cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
godwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more godwards
form: most godwards
Etymology: From God + -wards.
Senses: glosses: towards God
happis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happi
highveld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Highveld.
infralapsarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.fɹəˌlæpˈsɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌɪn.fɹəˌlæpˈsɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: infralapsarians
form: infra-lapsarian
Etymology: From infra- + lapsus + -arian.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Calvinist who holds that election is a logical consequent of the Fall of man in the original divine plan.
Derived terms: infralapsarianism
Related terms: lapsarian
inseminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inseminators
Etymology: From inseminate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or device that inseminates.
intercolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + colonial.
Senses: examples: text: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVIII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
[…] in 1858 I shipped on an intercolonial vessel, under engagement to proceed to the Swan River settlement.
text: These outlaws, [Mitford] Mathews infers, were groups of backwoodsmen who stole goods and perhaps even operated crime syndicates on an intercolonial scale. As the Cochrane fragment attests, crackers had reputations for being ill-mannered, arrogant, treacherous, and cruel, stealing from Indians and propertied white colonists alike.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 36:
glosses: Between colonies
Derived terms: intercolonially
kneehole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneeholes
Etymology: From knee + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Those for the sitting position are located in the kneehole on each side of the cab; [...].
ref: 1962 June, “The design of the S.R. electro-diesels”, in Modern Railways, page 395:
glosses: A space for the knees (and lower legs), especially under a desk.
Derived terms: kneehole desk
floor tile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor tiles
Senses: glosses: A tile, made from any material, designed to be laid as flooring.
Synonyms: paving tile
manufacturability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manufacture + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being manufacturable
Derived terms: remanufacturability
microreader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microreaders
Etymology: From micro- + reader.
Senses: glosses: Any device used to read microfilm or microfiche
stiltedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stiltedly
form: most stiltedly
Etymology: From stilted + -ly.
Senses: examples: 1985 29 Aug, New Scientist, Vol. 107, No. 1471 p.50. TV programs reviews.
It began with doggerel, spoken stiltedly by the quartet of presenters, who mocked what they had said but then continued to speak stiltedly throughout.
glosses: Stiffly, or in an unnatural manner
mirador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miradors
form: miradores
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mirador.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A tower that offers a panoramic view.
mopoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊpəʊk/
Forms: form: mopokes
Etymology: Variant form of morepork.
Senses: examples: text: A mopoke cried in the scrub to the north.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 401:
glosses: A morepork.
neuston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neustons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νευστός (neustós, “swimming”) + -on.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: All the organisms that live at the surface of water.
Coordinate terms: plankton
Derived terms: epineuston
hyponeuston
neustonic
Related terms: pleuston
stiltedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiltednesses
Etymology: From stilted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: While doing this I walk about the room so that there will not be any suggestion of stiltedness or vocal or muscular interference.
ref: 1976, James Francis Cooke, Great Singers On The Art Of Singing, page 304:
glosses: self-consciousness, out-of-place formality, or forced behavior.
miradors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirador
miradores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirador
multiocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + ocular.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple eyes.
Synonyms: multocular
Derived terms: multiocular O
immoderation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immoderations
Etymology: From im- + moderation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of moderation.
boutonnières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Let us try to imagine the qualms of some Fifth Avenue florist if he could but see so many potential boutonnières, at a dollar apiece, so carelessly heaped up in baskets, lining the dingy pavement.
ref: March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 264:
glosses: plural of boutonnière
microreaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microreader
infralapsarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infralapsarian
mopokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mopoke
kneeholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneehole
cardphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardphone
entisols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entisol
euphrasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphrasia
zoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoot
zoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zoot
Asiatic wildcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asiatic wildcats
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of wildcat (Felis silvestris ornata).
Synonyms: sense: Felis silvestris ornata
word: Asian steppe-wildcat
sense: Felis silvestris ornata
word: Indian desert cat
Asiatic wildcats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asiatic wildcat
venerably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more venerably
form: most venerably
Etymology: From venerable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a venerable manner.
Synonyms: hoarily
oldly
speech disfluencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speech disfluency
Javan tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Javan tigers
Senses: glosses: An extinct tiger that inhabited the Indonesian island of Java until the 1980s.
Synonyms: Panthera tigris sondaica
Javan tigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Javan tiger
vitellogenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitellogenins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An egg-yolk precursor protein expressed in the females of nearly all oviparous species.
vitellogenins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitellogenin
Cape lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape lions
Senses: glosses: A lion of the extinct population of subspecies Panthera leo melanochaita which inhabited the Cape of Good Hope.
Cape lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cape lion
at first sight
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It looks like a normal car at first sight. But when we open the hood, we discover something quite new.
glosses: Superficially, without a full inspection.
Synonyms: at first bluff
at first glance
on the face of it
ostensibly
Derived terms: love at first sight
nonjoinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonjoinders
Etymology: From non- + joinder.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The omission of a party that was necessary to an action
objectum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more objectum
form: most objectum
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin obiectum. Coined by Eija-Ritta Eklof Berliner-Mauer in the early 1970s as part of the terms objectum-sexual and objectum-sexuality. Doublet of object and objet.
Senses: glosses: Attracted to inanimate objects, especially sexually or romantically, but can be other types such as platonic or familial.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Between a human and an object, or being directed or oriented towards objects.
raw_tags: of an act or attraction or relationship
Derived terms: objectum-sexual
objectum-sexuality
objectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objectums
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin obiectum. Coined by Eija-Ritta Eklof Berliner-Mauer in the early 1970s as part of the terms objectum-sexual and objectum-sexuality. Doublet of object and objet.
Senses: glosses: A person who is attracted to an object and/or in a relationship with an object.
Related terms: conceptum
fetish
objectophilia
object sexuality
offsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offsiders
Etymology: From offside + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Kidman, riding hell for leather and carrying a heavy stockwhip, caught up with him soon after, or rather with his offsider, who was tailing the mob, and demanded an explanation for their trespassing.
“Don′t ask me,” said the offsider. “You see the boss.”
ref: 1987, Jill Bowen, Kidman: The Forgotten King, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: With the 2005 incarnation of Temptation, Livinia Nixon has completed the trifecta of TV seconds: variety offsider, game show hostess and weather girl.
ref: 2006, Michael Roberts, 50 Years of Television in Australia, page 59:
text: Tom also brought an offsider. I will never forget the look on the faces of the airline staff when Big Tony hauled his shooter out and slammed it on the counter. Tom and his sidekick did the same. I couldn′t believe these blokes were armed and how cool everyone was about it.
ref: 2007, Andrew Fraser, Court in the Middle, published 2010, unnumbered page:
glosses: A partner, assistant, or deputy.
offtake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offtakes
form: offtaking
form: offtook
form: offtaken
Etymology: From Middle English oftaken, equivalent to off- + take.
Senses: glosses: To take off; take away.
offtake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offtakes
Etymology: From Middle English oftaken, equivalent to off- + take.
Senses: glosses: A point or channel of drainage or off-flow; offlet.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The removal of oil (or an industrial chemical) from a storage facility.
glosses: An act of taking off; specifically, the taking away or purchase of goods.
glosses: Something taken off; a deduction.
overwear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ.vəɹˈwɛəɹ/
Forms: form: overwears
form: overwearing
form: overwore
form: overworn
Etymology: From over- + wear.
Senses: glosses: To wear out; to exhaust.
examples: text: Because permanent press garments remain fresh looking, there is a tendency to overwear them, thus permitting them to become too heavily soiled.
ref: 1966, Family Perspective, volumes 1-4, page 37:
glosses: To wear (an item of clothing) too frequently.
Synonyms: sense: wear out
word: exhaust
sense: wear out
word: tax
sense: wear out
word: wear
overwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊ.vəɹˈwɛəɹ/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.vəɹˌwɛəɹ/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vəɹˈwɛəɹ/
Etymology: From over- + -wear.
Senses: glosses: outer clothing
Related terms: outerwear
patriciate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patriciates
Senses: glosses: The rank of a patrician
examples: text: The idea of his frivolity had, no doubt, to do with his personal designation, which represented—as yet, for our young woman, a little confusedly—a connection with an historic patriciate, a class that, in turn, also confusedly, represented an affinity with a social element that she had never heard otherwise described than as "fashion."
ref: 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
glosses: The aristocracy or nobility
pedestaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pedestal
pedestaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pedestal
pedestalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pedestal
pedestalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pedestal
personifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personifiers
Etymology: From personify + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who personifies
polygyne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + gyne.
Senses: glosses: Describing a hive or colony (of a social insect) that has more than one active queen
Related terms: monogyne
monogyne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + gyne.
Senses: glosses: Describing a hive or colony (of a social insect) that has only one active queen
Related terms: polygyne
povidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: povidones
Etymology: Shortened from polyvinylpyrrolidone.
Senses: glosses: A powdered form of polyvinylpyrrolidone that is used as a dispersing and suspending agent in drugs.
Derived terms: iodopovidone
povidone-iodine
Related terms: crospovidone
predoom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: predooms
form: predooming
form: predoomed
form: predoomed
Etymology: From pre- + doom.
Senses: glosses: To determine someone's fate in advance
Synonyms: foredoom
Hypernyms: doom
predynastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + dynastic.
Senses: glosses: Before the time of a dynasty
renewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renewers
Etymology: From renew + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which renews.
saltish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saltish
form: most saltish
Etymology: From Middle English saltish, equivalent to salt + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat salty.
Derived terms: saltishness
sarracenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarracenias
Etymology: Derived from the name of Michel Sarrazin (1659–1734), a French physician and naturalist.
Senses: glosses: Any of various pitcher plants of genus Sarracenia.
shirtwaister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirtwaisters
Etymology: From shirt + waist + -er.
Senses: glosses: A woman's dress having a bodice in the style of a shirt, with buttons down the front.
shirtwaisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirtwaister
renewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renewer
slickenside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slickensides
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A smooth, striated rock surface caused by the friction of one mass sliding over another
spermatozoal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to spermatozoa
spermatozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to spermatozoa.
spermatozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatozoans
Senses: glosses: A spermatozoon.
squalamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A broad-spectrum antibiotic derived from the livers of dogfish
steepish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From steep + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat steep
stellium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stelliums
form: stellia
Senses: glosses: satellitium
satellitium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satellitia
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: stellium
glosses: A grouping of several planets in a sign.
glosses: An escort.
subclause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subclauses
Etymology: From sub- + clause.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A subordinate clause.
glosses: A subsidiary clause in a legal contract etc.
subclause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subclauses
form: subclausing
form: subclaused
form: subclaused
Etymology: From sub- + clause.
Senses: examples: text: Too many serious reviews are subclaused, hyperbolic conscious, egotistical and self-indulgent, not to mention boring.
ref: 1970, Yale/Theatre, volumes 3-4, page 86:
text: In a light dry style, free from academic subclausing, the ever-acute Smith gets right into the minutiae of these communities - who is growing what and why - and how it affects the neighbours.
ref: 2002, New Scientist, volume 176, numbers 2367-2375, page 57:
text: However, in their execution, they can be too exacting, too demanding, creating a practicality monster that rampages through German society in its high-visibility jacket, measuring, judging, clausing, subclausing, contracting, securing, […]
ref: 2016, Adam Fletcher, How to be German - Part 2: in 50 new steps:
glosses: To qualify with a subclause.
subclauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subclause
subclauses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subclause
tectrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tectrix
tectrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tectrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tēctrīx.
Senses: glosses: The covert of a bird's wing.
Related terms: tectricial
carplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carplane
carplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carplanes
Etymology: From car + plane.
Senses: examples: text: Outside Bedrock headed for a carplane stop in a meditative mood.
ref: 1951, Alfred Elton Van Vogt, The weapon shops of Isher:
text: Unlike some other fictional portrayals of future family life — which simply place traditional family structures in a high-tech futuristic setting of carplanes, fully automated appliances, interplanetary civilizations, and robot servants […]
ref: 2002, David M. Newman, Elizabeth Grauerholz, Sociology of families:
text: The sides of the carplane will open by moving slowly down under the floor of the car. There won't be any maps and we'll never get lost because carplanes will always know where to go.
ref: 2009, Caroline Nixon, Michael Tomlinson, Kid's Box 6 Pupil's Book, Volume 6:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A vehicle that can drive on land like a car or fly like an aeroplane.
tegmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɡ.mən/
Forms: form: tegmens
form: tegmina
Etymology: From New Latin, from Latin tegmen, syncopated form of tegimen.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A covering or integument, usually referring to a thin layer or membrane in an organism.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An integument such as the inner membrane of the coat of a seed.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A covering such as the thin layer of bone in the roof of the middle ear of mammals.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: In insects such as winged cockroaches and locusts, the stiff, membranous fore wings; in many species they are not primarily used for flight, but serve as protective covering for the delicate hind wings, which are the main organs of flight. The more heavily armoured fore-wings of most beetles are called elytra, not tegmina.
vacuumable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vacuumable
form: most vacuumable
Etymology: From vacuum + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Typically, pesticide concentrations in vacuumable house dust are 10–100 times higher than those found in outdoor surface soil...
ref: 2009, David M. Whitacre, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 201:
glosses: Capable of being vacuum-cleaned.
nonprotozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + protozoan.
Senses: glosses: Not protozoan.
nonampliative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ampliative.
Senses: glosses: Not ampliative.
nonabductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + abductive.
Senses: glosses: Not abductive.
nonambitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ambitious.
Senses: glosses: Not ambitious.
nonaspirational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aspirational.
Senses: glosses: Not aspirational.
nonatmospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + atmospheric.
Senses: glosses: Not atmospheric.
noncontinuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + continuable.
Senses: glosses: Not continuable.
theologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: theologizes
form: theologizing
form: theologized
form: theologized
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin theologizāre, with the transitive sense possibly being formed by theology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Take A Bishop Like Me is Moore's response to his critics in the form of an apologia for his stance on the ordination of both women and homosexuals. The book portrays with candor and a minimum of theologizing the struggles of the leader of an established and venerable institution […] to deal with issues that his constituents would rather not discuss.
ref: 1979 April 28, John Graczak, “The Sacred and the Profane”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
glosses: To discuss or speculate about theological subjects.
examples: text: School divinity was but Aristotle's philosophy theologized.
ref: 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Lux Orientalis:
glosses: To treat something from a theological viewpoint.
trabeation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trabeations
Etymology: From Latin trabs (“beam”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Beams used instead of arches or vaulting.
topics: architecture
glosses: An entablature.
Related terms: sense: see
word: trabeated
undervest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undervests
Etymology: From under- + vest.
Senses: glosses: vest (worn underneath a shirt)
unendowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unendowed
form: most unendowed
Etymology: From un- + endowed.
Senses: examples: text: Those parish ministers who had seceded were about two hundred and forty, or one-fourth of the whole number; the unendowed ministers, about two hundred, or about one-third of the entire clergy of Scotland.
ref: 1688, E. Farr, E. H. Nolan, The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.:
text: For Cooper was unendowed with worldly shrewdness, and, like all dreamers, was attracted by a mind which controlled while he might only attempt to understand.
ref: 1889, George (George Augustus) Moore, Mike Fletcher:
text: She was not at all sure whether she believed in an after life,--a lack of faith that had, of late, sorely troubled her friend Eda Rawle, who had “got religion” from an itinerant evangelist and was now working off, in a “live” church, some of the emotional idealism which is the result of a balked sex instinct in young unmarried women of a certain mentality and unendowed with good looks.
ref: 1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company:
glosses: Not endowed.
examples: text: By degrees the libraries which were unendowed fell behind the age, and were consequently neglected.
ref: 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 36:
glosses: Lacking an endowment.
jahiliya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jahiliyyah.
negative-edge-triggered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: negative edge-triggered
Senses: examples: text: Master-slave flip-flops tend to be negative-edge-triggered; however, the clock input can be inverted in order to make the master-slave flip-flop be positive-edge-triggered.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: positive-edge-triggered
glosses: Describing a circuit or component that changes its state only when an input signal becomes low.
Hypernyms: edge-triggered
negative edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative edges
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The point in time when a signal's value becomes low.
Derived terms: negative-edge-triggered
negative edges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negative edge
PUR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PURs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of polyurethane.
topics: broadcasting
media
coordinate_terms: PUT
glosses: Initialism of person using radio.
venerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venerablenesses
Etymology: From venerable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being venerable.
Synonyms: agedness
hoariness
venerability
oldness
ventiduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventiducts
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A ventilation duct
wheelback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wheel + back.
Senses: glosses: Describing a chair whose back incorporates the design of a wheel
wheelback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelbacks
Etymology: From wheel + back.
Senses: glosses: A chair whose back incorporates the design of a wheel.
-ean
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-ˈiːən/
/-iən/
Etymology: From Latin -ānus, following Latin stems ending in -ae(us) (many from Ancient Greek -αῖος (-aîos)), -e(us) or -ē(us) (many from Ancient Greek -εῖος (-eîos)).
Senses: glosses: Forms adjectives, usually from proper nouns.
kalicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of potassium bicarbonate.
Related terms: kalium
karstification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karstifications
Etymology: From karst + -ification.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of a karst topography
Derived terms: microkarstification
keratoglobus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, kerato- (“horn, keratin, cornea”, from Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras)) + Latin globus (“globe, sphere”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder of the eye in which the cornea is enlarged and globular in shape.
kulturkampf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kʊlˈtʊə(ɹ)ˌkɑmf/
Forms: form: kulturkampfs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kulturkampf (“culture conflict”).
Senses: examples: text: As the Roman Empire became Christian in the fourth century, the scene was set for a Kulturkampf of huge proportions.
ref: 2012 Dec, Peter Heather, “Charity Begins in Rome”, in Literary Review, 2012-Jan 2013:
glosses: A conflict between secular and religious authorities, especially the struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the German government under Bismarck.
teratorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teratorns
Senses: examples: text: Long before man, there were birds even larger than this. The biggest found so far in the fossil record are the teratorns.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 249:
glosses: Any of various large birds of prey, now extinct, living in North and South America, of the family Teratornithidae.
xerocolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xerocolous
form: most xerocolous
Etymology: From xero- + -colous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: tolerant of very dry conditions
toolpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toolpaths
form: tool path
Etymology: From tool + path.
Senses: topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The path through space that the tip of a cutting tool follows on its way to producing the desired geometry of the workpiece.
Derived terms: toolpathing
tool path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tool paths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of toolpath.
riparian right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riparian rights
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The right of a person who owns the land by a river, stream or creek to have access to and use of the shore and water. Depending on jurisdiction, this may include fishing rights and/or the right to use the water for domestic and garden purposes.
incomber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incombers
form: incombering
form: incombered
form: incombered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of encumber.
multicounty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + county.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, or pertaining to, multiple counties.
multiprovince
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + province.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one province.
multiprovincial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + provincial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one province.
multitown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + town.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one town.
multitower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + tower.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one tower.
multiethnics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiethnic
geris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Geriatrics.
geris
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Geriatric.
microcontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + continental.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a microcontinent.
multiblade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + blade.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple blades.
boilerhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boilerhouses
Etymology: From boiler + house.
Senses: examples: text: I had to collect up all the scrawny dead birds with their swollen blind eyes, throw them into a barrow and take them to the boilerhouse for burning.
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 23, in Small Island, London: Review, page 244:
coordinate_terms: boiler room
glosses: A building containing a boiler.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The deckhouse above a ship's boiler and engine room.
Related terms: boiling-house
boilery
boilerhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boilerhouse
broilerhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broilerhouse
boilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boil + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a boilable food package
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being boiled.
Derived terms: nonboilable
nonboilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + boilable.
Senses: glosses: Not boilable.
gerant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gerants
Etymology: French gérant.
Senses: glosses: The manager or acting partner of a company, publication etc.
countings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntɪŋz/
rhymes: -aʊntɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of counting
Kvens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kven
countergesture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countergestures
Etymology: From counter- + gesture.
Senses: examples: text: Over time, he helps the patient see that his own gestures are met with countergestures which have a different quality and tone to them.
ref: 1997, Stanley I. Greenspan, Developmentally based psychotherapy:
glosses: A gesture made in response to another gesture.
countergestures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countergesture
sidebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideboxes
Etymology: From side + box; compare sidebar.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A box placed alongside the main text in a book, etc. containing further related text.
glosses: A box set in the side of a theatre's auditorium.
Synonyms: sense: boxed text
word: sidebar
sense: boxed text
word: text box
sideboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidebox
Winblows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Windows + blows (in the slang sense where something that "blows" is worthless or inferior). First use appears c. 1997 in the periodical Working Woman.
Senses: examples: text: Winblows regrets that it is "Not Justice Department Approved."
ref: 1998, Newsweek, Incorporated, Newsweek, Volume 131, page 12:
text: Ring me when Winblows becomes free, or when there are free dev tools for it!
ref: 1999, John Purcell (editor), Linux, The Complete Reference; The Advanced Reference · Book 2, page 319:
text: While many users run versions of Linux or Unix on their PCs, most PC users run some flavor of Windows (often referred to by Mac and Unix users as WinDoze or WinBlows).
ref: 2003, David Chappelle, Protect Yourself Online, How to Cover Your Assets Every Time You Log On, page 27:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The Microsoft Windows operating system.
wikipedia: Working Woman (magazine)
Related terms: Windoze
Windross
Microshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Microsoft + shaft (in slang sense; see shafted).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The computer company Microsoft.
microsequencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsequencer
microseparators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microseparator
unbedewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bedewed.
Senses: examples: text: The rains are the best, and, indeed, the only manure in this island, and they confine their course to the forests, leaving unbedewed the tracts that are cleared.
ref: 1801, Charles Grant de Vaux, The history of Mauritius, or the Isle of France, and the neighbouring islands:
glosses: Not bedewed.
untapestried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tapestried.
Senses: glosses: Not tapestried.
unhoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + honed.
Senses: glosses: Not honed.
unbedevilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unbedeviled
Etymology: From un- + bedevilled.
Senses: glosses: Not bedevilled.
unbefittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unbefittingly
form: most unbefittingly
Etymology: From unbefitting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unbefitting manner.
Brezhnevian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brezhnevian
form: most Brezhnevian
Etymology: From Brezhnev + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964.
Pascalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pascalian
form: most Pascalian
Etymology: From Pascal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), influential French mathematician and philosopher.
Pascalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pascalians
Etymology: From Pascal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A supporter or follower of Blaise Pascal.
mirid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Miridae.
Senses: examples: text: Mirids continued to be underappreciated as predators even after several species had been used successfully in classical biological control in the 1920s and 1930s.
ref: 2000, A. G. Wheeler, Jr., “Chapter 28: Predacious Plant Bugs (Miridae)”, in Carl W. Schaefer, Antonio Ricardo Panizzi, editors, Heteroptera of Economic Importance, page 657:
text: Interestingly, the reproductive consequences of hornworm and mirid attack are very different for the plant. While the plant metabolically responds very similarly to hornworm and mirid attack and gains resistance to hornworms, attack by mirids (in contrast to attack by hornworms) does not reduce the reproductive success of the plant, although the damage from these piercing-sucking insects can be substantial.
ref: 2006, Marcel Dicke, Willem Takken, Chemical Ecology: From Gene to Ecosystem, page 29:
text: Green mirids may be present at any crop stage from seedlings to podding. Mirid populations are typically low during the vegetative phase, but can increase rapidly after budding as a result of in-crop breeding.
ref: 2007, H. Brier, “7: Pulses—Summer (including Peanuts)”, in P. T. Bailey, editor, Pests of Field Crops and Pastures: Identification and Control, page 186:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any insect of the family Miridae, a plant bug.
Synonyms: sense: any member of family Miridae
word: capsid bug
sense: any member of family Miridae
word: grass bug
sense: any member of family Miridae
word: leaf bug
sense: any member of family Miridae
word: mirid bug
sense: any member of family Miridae
word: plant bug
mirids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirid
aramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aramids
Etymology: Blend of aromatic + polyamide
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of strong, heat-resistant synthetic fibres, used in aerospace and military applications.
Hyponyms: kevlar
Derived terms: para-aramid
polyaramid
heatproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heatproof
heatproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heatproof
heatproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heatproof
aramids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aramid
araneidans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of araneidan
curlewlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curlewlike
form: most curlewlike
Etymology: From curlew + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a curlew.
scolopacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolopacids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any member of the family Scolopacidae of waders or shorebirds.
scolopacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolopacid
scolloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scollop
scolloped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scollop
Lesath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lesuth
Etymology: Arabic
Senses: examples: text: Ras Alhague is […] nearly due north of Lesath, in the tail of the Scorpion, at the distance of 51 degrees: […]
ref: 1821, Thomas Kerigan, The young navigator's guide to the sidereal and planetary parts of nautical astronomy, page 73:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Upsilon Scorpii, a star in the constellation Scorpius.
ABV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ABVs
Senses: examples: text: At only 2% ABV, this brand of beer won't get you drunk cheaply.
text: On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.
ref: 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: U.S. law considers alcohol proof to be twice the ABV percentage.
ref: 2021 June 7, “Understanding Alcohol Proof: How Is Alcohol Proof Measured?”, in MasterClass:
text: If you’re choosing between two beers of the same size, for instance, and one is 4 percent A.B.V. and the other is 8 percent, the 4 percent beer will expose you to half as much ethanol. […] Some strong beers, for instance, have A.B.V.s that are higher than some wines (or even some liquors, on the extreme end).
ref: 2025 May 20, Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, “Is There a Least Bad Alcohol?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 May 2025:
related: word: abv
coordinate_terms: ABW
glosses: Initialism of alcohol by volume.
glosses: Initialism of American-born Vietnamese.
unbedeviled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bedeviled.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unbedevilled.
unbevelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unbeveled
Etymology: From un- + bevelled.
Senses: glosses: Not bevelled.
unbeveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + beveled.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unbevelled.
underdevelopedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underdeveloped + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of underdevelopment (“state or condition of being underdeveloped”).
synonyms: word: underdevelopment
extra: state or condition of being underdeveloped
undevelopedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undeveloped + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being undeveloped.
undeviatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undeviatingly
form: most undeviatingly
Etymology: From undeviating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without deviation; directly, unerringly.
butter-slide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter-slides
form: butterslide
Senses: glosses: A long patch of butter on a floor that will cause anybody walking on it to slip, traditionally used in slapstick or as a practical joke.
wakeboard tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakeboard towers
Senses: glosses: A structure made of bars on a motorboat to which a wakeboard can be attached.
gay-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gay-ass
form: most gay-ass
Etymology: From gay + -ass; see derogatory sense of gay.
Senses: glosses: Lame; uncool; backwards.
glosses: Stupid; uncool; immature or puerile.
antiflicker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + flicker.
Senses: examples: text: The television camera cannot use the cinema's antiflicker strategy of repeating each entire frame twice.
ref: 1996, Sydney W. Head, Christopher H. Sterling, Lemuel B. Schofield, Broadcasting in America: a survey of electronic media:
glosses: Countering or preventing flicker.
antifluoridation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifluoridation
form: most antifluoridation
Etymology: From anti- + fluoridation.
Senses: qualifier: public health
glosses: Opposing the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
Derived terms: antifluoridationist
antifluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifluoride
form: most antifluoride
Etymology: From anti- + fluoride.
Senses: qualifier: public health
glosses: Opposing the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
Synonyms: antifluoridation
pathlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pathlike
form: most pathlike
Etymology: From path + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a path.
computerbased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: computer-based
Etymology: From computer + based.
Senses: glosses: Based on computer technology.
capies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capy
capiat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capiats
Etymology: From Latin capiat (“let it take”).
Senses: examples: text: Fragments of the membranes, or placenta, may be readily removed with the Capiat. Right here it may be remembered that a metallic instrument can be rendered thoroughly aseptic much more readily and surely than the hand.
ref: 1891, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, Medical Insurance:
text: The instrument closed, as seen in Fig. 1, is then passed along the finger to the os, in and through the cervix up to the fundus of the uterus, which may be determined both by the distance and the resistance to the broad rounded head of the Capiat.
ref: 1891, Texas Medical Association, Transactions, volume 23, page 175:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument for removing foreign bodies from a cavity, such as placental remnants from the uterus.
Sensurround
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of sense + surround, coined as a brand name.
Senses: examples: text: The object of Sensurround is to subject the audience to such high levels of such low frequency sound that they feel as well as hear the sound waves.
ref: 1977 December, “Rolling and reeling with Sensurround”, in New Scientist, page 771:
text: Who is against upgrades, jump cuts, more channels, better speakers, the Sensurround pleasure dome of everyday life?
ref: 2002, Todd Gitlin, Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives, →ISBN, page 115:
text: For Libby, hysterics were an MGM Technicolor production in Dolby Sound and Sensurround.
ref: 2006, Nancy Martin, Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too, →ISBN, page 129:
text: Upstairs, you enter a cavernous ballroom, like a junior high school auditorium taken over by aliens with superior technology—featuring amazing lighting tricks and a Sensurround–style bass response that makes your chest feel as if it's going to explode.
ref: 2010, Eve Zibart with Lea Lane and Aaron Starmer, The Unofficial Guide to New York City, →ISBN, page 455:
glosses: An audio process for motion pictures using low-frequency sound to produce physical sensations in an audience.
sensurround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She'd felt it coming in the routing reading of signals in the marriage sensurround.
ref: 1998, Don DeLillo, Underworld, →ISBN, page 115:
text: Forty-seven malnourished men can make a surprising amount of noise. Never again do I expect to experience Dolby sensurround quadrophonic Nicam digital snoring of such exceptional quality.
ref: 2000, Pete McCarthy, McCarthy's Bar, →ISBN, page 306:
text: The selections here are mostly dark, heavy, and propulsive, with enough sensurround synthistry to soundtrack an IMAX film about underwater life.
ref: 2001 January, Michaelangelo Matos, “Reviews”, in Spin, volume 17, number 1, page 118:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sensurround.
capitellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛləm
Forms: form: capitella
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin capitellum, diminuitive of Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capital, and caudillo.
Senses: topics: anatomy
arachnology
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of capitulum.
synonyms: word: capitulum
disestablishmentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disestablishmentarian
form: most disestablishmentarian
Etymology: From disestablishment + -arian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the disestablishment of privileges, especially of an established church.
disestablishmentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disestablishmentarians
Etymology: From disestablishment + -arian.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of disestablishment.
Derived terms: antidisestablishmentarian
disestablishmentarianism
lapidarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæpɪˈdɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlæpəˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more lapidarian
form: most lapidarian
Etymology: From lapidary + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lapidary.
synonyms: word: lapidary
lapidarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæpɪˈdɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlæpəˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: lapidarians
Etymology: From lapidary + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lapidary.
synonyms: word: lapidary