nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: steak fries Part of Speech: noun 1. Thick-cut French fries without the skin, typically served with a steak. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: equals signs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of equals sign Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plus signs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plus sign Labels: form-of, plural
Word: catastrophization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From catastrophize + -ation. 1. The act or process of catastrophizing. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Paul tries to lead us out of the catastrophization of childhood but too often plays right into it.
Word: catastrophizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catastrophization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feudalisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of feudalism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epænetick Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of epænetic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: fibbery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fib + -ery. 1. The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Instead, lenders appear to be complicit in the rampant fibbery that is one of the root causes of our continuing mortgage nightmare.
Word: fibberies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fibbery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maintopmasts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of maintopmast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: goldeny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From golden + -y. 1. Somewhat golden in colour. Example: goldeny goodness Example: It seemed so pure and goldeny.
Word: malaprops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of malaprop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: malaprops Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of malaprop Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outmanage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + manage. 1. To surpass in management; to manage better than. Labels: transitive Example: ROBERT L. RODRIGUEZ runs the FPA Capital fund, and by most measures he has outmanaged his peers.
Word: outmanages Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outmanage Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outmanaging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outmanage Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outmanaged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outmanage Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: presliced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + sliced. 1. sliced in advance Labels: not-comparable Example: The steak is presliced, and the waiters quickly distribute the meat, spooning the juices over the slices.
Word: superplague Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + plague. 1. A very dangerous and infectious plague. Example: She depicts the mixture of terror and sang-froid as people stay riveted to the TV, watching superplague mark its serpentine course across the map even as they go about their own business.
Word: superplagues Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superplague Labels: form-of, plural
Word: surrealness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super- Old French sur- French sur- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reel Middle French real French réel Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French réalisme French surréalismebor. English surrealismbf. English surreal Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English surrealness From surreal + -ness. 1. The quality of being surreal. Labels: uncountable Example: The candidates were undoubtedly prepped about Butte’s economic history (raucous copper-mining town in its heyday, union town, company town, Democratic stronghold), its demographics (white, blue-collar, Catholic, lots of Irish), its decline (drastic population loss, abandoned mines, Superfund site, the Power debacle), the faint sparks of economic hope (a windmill turbine plant, an influx of artists and environmental cleanup folks), its surrealness (that 90-foot statue of the Virgin Mary, looking down from a mountaintop at a denuded landscape dotted with mine mainframes and an abandoned open-pit mine the size of a small county!)
Word: surrebuttals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of surrebuttal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spellwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spell + work. 1. Any magical practice involving creating or casting spells, especially new enchantments or spells which are intricate or complex. Labels: uncountable Example: All spellwork with faeries should be done within the safe confines of your circle, with the faeries just outside its perimeter. Example: I did have a passing interest in Wicca, but once I realized that spell work was involved, I stopped. 2. The formula or formulation of one or more spells or enchantments; the individual parts constituting such a formulation; the inner workings or structure of a spell. Labels: uncountable Example: There is also an in-depth discussion of Celtic deities and the Celtic way of life and worship, so that an intermediate practitioner can expand upon the spellwork to build a series of magical rituals. Example: The spellwork she had utilized to quicker get her to her destination had taken too much from the dark mage.
Word: taxables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of taxable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underpatronized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + patronized. 1. Not receiving enough clients or customers. Example: Likewise, the new $52 million, 1.3-mile streetcar line, a pet project of the mayor, which runs from downtown to the giant construction site of South Lake Union, and whose shiny red, orange and purple cars are cute, quaint and eerily underpatronized.
Word: hypercaffeinated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + caffeinated. 1. Intensely peppy and energetic, as after consuming large amounts of caffeine. Labels: informal Example: And not surprisingly, “America’s Election HQ” comes with Fox News topspin: the tone is hypercaffeinated and fervid, and Ms. Kelly, who is the alpha host, has a gleam of zeal in her eyes that last week drove even Karl Rove, a Fox News contributor, to defend Mrs. Clinton. 2. Containing too much caffeine.
Word: inseminators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inseminator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pedanticism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pedantic + -ism. 1. pedantry Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Yet her dance-and-music spectacle, ending with the phrase “You need to rebel against negativity,” teems with pedanticism.
Word: severings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of severing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: severeth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: sever + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sever Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unairconditioned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + airconditioned. 1. Not air-conditioned. Labels: not-comparable Example: To sit in the woefully un-air-conditioned New Ehrlich Theatre on a blisteringly hot August night watching an overlong and uninspired production of Terrence McNally's unfunny comedy of dropped names and theatrical in-jokes is to be propelled into Theater-Goer Hell. Example: It’s also refreshing — the shift from Lou Dobbs talking about himself on CNN to Ms. Brown impersonally reciting the latest Pennsylvania poll results is a little like entering a cool forest glade after an hour on an unairconditioned subway car at rush hour.
Word: unplucked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + plucked. 1. Not having been plucked. Labels: not-comparable Example: The show includes several works from the Cuba-Mexico trip, including the slightly strange “Desert Cook,” who has an unplucked chicken in one hand and a plate in the other.
Word: compulsivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From compulsive + -ity. 1. compulsion Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “ ‘Bolero’ is an exercise in compulsivity, structure and perseveration,” Dr. Miller said.
Word: compulsivities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of compulsivity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: houseboater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From houseboat + -er. 1. One who lives in a houseboat. Example: A similar situation unfolded two decades ago in Sausalito, Calif., when houseboaters were inundated with toadfish calls.
Word: houseboaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of houseboater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyperlocalized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + localized. 1. Extremely localized. Example: Iraqi politics have become hyperlocalized, Colin Kahl, a Georgetown professor and Obama adviser, has observed.
Word: regraft Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + graft. 1. To graft again or anew. Labels: transitive
Word: regraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + graft. 1. A second or subsequent graft. Example: Five-year graft survival rates — defined as needing a regraft or having a cloudy cornea that compromised vision — was 86 percent for the group of donors under 65 and exactly the same for the group older than 65.
Word: regrafts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of regraft Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: regrafts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of regraft Labels: form-of, plural
Word: regrafting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of regraft Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: regrafted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of regraft Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: graftable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From graft + -able. 1. Able to be grafted. Example: graftable seedlings of walnut
Word: superresistant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + resistant. 1. Highly resistant. Example: The researchers, who reported their findings in Science, say these microbes could be considered superresistant, since they can tolerate antibiotic concentrations that are 50 times the levels used to define bacteria as resistant.
Word: beddings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bedding Labels: form-of, plural Example: Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.
Word: bioderived Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bio- + derived. 1. Derived from biological sources. Labels: not-comparable Example: Soon DuPont scientists realized that bioderived propanediol could also be used as an ingredient in cosmetics and products for de-icing aircraft.
Word: fogbank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fog + bank. 1. A bank of fog. Example: I realize that I’ve spent most of my life happily sailing into fogbanks of specialized language.
Word: fogbanks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fogbank Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sippable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sip + -able. 1. Capable of, or suitable for, being sipped. Example: Antônio Rocha hopes those casks, when added to the 17 full ones in another cellar, will help satisfy the growing taste in the United States for wood-aged cachaça, a smoother, sippable version of the spirit his family has been making for four generations on the farm.
Word: unpoked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + poked. 1. Not poked. Labels: not-comparable Example: At home, I heeded Ms. Madison and sliced the chorizo as the tofu crisped, unpoked, in the pan.
Word: chairback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κατά (katá) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.? Proto-Germanic *baką Proto-West Germanic *bak Old English bæc Middle English bak English back English chairback From chair + back. 1. The rear part of a chair that supports the sitter's back. Example: Podson said nothing to that, but he undressed to examine his shirt and collar, and assure himself that they were still in presentable condition. He hung his coat over a chair-back and folded the crease in his pants for pressure under his mattress. Example: Nevertheless, the first thing I did after assuring myself that there were indeed no malicious persons or things lurking under the bed or elsewhere was to slip a chair-back under the door handle.
Word: chairbacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chairback Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hangtags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hangtag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: croissantlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From croissant + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a croissant. Example: The eye comes from the croissantlike truncation of a woman’s head in Picasso’s 1936 “Straw Hat With Blue Leaves,” a form Mr. Johns has worked with for years.
Word: heparinlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From heparin + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of heparin. Example: The F.D.A. is still investigating whether those deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions were caused by a heparinlike contaminant made in China that was added to the drug somewhere during the manufacturing process.
Word: oddsmaking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From odds + making. 1. The setting of odds for gambling. Labels: uncountable Example: He said he knew nothing about oddsmaking.
Word: prepurchase Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + purchase. 1. Prior to purchase. Labels: not-comparable Example: To environmentally conscious consumers, the prepurchase itinerary of clothes has become as important a consideration as the organic nature of the materials used to make them.
Word: prepurchase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + purchase. 1. To purchase in advance. Labels: transitive
Word: prepurchase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + purchase. 1. A purchase made in advance.
Word: unjolly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + jolly. 1. Not jolly; glum. Example: The unjolly green giant, born from a botched gamma bomb experiment in a 1962 comic book, belongs to an elite class of superhero.
Word: vellumlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vellum + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of vellum. Example: The materials are almost as various: different combinations of ink, graphite, graphite pencil, graphite wash, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, oil stick, colored pencil and collage on paper or vellumlike plastic.
Word: underenthused Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + enthused. 1. Insufficiently enthused. Example: Even Stan Lee, a creator of the Hulk and Iron Man characters, seems underenthused about the prospects of his green baby.
Word: klezmerish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From klezmer + -ish. 1. Resembling klezmer (Jewish folk music). Labels: informal Example: The program also included “Quickstep,” a new dance for the children, which began with an oddly meandering solo for the charismatic Jeremy Summerville and included a precision-running romp for 15 other boys, to delicious klezmerish music by Steve Martland.
Word: minicollection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + collection. 1. A small collection. Example: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is paying to pack and ship the works; it will also sponsor a Web site — www.vogel50x50.org — about the minicollections.
Word: minicollections Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minicollection Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prefestival Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + festival. 1. Before a festival. Labels: not-comparable Example: Bonnaroo, held on several hundred acres of Tennessee farmland, where fans camp for the weekend (June 12 to 15), is marketing V.I.P. passes, which include access to a private prefestival party and special restroom and shower facilities, for $1,169.50 per pair.
Word: reorchestration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + orchestration. 1. Second or subsequent orchestration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And given the work’s history of revisions, reorchestrations, cuts, restorations and additions, the possibilities are numerous.
Word: reorchestrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reorchestration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scripturally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin scrīptūrader. Middle English scripture English scripture English -al English scriptural Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English scripturally From scriptural + -ly. 1. According to scripture. Labels: not-comparable
Word: skinsuits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of skinsuit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skinsuit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From skin + suit. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪnˌsuːt/, /ˈskɪnˌsut/ 1. A skin-tight garment. Example: Furniss pointed out that in 1972, a year before Lycra skinsuits replaced nylon-skirted suits to spark the first swimwear revolution of the modern era, there were 53 world records set.
Word: paranœac Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of paranoiac. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: spatulæ Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spatula Labels: form-of, plural Example: In order to obtain a view of the interior of the bladder it is customary to pass into its cavity spatulæ with solid blades or wire retractors to hold the sides of the wound apart and to distend the bladder. These spatulæ or retractors, usually three in number, one on each side and one above, require to be held by assistants, and, being thus out of the immediate control of the operator’s own hands, are liable to become displaced and to interfere with his manipulations. Solid‐bladed spatulæ, moreover, should not be used, because they cover up a considerable surface of the bladder.
Word: Kolmogorov Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Named after Russian mathematician Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров (Andréj Nikolájevič Kolmogórov) (1903–1987) 1. Such that any two distinct points are topologically distinguishable, i.e., there is an open set containing one of the points which does not contain the other point. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Kolmogorov space Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named in honor of Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987), a Soviet mathematician. 1. A topological space for which any pair of distinct points are also topologically distinct, i.e., there is an open set which contains one of the points but not the other one. Example: The Kolmogorov quotient of any topological space is a Kolmogorov space.
Word: fistulæ Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fistula Labels: form-of, obsolete, plural Example: Small fistulæ are to be closed bilaterally in an antero-posterior line […]
Word: voluntell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of volunteer + tell, in the sense of "to order (someone to do something)." Pronunciation: /ˌvɒl(ə)nˈtɛl/, /ˌvɑlənˈtɛl/ 1. To tell or force (someone) to "volunteer" to do something. Labels: humorous, informal, often, transitive Example: I just found out that I was "voluntold" [Marine-speak for a combination of volunteered and told—F[rank] S[chaeffer]] to stay back for a working party. Example: All had been directed by their command to participate in the study (in Marine jargon, they were "voluntold" to participate).
Word: critick Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of critic. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: THERE is nothing so foolish, when you are at the expence of making an entertainment of this kind, as to order things so badly, as to let your criticks and gentry of refined taste run it down: Nor is there any thing so likely to make them do it, as that of leaving them out of the party, or, what is full as offensive, of bestowing your attention upon the rest of your guests in so particular a way, as if there was no such thing as a critick (by occupation) at table.
Word: mechanicks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mechanick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: criticks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of critick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonconsideration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + consideration. 1. Absence of consideration; failure to consider. Labels: uncountable Example: In Putnam's opinion, nonconsideration of her for the position because of her sex would be unfair and not in the best interests of the library.
Word: broad-shouldered Part of Speech: adj 1. Having broad shoulders. Example: Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense. 2. Having a sturdy construction or constitution.
Word: big-shouldered Part of Speech: adj 1. Having particularly big or broad shoulders.
Word: what the eff Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: See eff (“fuck”). 1. Euphemistic form of what the fuck. Labels: euphemistic, form-of Example: “Don't take this the wrong way, Archie,” Arla begins, “but what the ef are you talking about?”
Word: recompost Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + compost. 1. To compost again. Labels: transitive
Word: priar Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of prayer. Labels: alt-of, obsolete 2. Obsolete form of pryer. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: a priar in at the chinks
Word: long vowels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of long vowel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: short vowel Part of Speech: noun 1. In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel which is normally pronounced shorter than a long vowel.
Word: overlong vowel Part of Speech: noun 1. In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel which is normally pronounced longer than a long vowel generally at least twice as long as a short vowel. Often consists of two syllables or moras.
Word: half-long vowel Part of Speech: noun 1. In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel whose length is between a short vowel and a long vowel.
Word: erhua Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 兒化 /儿化 (érhuà). 1. A phonological process that adds rhotic sounds to syllables in some lects of Chinese. Labels: Chinese, uncountable
Word: dialings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dialing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diallings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dialling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: haroset Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of haroseth. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually Example: Both texts, included here in Hebrew and English, featured the four cups of wine; the matzoh, or unleavened bread; the bitter herbs; haroset, a sweet paste of fruit and spices; engaging children in the ritual; and many of the prayers found in Seders today.
Word: superwhite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + white. 1. Of a bright, intense white. Example: This new detergent really washes clothes superwhite. Example: Bill Mankin, thin as Death in a Bergman film, his superwhite skin emphasized by his black suit, called the press conference to order.
Word: bristlecone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bristle + cone. 1. A bristlecone pine, of subsection Pinus subsect. Balfourianae.
Word: bristlecones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bristlecone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boobird Part of Speech: noun 1. A spectator at a sporting event who boos the home team. Labels: slang Example: Because of his disappearance over the final two months last season, Reyes has been the target of Shea boobirds, which, as Wright remarked, is almost a “rite of passage.”
Word: boobirds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boobird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dishwatery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dishwater + -y. 1. Resembling dishwater. Example: Measure precisely; fresh tea makes mass-market bags taste dishwatery.
Word: distancings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distancing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hippiefied Part of Speech: adj 1. Converted or translated into a hippy style. Labels: informal Example: By comparison a hippiefied Bobby Darin, tame Diahann Carroll and pre-”Cabaret” Liza Minnelli, all on the “Legendary Performers” set, come up short.
Word: miniwagon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + wagon. 1. A small station wagon, having a shorter extended rear section than a full-size station wagon and back seats that fold down to extend the space in the rear section. Example: The latest variation of the Mini Cooper is the Clubman miniwagon, which evokes the Mini Traveller and Countryman of the 1960s.
Word: miniwagons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of miniwagon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multishade Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + shade. 1. Of or pertaining to multiple shades of colour. Labels: not-comparable Example: For blush, Neutrogena’s multishade Healthy Skin Blends in Vibrant.
Word: pheromonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pheromone + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to pheromones. Labels: not-comparable Example: Perhaps this molecular banner was meant to represent the pheromonic chemical science behind sex research.
Word: razored Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of razor Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: razoring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of razor Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pedalboards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pedalboard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roundedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rounded + -ness. 1. The quality of being rounded. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He has lots of girl trouble, too, and he hungers for status and sits around at Harvard worrying about “the roundedness of his character.” 2. The quality of a sound, especially a vowel, of being rounded or unrounded. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: rollerboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By phonetic confusion with roller + board 1. Misspelling of rollaboard. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: To maximize my chances of finding overhead bin space, I have a 21-inch-long rollerboard. Example: She began walking toward Seventh Avenue, carrying her valise, which now felt like it weighed about fifty pounds, and pulling the bedraggled rollerboard suitcase behind her.
Word: rollerboards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rollerboard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skeeved Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Formed of skeeve + -ed, from Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”), schifare (“to disgust, to loathe”), and schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”). 1. Disgusted; repulsed; creeped out. Labels: informal Example: It took him days to get over how skeeved he was. Example: But like other "red flag" finds — undies, lingerie, bikini bottoms — you might be a little too skeeved to actually let one touch your naked body.
Word: skeeved Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Formed of skeeve + -ed, from Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”), schifare (“to disgust, to loathe”), and schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”). 1. simple past and past participle of skeeve Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: Because while it may not seem like such a big deal if guys want to get all revved up about faux lesbians and skeeved by gay men, the consequences of this kind of prejudice can be more than just a few jokes. Example: Though both are virgins, Violet develops a crush on a dapper, eerily suave student at N.Y.U. who moonlights as a club promoter and appears regularly on Page Six. Whereas Cheryl, devoted to her work, is skeeved by the sleazeballs twice her age who hit on her in clubs and on the street. 2. simple past and past participle of skeev Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: stayover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stay + over. 1. An overnight stay. 2. A short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption. Example: Near-synonyms: stopover, layover, lie-over (all sometimes synonymous) Example: To make sure they don’t cannibalize their lucrative business clients, these fares come with certain requirements like Saturday-night stayovers.
Word: stayovers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stayover Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unchic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + chic. 1. unfashionable Example: By 1936, Coward’s unchic loathing of appeasement and Neville Chamberlain (“that bloody conceited old sod”) was turning him into something of a Churchill bore. Example: The sole image of Henry Cavendish captured in his lifetime shows an aristocratic-looking man in a frock coat, frilled shirt-wrists, and white stockings, wearing a knocker-tailed periwig under a black three-cornered hat. This was a defiantly unchic style of dress even in the late 1700s, and he wore the same outfit every day of his adult life.
Word: unpronounceables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unpronounceable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: goonishness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From goonish + -ness. 1. The quality of being goonish. Labels: uncountable Example: Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.
Word: abattoirlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From abattoir + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of an abattoir. Labels: rare Example: His “Macbeth,” which was such a hit at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that it recently transferred to Broadway, is set in a vaguely Stalinist era and staged in a tiled abattoirlike space that was partly inspired by the horror movie “Saw.”
Word: postassessment Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + assessment. 1. After an assessment. Labels: not-comparable
Word: preassessment Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + assessment. 1. Before an assessment. Labels: not-comparable
Word: untailored Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tailored. 1. Not tailored. Labels: not-comparable Example: Golf is a casual outing for the weekend player, with an untailored budget.
Word: dismalnesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dismalness Labels: form-of, plural
Word: untalentedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From untalented + -ness. 1. The quality of being untalented; lack of talent. Labels: uncountable
Word: untalkativeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From untalkative + -ness. 1. The quality of being untalkative. Labels: uncountable
Word: biosource Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + source. 1. A biological source of some material. Example: There is growing interest in alternative adsorbentia, eg, from biosources such as rice-hull ash (silica) (Proctor etal.. 1995) or soy hull carbon (Proctor and Harris, 1996). Example: The reason petroleum so often serves as the foundation for plastics production is that it offers an ultraconcentrated source of carbon, but carbon is carbon and with the right manipulations other handier biosources like lawn litter will do.
Word: biosources Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biosource Labels: form-of, plural
Word: biosorptions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biosorption Labels: form-of, plural
Word: biosocially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From biosocial + -ly. 1. In a biosocial context. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lunglessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lungless + -ness. 1. Absence of lungs. Labels: uncountable Example: No one is certain why lunglessness has evolved, but a popular theory suggests it does so in response to an extreme environment — cold, swift-flowing streams.
Word: indecorousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From indecorous + -ness. 1. The quality of being indecorous. Labels: uncountable Example: But maybe this indecorousness should be standard technique, because the music making was extraordinary. Mr. Vanska began with a Sibelius rarity, “The Dryad” (Op. 45, No. 1), drawing a taut, thoroughly unified performance driven by the dark, wintry string tone so crucial to Sibelius’s music.
Word: midtrack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mid- + track. 1. A point in time during an audio track. Labels: uncountable Example: Like Mr. Crossman, Brandon A. Collwes, a Cunningham company member, showed strong influences of the master and also used film in his “Intentional Happenstance in Parts,” a trio whose dancers sported mirror-encrusted bathing caps and occasionally changed the unidentified music in midtrack.
Word: stuntfest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stunt + -fest. 1. An event, film, etc. where many stunts are performed. Labels: informal Example: The result is an hourlong stuntfest that, hard as it tries, is woefully short on thrills and artistry.
Word: stuntfests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stuntfest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superregulator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + regulator. 1. A major regulatory body. Example: Robert K. Steel leans forward, speaking in a rapid, excitable burst about the powers that a superregulator might wield over Wall Street one day.
Word: superregulators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superregulator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superrotations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superrotation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: temporoparietal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From temporo- + parietal. Pronunciation: /ˌtɛmpəɹəʊpəˈɹʌɪətəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the temporal lobe and parietal lobe, or the junction where they meet. Labels: not-comparable Example: When the researchers used functional M.R.I. machines to look at the workings of the brain in Chinese- and English-speaking dyslexics, they found that in the English speakers there was weak reading activity in the temporoparietal and occipitotemporal regions. Example: The temperoparietal junction sits at a crossroads for many kinds of information, including the perception of the position of one's own body, and the perception of the bodies and actions of other people.
Word: cakiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From caky + -ness. 1. The quality of being caky. Labels: uncountable Example: So recently, when a ginger muffin craving hit, I decided to see if I could increase the textural contrast without sacrificing the cakiness.
Word: knuckleballing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of knuckleball Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: knuckleballed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of knuckleball Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: labelmate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From label + -mate. 1. A musician or musical act signed to the same record label. Example: She & Him’s album has sold about 26,000 copies so far, according to Nielsen SoundScan, outpacing the debut of the duo’s labelmate Arcade Fire, said Mac McCaughan, a founder of Merge and the singer for the band Superchunk. Example: To be fair, he has worked with most of the acts connected with it—his Dirty Hit labelmates Pale Waves and No Rome—and to be even fairer, it should probably be called Hutchencewave for its clear debt to INXS.
Word: labelmates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of labelmate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: laberinths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of laberinth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: troubadourism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From troubadour + -ism. 1. The work of a troubadour; itinerant composition and performance of songs. Labels: uncountable Example: Of course, Ms. Deschanel and Mr. Ward, a musician based in Portland, Ore., whose quiet troubadourism sells out midsize clubs, are not unknown.
Word: xenophobics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of xenophobic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: batmaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bat + maker. 1. A maker of small leather shoes for children. Labels: obsolete 2. A maker of bats, as for baseball. Example: Now Holman, the batmaker, is not making bats for Bonds, and Yandle, the batting practice pitcher, is not throwing pitches to Bonds.
Word: batmakers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of batmaker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buttercrunch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From butter + crunch. 1. A mild lettuce, Lactuca sativa. Labels: uncountable Example: Or switch to heat-tolerant lettuces, like oak leaf and buttercrunch.
Word: counterwoman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter + woman. 1. A woman who serves at a counter. Example: Noris, the Central American counterwoman, complimented me on my handbag — a simple black patent thing by an obscure designer.
Word: counterwomen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterwoman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antigirl Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + girl. 1. Opposing girls. Example: Grade-school-age boys are more antigirl than girls this age are antiboy. Boys begin to test each other. Who can run the fastest or hold their breath the longest? Example: Of course, this would never happen because there isn't a retailer out there who would run the risk of carrying such a line of antigirl products.
Word: inartfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From inartful + -ly. 1. In an inartful manner. Example: Finally, he got a chance to remind her of the time back in 1992 when she dissed the homemakers of America by saying, rather inartfully, that she preferred legal work to baking and serving tea.
Word: unartfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unartful + -ly. 1. In an unartful manner.
Word: semidwarf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + dwarf. 1. A plant that grows to a lesser height than usual for its kind, but taller than a dwarf variety. Example: Although Miss Kim is often described as semidwarf, this popular late bloomer can become 9 or 10 feet tall.
Word: semidwarfs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semidwarf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unartful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + artful. 1. Not artful; lacking craft, artless. 2. Lacking skill.
Word: subhistory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + history. 1. A history (sequence of events or actions) making up part of a larger history.
Word: subhistories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subhistory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: washwoman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wash + woman. 1. A washerwoman. Example: A kimono dress by Derek Lam evoked the washwomen of feudal Japanese warlords ($1,390).
Word: unsedated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + sedated. 1. Not sedated. Labels: not-comparable Example: Justice Stevens urged states to consider abandoning one of the three chemicals, the paralyzing drug that would leave an unsedated inmate conscious but unable to move, breathe or cry out.
Word: washwomen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of washwoman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: copolyester Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + polyester. 1. A polyester that has been modified by the addition of other chemicals. Example: Last month, Nalgene introduced a line of bottles made from a relatively new plastic from the Eastman Chemical Company, Tritan copolyester, that shares most of polycarbonate’s properties, including shatter-resistance, but is made without the chemical.
Word: copolyesters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of copolyester Labels: form-of, plural
Word: immaterialist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From immaterial + -ist. 1. A supporter of the philosophy of immaterialism.
Word: immaterialists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of immaterialist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: immaterialistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From im- + materialistic. 1. not concerned with material things Example: Among these aspects some refer to materialistic values (eg, good pay) and others to immaterialistic values (eg, useful job for society). 2. of or pertaining to the philosophy of immaterialism
Word: longrunning Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of long-running. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: DEAD CHILD (Wednesday) David Pajo, bassist and guitarist from Slint, Tortoise and other post-rock bands, has had a longrunning metal streak under his cool exterior; now that he’s turning 40, he’s able to exercise it — two and a half decades after the fact — in Dead Child, a fairly sincere (and decently tight) early-’80s metal band.
Word: rios Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rio Labels: form-of, plural
Word: popemobile Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Popemobile. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Even before the pontiff’s arrival in the United States on Tuesday, the Pequeños had gathered outside the Vatican Embassy, singing and dancing with other followers of their exuberant early Christianity movement, the Neocatechumenal Way. They waited for hours on Wednesday in a crush of admirers along Pennsylvania Avenue to catch a glimpse of his passing popemobile.
Word: popemobiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of popemobile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PFLP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Labels: Palestinian, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Israeli jets had strafed the main road during the day and PFLP guerrillas on the coast road were stunned to see the five men, all dressed in jackets and ties, hurtling down the highway towards them in the early hours.
Word: seminudity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + nudity. 1. The state of being seminude, or scantily dressed. Labels: uncountable Example: Ms. Crabapple did a lot of posing in bikinis, and less, to pay her way through F.I.T.; in addition to showing in fine art galleries and drawing comics, she organizes events she calls Dr. Sketchy’s, a life drawing class that’s also a burlesque show with music, costumes and seminudity.
Word: thumber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thumb + -er. 1. One who thumbs (a book, one's nose, etc.). Example: Dylan Thomas was another thesaurus thumber, and in his work too the words it supplied were not always improvements. 2. One who thumbs a lift; a hitchhiker. Example: Several months ago every city and many of the towns in which we operate were flooded with a cartoon flyer warning autoists of the legal risks involved in picking up thumbers.
Word: thumbers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thumber Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thumbboards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thumbboard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: autoist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto + -ist. 1. One who drives an automobile. Labels: dated Example: People contemplating matrimony are like two autoists planning a long journey together, each driving his own car. Example: We have become a nation of photoists almost as much as we are a nation of autoists and will be a nation of fliers.
Word: autoists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autoist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undarkened Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + darkened. 1. Not darkened. Labels: not-comparable Example: They were functional workaday items, and their office-supply roots come across in Zwirner & Wirth’s undarkened gallery, where the sculptures look exposed and a little shabby.
Word: unfavourability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + favourability. 1. Alternative form of unfavorability. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: unfavourableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unfavourable + -ness. 1. Alternative form of unfavorableness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: unfavorability Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being unfavorable. Labels: uncountable Example: And if there were some moments of concern reflected in the debate — the talk of Mrs. Clinton’s high unfavorability ratings, Mr. Obama’s flashes of annoyance — they all doubted that those moments would be deal-breakers, either.
Word: unfavorableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unfavorable + -ness. 1. The quality of being unfavorable. Labels: uncountable
Word: unfattening Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + fattening. 1. Not fattening.
Word: -erize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Chinese ér(huà) + -ize. 1. To add r-coloring; to take on an r-colored vowel; to exhibit or undergo erhua. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:-erize.
Word: arguability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₂érǵus Proto-Italic *argus Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Italic *-ō Proto-Italic *arguō Latin arguōder. Old French arguerbor. Middle English arguen English argue Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English arguability From argue + -ability. 1. The quality or degree of being arguable. Labels: uncountable Example: “The arguability of the claims depends wholly on oral conversations which are not documented,” he said.
Word: unarguability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₂érǵus Proto-Italic *argus Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Italic *-ō Proto-Italic *arguō Latin arguōder. Old French arguerbor. Middle English arguen English argue Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English arguability English unarguability From un- + arguability. 1. The quality of being unarguable. Labels: uncountable Example: During the prevailing stylistic profusion and confusion, this architecture seems to have obtained an authority among both clients and critics through the apparent unarguability of technological logic.
Word: gessoed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gesso + -ed. 1. Plastered with gesso. Labels: not-comparable Example: Different physical supports (canvas, fiberboard, heavily gessoed wood) further complicate Mr. Olson’s processes.
Word: gradewide Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From grade + -wide. 1. Across an entire grade (school year). Labels: not-comparable Example: The children, most 9 or 10, then signaled their preferences for the Democratic nomination in a gradewide straw poll.
Word: multifactional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + factional. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one faction. Example: The current situation in Iraq should properly be described as “a multifactional civil war” in which “the government is composed of rival Shia factions” and “they are embattled with an outside Shia group, the Mahdi Army ,” Ira M. Lapidus, a co-author of “Islam, Politics and Social Movements” and a professor of history at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in an e-mail message.
Word: multifaction Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + faction. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one faction.
Word: benefitless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From benefit + -less. 1. Without benefits. Labels: not-comparable Example: In California, my partner and I signed a benefitless domestic partnership registry in 2001, and then, a scant two years later, we were granted a whole lot of separate-but-nearly-equal benefits involving inheritance, medical issues, adoption and state taxation.
Word: boops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boops Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of boop Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: betulinic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin betul(a) (“birch tree”) + -in + -ic. 1. A naturally-occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid with antiretroviral, antimalarial and antiinflammatory properties Labels: uncountable