nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: incognitant Part of Speech: adj 1. ignorant Labels: obsolete
Word: iodyrite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of iod- + argyr- + -ite. 1. a natural mineral form of silver iodide Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: butterbird Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From butter + bird, from its fatness. 1. The bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). Labels: Jamaica
Word: butterbirds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of butterbird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brigandism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brigand + -ism. 1. Crime carried out by brigands. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: brigandisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brigandism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mandragorite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mandragora + -ite. 1. One who uses mandrake as a narcotic drug Labels: archaic Example: There were those who drank of it for taste or pleasure; and who were spoken of as "mandragorites," as we might speak of alcoholics or chloralists. They passed into the land of sleep and dream, and waking up in scare and alarm were the screaming mandrakes of an ancient civilization. Example: A mandragorite was a term applied to one addicted to mandrake as a narcotic.
Word: mandragorites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mandragorite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disproval Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disprove + -al. 1. The act of disproving; disproof. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. disapproval Labels: countable, proscribed, uncountable
Word: disprovals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disproval Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disarrayment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disarray + -ment. 1. Disorder; disarray. Labels: archaic, rare, uncountable Example: if we can but keep our ſelves from inward Enemies , our vices , our weaknesses , and our own disarayments
Word: shotproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shot + -proof. 1. Not penetrable by shot; bulletproof. 2. Of quarry, reputedly unable to be shot. Example: Well, I didn't know it was that fellow, else I would have had a shot at him at once, before he had time to make himself shot-proof, but I thought it was great fun to watch him.
Word: Barrowist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Barrowe + -ist. 1. A follower of Henry Barrowe (c. 1550–1593), English Puritan and separatist.
Word: Barrowists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Barrowist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misconceit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English misconceite, equivalent to mis- + conceit. Pronunciation: /mɪskənˈsiːt/ 1. misconception Labels: obsolete Example: Full of melancholy and sad misfare , Through misconceit ; all unawares espide An armed Knight
Word: misconceit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English misconceite, equivalent to mis- + conceit. Pronunciation: /mɪskənˈsiːt/ 1. To form a wrong opinion about; to misconceive. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: misconceits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misconceit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buscon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish buscón (“searcher”), from buscar (“to search”). 1. A prospector (someone who searches for ore). Labels: US, historical
Word: buscons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of buscon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epileptoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From epileptic + -oid. Pronunciation: /ɛpɪˈlɛptɔɪd/ 1. Resembling epilepsy. Example: A spasm of violent nausea seized him and he turned up his eyes into his head in a frightening grimace which seemed almost epileptoid.
Word: epileptoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From epileptic + -oid. Pronunciation: /ɛpɪˈlɛptɔɪd/ 1. A person with epilepsy. Labels: archaic 2. A personality type characterized by extreme irritability, rigidity, meticulousness, and a tendency toward rage or aggressive outbursts.
Word: insusceptive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + susceptive. 1. Not susceptive or susceptible. Example: All this had no effect, the sailor was wholly insusceptive of the softer passions, and without regard to tears or arguments persisted in his resolution to make me a man.
Word: atomician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From atomic + -ian. 1. An atomist. Labels: obsolete
Word: atomicians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of atomician Labels: form-of, plural
Word: high-blown Part of Speech: adj 1. elevated (normally said of pride or conceit) Labels: archaic Example: But farre beyond my depth: my high-blowne Pride Example: Nothing could less resemble the high blown ambition of the favourite courtier, the successful gallant, and the bold warrior than the submissive, unassuming mediciner, who seemed even to court and delight in insult
Word: monodynamism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mono- + dynamism. 1. The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force, be it God, or life, or something else. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Side by side with this tentative and growing monotheism there is a bold and unhesitating monodynamism, the efforts of all the early thinkers being to reduce all the powers of nature to one principle
Word: incongenial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + congenial. 1. Not congenial.
Word: swarty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From swart + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈswɔː(ɹ)ti/ 1. swarthy; tawny Example: From these first qualities arise many other second, as that of colour, black, swarty, pale, ruddy , &c. Example: Suddenly, the short, swarty man was again before us with his broad smile, so ill suited to the grim glint of his eyes, beckoning to us to gather round him.
Word: arseniuret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arsenic + -uret, attested since 1807, displaced by arsenide in the 1860s, obsolete by the end of the century. Pronunciation: /ɑː(ɹ)ˌsiːnɪjʊˈɹɛt/ 1. An arsenide. Labels: obsolete
Word: arseniurets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arseniuret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Higgs bosons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Higgs boson Labels: form-of, plural
Word: recensure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + censure. 1. To censure again. Labels: transitive
Word: rimae Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪˌmi/ 1. plural of rima Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rimula Part of Speech: noun 1. A small crack or fissure.
Word: rimulae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rimula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rotans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rotan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: torpescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin torpescens. 1. Becoming torpid or numb. Example: Of words indeed profuse, Of gold tenacious, their torpescent ſoul Clenches their coin
Word: mind the gap Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ̯nd ðə ˌɡæp/, /ˈmʌɪ̯nd-/, /-ˌɡap/, /ˈmɑe̯nd ðə ˌɡæp/, /ˈmɑe̯nd ðə ˌɡɛp/ 1. Be careful of the gap between the vehicle and the adjacent platform, while boarding or alighting. Example: Don't tell me to mind the gap / I want my fucking money back! Example: I once interviewed the man who made the first 'Mind the Gap' announcement: the one that reverberated for about thirty years on the Central Line at Bank, on the Bakerloo at Waterloo, and on the northbound Northern Line at Embankment.
Word: elfen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From elf + -en. Compare elfin, elven. 1. Belonging to, or relating to, elves. Example: ALFHILD. Were I an elfen maid, then truly, say I, it would fare with you ill! / OLAF. Forsooth, then are you the elfen maid!
Word: tubulus Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of tubule. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Masr Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Classical Arabic مِصْر (miṣr) which originates from the Ancient Biblical Aramaic [script needed] (miṣrāyim), with the dual suffix -āyim, perhaps referring to the `two Egypts`: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. مَصْر (maṣr) is the colloquial Egyptian Arabic pronunciation. 1. Egypt Example: The name of Cairo is a contraction of the title given to it by its founder of " Masr-el-Kahira," or "The Victory of Egypt," Masr signifying Egypt. Example: An epithet to its name, misri, indicates Masr or Egypt as its home.
Word: Miṣr Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of مصر 1. Alternative form of Masr. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chazzerai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish חזירײַ (khazeray, “filth, mess, dirty trick”), from Hebrew חזיר (khazír, “pig”). Pronunciation: /ˈxɑːzəɹaɪ/, /ˈhɑːzəɹaɪ/ 1. Junk; trash; anything worthless. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: That movie was nothing but chazzerai. 2. Food that is awful Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Who could eat such chazzerai? 3. Anything disgusting or loathsome. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: A good deal of contemporary theater strikes me as chazzerai.
Word: Bates number Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from Bates, the surname of the inventor of the first serial number-stamping machine. 1. A number affixed to a document indicating its number in a series of documents, usually with respect to evidentiary documents being provided to the other party in a legal proceeding.
Word: Bates number Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Derived from Bates, the surname of the inventor of the first serial number-stamping machine. 1. To stamp or label documents with Bates numbers. Example: When Bates numbering documents for production, remove any documents among them that are not relevant or not covered by the request before Bates numbering […]
Word: Christmas rose Part of Speech: noun 1. A plant that flowers near Christmas. Example: Christmas rose (black hellebore), strewn on the floor or burned, drove away witches. 2. A plant that flowers near Christmas.
Word: Bates numbers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Bates number Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bates numbers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of Bates number Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: aspirement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aspire + -ment. 1. aspiration (desire) Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: aspirements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aspirement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: holostean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Holostei + -an 1. Any fish of the class or infraclass Holostei.
Word: Nicaragua wood Part of Speech: noun 1. brazilwood Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: proportionment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proportion + -ment. 1. The act or process of dividing out proportionally. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: proportionments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proportionment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reprobatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reprobate + -ory. 1. Synonym of reprobative. Example: [H]e brings out a crumpled piece of paper, and displays it in approved Dr. Marigold style, "Here's what the arsenic or strychnine was in, but now it is mixed with the dishes, knives, forks, spoons, biscuits, beef, &c.; in fact, our pantry and store-room are worse than a score of Pritchard's." Grand chorus, reprobatory of Max, who takes it very coolly, and says he daresays Dick has just spilt it, "his fingers being all thumbs," but never to mind, as he won't use any of the things till he has cleaned out the chest. Example: There is yet another proverb in this stanza, confirmed by its presence in [Joseph] Morawski’s collection (1457): “En doit faire quant leus et tens en est,” a northern French version of what Peire Vidal states in the third line of this reprobatory strophe: “It is better to act while life is present.”
Word: misadvice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + advice. 1. bad advice Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: misadvices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misadvice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subobscurely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From subobscure + -ly. 1. Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Labels: not-comparable Example: O my God, (euer conſtant to thine ovvne vvayes), thou haſt proceeded opẽly [openly], intelligibly, manifeſtly, by the book. […] [F]rõ [from] thy ſecond book, the booke of Nature, vvher though ſubobſcurely, and in ſhadovvs, thou haſt expreſſed thine ovvn Image; […]
Word: cyclometry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyclo- + -metry. 1. The measurement of circles, including calculating circumference, arcs, angles etc. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: conventioner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From convention + -er. 1. One who belongs to a convention or assembly.
Word: conventioners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of conventioner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dissidently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dissident + -ly. 1. In a dissident manner.
Word: chippier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of chippy: more chippy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: chippiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of chippy: most chippy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: modelize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From model + -ize. 1. To model. Labels: obsolete Example: [F]or the more modellizing, or enamelling, or rather diamondizing of your ſubiect, you ſhall perceiue the Hipotheſis, or Galaxia, (vvhereof the Meteors long ſince had their Initiall inceptions and Notions) to be meerely Pithagoricall, Mathematicall, and Aristocraticall: […]
Word: modelized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of modelize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: modelizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of modelize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: modelizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of modelize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: multiscious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin multiscius, from multus (“much”) + scius (“knowing”), from scire (“to know”). 1. Having much or varied knowledge. Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: mischoose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mischeosen, mischesen, equivalent to mis- + choose. 1. To choose incorrectly or badly; to make a wrong choice. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Up to a certain point he was a free agent , he could choose his path ; he mischose it , and he was in the toils of necessity
Word: mischooses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mischoose Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mischoosing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mischoose Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mischose Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of mischoose Labels: form-of, past
Word: mischosen Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of mischoose Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pinhold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pin + hold. 1. A place where a pin is fixed. Example: He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his heartpocket. Example: Continue adding in one pair at each inner pinhold until reaching the pinhold where the two weaving pairs connect. 2. The attachment formed by pinning something in place. Example: Cut another piece of cardboard to fill the bottom orifice, sew this well in, and cover the whole figure with muslin to prevent the bran coming out, and to give a good pinhold. Example: As da Silvas turned, she stumbled backwards, her hands pressed together, the rose at her breast falling from its insecure pinhold on to the edge of the carpet. 3. An attachment mechanism made up of a small hole into which a pin is inserted. Example: They are made with a 1 in. (2.54 cm.) pinhold and are furnished in two sizes for feeders of 500,000 circ. mils and 1,000,000 circ_ mils respectively. Example: Using two knives in tandem affords a good opportunity to develop a pinhold-free coating when only one coating pass is involved, that is, for thin-gauge coatings. In this way, a pinhold would be only half a coating thick and the likelihood of two pin holes lining up is small. 4. A hold in which the opponent is pinned to the mat. Example: ...into a take-down hold and possibly a pinhold— that pins his shoulders to the mat Example: Then he was to lock his arms around his opponent's two arms and, using them as a lever, fall backward to the mat, then roll over. If it all worked, Jess would come up on top with a double armlock and body-press pinhold.
Word: pinholds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pinhold Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antestomach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ante- + stomach. 1. A cavity that leads into the stomach, as in birds. Example: it is immediately swalled into […]a kind of Antestomach ( which I have observ'd in many , especially Piscivorous Birds ) where it is moistned and mollified by some proper Juice from the Glandules distilling in there. 2. The first stomach of a ruminant. Example: The physiological significance of microorganisms in the antestomach of ruminants . Example: The disturbance of the eructation reflex owing to the lacking permanent mechanical stimulation of the walls of the antestomach may be considered one of the reasons why the balanced reactions of rumination do not take place. 3. The lower portion of the esophagus in an animal that has a sphincter controlling the entrance of food from the esophagus into the stomach, especially when that portion of the esophagus is distended or dilated. Example: Fleiner calls attention to the existence of spindle-shaped dilation of the esophagus above the diaphragm, a condition that is termed antestomach, and to a similar condition of the subdiaphragmatic part of the esophagus, nown as "antrum cardiacum.". He has seen six instances of antestomach. Example: He had attempted to produce cancer in the antestomach of the rats, by painting them with tar in or around the mouth.
Word: antestomachs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antestomach Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tracklessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From trackless + -ly. 1. Without a track. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hangi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori hāngī. Pronunciation: /ˈhaŋi/ 1. A traditional Māori pit oven, in which (suitably wrapped) raw food is lain on a base of heated stones. Labels: New-Zealand, countable, uncountable Example: The ovens were used to cook food in identical fashion to the Maori hangi and the Papuan stone ovens. 2. Food cooked in this way. Labels: New-Zealand, uncountable Example: He glanced at the formal setting in front of him, wishing he could be at a marae eating hangi right now.
Word: hangis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hangi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cyberanarchy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + anarchy. 1. An anarchic state or condition on computer networks. Labels: uncountable Example: If we want to avoid a cyberanarchy, we need a cyberorder to emerge, and emerge quickly. Example: The stress on cyberanarchy disguises the non-democratic features of my dream.
Word: oxidulated Part of Speech: adj 1. Existing in the state of a protoxide. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: oxidulated iron Example: oxidulated tannate of mercury
Word: consortion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin consortio. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɔː(ɹ)ʃən/ 1. joining; association, or companionship Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: study thou conversation, and be critical in thy consortion. Example: A combination of the northern states on a basis favourable to their eventual freedom and consortion
Word: horologer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English orloger, from Middle French orlogier; equivalent to horology + -er. 1. Synonym of horologist, a person skilled in horology, a maker or maintainer of timekeeping devices.
Word: horologers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of horologer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: masturbater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From masturbate + -er. 1. Alternative form of masturbator. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: masturbaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of masturbater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metabranchial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From meta- + branchial. 1. Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae. Labels: not-comparable Example: metabranchial lobe Example: metabranchial margin
Word: healthward Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From health + -ward. 1. Towards a healthy state.
Word: healthward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From health + -ward. 1. Towards a healthy state.
Word: eternals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eternal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: perpetuals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of perpetual Labels: form-of, plural
Word: big government Part of Speech: noun 1. Governance that consists of large-scale programs, numerous departments and employees, and that entails substantial spending, especially liberal or left-wing governance which emphasizes social entitlements and regulation, and that is considered intrusive by some citizens, especially by conservatives or right-wingers Labels: US, capitalized, sometimes, uncountable Example: Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. […] "Today it is not Big Business that we have to fear," concluded Businessman Wilkie. "It is Big Government." Example: Mr. Clinton inherited a Presidency that had been downsized by Watergate and the end of the cold war. […] Two years ago he declared the end of the era of big government and embarked upon a program of bite-sized policy initiatives.
Word: nebulation Part of Speech: noun 1. The condition of being nebulated. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A clouded or ill-defined mark of colour. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nebulations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nebulation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bootdisk Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of boot disk. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bootdisks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bootdisk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Big Government Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of big government. Labels: alt-of, uncountable Example: This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best.
Word: Angaataha Part of Speech: name 1. A language of Papua New Guinea.
Word: mud army Part of Speech: noun 1. The volunteer helpers assisting the victims of the 2010/2011 floods in South East Queensland. Labels: informal
Word: basales Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of basalis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: variegator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who or that which variegates. 2. A machine that swirls several ice cream flavors into a single ice cream.
Word: fumulus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of fume + cumulus. 1. A very thin cloud resembling a veil, especially one formed of water droplets from a rising plume (from a cooling tower etc)
Word: fumuli Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fumulus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Abar Part of Speech: name 1. A Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon.
Word: remanifestation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + manifestation. 1. A second or subsequent manifestation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gracility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gracile + -ity. 1. The property or condition of being gracile. Labels: countable, often, uncountable Example: Stephen L. Whittington, David M. Reed (eds.) (2006), Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons, Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 69: “Gracility is usually considered a female characteristic and contrasts strikingly here with the robusticity and large size of the mandible.”
Word: rugosas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rugosa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: have one's eye on Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, one's, eye, on. 2. To watch. Example: I have my eye on you, so you'd better not cause any trouble. 3. To seek, to pursue. Example: She now wants to be a Paris MP. But Fillon wants the same Paris seat when he steps down, after next year's election. Both have their eye on the main prize: running for Paris mayor in 2014.
Word: junior minister Part of Speech: noun 1. a member of a legislative body who holds a position in government below cabinet level, i.e. reporting to the head of a department, not the prime minister or head of government Example: The junior minister Nadine Morano, who recently said Dati had been served a political career "on a golden platter", suggested she go back to her roots and run in rural Burgundy, where she grew up in a poor family of 11 children. Example: One junior minister failed to see why main lines could not simply be turned into motorways and be done with it.
Word: Newtonmas Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Newton + -mas, after Isaac Newton. 1. December 25, Isaac Newton's birthday (in the Julian calendar). Labels: humorous Example: At Christmas, 1890, or Newtonmas, 248, for the first time, the members of the Newtonkai, or Newton Association, met in the Physical Laboratory of the Imperial University, to hear each other talk, to distribute appropriate gifts, and to lengthen out the small hours with laughter and good cheer. Example: Two of my friends (both Jewish) take 25 December as the holiday Newtonmas, in celebration of the birth of Sir Isaac Newton. 2. December 25 through January 4, Isaac Newton's birthday (in the Gregorian calendar). Labels: humorous Example: Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, recommends celebrate Newtonmas on December 25th and ten extra days representing the interval between Newton's birth dates on the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Word: bite in the arse Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of come back to bite. Labels: UK, slang, transitive, vulgar Example: After the kitten had died, Robins sent a text message to Knutton saying: "Remember the saying: 'What goes around comes around?' It has started already to bite you in the arse. The cat? Karma."
Word: Bates numbering Part of Speech: noun 1. A sequence of Bates numbers in a particular set of documents. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The action of creating or assigning such a sequence for identification. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Bates numbering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of Bates number Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Bates numberings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Bates numbering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bates numbered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of Bates number Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: MORB Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mɔːb/, /mɔɹb/ 1. Acronym of mid-ocean ridge basalt. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable Example: The mid-ocean ridges are where new crust is added to the earth, so MORB is the basic building material of our world.
Word: big business Part of Speech: noun 1. Large, for-profit corporations collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or social influence. Labels: capitalized, sometimes, uncountable Example: The man in the sandwich board was railing against big business and big government. Example: Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. . . . "Today it is not Big Business that we have to fear," concluded Businessman Wilkie. "It is Big Government." 2. A large and vital economic sector. Labels: uncountable Example: In those days, cotton mills were big business around here, and so was tanning of hides.
Word: Big Business Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of big business. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: fulldriven Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ful driven, equivalent to full + driven. 1. Fully driven or clenched; completed; made up. Labels: rare Example: A transistor switch may be underdriven, fulldriven, or overdriven when switching ON or OFF. ... A fulldriven switch would be switched from one borderline to the other borderline, eg, A' for OFF and B' for ON.
Word: fullfeed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A back-formation from fullfeeding; equivalent to full + feed. 1. To overfeed; feed to fullness or excess; make plump; fatten. Labels: transitive Example: If it is desired to fullfeed hogs, they will make a rapid fattening growth by increasing the grain ration while on pasture, [...] Example: Efforts were made to fullfeed animals without undue waste, and unconsumed feed was redistributed as part of the procedure.
Word: fullfed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fullfeed, equivalent to full + fed. 1. Fed to fullness; plump.
Word: fullfed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fullfeed, equivalent to full + fed. 1. simple past and past participle of fullfeed Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: postpositionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From postpositional + -ly. 1. In a postpositional manner. 2. As a postposition.
Word: postpositional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From postposition + -al. 1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a postposition. Labels: not-comparable
Word: postpositional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From postposition + -al. 1. A postposition.
Word: sharn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schern, from Old English sċearn (“sharn, dung, muck, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *skarn, from Proto-Germanic *skarną (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *sker- (“dung, manure”). Cognate with North Frisian skern (“dung, manure”), Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic skarn (“dung”), German Harn (“urine”). Doublet of skarn. 1. The dung or manure of cattle or sheep. Labels: Scotland, uncountable Example: right between the byre and the stable and the barn on one side and the house on the other was the cattle-court and right in the middle of that the midden, high and yellow with dung and straw and sharn, and Mistress Strachan could never forgive Peesie's Knapp because of that awful smell it had.
Word: red velvet Part of Speech: noun 1. Cocoa flavor with red coloring. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: red velvet cake Example: red velvet yogurt 2. A red-velvet-flavored thing Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Give me the cupcakes," he said under his breath. ¶ The girl's eyes dug into him. Her pink mouth hung open. "Red velvet's the favorite." ¶ "Give me those. The red velvets."
Word: nanoelemental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nanoelement + -al. 1. of, or pertaining to a nanoelement
Word: directed graphs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of directed graph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nasal consonant Part of Speech: noun 1. A consonant sound produced by air moving though the nose with the mouth passage occluded.
Word: zhlub Part of Speech: noun 1. a crude person lacking in social skills and exhibiting insensitivity, clumsiness and a lack of manners 2. an oaf, a bumpkin 3. a nebbish, a timid person
Word: sputcheon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈspʌt͡ʃən/ 1. The metal lining of a scabbard's mouth. Labels: historical Example: Schlussblech, […] The sputcheon of the mouth-piece; inner part of the mouth-piece, which retains the lining of metal-scabbards. Example: […] [batte] de la cuvette, sputcheon of the mouth-piece of a sword-scabbard, or that part which retains the wooden scabbard (fût).
Word: schiavona Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian. So named because the sword was popular among the Schiavoni (“Slavs”), Istrian and Dalmatian Slavs who formed the bodyguard of the Doge of Venice. 1. A type of sword with a basket-shaped guard, popular during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Word: Anglo-Normans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Anglo-Norman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: air plants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of air plant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zero G Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of zero gravity. Coined by British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (as "zero 'g'") in his 1952 novel Islands in the Sky. Pronunciation: /ˈziɹoʊ d͡ʒiː/ 1. zero gravity Labels: uncountable
Word: confidence level Part of Speech: noun 1. The probability that a measured quantity will fall within a given confidence interval.
Word: c.l. Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of confidence level. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Due to its effect on the expansion rate of the Universe during Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), the theoretical expectations for the primordial abundances of light elements depend on N_ν. Astrophysical measurements of the primordial ⁴He and ²D abundances lead to a value of N_ν = 3.14_-0.65 at 68% c.l., in very good agreement with the Standard Model expectation.
Word: autogeneal Part of Speech: adj 1. Self-produced; autogenous. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: chattelism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chattel + -ism. 1. The act or condition of holding chattels; slavery. Labels: uncountable 2. The state of being a chattel. Labels: uncountable
Word: corocore Part of Speech: noun 1. Rare form of caracoa. Labels: form-of, rare
Word: corocores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corocore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dodecastyle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dodeca- + -style. 1. Having twelve columns in front Labels: not-comparable
Word: dodecastyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dodeca- + -style. 1. A portico or building with twelve columns in front.
Word: dodecastyles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dodecastyle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epistolize Part of Speech: verb 1. To write a letter (to). Labels: archaic
Word: epistolized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of epistolize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: epistolizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of epistolize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: epistolizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of epistolize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: experimentalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From experimental + -ize. 1. To make experiments upon. Labels: transitive 2. To experiment. Labels: intransitive Example: September 18 1852, John Stuart Mill, letter to Alexis de Tocqueville I investigate, I experimentalize; I try to grasp the facts more closely than has yet been attempted Example: The Fellatas flocked from all quarters to this new seat of civilization and learning; and his growing power induced Danfodio to experimentalize upon its extent.
Word: experimentalized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of experimentalize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: experimentalizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of experimentalize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: experimentalizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of experimentalize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flewed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flew + -ed. 1. Having large flews, the hanging upper lip common to certain breeds of dog. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; / So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung / With ears that sweep away the morning dew;
Word: glump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See glum. 1. To be glum; to sulk. Labels: England, Southern, archaic, colloquial, intransitive
Word: glump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of glom or glob + clump. 1. A globular clump.
Word: glump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of glom or glob + clump. 1. To have an affinity for clumping into a glob. Example: “There's some ionic residue on this lamp. Glumpus was here for sure.” “Glumpus?” “I decided to give the nanites a name, since they glump so much.” “Aw, cute.”
Word: glumped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of glump Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: glumping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of glump Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: glumps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of glump Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: glumps Part of Speech: noun 1. A state of sulking; sullen mood. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: indefinitude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + definitude, from in- + de- + Latin fin(is) + -itude or directly from Renaissance Latin finitūdō (“signifying a noun of state”), from fīnis (“end, limit”) + -tūdō. 1. The quality of being indefinite or vague. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. An indefinite number or quantity. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: They arise to a strange and prodigious multitude, if not indefinitude, by their various positions, combinations, and conjunctions.
Word: indefinitudes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of indefinitude Labels: form-of, plural
Word: possessionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From possession + -ary. 1. Of or pertaining to possession. Labels: not-comparable Example: possessionary interest Example: possessionary rights
Word: thruout Part of Speech: prep Etymology: See thru. 1. Nonstandard spelling of throughout. Labels: Canada, US, alt-of, nonstandard Example: He connected the bulb in circuit with his conventional radio apparatus, using the same circuits for additional electrodes that he had used thruout his experiments with the thing. Example: It led to a drive against screeno as used in movie houses thruout the city.
Word: thruout Part of Speech: adv Etymology: See thru. 1. Nonstandard spelling of throughout. Labels: Canada, US, alt-of, nonstandard, not-comparable
Word: Whitson Part of Speech: name 1. Obsolete form of Whitsun. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: wiggeries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wiggery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wiggery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wig + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪɡəɹi/ 1. A wig or wigs; false hair. Labels: archaic Example: There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position. 2. Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism. Labels: archaic Example: Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts].
Word: indefensibility Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality or state of not being defensible. Labels: uncountable Example: veiling its enormity, and its indefensibility
Word: skyish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English skyyssh, equivalent to sky + -ish. 1. Like the sky Example: the skyish head Of blue Olympus 2. lofty; ethereal.
Word: sublumbar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + lumbar. 1. Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column. Labels: not-comparable Example: the sublumbar lymph glands
Word: sylvanium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin silvānium, so called from Transylvania, where it was first found, + -ium. 1. tellurium Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: siphonet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From siphon + -et. 1. a cornicle (tubular organs on aphids, which secrete honeydew). Labels: archaic
Word: siphonets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of siphonet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From glare + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɛəɹi/ 1. Of a dazzling lustre; glaring; bright; shining. Example: November 29, 1659, S. Hartlir, letter to Robert Boyle Bright, crystal glass is glary. 2. Resembling or characteristic of a glare, or angry look. Example: He gave me that glary look again, but he'd been overruled.
Word: pantalet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pantal(oon) + -et. 1. Alternative spelling of pantalette. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fowlerite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Fowler + -ite, after Dr. Samuel Fowler. 1. A variety of rhodonite that contains zinc. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: fowlerites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fowlerite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: repaganize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + paganize. 1. To paganize again; to return to paganism. Labels: transitive
Word: repaganized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of repaganize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: repaganizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of repaganize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: repaganizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of repaganize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bubukle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps related to bubo and/or carbuncle. 1. A red pimple. Labels: nonce-word, obsolete Example: His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o' fire; and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire's out. Example: His moon face wore the perpetual smile of a simpleton and was headlighted by a bubukle nose. The facial blotch was not congenital but was from mustard gas in '17.
Word: bubukles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bubukle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: internuncioship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From internuncio + -ship. 1. The office or function of an internuncio. Labels: rare, uncountable, usually Example: Several billets paſſed between us before I went out, by the Internuncioship of Dorcas
Word: internuncioships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of internuncioship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: otacoustic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs) Ancient Greek ὠτ- (ōt-)der. English ot- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- ▲ Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor. Medieval Latin acousticusbor. English acoustic English otacoustic From ot- + acoustic. 1. Assisting the sense of hearing. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: an otacoustic instrument Example: otacoustic treatment
Word: otacoustic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs) Ancient Greek ὠτ- (ōt-)der. English ot- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- ▲ Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor. Medieval Latin acousticusbor. English acoustic English otacoustic From ot- + acoustic. 1. A kind of ear trumpet. Labels: archaic
Word: imbank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From im- + bank. 1. Archaic form of embank. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: imbanked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of imbank Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: imbanking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of imbank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: imbanks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of imbank Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ichthyographies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ichthyography Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ichthyography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ichthyo- + -graphy. 1. The scientific description of fishes. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: sleepfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sleepful + -ness. 1. sleepiness Labels: uncountable
Word: dummerer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Related to dumb. 1. Someone who pretends to be dumb (unable to speak), usually to get sympathy or for begging. Labels: obsolete Example: every village almost will yield abundant testimonies amongst us; we have dummerers , Abraham men, &c.
Word: dummerers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dummerer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: graduator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From graduate + -or. 1. One who graduates (determines or indicates graduation). Example: a graduator of instruments 2. An instrument for dividing any line, straight or curved, into smaller regular intervals. 3. An apparatus for diffusing a solution, such as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.
Word: graduators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of graduator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hagborn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hag + born. 1. Born of a hag or witch. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape. Example: Out, thou freckled whelp ! thou hagborn ! Out, I say !
Word: roughleg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rough + leg. 1. Buteo lagopus, a bird of prey.
Word: roughlegs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roughleg Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sharebeam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From share + beam. 1. The part of a plough to which the share is attached.
Word: sharebeams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sharebeam Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dissymmetrical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dis- + symmetrical. 1. Lacking symmetry. 2. chiral Labels: obsolete
Word: packtong Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of paktong. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: slatt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See slat (“a strip of board”). 1. A stone slab used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
Word: slatt Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Acronym of slime love all the time or slime life all the time. Coined and popularised by Young Thug. 1. Used to express affection between friends, especially within the hip-hop community. Labels: slang
Word: slatts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of slatt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paktongs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paktong Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sonneteering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sonneteer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sonneteering Part of Speech: noun 1. The writing of sonnets. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: sonneteered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of sonneteer Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hungred Part of Speech: adj 1. hungry Labels: obsolete
Word: incommunicating Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + communicating. 1. Having no communion or intercourse with each other. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: [Justices] daily in Term-time Converſe and Conſult with one another; […] and by this Means their Judgments and their Adminiſtrations of Common Juſtice carry a Conſonancy, Congruity, and Uniformity one to another, whereby both the Laws and the Adminiſtrations thereof are preſerved from that Confuſion and Diſparity that would unavoidably enſue, if the Adminiſtration was by ſeveral incommunicating Hands, or by provincial Eſtabliſhments: […]
Word: oxidizement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oxidize + -ment. 1. oxidation Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: reamputation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + amputation. 1. A second amputation performed upon the same body part. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: reamputations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reamputation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sectionality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sectional + -ity. 1. The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism. Labels: uncountable
Word: affamishment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From affamish + -ment. 1. starvation or great hunger Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: affamishment of his body
Word: aquiparous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aqui- + -parous. 1. Secreting water; applied to certain glands. Labels: not-comparable
Word: supracostal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From supra- + costal. 1. Situated above (superior to) a rib or the ribs. Labels: not-comparable
Word: subtrihedral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + trihedral. Pronunciation: /ˌsʌbtɹaɪˈhiːdɹəl/ 1. Almost trihedral. Labels: not-comparable Example: the subtrihedral crown of a tooth Example: 1840-1845, Richard Owen, Odontography The anterior or external teeth of the upper resemble those of the lower jaw ; they are strong , conical , subtrihedral , hollow at the base , which is obliquely truncated , and rounded and obtuse at the apex
Word: euchroic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eu- + Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs) + -ic, meaning "well-colored". 1. An imide acid, C₁₂H₄N₂O₈, that turns dark blue on reduction. Labels: obsolete, uncountable