cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
know where the bodies are buried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows where the bodies are buried
form: knowing where the bodies are buried
form: knew where the bodies were buried
form: known where the bodies were buried
Senses: examples: text: Senator John Stennis […] has been active and effective for so long as a member of the Armed Services Committee that he knows as well as any man can where the bodies are buried in the Pentagon and the boondoggles are buried in the defense budget.
ref: 1971 September 19, Tom Wicker, “In the Nation”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Aug 2018:
text: No one except Ecclestone probably really understands the revenues being earned by the sport, such is the secrecy and labyrinthine structure. […] He knows where the bodies are buried. No one wants to get on his wrong side.
ref: 2005 November 26, “Business Comment”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 13 Aug 2018:
text: "My criteria for interviewing people are that they were 'in the room' during the big events, that they know where the bodies are buried and that they are prepared to talk with a degree of candour," he says.
ref: 2007 February 19, Paul Hoggart, “Media: Trust me, I'm a documentary maker”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 13 Aug 2018:
text: Mayor, alderman, park board president. Teacher, coach, athletic director. U.S. Air Force tail gunner and aviator. Pro football player and collegiate wrestler. […] As a longtime observer of the Waukegan scene once joked — with respect — a guy like Richard Hyde "knows where the bodies are buried."
ref: 2018 April 8, Dan Moran, “Stories to tell about Richard Hyde, a Waukegan storyteller”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 13 Aug 2018:
glosses: To possess confidential and incriminating information about a person's or organization's misdeeds or other secrets.
clinicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinicide
clinicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clinicidal
form: most clinicidal
Etymology: From clinicide + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Many clinicidal doctors have extreme narcissistic personalities, a grandiose view of their own capability and inability to accept that they could be criticized or need assistance from other doctors.
ref: 2007 August, Robert Kaplan, “The clinicide phenomenon: an exploration of medical murder”, in Australasian Psychiatry:
text: On the other hand, some clinicidal doctors seem to have extreme narcissistic personalities—the full-blown “God complex”—that leads them to believe that they have the right to decide whether someone lives or dies.
ref: 2012, Ronald Schouten, James Silver, Almost a Psychopath, →ISBN:
text: A clinicidal GP need travel only a short distance to find vulnerable victims; with a list of registered patients from which to select, and multiple excuses for scheduled (and unscheduled) encounters behind closed doors, the clinicidal GP in the NHS is in an advantageous occupational position.
ref: 2013, Danielle Griffiths, Andrew Sanders, Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law, →ISBN:
glosses: Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, clinicide.
clickbaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickbaiters
Etymology: From clickbait + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But as a professional clickbaiter, I am qualified to rank them based on how annoying I find their public persona.
ref: 2016 October 26, “The 11 smartest people to appear on 'The Big Bang Theory'”, in Fox News:
text: A leading marketeer for Procter & Gamble in Asia has revealed that she had “generations of training” in how to make Facebook adverts, but that the company still became a “clickbaiter”.
ref: 2017 September 13, Eleanor Dickinson, “P&G Asia brand director: 'We were clickbaiters – and a giant duck still got more likes than we did."”, in Mumbrella Asia:
text: While that may have the ring of a clickbaiter headline, the concept has always been part of traditional Indian cooking.
ref: 2018 July 9, Meghana Rajeshwar, “Don't trash it”, in Deccan Herald:
glosses: One who creates or publishes clickbait.
clickbaiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clickbaiter
shake a stick at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes a stick at
form: shaking a stick at
form: shook a stick at
form: shaken a stick at
Senses: examples: text: you can't shake a stick at it
text: you can't shake a stick at that
text: They're charging only X dollars for Y right now. You can't shake a stick at that.
glosses: Disparage; rail against.
Derived terms: more than one can shake a stick at
isoeccentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From iso- + eccentrically.
Senses: glosses: In an isoeccentric manner
isofluorene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isoflurane.
isolobogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of isobologram.
kallekrein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of kallikrein.
karozzini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karrozini
form: karrozzini
Senses: glosses: plural of karozzin
keratineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keratinous.
labioscrotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From labio- + scrotal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing the caudal part of the external genitals of an embryo before sexual differentiation
Derived terms: labioscrotal swelling
lavastatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lovastatin.
lentigenome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lentigenomes
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The lentiviral genome
lickometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lickometer
lipoxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipoxidations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxidation or peroxidation of unsaturated lipids, especially when part of the ageing process
lipoxidative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing lipoxidation
seargent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seargents
form: Seargent
Senses: glosses: sergeant
lobuloalveologenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The generation and development of the lobules and alveoli of mammary tissue
macromelanosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macromelanosomes
Etymology: From macro- + melanosome.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A relatively large melanosome
Related terms: micromelanosome
macromelanosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macromelanosome
macropatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macropatches
Etymology: From macro- + patch.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A patch clamp that operates on a group of cells
macropatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macropatch
patch clamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patch clamps
Senses: examples: text: We have shown that the extracellular patch clamp can be reliably used to detect extremely small currents flowing through biological membranes.
ref: 1978 July, Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann, Joe Henry Steinbach, “The Extracellular Patch Clamp: A Method for Resolving Currents through Individual Open Channels in Biological Membranes”, in Pflügers Archiv, volume 375, →DOI:
text: The effect of cenobamate on various human sodium channels (Naᵥ1.1‐Naᵥ1.8) was characterized using automated patch clamp on stably expressing cells (n = 3–4).
ref: 2025 Oct, William J Crumb Jr, Susan M Melnick, Kelli J Glenn, “The Cardiac Sodium Channel Safety Profile of Cenobamate at Therapeutic Concentrations: In Vitro Analyses”, in Clin Transl Sci, volume 18, number 10, →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A device used to measure the ion currents in individual living cells.
bd.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of boulevard.
glosses: Abbreviation of board.
Derived terms: bd. ft.
macrophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macrophage + -al.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macrophagal.
malabsorbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mal- + absorbed.
Senses: glosses: Wrongly or incompletely absorbed
Related terms: malabsorption
mamegakinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The dimeric naphthoquinone 8-hydroxy-2-(8-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,4-dioxonaphthalen-2-yl)-6-methylnaphthalene-1,4-dione present in Ebenaceae plants
dress out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dresses out
form: dressing out
form: dressed out
form: dressed out
Senses: examples: text: I would rather have the mumps than dress out for gym. I
ref: 2014, Angela Medearis, Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections:
hypernyms: change#Verb
get changed
glosses: To change one's clothes to prepare for outdoors activities, such as physical education; to be wearing clothes appropriate for such activities.
examples: text: On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms. The patient will be dressed out and then will be escorted to the agent cashier's office where he will pick up the money he had had on account, the valuables he has had in safekeeping, and last, but not least, his ticket and transportation to his home.
ref: 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Traffic In, and Control Of, Narcotics, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines:
text: Proper Dress-out.
1. Radiological emergency response team members dressed-out in waterproof gowns and other standard surgical attire.
2. Cuffs and inner gloves are taped for contamination control purposes.
ref: 1984, Robert C. Ricks, Hospital Emergency Department Management of Radiation Accidents:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To dress and equip (staff or patients) in preparation for leaving the hospital.
examples: text: The biggest buck I've killed there dressed out at 188 pounds.
ref: 1985, Byron W. Dalrymple, Field & Stream - Vol. 90, No. 3:
hypernyms: dress#Verb
coordinate_terms: field dress
glosses: To butcher and prepare (an animal) for consumption.
Derived terms: word: dress-out
Related terms: dress down
dress up
changeout
loadout
load out
order in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: orders in
form: ordering in
form: ordered in
form: ordered in
Senses: synonyms: order out
glosses: To call and place an order for food to be delivered.
get between
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets between
form: getting between
form: got between
form: got between
form: gotten between
Senses: examples: text: I never wanted to get between you two.
glosses: To become a source of conflict, especially unwittingly or accidentally.
mammilothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mammillothalamic.
mannopine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannopines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of opine formed by the condensation of mannose and an amino acid
melaphidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melaphidines
Senses: glosses: Any aphid of the genus Melaphis
melaphidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melaphidine
mepivicaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mepivacaine.
metalloendoproteinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalloendoproteinases
Etymology: From metallo- + endoproteinase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any endoproteinase that is a metalloenzyme
metalloendoproteinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalloendoproteinase
metapterygial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + apterygial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the metapterygium
micoalga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of microalga.
micobicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of microbicide.
micovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of microvascular.
microcapnograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcapnographs
Etymology: From micro- + capnograph.
Senses: glosses: A capnograph used in microcapnography
microcapnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + capnography.
Senses: glosses: microvascular capnography
Related terms: microcapnograph
microsyntenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + syntenic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to microsynteny
monoclade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoclades
Etymology: From mono- + clade.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A monophyletic clade.
monoclades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoclade
monocuspid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + cuspid.
Senses: glosses: Having a single cusp
monoenoics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoenoic
monotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a monotic manner
glosses: Misspelling of monotonically.
monozinc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + zinc.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A single zinc atom or ion in a compound
montanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: montanides
Senses: glosses: A water-in-oil emulsion that is used as an adjuvant for vaccines
morphoanatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morpho- + anatomic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of morphoanatomical.
mucoepithelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muco- + epithelial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mucous membranes and epithelia
mucoglycoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucoglycoproteins
Etymology: From muco- + glycoprotein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of mucoprotein.
synonyms: word: mucoprotein
multivoltinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + voltinism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being multivoltine
biphasicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biphasic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being biphasic.
myoangiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + angiogenesis.
Senses: glosses: angiogenesis in the myocardium
Related terms: myoangiogenic
myoangiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + angiogenic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to myoangiogenesis
myofibromatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myofibromatoses
Etymology: From myo- + fibromatosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: fibromatosis that affects muscle tissue
myogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being myogenic
myointimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myo- + intimal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to smooth muscle cells of the intima of a blood vessel
myostimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myo- + stimulation.
Senses: glosses: electrical stimulation of muscles
Synonyms: electromyostimulation
Related terms: myostimulator
myostimulatory
myxospermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myxo- + -spermy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The presence of mucilage in the seeds
Related terms: myxocarpy
myxospermic
myxocarpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myxo- + -carpy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The presence of mucilage in nuts or fruit
Related terms: myxospermy
dragon gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragon gates
Etymology: From dragon + gate.
From Cantonese 龍門 /龙门 (lung⁴ mun⁴).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An architectural design feature to allow for concordance with the philosophy of feng shui, a portal that allows dragons to flow through structures, by leaving an empty hole through a building.
rocketamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Rocuronium followed by ketamine, as used in rapid sequence intubation (RSI).
nec fasc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɛk fæʃ/
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Necrotizing fasciitis.
Strep pyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Streptococcus pyogenes.
Related terms: Strep pneumo
norepi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Norepinephrine; noradrenaline.
Staph epi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Staphylococcus epidermidis.
a-flutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-flutter
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Atrial flutter.
Related terms: a-fib
neddylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neddylate
neoendothelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoendothelia
Etymology: From neo- + endothelium.
Senses: glosses: Newly-created endothelium
neoselachians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoselachian
neuroimmunoregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + immunoregulation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroimmune regulation.
neuroimmune regulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroimmunoregulation
Senses: glosses: The regulation of homeostasis and similar functions by the nervous system and immune system acting together
neuropsychometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + psychometry.
Senses: glosses: neuropsychological measurement
Related terms: neuropsychometric
nitroalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amino acid NO₂CH₂CH(NH₂)CO₂H
glosses: Misspelling of nitroaniline.
nonadecanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonadecanoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of nonadecanoic acid
Derived terms: trinonadecanoate
nonhibernating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hibernating.
Senses: glosses: That do not hibernate
nonsurviving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + surviving.
Senses: glosses: That do not survive
nontranscriptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + transcriptional.
Senses: glosses: Not transcriptional
nonubiquitinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ubiquitinated.
Senses: glosses: Not ubiquitinated
normospermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to normospermia.
Derived terms: abnormospermic
oligoxenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + -xenous.
From Ancient Greek ὀλίγος (olígos): “few” + ξένος (xénos): “alien”.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having several hosts during its life cycle
raw_tags: of a parasite
Related terms: monoxenous
omalodontiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a denticulate form characteristic of the order Omalodontiformes
raw_tags: of teeth
osmotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osmo- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: movement of an organism in an osmotic pressure gradient
overfragmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + fragmentation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive fragmentation
ozogamicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -micin (“aminoglycoside, antibiotic”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of a certain group of monoclonal antibodies.
Derived terms: gemtuzumab ozogamicin
inotuzumab ozogamicin
palatobasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palato- + basal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the base of the palatal area
raw_tags: of birds
palinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of palynological.
palmelloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or resembling a palmella (of algae)
parechoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parechovirus
dewey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dewey
form: most dewey
Senses: examples: text: 115 lbs. of green, dewey grass
ref: 1852, The Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture:
text: For Memnon was that dewey, royal boy, son of Aurora, and born King of Egypt, who, with enthusiastic rashness flinging himself on another’s account into a rightful quarrel, fought hand to hand with his overmatch, and met his boyish and most dolorous death beneath the walls of Troy.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: Obsolete form of dewy.
dewey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deweys
Etymology: A phonetic pronunciation of the initialism DUI, particularly in some rural areas of the US.
Senses: glosses: A charge of DUI.
penaeidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penaeidins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of antimicrobial peptides, found in shrimps, that bind chitin
penaeidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penaeidin
pentaenoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to any pentaenoic acid or its derivatives
pentaenoic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaenoics
Senses: glosses: Any lipid containing such a fatty acid
pentaenoics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentaenoic
pentaenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaenoic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polyunsaturated fatty acid that has five double bonds
IJssel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Gelderland province and Overijssel province, Netherlands, which flows from the Rhine and discharges into the IJsselmeer.
pentaguanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penta- + guanine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Five consecutive guanine residues in a protein or peptide
pepperweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepperweeds
Senses: glosses: broadleaved pepperweed, dittander, dittany (Lepidium latifolium).
phenylketoneuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phenylketonuria.
phoebodontiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoebodontiforms
Senses: glosses: Any extinct cartilaginous fish of the order Phoebodontiformes
Related terms: phoebodont
phoebodontiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoebodontiform
phoebodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoebodonts
Senses: glosses: Any extinct cartilaginous fish of the family Phoebodontidae
phoebodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoebodont
phonotypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phono- + typically.
Senses: glosses: In a phonotypic manner
phosphoamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoamides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phosphamide.
phosphoisoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoisoforms
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The isoform of a phosphoprotein
phosphoisoforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoisoform
photocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocytes
Etymology: From photo- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bioluminescent cell
warehousey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warehousey
form: most warehousey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of warehousy.
whitebaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: fishing for whitebait
whitebaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whitebait
photocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photocyte
photothermolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + thermolysis.
Senses: glosses: photochemical thermolysis
physoclistous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to physoclists
phytopharmacologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytopharmacologists
Etymology: From phyto- + pharmacologist.
Senses: glosses: A pharmacologist whose speciality is phytopharmacology
phytopharmacologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytopharmacologist
picrofuchsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A solution of fuchsin in picric acid, used as a stain for proteins
pilocaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of prilocaine.
pneumostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumostomes
Etymology: From pneumo- + -stome.
Senses: glosses: A pore through which slugs and other gastropods breathe
polyfection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyfections
Senses: glosses: transfection mediated by cationic polymers
small shellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Following this is the earliest Cambrian, where large shelly invertebrates are rare (and no trilobites occur), but the commonest fossils are tiny forms nicknamed the “small shellies.”
ref: 2009, Joseph Seckbach, Divine Action and Natural Selection, page 486:
text: Although difficult to interpret, small shellies may hold the key to understanding the origins of shelled and biomineralised groups of animals.
ref: 2018, Mark Carnall, “Unidentifiable fossils: palaeontological problematica”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Small shelly fauna.
polyfollicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + follicular.
Senses: glosses: Having many follicles
trilobozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trilobozoans
Etymology: From Trilobozoa (phylum name).
Senses: examples: text: Trilobozoans are an enigmatic group of animals from the Ediacaran, which includes some of the oldest known multi-cellular organisms.
ref: 2018, Mark Carnall, “Unidentifiable fossils: palaeontological problematica”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A member of the extinct phylum Trilobozoa of three-lobed animals.
trilobozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trilobozoan
polyphthalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphthalates
Etymology: From poly- + phthalate.
Senses: glosses: Any polymer based of phthalate monomers
porocephalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porocephalids
Senses: glosses: Any tongueworm of the order Porocephalida
porocephalids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porocephalid
metwand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metwands
Senses: examples: text: ...[ Coke] was a skilful pleader; and to be a skilful pleader exactness of expression was essential. He was a skilful advocate; and to be a skilful advocate lucidity of expression was essential. He could arrest attention by a pointed expression — 'good pleading,' he said, 'is the heart-string of the common law'; by a fine phrase — 'the gladsome light of jurisprudence'; or by a striking metaphor — 'the laws of England are the golden metwand whereby all men's causes are justly and evenly measured.'
ref: a. 1634, Edward Coke, quoted in William S. Holdsworth, "Sir Edward Coke", Cambridge Law J, Cambridge, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 338 (1935)
glosses: Alternative form of metewand.
postdiapause
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + diapause.
Senses: glosses: Following diapause
postdomestication
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + domestication.
Senses: glosses: Following domestication
pretrigeminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + trigeminal.
Senses: glosses: Prior to trigeminal pain / neuralgia
interfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + filter.
Senses: glosses: Between filters.
intrafilter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + filter.
Senses: glosses: Within a single filter.
subfiltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subfilter
subfiltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subfilter
prionose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prion + -ose.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Related to prionoses
prionosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prionoses
Etymology: From prion + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any degenerative disease caused by a prion
Related terms: prionose
prionoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prionosis
prodocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of podocyte.
prostein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that is expressed in the cytoplasm of benign and malignant prostate cells
protacrodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protacrodonts
Senses: glosses: Any extinct shark of the order Protacrodontiformes
protovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + vascular.
Senses: glosses: nonvascular, but from which veins develop
pteridoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pteridoids
Senses: glosses: Any fern of the subfamily Pteridoideae
pteridoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pteridoid
form: most pteridoid
Senses: glosses: Fern-like.
pteridoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pteridoid
pterolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pterolyses
Senses: glosses: The arrangement of different feathers in different parts of a bird
quasicyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a certain type of cyclic group or cyclic code
radiocollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiocollar
reanaesthetised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + anaesthetised.
Senses: glosses: anaesthetised again
reticulotegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reticulo- + tegmental.
Senses: glosses: reticulate and tegmental
retransformant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retransformants
Etymology: From re- + transformant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a cell into which foreign DNA has been reintroduced
retransformants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retransformant
push together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes together
form: pushing together
form: pushed together
form: pushed together
Senses: examples: text: The more you try to break Romeo and Juliet apart, the more you'll push them together.
text: I think we pushed them together,' Rita said... "If we'd been less opposed, less angry, perhaps they mightn't have felt they had anything to prove, and we might still have them.
ref: 2014, Hilary Norman, Fear and Loathing: A detective mystery set in Miami:
glosses: To surreptitiously and/or inadvertently set up two people to hook up as partners in romance, business, crime, etc.
retrocerebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From retro- + cerebral.
Senses: glosses: Behind the cerebrum (or brain)
rhopalosiphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhopalosiphines
Senses: glosses: Any aphid of the subtribe Rhopalosiphina
rollerdrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollerdrums
Etymology: From roller + drum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rolling drum used to culture cells
sacrolemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sarcolemma.
satinbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satinbirds
Senses: glosses: Any passerine bird of the family Cnemophilidae.
satinbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satinbird
selfubiquitination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfubiquitinations
Etymology: From self- + ubiquitination.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autoubiquitination.
synonyms: word: autoubiquitination
semiclonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + clonal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Using both sexual and asexual reproduction
semicrystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicrystals
Etymology: From semi- + crystal.
Senses: glosses: A semicrystalline material
semidirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + directional.
Senses: glosses: Partially directional
semihemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semihemispheres
Etymology: From semi- + hemisphere.
Senses: glosses: Half of a hemisphere (thus having two plane sides at right-angles)
semihemispheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semihemisphere
sibyrhynchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sibyrhynchids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct fish of the family Sibyrhinchidae
sibyrhynchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sibyrhynchid
siliceousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From siliceous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being siliceous
spermiduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermiducts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vas deferens.
synonyms: word: vas deferens
spinomedullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spino- + medullary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the spine and the medulla oblongata
fairds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faird.
spinoreticulothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spino- + reticulothalamic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the spine and the thalamic reticular nucleus
stagnicoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stagnicolines
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Stagnicola of freshwater snails.
stagnicolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagnicoline
stemward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stem + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Oriented towards a stem
stemward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stem + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards a stem
stenoxenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a narrow range of potential hosts
raw_tags: of a parasite
Related terms: oioxenous
stereolithographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereolithograph
stereologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stereological.
stiparin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoprotein, present in sea cucumber dermis, that aggregates collagen fibrils
stromatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The pillar hyphae seemed to contribute to their own stromatization.
ref: 1963, Jack D. Rogers, Hypoxylon Canker of Aspen: Screening for Disease Resistance:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation and development of stroma.
subcommissural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + commissural.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a commissure
Derived terms: subcommissural organ
subisotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subisotypes
Etymology: From sub- + isotype.
Senses: glosses: A subtype of an isotype
subisotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subisotype
subisotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + isotyping.
Senses: glosses: The isotyping of subisotypes
particular church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: particular churches
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: An ecclesiastical community of faithful headed by a bishop (or equivalent) as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology.
Hyponyms: autonomous particular church sui iuris
local particular church
particular churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particular church
romanorlovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Roman Yu. Orlov (1929-2005), Russian mineralogist and physicist, Department of Mineralogy, Moscow State University.
Roman Orlov + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal yellow to dark brown coloured copper and potassium hydroxychloride.
rogermitchellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Dr. Roger Howard Mitchell (born 1941), Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geology at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada.
Roger Mitchell + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexagonal mineral that is a complex barium, zirconium, strontium, and sodium basic borosilicate
rokühnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of Robert + Kühn + -ite, after Robert Kühn (1911–2000), German mineralogist and professor at Kaliforschungs-Institut der Kali und Salz AG, Hanover, Germany.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic mineral containing iron, hydrogen, oxygen, and chlorine.
rollandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in honour of Pierre Rolland (born 1940), a mineral collector of the Roua mines in France
Rolland + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A orthorhombic mineral containing astatine, hydrogen, oxygen, and copper.
römerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: German Römer + -ite. Named in honour of Friedrich Adolph Römer (1809-1869), German geologist and Director of the School of Mines at Clausthal, Germany, for his work in northern Germany.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow-brown triclinic mineral containing iron, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur.
keyword stuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of filling a website with keywords in the attempt to boost the website's position in online search rankings.
Hypernyms: spamdexing
subolesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subolesins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, present in ticks of the genus Ixodes, that confers immunity to some pathogens.
subolesins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subolesin
subsimilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + similar.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat similar
subterritory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subterritories
Etymology: From sub- + territory.
Senses: glosses: A territory that is contained within another
subterritories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subterritory
supratidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supra- + tidally.
Senses: glosses: In a supratidal manner
suspensorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to a suspensorium
symmoriiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmoriiforms
Senses: glosses: Any extinct cartilaginous fish of the class Symmoriiformes
symmoriiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symmoriiform
syringopicroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An iridoid glucoside, present in lilacs of the genus Syringa, that has antibacterial activity
cheap skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheap skates
Senses: examples: text: Anyhow, ten minutes would show whether he was a cheap skate or the real goods.
ref: 2009, Jackson Gregory, Marshall of Sundown, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Again, not being an expert and not wanting to sound like a cheap skate, I asked, “Is there a reason I should choose the $2300.00 one versus the $600.00 one?”
ref: 2011, Leslie Greenman, Dating Our Money: A Women’s Guide to Confidence with Money and Men, →ISBN:
text: Man wants to spend twenty thousand dollars on a palace of pleasure and worries if I'm gonna think he's a cheap skate.
ref: 2012, John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, →ISBN, page 223:
glosses: Alternative form of cheapskate.
examples: text: In the sale shops, the quality of the fastenings is usually proportioned to that of the skate ; but let the iron and wood be as common as the learner pleases, he should have the fastenings good ; and for the common cheap skate they should consist of a good screw to go up into the heel, and a small bar of iron across the tread of the foot, an inch forward from the broadest place, and turned up at the ends to catch the sole of the boot.
ref: 1868, George Anderson, The art of skating, by Cyclos, page 15:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheap, skate.
cheap skates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheap skate
cheap-skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheap-skates
Senses: examples: text: Among the programs we listened to were: Jack Benny (who was an awful fiddle player and a cheap-skate), Fred Allen (who had people come out of doors to Allen's Ally), Fibber McGee and Molly (with a closet stuffed with pots and pans), The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show (Charlie was a smart-aleck and Mortimer Snerd was a dunce), Burns and Allen (Gracie Allen wasn't very bright either, but she was funny), and Take It or Leave It (also called The $64 Question) and when contestants got to the final question the audience would shout, "You'll be soorrreeeey!"
ref: 2002, Don Edgers, An Island in Time: Growing Up in the 1940s, →ISBN, page 171:
text: While she performed this mental review of the local geography, Oates produced another snort. “A measly dollar—what an old cheap-skate!”
ref: 2007, James D. Doss, Stone Butterfly, →ISBN:
text: When she went indoors to collect her handbag, Paul thanked his stars that Peter Frampton should prove to be a cheap-skate.
ref: 2010, M. C. Beaton, Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of cheapskate.
cheap-skates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheap-skate
countup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countups
form: count-up
Senses: examples: text: He held her hands till the quake subsided but then it was I who went seismic, as if it had rippled all that distance to me, and with his hands still on hers he led her through a cue-up and countup and this time when the needle released from their doubled fingers it bedded into the groove as if it had been made just for this moment and slipped right into the arms of the storm riders throatily riding the unpredictable weather like shimmer children in an echoing wasteland.
ref: 2010, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Born Confused, →ISBN:
glosses: Enumeration; the act of counting until a criterion is reached.
examples: text: ... an' got pickeld to a point where that dam young assistant treasurer put twenty pieces of dedwood over on me in the countup.
ref: 1916, The Green Book Magazine - Volume 16, page 920:
glosses: A session when something is counted.
Related terms: countdown
countups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countup
count-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: count-ups
Senses: examples: text: He used to drop in large sheets of badly-typed notes, most of them about the technicalities of performance, including a tendency to become inaudible around the 'quick count-up', and leave too many pauses between lines.
ref: 2013, Ron Moody, A Still Untitled (Not Quite) Autobiography, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of countup.
Enumeration
examples: text: Were you present at the count-up of the receipts following that fight?
ref: 1914, New York Supreme Court Appellate Division-First Department Papers on Appeal from Order Dated March 11, 1914, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of countup.
Session for counting something
count-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of count-up
faintened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fainten
faintening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fainten
tagasaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Guanche tagasaste.
Senses: examples: text: Optimum spacing between tagasaste plants within rows must depend on site conditions, especially moisture and nutrient availability.
ref: 1990, R. J. Townsend, “Tagasaste forage production systems”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 33, page 632:
synonyms: tree lucerne
glosses: Cytisus proliferus, a small evergreen tree commonly used to improve the condition of soils used for farming.
seargents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seargent
reckon out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reckons out
form: reckoning out
form: reckoned out
form: reckoned out
Senses: examples: text: But suppose, now, that we could reckon it out, that the inmost secret of it all lay as clear and plain to us as a rule-of-three sum, should we be any the happier?
ref: 2008, Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, page 302:
text: 'What is written on the paper?' 'Don't rightly know, sir. I can reckon out my name and numbers of course, but I can't make out all that fancy clerkwriting. Or sometimes Portuguese carracks take them and the certificates say Bristol on them, I can make that out.'
ref: 2013, Patricia Finney, Gloriana's Torch:
text: Pahom does not understand. “A day? What measure is that? How many acres would that be?” “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”“We do not know how to reckon it out,” said the Chief.
ref: 2015, Karl Clifton-Soderstrom, The Cardinal and the Deadly:
glosses: To figure out; determine by calculation, computation, or logic; make out
examples: text: Woe to those who act fraudulently, who exact their full measure when in receipt from others, yet give short measure when they reckon out or weigh out for others.
ref: 2012, Marvin E. Gettleman, Stuart Schaar, The Middle East and Islamic World Reader:
glosses: To count out
Synonyms: calculate
reckons out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reckon out
reckoning out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reckon out
reckoned out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reckon out