nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: xylophonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From xylophone + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to a xylophone. Example: Everything about them — the look, the feel, the faint smell, the xylophonic sound they make when they fall over — reminds him of his youth.
Word: atonalisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of atonalism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interclub Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + club. 1. Between clubs. Labels: not-comparable Example: The diagramed deal caused considerable comment when it was played in the first session of the Egyptian Premier League interclub team final between El-Ahly and Wadi Degla on Jan. 31.
Word: postqualifying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + qualifying. 1. After qualifying. Labels: not-comparable Example: Michael Waltrip, embarrassed last year at Daytona when his new Toyota team was caught in the postqualifying inspection using an illegal fuel additive, also had a great run Sunday, taking the outside pole.
Word: semidesert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + desert. 1. A semiarid region, approaching desert conditions. Example: The attacks throw a region sundered by conflict into still deeper chaos as a volatile mix of rebels, government forces and ethnic militias jockey to control a vast and unforgiving stretch of semidesert that straddles the two troubled countries.
Word: semideserts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semidesert Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonhedged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + hedged. 1. Not hedged. Labels: not-comparable Example: Société Générale said the new figure included 1.25 billion euros from its portfolio of nonhedged collateralized debt obligations, 947 million euros in default risk related to bond insurers and 325 million euros in trading losses on its investments in residential mortgage-backed securities.
Word: reharmonization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + harmonization. 1. The process of reharmonizing a musical work; a musical work made by reharmonizing another work. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some of what “River” accomplishes as a jazz record is serious indeed. Mr. Hancock’s version of Duke Ellington’s “Solitude” is the modern jazz process itself: a complete reharmonization of a familiar song, with rhythm that keeps vanishing and reappearing.
Word: reharmonizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reharmonization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squeezably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From squeezable + -ly. 1. In a squeezable manner. Example: “The first co-owner had coarse-coated dogs, and she said he was so fluffy and squeezably, wonderfully soft,” Good said.
Word: syncretist Part of Speech: noun 1. One who attempts syncretism, the fusion of different systems or beliefs. Example: Both are syncretist collaborations between a flexible jazz musician and a famously uncompromising genius who invented his or her own style  two musicians of putatively different worlds.
Word: syncretists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of syncretist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whorling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of whorl Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: girthy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From girth + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɜːði/, /ˈɡɝði/, /ˈɡɝθi/ 1. Of significant girth; wide. Example: This is Henry the Eighth? My God, was he girthy. My God, is that really how big his ding-a-ling was?
Word: girthiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of girthy: most girthy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: girthier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of girthy: more girthy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: nonevangelical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + evangelical. 1. Not evangelical. Labels: not-comparable Example: Mr. Huckabee got a boost from conservative and evangelical Christian voters in the state, but not enough to overcome support among moderates and nonevangelical Christians for Mr. McCain, who won 50 percent of the vote. Mr. McCain also prevailed in the District of Columbia, with 68 percent of the vote, and in Maryland, where he had 55 percent of the vote with 67 percent of the precincts reporting.
Word: nonevangelical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + evangelical. 1. One who is not an evangelical.
Word: refabricate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + fabricate. 1. To fabricate again or anew. Labels: transitive Example: During the current renovation, Sage has been able to repurchase several of these elements on eBay and has refabricated others.
Word: refabricates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of refabricate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: refabricating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of refabricate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: refabricated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of refabricate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: subwaying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of subway Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: subwayed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subway Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: babyproofer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From babyproof + -er. 1. One who babyproofs a dwelling. Example: Their parents soon become the most ingenious babyproofers alive, and live, for these hectic two years, in houses that are battened down like ships. Example: They went ahead with putting in flat-front lacquered maple cabinets in the kitchen, even though they soon had to watch a professional babyproofer drill 300 holes in them for safety latches.
Word: babyproofers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of babyproofer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: refabrication Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + fabrication. 1. Fabrication again or anew; remanufacture. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: refabrications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of refabrication Labels: form-of, plural
Word: freezeproof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From freeze + -proof. 1. Resistant to freezing. Labels: not-comparable Example: This 10-megapixel point-and-shoot camera is waterproof, freezeproof and, interestingly enough, crushproof.
Word: freezeproof Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From freeze + -proof. 1. To make resistant to freezing. Labels: transitive
Word: freezeproofs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of freezeproof Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: freezeproofing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of freezeproof Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: freezeproofed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of freezeproof Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: lunchmate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lunch + mate. 1. A friend or colleague with whom one eats lunch. Example: He and his lunchmates have all taken a stab at predicting the outcome, and office pools are sure to follow.
Word: lunchmates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lunchmate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lunchmeats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lunchmeat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: purrings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of purring Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sateens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sateen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sonarlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sonar + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of sonar. Example: They can fly — the only mammals that can — and most also possess the sonarlike ability to locate objects, like the insects they want to eat, by emitting high-pitched sonic pulses and then triangulating the echoes bouncing back to their oversize ears.
Word: uncrook Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + crook. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈkɹʊk/ 1. To bring back from a crooked position. Labels: transitive Example: And like them, he worked high on the fretboard, peeling off nimble riffs without ever uncrooking his arm.
Word: uncrooks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of uncrook Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: uncrooking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of uncrook Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: uncrooked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of uncrook Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: uncrooked Part of Speech: adj 1. Not crooked; straight. Labels: not-comparable
Word: antipoisoning Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + poisoning. 1. Opposing or countering poisoning. Labels: not-comparable Example: Residents are now rising up against the practice, however, joining an antipoisoning campaign that is aimed at keeping offenders from going to market with their catches and sending them to jail instead.
Word: balusterlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From baluster + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a baluster. Example: Mr. Passebon is showing whimsical pieces, like a pair of vintage white-lacquered metal garden chairs that are a confection of swirls and flowers, and more serious fare, like a pair of Napoleon III miniature seats upholstered in blue velvet with gilded faux bamboo legs and low, balusterlike round backs, also carved and gilded, in imitation of beaded fringe.
Word: harmolodic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to harmolodics. Example: FREE FORM FUNKY FREQS (Friday) This free-funk power trio, which recently released its self-titled debut on the Thirsty Ear label, consists of the guitarist Vernon Reid, the bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and the drummer G. Calvin Weston, students of the harmolodic philosophies of Ornette Coleman, who might almost be considered a phantom member of the group.
Word: monzogranitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From monzogranite + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to monzogranite.
Word: monzogranite Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of biotite granite rock, considered to be the final fractionation product of magma. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Just down the road is the western entrance to Joshua Tree National Park, an 800,000-acre preserve in an otherworldly monzogranite rock scape between the Mojave and Colorado Deserts.
Word: monzogranites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monzogranite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonlucrative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + lucrative. 1. Not lucrative. Labels: not-comparable Example: Like so many other single New Yorkers who stubbornly persist in pursuing fulfilling but decidedly nonlucrative careers, Matthew Thomas, a 32-year-old aspiring novelist, endured a housing history defined by transience and tests of endurance.
Word: truckmaking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From truck + making. 1. The manufacture of trucks. Labels: uncountable Example: Chrysler’s disposal last year will let Daimler focus on improving profitability at remaining divisions, including truckmaking and vehicle finance, Mr. Zetsche said.
Word: wallpaperlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wallpaper + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of wallpaper. Example: In it four images of a stunningly beautiful, scantily clad blonde are set against a wallpaperlike expanse of the splintery images of H. C. Westermann — an excellent artist who is not on many collectors’ must-have lists these days.
Word: comparingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From comparing + -ly. 1. So as to compare.
Word: automatonlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From automaton + -like. 1. Like an automaton; robotic. Example: There is further to go: Ms. Lowery’s lively head positions should be yet more elegant; Ms. Krohn is too automatonlike; and Ms. Reichlen at one point prolongs a preparation in an un-Balanchine way.
Word: countertheory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + theory. 1. A contrasting theory put forward as a response to another theory. Example: There is a countertheory, however, set forth by Dr. David B. Allison, the incoming president of the Obesity Society, a leading organization of obesity doctors and scientists.
Word: countertheories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of countertheory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: counterwave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + wave. 1. A wave (as of public opinion) going against an earlier wave. Example: Just as the message has apparently been heard, it has encountered a counterwave of books arguing that religion is totally unfit, not merely for public life, but for personal life as well.
Word: counterwaves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterwave Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ecoanxiety Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eco- + anxiety. 1. Anxiety about damage to the ecosystem. Labels: neologism, uncountable Example: Where there is ecoanxiety, of course, there are ecotherapists. Example: “When people start to be worried about the planet, they don’t know that they have eco-anxiety,” he said. “When they see this thing has a name, then they understand what to call it.”
Word: ecotherapist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eco- + therapist. 1. A therapist who practises ecotherapy. Example: Where there is ecoanxiety, of course, there are ecotherapists.
Word: ecotherapists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ecotherapist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: evictee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From evict + -ee. 1. One who is evicted. Example: Things can get especially tense, he said, when the evictees are former soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the separatist guerrilla group that fought the Serbs.
Word: evictees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of evictee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gangline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gang + line. 1. A central line connecting a sled etc. to the individual tuglines of the animals that draw it. Example: As the dogs were hooked up to the gangline linking them to the A.T.V. on a snowless day, the cacophony of barking built as the animals pulled at the harness to get going.
Word: ganglines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gangline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unclimactic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + climactic. 1. Not climactic. Example: This procession is slow and unclimactic, utterly mesmerizing and like everything else about this astounding work, absolutely right.
Word: lionheart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lion + heart, perhaps from Richard the Lionheart. 1. A brave, heroic person. Labels: idiomatic Example: But the United States Congress tends to be a courage-free zone, so Mr. McCain’s orneriness toward Republican primary voters makes him a lionheart in the political world.
Word: lionhearts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lionheart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: marathonlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From marathon + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a marathon. Example: Some are short and to the point, like 10Ks, and some are mileage-heavy, requiring a marathonlike time commitment.
Word: parentlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From parent + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a parent. Example: With relief, she recognizes her dog, Max, who in a parentlike role has come to guide her home.
Word: quasiparental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From quasi- + parental. 1. Having or involving certain aspects of parenthood. Example: Teachers at the boarding-school had a quasiparental role.
Word: toolbag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tool + bag. 1. A bag used to carry tools. Example: The mundane reality is that many art thieves are simply not the sharpest grappling hooks in the toolbag; the smart ones choose to steal things that can be much more easily converted into money — or just money itself. 2. A tool or jerk; an obnoxious person. Labels: Canada, US, derogatory, slang Example: Leighton Greene, Star Spanked “Sorry for being such a total toolbag,” Tristan whispered when I gave the empty bottle back to him. Example: You are owed an explanation and an apology. […] I'm sure you're an awesome, lovely girl, and he was a total toolbag who was lucky to be with you.
Word: toolbags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of toolbag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undecideds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of undecided Labels: form-of, plural
Word: untempted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tempted. 1. Not tempted. Example: But the fact that someone so untempted by mystical inclinations could in an important sense be sustained by what was in part a mystical relationship is emblematic of the extraordinary demands that, in extremis, patients cannot help making  demands that are as impossible for doctors to fulfill as they are impossible for patients to forgo.
Word: acroterium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin acrōtērium, from Ancient Greek ἀκρωτήριον (akrōtḗrion); related to ἄκρος (ákros, “highest, at the extremity”). By surface analysis, acro- + Latin -tērium. Fully Latinized form. Doublet of acroter. Pronunciation: /ˌækɹəˈtɪəɹi.əm/ 1. One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment, or upon the gables in Gothic architecture. 2. One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.
Word: acroteria Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acroterium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bloodspot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blood + spot. 1. A spot of blood. Example: “Racism is still an ugly thing in this country,” he says, dabbing at a tiny bloodspot.
Word: bloodspots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bloodspot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: geodome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of geodesic + dome. 1. geodesic dome Example: Today, even as Mr. Haeg is putting his beloved geodome on the market and deaccessioning unnecessary objects, there is one thing he is hanging onto.
Word: geodomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of geodome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kreyol Part of Speech: name Etymology: From creole. 1. An English-based creole language spoken in Liberia, related to Merico.
Word: oilwell Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of oil well. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: oilwells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oilwell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: panderings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pandering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seethrough Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from see through. 1. Alternative form of see-through. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 1969: Barbra Streisand’s seethrough, bell-bottom Scaasi pajamas.
Word: semicomfortable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + comfortable. 1. Somewhat comfortable. Labels: not-comparable Example: Last week: John Glass had a semicomfortable conversation with Ambrose, teh^([sic]) police captain, about the murder of Dylan Riley.
Word: semicomas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semicoma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semistate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + state. 1. A geopolitical region with some characteristics of a state. Example: Israel is trying to contain a new form of polity: a nonsovereign, semioccupied semistate controlled by Hamas, which is considered a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union and is officially committed to the destruction of the country obligated to provide it with fuel, electricity, water and food.
Word: semistates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semistate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nontackle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + tackle. 1. Not involving tackles. Labels: not-comparable Example: Collin Link, now 12, is back to training and sports, including a nontackle form of football.
Word: nonlake Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + lake. 1. Not of or pertaining to a lake. Labels: not-comparable
Word: requote Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + quote. 1. To quote again or anew. Labels: transitive
Word: requote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + quote. 1. Something that is quoted again or anew. Example: A flame remedy would be for the sysop to watch free disk space before running uucp, however, one never knows how many messages will be generated into each newsgroup per run. (some one could quote, a requote of a requote of a requote). Example: since you're forgetting, here's a requote of what started this line of discussion.
Word: requotes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of requote Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: requotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of requote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: requoting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of requote Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: requoted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of requote Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: immunocompatible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From immuno- + compatible. 1. Compatible with a targeted immune system. Example: You like having pairs of those sense organs, two eyes for binocular vision, two ears to localize sounds and twinned nostrils so you can follow your nose to freshly baked bread or the nape of a lover’s irresistibly immunocompatible neck?
Word: nonlodging Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + lodging. 1. Not lodging. Labels: not-comparable Example: Airport hotels are starting to court these nonlodging guests by introducing or enhancing amenities specifically aimed at them.
Word: pubgoer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pub + goer. 1. One who visits a public house. Example: Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.
Word: pubgoers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pubgoer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: castlette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From castle + -ette. 1. A small castle. Labels: rare Example: In the background were impossible castles and castlettes, precariously perched on isolated pinnacles of rock, which broke out here and there with unlikely trees. Example: Once little more than a speed trap 25 miles northeast of Dallas, this town started to boom about a year ago, as turreted stone castlettes and modest brick bungalows began springing up in what had been wheat fields.
Word: castlettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of castlette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: newfashion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From new + fashion. 1. To modernise; remodel in the latest style. Example: From the duke they would have taken his birthright; the church and religion they would have cast in a new mould; the bishops and clerks they would have new-fashioned, if not utterly laid aside; banished many of the nobles; … Example: He used to observe that poets and orators abound most in the corruptest times, and we have been fining and newfashioning the English tongue, whilst English manners are become wild.
Word: newfashion Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From new + fashion. 1. Recently come into fashion; new-fashioned. Example: Killerwhale House already knows what to do in these 'newfashion' times. Example: An entirely newfashion concept.
Word: coworking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + working. 1. The use of a shared working environment for independent activities by different organisations. Labels: uncountable Example: coworking space Example: Some companies, like Citizen Agency, a San Francisco Internet consulting firm that has done the most to evangelize coworking, have an open-door policy, in which people rent desks but others are free to drop in and use the Wi-Fi or the conference room.
Word: granolas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of granola Labels: form-of, plural
Word: postnup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of postnuptial. 1. A postnuptial agreement. Example: While prenups, in one form or another, have been written since ancient times, postnups came on the scene in the early 1980's. Example: Such tangles and many others can be avoided with a buy-sell agreement — basically a business prenup or a postnup, depending on when owners draw it up.
Word: postnups Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of postnup Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prebreak Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + break. 1. Before a break. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Knicks’ prebreak ineptitude appeared set to continue on the game’s first possession, which ended with a shot-clock violation as Jamal Crawford air-balled a desperate 3-pointer.
Word: prebreak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + break. 1. To break up large chunks of material into a size that is more convenient for further processing. Example: Prebreakers are used to prebreak or crush cocoa presscakes, fats, large fruit or vegetables, whole fish, bones, etc. Example: If you need to separate, mix, size, wash, reduce, rinse, granulate, prebreak, grind, mill, disperse, decake, pulverize, blend Why not increase your profits in the process?
Word: prebreak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + break. 1. The initial stage of processing, in which material is prebroken. Labels: uncountable Example: The incoming material is coarsely ground (prebreak), and placed in steam-jacketed cookers. Example: A feed wheel slides the blanks off the bottom, one at a time, where they are carried between belts moving at up to 2,000 ft (610 m) per minute into a prebreak station.
Word: risottolike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From risotto + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of risotto. Example: Beyond that, I like the standard short-grain brown rice, which is the one to use for risottolike dishes, and which can be fairly creamy.
Word: spherification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sphere + -ification. 1. The process of forming something into a sphere or spheres. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: While the Cointreau technology did not strike him as novel, Mr. Freeman was curious about the spherification kit the company had put together for bartenders.
Word: spherifications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spherification Labels: form-of, plural
Word: audiophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From audio- + -philia. 1. An interest in high fidelity sound reproduction and equipment. Labels: uncountable Example: IT’S only a mild case of audiophilia, according to the professionals, but it’s causing me significant discomfort.
Word: beader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bead + -er. 1. One who makes decorative beading. Example: Bessie’s father was a milkman, and her mom was a homemaker, but Aunt Jenny was a beader. Example: A beader and art glass designer, she opened String Beads twelve years ago with the aim of creating a store to meet the needs and anticipate the desires of any beader. 2. Synonym of perloir. Example: The four pairs of rollers accompanying the No. 4 beader are the single bead, ogee bead, triple and triple coffee pot, as represented in the above cut.
Word: beaders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beader Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bulbed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bulb + -ed. 1. Shaped like a bulb. Example: One man does not pass: John Cornelius Foley, a 6-foot-2, lumbering slab of damaged Irish-American age 57 years this May. He limps slowly, his right leg below the knee as knotty and bulbed as an old root.
Word: clethra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Clethra. 1. Any of the genus Clethra of flowering shrubs or small trees bearing flowers in clusters. Example: Be warned that heights are more fixed than widths; clethra spreads slowly but indefinitely unless it is restrained.
Word: clethras Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clethra Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cyberpioneer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + pioneer. 1. A pioneer of cyberspace. Example: I didn't know that much of what goes on online would turn out to be " utter drivel," as disillusioned cyberpioneer Clifford Stoll now concludes in his book Silicon Snake Oil, or "flame wars" of crude and escalating insults... Example: On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls.
Word: cyberpioneers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyberpioneer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oheloberries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oheloberry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oheloberry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hawaiian, from the plant's name ʻŌhelo ʻai, and berry. 1. The berry of Vaccinium reticulatum, native to Hawaii, similar in taste to the cranberry.
Word: hyperinflationary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + inflationary. 1. Having very high levels of inflation. Example: Zimbabweans have learned to live in a hyperinflationary environment, he added, “but the question is, how long can this continue?”
Word: kalanchoe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from taxonomic name Kalanchoe. Pronunciation: /ˌkæl.ənˈkoʊ.ɪ/, /-æn-/, /kəˈlɑn.koʊ.eɪ/ 1. Any succulent flowering plant of the tropical genus Kalanchoe. Example: NOW that spring is near, I’ve been repotting dozens of houseplants — begonias, aloes and oxalis — and have started to make cuttings of others, like geraniums, aeoniums and kalanchoes.
Word: kalanchoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kalanchoe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kalamkaris Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kalamkari Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonlathering Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + lathering. 1. Not forming a lather. Labels: not-comparable Example: Lorraine Massey, a founder of Devachan, simply rinses and agitates her scalp with fingers (or uses a nonlathering cleanser like Devachan No-Poo).
Word: nonretroactivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + retroactivity. 1. The quality (especially of a law) of not being retroactive. Labels: uncountable Example: The question for the court in this case was whether state courts, in considering postconviction appeals from criminal defendants, are bound by the same rule of nonretroactivity.
Word: sweet pepperbush Part of Speech: noun 1. Clethra alnifolia, a deciduous flowering shrub of eastern North America. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: summersweet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From summer + sweet. 1. Clethra alnifolia, a deciduous flowering shrub of eastern North America. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: summersweets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of summersweet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ziplocked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From zip + locked, based on the brand name Ziploc. 1. Tightly sealed in, or as if in, a Ziploc bag. Labels: not-comparable Example: First, it’s ineffective, because the country will never be ziplocked as tightly as he wants it to be.
Word: countercorruption Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From counter- + corruption. 1. Opposing or countering corruption. Labels: not-comparable Example: It quoted Transparency International, the global countercorruption organization, as estimating his wealth at $15 billion to $35 billion.
Word: boatmobile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of boat + bookmobile. 1. A boat that operates as a bookmobile. Example: For residents of this remote village on an ice-locked island off the tip of mainland Wisconsin, the gliding boatmobile, known here as a windsled, is a kind of school bus.
Word: boatmobiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boatmobile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crocuslike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crocus + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a crocus. Example: Her eight recent paintings, all made with enamel on shaped aluminum panels (and untitled, like the one at left), exhibit combinations of geometric forms and saturated colors — a toothpaste green and a crocuslike violet, a warm gray and a wan chartreuse.
Word: mismarkings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mismarking Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shootdown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from shoot down. 1. The shooting down of an aircraft, satellite, etc. Example: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who personally gave the order to go ahead with the satellite shootdown Wednesday, told reporters in Hawaii on Thursday that he was prepared to share some details of the operation with China to ease its concerns that the debris might still prove dangerous.
Word: shootdowns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shootdown Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trinketlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trinket + -like. 1. Like a trinket; cheap and showy. Example: At Bonakdar his atomlike sculptures — composed of mirrored rings and intersecting discs — look more trinketlike than transcendent.
Word: unpublic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + public. 1. Not public. Labels: not-comparable Example: Hence, the public announcement of the unpublic auction.
Word: commissionership Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From commissioner + -ship. 1. The role or office of commissioner. Example: When he retired, he called his commissionership “the greatest job in the world; you’re always visiting wonderful places.”
Word: commissionerships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of commissionership Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dopefiend Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dope fiend. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: minicoat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + coat. 1. A very short coat. Example: Against a projected background of collages by Timotheus Paulus Roeloffs, a Berlin artist, Ms. Versace sent out minimalist day clothes: tailored dark trousers, navy wool and silk gazar dresses with asymmetrical draping at the neckline, and raised-collar minicoats with a Cardin influence.
Word: dopefiends Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dopefiend Labels: form-of, plural
Word: minicoats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minicoat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonpressuring Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + pressuring. 1. Not pressuring. Labels: not-comparable Example: In their courtship of Mr. Richardson, both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are skilled and nonpressuring, their efforts appropriate, he said.
Word: petitgrain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French petitgrain. Pronunciation: /ˌpə.tiˈɡræ̃/, /ˌpə.tiˈɡrã/, /ˌpə.tiˈɡreɪn/, /ˌpɛ.tiˈɡræ̃/, /ˌpɛ.tiˈɡrã/ 1. An essential oil that is extracted from the green twigs of the bitter orange plant. Labels: uncountable Example: Even when preparing less costly synthetic nerolis, French petitgrain is almost invariably employed […] Example: Zinarine, natural green and tomato leaf notes with aspects of mint, fig, hyacinth; petitgrain Paradisamide, a long-lasting, fresh tropical fruit note with nuances of grapefruit, rhubarb and cassis; and Florymoss, a floral, green, mossy note which blends well with floral fruity and spicy accords.”
Word: acetylcarnitine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From acetyl + carnitine. Pronunciation: /əˌsiːtɪlˈkɑː(ɹ)nɪtiːn/ 1. Acetylated carinitine; a dietary supplement derived from carnitine. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her mostly organic diet is supplemented with black-currant oil, acetylcarnitine and silica capsules.
Word: airgaps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of airgap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bimatoprost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bimato- (of unknown origin) + -prost (“prostaglandin”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈmæt.əˌpɹɑst/ 1. A prostaglandin analog C₂₅H₃₇NO₄ used topically to reduce elevated intraocular pressure (as in the treatment of open-angle glaucoma) and promote the growth of longer and thicker eyelashes. It is marketed under the trademarks Latisse and Lumigan. Labels: uncountable Example: Some of the products contained small amounts of bimatoprost, an ingredient in the anti-glaucoma drug Lumigan, which is manufactured by Allergan.
Word: bimatrices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bimatrix Labels: form-of, plural
Word: champak Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of champac (Magnolia champaca) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Yü, a limited-edition perfume from Mane, costs $5,000 and “contains rare, sustainably harvested plant essences like Indonesian champak and Mysore sandalwood.”
Word: champaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of champak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: corbeled Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of corbelled. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Some have small oriel windows in oval shapes resting on corbeled brickwork, laid in rows that gradually project from the facade.
Word: counterbalancer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counterbalance + -er. 1. One who, or that which, counterbalances. 2. Part of a bicycle designed to reduce vibration. Example: The footpegs and handlebars buzz as the engine revs — the counterbalancer that controls vibration in the stock KLR has been omitted to save weight and reduce complexity.
Word: counterbalancers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterbalancer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crostinis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crostini Labels: form-of, plural Example: The menu at this new brick-walled wine bar features Italian snacks, including a nice selection of cheeses and salumi; and crostinis and small plates like sardines baked with fennel, pine nuts, raisins and pecorino; and pigs’ trotters with bread stuffing and chestnuts.
Word: debaptism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + baptism. Pronunciation: /diːˈbæptɪzəm/ 1. A ceremony supposed to cancel a person's earlier baptism. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: detachedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From detached + -ly. Pronunciation: /dɪˈtæt͡ʃɪdli/, /dəˈ-/ 1. In a detached manner. Example: For ten months of the year they figured in her life as mere alien phenomena at which she marvelled detachedly, with easy amusement. Example: In his second work, “Jérôme Bel,” four naked performers detachedly examine and manipulate their bodies, illuminated by a single light bulb, and eventually urinate onstage.
Word: car-body van Part of Speech: noun 1. A small van, built on a chassis designed for a car.
Word: diaperish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From diaper + -ish. Piecewise doublet of diaperesque. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a diaper. Example: Bloomers — sometimes diaperish, usually subversive and most women’s idea of fashion hell — produced smirks and double-takes in New York and Europe.
Word: car-body vans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of car-body van Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frevo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese, said to come from ferver (“to boil”). 1. Any of a wide range of music and dance styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and traditionally associated with Brazilian carnival. Labels: uncountable Example: Musicians from Recife, Olinda and rural Pernambuco have concocted rock laced with funk; reggae; the local beats of maracatú and frevo; old rural songs; and the beats, burbles and scratches of electronica.
Word: gurulike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From guru + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a guru. Example: Kusama herself, delighted by her escalating auction prices but paranoid about the least implication of indebtedness to any other artist, has retreated ever further into gurulike ambiguities.
Word: haremlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From harem + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a harem. Example: The bifurcated look had something weirdly haremlike about it and, however liberating, was light only in relation to what had come before.
Word: hedgie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hedge + -ie. 1. A hedgehog. Labels: informal Example: The average life span of the captive hedgie is 3 to 8 years. Example: Still, some hedgies will run for hours at night. 2. A hedge fund trader. Labels: informal Example: Despite the best, or worst, efforts of those overextended hedgies and subprime-sters, it did, but not as high as hems, and it yo-yoed squeamishly along the way. Example: Most hedgies currently lack conviction. Incidentally, that's a good sign, not an ill omen.
Word: hedgies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hedgie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hospitability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, hospitable + -ity. 1. The quality of being hospitable. Labels: uncountable Example: This hospitability to established acts is part of what makes country music unique and, these days, uniquely profitable.
Word: injectible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inject + -ible. 1. Alternative form of injectable. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: Dr. Matlock, who made his name performing liposuction and then transplanting the fat to create a “Brazilian butt augmentation,” and who later went on to have a role on the reality show “Dr. 90210,” patiently explained the ins and outs of the injectible procedure of the moment, one that he claims to have invented and that makes Botox seem so five wrinkles ago.
Word: injectible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inject + -ible. 1. Alternative form of injectable. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: injectibles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of injectible Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jazzhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jazz + -head. 1. A jazz music enthusiast. Labels: slang Example: He speaks to an audience definable not by its size nor even by its color but by its intellectual jazzhead zeal, and if he sometimes appears to be speaking only to himself, so be it; few people I know have the fervor for anything to match Mackey’s for jazz.
Word: jazzheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jazzhead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: linocuts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of linocut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: megacompany Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + company. 1. A very large company. Example: But don’t think that working for a megacompany comes at the cost of Capone’s imagination: “They always let me be experimental.”
Word: megacompanies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megacompany Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Banks Part of Speech: name 1. An English toponymic surname for someone who lives near a hill or bank of land. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sir John being asked if he offered to put another name in his stead, he believes he did, and that Mr. Banks said, it might stand in his own name; he likewise said, he believed the colonel did not know it was the Company's stock, he having never told him it was, as he remembers. 2. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A number of places in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A small village in Burtholme parish, Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5664). Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A large village in North Meols parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3920). Labels: countable, uncountable 13. An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Banks Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Bank Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metafictionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From metafiction + -ist. 1. A writer of metafiction. Example: As a maker of such writing, he descends from a long line traceable from Whitman and Melville to the modernists and Mackey’s idol, Baraka, to the metafictionists John Barth and William Gass.
Word: neoburlesque Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of neo-burlesque. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: The state of being partially or very casually dressed, as in, “The teen star gives an extremely naked performance in the CW remake of ‘Bilitis,’ spending the entire movie in varying degrees of dishabille”; a front-row buzzword in a season in which designers have stripped back the silhouette to its conceptual, neoburlesque bare bones, e.g., “The collection was very mid-’90s Madonna dishabille in Seville meets Dita Von Teese in Greece.”
Word: metafictionists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metafictionist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonevangelicals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonevangelical Labels: form-of, plural
Word: precampaign Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + campaign. 1. Before a campaign. Labels: not-comparable Example: Reruns revive the old Fred Thompson in all his precampaign savvy.
Word: precampaign Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + campaign. 1. A campaign that takes place in advance of the main campaign. Example: For example, current election laws remain silent about so-called precampaigns: the campaign activities that prospective candidates carry out ahead of the official campaign period […]
Word: regentrify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + gentrify. 1. To gentrify again. Example: “Huntington regentrified itself and survived,” he said.
Word: regentrifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of regentrify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: regentrified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of regentrify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: regentrification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + gentrification. 1. The act or process of regentrifying. Labels: uncountable
Word: semicustomized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + customized. 1. Partially customized. Labels: not-comparable Example: Clients pay very dear prices for the complex, semicustomized software that runs their business.
Word: superaffluent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + affluent. 1. Highly affluent. Example: But the penthouses languished on the market, until he began marketing them as combined space for superaffluent buyers.
Word: holy basil Part of Speech: noun 1. Ocimum tenuiflorum, an aromatic plant cultivated for religious, medicinal, and culinary purposes and for its essential oil. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: semisatisfied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + satisfied. 1. Partially satisfied. Labels: not-comparable Example: But by then the music had been cut, semisatisfied customers were wandering out, and it fell to T-Pain to state the obvious.
Word: ballhandler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ball + handler. 1. One who handles the ball. Example: “Like every kid her age, she has to become a much better ballhandler and a better defender,” he said.
Word: ballhandlers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ballhandler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boomy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From boom + -y. 1. Characterized by heavy bass sounds. Labels: informal Example: If you're miking a boomy acoustic, the proximity effect can work against you, but having it on a thin-sounding arch-top can work for you. Example: As an airliner approaches you from a long way off, the sound is first heard as rumble, and, as it get closer and then directly overhead, the sound becomes increasingly boomier. 2. Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc. Labels: informal Example: c. 1880s, Rudyard Kipling, quoted in 1992, John William Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States, page 412, Tacoma was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest. I do not quite remember what her natural resources were supposed to be, […] . Example: A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now. 3. That booms. Labels: informal Example: Pupil of Earth stinky-dome three-dimensions planet have only short time to throw off mantle of FGREPSTER before big boomy things come falling down and make three dimensions happy place again you betchum. Example: Annie is frightened by storm fronts and she will relentlessly twine herself between my legs whenever the barometer drops. […] "It's going away. It's okay," I say. OKAY. THANKS, says Annie. OHMYGOD! WHAT WAS THAT BOOMY THING??!? I DON'T LIKE THAT BOOMY THING. OH...YOU SURE? OKAY. THANKS.
Word: boomier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of boomy: more boomy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: boomiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of boomy: most boomy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: hyperjudgmental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + judgmental. 1. Extremely judgmental. Example: Lil Wayne is at the strange, magical point in his career when popular acclaim seems like total freedom, when hyperjudgmental fans suspend judgment, willing to follow their hero wherever he goes, whatever he does.