cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reprioritisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprioritisation
viddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viddy
Cyryl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Polish, equivalent to English Cyril.
imidazolinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imidazolinone
chondromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondroma
cytopenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytopenia
icosapentaenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eicosapentaenoic acid.
eicosapentaenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eicosa- + penta- + -noic acid. The eicosa- prefix refers to the 20 carbon atoms. The penta- prefix refers to the five double bonds. The -(e)noic suffix generically denotes fatty acids.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: EPA
word: icosapentaenoic acid
word: timnodonic acid
word: 20:5
english: physiological literature
translation: physiological literature
alt: n-3
glosses: An omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), having 20 carbon atoms and 5 cis double bonds, that acts as a precursor for prostaglandin-3, thromboxane-3, and leukotriene-5 eicosanoids
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: eicosapentaenoate
gossamerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gossamerlike
form: most gossamerlike
Etymology: From gossamer + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The popular Jin Patisserie in Venice serves a rarefied twist on the banana-cream pie, with caramel bananas and mascarpone cream set into a gossamerlike sponge cake topped with tiny dots of dark chocolate.
ref: 2007 January 14, Jennifer Steinhauer, “L.A.’s Top Banana . . .”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling gossamer; light and airy.
lunchpail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunchpails
Senses: examples: text: Ortmeyer, a lunchpail forward who usually counts success in hits and blocked shots, was heading into his third season with the Rangers and was floored by the news.
ref: 2007 January 14, Lynn Zinser, “Victory for Ortmeyer and the Rangers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lunch pail.
lunchpails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunchpail
photobiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: photobiographies
Etymology: From photo + biography.
Senses: examples: text: When Russell Freedman won the Newbery Medal for his photobiography of Abraham Lincoln in 1988, he rewarded himself with a trip to China.
ref: 2007 January 14, Stephanie Deutsch, “Children’s Books”, in New York Times:
glosses: A biography illustrated with, or comprising, photographs.
photobiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photobiography
piemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piemakers
Etymology: From Middle English piemakere, pyemaker, pye-makyer, equivalent to pie + maker.
Senses: examples: text: There are piemakers who embrace the standard whipped-cream topping, and others who meddle with meringue.
ref: 2007 January 14, Jennifer Steinhauer, “L.A.’s Top Banana . . .”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who makes pies.
Synonyms: patissier
piemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piemaker
semipros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semipro
honeyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From honey + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: They might have been, in the all-permeating glory on their hill terrace, with the sapphire-circled plain around—they might have been the two youngest citizens of Paradise, circled in for ever from bleak honeyless winter, bleak honeyless hearts.
ref: 1917, Mary Webb, chapter 11, in Gone to Earth, New York: Dutton, page 99:
glosses: Without honey.
shawled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shawl + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Properly top-hatted and shawled, men and women of Britain’s upper crust gawked at, prodded and squeezed these so-called human freaks, amusing themselves with the deformities that were paraded before them.
ref: 2007 January 14, Caroline Elkins, “A Life Exposed”, in New York Times:
glosses: Dressed in a shawl.
shawled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From shawl + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past of shawl
thrillerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thriller + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Exit A,” already crippled by this temporary union between dislikable Virginia and uninteresting Severin, now commits hari-kari by foisting on us a mind-bogglingly implausible stretch of thrillerdom: Virginia becomes part of a North Korean kidnapping ring! ݩ
ref: 2007 January 14, William T. Vollmann, “Military Brats in Love”, in New York Times:
glosses: The world or sphere of thrillers (sensational works).
unsliced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sliced.
Senses: examples: text: Some cannot stop themselves from embellishments — pecans, chocolate shavings, drizzles of caramel — and others feel compelled to place large chunks of unsliced bananas in their pies, forcing the involvement of a butter knife.
ref: 2007 January 14, Jennifer Steinhauer, “L.A.’s Top Banana . . .”, in New York Times:
synonyms: uncut
whole
glosses: Not sliced.
unsliced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unslice
churchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From church + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a church
glosses: Who does not attend church
Derived terms: churchlessness
schoolless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From school + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a school, or not having attended school.
Synonyms: uneducated
untowardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untowardly
form: most untowardly
Etymology: From untoward + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Those ruddy plumes, embrew′d with heavenly food, / When I would suck them, twine to driest coral; / And when I couch between her lily buds, / They surge like frothy water mounts above all: / Surely, they were all made unto good uses, / But she them all untowardly abuses.
ref: 1594, William Percy, Cœlia, Sonnet XII:
text: O day untowardly turned!
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: […] whenever my brains come to be dissected, you will perceive, without spectacles, that he has left a large uneven thread, as you sometimes see in an unsaleable piece of cambrick, running along the whole length of the web, and so untowardly, you cannot so much as cut out a * *, (here I hang up a couple of lights again)—or a fillet, or a thumb-stall, but it is seen or felt.
ref: 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXXIII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VI, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 132:
text: “[…] I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
text: It has been said that Mr. Slope, as he started for Ullathorne, received a dispatch from his friend, Mr. Towers, which had the effect of putting him in that high good-humour which subsequent events somewhat untowardly damped.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. and Mrs. Quiverful are Made Happy. Mr. Slope is Encouraged by the Press.”, in Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 229:
text: Perhaps that’s because discretion is a restaurateur’s asset—to dish untowardly would be bad for business.
ref: 2007 January 14, Sara Dickerman, “Are You Being Served?”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an untoward way.
untowardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untowardly
form: most untowardly
Etymology: From untoward + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1561, Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528), translated by Thomas Hoby, London: David Nutt, 1900, Book One, pp. 41-42,
To disgrace therefore many untowardly asseheades, that through malepertnes thinke to purchase them the name of a good Courtyer, I would have suche a pastime for this night, that one of the company myght bee picked out who should take in hand to shape in woordes a good Courtyer, specifying all suche condicions and particuler qualities, as of necessitie must be in hym that deserveth this name.
text: They frequently learn from unbred or debauched Servants, such Language, untowardly Tricks and Vices, as otherwise they possibly would be ignorant of all their Lives.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§68”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC, page 75:
text: 1791, George Washington, Letter to his niece, Harriot Washington, Philadelphia, 20 October, 1791,
Your cousins, with whom you live, are well qualified to give you advice; and I am sure they will, if you are disposed to receive it. But, if you are disobliging, self-willed, and untowardly, it is hardly to be expected that they will engage themselves in unpleasant disputes with you […]
glosses: Untoward.
Derived terms: untowardliness
untowardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untowardnesses
Etymology: From untoward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being untoward.
glosses: Something untoward.
untowardnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untowardness
valvetrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valvetrains
Etymology: From valve + train.
Senses: examples: text: To coax their pushrod designs to rev higher without running out of breath, engineers have designed lighter, stiffer, lower-friction valvetrains.
ref: 2007 January 14, Don Sherman, “Making Modern Horsepower the Old-Fashioned Way”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of valve train.
valvetrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valvetrain
docosahexaenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An essential 22-carbon atom omega-3 fatty acid with six cis double bonds, found in fish oils, metabolized to form the docosanoids.
Synonyms: word: DHA
word: cervonic acid
sense: fatty acids nomenclature
english: shorthand name: 22:6(n-3)
translation: shorthand name: 22:6(n-3)
word: all-cis-docosa-4,7,10,13,16,19-hexa-enoic acid
Coordinate terms: word: docosahexaenoate
english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: cervonate
docosanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docosanoids
Etymology: From docosa- (“22”) + -n- + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various signalling molecules made by oxygenation of twenty-two-carbon essential fatty acids, especially docosahexaenoic acid, including some resolvins and the docosatrienes.
docosanoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docosanoid
maistre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maistres
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of master.
maistre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: maistres
form: maistring
form: maistred
form: maistred
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of master.
neurofuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurofurans
Etymology: From neuro- + furan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various 22-carbon compounds, similar to the isofurans, formed nonenzymatically by free radical mediated peroxidation of docosahexaenoic acid.
neurofurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurofuran
isofuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isofurans
form: isofurane
Etymology: From iso- + furan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various nonclassic eicosanoids formed nonenzymatically by free radical mediated peroxidation of arachidonic acid, similar to the isoprostanes but with a substituted tetrahydrofuran ring.
isofurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isofuran
isoprostane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoprostanes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various prostaglandin-like compounds formed in vivo from the free radical-catalyzed peroxidation of essential fatty acids (primarily arachidonic acid) without the direct action of cyclooxygenase enzyme.
isoprostanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoprostane
clever clogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clever clogs
form: cleverclogs
form: clever-clogs
Senses: examples: text: 'Not in itself,' said the Doctor, holding the gun at arm's length. 'But you tell me, what happens if some clever clogs gets this in his lab? Finds out how it works? The human race gets the secret of Dalek weapons. You'll all be dead by Wednesday week.'
ref: 2006, Gareth Roberts, I Am a Dalek, BBC Books, page 39:
text: 'All right then, clever-clogs,' said Yasmin. 'Any idea which one?'
ref: 2011, Tom Bradman, Tony Bradman, Space School: Blast Off!, Bloomsbury (A & C Black), page 49:
text: 'Yes, perfect. Mr Clever Clogs has done it again!'
ref: 2013, Lynda Bellingham, Tell Me Tomorrow, Simon & Schuster, page 409:
synonyms: word: Buddha
word: clever clogs
word: clever dick
word: know-all
word: know-it-all
word: smart aleck
word: smart ass
word: smarty
word: smarty pants
word: wiseacre
word: wiseass
word: wise-ass
word: wisenheimer
glosses: Somebody who is rather too clever; a smart aleck; sometimes used as an epithet.
Derived terms: clever-cloggery
cleverclogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleverclogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clever clogs.
resolvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resolvins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various compounds that are made by the human body from the omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, believed to reduce cellular inflammation.
resolvins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resolvin
docosatriene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docosatrienes
Etymology: From docosa- (“22”) + tri- (“3”) + -ene (“double-bonded carbon”). From having 22 carbons, with three double-bonded carbon-carbons.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound containing conjugated triene structures generated from docosahexaenoic acid.
docosatrienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of docosatriene
sagginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saggy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It’s hard to understand the link between the earthiness and vitality of Brazilian culture and the sagginess of soft middlebrow pop.
ref: 2007 January 8, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being saggy.
unconsoling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconsoling
form: most unconsoling
Etymology: From un- + consoling.
Senses: examples: text: When some young Gypsies beat him up, she looks on with the unconsoling remark: “They’re only keeping warm, Swann, that’s all.”
ref: 2007 January 8, Richard Eder, “Ultimate Exile: A Gypsy Poet Expelled by Her People”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not consoling.
Derived terms: unconsolingly
unhackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhackable
form: most unhackable
Etymology: From un- + hackable.
Senses: examples: text: With Vista, parents for the first time have powerful, easy-to-use, practically unhackable tools to control and monitor just about everything their children do with the home computer, online and off.
ref: 2007 January 8, Seth Schiesel, “For Parents, New Ways to Control the Action”, in New York Times:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not hackable; that cannot be hacked or broken into.
Synonyms: impregnable
invulnerable
boxful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxfuls
form: boxesful
Etymology: From box + -ful.
Senses: glosses: as much as a box will hold
Synonyms: boxload
Coordinate terms: basketful
cabinetful
drawerful
shelfful
boxfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boxful
boxload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxloads
Etymology: From box + load.
Senses: glosses: A load comprising a full box.
Synonyms: boxful
boxloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boxload
methazolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That is, until she went to the pharmacy to pick up a refill of methazolamide, the pills she took to control her glaucoma, and instead was given methotrexate, a potent chemotherapy drug that suppresses immunity.
ref: 2007 January 2, Jane E. Brody, “To Protect Against Drug Errors, Ask Questions”, in New York Times:
glosses: A carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.
delitescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more delitescent
form: most delitescent
Etymology: From Latin delitescens, present participle of delitescere (“to hide away”).
Senses: glosses: Lying uncovered inside; latent.
Related terms: delitescence
spacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spackers
Etymology: See spack; ultimately from spastic.
Senses: glosses: A person with cerebral palsy.
glosses: A spack; an incompetent or physically uncoordinated person.
spackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spacker
dubersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dubersome
form: most dubersome
Senses: examples: text: But he looked rather dubersome, and I thought he was only meaning to sham me off, and I felt hurt at it, Jem; for he had offered fairly, and I took his offer freely.
ref: 1830, F. Shoberl, Forget Me Not; a Christmas, New Years, and Birthday Present, reprinted in The Literary gazette: A weekly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts (1835), page 692
text: I was a little dubersome about how they'd git along in the stirrups; though they've done better than I thought they would.
ref: 1869, Edward Hand Williamson, The Quaker Partisans: A Story of the Revolution, page 291:
text: "That's what I'm dubersome about," says father, lightin' his pipe again. "Nobody down there got much of a look at me, and I let my beard grow on the road and shaved clean soon's I got back, same as I always do".
ref: 2006, Rolf Boldrewood, Paul Eggert, Elizabeth Webby, Robbery Under Arms, page 148:
glosses: Doubtful.
virials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virial
DLC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DLCs
Senses: examples: text: The Batmobile, the heavily armored vehicle driven by Batman, is available as a paid DLC for Rocket Leaguers.
ref: 2022 March 5, Diana Coker, “The Batman Drives the Batmobile to Rocket League”, in Technowize, archived from the original on 18 May 2022:
text: Destiny 2 DLCs offer plenty of content for Guardians to play. Each DLC features a brand new story, new raids, and lots of activities to partake in. Additionally, the main story is connected across every DLC in conjunction with smaller seasonal stories, and as of The Final Shape, episodes too.
ref: 2024 September 9, Kijanna Henry, “All Destiny 2 DLC expansions: Vaulted content & The Final Shape”, in Dexerto:
topics: video-games
coordinate_terms: expansion pack
add-on
mod
glosses: Initialism of downloadable content.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of diamond-like carbon.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: environmental science
glosses: Initialism of dioxin-like compound.
topics: business
law
glosses: Initialism of dual-listed company.
DLC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The DLC also proclaimed its desire to move the Democratic Party closer to Republican positions on questions of social policy and moral traditionalism.
ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 4, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Democratic Leadership Council.
tackey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackeys
form: tacky
Senses: examples: text: Riding a small tackey[…], he was compelled continually to be on the look-out for, and defence against, the overhanging branches and vines clustering about the trees, through which his horse, in its own desire to clamber over the roots, continually and most annoyingly bore him.
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter IX, page 115:
glosses: A scrubby, neglected horse.
glosses: A person in a similar condition.
ceria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: cerias
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound cerium(IV) oxide.
Derived terms: nanoceria
Related terms: ceric oxide
cerium oxide
cerium dioxide
norbolethone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɔː(ɹ)ˈbɒlɪθəʊn/
Senses: glosses: A particular anabolic steroid.
ruminatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ruminatively
form: most ruminatively
Etymology: From ruminative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But who could not have been captivated by the passages of ecstatic murmurings; shimmering, unhinged harmonies; ruminatively Wagnerian lyricism?
ref: 2007 January 20, Anthony Tommasini, “Muti Takes the Reins, a Classicist at His Core”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a ruminative way.
plantocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantocracy
Santa Rosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Santa Rosa (“Saint Rose”).
Senses: glosses: A name shared by multiple places.
A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
glosses: A name shared by multiple places.
A city, the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States.
glosses: A name shared by multiple places.
A city, the county seat of Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A name shared by multiple places.
An island of Santa Barbara County, California, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.
Derived terms: Santa Rosa County
Santa Rosa de Lima
Santa Rosa Guachipilín
zea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeas
Senses: examples: text: […] and here the types used are principally the dwarf ones; and those plants of a greater height with decorative foliage like the zeas or variegated maize, which are used to produce the effect of sub-tropical bedding.
ref: 1948, Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper, Continuous Flower Growing, page 83:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Zea.
Related terms: zein
Pomoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pomoan
form: most Pomoan
Etymology: From Pomo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Pomo people.
glosses: Pertaining to the Pomo languages.
Pomoan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pomo + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Pomo language family.
Californios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Californio
hirudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hirudinal
form: most hirudinal
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to leeches
Related terms: hirudin
hirudin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hirudins
Etymology: From Latin hirūdo (“leech”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide, obtained from the salivary glands of leeches, that is used as an anticoagulant.
Derived terms: hirudinization
hirudinize
hirudinized
-irudin
Related terms: hirudinal
Hirudo
colley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colleys
Senses: glosses: Dated form of collie (“dog breed”).
junglelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more junglelike
form: most junglelike
Etymology: From jungle + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resemblng a jungle.
goluptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goluptious
form: most goluptious
form: galoptious
form: galumptious
form: galuptious
form: galloptious
Senses: glosses: splendid, delightful, magnificent
gypseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gypseous
form: most gypseous
Senses: glosses: Containing gypsum.
glosses: Of a chalky white color.
savourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savourers
form: savorer
Etymology: From savour + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who savours or smacks of something; one who favours or takes pleasure in something.
gilpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilpies
Senses: glosses: A boy.
glosses: A boisterous child of either sex.
humusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humusy
form: most humusy
Etymology: From humus + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This plant thrives best in a humusy soil.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Similar to humus.
effectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effective
giddap
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of giddyup.
gippoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gippo
giraffoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giraffoids
Etymology: From giraffe + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any animal similar to a giraffe.
giraffoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giraffoid
glegly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glegly
form: most glegly
Etymology: From gleg + -ly.
Senses: glosses: expeditiously
glosses: attentively
griesly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more griesly
form: most griesly
Senses: examples: text: Where I was wont to ſeeke the honey Bee, / Working her formall rowmes in Wexen frame: / The grieſlie Todeſtoole growne there mought I ſe / And loathed Paddocks lording on the ſame.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 49, verso:
english: Where I was wont to seek the honey bee, / Working her formal rooms in waxen frame: / The grisly toadstool grown there might I see / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
translation: Where I was wont to seek the honey bee, / Working her formal rooms in waxen frame: / The grisly toadstool grown there might I see / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
bold_translation_offsets: 89
95
text: And his faire lockes […] He let to grow and griesly to concrew.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 40:
glosses: Obsolete form of grisly.
Wallon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wallons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Walloon.
Wallons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wallon
imposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpəʊzəbəl/
Forms: form: more imposable
form: most imposable
Etymology: From Middle French imposable.
Senses: examples: text: imposable regulations
text: imposable law
text: they were neither necessary to be explicitly acknowledged, before they were convincingly revealed, nor simply and absolutely imposable on any particular man
ref: 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being imposed or laid on.
Derived terms: unimposable
West Flemish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more West Flemish
form: most West Flemish
Senses: glosses: From or relating to West Flanders, the westernmost Belgian province, in the western part of the historic countship of Flanders
glosses: In or relating to the West Flemish dialects
Related terms: East Flemish
Flemish
South Flemish
West Flemish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of Flemish dialects of the Dutch language in the western part of the historic countship of Flanders (now in Belgium and France)
maldistribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maldistributions
Etymology: From mal- + distribution.
Senses: synonyms: misdistribution
coordinate_terms: misallocation
glosses: Bad or undesirable distribution of wealth, resources etc.
myoinositol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myoinositols
Etymology: From myo- + inositol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The most commonly-occurring isomer of inositol.
Synonyms: vitamin B
borborigmi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borborigmus
interpupillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
Etymology: From inter- + pupillary.
Senses: examples: text: In connexion with a somewhat extensive research into the state of refraction, visual acuity, and interpupillary distance in the girls of a school in Heidelberg, Beselin (Arch. f. Augenh., xiv. 2) gives the following results with reference to the dynamic relations of the muscles […]
ref: 1884, “The Dynamic State of the Lateral Ocular Muscles in Girls from 5 to 18 years of age”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 30, page 481:
text: I use a Bausch and Lomb Interpupillary Distance Gauge, which will give give^([sic]) the correct interpupillary distances for distance, intermediate, and close visions.
ref: 1921 June 24, John A. Spengler, “Advantages of trifocal lenses and reasons why they should be worn”, in American Journal of Ophthalmology, volume 4, number 6, page 405:
text: The eyepiece tubes are adjusted for the correct interpupillary distance, that is, the distance between the pupils of one's eyes.
ref: 2001, B. L. Bramfitt, Metallographer's Guide: Practice and Procedures for Irons and Steels, page 123:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the pupils of the eyes.
intrahepatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntɹəhəˈpætɪk/
Etymology: From intra- + hepatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: extrahepatic
;
perihepatic
;
suprahepatic
infrahepatic
posthepatic
prehepatic
glosses: Within the liver.
Derived terms: intrahepatically
colectivos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colectivo
invasivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invasivities
Etymology: From invasive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being invasive
glosses: The degree to which something is invasive
hyperacusis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pəɹ.əˈkjuː.sɪs/
Etymology: From hyper- + -acusis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A heightened sensitivity to some sounds, especially extremely loud noises.
Derived terms: hyperacusic
Related terms: acoustic
misophonia
hyperacusic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperacusic
form: most hyperacusic
Etymology: From hyperacusis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from hyperacusis
algesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈdʒiːzɪə/
ipa: /-sɪə/
Forms: form: algesias
Etymology: From French algésie, either a back-formation from analgésie (“analgesia”) – the form *ἀλγησία (*algēsía) is not found in Ancient Greek – or formed directly from Ancient Greek ἄλγησις (álgēsis, “sense of pain”) + -ie (“-ia”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: sensitivity to pain
Derived terms: algesic
algesiogenic
analgesia
antalgesia
cryalgesia
defecalgesiophobia
hyperalgesia
hypoalgesia
paralgesia
Related terms: -algia
algo-
algometer
algometry
pain score
pain threshold
acers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acer
débutante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪb(j)utɑnt/
Forms: form: débutantes
form: debutante
form: debûtante
Etymology: Borrowed from French débutante, feminine form of débutant.
Senses: examples: text: A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A female who débuts.
Coordinate terms: débutant
Related terms: word: début
word: débutant
débutantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of débutante
cuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuers
Etymology: From cue + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Cuers of English and other traditionally spoken languages are concerned solely with conveying the visible consonant-vowel phoneme-equivalents and the accompanying prosodic information.
ref: 2010, Carol J. LaSasso, Kelly Lamar Crain, Jacqueline Leybaert, Cued Speech and Cued Language Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children:
glosses: One who cues.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The caller in a round dance.
Derived terms: autocuer
beech marten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beech martens
Senses: synonyms: house marten
stone marten
white breasted marten
glosses: Martes foina, a marten of Eurasia.
beech martens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beech marten
stone marten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone martens
Senses: glosses: Martes foina; beech marten.
stone martens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stone marten
Mets Yeghern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Meds Yeghern.
estoiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estoile
bilirubinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilirubinemias
Etymology: From bilirubin + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of bilirubin in the blood
Derived terms: hyperbilirubinemia
hypobilirubinemia
normobilirubinemia
-uria
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: —yo͝oəʹrĭə
ipa: /-ˈjʊəɹɪə/
Forms: form: -ury
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, Latin -ūria, from Ancient Greek -ουρία (-ouría), from οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: urine; urination; presence in urine (of a substance denoted by a prefixed combining form); state or condition of the urine.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Synonyms: -uresis
Coordinate terms: english: blood; presence in blood; state or condition of blood
translation: blood; presence in blood; state or condition of blood
alt: -emia
word: -aemia
Derived terms: acetonuria
acholuria
albuminuria
alkaptonuria
anuria
azoturia
bacilluria
bacteriuria
chyluria
coli-bacilluria
cystinuria
diaceturia
dysuria
glycosuria
haematinuria
haematuria
haemoglobinuria
hippuria
homocystinuria
hydruria
hypercalciuria
hyperoxaluria
hyposthenuria
indicanuria
ketonuria
lactosuria
lipuria
melanuria
melituria
meninguria
methæmoglobinuria
methylmalonic aciduria
myoglobinuria
nocturia
nycturia
oliguria
orotic aciduria
oxaluria
paruria
pentosuria
peptonuria
phenylketonuria
phosphaturia
phosphoruria
phosphuria
photuria
pigmenturia
planuria
pneumaturia
polyuria
porphobilinogenuria
porphyrinuria
proteinuria
pyuria
urobilinuria
xanthinuria
Related terms: uro-
uresis
ischuria
pollakiuria
urgenturia
ensiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnsəˌfɔɹm/
Forms: form: more ensiform
form: most ensiform
Etymology: From Latin ensis (“sword”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: shaped like a sword blade
Synonyms: swordlike
Derived terms: ensiformity
ensiformly
ensiform process
mafiosas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mafiosa
mafiosos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mafioso
hypercinnabar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + cinnabar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals
irrefusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrefusable
form: most irrefusable
Etymology: From ir- + refusable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be refused.
electric car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric cars
Senses: glosses: A car that uses electric motors and motor controllers instead of an internal combustion engine, the power coming from rechargeable batteries.
Related terms: electromobile
electric cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric car
brimborion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brimborions
Etymology: From French brimborion, from Middle French borbotorion, breborion, breborium, brimborion, brinborion, from Ecclesiastical Latin breviārium with influence from Middle French bribe, brimbe. Doublet of breviary and brevier.
Senses: glosses: A useless or worthless object.
translater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translaters
Senses: examples: text: I built a translater there. The city of Claremont lies down in a deep hole, and in order to get them to get my signal in there I built a translater, and they are very happy. It works very nicely.
ref: 1960, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Hearings, page 14:
text: Thus, client and counsel could not communicate without the aid of a translater, and Negron could not adequately participate in the conduct of his defense. A Spanish translater employed on behalf of the prosecution did translate to Negron his right to make peremptory challenges to prospective jurors […]
ref: 1969, Clearinghouse Review, volume 3, page 547:
qualifier: now generally proscribed
glosses: Alternative form of translator.
beggar-my-neighbor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: beat my neighbour out of doors
beat your neighbour out of doors
strip Jack naked
beat Jack out of doors
glosses: A card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards.
Derived terms: beggar-thy-neighbor
beggar-thy-neighbor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beggar-my-neighbor (“a card game”).
Senses: examples: text: The traditional beggar-thy-neighbor view of older Keynesian models saw unilateral tariffs as having an expansionary effect on the domestic economy, due to their expenditure-switching effect, moving domestic demand away from foreign goods and towards domestic goods.
ref: 2025 May 24, Iván Werning, Guido Lorenzoni, Veronica Guerrieri, “Tariffs as Cost-Push Shocks: Implications for Optimal Monetary Policy”, in NBER Working Paper Series, number 33772, page 2:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An economic policy that favors domestic interests at greater total cost to the economies of trading partners.
Synonyms: topics: economics
sciences
sense: trade
word: protectionist
topics: economics
sciences
sense: trade
word: mercantilist
fish hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish hawks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fishhawk: the osprey.
benefic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more benefic
form: most benefic
Etymology: From Latin beneficus. See benefice.
Senses: glosses: Favorable; beneficent.
benefic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefics
Etymology: From Latin beneficus. See benefice.
Senses: examples: text: In the previous condition of overcoming, it was notable that while the malefics could only maltreat by overcoming through a superior sign-based square, the benefics could bonify by overcoming through a superior square or trine.
ref: 2017, Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune, page 471:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: malefic
glosses: A favorable planet.
maternity ward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternity wards
Senses: glosses: A hospital ward that provides assistance during childbirth.
fairtrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: fair + trade
Senses: glosses: Produced in such a way that everybody involved in the production receives a fair wage for their work.
purificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purificators
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The napkin used to wipe the lip of the chalice during Holy Communion.
matily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more matily
form: most matily
Etymology: From maty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Reading?” I said. He lowered his book – one of Ma Cream's, I noticed – and flashed an upper lip at me. “Your powers of observation have not led you astray, Wooster. I am reading.” “Interesting book?” “Very. I am counting the minutes until I can resume its perusal undisturbed.” I'm pretty quick, and I at once spotted that the atmosphere was not of the utmost cordiality. He hadn't spoken matily, and he wasn't eyeing me matily. His whole manner seemed to suggest that he felt that I was taking up space in the room which could have been better employed for other purposes.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: McCormack rounded a bush and Chisholm reared up out of nowhere, a grinning scarecrow, his arm wrapped matily round the boy's shoulders, a pistol jammed against the boy's temple.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 449:
glosses: Friendlily, like a mate.
Malabar spinach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malabar spinaches
Senses: glosses: Basella alba, an Asian vine with leaves that are used as spinach-like greens.
Synonyms: sense: Basella alba
word: Malabar climbing spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Ceylon spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Indian spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: East-Indian spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Surinam spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Chinese spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Malabar nightshade
sense: Basella alba
word: broad bologi
sense: Basella alba
word: vine spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Vietnamese spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: buffalo spinach
Malabar nightshade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malabar nightshades
Senses: glosses: Basella alba; an Asian leaf vegetable.
Synonyms: sense: Basella alba
word: Malabar climbing spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Ceylon spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Indian spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: East Indian spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Surinam spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Chinese spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Malabar spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: broad bologi
sense: Basella alba
word: vine spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: Vietnamese spinach
sense: Basella alba
word: buffalo spinach
matjes herring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matjes herrings
form: matjes herring
Etymology: From Dutch maatjesharing (“matjes herring”), from maatjes (“young, small”) + haring (“herring”), from earlier forms maetgens-, maeghdekins-, medykens- (“maiden-like”), from maagd (“maiden”) + -kin (“-kin”), so called because matjes herring is made of young herring that has never spawned.
Senses: glosses: Young filleted herring that has been matured for a short time in brine and prepared traditionally with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
Bloquiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bloquistes
Etymology: Borrowing of French bloquiste.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Bloc Québécois.
Bloquiste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bloquiste
form: most Bloquiste
Etymology: Borrowing of French bloquiste.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Pertaining to the Bloc Québécois.
palaestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈliːstɹə/
ipa: /pəˈlʌɪstɹə/
Forms: form: palaestras
form: palaestrae
form: palestra
form: palæstra
form: palaistra
Etymology: From Middle French palestre, from Old French, from Latin palaestra, from Ancient Greek παλαίστρα (palaístra, “wrestling school”).
Senses: examples: text: Athenian culture flourished in externalities, the open air of the agora and the nudity of the palestra.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: A public area in ancient Greece and Rome dedicated to the teaching and practice of wrestling and other sports; a wrestling school, a gymnasium.
glosses: An arena for literal or figurative combat; a battlefield.
Bloquistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bloquiste
matraca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matracas
Etymology: From Spanish matraca, from dialectal Arabic مَطْرَق (maṭraq). See Aramaic מטרקא (mṭrqʾ) for more.
Senses: synonyms: cog rattle
noisemaker
ratchet
glosses: A type of wooden rattle from Latin America.
matracas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matraca
Pequiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pequistes
form: Pequist
Etymology: Borrowing of French péquiste, from the abbreviation PQ < Parti Québécois + -iste.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Parti Québécois.
Pequiste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pequiste
form: most Pequiste
form: Pequist
Etymology: Borrowing of French péquiste, from the abbreviation PQ < Parti Québécois + -iste.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Pertaining to the Parti Québécois.
matranee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matranees
Etymology: From Hindi.
Senses: glosses: A female house-servant.
matranees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matranee
climbing nightshade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climbing nightshades
Senses: glosses: Leafy green plants of genus Basella.
glosses: Solanum dulcamara, a vine with poisonous foliage.
climbing nightshades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climbing nightshade
matric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɹɪk/
Forms: form: matrics
Etymology: From matriculation.
Senses: glosses: The final year of high school.
examples: text: Once, when some money disappeared […], it was Ben who took the cleaner under his wing and instituted inquiries which revealed a group of matric boys to be the culprits.
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 37:
synonyms: word: senior
glosses: Someone in their final year of high school.