cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
manopause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of man + menopause.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of andropause.
synonyms: word: andropause
bastnäsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastnäsites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bastnaesite.
bastonades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bastonade
bastonading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bastonade
bastonaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bastonade
antiparty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiparty
form: most antiparty
Etymology: From anti- + party.
Senses: examples: text: As in the whole country, cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants in our Taning County, inspired by the spirit of the National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture, were greatly stimulated and high in spirits and resolved to fight hard in the movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture and building Tachai-type counties everywhere.
In the face of the excellent situation, the anti-party clique of the "gang of four,"--Wang, Chang, Chiang and Yao--stepped up their antiparty activities and strengthend their attacks on the party.[…]
Today the party Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, carrying on the cause left behind by Chairman Mao and representing the basic interests of hundreds of millions of the revolutionary cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants, has smashed the intrigues of the antiparty clique of the "Gang of four" to usurp the party and seize power and sent the scoundrels--Wang Hung-wen, Chang Chun-chiao, Chiang Ching and Yao Wen-yuan--into the dock of history.
ref: 1976 November 5 [1976 November 2], “The 'Gang of Four' Sabotaged the Campaign to Learn From Tachai in Agriculture in a Vain Attempt to Restore Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 215, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original by Taning County CCP Committee (in Mandarin), →ISSN, →OCLC, pages K 4, K 5:
text: "They said that I had contacted foreign media and called me anti-China, antipeople and antiparty."
ref: 2009 January 9, Edward Wong, “Police in China Halt Parents Seeking Investigation Into School Collapses”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing a particular political party.
antiparty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiparties
Etymology: From anti- + party.
Senses: examples: text: Differences arise over what kinds of organization are desirable (eg, political parties or antiparties, professionalized organizations, decentralized networks, communes, grassroots groups) and over tactical questions of what is to be done[…]
ref: 1999, Douglas Torgerson, The promise of green politics: environmentalism and the public sphere, page 46:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political party that shuns or rejects the mainstream political establishment.
Related terms: antipolitics
antiparties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiparty
antiperiodics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiperiodic
antiperiodicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + periodicity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A generalization of periodicity such that f(x + P) = −f(x) for all x in some function f.
Related terms: antiperiodic
antisepticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antiseptic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The temperature chart is very interesting, and yet very like that which was not uncommonly seen in both hospital and private surgical practice before the days of antisepticism.
ref: 1894, Canadian practitioner, volume 19:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of antiseptics.
antipill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipill
form: most antipill
Etymology: From anti- + pill.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or countering the formation of pills on fabric.
examples: text: This antipill lobbying technique is epitomized by a July 1964 meeting between the Oral Contraception Committee of the FPFJ and representatives from MHW's Drug Bureau and the drug shingikai.
ref: 1998, The Journal of Japanese Studies, volume 24:
glosses: Opposing the contraceptive pill.
examples: text: In fact, the 1997 proposal was a binding bylaw amendment prompted by Fleming's refusal to redeem its poison pill despite a 65 percent antipill vote the previous year.
ref: 2000, James P. Hawley, Andrew T. Williams, The rise of fiduciary capitalism, page 63:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Opposing a poison pill.
applausive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more applausive
form: most applausive
Etymology: Formed as *applaus- (the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin applaudō) + -ive, thus resembling a regular Anglicisation of a hypothetical Latin etymon of the form *applausīvus. By surface analysis, applause + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The young woman grew deadly pale, and cast an apprehensive glance upon Maitre Pierre, in whom the bravado of the young gallant seemed only to excite laughter, more scornful than applausive.
ref: 1823, [Walter Scott], Quentin Durward. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Conveying applause.
Derived terms: applausively
unapplausive
pleace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of please.
raw_tags: in use generally from the Middle English period to the fifteenth century and persisting in Scots until the seventeenth century
pleace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: I’m not to leave this pleace. — Oliver Goldsmith
glosses: Obsolete spelling of place.
raw_tags: in use in Scots until the seventeenth century and in some English dialects in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Goldsmithian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Goldsmithian
form: most Goldsmithian
Etymology: From Goldsmith + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), Anglo-Irish writer and physician.
backward slash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backward slashes
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of backslash.
synonyms: word: backslash
tride
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: strong and swift
raw_tags: of a horse
lithologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithologists
Etymology: From lithology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies lithology.
Derived terms: phytolithologist
lithologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithologist
craik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craiks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crake.
examples: text: I have heard the word "craik" used by both the Irish and Scottish to mean "good conversation" or something close to that, varying a bit in context.
ref: 2003 July 28, HollyElise, “"Craik" and "crack"”, in Scotland.com:
text: Ye bust yer chops engineering intelligent monkeys an ye hae a guid craik wi them.
ref: 2007 April 26, “The Scottish word: Craik”, in Scottish Words Illustrated:
glosses: Misspelling of craic.
vacuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vacuate
vacuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacuate
vacuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vacuate
vacuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuations
Senses: glosses: The act of emptying or clearing out.
vacuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuation
vadium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *wadja, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”); akin to Old English wedd (“pledge”). More at wed.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A pledge or security; bail.
Derived terms: vadium vivum
vajazzling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Vajazzling, a beauty treatment that involves having little jewels glued to one's pubic area, had a whole episode of TOWIE, currently in its second series, devoted to it.
ref: 2011 April 27, Amy Childs, “Victoria Beckham is my next vajazzle target”, in Metro, UK:
text: Ladies, take your rhinestoned nether regions back to 2010 where they belong, because vejazzling is so over.
ref: 2012 October 25, John Boone, “Judi Dench's 007-Bedazzled Neck: It's The New Vajazzling!”, in E! Online:
text: The vogue is also courtesy of vajazzling, Pussy Riot, Rush Limbaugh and a host of other cultural factors and thought leaders. So are we in a vaginal heyday or a backlash?
ref: 2012 October 27, Liza Mundy, “'Vagina: A New Biography' by Naomi Wolf”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: The practice of decorating a woman's vulva and/or pubic area with jewels.
vajazzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vajazzle
vajazzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vajazzled
form: most vajazzled
Senses: examples: text: As for any potential hazards posed by em, dislodged crystals, Merrill-Nach said that would likely be a bigger issue for romantic partners than for the "vajazzled" lady.
ref: 2010 March 5, Tiffany O'Callaghan, “Bedazzling… below the belt?”, in Time:
text: For a television show to depict Essex as a world of white stilettos, vajazzled women and monosyllabic men is hardly revelatory; after all everyone has heard the age-old jokes about the mental aptitude of the county's female population.
ref: 2011 March 20, Rachel Shabi, Laura Liddell, “Visitors find the only way is the Other Essex”, in The Independent:
text: Jen even admitted she loves the treatment so much she makes sure to be vajazzled at all times.
ref: 2012 March 23, Angharad Llewellyn, “It's J.Lo(ve) Hewitt as actress copies singer's body stocking look”, in The Sun, UK:
glosses: Having the vulva and/or pubic area decorated with jewels.
vajazzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vajazzle
saj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: säj
ipa: /sɑːdʒ/
Forms: form: sáj
Etymology: From Hindi.
Senses: glosses: An Asian tree, Terminalia elliptica
saj
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: säj
ipa: /sɑːdʒ/
Forms: form: sáj
Etymology: From sadge.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sadge.
vamplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vamplates
form: vamplet
Etymology: From French avant (“fore”) and English plate.
Senses: glosses: A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting lance, to stabilize and protect the hand.
vamplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vamplate
vamplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vamplets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vamplate.
vamplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vamplet
vampishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vampish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being vampish.
vanadyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanadyl
vanadinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanadinite
vanillates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanillate
Varangians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Varangian
vanquishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanquishment
varletry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɑː(ɹ)lɪtɹi/
Etymology: Compare Old French valeterie (“young unmarried nobles”).
Senses: examples: text: the shouting varletry of censuring Rome
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: The rabble; the crowd; the mob.
vatful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vatfuls
form: vatsful
Etymology: From vat + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a vat will hold.
vatsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vatful
vatfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vatful
vaticides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaticide
vaticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaticidal
form: most vaticidal
Etymology: From vaticide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Committing or pertaining to vaticide.
vasoinhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vaso- + inhibitory.
Senses: glosses: vasodilatory
vartabed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɑːtəbɛd/
Forms: form: vartabeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vardapet.
vartabeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vartabed
vauntingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vauntingly
form: most vauntingly
Etymology: From vaunting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This riddle was quite beyond Mrs. Piper, Uncle Jobson laughed vauntingly.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: So as to vaunt; with boastful display.
vanilloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: vanillon
glosses: An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla pompona.
vasiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vasiform
form: most vasiform
Etymology: From vas + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a vessel or duct.
examples: vasiform tissue
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing vessels or ducts.
Valkyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: more Valkyrian
form: most Valkyrian
Etymology: From Valkyrie + -an.
Senses: examples: text: So they blaspheme the muse! but great is song / Used to great ends: ourself have often tried / Valkyrian hymns, or into rhythm have dash’d / The passion of the prophetess; […]
ref: 1850, Alfred Tennyson, “Part IV”, in The Princess: A Medley, 3rd edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 77:
text: Bubblegum: Okay, Ricardio. I'll do it. I'll be your wife.
Ricardio: Ah!
Bubblegum: If you can beat me at hand-to-hand combat!
Ricardio: Oh, my. How Valkyrian.
ref: 2012 August 20, “Lady & Peebles”, in Adventure Time, season 4, episode 10a, spoken by Princess Bubblegum and Ricardio the Heart Guy (Hynden Walch and George Takei):
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Valkyries.
dolphin striker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolphin strikers
Senses: examples: text: meanwhile some of the sailors, with an imitative flying fish, get to that part of the vessel just under the bowsprit, called “the dolphin striker,” and with a bottle midway to their bait, they suddenly jerk it out of the water, to imitate the flying fish.
ref: 1844, William Graeme Rhind, The Creation: A Series of Letters from a Father to His Children:
text: I ordered the Captain of the forecastle, to run out on the bowsprit with the end of a two inch at once, and throw a running bowline knot over his shoulders, and by-and-by, when he broke adrift from the dolphin striker, we hauled him in by the head; and the same night or next morning, I had a good beefsteak cut off him near his tail, and a capital one it was, too, you would hardly have known it from the regular beef.
ref: 1846, Jack's Life at Sea: By an Old Irish Captain of the Head., page 366:
text: The dolphin striker is slung near the cap; and the sprit-sail gaffs near the rigging by "jaw ropes,” and supported at their ends by lifts from the bowsprit cap.
ref: 1857, John McNeill Boyd, A Manual for Naval Cadets, page 173:
text: An iron band with studs for the martingale and back ropes to be fitted to is frequently used on the dolphin striker.
ref: 1865, Sir George Strong Nares, Seamanship, page 71:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A near-vertical spar between the bowsprit and martingale
pennatula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pennatulas
form: pennatulae
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a feather-like form; a sea pen.
vaporimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaporimeters
Etymology: From vapor + -i- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the volume or tension of any vapor.
Related terms: alcoholometer
vaporimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaporimeter
valeramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of valeric + amide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of valeric acid.
valeramides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valeramide
countervair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-vair
Etymology: From counter- + vair.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures: succeeding rows are reversed instead of staggered, so the bases of the panes of each tincture are opposite those of the same tincture in adjoining rows.
vadimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vadimōnium
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day.
Pennine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Pennines
glosses: Pertaining to the Pennine Alps
Derived terms: Penninic
transpennine
valerone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From valeric + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A ketone, 2,6-dimethyl-4-heptanone, obtained from isovaleric acid
Derived terms: methylenedioxypyrovalerone
pyrovalerone
double whole note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double whole notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note with twice the value of a whole note; a breve.
Synonyms: word: breve
double whole notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double whole note
valeridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A base, C₁₀H₁₉N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia.
valerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of valeric + glycerin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glyceride of valeric acid, found in butter, dolphin oil, etc.
vafrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vafrous
form: most vafrous
Etymology: Latin vafer + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Crafty; cunning; sly.
vulvovaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From vulvo- + vaginal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the vulva and vagina.
vulvo-uterine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vulvo- + uterine.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the vulva and uterus.
vulcanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulcanite
vortiginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vortiginous
form: most vortiginous
Senses: glosses: Moving rapidly round a centre; vortical.
voracities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voracity
voltas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volta
voltzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltzine
Etymology: From Voltz + -ite, after a French engineer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxysulfide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish colour.
vouchee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vouchees
Etymology: From vouch + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.
vouchees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vouchee
nofetumomab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A monoclonal antibody used to diagnose certain cancers.
voltatype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltatypes
Etymology: From voltaic type.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes, however, a rather different mode of proceeding is adopted in forming voltatypes. Instead of a plate, or rod of zinc, the positive electrode consists of copper, whilst the negative electrode is formed of platinum, silver, or some other metal, less liable to become oxidated than copper.
ref: 1843, Rosina Maria Zornlin, What is a voltaic battery?, page 103:
glosses: An electrotype.
voltatypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voltatype
volumetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of volumetric.
vulnerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vulnerable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality, state, or condition of being vulnerable; vulnerability.
volumist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volumists
Etymology: From volume + -ist.
Senses: glosses: The author of a volume.
volumists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volumist
vomitories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vomitory
voluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From volute + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a volute, or spiral scroll.
biodebridement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + debridement.
Senses: glosses: Debridement of a wound by means of living organisms, specifically maggots, which eat the necrotic tissue.
biocybernetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + cybernetics.
Senses: glosses: The application of cybernetics to biological science
volumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From volume + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having volume, or bulk; massive.
examples: text: Beneath, the distant torrent’s rushing sound
Tells where the volum’d cataract doth roll
Between those hanging rocks,
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, Canto 2, stanza 47, p. 84:
text: While boldly to the sky
Her ensign, wreathing high,
Inwrought with volumed smoke, and sparkling flame, she cast.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the loss of the Steam Boat Ætna, page 96:
glosses: Having the form of a volume, or roil.
volumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From volume + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of volume
vomic nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vomic nuts
Senses: glosses: The fruit of nux vomica.
vomic nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vomic nut
vomerine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vomer + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The posterior vomerine teeth evidently met the posterior teeth of the mandible.
ref: 1905, John Campbell Merriam, The Thalattosauria:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the vomer.
voraginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more voraginous
form: most voraginous
Etymology: Latin vorāginōsus, from vorāgō (“abyss”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a whirlpool; full of whirlpools; hence, devouring.
vomicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vomica + -ine.
Senses: glosses: brucine
cunctipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: almighty; all-powerful
sex-positive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sex-positive
form: most sex-positive
Senses: examples: text: GCN's guidelines come from a wide variety of sources aimed at various communities concerned about the AIDS epidemic and health in general. We want to confront the prevailing "no sex is best" attitude and present an approach that is as sex-positive as possible.
ref: 1989 February 12, “Safer Sex and Drug Use Guidelines”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 12:
text: Ms. Oh, who studied theater at Smith College, then learned songwriting at the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at New York University, is so cheerfully sex-positive that her default email signoff is “Hot Regards.”
ref: 2019 January 10, Laura Collins-Hughes, “It’s a Sex-Positive Party, Not a Play”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Sex-positive feminism understood the demand for celibacy or political lesbianism as a dead end, and saw sexual fulfillment as part of political liberation.
ref: 2021 September 24, Michelle Goldberg, “Why Sex-Positive Feminism Is Falling Out of Fashion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Sex-positive feminism, which was all about unapologetically celebrating female sexuality, has been on the way out for a few years now, and this feels like its final death knell.
ref: 2024 May 21, Arwa Mahdawi, “Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: pro-sex
antonyms: sex-negative
glosses: Viewing sexual activity as fundamentally beneficial and healthy; (in particular) supportive of personal autonomy and rights in relation to sex (including consensual kinky sex, queer sex, or sex work).
Derived terms: sex-positivity
Volapükist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Volapükists
Etymology: From Volapük + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who speaks, or favours the adoption of, the artificial language Volapük.
Coordinate terms: Esperantist
Idist
Klingonist
Lojbanist
Tokiponist
Related terms: Volapük
Volapükists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Volapükist
volatileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From volatile + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being volatile.
Synonyms: volatility
Karaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹ.ə.aɪt/
Forms: form: Karaites
form: Karait
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew קראי (kara'í) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An adherent of Karaism.
Related terms: Karaim
Karaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹ.ə.aɪt/
Forms: form: Karaites
form: Karait
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular Turco-Mongol tribal confederation (khanate) in the Altai-Sayan region during the 12th century.
Karaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karaite
Karaism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹə.ɪzəm/
Forms: form: Qaraism
form: Karaitism
form: Qaraitism
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew קראי (kara'í) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A Jewish movement that recognises only the Tanakh as a supreme legal authority, distinct from Rabbinic Judaism.
Related terms: Karaite
Karaim
kawaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kawakas
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A New Zealand tree, Libocedrus plumosa.
kawakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kawaka
pahautea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A New Zealand tree, Libocedrus bidwillii.
keelage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keelages
Etymology: From keel + -age; compare French guillage, Medieval Latin killagium.
Senses: glosses: The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering port.
glosses: The duty or toll charged for a ship entering port.
dibenzodiazepine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibenzodiazepines
Etymology: From di- + benzo- + diazepine.
Senses: examples: text: The atypical antipsychotic drug clozapine is a dibenzodiazepine.
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of antipsychotic drugs having a structure based on a diazepine heterocycle fused to two benzene rings
sáj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Its door was of sáj, adorned with brilliant gold.
ref: 1839, Edward William Lane [tr.], The Thousand and One Nights, volume 2, story 13, page 384
glosses: Alternative spelling of saj.
Kent bugle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kent bugles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A curved bugle with six stops.
keramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: ref: 1876, William Chaffers, Marks and Monograms on Pottery & Porcelain of the Renaissance and Modern Periods: With […] a Brief History of the Country of Japan and Its Keramic Manufactures, &c., &c:
glosses: Dated form of ceramic.
keramic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keramics
Senses: glosses: Dated form of ceramic.
keramics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of ceramics.
dibenzodiazepines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibenzodiazepine
patent thicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patent thickets
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A group of patents in a field of technology which collectively impede a party from commercializing its own patents or products in that field.
patent thickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patent thicket
ketol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiː.tɒl/
ipa: /ˈkiː.təʊl/
ipa: /ˈki.tɑl/
ipa: /ˈki.toʊl/
rhymes: -iːtəʊl
rhymes: -iːtɒl
Forms: form: ketols
Etymology: Blend of ketone + indol.
Senses: examples: text: 1962, James A. Moore, Erich Heftmann, Chapter 2: Chemistry of the adrenocortical steroids, Helen Wendler Deane, The Adrenocortical Hormones, Part 1, Springer-Verlag, page 221,
The 21-hydroxyl group in the α-ketol side chain is very easily esterified, and in many of the synthetic routes leading to these side chains the ketol acetate is still formed.
text: Consider the enolization (Scheme 3.26) of the methyl ester of acetoacetic acid, a reaction involving ketol-enol tautomerism.
ref: 2010, Daniel L. Purich, Enzyme Kinetics: Catalysis and Control, Elsevier, Academic Press, page 201:
text: The steroid acetates are stable derivatives, having the desirable property that the electron-capture detector (ECD) selectively responds to acetyl derivatives of α-ketols [958].
ref: 2011, Erich Heftmann, Chromatography of Steroids, Elsevier, page 29:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxyketone (e.g., an acyloin).
Hyponyms: roman: acyloin
word: α-hydroxy ketone
roman: aldol
word: β-hydroxy ketone
Derived terms: ketolated
ketolation
ketolic
methylketol
ketols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketol
ketonemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ketonemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or afflicted with, ketonemia.
Derived terms: hyperketonemic
normoketonemic
ketonaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ketonemic.
hexafluorophosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemical compound HPF₆, a strong Brønsted acid.
Related terms: hexafluorophosphate
penicilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penicillus
kinetogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kineto- + genesis, coined by Edward Drinker Cope.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The neo-Lamarckian doctrine or hypothesis that animal structures have been produced, directly or indirectly, by animal movements.
wikipedia: Edward Drinker Cope
Related terms: kinetogenetic
pepli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peplus
kirschwasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirschwassers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kirschwasser.
Senses: glosses: A distilled spirit made from cherries, usually of the species Cerasus avium; kirsch.
kirschwassers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirschwasser
esotropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.oʊˌtɹoʊpi.ə/
Forms: form: esotropias
Etymology: From ἔσω (ésō, “within”) + -tropia, from Ancient Greek -τροπία (-tropía), from τρόπος (trópos, “a turn”).
Senses: synonyms: cross-eye
glosses: A form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turn(s) inward.
Derived terms: esotropic
pseudoesotropia
Related terms: exotropia
esotropias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esotropia
esotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more esotropic
form: most esotropic
Etymology: From esotropia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or afflicted with, esotropia.
knebelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knebelites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A silicate mineral, a manganese variety of fayalite that forms dark green orthorhombic crystals.
Related terms: knebelitic
knebelites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knebelite
fayalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fayalite
kneepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneepieces
Etymology: From knee + piece.
Senses: synonyms: genouillère
glosses: The piece of armour that covers the knee.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: An angular piece of timber strengthening a joint where two roof timbers meet.
kneepieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneepiece
kneelingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English knelingli, equivalent to kneeling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a kneeling position.
knotwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knotworts
Etymology: From knot + wort.
Senses: glosses: A small, herbaceous, trailing plant of the species Illecebrum verticillatum (coral necklace).
knotworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knotwort
knavishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knavish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being knavish.
clinkstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinkstones
Etymology: From clink + stone, from the metallic sound when it is hit.
Senses: glosses: phonolite
clinkstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinkstone
kneadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From kneading + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of one who is kneading.
kneadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kneadable
form: most kneadable
Etymology: From knead + -able.
Senses: examples: a kneadable putty eraser
glosses: Capable of being kneaded, or worked into a mass.
knobstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒbstɪk/
Forms: form: knobsticks
Etymology: From knob + stick.
Senses: examples: text: The “Budd”, or Somali club, resembles the Kafir “Tonga”. It is a knobstick, about a cubit long, made of some hard wood: the head is rounded on the inside, and the outside is cut to an edge.
ref: 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann, published 2000, page 53:
glosses: A stick with a rounded knob at the end.
examples: text: ‘Don’t you see what you would be? You’d be a knobstick. You'd be taking less wages than the other labourers—all for the sake of another man’s children. Think how you’d abuse any poor fellow who was willing to take what he could get to keep his own children. You and your Union would soon be down upon him […]’
ref: 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 38, in North and South:
text: The mill agents, it was rumored, supplied the knobsticks with beer and whiskey, fearing to let them walk the streets.
ref: 2009, Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness, The encyclopedia of strikes in American history, page 324:
glosses: One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union.
Synonyms: abaa
knobsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knobstick
kloofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kloof
gtfo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of GTFO.
xenopid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenopids
Etymology: From Xenopus + -id.
Senses: examples: text: Concerning this latter point, however, it should be recalled that the xenopid larvae are equally microphagous and yet their manicotto structure is essentially of the ranid type.
ref: 1961, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: Volume 137:
text: On the tails of some tadpoles the melanophores which were scattered on the surface of the body are visible, in the same way as in the tadpoles of the xenopids.
ref: 1972, Zdeněk V. Špinar, Tertiary frogs from Central Europe:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the genus Xenopus of clawed frogs.
xenopids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenopid
kohled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kohl + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a girl with kohled eyelashes
text: Faiyum, his expression caught somewhere between boredom and disdain, narrows his kohled eyes.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 303:
text: The fashion is not all miniskirts and over-kohled eyes; throughout there is an obsession with newly subtle and pliable knits, a dream of futuristic comfort and mobility.
ref: 2023 June 13, Brian Dillon, “To Truly Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Decorated with kohl.
wheelchairbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wheelchair + bound.
Senses: glosses: Confined to a wheelchair.
Related terms: chairbound
conite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: konite
Etymology: Ancient Greek κόνις (kónis, “dust”), from its grey colour, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A magnesian variety of dolomite.
Derived terms: xanthoconite
guidewheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guidewheels
Etymology: From guide + wheel.
Senses: glosses: The wheel used to guide a machine or vehicle; a steering wheel.
guidewheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guidewheel
guidettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guidette
Guidettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guidette
guideways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guideway
guidingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From guiding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to guide.
kreosote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kreosotes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of creosote.
kreosote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kreosotes
form: kreosoting
form: kreosoted
form: kreosoted
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of creosote.
guildless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From guild + -less.
Senses: examples: guildless workers
glosses: Without a guild.
Gogolesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gogolesque
form: most Gogolesque
Etymology: From Gogol + -esque; more at Gogolian.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Nikolai Gogol.
lightfronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightfront
amautis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amauti
judicatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judicature
juneating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juneatings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geniting.
juneatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juneating
jenneting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jennetings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geniting.
jennetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jenneting
justiciars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justiciar
jarvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarvies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jarvey.
jacconet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacconets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jaconet.
jacconets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacconet
jambolana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jambolanas
Senses: glosses: Syzygium cumini, a myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America with astringent bark and edible fruit.
Jacquie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jackie
form: Jacky
form: Jacqui
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline and of its variant spellings.
xanthopicrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xantho- + picrite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter crystalline alkaloid extracted from plants of family Xanthoxylaceae.
jamaicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jamaica + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of Jamaica and Suriname.
picrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picrites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πικρός (pikrós, “bitter”) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A variety of high-magnesium olivine basalt.
Synonyms: picrobasalt
Hyponyms: oceanite
Derived terms: picritic
xanthopicrite
picrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picrite
superpersonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superpersonal
form: most superpersonal
Etymology: From super- + personal.
Senses: examples: text: Munition makers who profit from wars compose an evil superpersonal force. They are not so much individuals[…]
ref: 1944, Vernon Parker Bodein, The social gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch and its relation to religious education:
glosses: Above or beyond what is personal.
Synonyms: superindividual
Jacobines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacobine
picrobasalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picrobasalts
Etymology: From picro- + basalt.
Senses: glosses: picrite
picrobasalts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picrobasalt
janitrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of janitrix
jazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jazels
Senses: glosses: An azure gem found in the East Indies.
jazels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jazel
jerfalcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerfalcons
Senses: examples: text: For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do.
ref: 1668 June 22 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock-Astrologer. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1671, →OCLC, Act IV, page 53:
glosses: Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
gerfalcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gerfalcons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
jerfalcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerfalcon
gerfalcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gerfalcon
jestful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jestful
form: most jestful
Etymology: From jest + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Given to jesting; full of jokes.
Derived terms: jestfully
jestfulness
jestfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jestfully
form: most jestfully
Etymology: From jestful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a jestful manner.
jestfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jestful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being jestful.
jeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jeats
Senses: examples: text: 'T is loss to trust a tomb with such a guest, / Or to confine her in a marble chest, / Alas! what's marble, jeat, or porphyry,
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, “A Funeral Elegy”, in Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, editors, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, volume 5, published 1810, page 179:
text: There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.
ref: 1735, [John Barrow], “JEAT”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume II (I–S), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:
text: To make a Grey Colour.
Take iron ſcales, a little criſtal, and ſome ſmall quantity of jeat, grind theſe well together upon a painter's ſtone; the more jeat ye take, the ſadder the colour will be, and likewiſe the more criſtal you put to it the lighter.
ref: 1758, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, volume 28, page 10:
glosses: Obsolete form of jet.
Janus cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the two-headed god Janus.
Senses: glosses: A fabric having two sides of different colours, used for reversible garments.
jaspilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaspilites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compact siliceous rock resembling jasper.
jaspilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaspilite
spandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spandites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A combination of spessartine and andradite. Ca-Fe-rich spessartine or Mn-Al-rich andradite.
indiscriminateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indiscriminate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The indiscriminateness of most men's lives impresses us, I think, more and more.
ref: 1878, Phillips Brooks, Sermons, Dutton, page 321:
glosses: The state of being indiscriminate
bat an eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bats an eye
form: batting an eye
form: batted an eye
form: batted an eye
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bat an eyelid.
synonyms: word: bat an eyelid
eminence grise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eminences grises
form: eminence grises
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of éminence grise.
third culture kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third culture kids
form: third-culture kid
Etymology: Coined by American sociologist and anthropologist Ruth Hill Useem in the 1950s. "Third culture" refers to a distinct way of life different from those of the birth or host countries, but common to fellow expats.
Senses: examples: text: In 1984, Dr. Ted Ward, then a sociologist at Michigan State University, predicted in a plenary talk at the International Conference for Missionary Kids (ICMK) in Manila that third culture kids were the prototype citizens of the future.
ref: 2009, David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken, Third culture kids: growing up among worlds, page xii:
synonyms: TCK
glosses: A young person who has lived for a significant period outside their birth (or passport) country due to parental work-related migration.
Derived terms: adult third culture kid
third culture kids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third culture kid Abbreviation: TCKs.