nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: methandrostenolone Part of Speech: noun 1. An orally-effective anabolic steroid formerly used as a muscle growth aid by bodybuilders. Labels: uncountable
Word: concertantes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of concertante Labels: form-of, plural
Word: concertatos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of concertato Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonspecialty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + specialty. 1. Not specialty. Labels: not-comparable Example: Heinen’s has won “best cheese selection” honors from Cleveland Magazine for several years running, a tall order for a nonspecialty shop.
Word: nonspoken Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + spoken. 1. Not spoken. Labels: not-comparable Example: Flevares and Perry (2001) found that math teachers used from five to seven nonspoken representations of mathematical ideas per minute (almost one every 10 seconds) in their classrooms, and gesture was by far the most frequent[…]
Word: reapproach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + approach. 1. To approach again or anew. Labels: ambitransitive Example: In a statement issued late Friday, Precision said it would reapproach Grey Wolf’s board if the merger agreement with Basic was terminated.
Word: reapproaching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reapproach Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reapproaches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reapproach Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reapproached Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reapproach Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ukiyoe Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ukiyo-e. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Along with Kabuki theater and ukiyoe woodblock prints, taiko is one of Japan’s most popular and respected art forms in the West.
Word: ambigendered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ambi- + gendered. 1. Of both genders. Labels: not-comparable Example: Mr. Cumming’s Dionysus in “The Bacchae” is conceived as a rock star, the rhythm-and-blues Maenads as his backup singers and groupies, and his feud with his cousin Pentheus, king of Thebes, as an encounter of the hedonistic, ambigendered, exotic Other, with “the fear of letting that into your culture,” Mr. Tiffany said.
Word: duck-drownder Part of Speech: noun 1. A very heavy rain. Labels: Southern-US, especially Example: The "duck drownder" flood along the Mississippi and the tributaries […]. Example: “We got to move out of here, ahora. Someone from Chisum's bound to ride over this way, lookin’ for you—but you can't wait ‘em out in another duck-drownder."
Word: antipluralist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + pluralist. 1. Opposing sociological pluralism. Example: He hails women’s suffrage as progressive and damns immigration restriction as antipluralist and reactionary.
Word: antipluralist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + pluralist. 1. One who opposes sociological pluralism.
Word: antipluralistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + pluralistic. 1. Opposing sociological pluralism. Example: Lichtman’s thesis is embedded in his title: American conservatism should be seen as an ideology devoted above all to advancing “an antipluralistic ideal of America as a unified, white Protestant nation.”
Word: antipluralists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antipluralist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contortionate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From contortion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. contorted or contorting Example: So it’s hard not to be amused at Nina L. Khrushcheva’s contortionate attempts to recruit him as a sociopolitical figurehead for the land of his birth in her earnest and urgent “Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics.”
Word: counterstudy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + study. 1. A study that goes against another study. Example: Then he wrote: “The upshot is a set of studies and counterstudies that, at most, could leave a judge uncertain about the proper policy conclusion.”
Word: counterstudies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterstudy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flimflammer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flimflam + -er. 1. A swindler; a con artist. Example: And “The Real McCoy” turned the story of the famous boxer Kid McCoy into the tall yet intimate tale of a flimflammer who slugged and conned his way to notoriety at the turn of the 20th century.
Word: flimflammers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flimflammer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: midmatch Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mid- + match. 1. During a match. Labels: not-comparable Example: Injuries and other midmatch dramas are hardly unusual for Jankovic, who calls on trainers with regularity.
Word: midmatch Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mid- + match. 1. During a match. Labels: not-comparable Example: We left the stadium midmatch because the crowd was getting violent. Example: Oft-injured even in his youth, he is breaking down in new places in his tennis dotage: a fractured rib and abdominal injury in 2022 and the hip injury in 2023, sustained midmatch in his straight-set defeats to Mackenzie McDonald in the second round in Australia.
Word: minitrucks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minitruck Labels: form-of, plural
Word: minitruck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + truck. 1. A compact pickup truck designed for light duty. Labels: US Example: Recent attempts to market practical part-time pickups in the United States — the Subaru Baja, for instance — and earlier minitruck efforts like the Rabbit-based Volkswagen Pickup and the Omni-based Dodge Rampage never fired buyers’ imagination.
Word: multilight Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + light. 1. Having or pertaining to more than one light. Labels: not-comparable Example: Indeed, at 13th Street the chain stuck close to the most conservative kind of modernism, with giant pilasters and multilight windows that would not have been out of place on a turn-of-the-century women’s club.
Word: preswim Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + swim. 1. Before a swim. Labels: not-comparable Example: For Torres, the chore is far more elaborate, as her two stretchers work in tandem to contort and flex her body, in a 20-minute preswim version of the two-hour sequence they do three times a week at her home.
Word: postswim Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + swim. 1. After a swim. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rashy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rash + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæʃi/ 1. Exhibiting a rash. Example: “What is this dry, rashy patch on my neck?” 2. Mixed or layered with impurities. Example: “Other coals are rashy, being interspersed or interbedded with shales and clays, causing them to come off the face in slabs and blocks....” Example: rashy gravel
Word: rashy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹæʃi/ 1. Alternative form of rashie (“rash guard”) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: "As far as we can tell, Darcy took a cream Malibu surfboard with him to One Tree at Wooli and went for a surf in very small swell some time around 4pm. We think he was wearing a dark rashy."
Word: drownder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drownd + -er. 1. A person or animal that is suffering or has suffered drowning. Labels: dialectal 2. That which drowns. Labels: dialectal
Word: sailcraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sail + craft. 1. A boat with one or more sails. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The art of sailing. Labels: uncountable 3. A spacecraft endowed with sail for propulsion purposes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But a discussion paper published in 2006 by the Brookings Institution called for a much bigger commitment, with government prizes ranging from $15 million for an Earth-Moon solar sailcraft race to as much as $100 million a year for improvements in African agriculture. Mr. McCain’s own proposal for spurring development of alternative energy sources was foreshadowed by a bill introduced last year in Congress that would establish a prize for breakthroughs in the development of hydrogen power.
Word: sailcrafts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sailcraft Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sailcloths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sailcloth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semipartitioned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + partitioned. 1. Partly divided into partitions. Labels: not-comparable Example: The offices in back, honeycombed with semipartitioned cubicles of wood and glass, are a paragon of Collyer brothers’ pack-rattery.
Word: slackerish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From slacker + -ish. 1. Like a slacker; lazy, idle. Example: Our family was in this latter, slackerish category.
Word: technocritic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From techno- + critic. 1. A critic who studies the effects of technology. Example: This Option seems to appear everywhere for technophiles and is becoming inevitable for the technophobic and dedicated technocritic. Example: In the mid-1990s, technocritics worried that using the Internet would be like “drinking from a firehose,” as Cliff Stoll put it.
Word: technocritics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of technocritic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aberrationless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aberration + -less. 1. Free from (optical) aberrations Labels: not-comparable
Word: antidamping Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + damping. 1. That counters damping effects
Word: autoencoder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + encoder. 1. a form of neural network designed to learn codings
Word: autoencoders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autoencoder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ryūha Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ryuha. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: But the fighting arts they had shaped and reshaped during their millennium-long existence continued to develop. Many traditional ryūha—the Kashima-Shinryū among them—carried on much as they had during the Tokugawa period. Example: Ideally, ryūha were based upon the long-standing principle that social relationships are bound by fictive kinship rules. Relationships between the ryūha head and his students tended to follow authority-intensive patron-client relationships.
Word: biochromatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bio- + chromatic. 1. Pertaining to colour produced by processes in living organisms. Labels: not-comparable
Word: chromatisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chromatism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: electrocouplings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of electrocoupling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hamiltonians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hamiltonian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multispacecraft Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + spacecraft. 1. Involving multiple spacecraft Labels: not-comparable
Word: aeronaval Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aero- + naval. 1. relating to both the navy and the air force Labels: not-comparable 2. that moves both on sea and in the air Labels: not-comparable
Word: limitedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From limited + -ly. 1. with limits; not unlimitedly
Word: fair dos Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ˌfɛə(ɹ)ˈduːz/ 1. Fair enough. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: "[…] Lansley said he was disappointed I had gone public without telling him. Which is fair dos except he could have found out if he had bothered to see me […]"
Word: fatten up Part of Speech: verb 1. To cause to gain weight by means of feeding. Labels: transitive Example: My cat looks underweight, so I'll fatten him up with higher-calorie cat food. Example: I visited my mother for a month, and she managed to fatten me up 20 pounds. 2. To become fat or fatter by gaining weight. Labels: intransitive Example: ‘And isn’t Declan looking very thin?’ Madge said. ‘He’ll never get a wife if he doesn’t fatten up a bit.’ 3. To make bigger; to expand. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: We must not fatten up our payroll with people performing nonessential activities.
Word: fawn over Part of Speech: verb 1. To praise excessively in order to get a favor. Labels: transitive
Word: feed off Part of Speech: verb 1. To consume as part of a diet. Labels: transitive 2. To get stimulus from (an external object). Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: It seems like her boss feeds off her unhappiness.
Word: ferret out Part of Speech: verb 1. To discover something after searching. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonyms: dig out, sniff out
Word: faff around Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of faff about.
Word: faff about Part of Speech: verb 1. To waste time; to spend time idly. Labels: UK, intransitive Example: She faffed about so much, she never got to eat her breakfast. Example: I decided to stop faffing about and get some work done.
Word: fiddle about Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of fiddle around.
Word: fiddle around Part of Speech: verb 1. To toy or play (with something) in an idle, fidgety, aimless or unstructured way; to mess around (with); to muck around (with). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Stop fiddling around with those matches before you set the place on fire. 2. To tinker (with): to make small adjustments or improvements (to something), especially in an experimental or unskilled manner. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: I've been fiddling around all morning, trying to get this old lawnmower to work.
Word: fiddle away Part of Speech: verb 1. To play the fiddle idly. Labels: intransitive 2. To waste (time) Labels: transitive Example: There's nothing I like more than fiddling away Saturday night playing dominoes with myself.
Word: flake out Part of Speech: verb 1. To fall asleep from exhaustion or intoxication; to lie down. Labels: informal, intransitive 2. To flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert someone. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: John said he could drive me to the airport, but then he flaked out on me, and I had to call a cab at the last minute. 3. To crack up or break down; to have a mental episode; to behave eccentrically. Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: flame up Part of Speech: verb 1. To flare; to become inflamed. Labels: intransitive 2. To suddenly become extremely angry. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive 3. To light up; to light a joint, blunt, pipe, etc.; to smoke crack cocaine. Labels: transitive
Word: flick over Part of Speech: verb 1. To change channels on a television. Labels: intransitive 2. To change from one state to another by flicking. Labels: intransitive Example: The numbers on the odometer flicked over from 999 to 1000.
Word: flick through Part of Speech: verb 1. To browse rapidly. Labels: transitive Example: I was flicking through the newspaper when I glimpsed a funny headline. Example: I flicked through the TV channels, but nothing good was on.
Word: flight plan Part of Speech: noun 1. A document filed by a pilot prior to departure, containing essential information about the flight.
Word: you know what I mean Part of Speech: phrase 1. You are familiar with the situation I am describing; used to establish common ground with the interlocutor Labels: colloquial Example: I think there's a value to having a reverence for something bigger than yourself, you know: "There's something out there." Sure, you know what I mean? Example: Like when you've sung along with a song a thousand times but you know it so well that the words don't even mean anything anymore. They're just bits of air coming out of your mouth. You know what I mean?
Word: floor hockey Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various hockey sports played indoors. Labels: uncountable
Word: fluff out Part of Speech: verb 1. To plump up Labels: transitive 2. to be fluffy Labels: intransitive Example: Her thick hair, cut short, fluffed out all around her head in a bushy wave that seemed to be of brilliant spun gold
Word: phasematching Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From phase + matching. 1. That synchronizes the phase of two or more waves Labels: not-comparable
Word: quantumlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From quantum + -like. 1. Having the characteristics of a quantum system
Word: quasiboson Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quasi- + boson. 1. A particle that behaves as if it were a boson
Word: quasibosons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quasiboson Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quasirelativistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From quasi- + relativistic. 1. Describing a system that behaves as if it were relativistic Labels: not-comparable
Word: superclimbing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + climbing. 1. The movement of an edge dislocation in a supersolid Labels: uncountable
Word: upconverted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From up- + converted. 1. Modified using upconversion.
Word: filagree Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of filigree. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: filagree Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of filigree. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: smutted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of smut Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outlett Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of outlet. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Nature expends all she takes and keeps open all the salutary outletts.
Word: clatfart Part of Speech: noun 1. Gossip. Labels: UK, regional, uncountable Example: The Guild was called by some hostile husbands, who found their wives getting too independent, the "clat-fart" shop—that is, the gossip-shop. Example: Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
Word: lost in the shuffle Part of Speech: phrase 1. Failing to stand out or receive attention as a result of a larger-scale change or transformation. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: We have allowed ourselves to be "lost in the shuffle" of American priorities in the '70s, but we should never lose sight of ourselves and our goals as our priorities. Example: We get lost in the shuffle, and in the end we don't even know that we have needs - much less know what these needs might be.
Word: judder bar Part of Speech: noun 1. speed bump Labels: New-Zealand
Word: falls short Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fall short Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: falling short Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fall short Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fell short Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of fall short Labels: form-of, past
Word: fallen short Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of fall short Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pervertedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From perverted + -ly. 1. In a perverted, twisted, or corrupt manner.
Word: forlighten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From for- + lighten, but also continuing (in altered form) earlier forlyten (“to diminish”), from for- + lite + -en. 1. To decrease; reduce; diminish; lighten; lighten up. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: For to forlighten with his sheen / Those sitting sad, in darkest blindness, / In death's cold shade.
Word: underkind Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + kind. 1. A subordinate or inferior kind or class.
Word: eiderdowns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eiderdown Labels: form-of, plural
Word: befold Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bifealden, bevealden, from Old English befealdan (“to fold, roll up, envelop, clasp, surround, involve, cover, attach”), equivalent to be- (“around, about”) + fold. Cognate with Old High German bifaltan (“to envelop”). 1. To fold up; fold around; wrap up; envelop. Labels: transitive Example: And when I rant and rave and raise hell about the power structure and about slaverytood, and nigratood, and nigraism, and everything else that befolds me being a black woman every day, I still love people. Example: So, brothers and sisters that is God's law and God's punishment that befolds a person who during their life does not acknowledge or feels the greatness of God and God's reality.
Word: kamancha Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of kamancheh. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: They always carry with them their saz or tar or kamancha, Oriental instruments, on which they accompany their songs. […] There is something else that is a part of his life, namely, his kamancha. He threatens to cut the strings […] Example: Most mugams consist of a singer, a kamancha player, and a tar player. […] The kamancha has a round opening and […]
Word: kyamancha Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of kamancheh. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He recalled the heated discussions at the monastery and the monk who had insisted that the kyamancha and tar were native Armenian musical instruments, that modulation was typical of Armenian songs which were always soulful and mournful. Example: The kyamancha was invented in the eleventh century and at first had only three strings. A musician named Alexander Organyan invented a kyamancha with four strings, and his daughter, Sophia Sardaryan, played one of these instruments [...]
Word: befang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English befon (past participle befangen), from Old English befōn (“to surround, clasp, include, envelop, encase, clothe, comprehend, seize, attack (at law), lay hold of, catch, ensnare, contain, receive, conceive, explain”), equivalent to be- + fang. Cognate with Dutch bevangen (“to seize”), Middle High German bevāhen (“to comprehend”). Pronunciation: [bəˈfæŋ] 1. To lay hold on; seize; grasp; catch; clutch. Labels: UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, transitive Example: Come here an' I'll befang thee! 2. To take hold on; begin or commence upon. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 3. To encompass; enclose; contain; comprehend. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: begeck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle Dutch begecken or Middle Low German begecken (“to deride”), equivalent to be- + geck. More at geek. 1. To deceive; disappoint; jilt. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive
Word: begeck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch begecken or Middle Low German begecken (“to deride”), equivalent to be- + geck. More at geek. 1. A disappointment; trick. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive
Word: prytanis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prytanis, from Ancient Greek πρύτανις (prútanis). 1. An official in ancient Athens
Word: prytaneis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prytanis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: darken someone's door Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from the observation that one's shadow falling upon a door whilst standing at it causes it to appear darkened. Alternatively, possibly derived from an old sense of darken meaning "to lie in wait, loiter, lurk". 1. To arrive at someone's residence or location, especially as an unexpected visitor. Labels: idiomatic Example: "I'll tell you, Peter," said I, "were I my lord, and a friend or kinsman of mine should leave the town while the court was sitting, that kinsman, or be he what he liked, should never darken my door again." Example: He promised the poor His heaven, He loved and lived with the poor; He said that the rich man's shadow Should never darken His door.
Word: darken someone's doorway Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of darken someone's door. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: worshipable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English worschipable, worschypabull, worshepable, worshipable; equivalent to worship + -able. 1. Capable of being worshipped. Example: The rampant vigor with which Japanese Buddhism began to absorb everything in heaven, earth and sea, which it could make a worshipable object or cause to stand as a Kami or deity to the mind, will be seen as we proceed. 2. Worthy of worship. Example: So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth. Example: In addition, Kali, spouse of Shiva, is presented as an object of devotion […] who is "the Image and Embodiment of all the […] Devas." She is multiform, worshipable in each, "Mother of all."
Word: mamillated Part of Speech: adj 1. Having nipples
Word: mammo Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of mammogram. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: One woman in ten is at risk — yet one-third of all women over 50 have never had a mammo! By making Pap tests routine, OBs and GYNs have saved many lives.
Word: stay over Part of Speech: verb 1. To stay overnight in a place other than one's home; to sleep over. Example: Mum, can I stay over at a friend's house tomorrow?
Word: half glove Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of glove that covers the fingers and most of the hand but not the thumb, or one that leaves the ends of the fingers exposed.
Word: mandelic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From German Mandel (“almond”). 1. Of or pertaining to mandelic acid.
Word: manism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From manes (“spirit of the ancestors”) + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːnɪzəm/ 1. ancestor-worship Labels: uncountable Example: As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of atheism; a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man, rather than in God. It is a compound, made up chiefly of manism, with but a little deism, and is as near to atheism as twilight is to darkness. Example: It is not he that refused to subscribe, but he that constrains subscription to some manism, or humanism, or opinion, or tradition not taught in the scriptures.
Word: manist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From manes (“spirit of the ancestors”) + -ist. 1. ancestor-worshipper
Word: Manueline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese manuelino, after King Manuel I of Portugal. 1. Describing a Portuguese form of Gothic style
Word: marsh fritillary Part of Speech: noun 1. A medium size, orange, brown and cream chequered butterfly (Euphydryas aurinia), of the family Nymphalidae.
Word: marsh fritillaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of marsh fritillary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: meadow brown Part of Speech: noun 1. A common, orange and brown butterfly (Maniola jurtina), of the family Nymphalidae.
Word: meadow browns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of meadow brown Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mountain ringlet Part of Speech: noun 1. A dark brown butterfly with a row of small orange eyespots, Erebia epiphron, of the family Nymphalidae.
Word: mountain ringlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mountain ringlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: befind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English befinden, bifinden, equivalent to be- + find. Cognate with Saterland Frisian befiende (“to be located, befind”), Dutch bevinden (“to find”), German befinden (“to be, be located”), Swedish befinna (“to find, be”). 1. To find; discover. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: It is well that the thinker should give his thoughts to the world, though it must be admitted that wisdom befinds itself sometimes in the reverse of the sage's pronouncement. Example: Farther in the height befinds itself […] 2. To invent; contrive. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To be found; be. Labels: obsolete
Word: feets Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From feet + -s. 1. plural of foot Labels: dialectal, form-of, plural Example: Feets, don't fail me now! Example: Last Sunday she said to Mr. Baker: "Ach, Gott, Mr. Baker, my feets is killing me. I must go me by a feets doctor."
Word: ileuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ileus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unboarded Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. simple past and past participle of unboard Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unboarded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + boarded. 1. Not boarded. Labels: not-comparable Example: Those who sit on the unboarded and unpaved floor beside the wall, and who look on so wistfully, have nothing to cook — nothing to eat; they paid the last penny or twopence they possessed to be allowed to sleep on the floor of that cellar until morning.
Word: barkeeping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bar + keeping. 1. The trade of a barkeeper; selling drinks from a bar. Labels: uncountable
Word: barkeeping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bar + keeping. 1. present participle and gerund of barkeep Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tavernkeeper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tavern + keeper. 1. One who keeps a tavern. Example: Mr. Hautekiet, 41, a large, friendly man with a seemingly endless supply of facts about the town, said that all attempts to locate former residents of Goverthing had been fruitless, though one — the tavernkeeper — had been found in a retirement home in Brooklyn, where he has refused for decades to speak of the town, its uneasy relationship with the Army or its demise.
Word: tavernkeepers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tavernkeeper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tavernkeeping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tavern + keeping. 1. The trade of a tavernkeeper; hostelry. Labels: uncountable
Word: Biloxian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Biloxi + -an. 1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.
Word: Biloxians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Biloxian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mess jacket Part of Speech: noun 1. A double-breasted jacket, part of mess kit. Example: “I often wonder,” he said, “whether I oughtn’t to dress for dinner—when I’m alone ’ere.” ¶ Coote protruded his lips and reflected. “Not full dress,” he adjudicated; “that would be a little excessive. But you should change, you know. Put on a mess jacket and that sort of thing—easy dress […].”
Word: mess jackets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mess jacket Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ruminatingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ruminating + -ly. 1. While ruminating; with thought or meditation. Example: "And it always seems to me," he went on ruminatingly, "that, after all we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go. I know it's shocking blasphemy to say so, but then it's different here, you see. We are further away."
Word: Nijinskian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Nijinsky + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
Word: batonless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From baton + -less. 1. Without a baton. Labels: not-comparable Example: Taking his seat facing the Orchestra of the 18th Century, the man, Frans Bruggen, began conducting Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, batonless, his right hand karate-chopping the air.
Word: overcompensations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overcompensation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reattract Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + attract. 1. To attract again or anew. Labels: transitive Example: Yes, Tom can have doubts and can be reattracted to Laura.
Word: reattracting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reattract Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reattracts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reattract Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reattracted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reattract Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reattraction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + attraction. 1. Attraction again or anew. Labels: uncountable
Word: unbudging Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + budging. 1. Refusing to budge. Example: Syria may be as unbudging as it has been in past negotiations.
Word: doodly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From doodle + -y. 1. Like a doodle; scribbly. Example: I chose a glazed pottery egg, partly because I liked the weight of it — heavy for its size — and because it sat so neatly in my hand, but mainly because I liked the strange doodly pattern drawn on it in greys and washed-out blues[…]
Word: doodly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From doodle + -y. 1. Diddly; nothing Labels: uncountable Example: "Personally, I don't think these general referendum questions will do doodly to increase voter turnout," said Chicago Board of Election Commissioners spokesman Tom Leach.
Word: epiphanylike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From epiphany + -like. 1. Like an epiphany.
Word: genopolitics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From geno- + politics. 1. The study of the genetic basis of political behaviour and attitudes. Labels: uncountable
Word: husbandries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of husbandry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inexorableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inexorable + -ness. 1. The quality of being inexorable. Labels: uncountable
Word: jubilated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of jubilate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: jubilating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of jubilate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jubilates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jubilate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lubriciously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From lubricious + -ly. 1. In a lubricious manner.
Word: megaselling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mega- + selling. 1. Selling millions of units. Example: The megaselling author was on the cover of every magazine.
Word: midtirade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mid- + tirade. 1. A point in time during a tirade. Labels: uncountable Example: Reverend Baldwin broke off in midtirade, clearly annoyed to have his moment in the spotlight cut short. He recovered quickly, though, and moved to turn the situation to his advantage.
Word: minirevolt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + revolt. 1. A small or minor revolt.
Word: minirevolts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minirevolt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: new sheqalim Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of new sheqel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opinionmaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From opinion + maker. 1. One who influences the public in their opinions.
Word: opinionmakers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opinionmaker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opinionlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From opinionless + -ness. 1. Absence of opinions. Labels: uncountable
Word: overadored Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + adored. 1. Given too much adoration. Example: His childhood is spent — the old housekeeper tells me this — in the shadow of an overadored elder sister, who later dies suddenly of meningitis.
Word: overperked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + perked. 1. Excessively percolated. Labels: informal Example: A faint whiff of marijuana blends with the fumes of diesel trucks, the smell of boiling cabbage, overperked coffee, and the kitchen exhaust from a nearby Oriental restaurant.
Word: overperforms Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overperform Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overperforming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overperform Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overperforming Part of Speech: adj 1. That performs better than required
Word: overperformed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overperform Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overpersuading Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overpersuade Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overpersuades Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overpersuade Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overpersuaded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overpersuade Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: paned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pane + -ed. Pronunciation: /peɪnd/ 1. Having panes. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable, often Example: a large-paned window Example: paned slops: an old form of clothing with fabric strips or panels
Word: pigeoneer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pigeon + -eer. 1. One who trains pigeons.
Word: pigeoneers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pigeoneer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: poffertjes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of poffertje Labels: form-of, plural
Word: premarked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + marked. 1. Having been marked in advance. Labels: not-comparable
Word: roadability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From road + -ability. 1. The quality or degree of being roadable. Labels: uncountable Example: Sea-Land is trying new and innovative ideas to increase its productivity through ideas like creating disincentives for truck operators to "mispark" containers in the terminal yard, preinspecting chassis so that truck operators can avoid the lines through the roadability check station, and other non-technical smart ideas.
Word: sheafs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sheaf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sheafs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sheaf Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: teleoperate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tele- + operate. 1. To operate (a device) remotely. Labels: transitive
Word: teleoperating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of teleoperate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: teleoperates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of teleoperate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: teleoperated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of teleoperate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: undraped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + draped. 1. Not draped. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonspender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + spender. 1. One who does not spend money.
Word: nonspenders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonspender Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonspending Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + spending. 1. Not spending money. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hillclimber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hill + climber. 1. One who takes part in hillclimbing.
Word: hillclimbers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hillclimber Labels: form-of, plural
Word: replacee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From replace + -ee. 1. That which is replaced.
Word: replacees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of replacee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aloelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aloe + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of aloe.
Word: microstamped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From micro- + stamped. 1. Marked by means of microstamping. Labels: not-comparable
Word: microsporophylls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microsporophyll Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rechill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + chill. 1. To chill again. Labels: transitive
Word: rechills Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rechill Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rechilled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rechill Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rechilling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rechill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: downstater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From downstate + -er. 1. A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York. Example: People from New York City, Hudson Valley, and Long Island are downstaters.
Word: downstaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of downstater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fastbreak Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fast break. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fastbreaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fastbreak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fastballer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fastball + -er. 1. One who pitches fastballs.
Word: fastballers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fastballer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: froofy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Diminutive of frou-frou + -y. 1. Frilly; heavily ornamental; fancy; overly elaborate. Labels: slang
Word: minijoystick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + joystick. 1. A small joystick. Example: IBM's ThinkPad nixed the trackball entirely, opting for a minijoystick in the middle of its keyboard.
Word: minijoysticks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minijoystick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nongrocery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + grocery. 1. Not grocery. Labels: not-comparable Example: Grocery stores increasingly stock a range of nongrocery items.
Word: replow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + plow. 1. Alternative form of replough. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: replough Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + plough. 1. To plough again. Labels: transitive
Word: replowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of replow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reploughs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of replough Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reploughing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of replough Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reploughed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of replough Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: replowed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of replow Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: replows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of replow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: supersuccessful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + successful. 1. Very highly successful.
Word: likelies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of likely Labels: form-of, plural
Word: relieflike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From relief + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of relief (the difference of elevations on a surface). Example: When two beams reconverge with the assistance of prisms, the phase difference between the two beams provides relieflike, high-contrast images of the specimen.
Word: reconverge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + converge. 1. To converge again. Labels: intransitive
Word: reconverging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reconverge Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reconverges Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reconverge Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reconverged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reconverge Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reconvergence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + convergence. 1. The process or point of reconverging. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: reconvergences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reconvergence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lacrosselike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lacrosse + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of the game of lacrosse. Example: The endless hours of lacrosselike ball games[…]
Word: lacrosstitutes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lacrosstitute Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonauthorized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + authorized. 1. Not authorized. Labels: not-comparable
Word: seminationalized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + nationalized. 1. Partly nationalized. Labels: not-comparable
Word: treadwear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tread + wear. 1. A numerical measure of how long the tread of a tire can be expected to last. Labels: US, uncountable
Word: underpower Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + power. 1. To supply with insufficient power. Labels: transitive
Word: underpowering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of underpower Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: underpowers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of underpower Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: falsisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of falsism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rhetorical devices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhetorical device Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Dardanian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dardania + -an. 1. A native or inhabitant of Dardania.
Word: Dardanians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Dardanian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: filagrees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of filagree Labels: form-of, plural
Word: womenservants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of womanservant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: womanservant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English womman servaunt; equivalent to woman + servant. 1. A woman who is a servant; the female counterpart to a manservant. Example: This is what people say happen [...] That at the great table right before the throne, womanservants and manservants bring out all sort of meat.
Word: rerestitution Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of re-restitution. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tiger bread Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the pattern's resemblance to the coat of a tiger. 1. A bread made with sesame oil and with a pattern baked into the top made by painting rice paste onto the surface prior to baking. Labels: uncountable
Word: funeralize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From funeral + -ize. 1. To officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for. Example: Pardon me, for yielding to a temporary impulse of this character, at the hazard of seeming to funeralize, rather than compliment my congregation. Example: A gentleman who knew him, speaking of him to an American traveller a few years since, said — "Sir he funeralized every congregation he took charge of."
Word: funeralized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of funeralize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: funeralizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of funeralize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: funeralizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of funeralize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: postboomer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + boomer. 1. After the baby boomers. Example: “Boomer” has gotten such a bum rap that even our new president, who is a clear-cut boomer demographically (the boom years ran through 1964), has sought to link himself to a younger generation with a postboomer mentality, one that types with its thumbs to communicate and is not tainted by the cultural wars of the 1960s.
Word: postboomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From post- + boomer. 1. One born after the baby boomers.
Word: slopewashes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of slopewash Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of loess Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unspirantized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + spirantized. 1. Not spirantized. Labels: not-comparable
Word: spirantize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From spirant + -ize. 1. To change (a consonant) to a spirant sound.
Word: spirantizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spirantize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spirantizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spirantize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: spirantized Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: spirantized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of spirantize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: begadkefat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Constructed from the consonants involved: ב (b), ג (g), ד (d), כ (k), פ (p (f)), and ת (t). Compare Hebrew בֶּגֶ״ד כֶּפֶ״ת (béged kéfet), the Hebrew mnemonic. Pronunciation: /bəˈɡɑd.kəˌfɑt/ 1. A phenomenon of spirantization affecting most plosive consonants of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic when they are preceded by a vowel and not geminated; also any similar case of spirantization of postvocalic plosives in other languages, such as Berber. Labels: uncountable
Word: begadkephat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of begadkefat. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: begedkefet Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of begadkefat. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: littleleaf disease Part of Speech: noun 1. A disease of shortleaf pine caused by the mould Phytophthora cinnamomi. Labels: uncountable
Word: embattlements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of embattlement Labels: form-of, plural