nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: pseudomonades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pseudomonas Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonpseudomorphic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + pseudomorphic. 1. Not pseudomorphic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: queermo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of queer + homo, also Blend of queer + emo. 1. A homosexual. Labels: derogatory, slang 2. A LGBTQ+ person (queer) and a member of the emo subculture. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: queermos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of queermo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rejective Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reject + -ive. 1. Tending to reject. Example: He thought by Cora's intent frown at him that she was going to state an objection to unrobing. Instead, she used a rejective wriggle to slither out of her frock, and there stood squirming, putting a shield of arms before her breasts and belly. Example: Rejective or rebellious elements are inevitably involved, but their influence during the actual commission of delinquent acts is relatively small […]
Word: ash blondes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ash blonde Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Asian elephants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Asian elephant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: asiagos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of asiago Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enclines Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of encline Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: caballing Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cabbeling. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 2. Secret plotting. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: And lastly, the examinant saith, that from the beginning of these conversations with the said Mary Burton, about these plottings and caballings between the Hughsons and the negroes […] Example: In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.
Word: caballing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cabal Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mezquite Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of mesquite. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: call them as one sees them Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of call it as one sees it. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: call it as one sees it Part of Speech: verb 1. To speak frankly about a given topic, not withholding one's opinions. Labels: idiomatic, slang
Word: eloigns Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of eloign Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: eloigning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of eloign Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: eloigned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of eloign Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: makes merry Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of make merry Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: making merry Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of make merry Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: made merry Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of make merry Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: amylum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin amylum, from Ancient Greek ἄμυλον (ámulon), from ἀ- (a-, “privative”) + μύλη (múlē, “mill”). Pronunciation: /ˈæmɪləm/ 1. starch Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: psychogeographical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From psycho- + geographical. 1. Of or pertaining to psychogeography. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonphotorealistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real English real Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English realist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English realistic English photorealistic English nonphotorealistic From non- + photorealistic. 1. Not photorealistic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cabal glass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the chemical symbols Ca + B + Al. 1. Any of a range of calcium boroaluminate glasses that have specialist technical uses. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: boroaluminate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From boro- + aluminate. 1. Any salt that is a mixed borate and aluminate
Word: throw true Part of Speech: verb 1. to inherit a characteristic
Word: Big Bertha Part of Speech: name Etymology: From its German nickname, Dicke Bertha. 1. A heavy, long-range howitzer used by Germany in World War I.
Word: on-side kicks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of on-side kick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: platform shoe Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of footwear with very thick soles and heels designed to make the wearer appear taller.
Word: platform shoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of platform shoe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: potato cod Part of Speech: noun 1. Epinephelus tukula, a large fish found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Word: Megiddo Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew מגידו. Pronunciation: /məˈɡɪdəʊ/ 1. Mount Megiddo, site of an ancient city in northern Israel's Jezreel valley
Word: seamstressing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seamstress + -ing. 1. The trade practiced by seamstresses. Labels: uncountable
Word: chlamydias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chlamydia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chlamydiae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chlamydia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: excess return Part of Speech: noun 1. The return that exceeds the risk-free return.
Word: nonphotolithographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + photolithographic. 1. Not photolithographic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: over open sights Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. A method of aiming an artillery piece with the target in sight (direct fire), as opposed to indirect fire where the target is not visible.
Word: pavonne Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pavane. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: If well directed, some of the old formal dances such as the minuet and the pavonne and others of their character form a good basis on which, at this age, the youth may meet the maiden.
Word: pavonnes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pavonne Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Australian dollar Part of Speech: noun 1. The official currency of Australia.
Word: coach gun Part of Speech: noun 1. A double-barrelled shotgun with very short barrels.
Word: circumundulate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From circum- + undulate. 1. To flow around as waves or undulations
Word: circumvascular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From circum- + vascular. 1. perivascular Labels: not-comparable
Word: circumventor Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who circumvents
Word: circumvolant Part of Speech: adj 1. flying around
Word: circumvolute Part of Speech: verb 1. To roll, curl or twist around
Word: circumvolution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From circum- + volution. 1. The act of revolution, rotation or gyration around an axis. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Anything winding or sinuous. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: circusiana Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From circus + -iana. 1. All the things related to circuses. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: cirrate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cirrātus (“having ringlets”), from cirrus (“a curl”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). By surface analysis, cirr- + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹeɪt/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or fringed with cirri.
Word: cirrate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cirrātus (“having ringlets”), from cirrus (“a curl”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). By surface analysis, cirr- + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹeɪt/ 1. An octopus of the suborder Cirrina.
Word: cirriferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cirri- + -ferous or cirr- + -iferous. Pronunciation: /sɪˈɹɪfəɹəs/ 1. Bearing cirri.
Word: cirrigerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cirri- + -gerous. Pronunciation: /sɪˈɹɪd͡ʒəɹəs/ 1. Bearing cirri.
Word: cirrigrade Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cirri- + -grade (“means of walking”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹɪɡɹeɪd/ 1. moved or moving by means of cirri Labels: not-comparable
Word: cirriped Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cirripedia. By surface analysis, cirri- + -ped. Doublet of cirripede. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹɪpɛd/ 1. Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia Example: What train of wives and concubines was ever so ignominiously placed as the extra husbands carried among the scales of the careful female cirriped, lest she lose one or two!
Word: cismarine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cis- + marine. 1. On this side of the sea. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: 303 Part of Speech: noun 1. The .303 British rifle calibre. Labels: informal, singular, singular-only 2. A rifle chambered in this calibre, normally the SMLE series. Labels: countable 3. The TB-303 synthesizer. Labels: countable
Word: 303 Part of Speech: name 1. North Central Colorado, including Denver and Boulder, after the 303 area code. Labels: often, with-definite-article
Word: cispontine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cis- + pontine. 1. On this side of the bridge (or bridges). Labels: not-comparable Example: Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine : it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges.
Word: Proto-Iranian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From proto- + Iranian. 1. The hypothetical proto-language reconstructed by comparative method, from which all the Iranian languages descended.
Word: Proto-Iranian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From proto- + Iranian. 1. Of or pertaining to Proto-Iranian language or people who spoke it. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Proto-Iranian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From proto- + Iranian. 1. Speaker of Proto-Iranian language.
Word: coming of age Part of Speech: noun 1. A person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A maturation; a transition from an inchoate state to a developed state. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: Reasoning of this sort presumes that a significant group in the population has become aware not only of its own existence, but of its rights and power. The riot, I can't help feeling, marks a kind of political coming of age for homosexuals in San Francisco and, vicariously, throughout, the country.
Word: coming-of-age Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to a person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood. Labels: not-comparable Example: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
Word: astronomical years Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of astronomical year Labels: form-of, plural
Word: atchievements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of atchievement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: athames Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of athame Labels: form-of, plural
Word: atomic batteries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of atomic battery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: atomic clocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of atomic clock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: atleds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of atled Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ecranisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French écran (“screen”) + -isation. 1. An adaptation of a book, story, or other form of written or graphic work into a film.
Word: atriotomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of atriotomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: attaché cases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of attaché case Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ecranisations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ecranisation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: send shivers down someone's spine Part of Speech: verb 1. To terrify; to make someone feel extremely nervous. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: Hearing that the killer escaped prison sent shivers down my spine.
Word: auripigments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of auripigment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: autem cacklers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autem cackler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: authoring programs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of authoring program Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yesable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From yes + -able. 1. That can be agreed to. Example: A yesable proposal is one of your acceptable options stated as a direct question to which "yes" is an easy answer.
Word: Avars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Avar (member of Caucasian group) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Avars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Avar (equestrian nomad) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: autofecundations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of autofecundation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: needer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the verb need + -er. 1. A person who requires or needs something. Example: The needer is physically and mentally handicapped because of his immediate need for air... The donor takes a big breath and gives his mouthpiece to the needer. Example: The difference between requestor and needer has been incorporated in current business practices.
Word: needer Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Corruption of neither. 1. Pronunciation spelling of neither. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling Example: But," added he, observing the other's embarrassment, "dat is needer here nor dere. Example: Didn't put them in two boxes lak dey does now, and dey warn't painted needer.
Word: needers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of needer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: equalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From equal + -ness. 1. equality Labels: uncountable Example: Equity literally means equalness; and if it be admitted that there were even the vaguest ideas of equity in these primitive eras, it must be admitted that there was some appreciation of the equalness of men's liberties to pursue the objects of life--some appreciation, therefore, of the essential principle of national equilibrium.
Word: eugenist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eugen(ic) + -ist. Pronunciation: /juːˈdʒɛnɪst/ 1. An advocate or supporter of eugenics. Example: And we have enough of this kind of tyranny already ... the world does not want the eugenist to set it straight.... Example: A man who would throw a bomb at the Russian Czar or at a murderous pogrom-inciting Russian Governor would be considered an assassin, and if caught would be hanged; and in making up the pedigree of such a family, a narrow-minded eugenist would be apt to say that there was criminality in that family.
Word: eugenists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eugenist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: 'r Part of Speech: conj 1. Alternative form of or, representing an unstressed pronunciation. Labels: alt-of, alternative, informal Example: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure One big tuffie stood there actin like Joe Coolie ’r sumthin.
Word: eupeptic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From eu- + peptic. Pronunciation: /juːˈpɛptɪk/, /juˈpɛptɪk/, /jʉːˈpeptɪk/, /jʉːˈpeptək/ 1. Having or relating to good digestion. Example: As to the self-sufficiency of this world, a successful Professor with a eupeptic body might take such a view, but if one found oneself with cancer of the stomach in a London garret, one might question the doctrine that there was no need to yearn for any state of being save that in which we found ourselves.
Word: evener Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of even: more even Labels: comparative, form-of Example: I prefer the white pine, because it is less liable to gutter with the rain, and makes an evener roof.
Word: evener Part of Speech: noun 1. One who, or that which, makes even. Example: Hers is not simply a plea for the value of tragedy, for that awareness of death which increases incentives for life; it is rather a negative use of death as the great leveler, the evener of scores. 2. In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast. Labels: dated 3. A raddle (instrument used by weavers).
Word: evenest Part of Speech: adj Etymology: even + -est 1. superlative form of even: most even Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: evenest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: even + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of even Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: everlastingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From everlasting + -ness. 1. the state or quality of being everlasting Labels: uncountable Example: August felt the everlastingness of love; as many another man in a supreme crisis has felt it. Example: Once the name I gave to hours Like this was melancholy, when It was not happiness and powers Coming like exiles home again, And weaknesses quitting their bowers, Smiled and enjoyed, far off from men, Moments of everlastingness.
Word: everyhow Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From every + how. 1. however, by whatever means. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: everyway Part of Speech: adv 1. In every way, however possible. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: A true and genuine record of what English schools of the highest class were more than sixty-five years ago cannot fail to have much to interest the present generation on both sides of the Atlantic; if only because we may now indulge in the self-complacency of being everyway wiser, better, and happier than our recent forebears. 2. In every direction. Labels: dated, not-comparable
Word: exarchate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it). 1. The province or area of an exarch. Labels: historical Example: Exarchate of Africa Example: Astolphus peremptorily refused to listen to the remonstrances of Pepin, who called upon him to evacuate the towns in the exarchate of Ravenna, and to leave the Pope unmolested in the environs of Rome as well as in Rome itself.
Word: exarchates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exarchate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exarchal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exarch + -al. 1. Of or relating to an exarch. Labels: not-comparable
Word: exceptive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From except + -ive. 1. exceptional, having an exception Labels: not-comparable Example: The only offspring of a race No misalliance did disgrace; Nurtur'd, school'd, fashion'd by their laws, Not wishing an exceptive clause, Till thee, my only choice, I met; And then, with useless, deep regret, I found in birth, and that alone, Thou wert unworthy of a throne! Example: In 1813, Unitarians were set free from legal penalties by the repeal, so far as they were concerned, of the exceptive clauses of the Toleration Act, this relief coming twenty years after Charles James Fox had tried to secure it for them.
Word: exceptor Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who makes exceptions Example: God is no exceptor of persons; a soul is a soul, whether it be the soul of a pontiff, a king or a sage, or the soul of the unborn babe of the last woman of the people. 2. A hired legal representative or advocate in court. Labels: Ancient-Rome
Word: exceptors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exceptor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: excisional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From excision + -al. 1. performed by excision Labels: not-comparable Example: At present, no single instrument can replace excisional biopsies for obtaining information.
Word: excitive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From excite + -ive. 1. excited Labels: archaic Example: Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childhood reading. 2. Serving or tending to excite; excitative. Example: What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain […]
Word: excitive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From excite + -ive. 1. That which excites; an excitant. Labels: archaic
Word: excludable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exclude + -able. 1. Able to be excluded. Labels: not-comparable Example: Under the same law that made [Hans Paul] Verhoef's detention possible, the legal status of over 600 amnesty applicants who have lived in this country for close to a decade is being reviewed. Those found excludable because of HIV antibody-positivity will become "undocumented" and vulnerable to deportation. 2. To which access can be restricted to only paying customers. Labels: not-comparable Example: Air is not an excludable good: it is available to everybody for free.
Word: excludable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exclude + -able. 1. One who or that which can be excluded. Example: These increases in the ranks of the excludables brought an accompanying increase in the ranks of the deportables
Word: excusatory Part of Speech: adj 1. serving to make an excuse Example: General Grant to Halleck, in an excusatory and exculpatory letter (May 7th), as to the disaster on his right, said: "Milroy's old brigade was attacked and gave way in great confusion, almost without resistance, carrying good troops with them." Example: Before entering another (middle- or lower-class) native's house, he is very complimentary, and sometimes three minutes' polite excusatory dialogue is exchanged between the visitor and the native visited before the former passes the threshold.
Word: exept Part of Speech: prep 1. Obsolete spelling of except. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Than by the force and strengthe of men/ For men see alle daye that suche thynges as may not be achieuyd by force of nature/ ben goten and achieuyd by force of money/ And for so moche hit behoueth to see well to that whan the tyme of the bataylle cometh/ that he borowe not ne make no tayllage/ For noman may be ryche that leuyth his owne/ hopyng to gete and take of other/ Than all waye all her gayn and wynnynge ought to be comyn amonge them exept theyr Armes.
Word: exhauster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exhaust + -er. 1. One who exhausts or depletes. Example: One of the most insignificant-looking men I ever saw then became the destroyer of nations, the leveller of mountains, the exhauster of the ocean. 2. Exhaust system. Example: There is, however, another inconvenience which can only be remedied by the use of a second exhauster, viz., the loss of pressure after the passage of the gas through the washer--a loss resulting from the obstacle presented by this appliance to the steady flow of the gas. Example: The Westinghouse type CM.38 air compressor is mounted under the main frame and the Northey rotary type exhausters are fitted one on each side of the platform at No. 1 end; [...]. 3. A vacuum exhauster. Example: Each engine also drives an exhauster to create the vacuum for operating the brake, which is applied by cylinders of standard pattern. Example: The vehicle is fitted with Westinghouse electro-pneumatic brake, and also a Northey exhauster with vacuum chamber and auxiliary reservoir adjacent to the guard's compartment for use when hauling vehicles equipped with vacuum brake gear.
Word: exhausters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exhauster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exoccipital Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From exo- + occipital. 1. Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foramen of the skull. Labels: not-comparable
Word: exoccipital Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exo- + occipital. 1. Such a bone.
Word: expurgatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Serving to expurgate. Labels: not-comparable
Word: how long is a piece of string Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used as a response to a question such as "How long will it take?" or "How big is it?" when the length or size is unknown, infinite, variable, or relative. Labels: colloquial, humorous, often, rhetoric
Word: exteriorly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From exterior + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɪɹiɚli/, /ɛkˈstɪɹiɚli/ 1. from the exterior, from outside Example: The church, which is situated near the centre of the town, exteriorly resembles a huge Dutch barn. 2. on the exterior, outside Example: The first evidence of what it was about to be, was the appearance of the drapery establishments in the city on Saturday morning; the windows, exteriorly and interiorly, being one mass of crape and green ribbon--funeral knots, badges, scarfs, hat-bands, neckties, &c., exposed for sale. Example: The hotel was drab and decayed exteriorly; but the dining room was a continental elegance of marble, gilt, and mirrors.
Word: exultancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin exsultantia. 1. exultance, exultation Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The voice of the Prussian was full and vibrant with exultancy.
Word: eyebright Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of eye (noun) + bright (verb). 1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Paracelsus had been recommending the plant eyebright for bad eyes in the sixteenth century; it was still in widespread use in the eighteenth. Example: He looks for eyebright, a tiny flowering herb he has seen before, and which he knows would make a good eye-wash: not to be found.
Word: eyebrights Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eyebright Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eyeshot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eye + shot, on the pattern of earshot. 1. A range of vision, a distance in which something is visible. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable, usually Example: He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. " Example: "We were alarmed," says Aimee Sordelli, who lives within eyeshot of the school's chimney. " 2. A range. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A brief glance. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually Example: The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror.
Word: noseshot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of nose + earshot or from nose + shot. 1. A range of smell, a distance in which something is detectable by smell. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: As she approached closer, though, the load of rabbits came into vivid noseshot, and the saxophonist's nose wrinkled at the reek. Example: ...Fartman's thunder has been stolen by a character in the 1999 film Mystery Man named Spleen (played by Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman) whose power was his ability to discharge farts so lethally putrid that they incapacitated anyone within noseshot.
Word: granisetron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From [Term?] + -setron (“serotonin receptor 5-HT₃ antagonist”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹəˈnɪs.əˌtɹɑn/ 1. A serotonin 5-HT₃ receptor antagonist used as an antiemetic following chemotherapy. Labels: uncountable
Word: eyewink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eye + wink. 1. An instant, a short moment. Labels: poetic Example: As to age, Bead could not form any clear impression; he might have been twenty, or forty. All of this visual perception occurred in an eyewink of time […] Example: It vanished out of sight with exceeding speed; Rapid it was; A burst of brilliance which lasted less than an eyewink. 2. The winking of an eye. Example: Dogs were conditioned to give an eyewink to light by pairing a light and a puff of air to the cornea. Example: Simply by observing the antecedents to the movement, we can tell, for example, whether an eyewink has occurred voluntarily […]
Word: eyewinks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eyewink Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neighbourship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Northern Middle English nychtbourschype, neȝeborusipe, equivalent to neighbour + -ship. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noaberskup (“neighbourship”), West Frisian neibuorskip (“neighbourship”), Dutch nabuurschap (“neighbourship”), German Low German Naberskupp, Naverschop (“neighbourhood; neighbourship”), German Nachbarschaft (“neighbourship; neighborhood”), Danish naboskab (“neighbourship”), Swedish naboskap (“neighbourship”). 1. The state or condition of being neighbours; a connection or relationship between people or things which is based simply on living close geographically. Example: He called to his mind and said: "Surely the Ant had in former days his dwelling underneath this tree, and was busy in hoarding a store of provision: now I will lay my wants before her, and, in the name of good neighbourship, and with an appeal to her generosity, beg some small relief. Example: The travelling artist they knew, the pedlar, the insurance agent, and the cockney beanfeaster; but the stranger who desired permanent neighbourship with them they knew not; him they treated as a lunatic at large. 2. A relationship between people and / or things which is based simply on being of a similar class. Example: Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dog-cart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard.
Word: neighbourships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neighbourship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gainst Part of Speech: prep 1. Against. Labels: poetic Example: Then gan triumphant Trompets ſovvnd on hye, / That ſent to heuen the ecchoed report / Of their nevv ioy, and happie victory / Gainſt him, that had them long oppreſt with tort, / And faſt impriſoned in ſieged fort.
Word: gagsters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gagster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: garrotter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From garrotte + -er. 1. Alternative form of garroter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: garrotters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of garrotter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: odd men out Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of odd man out Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gangrened Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From gangrene + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of gangrene Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gangrened Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gangrene + -ed. 1. Infected with gangrene; gangrenous. Example: Yes, when the offender can be judged by laws: But when his greatness overturns the scales, Then kings are justice in the last appeal, And, forced by strong necessity, may strike; In which, indeed, they assert the public good, And, like sworn surgeons, lop the gangrened limb: Unpleasant, wholesome, work. Example: Here were rooms crowded with uncomfortable-looking beds, on which lay men whose gangrened wounds gave forth foul odors, which, mingled with the terrible effluvia from the mouths of patients ill of scurvy, sent a shuddering sickness through my frame. 2. Corrupt; degenerate. Example: How different a representation is this from the prejudice and passion of Gangræna Edwards himself, more gangrened than any of his unhappy sectaries. Example: The army was daily becoming more gangrened by a wilful admixture of accredited and duly subventioned agents, who boasted the title of "Franc-Macons de la Solidarite/ Militaire," and who, forming a loathsome association, ceaselessly spied upon their brother officers, and reported to high quarters upon their religious and political opinions.
Word: garotter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From garotte + -er. 1. Alternative spelling of garrotter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: garotters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of garotter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gangrenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gangrene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gangrenes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gangrene Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: gartering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From garter + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of garter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gartering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From garter + -ing. 1. The material from which garters are made. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: What Catholick has ever offered up more Extasies at the Shrine of his Tutelar Saint, than has been paid to the simple Brade of your Shoe, a discoloured Top-Knot, or perhaps two Spans of unravelled Gartering. Example: The wealthy adorn themselves besides with ribbons and garterings of various colors, beads and silver broaches. These ornaments are arranged by the women, who, as well as the men, know how to dress themselves in style.
Word: nativistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nativist + -ic. 1. In agreement with the philosophy of nativism. Example: He wrote that the “nativistic American mentality, born of ignorance and nurtured by malice,” insisted on stereotypes of Italian Americans as either “spaghetti-twirling, opera-bellowing buffoons in undershirts (as in the TV commercial with its famous line, ‘That’sa spicy meatball’), or swarthy, sinister hoods in garish suits, shirts and ties.”
Word: gartered Part of Speech: adj 1. wearing a garter Labels: not-comparable
Word: gartered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of garter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: nongangrenous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + gangrenous. 1. Not gangrenous. Labels: not-comparable
Word: gally Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of galley. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.
Word: gally Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English gally, from Old English gealliġ (“sour, sharp, bitter, sad”), equivalent to gall + -y. 1. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter. Example: For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].
Word: gally Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See gallow (transitive verb). 1. To frighten, spook; to appall; to worry. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]
Word: gally Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gal + -y. 1. Diminutive of gal (“girl”). Labels: diminutive, form-of, no-plural
Word: neighborship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Northern Middle English nychtbourschype, neȝeborusipe, equivalent to neighbor + -ship. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noaberskup (“neighborship”), West Frisian neibuorskip (“neighborship”), Dutch nabuurschap (“neighborship”), German Low German Naberskupp, Naverschop (“neighborhood; neighborship”), German Nachbarschaft (“neighborship; neighborhood”), Danish naboskab (“neighborship”), Swedish naboskap (“neighborship”). 1. The state or condition of being neighbors; a community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on living close geographically. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: … the telephone had introduced the "epoch of neighborship without propinquity." 2. A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The 802.11b spec takes pretty good care to enforce good neighborship on connected hosts. Example: But we believe that Cambridge is really the heart of oncology today. And we intend to benefit from this as an environment – as a neighborship.
Word: neighborships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neighborship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gastronomer Part of Speech: noun 1. a lover of good food; a connoisseur or gourmet
Word: gastronomers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gastronomer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gawd Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡɔ(ː)d/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of god. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: There's his right arm over there, and his back Oh, my gawd! Example: A guy nearby gushed, "Oh my gawd, look at the size of this peanut!" and that was as excited as anyone got all afternoon.
Word: genericism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From generic + -ism. 1. the state of being generic Labels: uncountable Example: CELL, ERIC'S TRIP 6/15, EMPTY BOTTLE After DGC Records scooped up New York's Cell on the basis of one single, their tedious debut, Slo-Blo, proved the move premature with its indie-rock genericism.
Word: gesticulatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gesticulate + -ory. 1. Of or relating to a gesticulation; accompanied by gesticulation. Example: a gesticulatory movement Example: On this theme Klesmer’s eloquence, gesticulatory and other, went on for a little while like stray fireworks accidentally ignited, and then sank into immovable silence. 2. Making frequent gesticulations. Example: The French loungers are gesticulatory, and shoulders, arms, fingers, eyes and eyebrows help out the tongue's rapid utterance; but they are never rude or boisterous. Example: There were vast surging crowds in the Rue de Rivoli, and much bunting, and soldiers and gesticulatory policemen.
Word: ghosty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ghost + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian gäistich, West Frisian geastich, Dutch geestig, German geistig. Pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊ.sti/ 1. ghostly Labels: informal Example: Regarding Glamis, I should imagine it a ghosty sort of place.
Word: ghosty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ghost + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊ.sti/ 1. A ghost, especially a diminutive one. Labels: rare 2. Ghost (especially a non-frightening one) Labels: childish, endearing
Word: gladsomely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From gladsome + -ly. 1. gladly Labels: archaic Example: THE ADVENT BELLS./ The Advent bells are ringing in many parishes throughout various parts of England during this month of December, if I may judge from my own neighbourhood--on the western borders of Berks--where, at least three times in the week, I hear their merry peals break gladsomely upon the dark stillness of these cold evenings, from many a steeple around. Example: But she was dressed in breeches and a slouch hat, a cigarette hung from the corner of her mouth, and she beckoned April gladsomely with an immense cowthong whip.
Word: gladsomeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gladsomnesse, equivalent to gladsome + -ness. 1. gladness Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: minelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mine + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a mine (explosive device).
Word: gleesome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From glee + -some. Compare Yola gleezom (“joy”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡliːsəm/ 1. Characterised or marked by glee; gleeful; joyous. Example: So long as the men kept sober, Jervis rather liked this, and was never better pleased than when, on the last evening of the week, he heard the voices of the men raised in song, or the squeaking of the merry fiddle and gleesome flute. Example: "And wasn't it just jolly!" gloated a juvenile gleesome voice in a loud whisper.
Word: gleamy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gleam + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɡliːmi/ 1. shiny, bright, glowing Example: Yet, still thy name its energies shall deal, When wild storms gather round thy country's sun; Her glowing youth shall grasp the gleamy steel, Rank'd round the glorious wreaths which thou hast won! Example: [58] While pastoral pipes and streams the landscape lull, 220 And bells of passing mules that tinkle dull, In solemn shapes before the admiring eye Dilated hang the misty pines on high, Huge convent domes with pinnacles and towers, And antique castles seen through gleamy [59] showers. 225 From such romantic dreams, my soul, awake!
Word: gleamier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of gleamy: more gleamy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: gleamiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of gleamy: most gleamy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: gloomful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gloom + -ful. 1. gloomy Labels: archaic, poetic Example: Long, I tell you, long and often, have I pondered on that history, and sought to trace with what ghastly secret has been pregnant the destiny, gloomful as Erebus and the murk of black-peplosed Nux, which for centuries has hung its pall over the men of this ill-fated house. Example: Dyke, having expressed a preference for the tomb as a place of residence, went on his gloomful way shedding green paint on one side and red on the other.
Word: gloriousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glorious + -ness. 1. glory, the state or quality of being glorious Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Wakes within, the ancient mind For a gloriousness defined: As she sought and knew your pleasure,-- Wiling with a dancing measure, Underneath your closed eyes She calls the shapes of clouded skies; White forms flushing hyacinthine Twine in curvings labyrinthine; Seem with godlike graceful feet, For such mazy motion meet, To press from air each lambent note, On whose throbbing fire they float; With an airy wishful gait On each others' motion wait; Naked arms and vesture free Fill up the dance of harmony. Example: These two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness, the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass.
Word: glossarist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glossary + -ist. 1. someone who writes a glossary
Word: glossarists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glossarist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gluttonish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English glotenish, equivalent to glutton + -ish. 1. gluttonous Example: People with gluttonish inclinations can easily and do make themselves sick while subsisting on an entirely fruit diet; hence, if discretion is needed in the use of the simplest articles of food, of course it cannot be dispensed with while indulging in other sorts. Example: The handsome face of the young Apache seemed utterly blank of all expression except gluttonish enjoyment of the food he was wolfing.
Word: glyde Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of glide. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: XX He so disseized[*] of his gryping grosse, The knight his thrillant speare again assayd In his bras-plated body to embosse, And three mens strength unto the stroke he layd; 175 Wherewith the stiffe beame quaked, as affrayd, And glauncing from his scaly necke, did glyde Close under his left wing, then broad displayd: The percing steele there wrought a wound full wyde, That with the uncouth smart the Monster lowdly cryde. 180 XXI He cryde, as raging seas are wont to rore, When wintry storme his wrathfull wreck does threat The roaring billowes beat the ragged shore, As they the earth would shoulder from her seat, And greedy gulfe does gape,[*] as he would eat 185 His neighbour element in his revenge: Then gin the blustring brethren[*] boldly threat To move the world from off his steadfast henge, And boystrous battell make, each other to avenge.
Word: gneissic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gneiss + -ic. 1. of or relating to gneiss Labels: not-comparable Example: The development of the schistose or gneissic structure is accompanied by the recrystallization of the rock materials, producing new minerals of a platy or columnar type adapted to this parallel arrangement.
Word: hammily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hammy + -ly. 1. in a hammy manner Example: Peter Zahradnick is hammily creepy as the doomed handyman who wises up to Rhoda before anyone else. Example: Baltar, played hammily as a selfish, cowardly survivor, is to “Battlestar Galactica” what Erica Kane is to “All My Children”  an amusingly villainous central character who brings a little campy comic relief to all that earnest, jaw-clenched melodrama.
Word: hamminess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hammy + -ness. 1. The state of being hammy. Labels: uncountable Example: The actors carry off this farce with the usual crude camp, semaphore gestures, shameless hamminess, and heavy ogling. Example: Linda Balgord brings bug-eyed hamminess and a bothersome vocal wobble to the role of aging actress Norma Desmond, almost completely missing the textured humor, intelligence, and pathos of Gloria Swanson's great screen performance.
Word: masturbatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From masturbate + -trix. 1. A female masturbator. Labels: rare Example: I thought at first she was a regular intriguer, but came to the conclusion that I had had the first of her; and that until then she had been a masturbatrix, and frigged her flesh off her bones. Example: Mony quickly divested himself of his clothes, then, cock aloft, fully rigid, he flung himself upon the two masturbatrices, attempting to separate them. But his hands slipped on their damp and gleaming bodies which were coiled about like snakes. 2. A dominatrix who specialises in handjobs. Labels: rare Example: Thus under the Restoration one spoke of the branleuses or masturbatrixes of the Palais Royal, whose clients, students for the most part, came to have their hard-ons massaged away for a few centimes. Example: Beresford triumphs again with this intoxicating tale, filled with castle dungeons and tightly corseted ladies-in-waiting, naughty viscounts and impossibly cruel masturbatrixes […]
Word: masturbatrixes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of masturbatrix Labels: form-of, plural
Word: masulas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of masula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Americanocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From American + -o- + -centric. 1. Centred on or overemphasizing the United States of America. Example: Making Sense of the Sixties used the typical Americano-centric documentary style that avoided a world or historical context for events […] Other countries were mentioned only insofar as they disturbed the insular course of events in the United States. Example: A very superficial and Americanocentric view of history was a necessary adjunct to the reigning Americanocentric view of world affairs.
Word: nonstreamed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + streamed. 1. Not divided into academic streams. Labels: UK, not-comparable
Word: goosecap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From goose + cap. 1. A fool; a dolt. Example: Lucy and Edmund and Peridan were busy with their plans for the battle and though Lucy once said, "But where is his goosecap Highness?" Edmund only replied, "Not in the front, and that's good news enough. Leave well alone."
Word: goosecaps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of goosecap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lern Part of Speech: verb 1. Pronunciation spelling of learn. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Remember to come home, we're having prime rib and scalloped potatoes in the dining room, then we'll go out on da patio to dance, they're having a Mariachi Band from Spain, ya can show us your new steps ya lernt from dat fatty, Dixie Doolittle. Example: But to be mitey fine at any of them things, ya gotta take the senses the good Lord giv ya an put em together with the skills ya lern over time, an do things right.
Word: space ships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of space ship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: testest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: test + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of test Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular Example: If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me.