nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ear-fingers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ear-finger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ear fingers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ear finger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ogogoro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yoruba ògógóró. 1. A strong alcoholic drink of West Africa, distilled from the juice of raffia palm trees. Labels: uncountable Example: On the centre table, in front of him, there was a half-empty bottle of ogogoro, an ashtray, and a packet of cigarettes.
Word: rejiggings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rejigging Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Miniconjous Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Miniconjou Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sitzmann Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Sitzmann. 1. A surname from German.
Word: transnationalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From transnational + -ism. 1. The phenomenon, or the analytical view, that people's activities and cultures transcend national boundaries and, in at least some ways albeit not others, national sovereignty. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Support for culture or business that crosses national boundaries. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: transnationalisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transnationalism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Minkowski inequality Part of Speech: noun 1. An inequality that establishes that the Lp spaces are normed vector spaces.
Word: churrascarias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of churrascaria Labels: form-of, plural
Word: middelmannetjies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of middelmannetjie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pedelecs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pedelec Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mesohyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meso- (“middle”) + Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, timber, matter”) (whence English hyle). 1. The gelatinous matrix within a sponge, filling the space between the external pinacoderm and the internal choanoderm.
Word: mesohyls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mesohyl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: choanoderm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From choano- + -derm. 1. The inner part of a sponge's mesohyl, composed of choanocytes
Word: choanoderms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of choanoderm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skatecore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From skate + -core. 1. Synonym of skatepunk. Labels: uncountable
Word: skatepunk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From skate + punk, from its popularity among skateboarders. 1. A fast, intense, melodic form of hardcore punk music, associated with skateboarding culture. Labels: uncountable Example: Similar to how Green Day, The Offspring, and Rancid brought the early 90s punk revival to the top of alternative rock, blink-182 took skate-punk to the masses in 1999 with Enema of the State. 2. A member of the skateboarding subculture that listens to punk music. Labels: countable Example: Nothing was moving out there except falling snow, a Finch bus and insufficiently dressed skatepunks.
Word: free jazz Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of jazz music of the 1950s and 1960s that attempted to overcome existing limitations and conventions, often by discarding features such as fixed chord changes or tempos. Labels: uncountable
Word: autobiopic Part of Speech: noun 1. An autobiographical biopic. 2. A motion picture based on the life of a real person with that real person portraying himself or herself in the film.
Word: autobiopics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autobiopic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pinacocytes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pinacocyte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pizzaiolos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pizzaiolo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bismarckism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Bismarck + -ism. 1. The political ideology of Otto von Bismarck. Labels: uncountable
Word: planometrically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From planometric + -ally. 1. By means of or in terms of planometry. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pincerwise Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From pincer + -wise. 1. As if with pincers. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] we saw gannets plummet, guided by some sort of magical mud vision, and emerge with mulletlike prey held pincerwise.
Word: nyatitis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nyatiti Labels: form-of, plural
Word: popified Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From popify + -ed. 1. Converted into a popular form, such as pop music or pop art. Example: Many bands have been accused of becoming popified on signing or licensing themselves to a large company. Example: His mocking appropriation of the style is of a piece with the popified magnifications of Roy Lichtenstein's mid-60s "brushstroke" paintings[…]
Word: popified Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From popify + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of popify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Red Queen hypothesis Part of Speech: name Etymology: An allusion to a remark by the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass: Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. The hypothesis was advanced in 1973 by American biologist Leigh Van Valen, who called it the Red Queen's hypothesis. 1. An evolutionary hypothesis which proposes that organisms must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate not merely to gain reproductive advantage, but also simply to survive while pitted against other evolving organisms in an ever-changing environment. Example: Stenseth and Maynard Smith (1984) reformulated this hypothesis by including the idea of evolutionary lag and dismissing Van Valen's zero-sum assumption. They contrast the Red-Queen hypothesis with the stationary hypothesis, q.v. Hoffman and Kitchell (1984 in Lewin 1985a, 400) offer some support for the Red-Queen hypothesis. Example: We extend the Red Queen hypothesis, a mechanism proposed to maintain genetic diversity at the population level, to explain diversity at the community level.
Word: autovectors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autovector Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tick marks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tick mark Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reeflike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reef + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a reef.
Word: reefpoints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reefpoint Labels: form-of, plural
Word: globularetin Part of Speech: noun 1. A cleavage product of globularin, with purgative and diuretic properties. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: numbers station Part of Speech: noun 1. A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly of coded messages. Example: The most common numbers station features a young lady reading the numbers in Spanish. Other stations have both male and female voices reading numbers in Spanish, German, English and Chinese. So far, nobody has been able to decode any of the messages! Example: Naturally enough, no government has actually admitted to operating a numbers station, but the suspicion is there.
Word: numbers stations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of numbers station Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peaness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pea + -ness. 1. The property of being a pea comb. Labels: uncountable Example: A rose comb is therefore regarded as a single comb in which roseness is present but peaness is absent; and a pea comb is similarly a single one where peaness is present and roseness is absent.
Word: peasemeal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pease + meal. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːz.miːl/ 1. A meal (flour) produced from yellow field peas that have been roasted. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: peasemeal bannocks Example: peasemeal porridge
Word: pontil marks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pontil mark Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bioelectromagnetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bio- + electromagnetic. 1. Relating to bioelectromagnetics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: iddah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic عِدَّة (ʕidda). Pronunciation: /ˈɪdə/ 1. The period for which a woman must wait after the death of her spouse, or after a divorce, before she can remarry.
Word: iddat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of iddah. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: During the iddat, she did not sit with her head covered in a room, praying for her departed husband and observing the mandatory period of mourning.
Word: biochronologically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From biochronological + -ly. 1. In terms of, or by means of, biochronology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: biogeological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bio- + geological. 1. Relating to biogeology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: biogeologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + geologist. 1. One who studies biogeology.
Word: biogeologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biogeologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: biogeology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + geology. 1. The interdisciplinary study of the interactions between the Earth's biosphere and the lithosphere, which incorporates both biology and geology. Labels: uncountable
Word: Biot number Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862). 1. A dimensionless number used in heat transfer calculations, giving a simple index of the ratio of the heat transfer resistances inside of and at the surface of a body.
Word: cyberjournalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + journalist. 1. A journalist whose work is published on the Internet or in cyberspace.
Word: cyberjournalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyberjournalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cyberaffair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + affair. 1. An adulterous relationship that takes place over the Internet or in cyberspace.
Word: cyberaffairs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyberaffair Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cybersmut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + smut. 1. Pornographic material published on the Internet or in cyberspace. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: That was 1994. Now it's what you do on the Internet— the worldwide network of computers that in 1995 was embraced as the medium that will change the way we communicate, shop, publish and (so the cybersmut cops warned) be damned. Example: Cybersmut is just the latest pornography utility available to American homes.
Word: cyberpornography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + pornography. 1. Pornography distributed on the Internet. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: cytidylate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cytidyl + -ate. 1. cytidine monophosphate Labels: uncountable
Word: cytopenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos)lbor. English cyto- Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-der. Ancient Greek πένομαι (pénomai) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek πένης (pénēs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā) Ancient Greek πενῐ́ᾱ (penĭ́ā)bor. English -penia English cytopenia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English cytopenic From cytopenia + -ic. 1. Exhibiting or relating to cytopenia.
Word: cytoplasmatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cyto- + plasmatic. 1. Of or relating to cytoplasm Labels: not-comparable
Word: idiomere Part of Speech: noun 1. chromomere
Word: idiomeres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of idiomere Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bioyogurt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + yogurt. 1. probiotic yogurt Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bioyogurts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bioyogurt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: biophobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + -phobia. Piecewise doublet of zoophobia. 1. aversion to nature Labels: uncountable
Word: biophilosophy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + philosophy. 1. A branch of philosophy dealing with epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues in the biological and biomedical sciences. Labels: uncountable
Word: undercompensate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + compensate. 1. To underpay: to pay a lower wage or salary, or other compensation, than is warranted Labels: transitive
Word: zantedeschia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. In turn Named after Italian botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773–1846). Pronunciation: /ˌzæntəˈdɛski.ə/, /zæntəˈdɛʃi.ə/ 1. Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.
Word: zantedeschias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zantedeschia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bloodberry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blood + berry. 1. Rivina humilis, a flowering plant in the pigeonberry family (Petiveriaceae) with bright red berries.
Word: bloodberries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bloodberry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: biophobic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bio- + -phobic. 1. Relating to, or exhibiting, biophobia; having a dislike of nature.
Word: metagaming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meta- + gaming. 1. The playing of metagames. Labels: uncountable 2. The act of a roleplayer making use of knowledge that they have learned out of character (and which their character does not know) while they are in character; often considered a form of cheating. Labels: uncountable Example: Other terms are specific to the role-playing experience, such as […] 'Metagaming', in which players act on information that they, as players, know, but which their characters could not know (or have not yet learned).
Word: metagaming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From meta- + gaming. 1. present participle and gerund of metagame Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: metanalytical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From meta- + analytical. 1. Relating to metanalysis Labels: not-comparable
Word: metanalytic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From meta- + analytic. 1. Relating to metanalysis Labels: not-comparable
Word: anaprotaspides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of anaprotaspis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metaprotaspides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metaprotaspis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paraprotaspides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paraprotaspis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: puzzledness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From puzzled + -ness. 1. puzzlement; perplexity Labels: uncountable
Word: rhedariums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhedarium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rhizotrons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhizotron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Rosies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Rosie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: canary girl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Exposure to toxic TNT could turn the skin an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a canary. 1. A female worker making TNT shells during World War I. Labels: UK
Word: canary girls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of canary girl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: munitionette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From munition + -ette. Pronunciation: /mjʊnɪʃəˈnɛt/ 1. A female worker in a munitions factory, especially during the First World War. Labels: UK, colloquial, historical Example: Since they all had a slightly yellow tinge to their skin, he assumed they were munitions workers. Munitionettes, as the newspapers liked to call them.
Word: munitionettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of munitionette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roseness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rose + -ness. 1. The quality of being a rose (type of flower). Labels: uncountable Example: […] the ruling idea being that the knower cannot know the sensible things, but can only know the unchanging Forms of the things, and Plato means that there can be no rose absent roseness, for roseness makes a rose be a rose. 2. The property of being a rose comb. Labels: uncountable Example: A rose comb is therefore regarded as a single comb in which roseness is present but peaness is absent; and a pea comb is similarly a single one where peaness is present and roseness is absent.
Word: flowerness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flower + -ness. 1. The quality of being a flower. Labels: uncountable Example: The property of being the qualificand residing in a flower which is the qualificand is limited by the universal flowerness, and the property of being the qualifier residing in a red colour which is the qualifier is limited by both redness and the relation of inherence which relates a red colour to a flower.
Word: biopharmaceutic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bio- + pharmaceutic. 1. Relating to biopharmaceutics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rhandirs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhandir Labels: form-of, plural
Word: catalufa Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of three priacanthid fish: Heteropriacanthus cruentatus, Priacanthus arenatus, and Pristigenys serrula.
Word: catalufas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catalufa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cataloreactants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cataloreactant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: presettable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From preset + -able. 1. Capable of being set in advance. Labels: not-comparable Example: a presettable timer
Word: preboiled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + boiled. 1. boiled in advance Labels: not-comparable Example: preboiled tap water Example: preboiled lentils
Word: pribumi Part of Speech: noun 1. A group of people in Indonesia who share a sociocultural heritage and whose members are regarded as natives of the country. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: pretendress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pretender + -ess. 1. female pretender
Word: pretendresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pretendress Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pretarsus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + tarsus. 1. The distal segment of the leg in many insects, often including a pair of claws.
Word: pretarsi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pretarsus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kumina Part of Speech: name 1. An Afro-Jamaican religion involving music, dancing, and the practice of bringing down spirits of the dead to briefly inhabit the bodies of the faithful and share ancestral wisdom.
Word: quangoland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quango + land. 1. The world of quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations); quangos generally. Labels: derogatory, uncountable Example: On quango reform, little could be expected from Hunt, who had spent much of his Welsh time in quangoland and who had exploited the system for all it was worth, since Wales returned only six Conservative MPs. Example: The netherworld of "quangoland" is not very transparent, but thanks to the efforts of the Netherlands Court of Audit, the situation has improved a great deal[…]
Word: HIV/AIDS Part of Speech: noun 1. HIV infection and AIDS, considered as a whole, that is, a single disease spectrum, from asymptomatic infection, through manageable symptoms, all the way to (in persons without adequate antiretroviral therapy) severe unmanageable AIDS. Labels: uncountable
Word: baseball Annie Part of Speech: noun 1. A female groupie who seeks sexual relations with baseball players. Labels: dated
Word: baseball Annies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baseball Annie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: groupetti Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of groupetto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: groupettos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of groupetto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Talavera Part of Speech: noun 1. A city in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, known for its pottery; in full, Talavera de la Reina. 2. An 1809 battle during the Peninsula War fought outside the city. Example: [He] had been a conspicuous figure at Talavera, and had contributed not a little to the peculiar terror with which his regiment of infantry was regarded by the enemy. 3. A kind of Spanish and Mexican majolica pottery with a milky-white glaze. Labels: uncountable Example: Many pieces of stanniferous faience have been found in Mexico which have come to be known as Talavera ware. 4. A municipality of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
Word: afterwhile Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From after + while. 1. Afterwards. Labels: US, dialectal, not-comparable Example: […] as soon as the man called the track they hurried fast, so they got two seats and turned them to face each other, and afterwhile the train pulled out […]
Word: monoclonality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From monoclonal + -ity. 1. The quality of being monoclonal. Labels: uncountable
Word: monoethnic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mono- + ethnic. 1. Of a single ethnicity. Labels: not-comparable Example: a monoethnic society
Word: monogenicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From monogenic + -ity. 1. The quality of being monogenic. Labels: uncountable
Word: monospecificity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mono- + specificity. 1. The quality of being monospecific. Labels: uncountable
Word: monotonality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mono- + tonality. 1. The quality of being monotonal. Labels: uncountable
Word: morabitino Part of Speech: noun 1. An old Portuguese gold coin worth 15 soldos. Labels: historical
Word: morabitinos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of morabitino Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moribana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 盛花. 1. A basic structure in ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), where the flowers are arranged in a shallow container. Labels: uncountable
Word: moronism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From moron + -ism. 1. The condition of being a moron (person of borderline intelligence). Labels: dated, uncountable Example: One reason for the assumption that the germ damage takes place from the effect of alcohol is that the incidence of moronism is higher among children of alcoholic parents than among children of nonalcoholic parents.
Word: motherkins Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mother + -kins. 1. Fond term of address for one's mother. Labels: dated
Word: motocrosser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From motocross + -er. 1. One who takes part in the sport of motocross. 2. A motorbike used in motocross.
Word: motocrossers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of motocrosser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: extreme skiing Part of Speech: noun 1. Skiing performed on long, steep slopes in mountainous terrain. Labels: uncountable
Word: sleazing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sleaze Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sleazed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of sleaze Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Dall sheep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after William Healey Dall (1845–1927), an American naturalist. 1. A species of wild sheep native to northwestern North America, Ovis dalli.
Word: Dall's sheep Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Dall sheep. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: scale insects Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scale insect Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bugaku Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 舞楽 (bugaku). 1. A Japanese traditional courtly dance, with slow, regal movements. Labels: uncountable
Word: Pyatigorsk Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /pjætɪˈɡɔːsk/, /pjætɪˈɡɔɹsk/ 1. spa city in south-Stavropol krai, administrative center of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia
Word: Kislovodsk Part of Speech: name 1. A city in Stavropol krai, Russia
Word: Wakana Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from Japanese. 2. A female given name from Japanese.
Word: kidney belt Part of Speech: noun 1. A wide belt sometimes worn by weight lifters, motorcyclists, manual laborers, and others who are liable to experience stress in the lower back region, for the purpose of providing lumbar support. Example: Around his midsection the driver wears a "kidney belt" — a wide, heavy elastic belt — to protect his internal organs and back from the jarring he will encounter. Example: As a safety precaution, Mr. Markellon and his wife, Dawn, have purchased protective gear for Marissa that includes not only a helmet, but chest protector, kidney belt and kneepads as well.
Word: Koichi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese こういち (Kōichi), a male given name with many variant kanji spellings. 1. A male given name from Japanese.
Word: decay chain Part of Speech: noun 1. A series of nuclides, such that one nuclide radioactively decays into another, which decays into another, and so on, until a stable nuclide is reached. For example, uranium-238 must undergo eight alpha decays and six beta decays in order to become stable lead-206; intermediate nuclides include uranium-234, radium-226, and radon-222.
Word: Ziegler Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Ziegler. Pronunciation: /ˈziːɡlə/, /ˈziɡlɚ/, /ˈzɪɡlɚ/ 1. A surname from German Example: "This use was sporadic, sometimes 'bingeful,' but never at an addictive level," Ziegler said. Example: Future California Assembly Leader Walter Karabian, the student body president in 1959, recalled how Ronald Ziegler and Dwight Chapin—two future Nixon aides—falsely accused him of being a member of a secret society as part of a campaign to make him appear elitist.
Word: Arielle Part of Speech: name Etymology: A French variant of Ariel. 1. A female given name from Hebrew.
Word: Mueller Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Müller (“miller”). Doublet of Miller. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌlɚ/, /ˈmjuːlɚ/, /ˈmʌlə/, /ˈmjuːlə/ 1. A surname from German. 2. A township in Schoolcraft County, Michigan, United States.
Word: Muller Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Müller (“miller”). Doublet of Miller. 1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation]. Example: “In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.”
Word: yellow-tailed black cockatoo Part of Speech: noun 1. A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia. Example: Charles, to his everlasting pride and eternal shame, sold his yellow-tailed black cockatoo to the man in the pet shop outside whose establishment fortune decreed we should come to rest. Example: [T]he shrieks of yellow-tailed black cockatoos are said to be the lament of dead Aboriginal children.
Word: yellow-tailed black cockatoos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yellow-tailed black cockatoo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gyming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of gym Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gymed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of gym Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: durum wheat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dūrum (“hard”) and wheat. 1. Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dunny man Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone employed to empty the cesspit from a basic toilet which is not attached to a plumbing system. Labels: Australia, colloquial, historical Example: Luckily the dunny man was a model of probity. Never putting a foot wrong, he carried out his Sisyphean task in loyal silence. Example: He played cards with me and listened to me talk about Leah Goldstein until the passing dunnyman announced the coming dawn.
Word: dunny men Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dunny man Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dunnyman Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dunny man. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dunnymen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dunnyman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phylloxeran Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the plant-feeding insects of the family Phylloxeridae, closely related to aphids. Example: Phylloxerans are similar to aphids but are without cornicles and hold their wings horizontally at rest. Example: The final confirmation of the foregoing conclusions is given by the important discoveries of Morgan (1909), von Baehr (1909) and Stevens (1909b) in the phylloxerans and aphids, where all the fertilized eggs produce females.
Word: phylloxerans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phylloxeran Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cramer Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Cramer. 1. A surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An unincorporated community in Lake County, Minnesota, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cangues Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cangue Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Getter Part of Speech: name Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of German Götter. 1. A surname from German.
Word: unneatened Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + neatened. 1. Not neatened. Labels: not-comparable
Word: untidied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tidied. 1. Not tidied. Labels: not-comparable
Word: untidied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of untidy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: librarying Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From library + -ing. 1. The accumulation of a library of material. Labels: uncountable Example: Librarying is when I watch it and then I saw it and then that tape is probably used again at some other time in the future. It could be months later. Example: […] some people record material from television for 'librarying' purposes, that is, they build up a collection of material such as films […]
Word: Uehara Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 上原 (Uehara). 1. A surname from Japanese.
Word: redfaced Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of red-faced. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I had scarcely fallen into my most promising attitude, and dipped my pen in the ink, when I found the clock upon the pier—a redfaced clock with a white rim—importuning me in a highly vexatious manner to consult my watch, and see how I was off for Greenwich time.
Word: destresser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From destress + -er. 1. That which relieves stress.
Word: distresser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From distress + -er. 1. One who or that which distresses.
Word: destressers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of destresser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: distressers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distresser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: machine-guns Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of machine-gun Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: machine-gunning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of machine-gun Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: machine-gunned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of machine-gun Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mizzen-mast Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mizzenmast. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mizzen-masts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mizzen-mast; alternative form of mizzenmasts Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mitre joint Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of miter joint. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mitre joints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mitre joint; alternative form of miter joints Labels: form-of, plural
Word: miter-joint Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of miter joint. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: miter-joints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of miter-joint; alternative form of miter joints Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mitre-joint Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of miter joint. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mitre-joints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mitre-joint; alternative form of miter joints Labels: form-of, plural
Word: minimalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From minimal + -ization. 1. Minimization. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of pursuing minimalism. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: minimalizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minimalization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: minimalisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From minimal + -isation. 1. Alternative spelling of minimalization. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: minimalisations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minimalisation; alternative form of minimalizations Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kirchhoff Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from German
Word: pentaborate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From penta- + borate. 1. The oxyanion of boron B₅O₈⁻; any salt containing this anion
Word: Schaefer Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Schaefer (“shepherd”), an occupational surname; from Middle High German schæfære, from late Old High German scāphare. 1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation], equivalent to English Shepherd.
Word: shattered the ice Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of shatter the ice Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: shattering the ice Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shatter the ice Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shatters the ice Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of shatter the ice Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tetramethylammonium hydroxide Part of Speech: noun 1. The quaternary ammonium base (CH₃)₄N⁺ OH⁻ Labels: uncountable
Word: transcompilers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transcompiler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Getters Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Getter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photostream Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo + stream. 1. A gallery or slideshow displaying a series of images from the Internet.
Word: save by the bell Part of Speech: verb 1. In a boxing or wrestling match or similar competition, to ring the bell which concludes the round and thereby to prevent a competitor who has been knocked down from being counted out by the referee. Labels: transitive Example: With 35 seconds left in the fight, the Siberian Rocky landed a lethal right hook that staggered Bradley and forced him to take a knee following a few more hard blows, thus saving Bradley by the bell. 2. To rescue or favorably assist (someone) by means of a timely interruption or the sudden termination of difficult circumstances. Labels: broadly, idiomatic, transitive Example: The waitress brought the coffee about this time, saving me by the bell, as it were. Example: Fortunately the appearance of the rash marks the beginning of a sudden end to the disease, establishes a diagnosis, saves you by the bell, satisfies the child's parents, and baby has had just one more kind of measles.
Word: saved by the bell Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a competitor in a boxing or wrestling match or similar competition, spared from being counted out by the referee by the ringing of the bell which concludes the round. Labels: not-comparable Example: Forrest floored Mosley again at the end of the round and almost finished him, but Mosley was saved by the bell. 2. Rescued or favorably assisted by a timely interruption or by the sudden termination of difficult circumstances. Labels: broadly, idiomatic, not-comparable Example: So Asad's probing created a problem. . . . In a real sense Kissinger was saved by the bell: the American party had that afternoon to catch a plane to Israel. Example: The Montgomery bus boycott was "saved by the bell" of a federal Supreme Court decision that came just before the last minute.
Word: Folketing Part of Speech: name 1. The Danish parliament.
Word: Keres Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κῆρες (Kêres, literally “Death Spirits, Doom, Heart”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɪ.riːz/, /ˈkɪɹ.iz/ 1. The goddesses of death, specifically cruel and violent deaths, including death in battle, by accident, murder or ravaging disease. They numbered in the thousands and were the daughters of Nyx and Erebus, and the sisters of Thanatos and Hypnos. Their Roman counterparts were the Letum or the Tenebrae. Labels: Greek
Word: Keres Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈkɛ.ɹəs/, /ˈkɛɹ.əs/, /ˈkeɪ.ɹeɪs/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Keres Pueblo people or language of New Mexico.
Word: Keres Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɛ.ɹəs/, /ˈkɛɹ.əs/, /ˈkeɪ.ɹeɪs/ 1. An indigenous Pueblo people of New Mexico that speak the Keres language. Labels: collective, countable, in-plural, uncountable 2. An individual member of these people. Labels: countable Example: When a Keres dies, a priesthood supervises the burial, not the clan. Members are summoned to the corpse with an offering of corn meal held out in the left hand, routinely associated with the dead (Stevenson 1894, 143). The body is washed by kinswomen, and dressed by kinsmen, who also bury it. Four days after burial, the priesthood handling the funeral returns to the deceased's home to send the breath-heart back to Iatiku (Corn Mother), an alter ego of both U and T, at ShipopU (White 1962, 307). Death is called the birth into ShipopU (Stevenson 1894, 143). In all, death has manly associations through the left hand, priesthoods, and involved rituals.
Word: Keres Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈkɛ.ɹəs/, /ˈkɛɹ.əs/, /ˈkeɪ.ɹeɪs/ 1. The language or language family traditionally spoken by the Keres Pueblo people. Labels: uncountable
Word: hard war Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly coined by American general William Tecumseh Sherman. 1. A style of warfare that involves inflicting harm on civilians and destroying foodstuffs. Labels: uncountable
Word: luggage cart Part of Speech: noun 1. A small vehicle pushed by travellers to carry individual luggage, usually suitcases.
Word: baggage cart Part of Speech: noun 1. A luggage cart.
Word: baggage carts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baggage cart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: luggage carts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of luggage cart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: safety catches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of safety catch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: extension cords Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of extension cord Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slushbreaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of slush + icebreaker. 1. An icebreaker with poor icebreaking capabilities, unable to operate year-round in Arctic or polar conditions. Labels: Canada, derogatory
Word: slushbreakers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of slushbreaker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beg yours Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Short for I beg your pardon. 1. pardon; could you repeat that? Labels: Australia, informal
Word: mushroom anchor Part of Speech: noun 1. An anchor with a shape resembling a mushroom, used in mud or silt.
Word: hard signs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hard sign Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Mpemba effect Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba, who published on the topic in the 1960s. 1. The supposed tendency of warmer (and/or previously warmed) liquids or colloids (especially water) to freeze more quickly than cooler ones under at least some conditions. Example: Scientists as yet have been unable to fully explain the mechanism behind the Mpemba effect. It is a combination of a variety of heat transfer methods, and those combinations change under different conditions of water and[…]
Word: wine rack Part of Speech: noun 1. A set of shelves for the organised storage of wine. Example: Jim and Myron LaFleur, with the entire beer cooler and wine rack at their disposal, were abysmally shitfaced.
Word: kidney punch Part of Speech: noun 1. A blow struck with the fist to the lower back region, capable of causing serious internal injury and not permitted under the rules of boxing. Example: Following the bout, Schmeling said he was fouled. He said that he was hit a kidney punch, a devastating right, which so shocked his nervous system that he was dazed and his vision was blurred Example: These fees have ballooned. . . . That has hit advertising like a kidney punch.
Word: kidney punch Part of Speech: verb 1. To deliver such a blow.
Word: kidney-punch Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of kidney punch. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: adhesive capsulitis Part of Speech: noun 1. A disorder in which the shoulder capsule, the connective tissue surrounding the glenohumeral joint of the shoulder, becomes inflamed and stiff, greatly restricting motion and causing chronic pain. Labels: uncountable
Word: flywire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fly + wire. Pronunciation: /ˈflʌɪwʌɪə/ 1. A type of screening used to exclude flies and other insects. Labels: Australia, uncountable, usually Example: He noticed for the first time that the fellow was naked. He had taken little notice of him in the darkened room, and afterwards had seen him only through the fly-wire door. Example: For a moment, she feared he would, like a new puppy, burst through the flywire.
Word: deener Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdiːnə/ 1. A shilling. Labels: Australia, slang Example: ‘You're very fortunate.’ ‘I worked for it, every zac and deener.’
Word: deeners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deener Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flooded gum Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several eucalypts that flourish in damp soil, especially Eucalyptus grandis and Eucalyptus rudis. Labels: Australia, countable, uncountable Example: There were no locks on the door and you could get an education or work in the bush planting flooded gum.
Word: Universal Unitarian Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to Unitarian Universalism. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: 1996, Jacque Weddle, Universal Unitarian Church, in soc.religion.christian, Usenet, link
Word: Universal Unitarian Part of Speech: noun 1. Unitarian Universalist. Labels: rare
Word: Egyptic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Egypt + -ic. Pronunciation: /ɪˈd͡ʒɪp.tɪk/ 1. Alternative form of Egyptian. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Middle-Earth Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Middle Earth. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative letter-case form of Middle-earth. Labels: alt-of
Word: Boehm Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Böhm. 1. A surname from German.
Word: golden-shouldered parrot Part of Speech: noun 1. A rare bird, Psephotus chrysopterygius, found mainly in Queensland, Australia. Example: Charles contemplated a rare golden-shouldered parrot, a being so beautiful that its dreamer's face showed a beatific smile […].
Word: golden-shouldered parrots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of golden-shouldered parrot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: professional fouls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of professional foul Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cancionero Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cancionero. 1. A collection of songs.
Word: decorporation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + corporation. Pronunciation: /dikɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/, /diːkɔːpəˈɹeɪʃən/ 1. The therapeutic removal of radioactive material that has been absorbed by the body Labels: uncountable 2. The legal revocation of a registration/charter of a corporation (or Limited Liability Company) operating to the detriment of the state, nation, and/or world. Labels: uncountable 3. The act of becoming no long corporeal. Labels: uncountable Example: (meditative humming) “As I grow closer to decorporation, words start to lose meaning.” (meditative humming)
Word: malleefowl Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mallee fowl. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bluebonnet Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of blue bonnet. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: blue bonnets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blue bonnet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bolios Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bolio Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bolias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bolia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: formula unit Part of Speech: noun 1. An empirical formula of an ionic compound (that does not possess individual molecules) for use in stoichiometric calculations.
Word: pedantisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pedantism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pedanticisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pedanticism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rockin' Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɹɑkɪn/ 1. colloquial form of rocking Labels: colloquial, form-of
Word: children's homes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of children's home Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Buccos Part of Speech: name Etymology: From buccaneer (“pirate”), + -o. 1. nickname of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. Labels: US
Word: G-men Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of G-man Labels: form-of, plural
Word: G-men Part of Speech: name 1. A nickname of the New York Giants football team. Labels: US
Word: guilt-trip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Denominal verb of guilt trip. First use appears c. 1977 in the defunct periodical Spare Rib. 1. To attempt to induce a guilt trip; to cause another to feel guilt, in order to influence the behavior of that individual. Labels: informal, transitive Example: to guilt-trip someone into [doing] something Example: I have been fully expecting my father to guilt-trip me, to lay it on really thick about what a terrible son I am, to basically, talk down to me like I was some kind of idiot.
Word: guilt-trips Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of guilt-trip Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: guilt-tripping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of guilt-trip Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: guilt-tripped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of guilt-trip Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: guildmember Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From guild + member. 1. A member of a guild.
Word: guildmembers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of guildmember Labels: form-of, plural
Word: animal husbandry Part of Speech: noun 1. The management and care of farm animals by humans for profit, in which genetic qualities and behaviour, considered to be advantageous to humans, are further developed. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: fac-simile Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of facsimile. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: That James D. McBride be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to have engraved, on stone or wood, true and fac-simile copies of the seal of the Supreme Court of the United States, the seal of the United States, the seal of the Senate of the United States, the seal of the House of Representatives, and the seal of the Department of State, which have been authoritatively annexed to the following documents originating with him, and to print the same on true and fac-simlle copies thereof
Word: fac-similes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fac-simile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: New York fern Part of Speech: noun 1. A fern of the species Parathelypteris noveboracensis (syn. Thelypteris noveboracensis), native to eastern North America.
Word: New York ironweed Part of Speech: noun 1. Vernonia noveboracensis, a plant in the aster family, native to much of the eastern United States. Labels: uncountable
Word: school sores Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of school + sores. 1. Synonym of impetigo. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: quagma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of quark + magma. 1. A theorized phase of matter occurring at extremely high temperature and density, composed of free quarks. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: horse soldier Part of Speech: noun 1. An army member who fights horseback; a cavalry or cavalier.
Word: sleeping mat Part of Speech: noun 1. A thin mat used to insulate a sleeper from the ground when sleeping outdoors. Example: The natives followed him to where a great tree overhung the palisade, and as Tarzan leaped for a lower branch and disappeared into the foliage above, precisely after the manner of Manu, the monkey, there were loud exclamations of surprise and astonishment. For half an hour they called to him to return, but as he did not answer them they at last desisted, and sought the sleeping-mats within their huts.
Word: little corella Part of Speech: noun 1. A white cockatoo, Cacatua sanguinea, native to Australia and southern New Guinea. Example: There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah. Example: The little corella has historically been confined to the northeast corner of South Australia but spread with the development of agriculture and irrigation, which provided new water and food sources.
Word: little corellas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of little corella Labels: form-of, plural
Word: casuarina cockatoo Part of Speech: noun 1. The glossy black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus lathami. Example: There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah.
Word: casuarina cockatoos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of casuarina cockatoo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shickered Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Yiddish שיכּור (shiker, “drunk”), from Hebrew שיכּור. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪkəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of shicker Labels: form-of, participle, past