leukas/Wiktionary huggingface dataset:
pterygoid (adj): Of, pertaining to or lying in the region of the inferior part of the sphenoid bone of the vertebrate skull.
pterygoid (noun): A pterygoid part (such as a bone, muscle, or nerve).
ropeway (noun): A system of cables, slung from towers, from which carriers are suspended to transport materials.
Synonyms: cableway; rope-way
nilpotent (adj): Such that, for some positive integer n, xⁿ = 0.
unearth (verb): To drive or draw from the earth.
Example: to unearth a fox or a badger
unearth (verb): To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment
Example: to unearth a secret
viburnum (noun): Any of many shrubs and trees, of the genus Viburnum, native to the Northern Hemisphere that have showy clusters of flowers.
Synonyms: arrowwood
barnyard (noun): The yard associated with or surrounding a barn.
Synonyms: farmyard
barnyard (adj): Vulgar; scatological.
Synonyms: farmyardy
barnyard (adj): Of food or drink: having an earthy flavor.
Synonyms: farmyardy
pianoforte (noun): A piano.
Synonyms: piano-forté; piano-forte
pickerel (noun): Walleye, A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.
nudist (noun): A person who practices nudism.
Synonyms: naturist
Antonyms: textile; clothist; textilist
spoonful (noun): The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped.
internecine (adj): Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship.
solidago (noun): The goldenrod, or any of various similar plants in the genus Solidago.
pique (verb): To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
pique (verb): To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
pique (noun): Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
pique (noun): Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
pique (noun): In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
pique (noun): A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
noddy (noun): Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous and Procelsterna, found in tropical seas.
noddy (noun): An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
noddy (noun): A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.
bigamy (noun): The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously.
Synonyms: bigamie
bigamy (noun): A second marriage after the death of a spouse.
Synonyms: bigamie
minder (noun): One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
Synonyms: guardian; protector
minder (noun): A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
Synonyms: guardian; protector
quaestor (noun): An Ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs.
Synonyms: quæstor; questor
Example: Decoratus was quæstor in A.D. 508.
quaestor (noun): The Quaestor sacri palatii of the late Roman Empire and Byzantium; first generally a legislator, then judicial official, and eventually an honorary title by the 14th century.
Synonyms: quæstor; questor
quaestor (noun): In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences.
Synonyms: quæstor; questor
shudder (verb): To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
Synonyms: quake; jiggle; wiggle; shiver; flutter
shudder (verb): To vibrate jerkily.
Synonyms: quake; jiggle; wiggle; shiver; flutter
shudder (noun): A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
Synonyms: quake; jiggle; tingle; rumble; shiver
shudder (noun): A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.
Synonyms: quake; jiggle; tingle; rumble; shiver
pizzicato (adv): To be played by plucking the strings instead of using the bow.
Antonyms: arco
pram (noun): A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position.
pram (noun): A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour.
Synonyms: prahm; praam
pram (noun): A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter.
Synonyms: prahm; praam
pram (noun): A type of dinghy with a flat bow.
Synonyms: prahm; praam
brasserie (noun): A small, informal restaurant that serves beer and wine as well as simple food.
diptych (noun): A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
Hypernyms: polyptych
diptych (noun): A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges.
Hypernyms: polyptych
diptych (noun): A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of a church.
Hypernyms: polyptych
bivouac (noun): An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.
Synonyms: bivvy; bivoac; biouac; bivy; bivouack
bivouac (noun): Any temporary encampment.
Synonyms: bivvy; bivoac; biouac; bivy; bivouack
bivouac (noun): A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights.
Synonyms: bivvy; bivoac; biouac; bivy; bivouack
bivouac (verb): To set up camp.
Synonyms: bivvy; bivoac; biouac; bivy; bivouack
Example: We'll bivouac here tonight.
bivouac (verb): To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
Synonyms: bivvy; bivoac; biouac; bivy; bivouack
bivouac (verb): To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
Synonyms: bivvy; bivoac; biouac; bivy; bivouack
pervert (noun): One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.
pervert (verb): To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
Example: He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.
sadism (noun): Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others.
sadism (noun): Deliberate or wanton cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification.
echidna (noun): Any of the species of small spined monotremes in family Tachyglossidae, the four extant species of which are found in Australia and southern New Guinea.
Synonyms: bunning; spiny anteater
foundress (noun): A female founder (“one who founds or establishes”).
Synonyms: founderess
foundress (noun): A female animal which establishes a colony.
Synonyms: founderess
covey (noun): A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
Synonyms: covie
covey (noun): A group of other birds, such as quail (superfamily Phasianoidea).
Synonyms: covie
covey (noun): A group or party of people; also, a group or set of things.
Synonyms: covie
covey (noun): A male person, a man; a chap, a chappie.
fineness (noun): The ratio, in a precious metal, of the primary metal to any additives or impurities.
microorganism (noun): An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye; especially, a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium.
Synonyms: microorganism; microbe; microörganism; micro-organism
Hypernyms: organism
multiethnic (adj): Of, pertaining to, or consisting of several ethnic groups.
Synonyms: multi-ethnic
multiethnic (noun): A member of more than one ethnic group.
Synonyms: multi-ethnic
eggshell (noun): A pale off-white colour, like that of the eggshell.
Example: eggshell:
eggshell (adj): Of a pale yellowish-whitish colour, like that of the eggshell.
eggshell (adj): Exhibiting the thinness, translucency or near-transparency, and fragility of an eggshell.
Example: eggshell porcelain
eggshell (adj): Very matt, having a low reflexivity, like an eggshell.
superfiring (adj): Mounted higher than one or more other turrets within its firing arc, allowing it to fire over the top of the lower-mounted turret(s).
superfiring (adj): Arranged so as to allow some turrets to fire over others in the above manner.
bijection (noun): A one-to-one correspondence, a function which is both a surjection and an injection.
Synonyms: bijective function; one-to-one correspondence
intermezzo (noun): A short piece of music or act in the interval of the main spectacle; a theatrical interlude.
intermezzo (noun): A palate cleanser; a small snack with a bright light neutral taste; a fruit; a fresh sparkling wine; or a fruity or milky cocktail; that is served between courses in a meal.
pangolin (noun): The scaly anteater; any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia, the sole extant genus of which is Manis.
trackway (noun): A set of tracks or footprints left in soft ground by a human or animal, especially if fossilized.
trackway (noun): Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or similar, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, such as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheeled vehicles.
jacaranda (noun): Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers. In horticultural use refers specifically to Jacaranda mimosifolia.
jacaranda (noun): A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa.
softcore (noun): Pornography that does not contain depictions of explicit sexual penetration.
Synonyms: erotica
Antonyms: hardcore
agriculturist (noun): One who practices agriculture, a farmer, a gardener.
Synonyms: agriculturalist
agriculturist (noun): An expert in agriculture who advises farmers.
Synonyms: agriculturalist
lieutenancy (noun): The role, position, or domain of a lieutenant.
Synonyms: lieutenantry; lieutenantship
avifauna (noun): The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.
thermoregulation (noun): The maintenance of a constant internal temperature of an organism independent of the temperature of the environment
recede (verb): To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
Synonyms: withdraw
recede (verb): To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
Synonyms: withdraw
Example: to recede conquered territory
egoism (noun): The tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.
Synonyms: egomism; selfishness; egoïsm
Antonyms: altruism
egoism (noun): The belief that moral behavior should be directed toward one's self-interest only.
Synonyms: egomism; selfishness; egoïsm
Antonyms: altruism
egoism (noun): Egotism (tendency to talk excessively about oneself).
Synonyms: egomism; selfishness; egoïsm
Antonyms: altruism
transphobia (noun): Hatred or fear of transgender and transsexual people.
Synonyms: transprejudice; cissexism; transphobia
Antonyms: cisphobia; transphilia
Hypernyms: prejudice
transphobia (noun): The preference of pairs of high-trans effect soft ligands to avoid being mutually trans by becoming cis and having other low-trans effect hard ligands trans to themselves.
Synonyms: transprejudice; cissexism; transphobia
Antonyms: cisphobia; transphilia
Hypernyms: prejudice
impossibly (adv): Not possibly; in an impossible manner.
Antonyms: possibly
impossibly (adv): Contrary to what had been thought possible.
Antonyms: possibly
hast (verb): second-person singular simple present indicative of have
Synonyms: havest
Example: Thou hast lovely eyes!
commensal (adj): Of a form of symbiosis in which one organism derives a benefit while the other is unaffected.
dreamworld (noun): An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming.
Synonyms: dream-world; dream world
heartbreaker (noun): Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as: A person, usually attractive, who flirts with or otherwise enamours another person, but does not reciprocate their love.
heartbreaker (noun): Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as: Something that causes sorrow, grief or extreme disappointment.
heartbreaker (noun): Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as: A match which ends in defeat for a promising player or team.
polonium (noun): A rare, highly radioactive chemical element (symbol Po) with atomic number 84.
Hypernyms: chalcogen
chimeric (adj): Like a chimera.
Synonyms: chimaeric; chimæric
chimeric (adj): Imaginary, fanciful.
Synonyms: chimaeric; chimæric
chimeric (adj): Pertaining to a genetic chimera.
Synonyms: chimaeric; chimæric
taint (noun): A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
taint (verb): To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
Synonyms: leper
taint (verb): To spoil (food) by contamination.
Synonyms: leper
taint (verb): To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
Synonyms: leper
taint (noun): An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
taint (verb): To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
fertilize (verb): To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
Synonyms: fertilise
fertilize (verb): To make more creative or intellectually productive.
Synonyms: fertilise
Example: to fertilize one's imagination
fertilize (verb): To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.
Synonyms: fertilise
loitering (noun): The action of the verb loiter.
Example: a book about my loiterings in Europe
marceline (noun): A thin silk fabric used for linings etc. in ladies' dresses.
disagreeable (adj): Causing repugnance; unpleasant to the feelings or senses; displeasing.
Antonyms: agreeable; disagreeable experience; disagreeable odor; disagreeable effect; disagreeable smell
Example: disagreeable weather
disagreeable (adj): Not suitable; that does not conform or fit.
Antonyms: agreeable; disagreeable experience; disagreeable odor; disagreeable effect; disagreeable smell
daub (verb): To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
daub (verb): To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
daub (verb): To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
subpar (adj): Of less than a traditional or accepted standard.
Example: Bob's grasp of English was subpar.
hyperspace (noun): A notional space orthogonal to the usual dimensions of space-time often used for faster-than-light travel.
pimpernel (noun): A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
pimpernel (noun): Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).
pimpernel (noun): Sanguisorba spp. Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
endothelium (noun): A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines the heart, serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels.
diasporic (adj): Of or pertaining to the dispersion of the Jews from the land of Israel, a similar dispersion, or a people so dispersed. See diaspora.
phonon (noun): The quantum of acoustic or vibrational energy (sound), considered a discrete particle rather than a wave.
sequester (verb): To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
Synonyms: segregate
sequester (verb): To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
Synonyms: segregate
sequester (noun): A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
myopia (noun): A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
Example: Coordinate term: presbyopia
myopia (noun): A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
boop (verb): To strike gently or playfully; to bop (especially on the nose).
truffle (noun): Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
truffle (noun): Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”).
naira (noun): The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo.
midair (adj): In the act of flight; airborne.
Synonyms: mid-air
midair (noun): The condition of being airborne.
Synonyms: mid-air
Example: The leaping dog spun around in midair.
midair (noun): A collision between two or more aerospace vehicles in flight.
Synonyms: mid-air
malthouse (noun): A plant where malt is produced.
Synonyms: malt-house; malt house
acerbic (adj): Tasting sour or bitter.
Synonyms: acrid; acrimonious; scathing; acerb
acerbic (adj): Sharp, harsh, biting.
Synonyms: acrid; acrimonious; scathing; acerb
awhile (adv): For some time; for a short time.
Synonyms: for the moment; meanwhile; temporarily; the while; for a minute
Example: Sit with me awhile.
awhile (adv): In the meantime; during an implicit ongoing process.
Synonyms: for the moment; meanwhile; temporarily; the while; for a minute
Example: Can I get you a drink awhile?
toot (verb): To stand out, or be prominent.
Synonyms: poop; flatulate; tout
toot (verb): To peep; to look narrowly.
Synonyms: poop; flatulate; tout
toot (verb): To see; to spy.
Synonyms: poop; flatulate; tout
okra (noun): The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
Synonyms: okry; ochro; bandikai; ochre; ochroe
Hypernyms: mallow; abelmosk; pod vegetable
okra (noun): The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.
Synonyms: okry; ochro; bandikai; ochre; ochroe
Hypernyms: mallow; abelmosk; pod vegetable
alliteration (noun): The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
alliteration (noun): The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
terrapin (noun): Any of several small turtles of the families Emydidae and Geoemydidae found throughout the world.
Synonyms: terapin
terrapin (noun): Any of several small turtles native to North America that live in brackish or fresh water, especially the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin).
Synonyms: terapin
hydrocephalus (noun): A usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue
Synonyms: water on the brain
phospholipase (noun): Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze the phosphate ester bonds of phospholipids.
faun (noun): A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
Synonyms: faunus; faune; fawn
faun (noun): Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.
Synonyms: faunus; faune; fawn
frond (noun): Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
dyadic (adj): Pertaining to a dyad, the number two; of two parts or elements. having an arity of two (taking two arguments or operands)
Synonyms: binary; diadic
dyadic (adj): Pertaining to a dyad, the number two; of two parts or elements. (obsolete) binary
Synonyms: binary; diadic
dyadic (adj): Pertaining to the physical sex of a person who is exactly male or female in genetics, anatomy and hormone levels; not intersex.
Synonyms: binary; diadic
kanaka (noun): A South Pacific Islander, especially a labourer in Australia or Canada.
Synonyms: Kanaka
barbel (noun): A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.
Synonyms: barble
barbel (noun): Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.
Synonyms: barble
barbel (noun): A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.
Synonyms: barble
samsara (noun): In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
Synonyms: saṃsāra
vorticity (noun): A property of a fluid flow related to local angular rotation; defined as the curl of the flow's velocity field.
guttural (adj): having a place of articulation towards the back of the mouth; in modern use, uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal; in earlier or non-technical use, also including velar.
venison (noun): The meat of a deer.
Synonyms: deerflesh; deer meat
venison (noun): The meat of an antelope.
Synonyms: deerflesh; deer meat
venison (noun): The meat of any wild animal that has been hunted rather than raised domestically.
Synonyms: deerflesh; deer meat
boudin (noun): A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian, Luxembourgish and related cuisines.
boudin (noun): A sausage in southern Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine, made from rice, ground pork (occasionally crawfish), and spices in a sausage casing.
boudin (noun): A structure formed by boudinage: one or a series of elongated, sausage-shaped section(s) in rock.
trackside (adj): Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
Synonyms: track-side
afrobeat (noun): Music that combines West African musical styles (such as traditional Yoruba music and highlife) with American funk, jazz, and soul influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.
Synonyms: Afrobeat
incisor (noun): A narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth of mammals, between the canines and adapted for cutting; in humans there are four in each jaw.
warder (noun): A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
swee (noun): A finch of species Coccopygia melanotis, found in sub-Saharan Africa.
Synonyms: swee waxbill
microglia (noun): The glial cells of the immune system; they can function as phagocytes
glockenspiel (noun): A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.
whist (intj): Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!
sympathize (verb): To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
Synonyms: sympathise
sympathize (verb): To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).
Synonyms: sympathise
sympathize (verb): To say in an expression of sympathy.
Synonyms: sympathise
canola (noun): Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed.
Hypernyms: rapeseed; rape
filigree (noun): A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from platinum, gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire.
Synonyms: filligree; filagree; fillagree
filigree (noun): Anything resembling such intricate ornamentation.
Synonyms: filligree; filagree; fillagree
filigree (verb): To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire.
Synonyms: filligree; filagree; fillagree
swisher (noun): The wrapping paper of a cigar for use in making a blunt to smoke marijuana
magnetron (noun): a device in which electrons are made to resonate in a specially shaped chamber and thus produce microwave radiation; used in radar, and in microwave ovens
peterman (noun): A safecracker.
Synonyms: yeggman; safebreaker; peteman; safecracker; yegg
cornucopia (noun): A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.
Synonyms: gold mine; horn of Amalthea; wealth; cornucopia; horn of plenty
cornucopia (noun): A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things.
Synonyms: gold mine; horn of Amalthea; wealth; cornucopia; horn of plenty
cornucopia (noun): An abundance or plentiful supply.
Synonyms: gold mine; horn of Amalthea; wealth; cornucopia; horn of plenty
megaphone (noun): A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.
Hypernyms: loudhailer; blowhorn
megaphone (noun): Mouthpiece or promoter; one who speaks for or publicizes on behalf of another.
Hypernyms: loudhailer; blowhorn
megaphone (verb): To use a megaphone; to speak through a megaphone.
megaphone (noun): A cytotoxic neolignan obtained from the laurel Aniba megaphylla.
bolus (noun): A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
bolus (verb): To administer (a drug) in bolus dosing, that is, dosing in (one or more) boluses.
bolus (verb): To take a bolus (dose) of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one's blood glucose level in diabetes.
Example: Coordinate term: prebolus
unobtrusive (adj): Not obtrusive; not blatant or noticeable; discreet, inconspicuous.
foodservice (noun): The business of providing food and related services.
Synonyms: food service; catering
repudiate (verb): To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
Synonyms: deny; disown; forswear; forsay; renounce
Antonyms: own up; accept
repudiate (verb): To refuse to have any relation to; to disown.
Synonyms: deny; disown; forswear; forsay; renounce
Antonyms: own up; accept
repudiate (verb): To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
Synonyms: deny; disown; forswear; forsay; renounce
Antonyms: own up; accept
millinery (noun): A shop selling women's hats.
Hypernyms: hatmaking
millinery (noun): The business and work that a milliner engages in.
Hypernyms: hatmaking
cultivable (adj): Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
Synonyms: arable; cultivatable
elitism (noun): The belief that a society or system should be run by an elite.
Synonyms: élitism
elitism (noun): The superior attitude or behaviour associated with an elite.
Synonyms: élitism
fastener (noun): Mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers, clasps, bolts and the like.
quatrain (noun): A stanza of four lines.
Synonyms: tetrastich
Example: Example:
reproducibility (noun): The quality of being reproducible. The closeness of agreement among repeated measurements of a variable made under the same operating conditions over a period of time, or by different people.
reproducibility (noun): The quality of being reproducible. The closeness of agreement among scientific results more generally, at the level of whole experiments, either nearly identical or similar.
juggler (noun): Agent noun of juggle; one who either literally juggles objects, or figuratively juggles tasks.
juggler (noun): A person who performs tricks using sleight of hand, a conjurer, prestidigitator.
reticular (adj): Having the structure of a net or a network; netlike.
Synonyms: reticulate
reticular (adj): Of or pertaining to a reticulum.
Synonyms: reticulate
niacin (noun): A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.
Synonyms: vitamin B3; vitamin P-P; PP-factor; pellagra-preventive factor; E375 when used as a colour retention agent
naloxone (noun): An opioid inverse agonist used to counter the effects of an overdose on opioids (such as heroin or morphine).
flapper (noun): A young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially.
flapper (noun): A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
flapper (noun): A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming.
Example: the flapper of a porpoise
flapper (noun): Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.
inhomogeneous (adj): Not homogeneous
Synonyms: nonhomogeneous; heterogeneous
vada (noun): A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.
vada (verb): To look (at), to see
Synonyms: look; varder
tuple (noun): A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.
torrid (adj): Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.
Example: a torrid love scene in a film or novel
epoxide (noun): Any of a class of organic compound, cyclic ethers, having a three-membered ring; they are prepared by the selective oxidation of alkenes or by ring-closure of halohydrins; used to make plastics.
Synonyms: alkylene oxide
epoxide (noun): Any similar compound in which an ether linkage has been made across a larger ring.
Synonyms: alkylene oxide
prepositional (adj): Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
cisalpine (adj): On this side of the Alps (usually with respect to Rome, therefore the south side).
tenderloin (noun): The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef.
Synonyms: eye fillet; fillet; red-light district; striploin
tenderloin (noun): A district of a city where corruption is common, often because the district is devoted to questionable businesses (peep shows, etc) which are easy for police to blackmail and extort.
Synonyms: eye fillet; fillet; red-light district; striploin
forceps (noun): An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.
Synonyms: pair of forceps
bellerophon (noun): Any of the genus †Bellerophon of fossil gastropod shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, and peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
centroid (noun): The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of mass.
Synonyms: barycentre; geometric centre; centre of gravity; tree centroid; centre of area
centroid (noun): The point of intersection of the three medians of a given triangle; the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of the three vertices.
Synonyms: barycentre; geometric centre; centre of gravity; tree centroid; centre of area
centroid (noun): the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of a given finite set of points.
Synonyms: barycentre; geometric centre; centre of gravity; tree centroid; centre of area
normalcy (noun): The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.
Synonyms: normality; normalness; normaldom; normalhood
Antonyms: abnormalcy; abnormality
sensationalism (noun): The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention-grabbing. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism.
Synonyms: sensualism
Antonyms: antisensationalism
sensationalism (noun): A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.
Synonyms: sensualism
Antonyms: antisensationalism
toucan (noun): Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
rafale (noun): A short, intense burst of artillery fire from a number of weapons fired with the intention of overwhelming resistance or routing an attacking force.
zygomatic (adj): Of, relating to, or located in the area of the zygomatic bone or zygomatic arch.
erythema (noun): Abnormal redness and inflammation of the skin, due to vasodilation.
mammy (noun): In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children.
haptic (adj): Of or relating to haptics (“the study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch”).
ooze (noun): Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
Synonyms: ouse; owze
ooze (noun): An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
Synonyms: ouse; owze
ooze (noun): Secretion, humour.
Synonyms: ouse; owze
ooze (verb): To be secreted or slowly leak.
Synonyms: ouse; owze
ooze (verb): To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
Synonyms: ouse; owze
ooze (noun): Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
ooze (noun): A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
postbellum (adj): Of the period following a war.
Synonyms: post-war; post-bellum
Antonyms: antebellum; pre-war
postbellum (adj): Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.
Synonyms: post-war; post-bellum
Antonyms: antebellum; pre-war
gringo (noun): A white person from an English-speaking country, particularly the United States.
Synonyms: white person
gasket (noun): A length of rope or canvas band used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place.
gasket (noun): Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.
gasket (noun): A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration.
frisk (noun): A little playful skip or leap; a brisk and lively movement.
frisk (noun): The act of frisking, of searching for something by feeling someone's body.
frisk (verb): To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.
Synonyms: pat down
frisk (verb): To search (someone) by feeling their body and clothing.
Synonyms: pat down
bushmaster (noun): A venomous pit viper, Lachesis muta, from tropical America.
gaudy (adj): Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
Synonyms: pizazzy; pretentious; brash; meretricious; whorish
Antonyms: dull; plain; simple; drab; modest
gaudy (adj): Fun; merry; festive.
Synonyms: pizazzy; pretentious; brash; meretricious; whorish
Antonyms: dull; plain; simple; drab; modest
gaudy (noun): One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
gaudy (noun): A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.
slacker (noun): A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
slacker (noun): A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.
aeration (noun): The process by which air is circulated through or mixed with a substance such as soil or a liquid.
Synonyms: aëration
aeration (noun): By extension, a process in which other gases (such as carbon dioxide or nitrogen or argon) are circulated through or mixed with a substance (usually liquid), sometimes with the consequence of increasing the transfer of air into the same liquid at the surface due to the induced circulation.
Synonyms: aëration
phenology (noun): The study of the effect of climate on periodic biological phenomena.
Synonyms: phænology
humeral (noun): An oblong scarf worn round the priest's shoulders at certain parts of the Mass and of Benediction.
rebounder (noun): A small, round, durable trampoline used in rebound exercise.
empathic (adj): Showing or expressing empathy.
Synonyms: empathetic
Antonyms: apathetic
empathic (adj): Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others.
Synonyms: empathetic
Antonyms: apathetic
officeholder (noun): A person who holds an office, especially one appointed or elected to a public office; an incumbent
Synonyms: office holder; office-holder
endorheic (adj): Of a basin or lake: having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation or seepage into the ground.
Synonyms: endoreic; endorreic; endorrheic
schlager (noun): A chiefly European style of popular music with light melodies (often easily danceable) and typically facile, sentimental lyrics.
redirection (noun): The automated process of taking a user to a location other than the one selected.
chessboard (noun): The square board used in the game of chess, subdivided into eight rows of eight squares each, the squares in each row and column being of alternating colours.
Synonyms: chess board
chessboard (noun): A mathematical construction based on this pattern of squares
Synonyms: chess board
costar (noun): a person who slightly lacks the status to be considered a star
Example: Alas, always a costar but never a star.
dala (noun): The currency of Hawaii between 1847 and 1898, equal to the United States dollar.
lyase (noun): Any of many classes of enzyme that catalyze the breaking of a specific form of bond
hazmat (noun): Hazardous material(s).
Synonyms: Haz-Mat; HazMat; haz-mat; HAZMAT
Example: Coordinate term: biohazard
upregulation (noun): The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors increases in order to increase sensitivity
erm (intj): Used in hesitant speech, or to express uncertainty; um, umm.
thine (det): Singular second person prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
beanstalk (noun): The stem of a bean plant, proverbially fast-growing and tall.
realschule (noun): Synonym of real school.
Synonyms: Realschule
quiescent (adj): Inactive, quiet, at rest.
Synonyms: dormant; tranquil; inactive; calm; servile
quiescent (adj): Not sounded; silent.
Synonyms: dormant; tranquil; inactive; calm; servile
quiescent (adj): Non-proliferating.
Synonyms: dormant; tranquil; inactive; calm; servile
provable (adj): Of a statement or hypothesis that can be proven.
Synonyms: proveable
Antonyms: unprovable
loggerhead (noun): A metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end that is made hot in a fire, then plunged into some material (such as pitch or a liquid) to melt or heat it.
loggerhead (noun): A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope.
calabrese (noun): A particular type of sprouting broccoli.
Example: Sow calabrese indoors.
bork (verb): To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
Synonyms: Bork
bork (verb): To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
bork (noun): The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.
vireo (noun): Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
vireo (noun): Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets, and peppershrikes.
tailless (adj): Without a tail; not having a tail.
Synonyms: acaudate; acaudal
counterexample (noun): An example that counters a general rule; an exception to a general rule; a specific instance of the falsity of (and falsifiability of) any proposed universal applicability of a rule or statement.
colonise (verb): Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonize.
Synonyms: colonize
clamshell (noun): Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together. A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
clamshell (noun): Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together. In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with take-out food.
clamshell (verb): To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
clamshell (verb): To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
clamshell (verb): To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
bluefin (noun): bluefin tuna, any of a number of types of tuna characterised by their blue fins.
dribble (verb): In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.
dribble (verb): To let saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
Example: The baby dribbled onto its bib.
dribble (verb): To fall in drops or an unsteady stream; to trickle.
wop (noun): A person of Italian descent.
Synonyms: goombah; pizzahead; dago; Eyetie; guinea
boxwood (noun): The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
Synonyms: common box; European box
boxwood (noun): The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
Synonyms: common box; European box
boxwood (noun): Any tree of genus Buxus.
Synonyms: common box; European box
talker (noun): A person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.
Synonyms: speaker
Example: That guy's a real talker.
talker (noun): Any creature or machine that talks.
Synonyms: speaker
Example: Some parrots are vociferous talkers.
capper (noun): A finale; something that is conclusively better, or "caps it all off".
capper (noun): A person who caps i.e. is inclined to untruth, a fibber.
carboxyl (noun): A univalent functional group consisting of a carbonyl and a hydroxyl functional group (-CO.OH); characteristic of carboxylic acids.
chronometer (noun): A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.
Synonyms: timepiece; chronometre
kanna (noun): Sceletium tortuosum, a Southern African succulent with psychoactive properties.
sev (noun): An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste.
sev (num): the seventh beat or pulse of a measure, spoken.
Example: One-two-three-four-five-six-sev-one.
talc (noun): Originally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referred to in modern times (see below). Also an item made of such a mineral and depending for its function on the special nature of the mineral (see next). Mediaeval writers adopted the term from the Arabic.
talc (noun): A microscope slide made of a plate of mica, generally in use from the start of modern microscopy until the early nineteenth century, after which glass slides became the standard medium.
talc (noun): A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
nanotube (noun): Shortening of carbon nanotube; A carbon molecule, in the shape of a tube, having a fullerene structure and a diameter of about 1 or 2 nanometers.
Synonyms: buckytube; carbon nanotube
nanotube (noun): any nanotech tubular structure with a characteristic diameter measured in a few nanometres, such as titanium nanotubes
Synonyms: buckytube; carbon nanotube
prosaic (adj): Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
prosaic (adj): Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
Example: She lived a prosaic life.
woomera (noun): A traditional spearthrower, consisting of a stick with a hooked end, used by First Nations Australians.
Synonyms: woomerang; wommera; wamara; woomerah; womera
overtone (noun): A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series.
overtone (noun): An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message.
luma (noun): A currency unit of Armenia, worth one hundredth of an Armenian dram.
luma (noun): The brightness in an image, as opposed to the saturation or chroma.
integrin (noun): Any of many heterodimeric transmembrane proteins that function as receptors in communication between cells.
fete (noun): A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
Synonyms: fête
wiretap (noun): A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.
bookbinder (noun): A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.
Synonyms: bibliopegist
inti (noun): The currency of Peru between 1985 and 1991, replacing the sol.
autologous (adj): Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor).
Synonyms: autogeneic
Antonyms: allogeneic; allologous
shirk (verb): To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
Synonyms: blow off; shirk; soldier; malinger; duck
Hypernyms: evade; shy away from; avoid
shirk (verb): To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
Synonyms: blow off; shirk; soldier; malinger; duck
Hypernyms: evade; shy away from; avoid
shirk (verb): To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
Synonyms: blow off; shirk; soldier; malinger; duck
Hypernyms: evade; shy away from; avoid
cutworm (noun): The larva of any of the many moths of the family Noctuidae, considered an agricultural pest.
whimsy (noun): A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
Synonyms: whimsey
whimsy (noun): An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
Synonyms: whimsey
whimsy (noun): A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
Synonyms: whimsey
whimsy (verb): To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
Synonyms: whimsey
peppercorn (noun): The seeds of the plant Piper nigrum. Commonly used as a spice, usually but not always ground or crushed.
peppercorn (noun): A small, insignificant quantity; a whit or jot.
peppercorn (noun): A small, insignificant quantity; a whit or jot. A nominal consideration used to satisfy the requirements for the creation of a legal contract.
Example: peppercorn rent
disproven (adj): Not proven, in a legal case where the jury verdict has inconclusive evidence for conviction, but sufficient to suspect guilt
banzai (noun): A cry or cheer of "banzai", to express enthusiasm or celebrate victory.
rosella (noun): A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands.
glaucus (noun): Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.
Synonyms: blue angel; blue dragon; blue ocean slug; sea swallow; blue sea slug
glaucus (noun): Citrus glauca, the desert lime, a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.
Synonyms: blue angel; blue dragon; blue ocean slug; sea swallow; blue sea slug
downtempo (noun): A genre of house music and ambient music with an ethereal sound and a driving beat.
Synonyms: chillout; down-tempo
downtempo (adj): Having a slow, relaxed pace.
Synonyms: down-tempo
downtempo (adv): At a slow tempo.
Synonyms: down-tempo
Antonyms: uptempo
downtempo (adv): At a slow, relaxed pace.
Synonyms: down-tempo
Antonyms: uptempo
underweight (adj): Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
Antonyms: overweight
Example: He's thirty pounds underweight.
underweight (adj): Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
Antonyms: overweight
underweight (adj): Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
Antonyms: overweight
Example: The fund is underweight in mining.
underweight (noun): The state or quality of being underweight.
Antonyms: overweight
underweight (verb): To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
doab (noun): A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers, especially that between the Ganga and the Yamuna
grandparent (noun): the parent of someone's parent
Synonyms: grand-parent
Antonyms: grandchild
theoretic (adj): Concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters.
Synonyms: theoretick
theoretic (adj): Existing only in theory, not proven in reality.
Synonyms: theoretick