cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
helleborine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helleborines
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of species of orchid of the genera Epipactis and Cephalanthera.
Related terms: hellebore
helleborines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helleborine
antithrombic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antithrombic
form: most antithrombic
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the action of antithrombin
callitrichid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callitrichids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae.
callitrichids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callitrichid
subcubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcube
chromogranin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromogranins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of secretory proteins found in many types of cell.
dicarboximides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicarboximide
gummosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gummoses
Etymology: From gum + -osis.
Senses: synonyms: gumming
coordinate_terms: resinosis
glosses: The formation of patches of a gummy substance on the surface of certain plants, particularly fruit trees, caused by sap oozing from wounds or cankers.
gummoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gummosis
chromogranins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromogranin
gummites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gummite
techspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tech + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: More to the point: In Hollywood techspeak, a “gobo” (one b) is a small disc placed directly between a key light and the actor being illuminated, so as to diffuse the glare.
ref: 2009 May 10, “You Say Gobo, I Say”, in New York Times:
text: Affectionate AI, trading the paternalism of typical techspeak for a softer—or, to put it bluntly, more feminine—framing, is pretty transparent as a branding play: It is an act of anxiety management.
ref: 2025 April 16, Megan Garber, “The Show That Knew AI”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Technical or technological jargon.
fusogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusogens
Etymology: From fuse + -o- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: Any substance used to fuse the membranes of cells or protoplasts
Related terms: fusogenic
technopreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛknəʊpɹəˈnɜː(ɹ)/
/-ˈnʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: technopreneurs
Etymology: From techno- + -preneur.
Senses: examples: text: A technopreneur, the author cuts through the fog of highbrow tech-speak and shares in layman terms all you need to know about media and technology...
ref: 1993, Hsüan-ming Wang, Wang Xuanming, The practice of effective leadership: six strategies for war:
glosses: An entrepreneur in the field of technology.
Related terms: technopreneurism
technopreneurship
technopreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technopreneur
fusokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusokines
Etymology: From fuse + -o- + -kine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of interleukins that stimulate the immune system
Updike
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʌpdaɪk/
Forms: form: Updyke
form: Opdyck
form: Opdike
Etymology: From Dutch Opdijk.
Senses: examples: text: Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”
ref: 2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Derived terms: Updikean
frothingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frothingly
form: most frothingly
Etymology: From frothing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This other man's force was like that of a river which frothingly redoubles its fury wherever a rock would pose an obstacle.
ref: 1992, John Updike, Memories of the Ford administration:
text: Once inside, they quickly went about offering up sustenance to the frothingly hungry brute, and as he gulped and glutted, they prepared themselves...
ref: 2007, Geoffrey Verdegast, Of Staves and Sigmas:
glosses: With froth.
representatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more representatively
form: most representatively
Etymology: From Middle English representatyfliche; equivalent to representative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Roman Church consists representatively in the cardinals, but virtually in the pope.
ref: 2009, Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther:
glosses: In a representative manner.
hyperlocomotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + locomotion.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Incessant locomotion, usually as a result of excessive stimulation of the nervous system
sulphurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphur
sulphurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sulphur
lactogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lactogenic
form: most lactogenic
Etymology: From lacto- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: that induces lactation
sixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixers
Etymology: From six + -er.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: six
glosses: A shot in which the ball passes over the boundary without touching the ground, for which the batting team is awarded six runs.
examples: text: Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.
ref: 1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book:
coordinate_terms: senior sixer
glosses: A Cub Scout or Brownie who leads a group of six.
examples: 1869, A Merchant. Editor: Frank Henderson, Six Years in the Prisons of England
The copper knew I did that job, and had me up on suspicion some time after, and gave me a drag (three months) over it. The next bit I did was a 'sixer' (six months), and I escaped from prison in about three weeks after I got it.
glosses: A prison sentence of six months.
examples: text: Well, I'll let you get back to work. I'll swing by later on with a sixer of Melonade!
ref: 2006 August 14, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “No Hands On Deck!”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Bubs (Matthew Chapman):
glosses: A six-pack of a beverage.
examples: text: The history of 'oners' becoming 'sixers' through successive victories[…]
ref: 2005, Benedict Le Vay, Eccentric Britain, page 32:
glosses: A conker that has won six matches.
Related terms: grade sixer
sixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixers
Etymology: Calque of Hindi छक्का (chakkā).
Senses: glosses: A transgender person
sixers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixer
flowerpecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerpeckers
form: flower-pecker
Etymology: From flower + pecker.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the family Dicaeidae of passerine birds, many of which feed on nectar.
Derived terms: spectacled flowerpecker
flowerpeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerpecker
linaclotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + [Term?] + -tide (“peptide, glycopeptide”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A medication used to treat chronic constipation.
berrypecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berrypeckers
Etymology: From berry + pecker. Cognate with German Beerenpicker.
Senses: glosses: Any of various birds of the genera Melanocharis and Rhamphocharis, native to New Guinea, whose diet is dominated by berries and small fruits.
Derived terms: painted berrypecker
berrypeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berrypecker
lineaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lineage + -ing.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The determination of lineage
tungstite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tungstites
Etymology: From tungsten + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
inorganic-chemistry
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic hydrous tungsten oxide mineral formed by the weathering of other tungsten-containing minerals.
wikipedia: tungstite
tungstites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tungstite
mesothelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesothelium + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the mesothelium
Derived terms: mesothelin
nonmesothelial
submesothelial
Related terms: transmesothelial
fulfillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fulfill + -able.
Senses: examples: a fulfillable condition
glosses: Capable of being fulfilled.
Derived terms: unfulfillable
nanosensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanosensors
Etymology: From nano- + sensor.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale sensor
Derived terms: bionanosensing
bionanosensor
Related terms: nanosensing
unfulfillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fulfillable.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: unrealizable, impractical, unrealistic
text: an unfulfillable wish
glosses: Not fulfillable.
nanosensors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanosensor
nonmesothelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mesothelial.
Senses: glosses: Not mesothelial.
nephritogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That causes nephritis
Derived terms: nephritogenicity
nonnephritogenic
pyelonephritogenic
subnephritogenic
expressivisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expressivism
palaeomagnetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeomagnetists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleomagnetist.
paleomagnetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleomagnetists
Etymology: From paleo- + magnetist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist whose speciality is paleomagnetism
piemontite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːmɒntaɪt/
ipa: /ˈpiməntaɪt/
Forms: form: piemontites
Etymology: From Italian Piemonte (“Piedmont”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic sorosilicate mineral of the epidote group, reddish in colour.
Synonyms: piedmontite
piemontites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piemontite
paleomagnetists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleomagnetist
photoswitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + switched.
Senses: glosses: Modified by photoswitching
plasmablasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasmablast
plasmablast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasmablasts
Etymology: From plasma + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stem cell that develops into a plasma cell
Derived terms: plasmablastic
pretransplantation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + transplantation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pretransplant.
synonyms: word: pretransplant
pretransplantation
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pre- + transplantation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pretransplant.
synonyms: word: pretransplant
bubblejet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubblejets
Etymology: From Bubble Jet, a trademark of Canon Inc..
Senses: examples: text: Although bubblejet technology sounds messier than inkjet technology, bubblejets typically produce better images than inkjets.
ref: 2003, Michael Pastore, A+ certification study guide:
text: For general duty color printing, inkjet and bubblejets are the most cost-beneficial.
ref: 2003, Stephen T. Sonis, Dental secrets:
glosses: A type of inkjet printer that uses an electric current to propel ink onto the page.
wikipedia: Canon Inc.
bubblejets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubblejet
radioemitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioemitters
form: radio emitter
Etymology: From radio- + emitter.
Senses: glosses: Any device that emits radio waves.
striatopallidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From striato- + pallidal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or connecting, the striatum and the globus pallidus.
ecolodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecolodges
Etymology: From eco- + lodge.
Senses: examples: text: The company says it will go forward with only two of the eight projects it had planned in Rwanda, and the Kigali hotel and Akagera ecolodge didn’t make the cut.
ref: 2009 August 2, Ron Nixon, “Just When Africa’s Luck Was Changing”, in New York Times:
glosses: A building designed to house ecotourists, typically built and supported by local labour and with respect for the environment.
ecolodges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecolodge
trifluoromethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trifluoromethylations
Etymology: From trifluoromethyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the addition of a trifluoromethyl group to a molecule
radioemitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioemitter
ultraselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + selective.
Senses: glosses: Extremely selective
uniparentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From uniparental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: From, or relating to, only one parent.
uniflow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + flow.
Senses: glosses: In which the gas mixture enters at one end of the cylinder controlled by the piston and the exhaust exits at the other.
raw_tags: of an engine
glosses: In which steam flows in one direction only in each half of the cylinder.
raw_tags: of a steam engine
soapwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soapworts
Etymology: From soap + wort, from the soapy matter formed when the leaves are agitated in water.
Senses: synonyms: latherwort
my lady's washbowl
glosses: Any perennial herb of the genus Saponaria.
soapworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soapwort
succeeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succeeders
Etymology: From succeed + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who succeeds (follows after); a successor.
glosses: One who succeeds (achieves a positive outcome); a winner.
Synonyms: sense: winner
word: champion
succeeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succeeder
fleapit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleapits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flea pit.
fleapits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleapit
tachyarrhythmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tachyarrhythmia, which can refer to types of tachyarrhythmia, cases of tachyarrhythmia, or episodes of tachyarrhythmia.
contractable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contract + -able.
Senses: examples: a disease contractable from tapeworms
glosses: Capable of being contracted (in various senses).
Related terms: contractible
subcontractable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subcontract + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being subcontracted.
contradance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contradances
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of contra dance.
contradances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contradance
tumtum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumtums
Etymology: From Hebrew טומטום.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, if a man died leaving a son and a tumtum or a hermaphrodyte, the son inherits everything, since the heirship of the tumtum or of the hermaphrodyte is doubtful.
ref: 1949 (printing), Maimonides, The Code of Maimonides: The Book of Civil Laws, p. 273
text: As it happens, the baraita in question speaks of the tumtum twice, introducing an apparent redundancy into the text. To be specific, Abbaye's solution, proposing an unusual interpretation of the first tumtum ("his testicles are evident from the outside"), allows for a different reading of tumtum in each of his two usages.
ref: 1996, David Charles Kraemer, Reading the Rabbis: the Talmud as Literature, page 122:
text: A tumtum and a hermaphrodite should not dress like a woman, but neither should they cut the hair on their head like a man.
ref: 2001, Ruth N. Sandberg, Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law, page 100:
text: A. DEFINITION OF THE TERM The term tumtum, meaning ambiguous genitalia, is not found in Scripture.
ref: 2003, Avraham Steinberg, Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics, page 50:
glosses: One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.
tumtum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumtums
Senses: glosses: A toombah, a type of small drum used in the traditional music of Antigua and Barbuda.
tumtum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumtums
Senses: examples: text: "I much prefer [to drink] hard water, though it ruins the boilers in my house in an incredibly short space of time." Poor dear! I don't suppose she saw the irony of her own contradiction, for her “tumtum” must be stronger than her steam boilers, according to her own story.
ref: 1906, Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller, Glimpses of Italian Court Life: Happy Days in Italia Adorata, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 82:
text: […] takes notice that the wrinkles in her tumtum are filling out so that she's beginning to lose some of that deflated or punctured look so common amongst [the hungry].
ref: 1923, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, From Place to Place, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
text: (A normal person with a machete in her tumtum, that is.)
ref: 2013, Kristen Johnston, Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of tum-tum (“tummy, stomach; abdomen”).
tumtum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumtums
Senses: examples: text: The Civil Surgeon was the first to sustain their attack, as he drove under their trees in his tumtum. Probably a kite had stirred them up just before he passed, but bees are undiscerning creatures when revenge is being sought.
ref: 1911, Robert Ernest Vernède, An Ignorant in India:
text: Halliday offered to take me down with him in his tumtum, so I sent my boy ahead.
ref: 1948, A. C. Jewett, American Engineer in Afghanistan, page 130:
text: ... in a rented house on “Wellish Istrit” but would now drive to Uttarpara in his tumtum. Digen Babu clarified that the house was on Wellesley Street.
ref: 2020, Partha Chatterjee, A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Alternative form of tum-tum (“kind of vehicle”).
keyguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyguard
keyguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyguards
Etymology: From key + guard.
Senses: glosses: A plate or shield with a set of holes that fits over a keyboard.
examples: text: Remember to turn on the keyguard before you put the phone in your pocket.
glosses: A feature on a mobile phone, etc. that prevents keys from being pressed by accident.
demolitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demolitionists
Etymology: From demolition + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Eventually seven days' efforts by professional demolitionists succeeded in reducing the building to debris.
ref: 2007, Bernard Wasserstein, Barbarism and civilization: a history of Europe in our time:
glosses: One who carries out demolition.
demolisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demolishers
Etymology: From demolish + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who demolishes.
Synonyms: demolitionist
demolitionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demolitionist
demolishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demolisher
intoximeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intoximeters
Etymology: Originally a trademark, from intoxication meter.
Senses: glosses: A breathalyzer.
intoximeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intoximeter
winey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winey
form: most winey
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of winy.
varimax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From variance and maximize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Describing a rotation that maximizes the sum of the variances of the squared loadings, often used in surveys to see how groupings of questions measure the same concept.
variolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variola
bifactorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + factorial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to two factors.
unifactorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + factorial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to one single factor.
trifactorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + factorial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to three factors.
interseptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛptəl
Etymology: From inter- + septal.
Senses: glosses: Between septa.
nonordained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ordained.
Senses: glosses: Not ordained.
gesturelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gesturelike
form: most gesturelike
Etymology: From gesture + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Appealing to specific instances of metaphor to illustrate meaning in a gesturelike manner only results in vacuous circularity […]
ref: 1988, Phillip Stambovsky, The depictive image: metaphor and literary experience:
text: […] DCDP children are exposed to more points and gesturelike signs in their linguistic environment […]
ref: 2005, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gesture.
gestureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gesture + -less.
Senses: examples: text: No one else was wagging and waving in that way: a gestureless mute telegraphy seemed to pass between the other boxes.
ref: 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country:
glosses: Without the use of gesture.
Derived terms: gesturelessness
noningested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ingested.
Senses: glosses: Not ingested.
pilpil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: chameleon vine
voqui blanco
glosses: Boquila trifoliolata.
violet wand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violet wands
Etymology: So called because they often glow with a violet light.
Senses: examples: text: I've been told repeatedly that electricity above the waist is dangerous, but I've seen guys using violet wands on other guys' chests.
ref: 1996, Joseph W. Bean, Leathersex Q&A: Questions About Leathersex and the Leather Lifestyle Answered:
glosses: A device used for the application of low-current, high-voltage electricity to the body using an Oudin coil, originally claimed to have medical benefits and more recently used in sadomasochistic sex play.
leathersex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leather + sex.
Senses: examples: text: Leathersex and leathermen had become easy targets for AIDS blame.
ref: 1998, James Brook, Chris Carlsson, Nancy Joyce Peters, Reclaiming San Francisco: history, politics, culture:
text: The subculture of leathersex, bears, and the vast working-class gay population intersect in the assertion of an openly working-class homosexual ethic […]
ref: 2001, Les K. Wright, The Bear Book II:
text: Until now, we and those seriously curious about us and even our enemies, have had no one place to go to find out the truth about leather and leathersex […]
ref: 2004, Robert B. Marks Ridinger, Speaking for our lives:
glosses: The sexual practices associated with leathermen.
blue prints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue print
alterities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alterity
nonworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonwork
full back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fullback.
centre half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centre halves
form: centre-half
form: centrehalf
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A centre-back.
blue-print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-prints
Senses: examples: text: One day he brought from the barracks a roll of blue-prints, and as he was locking them in a drawer, said: “The Germans would pay through the nose for those!”
ref: 1915, Richard Harding Davis, Somewhere in France, p. 4
glosses: Alternative spelling of blueprint.
aggradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggradations
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Increase in land elevation due to the deposition of sediment.
Derived terms: aggradational
Related terms: aggrade
blue-prints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-print
appointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appointers
Etymology: From appoint + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who appoints (in any sense).
altarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Mark C. Taylor in Altarity (1987), from altar and alterity.
Senses: examples: text: In his deconstruction of the modern subject via the thought of altarity, Taylor relies on the critique of Hegel developed in twentieth-century France...
ref: 2001, Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist, Encyclopedia of postmodernism:
text: Sacred altarity is the indescribable other that makes the describable possible...
ref: 2005, Henry L. Ruf, Postmodern rationality, social criticism, and religion:
text: altarity is the sense rising from the altar of separation insulating a culture, religion, people, from those defined as outside due to their otherness.
ref: 2010, Jason Schwager, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Otherness exalted as if a religious concept.
wikipedia: Mark C. Taylor
archdeaconry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archdeaconries
Etymology: From archdeacon + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The office of an archdeacon, or the term of that office
glosses: The residence, or territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon
appointers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appointer
unappointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + appointed.
Senses: glosses: Not appointed.
nonappointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + appointed.
Senses: glosses: Not appointed.
archdeaconries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archdeaconry
aggradations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aggradation
anberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anberry
arrowgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrowgrasses
Etymology: From arrow + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of various grass-like plants of the genus Triglochin.
anburies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anbury
agamogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to agamogenesis.
Derived terms: agamogenetically
agamogenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From agamogenetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of agamogenesis.
arrowgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowgrass
schemaless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schema + -less.
Senses: examples: a schemaless XML document
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without a schema.
Synonyms: sense: having no schema
word: aschematic
schemalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schemalike
form: most schemalike
Etymology: From schema + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a schema.
unschematized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + schematized.
Senses: glosses: Not schematized.
schematizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schematize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being schematized.
dissimulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissimulator
dissimulatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissimulatingly
form: most dissimulatingly
Etymology: From dissimulating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dissimulating manner; with dissimulation.
ptooey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: pitooey
form: ptew
form: ptooie
form: ptui
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Then suddenly the men were jarred by a discordant ptooey-splat! Soot had missed his shot, and hit the already juice-blackened wall behind the spittoon.
ref: 1989, Ann Gabriel, South Texas:
glosses: The sound of spitting.
Related terms: phooey
ptooie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ptui (“sound of spitting”).
uncrucified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + crucified.
Senses: glosses: Not crucified.
heatlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From heatless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a heatless manner.
bangleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bangle + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Some women were sitting there on chairs arranged in a circle; I was curiously watching those women with short hair, their bangleless hands, open bare necks...
ref: 2006, Sharmila Rege, Writing caste, writing gender:
glosses: Without bangles.
sacrificeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sacrifice + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The basilica-type synagogue arose in answer to the need for space in which to carry out the new conception of a sacrificeless worship...
ref: 1950, Adolf Reifenberg, Ancient Hebrew arts:
text: In SWAP, the sacrificial meal of the eucharist has become a sacrificeless meal, a comfortable meal that fails to challenge or to demand commitment.
ref: 1994, James Dallen, The dilemma of priestless Sundays:
glosses: Without (religious) sacrifice.
nonstatistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonstatistical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Renal survival was nonstatistically worse in the lowest ultrafiltration group.
ref: 2007, Robert W. Schrier, Diseases of the kidney and urinary tract:
glosses: In a manner that is not statistical.
nonfishery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fishery.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to fishery.
nonnormalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + normalized.
Senses: glosses: Not normalized.
Synonyms: unnormalized
nonmarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + marked.
Senses: glosses: unmarked
bangingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bangingly
form: most bangingly
Etymology: From banging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Stepping back he pulled the window abstractedly but bangingly down, and leaning against the wall in the quietness began to read.
ref: 1949, Paul Green, Dog on the Sun:
glosses: With a banging sound.
bangings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banging
bowhead whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowhead whale
bigendered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + gendered.
Senses: examples: text: Once converted, southern white men abandoned many of the male-only public domains for the bigendered and biracial public world of evangelicalism.
ref: 2006, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810:
glosses: Of two genders.
Synonyms: bigender
ambigendered
pangendered
unrainy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrainy
form: most unrainy
Etymology: From un- + rainy.
Senses: examples: an unrainy climate
glosses: Not rainy; dry.
unrandomised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unrandomized.
unshone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shone.
Senses: glosses: Not shone (upon).
unshoeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshoe
unshoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshoe
unshoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shoed.
Senses: examples: text: […] he taught the uncovered head to dare the winter's snow; the unshoed foot to brave the biting ice […]
ref: 1814, James Fennell, An Apology for the Life of James Fennell, Moses Thomas, page 380:
text: Curled underneath the beading table with the unshoed feet of women, you hear things you'd never want to know.
ref: 1998, Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife, Perennial, published 2001, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Rowena, with one ungainly unshoed foot
Shoves the pail against the plastered wall
ref: 2010, Robert Joseph Foley, “Doppelgänger”, in These Little Poems of Death and After Life, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 71:
synonyms: unshod
shoeless
barefoot
barefooted
discalceate
discalced
antonyms: shod
coordinate_terms: reshoed
reshod
glosses: Not wearing shoes.
unshoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + shoed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unshoe
unhoofed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hoofed.
Senses: examples: text: Juxtaposed with these, in the corner is a little stick figure of a human, bereft of magic — a poor relation, unhoofed, untoothed, untailed, disenchanted, lost.
ref: 2004, Jean Houston, Mystical Dogs: Animals as Guides to Our Inner Life:
glosses: Without hooves.
unhoofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + hoofed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhoof
untailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tailed.
Senses: examples: text: Juxtaposed with these, in the corner is a little stick figure of a human, bereft of magic — a poor relation, unhoofed, untoothed, untailed, disenchanted, lost.
ref: 2004, Jean Houston, Mystical Dogs: Animals as Guides to Our Inner Life:
glosses: Without a tail.
examples: text: Duggan saw more police. But he made it to the park untailed.
ref: 2013, Cole Figene, The Grave Diggers:
glosses: Not having been tailed, or followed.
inconstruable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconstruable
form: most inconstruable
Etymology: From in- + construable.
Senses: glosses: Not construable.
talkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːkəbəl
Forms: form: more talkable
form: most talkable
Etymology: From talk + -able.
Senses: examples: text: They are talkable-about as everyday matters and in the same way. They provide a common sociable topical resource that is readily available...
ref: 1996, Paddy Scannell, Radio, television, and modern life: a phenomenological approach:
glosses: Capable of being talked (to or about) (construed with a preposition).
examples: text: There are no talkable people within ten miles, except a coast-guard officer, and a pleasant parson, three miles off.
ref: 1861, George Wilson, Sir Archibald Geikie, Memoir of Edward Forbes:
text: But he always came back in good spirits, talkable and charming.
ref: 1902, Henry Van Dyke, The Blue Flower:
glosses: Capable of offering engaging conversation.
untactfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untactfully
form: most untactfully
Etymology: From untactful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an untactful manner.
untactfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untactful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being untactful; absence of tact.
bellyband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellybands
form: belly band
form: belly-band
Etymology: From belly + band. As a Japanese article of clothing, a calque of Japanese 腹巻き (haramaki).
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A strap around the belly of a horse or other draft animal used to secure a saddle or the shafts of a cart.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
glosses: Various constrictive bands worn around the belly
A band worn by expectant mothers to constrict and support the fetus.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
glosses: Various constrictive bands worn around the belly
A band worn by babies to protect the navel.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
glosses: Various constrictive bands worn around the belly
A haramaki: a band of cloth worn around the abdomen to preserve stomach qi and boost circulation.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A band of canvas used to strengthen a sail.
glosses: A type of dust jacket that covers only a portion of a book.
blockship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockships
Etymology: From block + ship.
Senses: examples: text: […] the veteran paddle-steamer Gondolier was sunk as a blockship at Scapa Flow; […].
ref: 1946 September and October, “Notes and News: The War Effect on the Clyde Steamers”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)
bowhunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bow + hunting.
Senses: glosses: The hunting of game using a bow and arrow.
brinny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brinnies
form: brinnie
Etymology: From Aboriginal Australian.
Senses: qualifier: Victoria
glosses: A stone thrown as a missile.
Synonyms: boondie
goolie
yonny
yonnie
bunchflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunchflowers
Etymology: From bunch + flower.
Senses: glosses: A perennial herb, Melanthium virginicum, having a branched cluster of pale flowers
bustline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bustlines
Etymology: From bust + line.
Senses: glosses: A notional line around a woman's bust.
glosses: The circumference of this line.
Coordinate terms: hipline
waistline
cathetometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cathetometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure small vertical distances, such as the levels of liquid in tubes.
Related terms: catheter
centrefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrefields
Etymology: From centre + field.
Senses: glosses: UK spelling of centerfield.
Derived terms: centrefielder
centerfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerfields
form: centrefield
Etymology: From center + field.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The central part of the outfield
Derived terms: centerfielder
classicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classicalisms
Etymology: From classical + -ism.
Senses: glosses: classicism
colouristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colouristic
form: most colouristic
Etymology: From colour + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coloristic.
Derived terms: colouristical
colouristically
contractorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contractor + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of providing a public service by a private contractor.
contrafactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contra- + factive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Describing a verb whose object clause is taken to be false.
contrafactual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contra- + factual.
Senses: glosses: counterfactual
lucet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucets
form: lucette
Etymology: From Middle English lucet (“heraldic representation of a pike fish”), from Old French lucet (“small pike”), from Old French lus + -et, from Latin lucius (“pike fish”).
Senses: examples: text: Lucets were used for making cords.
ref: 1956, Country Life:
text: ... a narrow chain-stitch cord of the same brass-covered thread, of the simplest type made with the fingers or a lucet.
ref: 1993, Sue Margeson, Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations, 1971-1978, East Anglian Archaeology, →ISBN:
ref: 1998, Elaine Fuller, Kirstine Nikolajsen, Lucet Braiding: Variations on a Renaissance Cord, →ISBN:
text: Using Lucet tool or DPNs, make Lucet cord ...
ref: 2008, Shannon Okey, How to Knit in the Woods, Skipstone, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: A device for making braided cord.
metachromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting, or pertaining to, metachromasia.
Derived terms: metachromatically
metachromatic leukodystrophy
nonmetachromatic
bufferable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From buffer + -able.
Senses: examples: text: All cacheable regions are bufferable (evicted cache lines are written through the write buffer) but uncacheable regions may be bufferable or unbufferable.
ref: 2000, Stephen Bo Furber, ARM system-on-chip architecture:
glosses: Capable of being buffered.
Derived terms: nonbufferable
unbufferable
nonrefereed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + refereed.
Senses: examples: a nonrefereed academic journal
glosses: Not refereed.
multiconference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiconferences
Etymology: From multi- + conference.
Senses: glosses: An academic conference dealing with several subjects.
multiconferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiconference
multiscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + science.
Senses: examples: text: If this method of approach should result in the suggestion of uncanny perception, or disquieting multiscience, in the writer, the reader must bear with it the assurance that it is entirely the product of hindsight.
ref: 1957, John Wyndham, chapter 6, in The Midwich Cuckoos:
glosses: The capacity to know many things.
multiscience
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + science.
Senses: examples: text: This time of rising status for biochemistry also saw increased acceptance of biochemistry papers in the prestigious multiscience journals.
ref: 1982, Bernard S. Schlessinger, Biochemistry collections, a cross-disciplinary survey of the literature:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one science.
Copeland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkop.lənd/
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A forest between Ennerdale and Egremont in Cumbria, England.
glosses: A former local government district and borough in Cumbria, formed 1974 and abolished 2023, and merged into Cumberland district.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English of someone from that area.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Collier County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Boundary County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Gray County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Thomas County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Smith County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rockford Township, Surry County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia.
glosses: A community in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: Copeland-Erdős constant
Copeland's method
Related terms: Copland
multibank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + bank.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one bank (financial institution).
multiriver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + river.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one river.
WAE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Acronym of Wireless Application Environment.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Web Application Extension.
WAE
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
glosses: Initialism of when actually employed.
umming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of um
multifidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From multifid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a multifid manner.
heat transfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heat transfer
nonsalmon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + salmon.
Senses: examples: text: Nonsalmon vessels had dropped to one per cent of the fleet in 1971 from 12 per cent in 1963.
ref: 1991, Geoff Meggs, Salmon: the decline of the British Columbia fishery:
glosses: Not salmon.
unallotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + allotted.
Senses: glosses: Not allotted.
unallotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unallot
nonallotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + allotted.
Senses: glosses: Not allotted.
postneonatally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postneonatal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: After the neonatal stage.
scimitarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scimitarlike
form: most scimitarlike
Etymology: From scimitar + -like.
Senses: examples: 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY (1968), page 59,
"Now he saw that they were ugly, curved, scimitarlike blades on the ends of four-foot-long handles."
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a scimitar.
swarmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swarming
trenchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trenchlike
form: most trenchlike
Etymology: From trench + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a trench.
nontree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontrees
Etymology: From non- + tree.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a tree (plant).
glosses: That which is not a tree (type of graph).
nontrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontree
sacced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sac
saccing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sac