nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: coagment Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin coagmentare, from coagmentum (“a joining together”), from cogere. See cogent. 1. To join together; to fuse. Labels: obsolete Example: Had the world been coagmented from that supposed fortuitous jumble, this hypothesis had been tolerable.
Word: coagmented Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of coagment Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: coagmenting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of coagment Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: coagments Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of coagment Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bullen-bullen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Native Australian name, from its cry. 1. The lyrebird. Labels: Australia, obsolete
Word: Pierian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin Pierius, from Mount Pierus in Thessaly, sacred to the Muses. Pronunciation: /paɪˈɪəɹiən/, /paɪˈɛəɹiən/ 1. Of or relating to Pierides or Muses. Example: Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Word: undisclose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + disclose. 1. To keep close or secret; to refrain from disclosing. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: her tender Bud doth undisclose That Full of Beauty
Word: undiscloses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of undisclose Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: saturability Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality or degree of being saturable. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: saturabilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saturability Labels: form-of, plural
Word: portulacaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Portulacaceae + -ous 1. Of or relating to the family Portulacaceae of plants (purslanes) Labels: not-comparable Example: portulacaceous plant
Word: swipples Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swipple Labels: form-of, plural
Word: swiple Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of swipple. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 1851, "Flail", entry in Cuthbert William Johnson, The Farmer's and Planter's Encyclopaedia of Rural Affairs, Lippincott, page 482, It anciently was truly a whip, and sometimes had two or more lashes: the modern flail consists of the handle or handstaff, which the labourer holds in his hand, and uses as a lever, to raise up and bring down the swiple, or part which strikes the corn, and beats out the chaff and grain from the straw. Example: The flail consisted of two parts, a six foot wooden staff attached by a sheepskin thong to a four foot buailtean, swiple of wood, thick tarry cable, or dried tangle.
Word: swiples Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swiple Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tergeminous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin tergeminus, from ter (“thrice”) + geminus (“doubled at birth, twin-born”). Compare trigeminous. 1. Threefold. Labels: not-comparable Example: My servant-maid has discovered tergeminous proof of the perpetrator. Example: I've often viewed in early life's bright dream, Thy arch tergeminous which spanned the stream; Upon the rocks greywacke oft I've stood, And upward scanned thy classic pulchritude.
Word: petulcity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See petulcous. 1. wantonness; friskiness Labels: nonce-word, obsolete, uncountable Example: I do, therefore, much blame the petulcity of whatsoever author, that should dare to impute a Popish affection to him […]
Word: kreatine Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of creatine. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: creatin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of creatine. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: kreatines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kreatine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stable-stand Part of Speech: noun 1. The position of a person found standing in the forest with a crossbow or longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; one of the four presumptions that a person intended to steal the king's deer. Labels: UK, obsolete, uncountable Example: I'll keep my stable-stand where I lodge my wife, I'll go in couples with her. Example: The four indications of offence against Vert and Venison, in like manner arrange themselves in rhyme - Dog draw, stable stand, Backberinde, and bloody hand;-and this formed the precept of the Forester, and instructed him to seize the trespasser who was taken with the mayneer whilst roaming in the green-wood shade.
Word: piketail Part of Speech: noun 1. The pintail duck. Labels: archaic, dialectal
Word: homoioptota Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of homoioptoton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: homoioptoton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμοιóπτωτον (homoióptōton, “in a like case”). 1. A rhetorical figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally. Labels: rhetoric
Word: cultriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin culter, cultri (“knife”) + -form. 1. Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate. Example: cultriform beak Example: cultriform process of the parasphenoid
Word: pythonist Part of Speech: noun 1. An enchanter, conjurer, charmer or similar diviner. Labels: archaic
Word: pythonists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pythonist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cope chisel Part of Speech: noun 1. A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.
Word: cope chisels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cope chisel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spermule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin spermulum, diminutive of sperma (“seed”). By surface analysis, sperm + -ule. 1. A spermatozoon.
Word: spermules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spermule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: panshon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Related to pancheon? 1. An earthen vessel, wider at the top than at the bottom, used for holding milk etc. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Tom struck at tratten wit beesom, an't heead floid intoo a panshon ful a watter, an nok't soide haht
Word: panshons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of panshon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ramnification Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of ramification. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: poutings Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊtɪŋz/ 1. plural of pouting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: veerings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of veering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gaggings Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡæɡɪŋz/ 1. plural of gagging Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rhinencephalon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rhin- + encephalon. 1. The part of the brain involved with olfaction.
Word: rhinencephala Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhinencephalon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contactual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From contact + -ual. 1. Of or relating to contact. Example: Now imagine—for greater perspicuity—the Microcosm as a nether wheel consisting of 360 interstices (degrees), the revolutions of which ingroove themselves with twin projections from the Great Mechanism, thus effecting contactual points of attraction that resolve themselves into channels through which specific influences from the Macrocosm descend or are drawn into the reservoirs of cognate effluences awaiting them in the minutum mundum, or lesser world. Example: We see that the contactual is essentially musical — as the musical is essentially contactual. One must be 'touched' before one can move.
Word: uninhibitable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + inhibitable. 1. That cannot be inhibited. Example: Tapping on the glabellum, just above the nose, which can elicit uninhibitable blinking in Parkinsonism.
Word: tactually Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From tactual + -ly. 1. In a tactual manner; by, or relating to, the sense of touch. Example: We have seen, again and again, that patients’ own kinetic melodies can be given back to them, albeit briefly, by the use of an appropriate flow of music […]. Other ‘natural’ motions of Nature and Art are equally potent if experienced visually or tactually.
Word: tachykinesia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tachy- + -kinesia. 1. speeded-up movement Labels: uncountable
Word: tortipelvic Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to tortipelvis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tortipelvis Part of Speech: noun 1. distortion of the pelvis caused by muscular contractions Labels: uncountable
Word: actorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From actor + -ial. 1. Relating to an actor, or one who performs an action. Labels: not-comparable Example: It constituted, I came to think, the first step in his actorial investigation; the one which provided an intense and minute sensory and motor corporeal image, which he could then scan internally and analyse, and then finally imbue with himself, deepen, subjectivise.
Word: semionarrative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semio- + narrative. 1. Relating to narrative in semiotics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: relatings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of relating Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insulable Part of Speech: adj 1. Capable of being isolated. Example: Thus the atmosphere of the ward, its mood, became all-important — I did not have fifty isolated, insulable patients; I had a community which was like a single living organism.
Word: skimmings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of skimming Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hastenings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hastening Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hastenest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: hasten + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of hasten Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: inapparency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + apparency. 1. absence of visible symptoms Labels: uncountable
Word: formicatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to formication. Example: It was clear that the action of the drug was, in a sense, unpredictable, in that it might call forth a variety of behaviours: given the initial form of behaviour — whether tongue-pulsing, therapeutic, catatonic, ticcy-palilalic, formicatory, or hallucinatory — the rest of the reaction would follow this form.
Word: offscape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From off- + -scape. 1. The distant part of a view, garden etc.; the background. Labels: archaic Example: The Snowdonia rises with vast Dignity in the Offskip, while a blue Expanse of Ocean leads the Eye on our right hand to immeasurable Distance.
Word: megaphonia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + -phonia. 1. The condition of excessive shouting or raising the voice. Labels: uncountable Example: His initial symptom was megaphonia — a tendency to bellow and raise his voice — which was followed by the development of grunting, and a tendency to clench and grind the teeth.
Word: offscapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of offscape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: urolagnic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From urolagnia + -ic. 1. Of or relating to urolagnia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pseudophilosophical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pseudo- + philosophical. 1. Apparently, but not actually, philosophical; having pretensions to philosophy.
Word: algolagnic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From algolagnia + -ic. 1. Of or relating to algolagnia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pacings Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪsɪŋz/ 1. plural of pacing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pulsivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pulsive + -ity. 1. The quality of being pulsive. Labels: uncountable Example: Tonality or pulsivity makes a source better audible. Example: The complex connection between the two figures, the mother and the cry, is established in Duras' narratives through a certain oral pulsivity of the text.
Word: discophiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of discophile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disquaires Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disquaire Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insuccation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin insucare, insucatum (“to soak in”), from in- + succus, sucus (“sap”). Pronunciation: /ɪnsəˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. Labels: obsolete Example: The medicating and insuccation of seeds
Word: insuccations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of insuccation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diserts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disert Labels: form-of, plural
Word: distinctives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distinctive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bizantian Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of Byzantine. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: difform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French difforme, from Latin dif- = dis- + forma (“form”). Compare deform. Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɔː(ɹ)m/ 1. irregular in form; not uniform; anomalous or dissimilar Example: difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion Example: difform leaves
Word: amimia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + German Mimik (“facial expressions”) + -ia. 1. inability to express oneself using facial expressions Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
Word: amimias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amimia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amimic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + mimic. 1. unable to express oneself using gestures Labels: not-comparable Example: Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
Word: Tourettism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tourette syndrome + -ism. 1. A tic or other behaviour associated with Tourette syndrome.
Word: Tourettisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Tourettism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Touretty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Tourette syndrome + -y. 1. Of or relating to Tourette syndrome. Example: Sacks (1995) describes an actor who is violently Touretty offstage, but instantly becomes totally free of Tourettisms when in character and performing. Example: The patient observes and analyses the situation, and firmly identifies with the Touretty state as being natural to him, and also the source of his vivacity.
Word: Tourettic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Tourette syndrome + -ic. 1. Of or relating to Tourette syndrome. Example: In addition to these Tourettic surgeons, I now know of three Tourettic internists, two Tourettic neurologists, but only one Tourettic psychiatrist.
Word: Tourettish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Tourette syndrome + -ish. 1. Of or relating to Tourette syndrome. Example: She readily accommodates Tourettish excitement, finding room for it in the outskirts of a commodious personality, and even gaining a certain advantage and pleasure from the extraordinary swiftness of thought and invention which goes with it.
Word: tuberculoma Part of Speech: noun 1. A lesion associated with tuberculosis. Example: […] a famous case, in the 1890s, in which the development of a one-sided Parkinsonism was correlated with the growth of a tuberculoma of one cerebral peduncle […]
Word: tuberculomas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tuberculoma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tuberculomata Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tuberculoma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gegenhalten Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Gegenhalten. 1. paratonia Labels: uncountable
Word: neurocysticercosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neuro- + cysticercosis. Pronunciation: /ˌn(j)ʊəɹəˌsɪstɪsɜː(ɹ)ˈkəʊsɪs/ 1. The presence of larval cysts of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, in the parenchyma of the brain, often associated with seizures and sometimes fatal. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: neurocysticercotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neurocysticerc(osis) + -otic. 1. Relating to, or afflicted with, neurocysticercosis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hypophonia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypo- + -phonia. 1. The condition of having a quiet voice; inability to speak loudly. Labels: uncountable Example: She would have to make a notable effort to speak, but the effort notwithstanding she would speak a whisper quite different in quality from the hypophonia she had shown in her pre-DOPA days.
Word: wake up and die right Part of Speech: phrase 1. Get a grip. Labels: informal Example: “Christ Almighty, yes, Floyd!” Hank turned on Evenwrite, relieved in a way to have someone to shout at again. “Sure I can sell lumber. But wake up and die right! use your damn head! Look!” Example: We think it’s about time for the hypocritical members of the parent-teacher click responsible for obsolete standards and regulations to wake up and die right!
Word: wheelswarf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wheel + swarf. 1. swarf (grit worn away by grinding) Labels: uncountable
Word: why and wherefore Part of Speech: noun 1. A full and complete explanation. Example: Never mind the why and wherefore, / Love can level ranks, and therefore, / Though his lordship's station's mighty / Though stupendous be his brain. Example: Bursting into the kirk she called the office-bearers to her assistance, whereupon the minister in miniature raised his voice and demanded the why and wherefore of the ungodly disturbance.
Word: rupturewort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rupture + wort. Possibly related to the taxonomic name Herniaria, which is based on Latin hernia (whence English hernia), a condition where part of the body abnormally extrudes into another part, thus causing a rupture. 1. A plant of the genus Herniaria, especially Herniaria glabra, formerly used in the treatment of hernia and for other medicinal purposes. 2. A West Indian plant (Alternanthera sessilis, syn. Alternanthera polygonoides), somewhat resembling burstwort.
Word: ruptureworts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rupturewort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: homotaxis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From homo- + taxis. 1. Similarity in formation of parts. Labels: uncountable 2. Similarity in the lithostratigraphic or biostratigraphic vertical sequence of rock strata in different locations that are not necessarily similar in age. Labels: uncountable
Word: haemad Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From haema- + -ad. Pronunciation: /ˈhiːmæd/ 1. Toward the haemal side. Labels: archaic
Word: suberone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From suberic + -one. 1. cycloheptanone
Word: suberones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suberone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: purpureo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Latin purpureus (“purple”). 1. purple; used to designate certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds Labels: morpheme
Word: interluency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin interluens, present participle of interluere (“to flow between”), from inter + luere. 1. A flowing between; intervening water. Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: those parts of Asia and America which are now disjoyned by the interluency of the Sea
Word: pignoration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pignorātio, pignerātio, derivation of pignerāre (“to pledge”), derivation of pignus, genitive pignoris, pigneris (“a pledge, a pawn”). Compare French pignoration. 1. The act of pledging or pawning. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, until compensation is made Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pignorations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pignoration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pinkroot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pink + root. 1. A perennial North American herb (Spigelia marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia anthelmia). Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The root of Spigelia marilandica or Spigelia anthelmia, used as a powerful vermifuge. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: pinkroots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pinkroot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wormgrass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From worm + grass, from its use as an anthelminthic. 1. Spigelia marilandica, the pinkroot. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: assoilment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From assoil + -ment. 1. Act of soiling (defilement) Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: assoilment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From assoil + -ment. 1. Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: assoilments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of assoilment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: councilist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From council + -ist. 1. One who belongs to a council; one who gives an opinion. Labels: obsolete Example: I will in three months be an expert Counceliſt. 2. A communist who advocates workers' councils
Word: councilists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of councilist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: praezygapophyses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of praezygapophysis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: praezygapophysis Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of prezygapophysis. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: caviar to the general Part of Speech: noun 1. Something of quality unbefitting to those who possess it. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable
Word: Hathor Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἅθωρ (Háthōr), from Egyptian ḥwt-ḥr O10-C9. 1. The goddess of joy, love, and motherhood; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ra/Horus; often depicted as having a cow's head. Labels: Egyptian
Word: hypalgesia Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hypoalgesia. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: Bastet Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Egyptian bꜣstjt (“Bastet”, literally “she of the ointment jar”). 1. The goddess of the sun and the moon, of cats, and Lower Egypt; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah, often depicted as having a she-cat's head. Labels: Egyptian
Word: hypalgesic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of hypoalgesic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hypalgesias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hypalgesia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sekhmet Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Egyptian sḫmt (“Sekhmet”), in turn from sḫm (“to have control”) (compare sḫm jb (“violent”)). 1. The goddess of death, war, violence, plague, and medicine; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah; depicted as having the head of a lioness. Labels: Egyptian
Word: foulder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fouldre (“lightning”), from Old French foudre also fouldre (modern French foudre), from Latin fulgur. See fulgor. Pronunciation: /ˈfoʊldə(ɹ)/ 1. To flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder. Labels: obsolete Example: flames of fouldring heat
Word: fouldering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of foulder Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: thrack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *threkken, thrucchen, from Old English þryccan (“to press, oppress, afflict”). More at thrutch. Pronunciation: /θɹæk/ 1. To load or burden. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: But certainly we shall one day find , that the strait gate is too narrow for any man to come bustling in , thrack'd with great possessions, and greater corruptions
Word: thracked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of thrack Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: thracking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of thrack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: thracks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of thrack Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: capitellate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin capitellātus, from capitellum + -ātus, diminutive of caput (“head”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. Having a very small knob-like termination, or collected into minute capitula. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pewtery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pewter + -y. 1. Of or resembling pewter. Example: a pewtery taste Example: pewtery color
Word: exesion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin exedere, exesum (“to eat up”), from ex (“out”) + edere (“to eat”). Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈziːʒən/ 1. The act of eating, or corroding, out or through. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: he denieth the exesion or forcing through the belly
Word: exesions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exesion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ambustion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ambustio. 1. A burn or scald. Labels: obsolete Example: I have found it very commodious in Ambustion, scaldings, burnings
Word: ambustions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ambustion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nearfield Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of near-field. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nearfield Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of near-field. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nearfields Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nearfield Labels: form-of, plural
Word: endorhiza Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From endo- + Ancient Greek ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”). So called because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo. 1. monocotyledon; monocot. Labels: archaic
Word: endorhizae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of endorhiza Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preach to deaf ears Part of Speech: verb 1. To attempt to persuade a party that does not wish to listen or cannot be altered in its conviction. Labels: idiomatic Example: Roosevelt was tired of preaching to deaf ears. He was ready to try something else.
Word: psychomological Part of Speech: adj 1. psychological. Labels: US, humorous, not-comparable, slang Example: Hmmm, maybe I could get....hmmm, not sure how I'm going to get gradual light changes for the little girls....hmmm...m-u-s-t m-a-k-e b-r-a-i-n w-o-r-k!! B-u-t i-t'-s t-o-o-o h-a-r-d!!! gasp!!!! gasp!!! -Emily Just a girl with her fair share of psychomological problems! Example: I agree with Paul about the psychomological advantages of having a warm drink to hand and would suggest that the OP try to find room in his pack for a flask.
Word: metrotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, metro- + -tomy; compare French métrotomie. 1. Synonym of hysterotomy.
Word: bernouse Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of burnoose. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bernouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bernouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: assithment Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of assythment. Labels: alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable
Word: attabal Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of atabal. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: attabals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of attabal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sideromancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sidero- + -mancy. 1. divination by studying the burning of straws on heated iron. Labels: uncountable
Word: cornamute Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of cornemuse. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: cornamutes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cornamute Labels: form-of, plural
Word: porrection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin porrēctiō, from porrēctus, past participle of porrigō. Compare French porrection. By surface analysis, porrect + -tion. Pronunciation: /pɔˈɹɛkʃən/ 1. The act of stretching forth, or holding forward, as if offering. Labels: archaic Example: The two flaps on the free end of the underlip clasp little clusters of pollen grains between them and grind them behind by quick alternate porrections and retractions
Word: porrections Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of porrection Labels: form-of, plural
Word: talk over someone's head Part of Speech: verb 1. To communicate something beyond the level of comprehension of the target. Labels: idiomatic Example: NASA was often accused of talking over the public's head.
Word: excarnificate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin ex (“out”) + carnificatus, past participle carnificare (“to carnify”). Compare Latin excarnificare (“to tear to pieces, torment”). See carnify. 1. To strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: VVhat ſhall vve ſay to the multitudes of thoſe that are thus martyred, […] VVhat are to the racking and excarnificating their bodies, before this laſt puniſhment?
Word: excarnificated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of excarnificate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: excarnificates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of excarnificate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: excarnificating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of excarnificate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: surcharger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From surcharge + -er. 1. Someone who surcharges.
Word: surchargers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of surcharger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sanable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sanabilis, from sanare (“to heal”), from sanus (“sound, healthy”). See sane. 1. Capable of being healed or cured; remediable. Example: sanable grief Example: sanable injury
Word: refrication Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin refricare to rub again. 1. A rubbing up afresh; a brightening. Labels: nonce-word, obsolete, uncountable Example: A continual refrication of the memory.
Word: columbic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From columbo + -ic + acid. 1. niobic acid Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: gournet Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of gurnard. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: gournets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gournet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spiring Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/, /ˈspaɪəɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of spire Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: spiring grass Example: Too much heat is often given to seedlings, when raised in a hotbed or greenhouse; and the plants become spiring and weakly, in lieu of being short stemmed^([sic]) and strong.
Word: Alcoranic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Alcoran + -ic. 1. Of or relating to the Qur'an; qur'anic. Labels: dated
Word: Quranically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Quranic + -ally. 1. In terms of, or in the context of, the Qur'an. Example: The Quran modified this system by introducing the golden rule of inheritance, the primacy of distribution of certain fixed shares to several categories of Quranically designated heirs comprised mainly of the nearest female relatives […] Example: In his study of memory skills in Moroccan children, Wagner (1978) found no differences between unschooled and Quranically schooled children on most tasks.
Word: propagable Part of Speech: adj 1. Capable of being propagated.
Word: sexavalent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sexa- + -valent. Piecewise doublet of hexavalent. 1. Synonym of hexavalent. Labels: not-comparable
Word: famble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly related to fumble. Pronunciation: /ˈfæmbəl/ 1. A hand. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: We clap our fambles. Example: A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."
Word: famble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English falmelen. Pronunciation: /ˈfæmbəl/ 1. To stammer. Labels: obsolete Example: “Stow that, Jem, if you please, ” said Gemman Joe, as he had been called by his comrade.— "Toggery is too apt to tell tales. I won't have a rag of it fambled. It's a prime job for us already, for we are to touch. five-and-twenty guineas a-piece, you know, for doing his business, and we don't get such a grab as that every day." Example: Destiny, it might be said, simply opened its mouth to speak and, for reasons no one really knew, fambled to a halt.
Word: fambles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of famble Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paratonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From para- + tonic. In specific use in the medical sense, after French paratonique. In the botanical sense, after German paratonisch. 1. Relating to paratonia. Example: A primary symptom in Parkinsonism, but also manifest at higher levels, as gegenhalten (paratonic rigidity), catatonic rigidity, hysterical rigidity, and neurotic rigidities and obstinacies. 2. Retarding a plant's growth. 3. Relating to paratones.
Word: tryptich Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of triptych. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: verbigerations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of verbigeration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: verbigerative Part of Speech: adj 1. relating to, or exhibiting, verbigeration.
Word: verbigerate Part of Speech: verb 1. To repeat meaningless words and phrases, especially as a symptom of mental illness. Labels: intransitive 2. To talk; to chat. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: verbigerated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of verbigerate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: verbigerates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of verbigerate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: verbigerating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of verbigerate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: myokymic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From myokymia + -ic. 1. Relating to myokymia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: myokymia Part of Speech: noun 1. An involuntary spontaneous quivering of part of a muscle, insufficient to move a joint. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: myokymias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of myokymia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contractured Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From contracture + -ed. 1. deformed by contracture
Word: palipraxia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pali- + -praxia. 1. A repetitive complex movement; hyperkinesis. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: palipraxias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of palipraxia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aphrenia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + phreno- + -ia. 1. stoppage of thought; inability to think Labels: uncountable
Word: phonatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to phonation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Anglified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of Anglify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Anglifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of Anglify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Anglify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin Anglus (“Englishman”) + -ify. 1. To convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise. Labels: transitive Example: Why should Pennsylvania […] become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion? Example: Englishmen speak to their servants in French, and the shops are all French; indeed I should think that Calais or Boulogne was much more Anglified
Word: Anglifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of Anglify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: postscutella Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of postscutellum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: postscutellum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From post- + scutellum. 1. The hindmost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.
Word: pibcorn Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of pibgorn.
Word: pibcorns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pibcorn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: succulous Part of Speech: adj 1. succulent; juicy Labels: obsolete
Word: pieshops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pieshop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cornish fairings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Cornish fairing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stubbedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stubbed + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being stubbed, or short and truncated. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: Now, by examining this figure, it will be seen that the cutting edge, A, when pushed forward, will work more like a scraper than a cutter, owing to its stubbedness, and that in fact the back of the basil—i. e., the bevel of the iron at B—pressed against the wood at the back of the cutter, thus preventing it from performing its proper duties.
Word: drightens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drighten Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tritical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Formed from trite, in imitation of critical. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪtɪkəl/ 1. trite Labels: obsolete Example: his conjectures often betray a want either of discernment or of experience; and he appears, from a tritical philosophy, to have carried his uncommon credulity, and a peculiar propensity to the marvellous, into our British, Roman, and Dano-Saxon Archaeology.
Word: tetanin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tetanus + -in? 1. A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth by a microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus. Labels: uncountable
Word: disulphuric acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + sulphuric + acid. 1. A thick oily liquid, H₂S₂O₇.
Word: by-rooms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of by-room Labels: form-of, plural
Word: afterling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English afterling. Cognate with Scots afterling, efterling (“afterling”, adjective). By surface analysis, after + -ling. 1. One who comes after or later; an aftercomer; one who is late. Labels: rare Example: Lange terms him "an afterling of the speculative Romanticism," and it seems clear that he is connected with the Hegelian Right and even with Schelling. Example: [...] of fair probability, or unclouded possibility, he is not, in fair judgment justly subject to abuse or censure by some afterling, building upon his work, who happens to discover documents which he believes are unknown to the Colonel.
Word: afterling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English afterling. Cognate with Scots afterling, efterling (“afterling”, adjective). By surface analysis, after + -ling. 1. Coming after; later; subsequent; of later date; late in order of time or succession. Labels: Scotland, rare Example: "That Heresie, whose afterling entry falling out in the dreg of all tymes doth render it suspect."
Word: afterlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of afterling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: walk-ons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of walk-on Labels: form-of, plural
Word: 163rd game Part of Speech: noun Etymology: One game beyond the customary length of the Major League Baseball season, 162 games. 1. A one-game playoff between two teams for a playoff spot. Example: Much to the surprise of both the Red Sox and the Yankees, the Yankees lost. The Red Sox, however, did not. ¶ As a result, baseball's two best teams would be facing each other in a 163rd game. The winner would take on the Kansas City Royals in the league championship series, the prelude to the World Series, […] Example: The win-loss percentage is simply the number of games won divided by the total number of games played (the total number of games played is 162 at the end of the regular season). If two teams are tied at the end of the regular season, a 163rd game will be scheduled to break the tie.
Word: scapus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin scapus (“shaft”). 1. A scape. 2. The shaft of a column.
Word: Mizo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Mizo mizo. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪzoʊ/ 1. Someone from Mizoram.
Word: Mizo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Mizo mizo. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪzoʊ/ 1. A language spoken in India, especially Mizoram, and adjoining parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Word: dis legomenon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δὶς λεγόμενον (dìs legómenon, “(something) said only twice”), from δίς (dís, “twice, doubly, again”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō). 1. A word that occurs only twice in a given corpus. Example: Beyond [violenza's] dis legomenon (two appearances) in Inferno 11, and its hapax legomenon ... in Inferno 12 and 29, the word ... seems to have exhausted its impact[.]
Word: dis legomena Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dis legomenon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: somnambulic Part of Speech: adj 1. related to somnambulism, walking in sleep Example: somnambulic consciousness Example: somnambulic adventures
Word: sentisection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sentire (“to feel”) + English section. 1. painful vivisection, without the use of anesthetic Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually Example: The two kinds of vivisection, sentisection and callisection
Word: dichroiscope Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of dichroscope. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: dichroiscopes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dichroiscope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Dacotah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Dakota. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Dacotahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Dacotah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Dacota Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Dakota. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Dacotas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Dacota Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gorebill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gore, gare (“spear”) + bill. More at gar. 1. The garfish. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal
Word: gorebills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gorebill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enterography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From entero- + -graphy. 1. Radiography of the intestines, usually contrast radiography. Labels: uncountable 2. The scientific description of the intestines; enterology. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: sclerogenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sclero- + -genous. 1. Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard. Example: sclerogenous cell Example: Their centre is porous, as may be seen if the colouring matter with which they are usually filled be removed, the pores pasing through the very thick layers of sclerogenous deposits, and communicating with the contiguous cells. 2. Characterized by or causing a hardening of tissue. Example: sclerogenous hepatitis Example: This method, founded as everyone knows upon the irritant and sclerogenous properties of zinc chlorid, presents the inconvenience of being applicable only to superficial tumors and may set up lesions from irritation more or less distant from the cancer area
Word: pseudonavicula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”). See navicular. 1. One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of gregarines and some other Protozoa.
Word: pseudonaviculas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pseudonavicula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photozincographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From photo- + zincographic. 1. Of or relating to photozincography.
Word: apophlegmatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From apo- + phlegmatic. 1. Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from the mouth or nostrils. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: apophlegmatic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From apo- + phlegmatic. 1. Any apophlegmatic medicine. Labels: obsolete
Word: apophlegmatics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apophlegmatic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: santoninic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. An acid obtained from santonin. Labels: uncountable
Word: CISPA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: deciduate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From decidua + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪdʒʊət/ 1. Having, or characterized by, a decidua. Labels: not-comparable Example: deciduate placenta
Word: deciduate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to decidua + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪdʒʊət/ 1. An animal that sheds a decidua. Example: In the non-deciduates this relation is one of simple contact; but this same relation has been likewise observed in mammiferous deciduates, whether they have the zonarial or the discoidal form of placenta. Example: Still more characteristic of the deciduates is the peculiar and very intimate connection between the chorion frondosum and the corresponding part of the mucous coat of the womb, which we must regard as a real coalescence of the two.
Word: deciduate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From decidua + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪdʒʊət/ 1. To shed or release (a part of itself). Example: In favorable situations, the shrub carries leaves throughout the year, but more often it largely deciduates in the spring dry season . Example: When it rains, it deciduates its tart perfume and breathes it through the house. 2. To be shed or released from what (the subject) was originally part of. Example: The Pythagorean Monad was not, therefore,to his mind, an abstraction in which no personality inhered; but a true living God, out of which All is, and in whom All exists; the eternal Being, out of which Existence springs, and from which Life, in its individual and personal forms, deciduates. Example: It follows, therefore, that the line of demarcation between a diffused non-deciduate, and a zonary deciduate placenta, is not so sharp as has usually been supposed, but is graded over by the ruminant polycotyledonary placenta, in which the epithelial layer is the preponderating if not the only element of the mucosa which deciduates during parturition.
Word: deciduae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of decidua Labels: form-of, plural
Word: escharine Part of Speech: adj 1. Like, or pertaining to, the former genus Eschara or family Escharidae, almost all now in phylum Bryozoa, principally in suborder Flustrina.
Word: trachelorrhaphies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trachelorrhaphy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trachelorrhaphy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trachelo- (“cervix uteri”) + -rrhaphy (“suturing”). Pronunciation: /tɹækiːˈlɒɹəfɪ/, /ˌtɹakiːˈlɒɹəfi/ 1. The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus. Example: We have had recently in gynecological work several “fads.” Sims’ cervix splitting, Emmet’s operation of trachelorrhaphy, divulsion of the cervix a la Goodell, going the way of all “fads.”
Word: confirmingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From confirming + -ly. 1. So as to confirm; in a confirming manner. Example: “There's quite a variety of whales here,” Robert said. Gerd nodded confirmingly. Example: Gerald played along and said, “Hello, Barry,” and not only seized his hand but covered it confirmingly with his other hand, as if he was canvassing […]
Word: pimaric acid Part of Speech: noun 1. An acid found in galipot, derived from pine trees. It is isomeric with abietic acid. Labels: uncountable
Word: chopping block Part of Speech: noun 1. A thick wooden slab used as a cutting surface for preparing food, splitting firewood or kindling, etc. Example: Near-synonyms: butcher block, butcher's block 2. A block of wood against which a condemned person put their head prior to beheading. Labels: historical, informal 3. A dangerous or precarious situation. Labels: broadly Example: Jim really put his head on the chopping block when he started flirting with the boss's daughter. 4. A dangerous or precarious situation. Labels: broadly Example: Our team might be on the chopping block — the company seems to be finding excuses to avoid funding these operating expenses.
Word: rosinweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rosin + weed. 1. Any of various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell; for example, several species in the genus Silphium in the composite family. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rosinweeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rosinweed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rhachialgia Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of rachialgia. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pleochroic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pleo- (“more”) + -chroic (“color”). 1. Of, pertaining to, or having the property of pleochroism. Labels: not-comparable Example: pleochroic mineral Example: pleochroic crystals 2. Having various colours in the cell wall. Labels: not-comparable
Word: exinanition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin exinānitiō, from exināniō, from ex- (“out”) and ināniō (“to empty”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛɡzɪnəˈnɪʃən/ 1. An emptying; an evacuation; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation. Example: Fastings to the exinanition of spirits 2. privation; loss; destitution Labels: broadly, obsolete, rare
Word: exinanitions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exinanition Labels: form-of, plural