nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: gynie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gynaecologist or gynaecology + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). 1. Diminutive of gynaecologist. Labels: diminutive, form-of Example: 2006, Sally Miall, Night and Day, New Media Foundry, UK, page 26, Anyway, I told her, the gynie woman, how I absolutely adore Charles and I do want his children. And Celia, she said he should come for tests! Can you believe it? Example: 2009, Sherie Posesorski, Shadow Boxing, Coteau Books, Canada, page 183, I had never been on this side of the floor. The fertility clinic was at the far right of the floor, and the gynies seeing women without fertility problems on the far left, with the labs in the middle. 2. Diminutive of gynaecology. Labels: diminutive, form-of Example: “When I came, well I am trained as a gynie [gynecologist], and I came to provide services to my gynie patients,” she said, fighting the fatigue weighing down her eyelids.
Word: gynies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gynie Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of gyny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bejuco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bejuco. 1. Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liana; in the Philippines, especially any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.
Word: bejucos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bejuco Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fiscalamity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of fiscal + calamity. 1. An economic or budgetary crisis, especially one attributed to poor fiscal management by a government. Labels: informal
Word: fiscalamities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fiscalamity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acequias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acequia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fleshmeet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flesh + meet. 1. An in-person meeting, particularly between people whose regular communication is exclusively or primarily online. Labels: informal Example: With 40 or so active participants scattered across at least a dozen states and three continents, and many more lurkers, members have organized two official group "fleshmeets," and several members have attended the opera together in various cities.
Word: fleshmeets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fleshmeet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: floordrobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of floor + wardrobe. Pronunciation: /ˈflɔːdɹəʊb/, /ˈflɔɹdɹoʊb/ 1. Clothing strewn on the floor. Labels: humorous Example: Pity about the suit being covered in cat fur when I retrieved it from the floordrobe, but it was dark anyway. Example: Well, if you’re anything like me, quite a few of your clothes at any one time might be on the floor. It makes it easier to select what you want to wear. I – and millions of people like me – call it my floordrobe. It’s a form of storage for clothing which requires no hangers, drawers, doors or effort.
Word: saponines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saponine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sarbacanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sarbacane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mezquites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mezquite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flunami Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of flu + tsunami. 1. An extreme influenza outbreak. Labels: informal Example: The H1N1 flunami crested in Lincoln late last month, according to Friday's weekly report.
Word: flunamis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flunami Labels: form-of, plural
Word: set points Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of set point Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foodoir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of food + memoir. 1. A memoir that focuses on food or includes recipes. Example: These foodoirs have become a successful subset, one part chick lit mixed with one part chicken lit.
Word: foodoirs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of foodoir Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interfuses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of interfuse Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: interfusing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of interfuse Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: interfusing Part of Speech: noun 1. interfusion Example: In that moment the interstices of matter were his, and the interfusings and intermating transfusings of matter and force.
Word: frohawk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of (a)fro + Mohawk. 1. A Mohawk hairstyle worn by someone with afro-textured hair, with the crest generally standing up naturally. Example: Thousands of black rock fans use Afropunk.com’s message boards to discuss bands, commiserate about their outsider status and share tips on how to maintain their frohawk hairstyles.
Word: frohawks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frohawk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quarterlight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quarter + light. 1. Alternative spelling of quarter light. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sporopollenin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sporo- + pollen + -in. 1. A combination of biopolymers, observed in the exine layer of the spore and pollen wall. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Spores and pollen, collectively known as sporomorphs, are the tiny reproductive structures of land plants, and have a highly resistant outer wall made of a biopolymer called sporopollenin.
Word: funemployment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of fun + unemployment. 1. A period of unemployment spent pursuing recreational activities or hobbies. Labels: uncountable Example: Aubrey Howell, who'd tweeted about funemployment shortly after being laid off as the manager of a Nashville tea shop in 2009, and was featured in a Los Angeles Times story soon afterward, told me half a year later that she initially saw the layoff as an opportunity to clear her head, refocus, and "go after what I'm really passionate about" — music and graphic design.
Word: aroar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + roar. Pronunciation: /əˈɹɔː(ɹ)/ 1. Abounding with noise; abounding with laughter. Example: Her quip set the dinner table aroar. Example: […] scarcely five minutes had passed since Captain Ransome’s guns had broken the truce of doubt before the whole region was aroar: the enemy had attacked nearly everywhere.
Word: Schwarzeneggerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Schwarzenegger + -ian, derived from the eight-time Mr. Olympia and movie actor Arnold Schwarzenegger who was renowned for his impressive physique. The word was first coined in 1989 in The Indoctrination of Cassie, a short story by Joel Jenkins. 1. imposing, large, and muscular
Word: iland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English iland, yland, from Old English īġland, īeġland (“island”). Cognate with Scots iland, yland (“island”). More at island. 1. Obsolete spelling of island. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […] Example: This vast iland seems to have been first peopled by Fins and Laplanders, whom Ihre thinks the first inhabitants of the whole. 2. Misspelling of island. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: self-killing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From self-kill + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of self-kill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: self-killing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self- + killing. 1. The killing of oneself; suicide. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Koestlerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Koestler + -ian. 1. Of or relating to Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), Hungarian-British author and journalist.
Word: holarchy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of holon + hierarchy, coined by Arthur Koestler. 1. A connection between holons (things that are both a part and a whole).
Word: holarchies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of holarchy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: holoarchy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of holarchy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: holoarchies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of holoarchy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: homebaked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From home + baked. 1. Baked at home, or on the premises. Labels: not-comparable Example: Have you tried the homebaked bread at this restaurant?
Word: Bloomerism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Bloomer + -ism, after women's-rights advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894). 1. Support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress. Labels: derogatory, historical, sometimes, uncountable Example: A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land. A sort of shemale dress you call Bloomerism; a fashion of Sister Jonathan's.
Word: couraged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From courage + -ed. 1. Having a specified form or amount of courage. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: She's the highest-couraged thing we've got in the stables. Her name's Brown Molly, sir; and she'll go till she drops. Example: the wordy warfare of lukewarm, weak-couraged men
Word: colourpuncture Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of colorpuncture. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: haemoglobinometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haemoglobin + -o- + -meter. 1. An apparatus for measuring the amount of haemoglobin in a fluid by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal colour
Word: haemoglobinometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haemoglobinometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pinnet Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɪnɪt/ 1. A pinnacle. Labels: archaic Example: Blazed battlement and pinnet high , Blazed every rose - carved buttress fair Example: Trusting therefore in his portents and in their might they sought to break the great wall of the Achaeans. The pinnets of the fortifications they dragged down and overthrew the battlements, and pried out the supporting beams that the Achaeans had set first in the earth as buttresses for the wall.
Word: pinnets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pinnet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: presterna Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of presternum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: presternum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + sternum. 1. The anterior or upper part of the sternum; the manubrium.
Word: exotheca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exo- + theca (“the calcareous wall of a corallite”). 1. The tissue that fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.
Word: exothecae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exotheca Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subseries Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + series. 1. A series forming part of a larger series.
Word: superseries Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + series. 1. A series that contains one or more subseries.
Word: euplastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁wes- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus? Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-? Proto-Indo-European *h₁su- Proto-Hellenic *ehu- Ancient Greek ἐΰς (eǘs) Ancient Greek εὖ (eû)der. English eu- Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō? Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der. Latin plasticusder. English plastic English euplastic From eu- + plastic. 1. Describing an organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: rhonchal Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of rhonchial. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: disheir Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + heir. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛə(ɹ)/ 1. To disinherit. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: dis-heir the crown
Word: disheired Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disheir Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disheiring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disheir Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disheirs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disheir Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: crocketing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crocket + -ing. 1. ornamentation with crockets Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is no lace work , no crocketing , no tracery , no construction to speak of Example: And there, in the centre of the picture, with its carved back scarcely three feet below the soil, is the throne of the ancient king, with the lines of its strange crocketing fresh and unchipped.
Word: crocketings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crocketing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eunuchate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Latin eunuchatus, perfect participle of eunucho. 1. To make a eunuch of; to castrate (a man). Labels: dated, transitive Example: That camphire eunuchates or begets in men an impotency unto venery, observation will hardly confirm; and we have found it to fail in cocks and hens, though given for many daies; which was a more favourable triall then that of Scaliger, when he gave it unto a bitch that was proud. Example: I have enveavored to show, neither do they condemn Polygamy, Eunuchating, the Metempsychosis, and I might have added, the atrocious cruelties of the ancient Circus or Amphetheater, though St. Paul obtains some of his most striking Metaphors from that source.
Word: eunuchated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of eunuchate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: eunuchates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of eunuchate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: eunuchating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of eunuchate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: techily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From techy + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛtʃɪli/ 1. Alternative form of tetchily. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: techily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From techy + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛkɪli/ 1. In a techy (technical) way; technically
Word: bangle ear Part of Speech: noun 1. A loose hanging ear of a horse. Labels: in-plural, obsolete
Word: bangle ears Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bangle ear Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cimbrians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Cimbrian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insessor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See Insessores. 1. Any of the former taxonomic order Insessores, which included many songbirds. Labels: obsolete
Word: insessors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of insessor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Friesish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Friesic; see -ish. 1. Frisian Labels: archaic
Word: Friesish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Friesic; see -ish. 1. Frisian Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: seniories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seniory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seniory Part of Speech: noun 1. Position as lord, lordship; primacy. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: c. 1506, Margaret Beaufort (translator), The mirroure of golde for the synfull soule by Denis the Carthusian, London: Richard Pynson, “Of the vayne Ioye might dignite honours and riches of the worlde,” Beholde where is nowe the glorye of kynge assurey: whiche behelde vnder his seignorie and dominacion: the nombre of .xxvi. prouincis Example: If ancient sorrow be most reverend, Give mine the benefit of seniory, And let my woes frown on the upper hand. 2. The territory of a lord, dominion. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] Charles kynge of Fraunce surnamed the great, toke Desiderius laste kinge of Lombardes prisoner and annexed his seniory to the dominion of Fraunce. Example: The seigniorie also and principality of this part (which the Persians call a Satrapy, that is, a Dutchy or Countey) doth in great measure exceede all other prouinces that are vnder the protection of the great King. 3. Collectively, the lords of a region. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] if any man bring a letter vnto him, hee may not open it, but in the presence of the Seigniorie, and they are to see it first, which being read, perhaps they will deliuer it to him, perhaps not. Example: The Seniory of that Prouince (for they had no particular Lord) sent Messengers that they expected mee in peace, and would giue mee what I would […]
Word: colical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From colic + -al. 1. Resembling or relating to colic. Example: September 1 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift colical pains 2. Subject to or suffering from colic. Example: I have already learn'd to apply my selfe unto it; and am now entring into covenant with this chollicall kinde of life; for therein I finde matter, wherewith to comfort me, and to hope better.
Word: thoroughbrace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thorough + brace. 1. A leather strap supporting the body of a coach or wagon, attached to springs or serving as a spring itself. Labels: dated, historical Example: Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. Example: The wagon-bed is supported by iron bands or perpendiculars abutting upon wooden rockers, which rest on strong leather thoroughbraces: these are found to break the jolt better than the best steel springs, which, moreover, when injured, can not readily be repaired.
Word: thoroughbraces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thoroughbrace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polarily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From polary + -ly. Pronunciation: /pəʊˈlæɹɪli/, /pəʊˈlɛɹɪli/ 1. In a polary manner; with polarity. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Now, if an iron be touched before, it varieth not in this manner; for then it admits not this magnetical impression, as being already informed by the loadstone, and polarily determined by its preaction.
Word: tricarballylate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tricarballylic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. Any salt or ester of tricarballylic acid.
Word: tricarballylates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tricarballylate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tricarballylic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + carboxyl + allyl + -ic. 1. Propane-1,2,3-tricarboxylic acid, a tricarboxylic acid that inhibits aconitase. Labels: uncountable
Word: epiplexis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin epiplexis (“rebuke”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίπληξις (epíplēxis, “rebuke”), from ἐπιπλήσσω (epiplḗssō, “to chastise”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) (see epi-) + πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”). 1. A rhetorical device where a sequence of rhetorical questions is used to criticise or blame, or more generally, to elicit an emotional response. Labels: rhetoric Example: Afterwards, questioners employ the rhetorical figure called epiplexis. This interrogative figure is designed to blame the addressee, posing trick questions whose goal is to reveal whatever the speaker considers to be his or her faults. Epiplexis is backed up by cataplexis. Example: Remember also to structure epiplexes with one of the patterns for figures with multiple elements we met in chapter three. Repeated rhetorical questions can move from general to specific, from short to long, from broad to narrow, but should always unpack like Russian dolls.
Word: sembling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare assembling. 1. The practice of attracting male butterflies or other insects by exposing the encaged female. It used to be done by collectors wanting to procure specimens. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: time of sembling birds' droppings Example: Upon this is founded the practice of sembling, as it is called by the London collectors, among whom, as we learn from Barbut and Harris, it has been long in use, for entrapping the males of the fox-moth […]
Word: sembling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare assembling. 1. present participle and gerund of semble Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: specifical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English specificalle, from Latin specificus + -al. 1. Synonym of specific. Example: it is referred to a hidden propriety , a specifical virtue , and a fourth quality Example: it is not therefore so much the understanding that constitutes, among animals, the specifical distinction of man, as his quality of a free agent.
Word: subalternant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See subaltern. 1. A universal proposition. Example: Of these [oppositions], the Universal is the Subalternant , and the Particular the Subalternate
Word: subalternants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subalternant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: a mensa et thoro Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin a mensa et thoro (“from board and bed”). Pronunciation: /eɪ ˈmɛnsə ˌɛt ˈθɔːɹəʊ/ 1. That does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes the husband and wife to live apart from each other. Labels: historical, not-comparable Example: A divorce a mensa et thoro, obtained by the wife, is not a bar to her right of dower. Example: The long-defunct possibility of a divorce for adultery allowing remarriage was proposed anew by Cranmer,²⁵ who considered that a divorce a mensa et thoro offended against the duty to cohabit insisted on by the Church.
Word: a mensa et thoro Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin a mensa et thoro (“from board and bed”). Pronunciation: /eɪ ˈmɛnsə ˌɛt ˈθɔːɹəʊ/ 1. Such as not to dissolve the marriage bond, but merely to authorize the husband and wife to live apart from each other. Labels: historical, not-comparable Example: By the recent statute 20 & 21 Viet c. 85, § 7, no divorce can in future be granted à mensa et thoro, but a decree of judicial separation is to be pronounced, having the like effect.
Word: phlogoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phlogosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phlogosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek φλόγωσις (phlógōsis, “burning heat”). 1. inflammation of external parts of the body; erysipelatous inflammation Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: airometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From air + -o- + -meter. 1. Any of various devices used to measure the amount of air used by a system. Example: The air passes through large iron pipes, from the engine-house to an airometer, which stands at the centre of the works. Example: I claim the combination and arrangement of a vaporizer, an air-forcing apparatus, and an airometer, the whole being constructed to operate together, substantially as described..
Word: airometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of airometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pathogene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From patho- + -gene. 1. Dated form of pathogen. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: pathogenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pathogene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pentathionic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From penta- + thionic + acid, since it contains five atoms of sulphur. 1. The dibasic acid HSO₃-S₃-SO₃H Labels: uncountable
Word: shaggedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shagged + -ness. 1. shagginess Labels: dated, uncountable Example: […]the coarseness and shaggedness of the material are best expressed in a sketch, by a line which is marked, heavy, and decided.
Word: unbullying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + bullying. 1. Not bullying. Example: He warmed to his modesty, his unbullying camaraderie and genial absent-mindedness; he was touched, too, by this southerner's affection for a northern city, so heartfelt that he had actually made his home here.
Word: intenible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- (“not”) + Latin teneō (“to hold”). Compare Latin intenibilis (“not to be grasped”). Compare intenable, untenable. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛnəbəl/ 1. Incapable of holding or containing. Labels: obsolete Example: this captious and intenible sieve
Word: rucksac Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of rucksack. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: His door was flung open, and a compact young man in uniform appeared, carrying Mr. Butteridge's portfolio, rucksac, and shaving-glass.
Word: rucksacs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rucksac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squiralties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of squiralty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squiralty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From squire + -al + -ty. Pronunciation: /ˈskwaɪɹəlti/ 1. The land-owning gentry; the squirearchy. Labels: historical, uncountable, usually Example: that such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the squiralty of my kingdom
Word: groundfloor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ground floor. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The walls o the groundfloor, however, are generally constructed of these materials; […]
Word: groundfloors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of groundfloor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bergschrund Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bergshrund. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bergschrunds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bergschrund Labels: form-of, plural
Word: randkluft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Randkluft, from Rand (“edge, brink, rim”) + Kluft (“cleft, fissure, joint”). 1. The headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.
Word: randklufts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of randkluft Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bloodshotten Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of bloodshot. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: My eyes were haggard and bloodshotten; my hair, bedewed with perspiration Example: In protracted cases, the eye-balls become perfectly bloodshotten; mimicking a genuine inflammation
Word: nautches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nautch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bunniahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bunniah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buniah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bunniah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: buniahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of buniah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outkiss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + kiss. 1. To surpass in kissing; to kiss more or better than. Labels: transitive Example: "And I'll continue doing it, but that guy seems to be outkissing me, judging from the number of beauty contests he has presided over!"
Word: outkissing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outkiss Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outkisses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outkiss Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outkissed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outkiss Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: epicoele Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From epi- + -coele. 1. A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of vertebrates. Labels: no-plural
Word: indefinables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of indefinable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undefinables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of undefinable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: C instrument Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to the musical note C. 1. an instrument that either does not transpose, or transposes by an octave or multiple octaves.
Word: C instruments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of C instrument Labels: form-of, plural
Word: F instrument Part of Speech: noun 1. an instrument that produces a concert pitch of F when a C is written in the music
Word: F instruments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of F instrument Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Didonia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In allusion to the classical story of Queen Dido, who was granted the land she could encompass with a piece of bull hide. 1. The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area. Example: And hence, by Meusnier's theorem, the difference of the squares of the curvatures of curve and surface is constant; the curvature of the surface meaning here the reciprocal of the radius of the sphere which osculates in the reduction of the element of the Didonia.
Word: Didonias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Didonia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: B♭ instrument Part of Speech: noun 1. an instrument that produces a concert pitch of B♭ when a C is written in the music
Word: B♭ instruments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of B♭ instrument Labels: form-of, plural
Word: by-speech Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of byspeech. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: by-speeches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of by-speech Labels: form-of, plural
Word: E♭ instrument Part of Speech: noun 1. an instrument that produces the concert pitch of E♭ when a C is written in the music
Word: E♭ instruments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of E♭ instrument Labels: form-of, plural
Word: equisonance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From equi- + Latin sonans, present participle of sonare (“to sound”). Compare French équisonnance. See sonant. 1. An equal and undistinguishable unison of voices; a perfect consonance. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: equisonances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of equisonance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subkey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + key. 1. A partial key. 2. A key located beneath another key in the registry.
Word: subkeys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subkey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: longbeak Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From long + beak. 1. having a long break (applied to various animals) Labels: not-comparable
Word: longbeak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From long + beak. 1. The American red-bellied snipe (Limnodromus scolopaceus). 2. A slender West Indian fish, Euleptorhamphus velox Poey.
Word: longbeaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of longbeak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: toastable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From toast + -able. 1. Suitable for toasting. Example: […]there is neither toastable bread nor bacon in the house! Example: […]bread suitable for breakfast, for instance, toastable bread[…]
Word: toadyisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of toadyism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kestral Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of kestrel. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: racingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From racing + -ly. 1. In a racing manner; at high speed. Example: A car sped racingly past. Example: We watched a heart-racingly tense thriller.
Word: shriekings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shrieking Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spookfest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spook + -fest. 1. A frightening event. Labels: slang
Word: spookfests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spookfest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Racovian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin Racōviānus, from Racōvia (“Raków”). Pronunciation: /ɹəˈkəʊvɪən/ 1. A member of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland, with their headquarters in Raków Labels: historical 2. Someone from Raków
Word: Racovians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Racovian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dispropriate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + Latin proprius (“one's own, proper”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), modelled after appropriate. 1. To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate. Labels: transitive
Word: dispropriated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dispropriate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dispropriates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dispropriate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dispropriating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dispropriate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reduvid Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of reduviid. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: reduvids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reduvid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: resegment Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + segment. 1. To segment again or anew; to split into different divisions. Labels: transitive Example: The sentence "In every ode linger many" can be resegmented to read "I never yodel in Germany".
Word: resegmenting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of resegment Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: resegments Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of resegment Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: resegmented Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of resegment Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: toze Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of tose. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tozed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of toze Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tozes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of toze Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tozing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of toze Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: scillitin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Scilla + -in 1. A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla). Labels: uncountable
Word: trysquare Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of try square. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: trysquares Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trysquare Labels: form-of, plural
Word: psychographies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of psychography Labels: form-of, plural
Word: psychography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From psycho- + -graphy. 1. The act of a spirit possessing one's physical body in order to write something. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A description of the psyche. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He spurns “neuters and geldings” in favor of “men and women fully equipt.” This is not biography but psychography.
Word: chalkily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From chalky + -ly. 1. In a chalky fashion. Example: She turned chalkily white on hearing the bad news.
Word: superpurgation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + purgation. 1. excessive purgation Example: Dr. Willis began to purge the Patient with the above-prescribed Bolus : but there happening thereupon a Superpurgation , he declined the repeating of that Purge.
Word: superpurgations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superpurgation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cessment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cess + -ment. See cess (verb). 1. An assessment or tax. Labels: obsolete Example: charge the Kingdom with a new Cessment of four hundred chousand Duckers
Word: cessments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cessment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noncalcic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + calcic. 1. Not calcic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: tetrathionic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tetra- + thionic + acid. 1. A thionic derivative of sulphuric acid, H₂S₄O₆ Labels: uncountable
Word: suspection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English suspeccion, suspeccioun, suspeccyon, suspectyon, susspeccioun, from Latin suspectiō and Middle French suspeccion, suspection. Doublet of soupçon. By surface analysis, suspect + -ion. 1. suspicion Labels: countable, nonstandard, obsolete, uncountable
Word: cicuration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French cicuration. 1. The act of taming. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: This holds not only in domestick and mansuete birds; for then it might be thought the effect of cicuration or institution, but also in the wild
Word: illutation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From il- (“in”) + Latin lutum (“mud”). 1. The act of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: illutations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of illutation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neurocoeles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neurocoele Labels: form-of, plural
Word: myopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French myopie. 1. Archaic form of myopia. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable
Word: veterinary hospitals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of veterinary hospital Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inescation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin inescatio. 1. The act of baiting; allurement. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: the Soul is enamour'd with these fading Beauties , and ensoared by the powerful Inescations of Sense
Word: inescations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inescation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: protogrammar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proto- + grammar. 1. A rudimentary grammar.
Word: primatological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From primatology + -ical. 1. Relating to primatology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: protogrammars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of protogrammar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pardie Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English parde, from Anglo-Norman pardi, pardeu, and Old French pardeu, from par (“by”) + Deu (“God”). Pronunciation: /pɑːˈdi/ 1. By God! Example: Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly. Example: “Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard; / But what reward had he that overcame?”
Word: trigintal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin trigintate, from Latin triginta thirty. 1. A trental (various senses) Labels: archaic
Word: trigintals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trigintal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preterlegal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From preter- + legal. 1. illegal. Labels: obsolete
Word: pedregal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish pedregal (“a stony place”), from piedra (“stone”). 1. A lava field in Mexico or the Western US.
Word: pedregals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pedregal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trendwatcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trend + watcher. 1. One who studies trends and attempts to predict future trends. Example: During the '90s, some social trendwatchers believe, the same overwhelming urge to join will drive aging yuppies off their treadmills and into the streets. Example: With experience, a trendwatcher becomes skilled at spotting the elusive and subtle shifts that signal fashion change.
Word: trendwatchers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trendwatcher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: curialism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From curial + -ism. 1. The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church: the supremacy of the Roman Curia. Labels: derogatory, uncountable Example: is it not an astonishing fact , with reference to the spirit of Curialism, that down to the year 1870 these preposterous claims of aggression should have been upheld
Word: toadeater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From toad + eater, said to allude to an old alleged practice among mountebanks, who would hire a boy to eat (or pretend to eat) toads, which many had considered poisonous. The toadeater (or "toady") would pretend to writhe in pain, until the quack gave him some "medicine" and pretended that the boy was cured. Compare toady. 1. A fawning, obsequious parasite; a low sycophant or flatterer. Labels: archaic, derogatory Example: 1819, J. Wilson, Complete Dictionary of Astrology "Horary Questions", Of Theft. a chaplain, tutor, toadeater, or some superior servant Example: You're too zealous a toadeater, and betray yourself.
Word: toadeaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of toadeater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hemacyanin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hemocyanin. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: hoodman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hood + man. 1. A member of a youth subculture group that listens to urban music, wears puffer jackets and sportswear, uses a heavy Toronto accent (with lingo), is typically uneducated, and may be engaged in illegal activities. Labels: Canada, slang Example: toronto hoodmans don't even laugh they just yell "yooooo" & "chillll" in different variations and rhythms 2. The blindfolded player in the game of hoodman-blind, or blind man's buff. Labels: obsolete Example: Hush, hush! Hoodman / comes.
Word: oarweeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oarweed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oreweed Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of oarweed. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: oreweeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oreweed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sabretasche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French sabretache, from German. 1. A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the swordbelt. Labels: obsolete Example: Oh, love is the soul of an Irish dragoon In battle, in bivouac, or in saloon, From the tip of his spur to his bright sabretasche.
Word: sabretasches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sabretasche Labels: form-of, plural
Word: swordbelt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sword + belt. 1. A belt with an attachment for the sword, used to carry it when not in use.
Word: swordbelts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swordbelt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thamnophilid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the Thamnophilidae; an antbird.
Word: thamnophilids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thamnophilid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cosentient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From co- + sentient. 1. Perceiving together. Labels: not-comparable, uncommon Example: cosentient humanity Example: cosentient individuals
Word: pathognomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pathognomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pathognomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “passion”) + -gnomy from physiognomy. 1. The facial expressions showing emotions Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The science of such expressions Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: amylobacter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin amylum (“starch”) + bacterium. 1. A bacillus (Clostridium butyricum) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. It has medicinal uses
Word: amylobacters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amylobacter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: teratical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek τεράτικος (terátikos, “monstrous”), from τέρας (téras, “monster”). Pronunciation: /təˈɹætɪkəl/ 1. wonderful; ominous; prodigious Labels: obsolete Example: Herodotus, possibly delighting in teratical stories, might tell what he never heard: or the passage may be an interpolation; or it may be alterd in transcribing
Word: shamer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shame + -er. 1. One who disgraces someone or makes them feel ashamed, especially by public criticism. Example: The longer social-media shamers condemn preferences that the overwhelming majority of people share, the more inevitable the pushback. 2. Something which makes someone feel ashamed. Labels: obsolete Example: My means and my conditions are no shamers / Of him that owes 'em, (all the world knows that,) / And my friends no reliers on my fortunes.
Word: shamers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shamer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: motley crews Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of motley crew Labels: form-of, plural
Word: earth-floor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of earth floor. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: earthfloor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of earth floor. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: About two thirds of the children died in infancy by the hands of the mother, who would choke a babe or bury it alive in the earthfloor of her hut simply to stop its crying. Example: The lark in wild glee races the reel round, paying or dealing out and down the turns of the skein or coil right to the earthfloor, the ground, where it lies in a heap, as it were, or rather is all wound off on to another winch, reel, […]
Word: earth floor Part of Speech: noun 1. An earthen floor, a floor (in a building) which is simply the ground itself, rather than some covering such as wood or vinyl.
Word: earth floors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of earth floor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: earth-floors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of earth-floor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: earthfloors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of earthfloor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spermatogemma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spermato- + gemma. 1. spermosphere
Word: spermatogemmas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spermatogemma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spermatogemmae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spermatogemma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spermatoblasts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spermatoblast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: monstration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin monstratio. 1. The act of demonstrating; proof. Labels: obsolete Example: The Communio, the true point of lustre in the mass, in connection with which the change of substance takes place, and now, after completed consecration, adoration, and monstration of the host, the body of the Lord is partaken of by the priest. Example: Representation, or the art of making absent Persons and things present, as often as is requisite—this is imitation, monstration, or demonstration of persons and things
Word: monstration Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of flash mob popular in Russia, where young people take to the streets with homemade banners and placards sporting absurd, non-political slogans.
Word: chaetiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chaeta + -ferous. 1. Bearing chaetae. Example: chaetiferous segment Example: chaetiferous species
Word: Rai Part of Speech: name Etymology: Indian/Hindi surname, from a personal name based on the noun राजा (rājā, “king”). 1. A surname from India found among people from northern India and coastal Karnataka.
Word: Rai Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Ray (“a region and satrapy in ancient Iran located between the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges and the Dasht-e Kavir desert”) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Rai Part of Speech: noun 1. An ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Nepal. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: beaupere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French beau (“fair”) + pere (“father”). 1. A father. Labels: obsolete 2. A companion. Labels: obsolete Example: Now leading him into a ſecret ſhade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heauens vew,[…].
Word: beauperes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beaupere Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cephalotome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cephalo- + -tome. 1. An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery during a stillbirth. Labels: archaic
Word: cephalotomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cephalotome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rhyncholite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rhyncho- + -lite. Compare French rhyncholithe. 1. A fossil cephalopod beak.
Word: rhyncholites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhyncholite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: terneplate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from terne (“colourless, drab, dull”) (as contrasted with the shiny appearance of tinplate) + plate (“layer of a material on the surface of something, plating”). 1. Thin iron or steel sheeting coated with an alloy of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin), often with some antimony. Labels: also, attributive, countable, uncountable
Word: terneplates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of terneplate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gymnopaedic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Ancient Greek From Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + a child. 1. Having young that are featherless when hatched. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to the Gymnopaedia (a Spartan festival) Labels: not-comparable
Word: superreflection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + reflection. 1. The reflection of a reflected image, sound, magnetosonic wave, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There be three kinds of reflections of sounds; a reflection concurrent, a reflection iterant, which we call echo; and a super-reflection, or an echo of an echo
Word: superreflections Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superreflection Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fluoboric acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fluo- + bor + -ic. 1. fluoroboric acid Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: borofluoric acid Part of Speech: noun 1. fluoboric acid Labels: uncountable
Word: stuntedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stunted + -ness. 1. The quality of being stunted or dwarfed. Labels: uncountable