cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ambedo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmˈbi.doʊ/
Etymology: From albedo, a physics term that describes the proportion of light reflected by a substance (from the Latin term for whiteness). Ambedo refers to the tendency both to reflect and to absorb. Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2011, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words.
Senses: examples: text: Later that day, E.K. was sitting on the concrete porch that was the face of his house, basking in ambedo—he became vividly entranced by the seemingly meaningless things around him.
ref: 2014 December 22, Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day, Author House, →ISBN, page 71:
text: The intense, nutty aroma of freshly brewed coffee was still lingering in the air of my modest den. With my back against my hulking bookshelf, I, now in ambedo, watched the rain drip-drop on the window pane. But the pattering of the rain against the glass door of the balcony was so intense and unsettling that for a brief moment, I experienced chrysalism.
ref: 2021, Nishita Patil, MEET YOURSELF, SpotWrite Publications, page 12:
text: Ambedo, a melancholic trance.
Fight of the Elements.
It was quiet like never before. Kailash was moving towards the north. Oce was quiet, silently helping the movement. All the mountain children back in their ambedo.
ref: 2021 February 1, Priyanka Pareek, AMAIRA, Blue Rose Publishers, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Ambedo. That's what he was feeling as he ran after Selena through the tall grass (having awakened with a knot on his head to find her fleeing) and tried not to think about the danger. Ambedo: that trance-like state in which one became became so absorbed by their surroundings—the wind massaging the green hills so that they undulated like sea anemones or the red-gold chiaroscuro sky lending palette and poetry to everything or the sun glaring over the horizon like a burning but indifferent god—that they forgot what they were doing or even why they were there.
ref: 2022 January 22, Wayne Kyle Spitzer, Riders on the Storm, Hobb's End Books, page 743:
glosses: A kind of melancholic trance in which a person becomes completely absorbed in vivid sensory details.
wikipedia: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
aquaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aqua- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: The goal — what Dash considers to be the mastery of aquaphobia — is to float peacefully in deep water for at least five minutes, 10 feet from a wall or support.
ref: 2016 October 6, Malia Wollan, “How to Overcome Aquaphobia”, in The New York Times Magazine:
synonyms: hydrophobia
water fear
waterfright
glosses: A fear of water, especially a morbid fear of drowning.
Related terms: word: aquaphobe
word: aquaphobic
english: water allergy
translation: water allergy
word: aquagenic pruritus
english: water allergy
translation: water allergy
word: aquagenic urticaria
english: rabies
translation: rabies
word: hydrophobia
bottle shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle shops
Senses: examples: text: The former were catered for both by liquor stores and, to a lesser extent, by the bottle shops of hotels.
ref: 1998, Sherry Saggers, Dennis Gray, Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, page 108:
text: I visited a bottle shop recently to buy some wine and beer for a dinner party.
ref: 2003, Andrew Griffiths, 101 Ways to Really Satisfy Your Customers: How to Keep Your Customers and Attract New Ones, page 85:
text: I head towards David Jones in the city, which has a bottle shop that is easily robbed of its expensive and unusual spirits.
ref: 2007, Laurence Stanway, Awoken by an Angel, unnumbered page:
glosses: A liquor store.
Synonyms: off-licence
materialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: materializes
form: materializing
form: materialized
form: materialized
form: materialise
Etymology: From material + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
examples: text: a spirit form, temporarily materialized, and undistinguishable from a human being in the flesh, has come forth in the light[…]
ref: 1875, Epes Sargent, The Proof Palpable of Immortality:
text: Don’t you find, that things fail to materialize? Nothing materializes! Everything withers in the bud.
ref: 1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love:
text: Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed, with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere […]
ref: 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?:
text: And the citationality of these acts—and the calibration of such citationalities to each other—materializes as the very media forms in question.
ref: 2016, Constantine V. Nakassis, Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India, page 230:
glosses: To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
glosses: To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
glosses: To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.
Derived terms: dematerialize
materializable
materializer
rematerialize
unmaterialized
reversing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reverse
reversing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reversings
Senses: glosses: An act of reversal.
Derived terms: reversing camera
reversing cylinder
reversing gear
reversing lever
reversing loop
reversing machine
reversing shaft
reversing siding
reversing valve
Euros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euro
Euros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: the UEFA European Football Championship
radio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Latin radius (“ray”)
Senses: examples: e.g. radiotherapy, radioactinium, radiolucent
glosses: radiation, radioactive
examples: e.g. radiotelemetry, radioacoustics, radiotelegraph
glosses: radio (broadcasting)
examples: e.g. radiobicipital
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: radius (bone)
examples: radiosymmetrical
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: radius
Derived terms: radioacoustics
radioactinium
radioactive
radioactivity
radioassay
radiobicipital
radiobioassay
radiobiology
radiobroadcast
radiobromine
radiocarbon
radiocardiogram
radiochemistry
radiochromatography
radiochronology
radiocolloid
radiocommunication
radiodense
radiodensity
radiodermatitis
radioecology
radioelement
radiogenic
radiogeology
radioglaciology
radiogold
radiogoniometer
radiogoniometry
radiogram
radiograph
radiography
radiohalo
radiohumeral
radiohydrology
radioimmunity
radioimmunoassay
radioimmunodiffusion
radioimmunoelectrophoresis
radioimmunology
radioimmunoprecipitation
radioimmunotherapy
radioiodine
radioisotope
radiolabel
radiolarian
radiolarite
radiole
radiolesion
radioli
radioligand
radiolite
radiolitic
radiolocation
radiologic
radiological
radiologist
radiology
radiolucent
radioluminescence
radiolysis
radioman
radiometer
radiometric
radiometry
radiomicrometer
radiomimetic
radiomutation
radion
radionecrosis
radioneuritis
radionics
radionucleotide
radionuclide
radiopacity
radiopaque
radiopasteurization
radiopharmaceutical
radiopharmacology
radiophobia
radiophone
radiophony
radiophoto
radiophotograph
radiophotoluminescence
radioprotection
radioreceptor
radioresistance
radioresistant
radioscopy
radiosensitive
radiosonde
radiosurgery
radiotelegraph
radiotelegraphy
radiotelemetry
radiotelephone
radiotelephony
radioteletype
radioteletypewriter
radiotherapy
radiothorium
radiotoxic
radiotoxicity
radiotracer
radious
radiovision
bipinnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌɪˈpɪneɪt/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin bipinnātus or from bi + pinnate.
Senses: examples: text: Three hours later Boyles and Rise are propped up against the trunk of the sole acacia tree on the knoll, drinking up the bipinnate shade.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 307:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Doubly pinnate; pinnate and having leaflets that are themselves pinnate.
raw_tags: of a leaf
Derived terms: bipinnately
Related terms: decompound
dioecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪ̯ˈiːʃəs/
Forms: form: diaecious
form: diœcious
form: dioicous
Etymology: From di- + -oecious.
Senses: examples: text: Most plants are hermaphrodite, even if some of them (hazel, for example) keep their male and female flowers apart. But some plants are dioecious, i.e. they have separate sexes. Some of our most familiar wild plants, such as nettle and red campion, are dioecious. If your holly never has any berries, that's probably because it's a male.
ref: 2014 December 12, Ken Thompson, “Do plants have a gender? Most plants are hermaphrodite, but not all – and an interesting situation arises when only one sex is imported into the UK [print version: Alien plant species in search of a mate: Although most plants are hermaphrodite, some come in two distinct genders. So how does a single-sex community develop?, p. W28]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Weekend):
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the male and female reproductive organs on separate plants (of the same species) rather than different parts of the same plant.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: gonochoristic
glosses: Having two distinct sexes.
Derived terms: dioeciously
dioeciousness
gynodioecious
subdioecious
Related terms: dioecism
dioecy
monoecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈniː.ʃəs/
rhymes: -iːʃəs
Forms: form: monecious
form: monœcious
form: monoicous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, solitary”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house, dwelling-place”), equivalent to mono- + -oecious.
Senses: examples: text: Further, species which show continuous variation that is not amenable to orthodox taxonomic treatment, and this is the situation in many monoecious plants, are treated as invariable.
ref: 1978, A. J. E. Smith, “Cytogenetics, Biosystematics and Evolution in the Bryophyta”, in H. W. Woolhouse, editor, Advances in Botanical Research, volume 6, page 247:
text: Recently, monoecious plants have been found in several places in the United States. The plants of Australia are monoecious and dioecious.
ref: 1997, LeRoy Holm, Jerry Doll, Eric Holm, Juan Pancho, James Herberger, World Weeds: Natural Histories and Distribution, page 398:
text: Two factors are likely to allow the establishment of forms with reduced pollen output (i.e., fewer male flowers) in a monoecious population: increased seed fitness as a result of an increase in the ratio of female to male flowers, and a reduced rate of self-fertilisation.
ref: 1999, Monica A. Geber, Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants, page 70:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual, either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers; hermaphrodite.
Coordinate terms: bisexual
cladautoicous
dioecious
synoecious
trimonoecious
Derived terms: andromonoecious
gynomonoecious
monoeciousness
Related terms: monoecy
cytisine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪt.əˌsiːn/
Forms: form: cytisines
Etymology: From French cytise (“laburnum”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A polycyclic alkaloid whose pharmacological activity is similar to nicotine; used in the treatment of nicotinism.
Synonyms: baptitoxine
sophorine
diffusivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffusivities
Etymology: From diffusive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: A tendency to diffuse
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a coefficient of diffusion; especially the amount of heat that passes through a given area in unit time
Derived terms: superdiffusivity
Related terms: diffusate
diffuser
diffusibility
diffusible
diffusive
geochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geochemistry
Hyponyms: biogeochemical
hydrogeochemical
lithogeochemical
palaeogeochemical
pedogeochemical
Derived terms: geochemical anomaly
geochemical balance
geochemical cycle
geochemical evolution
geochemically
geochemical prospecting
geochemical well logging
heliomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From helio- + magnetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to heliomagnetism.
heliomagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helio- + magnetism.
Senses: glosses: the magnetic field, and associated activity, of the sun
Related terms: heliomagnetic
nondipole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dipole.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Not pertaining to, or caused by a dipole.
deconvolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈvɒɫv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: deconvolves
form: deconvolving
form: deconvolved
form: deconvolved
Etymology: From de- + convolve.
Senses: glosses: To subject data or a signal to deconvolution
Derived terms: deconvolver
redeconvolve
cresset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛsɪt/
Forms: form: cressets
Etymology: From Middle English cresset, from Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse and/or French creuset (“crucible”), the latter being from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *croceolus.
Senses: examples: text: Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed / With naphtha and asphaltus.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: As a cresset true that darts its length / Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength.
ref: 1835, William Wordsworth, Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland:
glosses: A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
A metal cup, suspended from or attached to the top of a pole and filled with burning pitch etc., used as portable illumination.
glosses: A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
A metal basket filled with burning material, used to attract fish when night fishing; a fire basket.
examples: 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far
glosses: A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
Related terms: brazier
fire basket
concert bass drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concert bass drums
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bass drum, normally suspended in a framework, used in static indoor performances
tragedize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tragedizes
form: tragedizing
form: tragedized
form: tragedized
Etymology: From tragedy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To dramatize in the form of a tragedy.
dramatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd̠͡ɹ̠ɑmətaɪz/
Forms: form: dramatizes
form: dramatizing
form: dramatized
form: dramatized
form: dramatise
Etymology: From drama + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television.
glosses: To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.
Derived terms: dedramatize
docudramatize
dramatizable
dramatizer
melodramatize
overdramatize
redramatize
underdramatize
undramatized
going places
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go places
go places
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes places
form: going places
form: went places
form: gone places
Senses: examples: text: Herb Alpert’s 50th Album Is Here. What’s Kept Him Going Places? [title]
ref: 2024 September 16, Jim Farber, “Herb Alpert’s 50th Album Is Here. What’s Kept Him Going Places?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: go far
glosses: To make progress or achieve success.
glosses: To travel.
Related terms: go a long way
got it going on
radioactinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + actinium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The radioactive isotope of actinium, ²²⁷₈₉Ac, having a half-life of 21.7 years
Synonyms: actinium-227
radiobicipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + bicipital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the radius and the biceps.
radiobioassay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiobioassays
Etymology: From radio- + bioassay.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The analysis of radioactive material in the body or excreta
costumier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costumiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French costumier.
Senses: synonyms: costumer
costumist
glosses: A person who supplies or designs costumes.
radiobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + biology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the effects of ionizing radiation on living organisms
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The use of radioactive labels to study biological processes
Synonyms: topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: actinobiology
topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: radiation biology
radiobroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radiobroadcasts
form: radiobroadcasting
form: radiobroadcast
form: radiobroadcast
form: radiobroadcasted
form: radiobroadcasted
Etymology: From radio- + broadcast.
Senses: glosses: To broadcast by radio.
radiobroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiobroadcasts
Etymology: From radio- + broadcast.
Senses: glosses: A radio programme.
radiocardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiocardiograms
Etymology: From radio- + cardiogram.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray recording of the progress of radioactive material injected into the chambers of the heart.
radiochromatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From radio- + chromatography.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any form of chromatography in which the separated zones are detected by their radioactivity
radiochronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + chronology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A technique in which the absolute age of an artefact is determined by measuring the ratios of specific radioactive isotopes
Related terms: radiochronological
radiocolloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiocolloids
Etymology: From radio- + colloid.
Senses: glosses: Any colloid one or more of whose components is radioactive
radiocommunication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiocommunications
Etymology: From radio- + communication.
Senses: glosses: Any means of communication using radio or other electromagnetic waves
Synonyms: radiotelecommunication
Related terms: wireless
radiodense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + dense.
Senses: glosses: radiopaque
radiopaque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radiopaque
form: most radiopaque
Etymology: From radio- + opaque.
Senses: glosses: impenetrable to X-rays and other radiation
Related terms: radiopacity
radiodensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiodensities
Etymology: From radio- + density.
Senses: glosses: The relative transparency of a material to X-rays and other radiation.
Synonyms: radiopacity
radiodermatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + dermatitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: dermatitis caused by ionizing radiation
radioelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioelements
Etymology: From radio- + element.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any element whose currently known isotopes are all radioactive.
radiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radiogenic
form: most radiogenic
Etymology: From radio- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or caused by radioactivity.
Derived terms: radiogenically
radiogenic argon
radiogenic isotope
radiogenicity
radiogenic lead
radiogenic strontium
radiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radiogenic
form: most radiogenic
Etymology: From radio + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: One comedy series which is highly radiogenic yet in a category all of its own is The Goon Show […]
ref: 1994, Andrew Crisell, Understanding Radio, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: Particularly suited to radio broadcasting
Related terms: face for radio
radiogeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + geology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the distribution of radioactive elements in the Earth's crust.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The use of radioactivity in the dating of rocks.
radioglaciology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + glaciology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of glaciers and ice sheets using radar.
radiogold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + gold.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The radioactive isotope of gold, ¹⁹⁸₇₉Au, used in medical irradiation and in diagnosis
Synonyms: gold-198
radiogoniometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiogoniometers
Etymology: From radio- + goniometer.
Senses: glosses: radio direction finder
Related terms: radiogoniometry
jankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: CB
fatigues
glosses: A form of military punishment which involves being confined to barracks, performing tedious and often pointless tasks, and being subjected to frequent uniform inspections.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Defaulters' drill.
jankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: plural of janker
love affair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love affairs
Senses: examples: text: He was involved in a love affair with a married woman.
text: "A love affair is an insatiable curiosity over an inscrutable enigma."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 175:
synonyms: affaire
glosses: An affair; a usually adulterous relationship between people who are not married to each other.
examples: text: I've always had a love affair with stamps.
text: And if his love affair with Old Trafford was strained by the saga of his demand to leave earlier this season, the bond was rekindled as United claimed a vital victory.
ref: 2011 February 12, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 2 - 1 Man City”, in BBC:
text: Also in 1955 came the paralysing two-week ASLEF pay strike, which did even more to end the love affair between the railways and its regular customers.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
glosses: A feeling of enthusiasm or strong liking for something; a fondness.
Related terms: have an affair
love connection
pull apart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls apart
form: pulling apart
form: pulled apart
form: pulled apart
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, apart.
examples: text: A frayed rope will pull apart under tension.
glosses: To become separated as a result of pulling.
examples: text: The drunken brawlers had to be pulled apart.
glosses: To separate (people or animals that are fighting).
examples: text: When his watch stopped working, he pulled it apart to work out what was wrong with it.
glosses: To disassemble, dismantle, take apart (a machine or other mechanical device).
examples: text: Starting with a couple of inconsistencies, the detective began to pull apart his alibi.
glosses: To investigate rigorously the basis of (an idea or theory).
examples: text: The professor pulled her essay apart in front of the entire class.
glosses: To criticise harshly and in detail.
Coordinate terms: strip down
scrawly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scrawlier
form: scrawliest
Etymology: From scrawl + -y.
Senses: glosses: Written in the manner of a scrawl, written sloppily and in haste, hard to read.
scrupulosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrupulosities
Etymology: From scrupulo(u)s + -ity, from Latin scrupulositas.
Senses: examples: text: So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not: And it is of us to be taken without curious scrupulosity, as sacred and undoubted scripture, seeing it was written by the holy apostle, into whom the holy Ghost was inspired, as is witnessed.
ref: 1592, Richard Turnbull, An Exposition upon the Canonicall Epistle of Saint Jude, London: John Windet, Sermon 5, p. 67:
text: Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
ref: 1759, Samuel Johnson, chapter 26, in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia:
text: Why should an auctioneer and appraiser thirty years ago, who had as good as forgotten his free-school Latin, be expected to manifest a delicate scrupulosity which is not always exhibited by gentlemen of the learned professions, even in our present advanced stage of morality?
ref: 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book I, Chapter 3:
text: His queer air of listening to himself, the way he had of responding to his own idea in a complex sequence of feelings by a wavering, then pinched smile and a line of doubt drawn on his forehead—such scrupulosity vaguely irritated me.
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
synonyms: scrupulousness
glosses: The property of being scrupulous; excessive attention to scruples.
sculptured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sculptured
form: most sculptured
Etymology: From sculpture + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made like a sculpture.
examples: text: His sculptured features drew appreciative looks.
glosses: Attractively formed.
Derived terms: sculptured painting
sculptured tortoise
Related terms: sculpted
sculpted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sculpted
form: most sculpted
Senses: examples: text: While cyclists often focus on crank-crushing quads or sculpted calves, all you have to do is realize, as Kita did, that the heart is not some mysterious, beating organ, but rather pure, powerhouse muscle.
ref: 2000, Ed Pavelka, Bicycling Magazine's Cycling for Health and Fitness:
glosses: Well shaped, as a good sculpture is.
sculpted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sculpt
seafront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seafronts
Etymology: From sea + front.
Senses: examples: text: Visit the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in the UK, and ammonite road signs greet you at every town and city and even the lampposts on the seafront feature a familiar coiled shell.
ref: 2017 June 14, Mark Carnall, “The ancient mystery of St Hilda's 'snake stones': what do ammonites really look like?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The seashore, the coast.
examples: text: A new £3.6 million footbridge has reconnected residents of Cleethorpes with the seafront, after the level crossing was closed in April 2019 for safety reasons.
ref: 2022 April 6, “Network News: Seafront bridge at Cleethorpes”, in RAIL, number 954, page 14:
glosses: The waterfront of a seaside town.
seafronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seafront
jocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒks
Senses: glosses: plural of jock
jocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒks
Etymology: From jockey shorts.
Senses: examples: text: "My name's Bill. I'm from Western Australia. I was sleeping in my panel van across the creek in the park, and I guess the flood waters picked up the van. I still can't believe what happened, but at least I'm still alive. All I've got left is what I'm standing in: my jocks."
ref: 2014, Lewis Philips, I Am the ONe:
text: "Please, Ryan. I don't want to come downstairs every morning and find you lounging around in your jocks on my couch. It's too ... studenty."
ref: 2015, Marian Keyes, The Woman Who Saved My Life: A Novel:
glosses: Male briefs.
Related terms: Y-fronts
bibidees
yachtsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yachtsman
screechy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: screechier
form: screechiest
Etymology: From screech + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a screechy sound
text: Where these Atlantics fell from acoustic grace, however, was in their feeble screechy little whistle, so different from the N.B.R. mellow standard pattern.
ref: 1952 December, R. S. McNaught, “The Voice of the Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 839:
glosses: Resembling a screech.
examples: text: She has a screechy voice that really grates on my nerves, like a dentist's drill.
glosses: Given to screeching.
scrunchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌnt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: scrunchies
Etymology: From scrunch + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scrunchie.
scrunchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌnt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: scrunchier
form: scrunchiest
Etymology: From scrunch + -y.
Senses: glosses: Scrunched up; creased or wrinkled.
Derived terms: scrunchy mama
scrunchy mom
scrunchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrunchy
elasticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elasticizes
form: elasticizing
form: elasticized
form: elasticized
form: elasticise
Etymology: From elastic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make (clothing, etc.) with elastic, by attaching elastic bands, so it can be adjusted while maintaining a snug fit.
examples: text: a facial cleanser that elasticizes the skin
glosses: To make elastic or stretchy.
Derived terms: elasticizer
nonelasticized
unelasticized
Related terms: word: elasticated
elasticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elasticises
form: elasticising
form: elasticised
form: elasticised
form: elasticize
Etymology: From elastic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elasticize.
scurrility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scurrilities
Etymology: From scurril(ous) + -ity, from Latin scurrilitas.
Senses: examples: text: His gayeſt flooriſhes are but Gaſcoignes Weedes, or Tarletons trickes, or Greenes crankes, or Marlowes bravadoes; his jeſts, but the dregges of common ſcurrilitie, or the ſhreds of the Theater, or the of-ſcouring of new pamflets: […]
ref: 1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London]: [s.n.], [1870], →OCLC, page 66:
glosses: Something that is scurrilous.
scurrilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scurrility
screwworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwworms
Etymology: From screw + worm.
Senses: examples: text: A sample of screwworms collected in the morning are displayed at a veterinary clinic in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico on 4 July 2025. […] The government’s confirmation of a screwworm case comes just over a week after US Department of Agriculture (USDA) secretary, Brooke Rollins, traveled to Texas to announce plans to build a sterile fly facility there as part of efforts to combat the pest.
ref: 2025 August 25, “First human case of flesh-eating screwworm parasite confirmed in US”, in The Guardian, sourced from Reuters, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
glosses: A larva of a blowfly of species Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm fly) or Chrysomya bezziana (Old World screwworm fly), of tribe Chrysomyini, parasitic in animals and sometimes humans, distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals, unlike most maggots, which eat only dead flesh.
Derived terms: New World screwworm
Old World screwworm
screwworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwworm
myiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /maɪˈaɪ.ə.sɪs/
Forms: form: myiases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa, “fly”) + -iasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: flystrike
glosses: The infestation of a living vertebrate by maggots.
Derived terms: ophthalmomyiasis
pseudomyiasis
Related terms: myiatic
myiasitic
screwiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From screwy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He's screwy. I hope his screwiness isn't catching.
glosses: The property of being screwy. Insanity, craziness, eccentricity.
shekels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shekel
shekalim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shekel
wooly mammoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooly mammoths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woolly mammoth.
sheikdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪkdəm/
ipa: /ˈʃiːkdəm/
ipa: /ˈʃiːkdəm/
ipa: /ˈʃeɪkdəm/
Forms: form: sheikdoms
form: shaikdom
form: shaikhdom
form: shaykhdom
form: sheikhdom
Etymology: From sheik + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The domain ruled by a sheik.
sheikhdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheikhdoms
Etymology: From sheikh + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sheikdom.
hypersexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersexual
form: most hypersexual
Etymology: From hyper- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: Add to this pornographic films, which have done more not only to objectify women but also to give men the idea that women are hypersexual and welcome their advances.
ref: 2017 October 31, Cal Thomas, "Shocking But Not Surprising", Townhall.comhttp://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2017/10/31/shocking-but-not-surprising-n2402383
glosses: Excessively interested in sex.
glosses: Of or relating to hypersexuality.
Derived terms: hypersexually
hypersexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersexuals
Etymology: From hyper- + sexual.
Senses: glosses: A person who is hypersexual.
go fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He had served the Queen in the Marines and a Line regiment, and the "go-fever" being in his bones, had drifted to America, there to serve Uncle Sam.
ref: 1900, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea, page 214:
text: "You seem to do a great deal of moving about." "I do," said Jimmy. "I can't keep still. I've got the go-fever, like that man in Kipling's book.
ref: 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, The Intrusion of Jimmy:
text: At last the go-fever broke out. She had been to London — that promoter of restlessness — to stay with a girl artist friend and show her work to some experts
ref: 1921, Edward Verrall Lucas, Rose and Rose: A Story, page 263:
text: The problem, as many people knew, was that Gus had "go fever": he was itching to fly this spacecraft.
ref: 1994, Jim Lovell, Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, page 14:
glosses: An urge to commence a planned journey regardless of the circumstances.
Related terms: get-there-itis
go-itis
full-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: other: /ˌfʊl ˈtaɪm/
Forms: form: fulltime
Etymology: From full + time.
Senses: examples: text: I have a full-time job, working five days a week.
text: Bringing up a child is a full-time activity.
text: "I finished full-time work in 2005 and then switched to part time, because I liked working and it seemed a shame to leave something I enjoyed.
ref: 2021 January 13, Paul Stephen, “I'd like to do it all over again”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 46:
glosses: Involving a full amount of time spent on some activity, especially a job.
Derived terms: full-time equivalent
full-timer
full-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: other: /ˌfʊl ˈtaɪm/
Forms: form: fulltime
Etymology: From full + time.
Senses: examples: text: to work full-time
text: Area Boards are wholly part-time, but their Chairmen are members of the Commission and may work full-time in that capacity.
ref: 1960 September, “The Select Committee on Nationalised Industries examines British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 524:
glosses: Spending a full amount of time.
radiohumeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + humeral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or joining the radius and humerus.
Derived terms: radiohumeral index
radiohumeral joint
radiohydrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + hydrology.
Senses: glosses: The study of hydrology as used in the processing of radioactive materials.
radioimmunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + immunity.
Senses: glosses: A reduced susceptibility to damage from radioactivity.
radioimmunoassay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioimmunoassays
form: RIA
Etymology: From radio- + immunoassay.
Senses: glosses: A procedure that uses the binding of a radioactively labeled substance to an antibody in order to analyze minute amounts of biological compounds.
radioimmunoassay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radioimmunoassays
form: radioimmunoassaying
form: radioimmunoassayed
form: radioimmunoassayed
Etymology: From radio- + immunoassay.
Senses: glosses: To assay by this process.
radioactively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more radioactively
form: most radioactively
Etymology: From radioactive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Using a radioactive substance
glosses: Concerning radioactivity
radioimmunodiffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + immunodiffusion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: immunodiffusion using antigens or antibodies labelled with radioisotopes
radioimmunoelectrophoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + immunoelectrophoresis.
Senses: glosses: immunoelectrophoresis using antigens or antibodies labelled with radioisotopes
radioimmunology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + immunology.
Senses: glosses: The study of immunology using antigens or antibodies labelled with radioisotopes.
radioimmunoprecipitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + immunoprecipitation.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: immunoprecipitation using antigens or antibodies labelled with radioisotopes
Related terms: radioimmunoprecipitate
radioimmunotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioimmunotherapies
Etymology: From radio- + immunotherapy.
Senses: glosses: immunotherapy using antibodies labelled with radioisotopes
Related terms: radioimmunotherapeutic
radioiodine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioiodines
Etymology: From radio- + iodine.
Senses: examples: text: Thyroid cells, in contrast to other cells, have the capability to organify iodine, which increases the time radioiodine can deposit energy.
ref: 2008, Kevin J. Harrington, Richard G. Vile, Hardev S. Pandha, Viral Therapy of Cancer, page 336:
topics: medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The radioactive isotope of iodine, ¹³¹₅₃I, having a half-life of 8 days; used as a medical tracer
Synonyms: iodine-131
Related terms: radioiodinate
radioiodination
iodine-131
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The radioactive isotope of iodine, ¹³¹₅₃I, having a half-life of eight days; used as a medical tracer
Synonyms: radioiodine
radiolabel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radiolabels
form: radiolabeling
form: radiolabelling
form: radiolabeled
form: radiolabeled
form: radiolabelled
form: radiolabelled
Etymology: From radio- + label.
Senses: glosses: To tag a substance (especially a biological substance) with a radioactive tracer
radiolabel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiolabels
Etymology: From radio- + label.
Senses: glosses: A radioactive tracer; a radiotracer
radiotracer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiotracers
Etymology: From radio- + tracer.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A radioactive tracer; a radiolabel
Related terms: radiotracing
radiolarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹeɪ.di.ə(ʊ)ˈlɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌɹeɪ.di.oʊˈlɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌɹeɪ.di.əˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: radiolarians
Etymology: From translingual Radiolaria + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Water wells inkblack in the streets repeating the polelamps in glozy rosettes that dish and slide in the wash like radiolarians pale with phosphorous on a midnight sea.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 188:
glosses: Any of many marine amoeboid protozoa, of subclass Radiolaria, having filamentous pseudopodia; they have intricate silica skeletons.
Derived terms: radiolarian ooze
Related terms: radiolaria
radiolaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹeɪ.di.ə(ʊ)ˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌɹeɪ.di.oʊˈlɛɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌɹeɪ.di.əˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From subclass name Radiolaria.
Senses: examples: text: Radiolaria, which are single-celled plankton, are abundant in all regions of the world ocean and older than multicellular life.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 137:
glosses: The members of the taxonomic subclass Radiolaria; radiolarians.
preconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + conscious.
Senses: glosses: Prior to consciousness.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: (of memories) that one is not aware of, but which can be recalled through conscious effort
preconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preconsciouses
Etymology: From pre- + conscious.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The sum of these memories
tenne
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ten.
manganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manganese + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Manganese poisoning, a toxic condition resulting from chronic exposure to manganese.
drap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹæp/
Forms: form: draps
Etymology: Borrowed from French drap.
Senses: glosses: Cloth.
Related terms: drap de Berry
drap d'été
drap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹæp/
Forms: form: draps
form: drapping
form: drapped
form: drapped
Etymology: See drop.
Senses: glosses: To drop.
drap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹæp/
Forms: form: draps
Etymology: See drop.
Senses: examples: text: We've got tae get back wi' her, Hecky. Whit mercy we didna get fou!
 We'll no touch a drap o' that likker—
 that's hard, man, ye canna deny. . . .
ref: 1921, Robert W. Service, “The Twa Jocks”, in Ballads of a Bohemian:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of drop.
nonfinancial debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfinancial debts
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The debt held by governments, households, and companies not in the financial sector.
orbity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbities
Etymology: From orb + -ity, from Latin orbitas.
Senses: examples: text: Discontents and grievances […] peculiar to private men, as cares, crosses, losses, death of friends, poverty, want, sickness, orbities, abuses, […]
ref: , 492
glosses: A bereavement by loss of parents or children; the state of being orbate; orbation.
nonfinancial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + financial.
Senses: glosses: Not financial.
examples: text: Bruner asks if the current global financial system, which is built upon an exchange network of national currencies backed by their respective governments, seems to work well. Why would one central entity need to control currency? The reason, as with many other Controligarch schemes, is that a centralised digital currency also is put forward as the solution to many nonfinancial problems— from climate change to cyberattacks to the rise of so-called disinformation.
ref: 2024 April 22, “BOOK REVIEW: Controligarchs”, in TheGeoPolity:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Not directly related to the finance industry.
Derived terms: nonfinancial debt
Orla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicized version of Irish Órfhlaith (“golden princess”), from ór (“gold”) + flaith (“princess”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
amalgamating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amalgamate
amalgamates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amalgamate
jonesing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jonesin
form: jonesin'
form: jonezing
form: jonezin
form: jonezin'
Senses: examples: text: I'm jonesing for some peanuts.
glosses: present participle and gerund of jones
jonesing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jonesin
form: jonesin'
form: jonezing
form: jonezin
form: jonezin'
Senses: glosses: Suffering from withdrawal, or otherwise being in desperate, addiction-like need of a substance.