology: From English + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make English.
Englishifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Englishify
matronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From matron + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: To a lad of my age, the idea of a woman of thirty was connected with nothing but associations of far-advanced old maidenhood or very ripe matronism […]
ref: 1854, The Keepsake:
glosses: matronhood
Anglophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anglophiliac
form: most Anglophiliac
Senses: glosses: Anglophilic
Anglophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglophiliacs
Senses: glosses: Anglophile
Anglophiliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglophiliac
Anglophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anglo- + -phony.
Senses: glosses: The use of the English language.
Lusophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Luso- + -phony.
Senses: glosses: The use of the Portuguese language.
Francophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Franco- + -phony.
Senses: glosses: The use of the French language.
Anglicanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglicanizations
Etymology: From Anglican + -ization.
Senses: glosses: conversion to Anglicanism (religious denomination)
whistling face syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Freeman-Sheldon syndrome
Freeman-Sheldon syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Described in 1938 by E. A. Freeman and J. H. Sheldon.
Senses: glosses: A rare severe form of distal arthrogryposis.
Synonyms: whistling face syndrome
carpotarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From carpo- + tarsal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the carpals and tarsus.
Derived terms: craniocarpotarsal
spondylocarpotarsal
craniocarpotarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + carpotarsal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cranium, carpals, and tarsus.
ratchelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ratchelly
form: most ratchelly
Etymology: From ratchel + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or containing gravelly stone.
arteritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arteritis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We can fairly reconcile this apparent lapse by observing, that M. Nelaton confounds the arteritic form of the affection with that supervening on ossified arteries; a circumstance first noticed by Cowper, the anatomist, but denied gravely by Pott, an author who is frequently quoted as countenancing the idea.
ref: 1856, M. Nélaton, “Clinical Lectures on Surgery”, in Dublin quarterly journal of medical science, volume 22, page 167:
text: These arteritic lesions are not confined to the striated musculature, but occur everywhere, including the superior and inferior mesenteric arterial beds.
ref: 1965, John R. Gamble, Current concepts of clinical gastroenterology, page 119:
text: Arteritic and nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy both manifest as sudden visual loss associated with optic disc edema.
ref: 2008, Current Ocular Therapy, page 581:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to arteritis.
Derived terms: nonarteritic
mixum-gatherum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixum gatherum
form: mixum-gatherums
Senses: glosses: A miscellaneous mixture.
mixum-gatherums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixum-gatherum
mixer-settler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixer-settlers
Senses: glosses: A piece of equipment used in the solvent extraction process, which first mixes the phases together and then allows them to separate by gravity.
mixer-settlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixer-settler
uncaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + caned.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever the cause of my being in his office it could not have been too serious as I left uncaned.
ref: 2014, Reuben B. Reynolds, Born in a Barn or My Education: An Autobiography, page 35:
glosses: Not caned.
driving moccasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driving moccasins
Senses: glosses: A contemporary form of moccasin with rubber tabs on the sole.
driving moccasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driving moccasin
molly bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molly bolts
Etymology: Former trademark.
Senses: examples: text: Insecurely tilted against the wall is the big oval mirror they took away when her parents had a new bathroom put in; he always meant to attach it to the plaster above her bureau for her but never got around to buying molly bolts.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 85:
glosses: A specialized screw fastener used with drywall as a hollow-wall anchor.
Related terms: jack nut
molly bolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molly bolt
streptostylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From streptostyly + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting streptostyly.
monimostylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monimostyly + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting monimostyly.
streptostyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strepto- + Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: The fore-aft movement of the quadrate about the otic joint (quadratosquamosal joint).
Related terms: bistylic
amphistylic
hyostylic
autostyly
actinopt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinopts
Senses: glosses: actinopterygian
actinopts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actinopt
prokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + -kinesis.
Senses: glosses: A form of mesokinesis that occurs between the braincase and facial skeleton.
metakinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + -kinesis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Cranial kinesis involving jointing between the dermatocranium and occipital segment.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The separation of the threads during metaphase.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: According to C. Lloyd Morgan, a hypothetical property possessed by all types of life of being endowed with something that is not consciousness but has the potentiality of developing into consciousness.
dikinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Having both metakinetic and mesokinetic joints.
metakinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metakinesis.
mesokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mesokinesis.
mesokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + -kinesis.
Senses: glosses: Cranial kinesis involving jointing that is more rostral in the skull than in metakinesis.
dermatocranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəl
Etymology: From dermato- + cranial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the dermatocranium.
dermatocranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniəm
Etymology: From dermato- + cranium.
Senses: glosses: A set of bones covering the brain, eyes and nostrils in bony fishes and all land-living vertebrates.
rhynchokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhyncho- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to rhynchokinesis.
vocabularian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /və(ʊ)ˈkabjʊˈlɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /voʊˈkæbjəˈlɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /vəˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From vocabulary + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The use of strong drink gives to our English tongue the following verbs:—tipple, tope, booze, swill, guzzle, carouse, liquor, fuddle, drink, soak, sot, swig, inebriate, intoxicate, fuzzle, temulate, and to be intemperate, anti-teetotal, compotative, &c. Compare this plentifulness of vocabularian distinctions, reaching from the first tremulous overpush of the balance of the faculties in fresh to their complete obliteration in dead-drunk, with the scanty replenishment of phrases supplied for use on the opposite side of temperance. We have, it is true, moderate as a sort of see-saw go-between, temperate, somewhat in advance of that, and sober, abstinent, teectotal, very proper terms indeed; […]
ref: 1869, “Byeways of English”, in Meliora: A Quarterly Review of Social Science in Its Ethical, Economical, Political, and Ameliorative Aspects, volume XII, number 45, London: S[amuel] W[illiam] Partridge, […], →OCLC, page 44:
text: Had you ever noticed that fashions in words are just as changeable as fashions in wearing apparel? For a time the intellectuals will seize madly upon a word, use it until it is threadbare and then toss it into the vocabularian ragbag.
ref: 1918 December 5, “Words Worn Threadbare”, in The Advocate-Democrat, volume XXXIV, number 15, Marysville, Kan., →OCLC, section 2, page [2], column 2:
text: Certainly the redoubtable Miss Samuels, who taught me at Marryatville Primary School in Adelaide, had just such an objection to “got” – and to “get” for that matter – and would strike it out and insist on its replacement with another verb. Similarly, but more understandably, she would demand substitutes for the adjective “nice”, in her view another example of vocabularian laziness.
ref: 1997 May 24, Gordon Bilney, “Wordwatching: Why do we got a problem with some words?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, late edition, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12:
synonyms: vocabular
vocabularial
glosses: Of or relating to vocabulary.
vocabularian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /və(ʊ)ˈkabjʊˈlɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /voʊˈkæbjəˈlɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /vəˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: vocabularians
Etymology: From vocabulary + -an.
Senses: examples: text: You might have one of these prodigious vocabularians in your house.
ref: 2010, Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know:
text: Indeed so inventive have been baseball's vocabularians, as Paul Dickson's dictionary indicated, this type of baseball humor shows no sign of slowing down.
ref: 2014, Frank Hoffman, Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond, Routledge:
synonyms: vocabulist
glosses: One who cultivates a large or impressive vocabulary.
vocabularians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vocabularian
rhynchokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhyncho- + -kinesis.
Senses: glosses: The ability of some birds to flex the upper beak or rhinotheca.
molehunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molehunts
Etymology: From mole + hunt.
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: An investigation attempting to identify moles (agents who have infiltrated an organisation).
molehunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molehunt
moeriki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mehoriki
form: meriki
Etymology: Borrowed from the Moriori and Maori moeriki.
Senses: glosses: An extinct bird, Dieffenbach's rail (†Gallirallus dieffenbachii).
mehoriki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moeriki.
meriki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moeriki.
Dieffenbach's rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dieffenbach's rails
Etymology: The only recorded living specimen was captured in 1840 by Ernst Dieffenbach.
Senses: glosses: Any member of species †Gallirallus dieffenbachii of extinct birds endemic to the Chatham Islands.
Synonyms: mehoriki
meriki
moeriki
modulize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: modulizes
form: modulizing
form: modulized
form: modulized
Etymology: From module + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To divide into separate modules.
modulized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of modulize
modulizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of modulize
modulizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of modulize
mogully
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mogully
form: most mogully
Etymology: From mogul + -y.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Having humps and bumps.
Minnetaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minnetarees
form: Minnetaree
Senses: glosses: A member of the Hidatsa people.
Minnetarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Minnetaree
Hidatsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hidatsas
form: Hidatsa
Etymology: Borrowed from Hidatsa híraaca.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Siouan people, part of the Three Affiliated Tribes.
Synonyms: word: Minnetaree
Hidatsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hidatsa híraaca.
Senses: glosses: The traditional language of the Hidatsa people.
Hidatsa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hidatsa
form: most Hidatsa
Etymology: Borrowed from Hidatsa híraaca.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Hidatsa.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Hidatsa language.
Hidatsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hidatsa
midmanagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + management.
Senses: glosses: middle management
millimetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From millimetric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In millimetres.
untransmittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + transmittable.
Senses: glosses: Not transmittable.
Synonyms: untransmissible
hyperpoem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpoems
Etymology: From hyper- + poem.
Senses: glosses: A poem written in a hypertext medium.
hyperpoems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperpoem
hypernovel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypernovels
Etymology: From hyper- + novel.
Senses: glosses: A novel written in a hypertext medium.
hypernovels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypernovel
miscredit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkɹɛdɪt/
Forms: form: miscredits
form: miscrediting
form: miscredited
form: miscredited
Etymology: From mis- + credit.
Senses: glosses: To discredit.
examples: text: This unfortunately hasn't prevented many commentators from continuing to miscredit Flaherty as a codirector.
ref: 2008, Steven Jay Schneider, One Thousand One Movies You Must See Before You Die:
glosses: To credit incorrectly.
miscredit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkɹɛdɪt/
Etymology: From mis- + credit.
Senses: glosses: discredit
miscredited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscredit
miscredits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscredit
miscrediting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscredit
milling frolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milling frolics
Senses: glosses: A traditional Scottish event where cloth was waulked to the accompaniment of folk songs.
Related terms: fuller
fulling
fulling mill
husking bee
milling frolics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milling frolic
Bezpopovtsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian безпоповцы (bezpopovcy) (pre-1917 spelling; modern spelling is беспоповцы (bespopovcy)). From без- (bez-) + поп (pop, “priest”) + -ов- (-ov-) + -цы (-cy) (plural of -ец (-ec)).
Senses: glosses: A branch of Old Believers which is primarily known for its rejection of the ordained priesthood
glosses: The members of this movement. Singular form is Bezpopovets
automobilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: automobilizes
form: automobilizing
form: automobilized
form: automobilized
Etymology: From automobile + -ize.
Senses: examples: to automobilize a country
glosses: To introduce automobiles to.
Related terms: automobilization
automobilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of automobilize
automobilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of automobilize
automobilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of automobilize
autowind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autowinds
form: autowinding
form: autowound
form: autowound
Etymology: From auto- + wind.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To wind on (the film in a camera) automatically.
autowinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autowind
autowound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autowind
autowinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autowind
autoicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoicon
autoicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoicons
Etymology: From auto- + icon.
Senses: examples: text: […] as recently as the 1950s in Taiwan, flesh-body portraits were autoicons produced by a sustained process of self-starvation, while seated in a meditating position, relying on a diet including pine kernels and cinnabar to dehydrate the body […]
ref: 2008, Robin Osborne, Jeremy Tanner, Art's Agency and Art History:
text: Many regard as typically and preciously odd his wish to have his body mummified after death so that in place of a stone statue of himself he could be an 'autoicon'.
ref: 2009, Keith Hayward, Shadd Maruna, Jayne Mooney, Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology:
glosses: Something that serves as an icon representing itself.
fiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: fisses
form: fissing
form: fissed
form: fissed
Etymology: From fission by back-formation.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed, with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere […]
ref: 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?:
glosses: To split apart into multiple entities.
bowrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊˌɹaɪdə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: bowriders
Etymology: From bow + rider.
Senses: glosses: A kind of runabout boat with an open bow area.
bowriders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowrider
fNIRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From f- + NIRS.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of functional near infrared spectroscopy.
Synonyms: functional NIRS
Related terms: english: functional magnetic resonance imaging
translation: functional magnetic resonance imaging
word: fMRI
english: near infrared spectroscopy
translation: near infrared spectroscopy
word: NIRS
word: fluoroscopy
shrithe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹaɪð/
rhymes: -aɪð
Forms: form: shrithes
form: shrithing
form: shrithed
form: shrithed
Etymology: Coined by English writer and translator Kevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941): a semi-learned borrowing from Old English sċrīþan (“to go; take one's way to a place; go about; wander”), from Proto-West Germanic *skrīþan, from Proto-Germanic *skrīþaną (“to walk, go, slither, crawl”). Cognate with Dutch schrijden (“to stride”), German schreiten (“to stride, step, proceed”), Icelandic skríða (“to slither, creep, crawl”).
Senses: examples: text: He realized the monster meant to attack Heorot after the blue hour, when black night has settled over all— when shadowy shapes come shrithing dark beneath the clouds.
ref: 1973, James Edwin Miller, England in Literature, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Grendel to His Mother [by Kirsten Dabrowski] Oh momma, momma, I'm just not a winner, / 'Cause I got roughed up on my way to get dinner. / I shrithed to the Heorot to get human yummies / To tickle our palates and fill up our tummies.
ref: 1993, Betty Bonham Lies, “Writing about Literature through Poetry”, in The Poet’s Pen: Writing Poetry with Middle and High School Students, Portsmouth, N.H.: Teacher Ideas Press, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 159:
text: While the winged creature coiled himself up, / the friend and lord of men stood unflinching / by his shield; Beowulf waited ready armed. / Then, fiery and twisted, the dragon swiftly / shrithed towards its fate.
ref: 1999, “Beowulf”, in Richard [William] Barber, editor, Myths & Legends of the British Isles, Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 243:
text: But the cruel monster constantly terrified / young and old, the dark death-shadow / lurked in ambush; he prowled the misty moors / at the dead of night; men do not know / where such hell-whisperers shrithe in their wanderings.
ref: 1999, Kevin Crossley-Holland, edited by Heather O'Donoghue, Beowulf (Oxford World's Classics), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: An adder writhes out of the bush, I can see the diamonds on its back; it shrithes across the sandy soil, and bites the right foot of one of the knights.
ref: 2003, Kevin Crossley-Holland, “The Most Bitter Day”, in King of the Middle March (Arthur; 3), London: Orion Children's Books, →ISBN; 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Arthur A. Levine Books, Scholastic Inc., 2004 October, →ISBN, page 349:
text: I creep, I shrithe / on my devil's claws, / and sting whatever I touch.
ref: 2009, Kevin Crossley-Holland, “Switzerland”, in The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood, London: Quercus, →ISBN:
text: Some secret curse comes shrithing / To the once blithe hall, sits on the soul / Where a treasure burns.
ref: 2017, “[The Exeter Book] The Rhyming Poem”, in Craig Williamson, transl., The Complete Old English Poems, Philadelphia, P.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 503, lines 55–57:
glosses: To move; to proceed; to creep, roam, wander.
wikipedia: Poetry Foundation
Related terms: scrap
scrape
scree
shrithing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrithe
shrithed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrithe.
æger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aeger.
æger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ægers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aeger.
aegirite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegirites
Etymology: From aegirine + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: aegirine
Derived terms: aegiritic
ægirite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of aegirite.
æstuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: æstuates
form: æstuating
form: æstuated
form: æstuated
Senses: examples: text: When æstuating in her mighty toil
The sea has wrought up to her highest shore,
Her weary floods thou teachest to recoil
Back to that rest wherein they swum before.
ref: 1825, Joseph Beaumont quoted in The Retrospective Review, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; volume XI, part II, page 306
glosses: Obsolete spelling of estuate.
when life gives you lemons, make lemonade
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: if life gives you lemons, make lemonade
form: whenever life gives you lemons, make lemonade
Senses: glosses: You should always make the best out of difficult situations.
Related terms: make a virtue of necessity
make the best of a bad bargain
ride with the punches
quotaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quota + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: One night of television a week was given over to “Slovak night,” a practice many Czechs found annoying, seeing it merely as quotaism and adding nothing to the quality of the broadcast.
ref: 2000, Michael Kraus, Allison Stanger, Irreconcilable Differences?, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: The practice of taking a certain action to fulfil a quota, regardless of the action's merits (for example, ensuring that 10% of students admitted to a college are from a certain ethnic group, regardless of their qualifications).
azocoupling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azocouplings
Etymology: From azo- + coupling.
Senses: glosses: An organic reaction between a diazonium compound and another aromatic compound that produces an azo compound.
Related terms: azocoupled
azocouplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azocoupling
jazz hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dance move in which the performer's hands are extended with palms toward the audience and fingers splayed.
examples: text: “You shouldn't,” I said. Perhaps he might hire me for my refreshing honesty? I laughed faintly, then added, “Just kidding,” and gave him jazz hands.
ref: 2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A gesture in which the hands, which are extended with palms facing forwards and fingers splayed, are rotated quickly.
Related terms: spirit fingers
vescalgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular ellagitannin.
vescalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular ellagitannin.
castalgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular ellagitannin.
nupharin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular ellagitannin.
nonahydroxytriphenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A moiety found in some ellagitannins.
consoleitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of consolitis.
preggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pregnant + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Well, Matty, it's like this. I'm preggy.’
ref: 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 137:
glosses: Pregnant (carrying a baby).
because is why
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of because reasons.
synonyms: word: because reasons
Laruellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Laruellian
form: most Laruellian
Etymology: From Laruelle + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to François Laruelle (1937–2024), French philosopher.
asRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asRNAs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of antisense RNA.
aRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asRNA.
cardiorespirographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + respirographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cardiorespirography
cardiorespirography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cardio- + respirography.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The graphical recording and analysis of the action of the heart and lungs
Derived terms: cardiorespirographic
genotoxicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genotoxicants
Etymology: From geno- + toxicant.
Senses: glosses: genotoxin
genotoxicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genotoxicant
captain's table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captains' tables
Senses: glosses: A dining table on a cruise ship reserved for the captain and his selected guests.
hexadecene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadecenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric alkenes having sixteen carbon atoms and one double bond
Derived terms: hexadecenoic
landbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landbridges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of land bridge.
landbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landbridge
rubby-dubby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: chum thrown into the water to attract sharks
microendemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: micro-endemic
Etymology: From micro- + endemic.
Senses: glosses: endemic to only a very small region
microendemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: microendemics
form: micro-endemic
Etymology: From micro- + endemic.
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
Lambeg drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lambeg drums
Etymology: Named after the village of Lambeg in County Antrim.
Senses: glosses: A large Irish drum beaten with curved Malacca canes.
Lambeg drums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lambeg drum
spirit fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cheerleading move with outstretched arms and fingers wiggling up and down.
Related terms: jazz hands
micropollutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropollutant
tartanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tartanizes
form: tartanizing
form: tartanized
form: tartanized
Etymology: From tartan + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Particularly irksome for someone like Kerr, the plot had its basis in events that had occurred on Prince Edward Island – not Cape Breton Island – but the filmmakers had cavalierly transported the story to Nova Scotia at just the time when the province was in the midst of tartanizing itself.
ref: 2010, Ian McKay, Robin Bates, In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia:
glosses: To make (something) stereotypically Scottish; to tartan.
Related terms: tartanization
tartanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tartanize
tartanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tartanize
tartanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tartan + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Process of tartanizing.
tartanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tartanize
neurovisceral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + visceral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to both the nervous and cerebrospinal systems
Synonyms: neurosplanchnic
octaviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octaviations
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The repetition of a chord an octave higher or lower than the original.
octaviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octaviation
hexadecenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexadecene
palaeogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleogeological.
Related terms: palaeogeology
imprescriptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imprescriptable
form: most imprescriptable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of imprescriptible.
prescriptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prescriptible.
paleogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: palaeogeological
Etymology: From paleo- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleogeology
pamphletize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pamphletizes
form: pamphletizing
form: pamphletized
form: pamphletized
Etymology: From pamphlet + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.
pamphletizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pamphletize
pamphletizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pamphletize
pamphletized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pamphletize
paleogeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeogeology
Etymology: From paleo- + geology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The geology of a particular place at some time in the distant past
Derived terms: paleogeological
terraformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terraformation
paleodepositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + depositional.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to paleodeposition or paleodeposits
paleodeposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + deposition.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of a deposit in the distant past
Derived terms: paleodepositional
Related terms: paleodeposit
paleospring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleosprings
Etymology: From paleo- + spring.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: a spring (water source) that existed in the distant past
paleosprings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleospring
paleovegetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + vegetation.
Senses: glosses: The vegetation of an area in the distant past
pantographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pantograph
pantographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pantograph
pantographed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The test unit then moved over to Clacton on the Great Eastern, where it became 316999, running with a pantographed trailer to measure performance under the 25kV overhead wires.
ref: 2023 May 3, Howard Johnston, “The plan to re-create a long-lost Class 210”, in RAIL, number 982, page 45:
glosses: Fitted with a pantograph for electric current collection. (of a rail vehicle)
postexercise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-exercise
Etymology: From post- + exercise.
Senses: examples: text: postexercise muscle soreness
text: postexercise fatigue
hypernyms: postexertional
glosses: That follows exercise (physical activity).
helmsperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helmspersons
form: helmspeople
Etymology: From helm + -s- + person.
Senses: glosses: A helmsman or helmswoman.
helmspersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmsperson
helmspeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmsperson
proteinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteinates
Etymology: From protein + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An anion derived from a protein.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metal salt derived from a protein.
Derived terms: silver proteinate
proteinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteinate
supervillainous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supervillainous
form: most supervillainous
Etymology: From super- + villainous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a supervillain; reminiscent of a supervillain.
becauseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From because + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The child's concept of 'becauseness', i.e. causality, will undergo a series of changes, but not the verbal symbol which refers to it. Later on, the causal relation will enter as a relatum into the higher matrix of 'logical categories' […]
ref: 1964, Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation:
text: Real observers, Kant concluded, must live in a world of whatness, whereness, whenness, and becauseness, imposed by the way that a mind such as ours can grasp reality.
ref: 2008, Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being a causal result.
counterrebuttal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterrebuttals
Etymology: From counter- + rebuttal.
Senses: glosses: A rebuttal to a previous rebuttal.
counterrebuttals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterrebuttal
scumwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scumwads
Etymology: From scum + -wad.
Senses: glosses: Term of abuse
scumwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scumwad
insuckings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insucking
decontaminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decontaminators
Etymology: From decontaminate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A device that decontaminates.
decontaminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decontaminator
agglomerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agglomerator
noncontestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + contestable.
Senses: glosses: Not contestable.
troughless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trough + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a trough.
trustlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trustlike
form: most trustlike
Etymology: From trust + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a trust (type of legal estate).