nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: insulationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From insulation + -ist. 1. A supporter of insulationism. Example: WASHINGTON, May 13 (Bloomberg News) — Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, said Sunday that his party had “been hijacked by a group of single-minded, almost isolationist insulationists, power-projectors.”
Word: insulationists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of insulationist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prerock Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + rock. 1. Before the advent of rock music. Labels: not-comparable Example: The prerock tradition has acquired so many layers of cultural implication that singers who take it too seriously tend to sound more like curators than entertainers.
Word: recitativelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From recitative + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a recitative. Example: There is recitativelike declamation, lingering melodiousness and rushes of busy passagework.
Word: ungimmicky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + gimmicky. 1. Not gimmicky. Example: But their differences add to the intensity in a^([sic]) entirely ungimmicky way.
Word: ductlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From duct + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a duct. Example: But this cavern almost measureless to the eye, stuffed as it is with an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metal, eight-story wheels of gold fan-shape boxes, thousands of miles of wire and fat ductlike coils, echoes with the shriek of power tools, the whine of pumps and cranes, beeps and clanks from wrenches, hammers, screwdrivers and the occasional falling bolt.
Word: cremor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cremor; compare cream. 1. cream, a creamy substance, yeast, or scum Labels: archaic
Word: doughtily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From doughty + -ly. 1. In a doughty manner. Example: Her loyal subjects need her, and so she doughtily broods on.
Word: doughtiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English douȝtines; equivalent to doughty + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊtinəs/ 1. The quality of being doughty. Labels: uncountable
Word: cremator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cremate + -or. 1. One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.
Word: anywhen Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From any + when. 1. whenever, at any point in time Labels: nonstandard, not-comparable, rare
Word: Elks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Elk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Elks Part of Speech: name 1. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Word: dots the i's and crosses the t's Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dot the i's and cross the t's Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dotting the i's and crossing the t's Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dot the i's and cross the t's Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dotted the i's and crossed the t's Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dot the i's and cross the t's Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: boil the ocean Part of Speech: verb 1. To undertake an overwhelmingly difficult task or approach to a problem. Labels: figuratively Example: Whitman said she will not try to "boil the ocean" by taking on too much.
Word: Louisiana Creole French Part of Speech: name 1. Synonym of Louisiana Creole. Labels: proscribed, sometimes
Word: Fraserburgh Part of Speech: name Etymology: "Burgh of Fraser," from Fraser + burgh. 1. A coastal town in the north of Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9966).
Word: waiting game Part of Speech: noun 1. A strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances change in their favor. Labels: idiomatic Example: to play the waiting game Example: […] inasmuch as nothing was really and rationally to be hoped for but a long continuance of the siege and wearying out of the English, they were naturally a little afraid of Joan's impetuous notions. He said— “You see, we are sure that the waiting game is the best, whereas you would carry everything by storm.”
Word: filestore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From file + store. 1. A conceptual space where files are stored. Example: The manipulation of files and related data in an OSI environment is achieved by mapping the real filestores of real systems on to virtual filestores that have standard interfaces to the OSI communications networks.
Word: filestores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of filestore Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unconfidently Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unconfident + -ly. 1. In an unconfident manner; without confidence. Example: I guessed, rather unconfidently.
Word: Newcastleton Part of Speech: name Etymology: From new + Castleton, being previously named Castleton. Pronunciation: /njuˈkasəltən/ 1. A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, also known as Copshaw Holm, or Copshie in Scots.
Word: Selkirk Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English sǣl (“hall”) + cirice (“church”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlkɪɾk/, /ˈsɛlkɪɹk/, /ˈsɛlkɜːk/, /ˈsɛlkɚk/ 1. A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, and the former county town of Selkirkshire (OS grid ref NT4728). 2. A city in Manitoba, Canada. 3. A community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. 4. An unincorporated community in Wichita County, Kansas, United States. 5. A ghost town in New Madrid County, Missouri, United States. 6. A hamlet in the town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York, United States. 7. A surname.
Word: Denholm Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English dene (“valley”) + holm (“islet”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɛnəm/ 1. A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT568184). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A municipality in Quebec, Canada. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: declamator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēclāmātor. 1. A declaimer. Example: a light Declamator
Word: distent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin distentus. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɛnt/ 1. distended Example: Some others were new driven, and distent Into great ingowes Example: The North-east spends his rage; he now shut up Within his iron cave, the effusive South Warms the wide air, and o'er the void of heaven Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent.
Word: distent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin distentus. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɛnt/ 1. breadth Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […]shall yet be distended, one fourteenth part longer then the sayd entire Diameter; which addition of distent will conferre much to their Beauty, and detract but little from their Strength
Word: dister Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin dis- + terra (“earth, country”); compare Spanish and Portuguese desterrar. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)/ 1. To banish or drive from a country. Labels: obsolete Example: March 1 1621, James Howell, letter to Dr. Francis Mansel many thousands were disterred and banished hence to Barbary
Word: emigrator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From emigrate + -or. 1. Someone who emigrates; an emigrant.
Word: war of nerves Part of Speech: noun 1. Warfare characterized by psychological manipulation, involving tactics intended to demoralize, frighten, and unnerve opponents in order to prompt surrender. Labels: idiomatic Example: Our brave Ottoman soldiers are not easily frightened by noise, owing to their splendid nerves—and this is a war of nerves, a war in which strong nerves mean victory. Example: In the future, war will not merely be one of men and machines, it will be a war of wills and a war of nerves. 2. A situation in which opposed parties refrain from direct conflict but maintain a tense, contentious relationship in which each uses annoyances or intimidating psychological tactics to attempt to dishearten and unnerve the other. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: A united steel industry appeared to have emerged the victor today in a war of nerves to raise prices on some of its products in the face of White House pressure to hold the price line. Example: 14 of America's best chess players are wielding kings, queens and their chessboard servants in a silent but brutal war. . . . "It's a mental war, it's a war of nerves, of logic, or reasoning, of being a good fighter," said Walter Browne.
Word: carsaf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشف. 1. A large sheet-like wrapper worn over other garments in several Muslim cultures. Example: A young woman in a traditional black carsaf waited for the call to midday prayer on Friday outside the Mevlana Mosque in central Konya.
Word: carsafs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of carsaf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overbidder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From overbid + -er. 1. One who overbids. Example: When he is hugging grandmothers or quizzing college students or consoling anguished overbidders on the set of “The Price Is Right,” it is hard to imagine that anything as crass as ambition is what motivates Bob Barker.
Word: anguishedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From anguished + -ly. 1. In an anguished manner.
Word: overbidders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overbidder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: postmarket Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + market. 1. After the release of a product onto the market. Labels: not-comparable Example: “There’s no health-outcome data collected by anybody other than some voluntary reporting, and there’s no postmarket testing on how these drugs are being used,” said Susan Berke Fogel, co-founder of the Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research, a project of the Public Health Institute in Oakland, Calif.
Word: ratchetlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ratchet + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a ratchet. Example: Tiny upward-facing hairs on the lower portion of the awns have a ratchetlike function, preventing the awns from backsliding once they’ve moved.
Word: regalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From regal + -ness. 1. The quality of being regal. Labels: uncountable Example: She’s majestic, all right, her regalness clearly born, made and thrust upon her every day of her life.
Word: unpompous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + pompous. 1. Not pompous. Example: Such sober poise and unpompous stances!
Word: Dick's hatband Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown; theories include reference to some local figure named Dick or Nick; to Satan (cf. Old Nick and dickens); and to Richard Cromwell. 1. Used in similes as an intensifier, indicating someone or something is extremely strange, tight, etc. Labels: colloquial, dated Example: A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band. Example: I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me.
Word: queer as Dick's hatband Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A variant (the earliest attested and formerly most common) of the phrase Dick's hatband 1. Very queer: very unusual or strange. Labels: colloquial, dated, not-comparable Example: A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band.
Word: unpompously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unpompous + -ly. 1. Without pomposity.
Word: intercountry Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + country. 1. Between countries. Labels: not-comparable Example: While individual states and counties will still control domestic adoption, the State Department will become the federal regulating agency in charge of intercountry adoptions.
Word: waitest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: wait + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of wait Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: disorientations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disorientation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disorientedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From disoriented + -ly. 1. In a disoriented manner.
Word: frustrator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin frūstrātor. Doublet of frustrater. 1. Someone who frustrates (hinders, thwarts, disconcerts) the plans or aims of another person. Example: Technology will be the ultimate facilitator or frustrator of international crime. In either case, the United States will be at the center as the principal exporter or victim of criminal activity.
Word: disorientedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disoriented + -ness. 1. The state of being disoriented. Labels: uncountable
Word: tighter than Dick's hatband Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of as tight as Dick's hatband. Labels: alt-of, alternative, colloquial, dated
Word: tight as Dick's hatband Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: A variant of the phrase Dick's hatband. 1. Very tight, whether: Labels: colloquial, dated 2. Very tight, whether: Labels: colloquial, dated Example: She's sharp as a tack when she wants to be and still tight as Dick's Hatband about her money.
Word: hypermilitarized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hypermilitarize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hypermilitarized Part of Speech: adj 1. Militarized to an extreme degree. Example: But the fact of the matter is that Russia does object to the plan, many European allies are nervous, and the whole idea could reinforce the global image of the United States as a hypermilitarized, go-it-alone superpower.
Word: as fine as Dick's hatband Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: A variant of the phrase Dick's hatband 1. Very fine: very good or well-made. Labels: colloquial, dated
Word: repat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. A repatriate. Labels: informal Example: One of the most important things you can do as a repat is to help in the reunification of the churches, much more so than anything you’re doing in television or business. Example: Becoming a “repat” felt empowering to Mr. Mahdi as a Black Muslim, he said.
Word: repats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of repat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semitragic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + tragic. 1. Having certain elements of tragedy. Labels: not-comparable Example: JONATHAN PRAGER is a 40-something Manhattan comedian and singer whose life experience and worldview, like those of many other comedians, are semitragic.
Word: unlocatable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + locatable. 1. Not locatable; impossible to locate. Example: In this case it appears to have been randomly applied, like bandages on an unlocatable wound. Example: As work on the assignment progressed, students found that many of the terms they first selected proved unlocatable in English-language contexts, and were only found in Cantonese contexts[.]
Word: unsteeped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + steeped. 1. Not having been steeped. Labels: not-comparable Example: Mr. Obama has presented himself as a fresh face, unsteeped in Washington and the proverbial “politics as usual.”
Word: germinator Part of Speech: noun 1. A container in which plants may be germinated
Word: caryatidlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From caryatid + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a caryatid. Example: Adnet asked the artist Maurice Savin to embellish his oak dining table with white ceramic caryatidlike legs.
Word: glacierlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From glacier + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a glacier. Example: This year the installation is made up of two stainless-steel tree sculptures — “Conjoined” and “Defunct” — and a glacierlike boulder, “Erratic,” by Roxy Paine, a conceptual artist who often juxtaposes nature and modern industrialization.
Word: kukui Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hawaiian kukui. Doublet of tuitui. Pronunciation: /kuˈku.i/ 1. Aleurites moluccana, the candlenut tree. Labels: Hawaii Example: Though I'd often eaten sashimi, poke was then completely new to me—delicious rubies of cubed fish dressed in light sesame oil, garnished with minced bits of reddish-brown seaweed and the ground centers of kukui nuts (see recipe, next page). Example: “We get so wrapped up in the lei thing,” Ms. Shibata said, noting that instead of that perishable adornment, children will create bracelets of nuts from the kukui, the Hawaiian state tree.
Word: kukuis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kukui Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kukumakrankas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kukumakranka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noisemonger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From noise + monger. 1. A musician who produces noisy music. Labels: slang Example: Tomorrow’s bill has the most potential, with the veteran Japanese noisemongers Merzbow and Keiji Haino, as well as Demons, Religious Knives, Tom Recchion and Oblivia.
Word: noisemongers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of noisemonger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noodlemania Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From noodle + -mania. 1. Love of noodles. Labels: informal, rare, uncountable Example: On the neighbor islands, noodlemania prevails... Example: He backs that up by recalling the impact he had on his cooking partner at the French Culinary Institute: The partner dropped out. Mr. Chang persisted and it paid off: Craft, Mercer Kitchen, Park Hyatt Tokyo (to refine his noodlemania), and Café Boulud employed him before he opted for independence via a lowly noodle bar.
Word: gestator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who gestates.
Word: powerboater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From powerboat + -er. 1. One who takes part in powerboating. Example: He marveled that the Waterway could temporarily unite two distinct species, powerboaters and sailboaters, who have historically avoided each other like the plague.
Word: powerboaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of powerboater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: relink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + link. 1. To link again or anew. Labels: transitive Example: It took three years to relink the tracks on the west and east ends of the border.
Word: relinks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of relink Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: relinking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of relink Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: relinking Part of Speech: noun 1. relinkage
Word: relinked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of relink Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sailboater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sailboat + -er. 1. One who sails a sailboat. Example: He marveled that the Waterway could temporarily unite two distinct species, powerboaters and sailboaters, who have historically avoided each other like the plague.
Word: sailboaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sailboater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: selectperson Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From select + person. 1. A selectman or selectwoman. Labels: uncommon Example: Near-synonyms: selectman, selectwoman, councilperson, councilman, councilwoman
Word: selectpersons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of selectperson Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonprofessionalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + professionalism. 1. unprofessionalism Labels: uncountable Example: “Such templates I heard only in the 70s and 80s — extreme nonprofessionalism and surprisingly visible censorship.
Word: overcaller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From overcall + -er. 1. One who overcalls. Example: The no-trump overcaller completes the transfer, and his partner will bid again when strong.
Word: overcallers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overcaller Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unmighty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English vnmyghty, vnmyȝty, unmihti, from Old English unmihtiġ (“weak, not mighty”), equivalent to un- + mighty. 1. Not mighty; weak. Example: And how the unmighty have risen: Fox, which after all these years is still not counted among the “big three” networks by some old-timers, now attracts the audiences advertisers desire more.
Word: beachbound Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From beach + -bound. 1. Heading towards a beach. Labels: not-comparable Example: The service, which consists of just one beachbound bus on Fridays and one return bus on Sunday evenings, is part of a trial run, operated by Hampton Jitney through the end of the summer.
Word: ceanothus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. Pronunciation: /ˌsiː.əˈnoʊθəs/ 1. Any of the genus Ceanothus of North American buckthorns.
Word: ceanothuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ceanothus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: double-crosses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of double-cross Labels: form-of, plural
Word: double-crosses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of double-cross Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: double-crossing Part of Speech: adj 1. Which double-crosses. Example: That dirty, double-crossing bastard!
Word: double-crossing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of double-cross Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: double-crossing Part of Speech: noun 1. Betrayal; a double-cross. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Why have you brought Tilehurst here?—that's what I want to know […] There must be some funny double-crossing going on for you to let me talk as I did and never say that he was in it.
Word: double-crossed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of double-cross Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: collectibility Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being collectible. Labels: uncountable
Word: collectability Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of collectibility. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: electrolyzer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electrolyze + -er. 1. A device that carries out electrolysis.
Word: electrolyzers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of electrolyzer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fraulein Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Fräulein. Pronunciation: /fɹɔɪlaɪn/, /fɹaʊliːn/ 1. A young German woman. Example: Waiters are in button-downs, and waitresses wear full-on fraulein garb.
Word: frauleins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fraulein Labels: form-of, plural
Word: greenward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From green + -ward. 1. Toward a green, for example on a golf course. 2. Towards an ecologically friendly situation. Example: Yet the Bradley administration - moving ever greenward as it bailed itself out from one political corruption crisis to another - continued in theory to commit itself to tougher growth-management and conservationist positions. Example: But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse.
Word: Gott in Himmel Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Misquotation of German Gott im Himmel. 1. Oh my God. Labels: rare
Word: nonforaging Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + foraging. 1. That does not forage. Labels: not-comparable Example: a nonforaging animal 2. Not of or pertaining to foraging. Labels: not-comparable Example: nonforaging activities
Word: immunohematologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From immuno- + hematologist. 1. One who works in the field of immunohematology. Example: The bridegroom, 75, retired as a consulting immunohematologist in Manhattan, serving as an expert witness in paternity cases.
Word: immunohematologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of immunohematologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: incentivization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From incentivize + -ation. 1. The act or process of incentivizing. Labels: British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable Example: It’s about time that the sleeping giant (the health care industry) wakes up, smells the coffee and learns from other giants (like the manufacturing industry): process improvement, incentivization and healthy competition are drivers of change to control costs in the current health care system.
Word: mayhemic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mayhem + -ic. 1. In a state of mayhem. Labels: nonstandard Example: In the United States, Mr. Besson is primarily known as a superior director of stylish, mayhemic, even soulful films like “La Femme Nikita” and “Léon: The Professional.”
Word: megabudget Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + budget. 1. A very large budget. Labels: informal Example: In subsequent films Mr. Besson realized his ambition to meld visionary, megabudget Hollywood-style spectacle to French sensibility.
Word: megabudgets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megabudget Labels: form-of, plural
Word: microminiature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + miniature. 1. A particularly small miniature. Example: In descending order, collectors categorize such books as macrominiatures (three to four inches in height), miniatures (one to three inches), microminiatures (one quarter-inch to one inch) and the greatest of the least, the ultramicrominiatures (less than one-quarter inch).
Word: microminiatures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microminiature Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multiblock Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + block. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one block (in various senses). Labels: not-comparable Example: For some, the attraction may be the new Yankee Stadium, a billion-dollar multiblock public-private behemoth whose curved bleachers are even now rising across East 161st Street from its older cousin.
Word: multiblock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From multi- + block. 1. A contraption created from a combination of multiple blocks. Example: Hi. I'm creating ideas for a mod of mine (TechExpansion), and I would like to add multiblocks. The mod is for versions 1.10 and soon enough, 1.11. I know how to use TileEntities and NBT, but I am confused on how to do multiblocks. Example: Im not programmer so i dont know how works adding multiblocks in to the game.
Word: pixielike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pixie + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a pixie. Example: But when four of the prototype devices are stolen, a wave of madness breaks out among the research crew and slowly spreads into the Japanese population. Dr. Chiba joins a thoroughly rational policeman, Detective Konakawa, to track down the mysterious malefactor who is holding the sanity of Japan in his hands; they are joined in their quest by the title character, a pixielike redhead (drawn in a more traditional, wide-eyed anime style than the rest of the cast) who acts as a dream guide and trip doctor for those undergoing DC therapy.
Word: ridable Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of rideable. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The home-video outfits that control most of the Wayne catalog have been furiously clearing their vaults, repackaging and gift-boxing previously released films, and preparing DVDs of the “special,” “deluxe” and “collector’s” variety, in an effort to catch what might be the last ridable wave of Dukemania in our lifetimes.
Word: semimythological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + mythological. 1. Having certain elements of mythology. Labels: not-comparable Example: It’s a perfect setting for a fantastic, semimythological creature like the Duke to cavort in.
Word: sloganed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From slogan + -ed. 1. Labelled with a slogan. Labels: not-comparable Example: Scottie, a precocious 10-year old,^([sic]) wears provocatively sloganed T-shirts and harasses her peers by text message.
Word: supergeeky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + geeky. 1. Extremely geeky. Labels: informal Example: “Being interested in trains seems to be like a supergeeky kind of thing, and kind of a boy’s thing,” said Hadassah Max, 30, laughing. Example: We mark that information with our supergeeky hero so that you know that it's just background information.
Word: thermopane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thermo- + pane, originally a trademark. 1. An insulated glazing unit. Example: There was nothing odd, or futuristic, or exotically “eco” about the house — no solar panels to be seen, no giant arrays of thermopane windows passively drinking up light and heat; yet here, I’d been told, in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan, was a house that had the potential — not long from now, not 20 years from now, but maybe within 5 to 10 years — to help turn millions of American homes into fully self-sustaining power plants, each one capable of producing hydrogen to fuel cars as well.
Word: thermopanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thermopane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sideblades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sideblade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: untouchably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From untouchable + -ly. 1. In an untouchable manner. Example: Parenthood, untouchably sacrosanct in so much of our culture, is on “24” a grotesquely compromised institution.
Word: untouristy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + touristy. 1. Not touristy. Example: We sought an untouristy restaurant in the back streets of Venice.
Word: wheatboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wheat + board. 1. An ecologically friendly type of board made with processed wheat. Labels: uncountable Example: The wall behind the cubbies is made of wheatboard, an environmentally friendly equivalent of plywood containing processed wheat.
Word: noncasein Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + casein. 1. Not of or pertaining to casein. Labels: not-comparable
Word: multipattern Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + pattern. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one pattern. Labels: not-comparable
Word: multipatterned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + patterned. 1. Decorated with more than one pattern. 2. Related to more than one trend or instance.
Word: woolshed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wool + shed. 1. A shed where sheep are shorn. Example: The Marie Short House evokes the woolsheds of New South Wales.
Word: woolsheds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of woolshed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lampblacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lampblack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lampblacks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lampblack Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: autochrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + -chrome. 1. An early photograph produced by means of a glass plate coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic dyed grains of potato starch under silver halide emulsion. Example: This century-old Edward Steichen autochrome, probably of Charlotte Spaulding, has been discovered after decades in storage.
Word: autochromes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autochrome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: postpremiere Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + premiere. 1. After a premiere. Labels: not-comparable Example: Now more common are postpremiere parties that have 500 guests or fewer.
Word: supercozy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + cozy. 1. Very cozy. Labels: informal, rare Example: So the book divides itself between feel-good, supercozy moments of domesticity (a far cry from Mr. Kurson’s earlier submarine tale) and the scientific experiment in which Mr. May became a guinea pig.
Word: excitor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of exciter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: supercomfortable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + comfortable. 1. Very comfortable. Labels: informal Example: The hotel had supercomfortable beds.
Word: excitate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin excitatus, past participle of excitare. See excite. 1. To excite. Labels: nonstandard, obsolete Example: the Earth being excitated to wrath Example: For the act of laughter, which is evidenced by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely voluntary, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves, but, as it may be constrained by corporal contaction in any, and hath been enforced in some even in their death, so the new, unusual, or unexpected, jucundities which present themselves to any man in his life, at some time or other, will have activity enough to excitate the earthiest soul, and raise a smile from the most composed tempers.
Word: drydocking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of drydock Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: drydocked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of drydock Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fraudproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fraud + -proof. 1. Resistant to fraud. Example: For another trigger, the Department of Homeland Security must create a new, fraudproof system to verify the legal status of all job applicants.
Word: meltproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From melt + -proof. 1. Resistant to melting.
Word: excusator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excusator. 1. One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist. Labels: obsolete Example: Henry was determined not to ſend any proxy to plead his cauſe before this court: He only deſpatched Sir Edward Karne and Dr. Bonner, in quality of excuſators, (ſo they were called,) to carry his apology, for not paying that deference to the papal authority.
Word: Zorn's lemma Part of Speech: name Etymology: After Max August Zorn 1906-1993, German-born American mathematician. See German Zorn. 1. A proposition of set theory stating that every partially ordered set, in which every chain (i.e. totally ordered subset) has an upper bound, contains at least one maximal element.
Word: stickproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stick + -proof. 1. Resistant to sticking.
Word: exhalate Part of Speech: verb 1. to breathe out or upon.
Word: radiationproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From radiation + -proof. 1. Resistant to the harmful effects of radiation.
Word: radiationlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From radiation + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of radiation.
Word: radonproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From radon + -proof. 1. Resistant to the harmful effects of radon.
Word: harrumpher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From harrumph + -er. 1. One who complains or moralizes. Labels: informal
Word: exonerator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin exonerātor. By surface analysis, exonerate + -or. 1. One who exonerates.
Word: harrumphers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of harrumpher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nainsook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi नैनसुख (nainsukh), from नैन (nain, “eye”) + सुख (sukh, “pleasure, luxury”). Pronunciation: /ˈneɪnˌsʊk/ 1. A soft, fine muslin of South Asian origin, sometimes used to make baby clothes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.
Word: postcancer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + cancer. 1. After the onset of cancer. Labels: not-comparable Example: Cancer treatment and research are expanding to incorporate long-term postcancer care.
Word: seadevil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sea + devil. 1. Alternative spelling of sea devil (Lophiiformes). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: From left; Caulophryne jordani Fanfin seadevil, Marrus Orthocanna and Grimpoteuthis, or "Dumbo octopus."
Word: seadevils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seadevil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sniperlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sniper + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a sniper. Example: MOSCOW, Idaho, May 21 — The gunman who killed a police officer, a church sexton and then himself in this quiet northern Idaho town over the weekend also apparently shot and killed his wife in the moments before his sniperlike shootings, the authorities said on Monday.
Word: unafflicted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + afflicted. 1. Not afflicted. Labels: not-comparable Example: Cooper remains a largely sculptural presence, a western Adonis unafflicted by a personality.
Word: uncontrol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- (“lack or absence of”) + control. 1. The lack or absence of control. Labels: uncommon, uncountable Example: She said comedy was “the victorious tilting of uncontrol against control.” Example: The brows raised exceedingly, signify uncontrol.
Word: lactant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin lactans, present participle of lactare (“to suck”), from lac, lactis (“milk”). 1. lactating; producing milk. Labels: not-comparable Example: Under the circumstances where the hypophysectomized mothers (and unexpectedly, two control mothers) could not lactate, a schedule for the re-shuffling of test young between lactant and non-lactant mothers was instituted ( this was arranged so that each test young was alternately under the care of a pair of lactant and non-lactant mothers) . Example: […] to provide adequate diets to families which have either a pregnant or a lactant woman. It also shows that to provide an adequate diet to a family with a pregnant woman would cost Cr $8.34 / month ( Cr$60.34 ) less than to feed the same family with a lactant woman.
Word: lactant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin lactans, present participle of lactare (“to suck”), from lac, lactis (“milk”). 1. A lactating mother; A mother who is suckling offspring. Example: Even if a lactant has taken a poison, it will, as the hitherto literature shows, scarcely be excreted into her milk. Example: Given the evident toxicological impact of certain elements on lactants, and considering that the absorption of these is significantly higher than in adults, it is desirable that infant formulae are proportionally similar or inferior in levels of concentration to those supplying human milk
Word: nosography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From noso- + -graphy. 1. The systematic naming and description of diseases. Labels: uncountable 2. A treatise on diseases. Labels: countable
Word: octamerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octa- + -merous. 1. Having parts in groups of eight Labels: not-comparable
Word: incandescences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of incandescence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lactator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lactate + -or. 1. One who lactates.
Word: milewide Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mile + wide. 1. Measuring a mile in width. Labels: not-comparable Example: In cities like Hoboken, Jersey City and Weehawken, the value of a view of the Manhattan skyline across a milewide stretch of water overwhelms a site’s value as a functional place to store and repackage goods.
Word: propmaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prop + master. 1. A person in charge of cinematic props. Example: When he gets around to drinking his first cup of coffee in 30 years (his crew, he says, urges him to try it for a pick-me-up), it’s naturally from one of those so-called Anthora Greek-themed diner cups; his propmaster must have sought long and hard for one of those endangered artifacts.
Word: propmasters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of propmaster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multinight Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + night. 1. Of or pertaining to more than one night. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Town Hall residency underscores a vogue among budding artists for multinight runs at one smallish place, rather than a single large club show.
Word: omittable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From omit + -able. 1. Synonym of omissible.
Word: lapidator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who lapidates.
Word: opticals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of optical Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opticals Part of Speech: noun 1. spectacles Labels: India, plural, plural-only Example: So don your 'opticals' for these charming Indian-English terms still widely encountered and many now entering mainstream use: […]
Word: oviraptor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scientific Latin Oviraptor (genus name), from Latin ōvi- (“ovi-”) + raptor (because it is believed to have fed on the eggs of other dinosaurs). 1. Any of several bipedal dinosaurs, of the genus Oviraptor, from the late Cretaceous period. Example: In all three fossil samples, the concentration of biliverdin is higher than that of protoporphyrin, suggesting that these oviraptor eggs originally were blue-green.
Word: Server Part of Speech: name Etymology: Occupational surname from server. 1. A surname originating as an occupation.
Word: Caldera Part of Speech: name 1. A city, port, and commune in Copiapó province, Atacama region, northern Chile. 2. A corregimiento in Boquete district, Chiriquí province, Panama.
Word: custodes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kʌsˈtəʊdiz/ 1. plural of custode Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of custos Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bahar Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بَهَار (bahār, “spice, seasoning”), perhaps a metonymic occupational surname for a spicer. It could also be a variant of Bahir. 1. A surname from Arabic.
Word: black maple Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of maple tree of eastern North America, Acer nigrum, closely related to the sugar maple, but with a darker bark and three-lobed leaves.
Word: mapley Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From maple + -y. 1. Resembling a maple tree (genus Acer), its leaf, or its wood. 2. Resembling sugar products made from the sap of certain species of maple, such as sugar maple or black maple.
Word: rock maple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the hardness of its wood relative to the wood of other maples. 1. The sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
Word: hard maple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the hardness of its wood relative to the wood of other maples. 1. The sugar maple, Acer saccharum. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The wood of this tree. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: eternitarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eternity + -arian. 1. One who believes in the eternity of the soul. Labels: rare Example: Describe the world as rays of the world beyond every serial-eternitarian or ideal alternative — posit the existential eternity — the eternal body.
Word: permutor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of permuter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: permutator Part of Speech: noun 1. A special form of rotary converter with stationary commutator and rotating brushes, in which the exciting field is induced by the alternating current in a short-circuited magnetic core instead of being produced by an external magnet.
Word: plagiator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch plagiator and German Plagiator, from Latin plagiātor. 1. Synonym of plagiarist. Labels: uncommon Example: Intentional plagiators behave less naïve and try to hide their action by using other phrases or by using rare sources etc. Example: Universal poets and artists are either plagiators or brutes.
Word: proclamator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who proclaims.
Word: pulsant Part of Speech: adj 1. pulsing Labels: not-comparable Example: And although Sack had been formerly very familiar to him, he was now forced to shun it, and all strong Drinks, because they would infallibly produce a Cardialgia, a pulsant throbbing of the Heart, and labouring in his Breast: […] Example: Like a ribbon of clotting blood, even the stones of the causeway radiated with pulsant light. Through the fog she could see hulking shapes that shambled along the uncanny roadway, dark shadows against the crimson radiance.
Word: pulser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pulse + -er. 1. One who or that which pulses. 2. A machine for generating a pulse.
Word: mellate Part of Speech: noun 1. A mellitate. Labels: archaic
Word: moderant Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that moderates (especially a chemical reaction or explosive force). Example: It partially dissolves in nitro-glycerine to a gelatinous mass, which, when mixed with castor-oil as a moderant, or with vaseline as a lubricant, forms a valuable “high” explosive—maximite, cordite. Example: The moderants used in many nitro-cellulose powders tend to cooler burning and reduce the rate of erosion.
Word: ostentator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin ostentātor. 1. a boaster, ostentatious person Labels: archaic Example: […]to bee an ostentatour of mine eloquenice.
Word: recapitulant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From recapitulate + -ant. 1. recapitulating Example: How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.
Word: recapitulator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who recapitulates.
Word: reclamator Part of Speech: noun 1. A person, company or device which reclaims something, especially useful soil (or useful elements in soil) from unusable soil. Example: But a condition of the deal is that NCT gets Persia rid of the £36 million it has out on loans, much of it to land reclamators specialising in such socially desirable activities as 'gentrifying ' run-down residential areas and flat breaking ... Example: Humic soil reclamators as depressors of heavy metal (radionuclide) accumulation by plants A. M. Abramets and E. N. Rovdan - Institute for Problems of Natural Resources Use and Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Word: reconciliate Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of reconcile. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: reconciliator Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛkənˈsɪli(ˌ)eɪtəɹ/ 1. One who reconciliates.
Word: reparent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + parent. 1. To subject to early parenting techniques again (such as rocking and feeding) in order to treat an attachment disorder. Labels: transitive Example: Trauma and abuse are much broader than only physical violence or neglect, and part of your healing may be realizing that your experiences deserve to be reparented, Johnson said. 2. To change the parent of an object in a data structure. Labels: transitive Example: If the client reparents the window away from root, the window is no longer a top-level window.
Word: reservor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reserve + -or. 1. Someone who reserves; a reserver.
Word: temperat Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of temperate. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: temperant Part of Speech: adj 1. temperate, moderate 2. sober
Word: temperant Part of Speech: noun 1. A drug that allays a fever. Labels: archaic
Word: ululant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Derived from Latin ululāns, present participle of ululō (“to howl”). 1. Howling; wailing. Example: A fiendish and ululant corpse-gurgle or death-rattle now split the very atmosphere — the charnel atmosphere poisonous with naphtha and bitumen blasts — in one concerted chorus from the ghoulish legion of hybrid blasphemies.
Word: usurpor Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of usurper. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: bitangents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bitangent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: usurpator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French usurpateur or Late Latin ūsūrpātor. 1. A usurper. Example: Great God restore us our liberties, / With our ancient Laws and Customes, / Under the Iron yoak of Usurpators, / And lead us not Example: [“]It would thus amount to a gross mistake to see merely errors in the angelology of the Kabalists and Gnostics, so severely treated by the Apostle of Nations” explains the Marquis de Mirville now coquetting with those whom he generally designates “as demon-worshippers.” — [“]For his (Paul’s) imposing censure reached only their exaggerations, vicious interpretations, and what is more, the application of those handsome (beaux) titles, to the miserable personnel of DEMONIACAL USURPATORS.
Word: crustquake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crust + quake. 1. A starquake in the crust of a neutron star
Word: electrocortical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From electro- + cortical. 1. Of or relating to the electrical activity of the cerebral cortex Labels: not-comparable
Word: hyperphonons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyperphonon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: voltmetre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From volt + -metre. 1. Alternative form of voltmeter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hypervibrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hypervibration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boy scouts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boy scout Labels: form-of, plural
Word: palaeoregolith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From palaeo- + regolith. 1. ancient regolith
Word: vinculate Part of Speech: verb 1. To tie or bind. Labels: rare 2. To calculate a vinculum. Example: The reason why we typically want to vinculate is we want to deal with small single digit numbers. This means we typically want to vinculate numbers that are larger than 5. When we vinculate numbers like 6, 7, 8, 9 we get 4, 3, 2 and […]