nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: metewand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mete + wand. 1. A measuring rod (in both its literal and figurative sense). Labels: obsolete Example: A true touchstone , a sure metewand lieth before both their eyes
Word: metewands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metewand Labels: form-of, plural
Word: opisthotonos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin opisthotonus, and its source, Ancient Greek ὀπισθότονος (opisthótonos), corresponding to opistho- + tonus (“muscle tension”). 1. Sustained tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened, as produced by various diseases. Labels: uncountable Example: [T]he Actors struggled & bounced, and sprunted as if in Convulsions; like Patients under the Influence of a Disease called in Jamaica the Opisthotonos or dry Gripes […].
Word: opisthotonus Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of opisthotonos. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: crinoidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crinoid + -al. 1. Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids. Labels: not-comparable Example: crinoidal limestone Example: crinoidal remains
Word: forestaff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + staff. 1. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, later replaced by the sextant. Example: with a Forestaff, take the Altitude of the North Star
Word: forestaves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forestaff Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crinklings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crinkling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ingeneration Part of Speech: noun 1. generation; the creating or causing of something Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: intemerateness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From intemerate + -ness. 1. The state of being unpolluted; purity. Labels: nonce-word, obsolete, uncountable Example: August 15 1607, John Donne, letter to Henry Godyere They shall therefore ever keep the sincerity and intemerateness of the fountain, whence they are derived.
Word: curvograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin curvus (“bent”) + -graph. 1. An arcograph.
Word: curvographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of curvograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antichamber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French antichambre. By surface analysis, anti- (“before”) + chamber. 1. Obsolete form of antechamber. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: He followed his conductor, who, after leading him along two passages, ascended a flight of stairs, and, turning to the right, ushered him into another spacious, but elegant apartment, through an antichamber. […] “These, and a range of apartments to the left of the antichamber, are allotted, my lord, for your residence,” said he, […]
Word: antichambers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antichamber Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interfusions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of interfusion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pentamethylene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From penta- + methylene, being composed of five methylene residues. 1. Five methylene groups in a molecule Labels: especially, in-compounds 2. Synonym of cyclopentane.
Word: pentamethylenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pentamethylene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stulp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stulp, stulpe, from Old Norse stólpi (“post, pillar”), from Proto-Germanic *stulpô (“post, pole, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic stólpi, Swedish stolpe, Danish stolpe. 1. A short stout post used for any purpose, such as the marking of a boundary. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Or 'neath the hazel's leafy thatch, On a stulp or mossy ground
Word: stulps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stulp Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sea pigeon Part of Speech: noun 1. The black guillemot (Cepphus grylle). Example: At length my son asked for the telescope, and on returning it carelessly remarked, "There are a couple of black guillemots." Macleod was alive in a moment—"That's the sea-pigeon." Example: One of the most numerous sea birds, of this whole region, is the Black Guillemot, or Sea Pigeon. This bird in the breeding season is jet black , except a white patch on each wing . In the winter the plumage changes to a gray with black streaks , and in this dress the Sea Pigeon comes to the waters of Casco Bay quite plentifully. 2. The pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba). Example: The pigeon guillemot, or sea pigeon, comes next. Its home is to be found close to the water's edge, in the little coves and clefts of the rocks, and it delights to sit on a rock where it is almost reached by every return of the swell. Example: The nests of the sea pigeon were for the most part inaccessible, being far in the recesses of crevices in the roofs of caves. 3. A common guillemot (Uria aalge). Example: Believing that low aquatic birds would more readily yield these evidences, a visit was made to Grand Menan, at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, and at that place were obtained the embryos of the razorbill auk, eider duck, sea pigeon, herring gull and petrel. 4. The Mandt's guillemot (Cepphus mandtii). Example: MANDT's GUILLEMOT (C. mandtii) is a northern variety of the Sea Pigeon, differing from grylle in lacking the black bar on the wing-patch, and having a somewhat stouter bill. 5. The cormorant. Example: One of the oddest creatures in the sea is the sea pigeon, a long black shape as thick as a small cable, the head of which is like a crown of very soft feathers, and is very often seen in shallow muddy stretches near the shore. 6. Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia). Example: Bonaparte's Gull. Little bass gull; sea pigeon (from its general figure and small size among gulls). 7. A reddish brown marine invertebrate that propels itself by flaps that resemble wings. Example: The sea pigeon was no bird but a slug-like marine invertebrate. Example: This all but formless creature is a sea pigeon
Word: sea pigeons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sea pigeon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multisiliquous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + siliquous. 1. Having many pods or seed vessels. Labels: archaic
Word: matrimoiety Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From matri- + moiety. 1. A descent group coming from the mother's side.
Word: patrimoiety Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From patri- + moiety. 1. A descent group coming from the father's side.
Word: patrimoieties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of patrimoiety Labels: form-of, plural
Word: matrimoieties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of matrimoiety Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Pintupi Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɪndəbi/ 1. Any member of an Australian Aboriginal group whose homeland is in the area west of Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay in Western Australia.
Word: Pintupi Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈpɪndəbi/ 1. A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in central Australia; part of the Western Desert language group.
Word: Pintupis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Pintupi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lardil Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈlaːdɪl/ 1. A moribund Tangkic Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Word: Ayapaneco Part of Speech: name 1. A near-extinct Mixe-Zoque language of Mexico.
Word: palusami Part of Speech: noun 1. A Polynesian dish consisting of coconut pudding wrapped in leaves Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Mabire Part of Speech: name 1. A nearly extinct Chadic language spoken in Oulek village in Chad.
Word: Tehuelche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mapudungun, meaning "fierce people". 1. A group of indigenous peoples of Patagonia and the southern pampas regions of Argentina and Chile. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Tehuelche Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mapudungun, meaning "fierce people". 1. A nearly extinct Chonan language spoken in Patagonia.
Word: Lengilu Part of Speech: name 1. A nearly extinct Kelabitic language.
Word: allographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of allograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sandawe Part of Speech: name 1. A tonal language isolate of Tanzania.
Word: claypans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of claypan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: taupo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Samoan tāupou. 1. In Samoan culture, a ceremonial virgin, the daughter of a village chief.
Word: aumaga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Samoan 'aumāga. 1. A Samoan social class of untitled men, mostly young, who perform most of the heavy labour and have ceremonial responsibilities.
Word: bushwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bush + work. 1. Work carried out in the bushland. Labels: uncountable Example: Fencing, dam-making, horse-breaking, stock-riding, from making hay to building a shed, all bushwork came easy enough to us[…]
Word: Yolngu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a word meaning "person" in the Yolngu lects. Pronunciation: /ˈjɒlŋu/ 1. A member of an indigenous Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Word: Yolngu Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a word meaning "person" in the Yolngu lects. Pronunciation: /ˈjɒlŋu/ 1. The Pama-Nyungan lects spoken by these people, when regarded as a single language or language group; the Murngic languages.
Word: Kelabit Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of an indigenous tribe in the interior of Sarawak, Malaysia.
Word: Kelabit Part of Speech: name 1. Their Malayo-Polynesian language.
Word: Kelabits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Kelabit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crinicultural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin crinis (“hair”) + cultura. 1. Relating to the growth of hair, or hairstyles. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: brettice Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of brattice. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: brettice Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of brattice. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: brettices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brettice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cosmopolitical Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to cosmopolitics. 2. Having the character of a cosmopolite. Example: Cosmopoliticall gouernment
Word: recurvities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recurvity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: recurvity Part of Speech: noun 1. recurvation Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: unsonsy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + sonsy. 1. Not fortunate. Labels: Northumbria, Scotland
Word: manaia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori manaia. 1. A bird-headed mythological creature and symbol of protection in Māori mythology.
Word: innominable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English innominable, from Latin innominabilis, from in- (“not”) + nominare (“to name”). Compare French innominable. 1. Not to be named. Labels: not-comparable Example: Your fathers toforne you have cleped such lusty lyvenges after the flessh, “passions of desyre,” which are innominable tofore God and man both. Example: It is the measure of things, and their time (that is, their measure, as to space and time), and yet it is above, and prior to, time: it is full in needy things, and overflows in full things; it is unutterable, innominable: it is above understanding […]
Word: tausi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tagalog tausi, from Hokkien 豆豉 (tāu-sī). Doublet of douchi. 1. Salted black beans. Labels: Philippines, uncountable Example: Foods with high sodium content (not allowed or limited in high blood pressure): […] beans with added salt such as tausi, tahure, misu; […] Example: Other additions: salted duck eggs, tomatoes, tausi [salted black beans], and garlic
Word: stannotype Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stanno- + type. 1. A tintype. Labels: historical
Word: stannotypes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stannotype Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forray Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of foray (“predatory excursion”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: forray Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of foray. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: For they that morn had forrayed all the land.
Word: forrays Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forray Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bumbard Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of bombard. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: bumbards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bumbard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: surling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From surly + -ing? Related to surly. 1. A sour, morose fellow. Labels: obsolete Example: And as for theſe ſowr ſurlings, they are to be commended to Sieur Gaulard
Word: surlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of surling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: perverter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pervert + -er. Pronunciation: /pə(ɹ)ˈvɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/ 1. Someone or something that perverts. Example: a perverter of the justice system Example: a child finds his own parents his perverters
Word: perverters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of perverter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blandation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Latin blanditia, blandities, from blandus. See bland, blandishment. 1. flattery Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: blandations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blandation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rebracketing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + bracketing. 1. The process by which a word originally derived from one source is broken down or bracketed into a different set of factors. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rebracketings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rebracketing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bellicous Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of bellicose. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: reobtainable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reobtain + -able. 1. That may be reobtained; obtainable again. Labels: not-comparable
Word: bullist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bulliste. 1. One who writes or draws up papal bulls. Example: […]the Bullists and Datances at Rome
Word: bullists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bullist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: malconformation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mal- + conformation. 1. Imperfect, disproportionate, or defective formation, usually of body parts. Labels: archaic Example: Weakly and irritable, hysterical, passionate, and especially voluptuous women of a plethoric habit, are most liable to miscarriage; though it may also happen from a general defective constitution, or rather from a malconformation of the sexual organs. Example: A sensitive person feels, and an imaginative one exaggerates any defect—and Lord Byron was both. His lameness originating, as it did, in an unsightly malconformation, was a perpetual source of bitterness to him.
Word: malconformations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of malconformation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: agible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Latin agibilis, from Latin agere to move, do. See agent. Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒɪbəl/ 1. Possible to be done; practicable. Labels: obsolete Example: In my first years my friends bestowed on me those learnings which were fit for a gentleman's ornament without directing them to an occupation; and when they were fit for agible things, they bestowed them and me on my Prince's service, in which I ran many courses of divers fortunes according to the condition of the wars, in which as I was most exercised , so was I most subject to accidents. Example: Their relation, then, is the same as that between "making" and "doing” or between the factibile and the agible. 2. Involving or pertaining to actions. Example: The persons who are their agible subjects are the persons whose acts are in question—the persons whose acts are the objects of the mandate.
Word: priggism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prig + -ism. 1. The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig; exaggerated propriety, fussiness about trivialities. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Earl Grey is an elegant man in his person; and his usual dress is tight and trim, bordering upon priggism. Example: 1903, Julia Frankau (as Frank Danby), Pigs in Clover, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Chapter 11, p. 211, He was even satisfied, secretly gratified at the correctness of demeanour of his proposed bride, the reluctance of her maidenhood, it all fitted in with his priggism […] 2. Roguery; thievery. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: 1743, Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great (published as Miscellanies, Volume 3), London: A. Millar, 2nd edition, Book 4, Chapter 3, p. 309, Now, Gentlemen, when we are no longer Prigs, we shall no longer have these Fears or these Desires. What remains, therefore, for us, but to resolve bravely to lay aside our Priggism, our Roguery, in plainer Words, and preserve our Liberty, or to give up the latter in the Preservation and Preference of the former.
Word: demonship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From demon + -ship. 1. The state of a demon. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: first they commenced heroes who were as Probationers to a demonship ; then after a suitable time demons
Word: demonships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of demonship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pedanticly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From pedantic + -ly. 1. Obsolete form of pedantically. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: strumstrum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from strum; compare also humstrum. 1. Any stringed musical instrument that is played with the fingertips, especially one considered to be foreign. Labels: archaic, derogatory, often Example: […] in the Churches belonging to Indian Towns they have all sorts of Vizards, and strange antick Dresses both for Men and Women, and abundance of Musical Hautboys and Strumstrums. The Strumstrum is made somewhat like a Cittern; most of those that the Indians use are made of a large Goad cut in the midst, and a thin Board laid over the hollow, and which is fastned to the Sides: this serves for the Belly; over which the Strings are placed. Example: 1728, George Carleton (attributed to Daniel Defoe), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 279, Their Guitars, if not their Sole, are their darling Instruments, and what they most delight in: Tho’ in my Opinion our English Sailors are not much amiss in giving them the Title of Strum Strums.
Word: strumstrums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strumstrum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: edaciousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From edacious + -ness. 1. The quality of state of being edacious Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: unorgasmic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + orgasmic. 1. Not orgasmic; sexless; dull.
Word: subcartilaginous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + cartilaginous. 1. Situated under or beneath a cartilage or cartilages. Labels: not-comparable Example: subcartilaginous tumour Example: The subcartilaginous layer of bone is a dense plate of epiphysitis it is necessary to form a clear and compact osseous tissue 2. Partially cartilaginous. Labels: not-comparable Example: A very pretty species with the frondiform stems quite unaltered in drying, the leaves glossy, rigid, subcartilaginous, pale.
Word: apathistical Part of Speech: adj 1. apathetic; unemotional Labels: obsolete, rare
Word: decipiency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin decipiens, present participle of decipere. See deceive. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪpɪənsi/ 1. hallucination or deception. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: […]mean while Physicians, who know that many are mad but in a single depraved Imagination, and one prevalent Decipiency;[…]and tho they behold such mad covetous Passages, content to think they dye in good Understanding, and in their sober Senses.
Word: melaniline Part of Speech: noun 1. A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white crystalline substance; diphenyl guanidin. Labels: uncountable
Word: sopranoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of soprano Labels: form-of, plural
Word: earthpea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earth + pea. 1. Any of a species of pea, Amphicarpaea bracteata, a climbing leguminous plant with hairy underground pods. 2. A pea 3. A peanut, (Arachis hypogaea). Labels: US
Word: earthpeas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of earthpea Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clearedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cleared + -ness. 1. The quality of being cleared. Labels: uncountable Example: Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience.
Word: bimembral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin bis (“twice”) + membrum (“member”). 1. Having two members. Labels: not-comparable Example: This will be more easily apprehended, if we consider that all combination is bimembral; i. e. consists of two members, one of which is subordinated to the other by the intonation, and thus becomes compacted with it […]
Word: autographical Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to an autograph, or one's own handwriting. Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to, or used in, the process of autography (in lithography). Labels: not-comparable Example: autographic ink, paper, or press
Word: nakabandis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nakabandi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: papalagi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Samoan papālagi, Tongan papālagi. Compare palagi. 1. In Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand, a white person; a palagi. Example: Yet those whom the Tongas called papalangi, or men from the sky, introduced into these islands a new language of politics, class and organisation.
Word: indeclinably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From indeclinable + -ly. 1. Without declination (variation of termination in a word). Labels: not-comparable Example: c. In the older language, the numerals for 5 and upward are sometimes used in the nom.-acc. form (or as if indeclinably) with other cases also: thus, páñca kṛṣṭíṣu among the five races; saptá rṣīṇām of seven bards; sahásram ṛ́ṣibhiḥ with a thousand bards; çatám pūrbhíḥ with a hundred strongholds. Sporadic instances of a like kind are also met with later.
Word: disembitter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + embitter. 1. To free from bitterness, remove bitterness Labels: transitive
Word: disembittered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disembitter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disembittering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disembitter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disembitters Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disembitter Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: adjunctions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of adjunction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: corradial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From co- + radial. 1. Radiating to or from the same point. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is neither parallel nor corradial with the line of Argument in either of the two Epistles, or with any one line; but it is a chord that traverses them all, and only touches where it cuts across.
Word: preadamic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Semitic *ʔadam- Hebrew אָדָםbor. Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám)bor. Latin Ādāmlbor. Old English Adam Middle English Adam English Adam Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Latin adamicusder. English Adamic English preadamic From pre- + Adamic. 1. Prior to the existence of the Adam (the first man, according to the Bible). Labels: not-comparable Example: preadamic era Example: preadamic garden
Word: Hellespontine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Hellespont + -ine? 1. Of or pertaining to the Hellespont. Labels: not-comparable Example: […]War of Macedonia with the Hellespontine cities
Word: Iudas Part of Speech: name 1. Archaic spelling of Judas. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: And surely none can continue neare, and deare vnto our kyng Christ but suche, for others that euer prolle for priuate profite, bee hypocrites and flatterers as was Iudas. Example: And it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren & gatt him to a man called Hira of Odollam, and there he sawe the doughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte. 2. Archaic form of Jude. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: fayle Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of fail. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: If they ſhoulde gyue battayle it was to be doubted, leaſt through treaſon amõgſt themſelues, the armie ſhould be betrayed into the enimies hands, the which would not fayle to execute all kinde of crueltie in the ſlaughter of the whole nation.
Word: advowtries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of advowtry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: honde Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of hand. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wᵗ nales and hammers, that it moue not.
Word: THAAD Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /θæd/ 1. Acronym of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: “The AN-TPY/2 radar is essentially the heart of the THAAD battery, enabling the launch of interceptor missiles and contributing to a networked air defense picture,” he said. “It also happens to be an incredibly expensive piece of kit. The loss of even a single radar of this type would be an operationally significant event. It is probable that a replacement unit would have to be redeployed from elsewhere, which will take time and effort.”
Word: whyle Part of Speech: conj 1. Obsolete spelling of while. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Part of Speech: name 1. A United States Army system designed to shoot down ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.
Word: wth Part of Speech: prep 1. Abbreviation of with. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, obsolete Example: […]others to make sporte wᵗʰ all of this last sorte were they whome they call Fresh-menn Punies of the first yeare, […]
Word: wth Part of Speech: intj 1. Initialism of what the hell or what the heck. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, mildly, vulgar
Word: smot Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of smote. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: She mightily aventred towards one, And downe him smot ere well aware he weare
Word: grasseater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grass + eater. Originally in reference to the Irish potato famine, implying that grass was all the Irish had left in their diet. 1. A white person, especially an Irishman. Labels: ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: When the "green mouths," as the impoverished Irish grasseaters were dubbed, entered the United States, they brought cholera, consumption, and typhus with them. 2. Alternative spelling of grass-eater (type of police officer) Labels: alt-of, alternative, slang 3. A herbivore or similar grazing animal. Example: And most of those grasseaters like horses, ox, camels, and llamas had shown early appearance on earth and since its early Cainozoic. 4. A vegetarian or vegan. Labels: derogatory Example: Founded in 1898, when vegetarians were regarded as “grasseaters,” this restaurant has more than proved its staying power.
Word: grasseaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grasseater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hook above Part of Speech: noun 1. A tone mark ( ̉) that indicates falling then rising tone in Vietnamese.
Word: chickenlips Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chicken + lips, from a stereotype of white people having small lips, since a chicken has none. 1. A white person. Labels: offensive, slang
Word: wonderbread Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wonder Bread, a brand of white bread. 1. Synonym of white bread (“the food”). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Synonym of white bread (“white person”). Labels: countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable Example: One of the wonderbreads had motioned me to rack up.
Word: wonderbread Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Wonder Bread, a brand of white bread. 1. Synonym of white bread (“bland, boring; conventional”). Labels: slang 2. Synonym of white bread. Labels: derogatory 3. White with brightly-colored spots.
Word: wonderbreads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wonderbread Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Camagüey Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish Camagüey, renamed after Chief Camagüebax in 1898. Both names probably derive from Taino camagua (Wallenia laurifolia). 1. A city in eastern central Cuba of over 300,000 people.
Word: Mayagüez Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish Mayagüez. 1. A coastal city in Puerto Rico.
Word: appaling Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of appalling. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: appaled Part of Speech: verb 1. Misspelling of appalled. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: siliculose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin silicula. 1. Bearing silicles. Example: siliculose capsule Example: siliculslose pods 2. Relating to, or resembling, silicles.
Word: nDNA Part of Speech: noun 1. nuclear DNA (the DNA found within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells) Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nRNA Part of Speech: noun 1. nuclear RNA (the RNA found within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells)
Word: deoxyribose nucleic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. deoxyribonucleic acid Labels: archaic
Word: ribose nucleic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. ribonucleic acid Labels: archaic
Word: ribose nucleic acids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ribose nucleic acid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deoxyribose nucleic acids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deoxyribose nucleic acid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desoxyribose nucleic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of deoxyribonucleic acid. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: desoxyribose nucleic acids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desoxyribose nucleic acid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desoxyribonucleic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of deoxyribonucleic acid. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: desoxyribonucleic acids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of desoxyribonucleic acid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: desoxyribonucleic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From desoxyribose + nucleic. 1. Alternative form of deoxyribonucleic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: desoxyribose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From desoxy- + ribose. 1. Alternative spelling of deoxyribose. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: desoxy- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From des- + oxy-. 1. Alternative spelling of deoxy-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: threonucleic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of threose + nucleic. 1. Pertaining to a cell nucleus and being based on threose. Labels: not-comparable
Word: threonucleic acids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of threonucleic acid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: taxibus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From taxi + bus. 1. A minibus operated as a shared taxi, departing only once minimally full.
Word: innundated Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of inundated. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: break cover Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, cover. 2. To disclose one's real thoughts and intentions. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: Government MPs sympathetic to the opposition's arguments are starting to break cover.
Word: oilnut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oil + nut. 1. Any nut from which oil may be commercially extracted. 2. The buffalo nut (from Pyrularia oleifera).
Word: olamine Part of Speech: noun 1. ethanolamine Labels: uncountable
Word: oleandomycin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A blend of oleandrose + -mycin. 1. A macrolide antibiotic produced by Streptomyces antibioticus. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: oleanolic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to oleanolic acid or its derivatives Labels: not-comparable
Word: olefiant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French gaz oléfiant, from olé (“oil”) + -fiant (“producer”), present participle of -fier (“-fy”). 1. That produces oil Labels: not-comparable
Word: olefiant gas Part of Speech: noun 1. ethylene Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: corn poppy Part of Speech: noun 1. The common poppy (Papaver rhoeas), of Eurasia.
Word: red poppy Part of Speech: noun 1. the common poppy (Papaver rhoeas), native to western Eurasia and north Africa. 2. Any poppy with red flowers.
Word: gutterwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gutter + work. 1. The guttering of a building. Labels: uncountable Example: Grander still were the stone houses on the ground, and Arien's was the grandest of all, shining with gemstones, edged by intricate, crafted gutterwork, gargoyles of young elves at play and the like[…]
Word: drainwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drain + work. 1. The drains of a building etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Such drainwork should be laid with a compressible layer above and immediately over the pipework[…]
Word: drainworks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drainwork Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epipetric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From epi- + petro- + -ic. 1. Found growing on rocks. Labels: not-comparable Example: Many ferns are epipetric, including the spleenworts.
Word: spleenworts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spleenwort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lampshaded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lampshade + -ed. 1. Incorporating a lampshade. Labels: not-comparable Example: He would read and write in the draped and lampshaded living room with its carpeted floor, and he would welcome her with the fond yet pitying smile and say, “Did you have a good time with your family?" Example: There were lots of lampshaded lamps of different sizes all around him, maroon mainly, or red and fringed, and they were all full on, making him look pink. 2. Diffused through a lampshade. (of light) Labels: not-comparable Example: A middle-aged bellboy carried her luggage through the lampshaded glow of the lobby, up the elevator, and into her rooms.
Word: lampshaded Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From lampshade + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of lampshade Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disnaturalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + naturalize. 1. To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Labels: transitive Example: [he][…]having served his prince well both in Afric and India, and being ill rewarded, renounced his country , disnaturalizing himself as the custom then was
Word: disnaturalized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disnaturalize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disnaturalizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disnaturalize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disnaturalizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disnaturalize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: insensuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + sensuous. 1. Not sensuous; not pertaining to or detectable to the senses. Example: That intermediate door / Betwixt the different planes of sensuous form / And form insensuous.
Word: paradoxid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the genus Paradoxides of large trilobites.
Word: paradoxids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paradoxid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: viatecture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin via (“way”) + -tecture, as in architecture. 1. The art of making roads or other patha travelling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc. Labels: archaic, rare, uncountable Example: We propose the term Viatecture , as nearly synonymous with Civil Engineering , to include the construction of roads and bridges , railroads , and canals , and water works ; and the improvement of rivers ' and harbors .
Word: bronchotomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bronchotomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bronchotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From broncho- + -tomy. 1. An incision into the windpipe or larynx.
Word: semivitreous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + vitreous. 1. Partially vitreous. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cutinize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cutin + -ize. 1. To change into cutin. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Sulphuric acid and chromic acid, even when concentrated, produce little effect on cutinized membranes, beyond removing traces of cellulose present in the cell-wall. Example: Leaves normally or experimentally developed as underground scales cutinize both upper and lower surfaces, and diminish the formation of collenchyma, palisade cells and intercellular spaces.
Word: cutinized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cutinize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cutinizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cutinize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cutinizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cutinize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tongkang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Malay tongkang (“barge”). Cognate with Burmese တုန်ကင်း (tunkang:). 1. A kind of light wooden boat used in the early 19th century to carry goods along rivers in Maritime Southeast Asia. Labels: historical 2. bumboat Labels: Singapore
Word: tongkangs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tongkang Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coggeries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coggery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coggery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cog + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɡəɹi/ 1. trick; deception Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Therefore can I not but often smile in my sleeue to heare and see the Iesuits coggery in euery thing […]
Word: animalculist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From animalcule + -ist. Pronunciation: /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/ 1. A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism. Labels: historical 2. Someone who studies animalcules. Labels: obsolete Example: All at once a botanist, already celebrated, proclaimed that he had seen the embryo forming in the grain of pollen and penetrating the ovule with the pollenical tube. This unexpected animalculist was Schleiden.
Word: animalculist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From animalcule + -ist. Pronunciation: /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/ 1. Pertaining to animalculism. Labels: historical Example: Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.
Word: animalculists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of animalculist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scholastical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of scholastic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: scholastical Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of scholastic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: scholasticals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scholastical Labels: form-of, plural
Word: recreancies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recreancy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: recreancy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛkɹiənsi/ 1. The quality or state of being recreant; shameful cowardice; perfidy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: What must be the feelings of the sons of Massachusetts when, on any public occasion requiring a statement of her claims, the boast of her former deeds shall be met with the reproach of her later recreancy? Example: Sir, can it be possible, that I correctly understood a gentleman from the Valley, to say on the first day of this debate, that he was instructed to vote against any and every possible scheme of emancipation which might be brought forward this winter […] I did not suppose there was that single individual west of the Blue Ridge, who was not disposed to cooperate with our eastern brethren in the accomplishment of this great and beneficent purpose—still less, sir, did I expect such recreancy from the cause of philanthropy, and from the vital policy of the west, in the great and public spirited county of Frederick.
Word: entreative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From entreat + -ive. 1. Used to entreat; pleading, supplicative. Example: an entreative moan Example: an entreative motion
Word: arenicolite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin arena (“sand”) + colere (“to cherish or live”); and see -ite. 1. A wormhole or other burrowing tunnel preserved in sandstone or another rock.
Word: arenicolites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arenicolite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: creutzer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of kreutzer. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: After the dance he returned them his thanks, accompanied by a present to each of the bridal party of three pieces of money of an unknown coin, each of which they estimated to be worth four creutzers.
Word: creutzers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of creutzer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sectionalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sectional + -ize. 1. To divide into sections. Labels: transitive Example: 1886-90, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History On the whole, the principal results of the struggle were, to sectionalize parties more completely, ripen Southern sentiment towards secession, and combine wavering voters in the free-States in support of Republican doctrines.
Word: sectionalized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of sectionalize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sectionalizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sectionalize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sectionalizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sectionalize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bewrought Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From be- + wrought. 1. embroidered Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: smocks all be-wrought With his thread which they bought
Word: increaseful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From increase + -ful. 1. abundant in produce; fruitful Labels: archaic, rare Example: To cheare the Plowman with increasefull crops Example: […] by mans helpe, industrie, and labour, it [the earth] becommeth more rich, fertile, and increasefull
Word: specificalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From specifical + -ness. 1. The quality of being specific. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: enlacement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From enlace + -ment, or from French? 1. The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding with lace or as if with a lace. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her throat was contracted, her breasts strove against the enlacement of her stays, she was about to weep.
Word: enlacements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enlacement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pedagogics Part of Speech: noun 1. The science or art of teaching; pedagogy. Labels: uncountable
Word: audi alteram partem Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From Latin audī (second-person singular present active imperative of audiō (“hear”)) + alteram (feminine accusative singular of alter (“the other”)) + partem (accusative singular of pars (“part, side”)). 1. "Hear both sides." A legal principle of fairness given to ensure that the accused has the chance to refute an accusation.
Word: polyacrilamide Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of polyacrylamide. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: haemaphaein Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek 1. A brownish pigment found in blood; The heme portion of hemoglobin. Labels: uncountable Example: Vogel says, "The yellowish-green tint of the serum may be dependant on the brown colouring matter of healthy blood, which was first described by Simon, and received the name of Haemaphaein from that chemist. Nitric acid will serve to prevent its being mistaken for bile pigment.
Word: hydrocephaloid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hydrocephalus + -oid. 1. Of, relating to, or resembling hydrocephalus. Labels: archaic Example: hydrocephaloid disease
Word: sleetch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare slush, slutch. 1. A slimy, clayey kind of mud found at the bottom of the sea or rivers Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: corpora arenacea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin corpora, nominative neuter plural of corpus (“body”), + arēnācea, nominative neuter plural of arēnāceus (“sandy”). 1. Calcified structures in the pineal gland and other areas of the brain such as the choroid plexus. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: polyallelism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + allele + -ism. 1. The presence of multiple alleles at a genetic locus Labels: uncountable
Word: polyallelic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From poly- + allelic. 1. Having multiple alleles at a genetic locus Labels: not-comparable
Word: Hatchky Part of Speech: name 1. A surname from German. Example: Hatchky, Fritz Example: 1903, Canada Parliament House of Commons, Debates: Official Report (Queen’s Printer), volume 6, page ccv Hatchky, Nazaibe, Appnmt. as Harbour Master: Ques. (Mr. Wilmot) 3630 (ii).
Word: hačky Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haček Labels: form-of, plural
Word: efflorescencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of efflorescency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: efflorescency Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of efflorescence. Labels: alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: shepherdish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shepherd + -ish. 1. Resembling or suiting a shepherd; pastoral. Labels: archaic
Word: biogenist Part of Speech: noun 1. biogenesist (a believer in the theory of biogenesis).
Word: biogenists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biogenist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: triaconter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek τριακοντήρης (triakontḗrēs). 1. A vessel with thirty rows of oars for rowers.
Word: triaconters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of triaconter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: toparch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Ancient Greek τοπάρχης (topárkhēs, “ruler of a small district”), from τόπος (tópos, “place”) + -άρχης (-árkhēs, “ruler”). Compare the Latin toparcha and French toparque. Pronunciation: /ˈtɒpɑːk/ 1. The prince or ruler of a small district, city, or petty state; a petty "king". Example: [B]y those many kings mentioned in the Old Testament, "thirty and one" in the little land of Canaan, (Joshua xii. 24,) is meant only toparchs, not great kings, but lords of a little dition and dominion; […] Example: Toparks, Kings of Cities or narrow territories, such as were the Kings of Sodome and Gomorrah, the Kings of Jericho and Ai.
Word: toparchs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of toparch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dioxindol Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of dioxindole Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable
Word: dioxindole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + oxygen + indole. 1. An indole obtained by the reduction of isatin. Labels: uncountable
Word: dioxindoles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dioxindole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peucedanin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Peucedanum + -in. 1. A tasteless white crystalline substance extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and related plants (tribe Selineae). Labels: uncountable
Word: propitiatorily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From propitiatory + -ly. 1. By way of propitiation; atoningly
Word: Turkomans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Turkoman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flotels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flotel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neurad Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From neuro- + -ad. 1. Toward the neural side. Labels: archaic
Word: piedstall Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of pedestal. Labels: alt-of, no-plural, obsolete
Word: sublimeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sublime + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity. Labels: uncountable
Word: polystyle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From poly- + -style. 1. Having many columns; said of a building, especially of an interior part or court. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: a polystyle hall
Word: polystyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + -style. 1. A hall or edifice with many columns. Labels: archaic
Word: polystyles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polystyle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epispadias Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπισπαδίας (epispadías), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon, epi-”) + σπάω (spáō, “to draw”) + -ίᾱς (-íās, nominal suffix), related to σπάδων (spádōn, “eunuch”). Pronunciation: /ˌɛp.ɪˈspeɪ.di.əs/ 1. A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: epispadiases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of epispadias Labels: form-of, plural