nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: haematic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of hematic. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: haematic Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hematic. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: spoilsmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spoilsman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bourbonism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Bourbon + -ism. 1. The principles of the supporters of the House of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: Bourbonism had dominated France for a century and a half, growing daily more arrogant, grasping, unfeeling, cruel, autocratic. Bourbonism is a constant quality in human nature. It is spawned of the possession of irresponsible power.
Word: Bourbonisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Bourbonism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seriph Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of serif. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: seriphs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seriph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ceriph Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of serif. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: 1891-1892, P. L. A. Garint, "THE FACE AND STANDARD OF TYPE", IN The Inland Printer This article advises, besides a standard of width, one of body and one of the depth of face—the last I take as meaning the distance from the top ceriph of say the lower case "m" to the bottom ceriph of the same letter.
Word: ceriphs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ceriph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bishop's length Part of Speech: noun 1. An old portrait size, measuring 58 by 94 inches. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: staggerbush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stagger + bush. 1. Any of the genus Lyonia of ericaceous flowering plants.
Word: staggerbushes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of staggerbush Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lyonia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of the genus Lyonia of staggerbushes.
Word: lyonias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lyonia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inflatability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inflate + -ability. 1. The quality of being inflatable. Labels: uncountable
Word: opisthotic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From opisth- (“posterior”) + otic (“ear”). 1. The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone. It is found in crocodiles and dinosaurs, among other species.
Word: opisthotics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opisthotic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: saccharimetrical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From saccharimetry + -ical. 1. Relating to, or measured by means of, saccharimetry. Labels: not-comparable
Word: prasoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prase + -oid. 1. Resembling prase.
Word: subhyaloid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + hyaloid. 1. Situated under the hyaloid membrane. Labels: not-comparable Example: subhyaloid hemorrhage Example: subhyaloid retinal hemorrhage
Word: salt rheum Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various cutaneous eruptions, especially eczema. Labels: US, archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: salt rheums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of salt rheum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lineature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare linear, delineate. 1. Anything having an outline. Example: There accompanied him a certeine shadowy and dark lineature.
Word: lineatures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lineature Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fangot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Italian fagotto, fangotto (“a bundle”). Compare fagot. 1. A unit formerly used for a bundle of silk, especially silk from Aleppo, of varying or unclear weight. Labels: historical, obsolete
Word: fangots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fangot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chastisable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chastise + -able. 1. Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable. Example: it would be a personal crime, chastisable in the person who had committed it
Word: opitulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin opitulatio, from opitulari (“to bring help”). Pronunciation: /oʊˌpɪt͡ʃ(j)əˈleɪʃən/, /-(j)ʊ-/ 1. The act of helping or aiding; assistance. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: for the railing of some auxiliary opitulation
Word: devotaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of devotary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: devotary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See devote, votary. 1. A votary. Labels: obsolete Example: a more famous and frequent pilgrimage of Devotaries
Word: insinuatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From insinuate + -ory. 1. Insinuative.
Word: Catonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin Catonianus. Pronunciation: /kəˈtəʊ.ni.ən/, /kəˈtoʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌkeɪˈ-/ 1. Of, pertaining to, dating back to, or resembling Cato the Elder Example: Catonian senator Example: Catonian villa 2. severe and inflexible. Example: Catonian death Example: Catonian joke
Word: Catonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin Catonianus. Pronunciation: /kəˈtəʊ.ni.ən/, /kəˈtoʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌkeɪˈ-/ 1. A soldier or supporter of Cato the Elder
Word: irradicate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + radicate. Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹædɪkeɪt/ 1. to root deeply Labels: archaic
Word: irradicated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of irradicate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: irradicates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of irradicate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: irradicating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of irradicate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: circumflection Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of circumflexion. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: circumflections Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of circumflection Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pulmograde Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin pulmo (“a lung”) + -grade (“means of locomotion”). 1. Swimming by means of jet propulsion. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: The medusae are pulmograde.
Word: cranioclasm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See cranioclast. 1. The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: cranioclasms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cranioclasm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polytechnical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From poly- + technical. 1. polytechnic Labels: not-comparable
Word: polytechnical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + technical. 1. polytechnic (educational institute) Example: By 1968 the majority of secondary polytechnicals and some of the eight-year schools had begun to do so, the figures being to some extent representative of the stage of development of the region concerned.
Word: schillerization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From schiller + -ization. 1. The act or process of producing a schiller effect in a mineral mass. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: schillerizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of schillerization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: edileship Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of aedileship. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: aedileships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aedileship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: edileships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of edileship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: predessert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + dessert. 1. A small dessert-like course served before the main dessert.
Word: predesserts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of predessert Labels: form-of, plural
Word: victory garden Part of Speech: noun 1. A kitchen garden planted in wartime to reduce the pressure on the public food supply.
Word: prestrategic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + strategic. 1. Before the onset of full strategic nuclear warfare. Labels: not-comparable
Word: costeaning Part of Speech: noun 1. A process for discovering metallic lodes by sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, so as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
Word: costeanings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of costeaning Labels: form-of, plural
Word: benty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bent + -y. 1. Abounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass. Example: benty fields 2. Resembling bent. Example: The gray benty colour of the always drenched pasture.
Word: picksies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of picksy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: picksy Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of pixie. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: ecozonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ecozone + -al. 1. Relating to an ecozone, or ecozones in general. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Périgord pie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Périgord, a geographical region, and former province of France, famed for its truffles. 1. A gourmet meat pie made with game (such as duck or partridge) and truffles. Labels: archaic
Word: Périgord pies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Périgord pie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rightways Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From right + ways. 1. In a correct or normal orientation. Labels: not-comparable Example: She leaned forward, tilted her head, as if to get a rightways look at the snapshot herself Example: Just get out of my way and I'll be rightways up and out of this cursed tunnel.
Word: rightways Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From right + ways. 1. In a normal or correct orientation. Example: Such hands could turn the unborn child rightways in the birth canal Example: When I work on it rightways up, I am conscious of the figuration. When I work on it upside down, then I'm thinking of the space 2. Rightward. Example: Conapanny did not make at once east up the hill, but led a course slanting rightways over the shoulder, descending about four o'clock into the gully on the hinder side Example: But the trees went uphill and down, turned leftways and rightways, without landmarks or anything to orient me with the tracks. 3. Rightly. Example: Now, that is a thing as I never was asked for before, and don't rightways know what it be; if it's sealing-wax, it's welcome you are
Word: misinformative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mis- + informative. Pronunciation: /mɪsɪnˈfɔːmətɪv/, /mɪsɪnˈfɔɹmətɪv/, [mɪsɪnˈfɔɹməɾɪv], /mɪsɪnˈfoːmətɪv/, [mɪsɪnˈfoːməɾɪv] 1. Providing incorrect information; misleading. Example: But if there is no reason for the view that all object-senses obtained in experience are misinformative about the world, then there is no ground for rejecting the realist concept of the world[…]
Word: begnaw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *begnawen, from Old English begnagan (“to begnaw, gnaw all over”), equivalent to be- + gnaw. Pronunciation: /bɪˈnɔː/, /bɪˈnɔ/, /bɪˈnɑ/ 1. To gnaw; to eat away at. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Example: […] that man might see, / What worm begnaws — that vital core concealing / All its vile, consumptive bane, […]
Word: begnawed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of begnaw Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: begnawing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of begnaw Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: begnaws Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of begnaw Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cerebrifugal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: cerebrum + Latin fugere (“to flee”) 1. Applied to those nerve fibers, or veins, which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards. Labels: not-comparable
Word: farcilite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From farcical + -lite, in the Latin sense of the word farce which means to stuff or to season, because the composite mineral is "stuffed" with quartz nodules. See puddingstone. Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)sɪlaɪt/ 1. Pudding stone. Labels: obsolete Example: an entire mountain of farcilite, containing flints , stuck in a quartzy basis , has been discovered there
Word: farcilites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of farcilite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supraglottic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From supra- + glottic. 1. Situated above the glottis; related to the supraglottis Labels: not-comparable
Word: extuberancies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of extuberancy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: extuberancy Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of extuberance. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: epanalepsis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin epanalepsis, from Ancient Greek ἐπανάληψις (epanálēpsis), from ἐπαναλαμβάνω (epanalambánō), from ἐπί (epí) + ἀνά (aná) + λαμβάνω (lambánō). 1. The repetition of the same word or clause after intervening matter. Labels: rhetoric, uncountable Example: Epanalepsis words will recommend The same at the beginning and the end. Example: The repetition of a word or phrase in the same sense[…]as in the epanalepsis, adds weight to the thought or idea, and increases its logical worth.
Word: landwaiter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From land + waiter. 1. A customs officer who oversaw the landing of goods, etc., from vessels. Labels: historical
Word: landwaiters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of landwaiter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spongeous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of spongious. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: [N]ature hath ſo placed the dug, that as it endeth one vvay in a ſpongeous kinde of fleſh full of ſmall pipes, and made of purpoſe to tranſmit the milke, and let it diſtill gently by many little pores and ſecret paſſages, ſo it yeeldeth a nipple in maner of a faucet, very fit and ready for the little babes mouth, about vvhich to nuzzle and nudgell vvith it[s] prety lips it taketh pleaſure, and loveth to be tugging and lugging of it; […]
Word: eartheater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earth + eater. 1. One who or that which eats earth. 2. A ibigau or great potoo (Nyctibius grandis).
Word: eartheaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eartheater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aerosiderite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aero- + siderite. 1. A siderite (mass of meteoric iron).
Word: aerosiderites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aerosiderite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: argumenta ad populum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin: argūmenta (“arguments”, “proofs”; nominative plural of argūmentum) + ad + populum (accusative singular of populus) ≈ “appeals to the people” Pronunciation: /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntə æd ˈpɒpjʊləm/ 1. plural of argumentum ad populum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: East Insular Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the East Indies; East Indian. Labels: archaic
Word: chloridate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From chloride + -ate. 1. To treat or prepare with a chloride. Labels: transitive Example: the positive photographs can be formed by transfer on the chloridated papers of a highly sensitive kind.
Word: chloridated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of chloridate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chloridates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chloridate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: chloridating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of chloridate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Meibomian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Meibom + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Heinrich Meibom (Meibomius; 1638–1700), German physician and scholar. Labels: not-comparable
Word: multinodular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + nodular. 1. Having multiple nodules. Labels: not-comparable
Word: chopboat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chop (“stamp, mark of quality, license”) + boat. 1. A licensed lighter (watercraft) employed in the transportation of goods to and from larger vessels. Labels: historical Example: In taking in cargo, the receiving officer should not be interrupted, for he has need of all his carefulness to see that the coolies in the chopboat do not slily pass up a chest with two tallies stuck in it, or slip a package off sideways from the board
Word: chopboats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chopboat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phenolated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From phenol + -ated. 1. Treated with phenol 2. Reacted with a phenol or phenolate
Word: ecbole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκβολή (ekbolḗ, “a digression”), from ἐκβάλλω (ekbállō, “to throw out”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛkbəliː/ 1. A digression, (especially) one in which a person is introduced speaking his or her own words. Labels: countable, rare, rhetoric, uncountable 2. The raising or sharping of a tone, especially (historical) in relation to Ancient Greek music. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ecbole: a […] change in the enharmonic genus, by the accidental elevation of a chord, or string, five dieses above its ordinary pitch.
Word: ecboles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ecbole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: viroidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From viroid + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to a viroid Labels: not-comparable
Word: exclamative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare French exclamatif. 1. In the form of an exclamation; exclamatory. Example: This was the admirative or exclamative power, like the French quel, quelle!
Word: exclamative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French exclamatif. 1. A clause type used to make an exclamation, such as "What a mess they made!" or "How stupid I was!" 2. Ellipsis of exclamative marker. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: brassart Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɹəˈsɑɹt/, /ˈbɹæs.ɑɹt/ 1. Alternative form of brassard. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Itobad, always surprised at the disgraces that happened to such a man as he, was obliged to yield to Zadig, who took from him with great composure his magnificent helmet, his superb cuirass, his fine brassarts, his shining cuishes […] Example: […] cross-bow glanced away from the well rivetted plates, and the stroke of the sword rang harmlessly upon the helmet, the brassarts and the cuisses of proof. While infantry were powerless and destitute of physical solidity […]
Word: brassarts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brassart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pilular Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to pills. 2. Resembling a pill or pills. Example: a pilular mass
Word: volutation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin volutatio, from volutare (“to roll, wallow”), verb frequentative volvere, volutum (“to roll”). 1. A circular movement; a rolling, wallowing, circulation or rotation. Labels: obsolete Example: But, yet He hath left us rather a Confusion, than logical Discrimination of the species of Violent motion; for, Collision and Pulsion are one and the same thing; and Vection may be performed either by Pulsion or Traction, insomuch as the thing movent doth not forsake the thing pulsed, or drawn, but constantly adhæreth unto it; and as for Volutation; it is both Pulsion and Traction at once, as may be easily conceived by any man who seriously considers the manner thereof. Example: For ſphærical bodies move by fives, and every globular figure placed upon a plane, in direct volutation, returns to the firſt point of contaction in the firſt touch, accounting by the Axes of the Diameters or Cardinall points of the four quarters thereof.
Word: volutations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of volutation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semiflexed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + flexed. 1. Half bent. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cheliped Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cheli- + -ped. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːlɪpɛd/ 1. A leg bearing a chela, or pincer-like claw.
Word: chelipeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cheliped Labels: form-of, plural
Word: figaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of figary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: figary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By sound change from vagary. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪɡəɹi/ 1. A whim or eccentricity. Example: is she not a woman, and subject to those mad figaries her whole sex is infected with? Example: These women think that all the business of the world must stand still for their figaries (a good female word, Jack!) […].
Word: unwonder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + wonder. 1. To divest of wonder or mystery, as by interpreting or explaining. Labels: transitive Example: Unwonder me this wonder
Word: unwonder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + wonder. 1. a lack of wonder; something not wonderful
Word: unwondered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unwonder Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unwondering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unwonder Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unwondering Part of Speech: adj 1. Without wonder. Example: gazing with unwondering eyes
Word: unwonders Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unwonder Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: conchospiral Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Example: the constant angle according to which each traces its conchospiral.
Word: conchospirals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of conchospiral Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wonderless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wonder + -less. 1. Devoid of wonder. Example: But if we inhabited such a world, men themselves would have been wonderless things, unable ever to spin myths.
Word: photogenicism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photogenic + -ism. 1. The condition of being photogenic. Labels: informal, rare, uncountable
Word: chylopoetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chylo- + -poetic, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “juice of an animal”) + ποιητικός (poiētikós, “making, producing”). 1. Involved in the formation of chyle; chyle-producing. Labels: not-comparable Example: the chylopoetic organs
Word: sanguineless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sanguine + -less. 1. destitute of blood; pale Labels: archaic, rare
Word: crippleness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cripple + -ness. 1. lameness Labels: uncountable
Word: stenophyllous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From steno- + phyllous. 1. Having narrow leaves.
Word: demurity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From demure + -ity. Pronunciation: /dɪˈmjʊəɹɪti/ 1. The state or quality of being demure; demureness. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: of late they pretend to ſuch Demurity as to form a Society for the Regulation of Manners
Word: sightfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sightful + -ness. 1. The state of being sightful; perspicuity. Labels: uncountable Example: Let vs not wincke, thoughe voyde of pureſt ſightfullnes. Example: It makes sense, then, to reconsider nostalgia not as blindness but as sightfulness
Word: dick cheese Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dickcheese. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: metanephroi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metanephros Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metanephros Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meta- + nephros. 1. The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.
Word: metanephroses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metanephros Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retroperistaltic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From retro- + peristaltic. 1. Relating to retroperistalsis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: interprofessional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + professional. 1. Between professionals. Labels: not-comparable Example: interprofessional collaboration
Word: interparoxysmal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + paroxysmal. 1. Between paroxysms. Labels: not-comparable
Word: intervaginal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + vaginal. 1. Between vaginae or sheaths. Labels: not-comparable Example: Health authorities in The Gambia are raising alarm over a growing practice among women involving the intravaginal use of a local powdered tobacco called “taba” or “tabaa.”
Word: intervenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + venous. 1. Between veins. Labels: not-comparable Example: intervenous yellowing in leaves
Word: intercoccygeal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + coccygeal. 1. Between segments of the coccyx. Labels: not-comparable
Word: interbrain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inter- + brain. 1. The diencephalon.
Word: interbrains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of interbrain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intergemmal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + gemmal. 1. Between gemmae. Labels: not-comparable
Word: intercuspal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + cuspal. 1. Between cusps. Labels: not-comparable
Word: interwave Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + wave. 1. Between waves. Labels: not-comparable Example: interwave latency
Word: cuspal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cusp + -al. 1. Relating to a cusp or cusps. Labels: not-comparable
Word: interdigit Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + digit. 1. Between digits (as when dialling a number) Labels: not-comparable
Word: interdigit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inter- + digit. 1. The area of a hand or foot between adjacent fingers or toes
Word: interbud Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + bud. 1. Between buds. Labels: not-comparable Example: interbud compartments
Word: nonbudding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + budding. 1. That does not bud. Labels: not-comparable Example: nonbudding hydra
Word: intercapillary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + capillary. 1. Between capillaries. Labels: not-comparable Example: intercapillary connective tissue
Word: intergene Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + gene. 1. Between genes. Labels: not-comparable Example: an intergene region of viral genome
Word: dorsiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dorsi- + -ferous; compare French dorsifère. 1. Bearing, or producing seeds on the back of the leaf. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: dorsiferous ferns
Word: palpebrate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin palpebratus (“eyebrowed”), from Latin palpebra (“an eyelid”) + -atus. 1. Pertaining to the eyelids. Labels: not-comparable Example: Lateral canthoplasty to reduce the size of the palpebrate fissure. Example: These data have encouraged us to apply some of the procedures used for correcting blepharoespasm(10,11,12) to palpebrate aesthetic surgery, by changing some of the existing techniques, moderately resecting the orbicular muscle on the external lateral portion of the palpebral commissure, attenuating its contraction, and thus diminishing skin wrinkles at this site ("crow's feet").
Word: palpebrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From New Latin palpebratus (“eyebrowed”), from Latin palpebra (“an eyelid”) + -atus. 1. To wink or blink. Labels: rare Example: Without your eyelid, you could not palpebrate. Example: Respiratory viruses damage palpebrating epithelium of mucous membrane of the respiratory tract,
Word: gemmal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gemma + -al. 1. Of or relating to gemmae. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Sofism Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Sufism. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: prioritizable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prioritize + -able. 1. Capable of being prioritized. Labels: not-comparable
Word: phantasmascope Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of phantascope. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: phantasmascopes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phantasmascope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deposal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From depose + -al. 1. The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: deposals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deposal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: couzeranite Part of Speech: noun 1. A scapolite mineral. Labels: uncountable
Word: dipyre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”); so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it and rendering it phosphorescent. 1. A type of scapolite (mineral).
Word: dipyres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dipyre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: painture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English peynture, from Old French peinture, from Late Latin *pinctūra; by surface analysis, paint + -ure. See paint and compare picture. 1. The art of painting. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: To the next realm she stretched her sway, For Painture I near adjoining lay 2. A painting. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.
Word: saxicavous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin saxum (“rock”) + cavare (“to make hollow”), from cavus (“hollow”): compare French saxicave. 1. Boring or hollowing out rocks. Labels: not-comparable Example: a saxicavous mollusk
Word: pamperingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From pampering + -ly. 1. So as to pamper; with indulgent attentions. Example: Now Joseph, like the psalmist, was profane enough to find a divinity in his digestive organs; and it was only natural that she who tended so pamperingly what was his god, should become his goddess.
Word: conyrine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From conine. 1. A fluorescent blue oily base obtained from coniine, regarded as a derivative of pyridine. Labels: uncountable
Word: camphogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From camphor + -gen, formerly so called as derived from camphor. Compare French camphogène. 1. cymene, or (possibly) similar compounds Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: preservatories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preservatory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preservatory Part of Speech: noun 1. A preservative. Labels: obsolete Example: How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […] 2. A room or apparatus in which perishable things can be preserved without decay. Labels: obsolete
Word: preservatory Part of Speech: adj 1. preservative Example: But, all this while, the intentions and endeavours must be no other than preservatory; however it pleaseth God to order the events
Word: preopercular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + opercular. 1. Situated in front of the operculum. Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to the preoperculum. Labels: not-comparable
Word: preopercular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + opercular. 1. The preoperculum.
Word: preoperculars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preopercular Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of stevedore. Pronunciation: /stiːv/ 1. To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.
Word: steve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Decapitalization of STEVE. Pronunciation: /stiːv/ 1. Alternative form of STEVE. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: steved Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of steve Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: steves Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of steve Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: steves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of steve Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of steve Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: linguidental Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of linguadental. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: linguidentals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of linguidental Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ticktack Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of backgammon played with both men and pegs. Labels: uncountable Example: And that those pretended Tumults were chastiz'd by thir own Army for new Tumults, is not prov'd by a Game at Tictack with words
Word: ticktack Part of Speech: intj 1. Dated form of tick tock. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: A wild young fellow coming home late one night, heard, while he was putting the key into the lock, something on the ground that continually went ticktack, ticktack, ticktack. Stooping down he found it was a silver watch[…] Example: Damn the thing, why didn't it stop – with its monotonous ticktack; ticktack; ticktack – he could feel it inside his head where it seemed to strike innumerable little blows, on a strained chord it was bent on snapping.
Word: ticktack Part of Speech: noun 1. A repeated ticking noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
Word: ticktack Part of Speech: verb 1. To make that kind of noise. Labels: intransitive 2. To play a prank that involves making noise outside a person's house by various means. Labels: Canada, US, transitive
Word: mercar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mercall. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: unscalped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + scalped. 1. Not scalped. Labels: not-comparable Example: unscalped ore
Word: microcrith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + crith. 1. The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements. Labels: obsolete Example: An atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. Example: 1872, Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.), Principles of Chemical Philosophy It will perhaps serve to give greater definiteness to our conceptions if , even at the risk of coining a new word , we call the unit of molecular weights a microcrith .
Word: microcriths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microcrith Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tick tack Part of Speech: noun 1. The sound of repeated tapping, knocking, or clicking. Labels: countable, onomatopoeic, uncountable Example: But come to the clock, Mary. Remember, our lives are short, and they contain only a certain number of "tick tacks;" we cannot, therefore, afford to waste them. Example: Nancy took Tacoma to a cow. Nancy went in first and cut his bag full. He told Tacoma not to cut the thing that went "tick, tack," but Tacoma cut it and the cow fell down dead. 2. A device used to tap on a window or door from a distance. Labels: countable Example: I got me a hammer and nails with the heavy lead sinker offen my fishnet, and it wasn't long before the finest tick-tack you ever saw was working against the Spiegelnails' parlor window, with me in a lilac-bush operating the string that kept the weight a-swinging. 3. Alternative form of tic-tac, a sign language used by bookmakers. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: traveler's diarrhea Part of Speech: noun 1. Diarrhea contracted by someone visiting from another country or region via food or water contaminated with microbes to which their gut microbiota is unaccustomed. Labels: uncountable Example: Contaminated salads remain the most common cause of traveler's diarrhea in countries where the climate is hot.
Word: cottised Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cottise + -ed. 1. Set between two thin lines (cottises). Labels: not-comparable
Word: bubble gums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bubble gum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hoddengray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps related to English hoiden (“rustic, clownish”) and gray. 1. A coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scottish peasants. Labels: Scotland, archaic, uncountable Example: coat/suit of hoddengray
Word: overperch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + perch. 1. To perch upon; to fly over. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls 2. To tower over
Word: overperched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overperch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overperches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overperch Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overperching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overperch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Panslavonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pan- + Slavonian. Pronunciation: /ˌpæn.sləˈvəʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌpæn.sləˈvoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. Panslavic Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: chauldron Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of chawdron. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: chauldrons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chauldron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ex-voto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ex (“out of, in accordance with”) + voto, ablative of votum (“a vow”). 1. An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.
Word: ex-votos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ex-voto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pressurage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French 1. pressure Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A fee paid for the use of a winepress. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: pressurages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pressurage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Egean Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Aegean. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: discous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin discus (“disk”). See disk. 1. Like a disk/disc 2. discoid.
Word: monoptote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin monoptotum, from Ancient Greek μονόπτωτος (monóptōtos). 1. A noun which only occurs in one case. Labels: obsolete Example: A noun which is found in one case only, is called a Monoptote; if found in two cases, a Diptote; if in three, a Triptote; if in four, a Tetraptote; and if in five, a Pentaptote. Example: What is meant by monoptote, diptote, and triptote nouns? Give examples. A monoptote is a noun which has only one case, as natu; a diptote two, as fors, forte; a triptote three, as opis, opem, ope.
Word: monoptotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monoptote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypocleidia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hypocleidium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypocleidium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypo- + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “clavicle”) + -ium. 1. A median process on the furculum of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.
Word: playgame Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From play + game. Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪɡeɪm/ 1. The play of children. Labels: archaic Example: And it is that liberty alone, which gives the true relish and delight to their ordinary play-games. Example: Then fall they to cry, to weep, and to torment themselves, as little children that have lost their playgame.
Word: pedestrial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin pedester, -esteris, from pes, pedis (“a foot”). Compare French pédestere. See pedal and pedestrian. 1. Of or pertaining to the feet or walking; using or for use by the foot or feet. Labels: not-comparable Example: Having now so amply declared unto thee most of the principal things of this thrice-renowned and illustrious city, I will briefly by way of an epitome mention most of the other particulars thereof, and so finally shut up this narration: there are reported to be in Venice and the circumjacent islands two hundred churches in which are one hundred forth-three pairs of organs, fifty-four monasteries, twenty-six nunneries, fifty-six tribunals or places of judgment, seventeen hospitals, six companies or fraternities, whereof I have before spoken; one hundred and sixty-five marble statues of worthy personages, partly equestrial, partly pedestrial, which are erected in sundry places of the city, to the honour of those that either at home have prudently administered the commonweal, or abroad valiantly fought for the same. Example: The curtains were closely drawn round the bed, but two bony, spindle shanks, terminating in a pedestrial form, protruded from beneath the drapery, an indication that the meagre little figure of the old lady was about to descend to the floor. 2. Unenthusiastic; tepid. Labels: not-comparable Example: But it is also an interesting contribution to the technical literature about Dewey, for it is no pedestrial summary of the views about to be presented in extenso in the text, but a vigorous and enthusiastic exposition and defense of the thesis: "With respect to some specific problems, alternative solutions are possible, but with respect to the basic problem of scientific method there is no valid alternative to Dewey's solution." Example: For a government which contemplated Ethiopia's "blow up" for at least some ten years and had put a high premium on maintaining "good relations with the Emperor," Washington's pedestrial reaction to the fall of Haile Sellassie shows, among other things, how untroubled it was by the revolutionary developments in Ethiopia. 3. Unoriginal and unexciting; pedestrian; tiresome. Labels: not-comparable Example: 'Imperial idol!' 'bent the knee!' damn it, my dear fellow, writing vaudevilles has ruined your style; you can't come down to pedestrial prose. Example: This one a pedestrial Western
Word: pedestrial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pedester, -esteris, from pes, pedis (“a foot”). Compare French pédestere. See pedal and pedestrian. 1. Foot. Labels: plural-normally Example: The benches on which pupils sit at these desks , as well as all benches in such houses are high and backless , consequently no soundings for feet, so that we see a swinging of pedestrials at once ridiculous and painful to behold. Example: Gathering myself on my pedestrials as quick as possible, I beheld our favorite old pet sow retreating in an opposite direction. 2. Pedestrian; person traveling on foot. Example: The duty which drivers of motor vehicles owe to pedestrials at street crossings is one which should be deeply impressed upon all drivers of automobiles and other motor vehicles in this state, if need be, by a strict, vigorous, enforcement of the law. Example: Rating scales for drivers may be obtained, and safety and courtesy as practiced by cyclists and pedestrials discussed. 3. A pedestal or short column. Example: They also manufacture all kinds of Marble work, as Mantles, Centre and Pier Tops, Counters, Facings, Hearths, Soda Founts, Urns, Pedestrials, etc., and give early and careful attention also to all orders for Monuments, Tombs and Head Stones, which they make in best style. Example: As a way of minimising the costs of replacing the destroyed signposts, the system of using signposts was discontinued and Stone pedestrials were erected.
Word: fingerbanged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of fingerbang Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: male circumcision Part of Speech: noun 1. An operation involving the surgical removal of all or most of the foreskin (prepuce) and frenulum of the male genitalia. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Coriolanian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Coriolanus + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Roman general said to have lived in the 5th century BC, famed for exceptional valour.
Word: pansexually Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From pansexual + -ly. 1. In a pansexual manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: The pansexually perverse bisexuals who cruised everybody, eliminating only the illiterate, were probably the only people there who really "got" the queerness of our party.
Word: begnawn Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of begnaw Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past Example: begnawn with the bots Example: They are as a class, dyspeptics, — begnawn by indigestion, — and they try a new kind of patent medicine every week[…]
Word: gobbety Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gobbet + -y. 1. Like gobbets; having the texture of gobbets. Example: […] that's the way the roundworm feels when a big gobbety mess of half-digested steak or moo goo gai pan comes sloshing down to him. Example: […] the pen had made a grinding sound against the bone of the old man's eyesocket when it finally let go, and there had been a loose, gobbety plopping sound as something fell from the bent tip of the pen's steel nib onto the blotter.
Word: purulently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From purulent + -ly. 1. In a purulent manner; involving, or resembling pus.
Word: Phrygians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Phrygian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phrontisteries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phrontistery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: argumentum ad fidem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin: argūmentum (“argument”, “proof”) + ad (“to”, “toward”) + fidem (accusative singular of fidēs, “faith”, “belief”) ≈ “appeal to faith” Pronunciation: /ɑɹ.ɡjuˈmɛn.təm æd ˈfɪ.dɛm/, /-tum-/, /-ˈfi.dɛm/, /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntəm æd ˈfɪdɛm/, /-ɡuː-/ 1. A fallacious argument that asserts the truth of a proposition by an appeal to pious testimony or religious revelation. Labels: rhetoric Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:argumentum ad fidem.
Word: argumenta ad fidem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin: argūmenta (“arguments”, “proofs”; nominative plural of argūmentum) + ad + fidem (accusative singular of fidēs) ≈ “appeals to faith” Pronunciation: /ɑɹ.ɡjuˈmɛn.tə æd ˈfɪ.dɛm/, /-ˈfi.dɛm/, /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntə æd ˈfɪdɛm/, /-ɡuː-/ 1. plural of argumentum ad fidem Labels: form-of, plural Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:argumenta ad fidem.
Word: make due Part of Speech: verb 1. Eggcorn of make do. Labels: Canada, US
Word: hazelwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hazel + wort. 1. asarabacca Labels: uncountable
Word: peristrephic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek περιστρέφω (peristréphō, “to turn round”). 1. Turning around; rotatory; revolving. Labels: archaic, especially, not-comparable Example: a peristrephic panorama
Word: scabredity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin scabrēdō (“roughness of the skin, scabbiness”) + -ity. 1. Roughness (of a surface). Labels: obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: concavities about the eyes, wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, næves, inequalities, roughness, scabredity, paleness, yellowness, and as many colours as are in a turkeycock's neck Example: The scabredity of the pedicels may possibly be of some mechanical assistance in the splitting of the spathe.
Word: intermean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inter- + mean. 1. Something done in the meantime; interlude. Labels: obsolete Example: The fourth Intermean after the fourth Act
Word: intermean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + mean. 1. Between mean averages. Labels: not-comparable Example: intermean distance
Word: intermeans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of intermean Labels: form-of, plural
Word: southsayer Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of soothsayer. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: southsayers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of southsayer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exostema Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Exostema. 1. Any of the flowering plant genus Exostema.
Word: exostemas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exostema Labels: form-of, plural
Word: princewood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prince + wood. 1. The wood of various rubiaceous trees, including those of species Hamelia ventricosa, Cordia gerascanthus, and Exostema caribaeum. Labels: uncountable
Word: Princetonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Princeton + -ian. Pronunciation: /pɹɪnsˈtəʊ.ni.ən/, /pɹɪnsˈtoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. A student or alumnus of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Word: Princetonians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Princetonian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unenviability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + enviability. 1. The quality of being unenviable. Labels: uncountable
Word: unenviableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unenviable + -ness. 1. The quality of being unenviable. Labels: uncountable
Word: putredinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin putredo (“rottenness”), from putrere (“to be rotten”). See putrid. 1. Resulting from putrefaction, or partaking in the putrefactive process Labels: obsolete 2. having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten. Labels: obsolete
Word: reestate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + estate. 1. To reestablish. Labels: obsolete Example: the salve is that which will free us from this horrible condition: and restore, and re-estate us into the favour of the Lord
Word: reestated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reestate Labels: form-of, participle, past