nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: conglomerateur Part of Speech: noun 1. One who forms conglomerates. Example: Jennifer Jones and her second husband, the conglomerateur and art collector Norton Simon, invited him to their birthday party for David Niven, where the host promoted Gehry to Dorothy Chandler, the imperious dowager of Los Angeles philanthropy.
Word: conglomerateurs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of conglomerateur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: giantness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From giant + -ness. 1. The quality of being giant; immensity. Labels: uncountable Example: The campaign for Cheetos Giant does not specifically play on the recession, although it “highlights the giantness of the product,” Lambeth says.
Word: gyil Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɪlə/, /ˈdʒiːl/ 1. A pentatonic instrument of Africa, resembling a xylophone. Example: “Dust Dances” (1994), the vigorous opening work here, is the fruit of a four-month visit to Ghana, where Mr. Bermel studied the gyil, an African xylophone.
Word: gyils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gyil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hampshirite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hampshire + -ite. 1. A particular steatic pseudomorph, found in New Hampshire. Labels: uncountable
Word: hyperventilations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyperventilation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyperventilator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyperventilate + -or. 1. One who hyperventilates.
Word: hyperventilators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hyperventilator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypervibration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + vibration. 1. A combination of phonon, roton and translon
Word: likers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of liker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loomingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From looming + -ly. 1. So as to loom. Example: (It seems to me now, many years later, that I was expressing early on a chronic depressive’s wish to stay home, on the inside, instead of taking on the outside, loomingly hostile world in the form of classmates and teachers.)
Word: nonprocrastinating Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + procrastinating. 1. Not procrastinating. Labels: not-comparable Example: Is there something about children’s books that attracts the prolific, or at least the nonprocrastinating?
Word: nonroad Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + road. 1. Not of or pertaining to roads. Labels: not-comparable Example: Growth Energy sent the entire report to the E.P.A., but the summary it provided with its formal waiver request — and uses in press materials — said that when using E15 and E20, “there were no significant changes in vehicle tailpipe emissions, vehicle drivability or small nonroad engine emissions as ethanol content increased.”
Word: afpers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of afper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Symbionese Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From symbiosis + -ese. 1. Of or pertaining to the Symbionese Liberation Army, an American left-wing urban militant group of the 1970s.
Word: symbiogeneses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of symbiogenesis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: symbiogenetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From symbiogenesis, modeled after genetic. 1. Pertaining to symbiogenesis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: uchi-deshi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 内弟子 (“inside student”). 1. In Japanese martial arts, a live-in student or apprentice who trains under and assists a sensei on a full-time basis.
Word: sylvites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sylvite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sylvinites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sylvinite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sylvines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sylvine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outtalks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outtalk Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outtalking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outtalk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outtalked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outtalk Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overparenting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + parenting. 1. Excessive parenting, as by being overprotective towards one's child. Labels: uncountable Example: (You might think this was in an essay on the perils of overparenting; it’s actually one in which she realizes that she can’t foist her own childhood anxieties onto her own socially adroit children.)
Word: overparenting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + parenting. 1. present participle and gerund of overparent Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: partogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin parere (“to give birth”) + -gram. 1. A graphical record of key maternal and fetal data during labour, intended to provide a record of progress and highlight any delay or deviation from normal.
Word: partograms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of partogram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: partocratic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to partocracy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pseudocastle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + castle. 1. A building designed to resemble a castle. Labels: rare Example: A mixture of pricey cottages, expanded Capes and pseudocastles on tiny lots in the town of Hempstead, the 0.23-square-mile Point Lookout occupies the east end of the Nassau County barrier island that is also home to Lido, Long and Atlantic Beaches.
Word: pseudocastles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pseudocastle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reprehensibles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reprehensible Labels: form-of, plural Example: According to Lucille Cirillo, a spokeswoman for United States Customs and Border Protection, the approach is not list-based but more opportunistic: asked at the border to declare a criminal history or other illicit activity on a visa waiver form, reprehensibles often do so.
Word: nonopportunistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + opportunistic. 1. Not opportunistic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: restation Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + station. 1. To assign (military personnel) to a different area. Labels: transitive Example: “She will hopefully be restationed somewhere near Virginia by next year,” Lieutenant McLean said.
Word: restationing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of restation Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: restations Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of restation Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: restationed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of restation Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tanha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Transliteration of Pali taṇhā. 1. Cravings; desires. Labels: uncountable Example: The Buddhist concept of tanha, for example — roughly translated as “blind demandingness” — encapsulates many tenets of R.E.B.T. and points the way toward emotional equanimity: stop asking more of the universe than it can possibly deliver.
Word: Schleswiger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Schleswig + -er, or directly from the German Schleswiger. 1. A native or inhabitant of Schleswig, the northern half of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Example: There I met another German, or rather a Schleswiger, by the name of Bondiz, who was also a merchant.
Word: telepaper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + paper. 1. A newspaper that can be downloaded in an electronic format. Labels: rare Example: But, as the anchorwoman assures us at the end, with a two-hour download time (at $5 an hour), “the new telepaper won’t be much competition for the 20-cent street edition.”
Word: telepapers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of telepaper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underinformed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + informed. 1. Given inadequate information. Example: He would have met the real estate agents selling overpriced merchandise to underinformed dreamers and heard the agents’ pitch — “Investors like you, sir, are making a fortune.”
Word: Schleswigers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Schleswiger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unsilly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ, equivalent to un- + silly. Doublet of Unseelie. 1. Not silly. Example: “Cheetos is about being playful, it’s about being silly,” Lambeth replies in a thoroughly unsilly tone.
Word: wondrousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wondrous + -ness. 1. The quality of being wondrous. Labels: uncountable Example: Charles M. Blow’s column refers to nonreligious thought as “shtick,” and implies that atheists fail to properly celebrate human exceptionalism, wondrousness, compassion, love, companionship and perhaps even singing and picnicking.
Word: buddyhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From buddy + -hood. 1. The state of being buddies; friendship, camaraderie. Labels: uncountable Example: Anyway, when Foley meets Dawn, Cundo’s assumptions about buddyhood are immediately given the lie.
Word: Palmerstonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Palmerston + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌpɑːməˈstəʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌpɑmɚˈstoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British prime minister.
Word: golfspeak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From golf + -speak. 1. The jargon associated with the sport of golf. Labels: uncountable Example: Now if you’re a beginner or a casual player, you may find golfspeak to be another intimidating barrier to feeling comfortable on the course — a verbal version of golf’s code of behavioral etiquettes.
Word: overcuteness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From overcute + -ness. 1. The quality of being overcute; excessive cuteness. Labels: uncountable Example: In that finale, as in the “Wunderhorn” songs, Ms. Röschmann sang with beautiful soaring or lilting tone but tended toward overcuteness in her manner.
Word: anticelibacy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + celibacy. 1. Opposing celibacy. Example: “I don’t want to be the anticelibacy priest,” he said.
Word: cybersleuth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + sleuth. 1. A cyberdetective. Labels: informal Example: For the cybersleuth, hunting evidence in the data tangle of the Internet, the problem is different. Example: When cybersleuths traced the millions of dollars American companies, hospitals and city governments have paid to online extortionists in ransom money, they made a telling discovery: At least some of it passed through one of the most prestigious business addresses in Moscow.
Word: cybersleuths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cybersleuth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overcute Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + cute. 1. Excessively or cloyingly cute; saccharine; cutesy.
Word: overdates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overdate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overdamping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overdamp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overdamps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overdamp Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hypervisible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + visible. 1. Extremely visible. Example: It’s startling that urban youth remain hypervisible symbols of the “culture of failure” but are never quoted as the ultimate stakeholders in education policy debates.
Word: rereport Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + report. 1. To report again. Labels: transitive Example: Beyond the personal testimonies, there’s little in “The Madoff Affair” that hasn’t already been reported and rereported.
Word: rereports Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rereport Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rereporting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rereport Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rereported Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rereport Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: manaclelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From manacle + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of manacles. Example: Other pieces allude to his mother’s quilts, to his father’s tools, to farm animals and folk amulets, with all of this individual history embedded in a broader one symbolized by manaclelike bracelets and astrological symbols.
Word: pinakbet Part of Speech: noun 1. A stew of the Philippines, consisting of mixed vegetables steamed in fish or shrimp sauce. Labels: uncountable Example: The Pork-Off, held May 3, featured the expected ribs and barbecue, along with the Filipino stew pinakbet.
Word: Ilocanos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Ilocano Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ilokanos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Ilokano Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subfunction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + function. 1. A secondary or subsidiary function. Example: “Lost” is certainly to be granted its points for its subfunction as a soap opera this season.
Word: subfunctions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subfunction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: astrantia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any herbaceous plant of the genus Astrantia. Example: To counter the heft of such big leaves, add dainty flowering plants like Yellow Waxbells (Kirengeshoma palmata) or the underused astrantia in red or maroon.
Word: astrantias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of astrantia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Schleswig Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Schleswig, from the Schlei, a narrow inlet of the Baltic. Pronunciation: /ˈʃlɛsvɪɡ/, /ˈʃlɛswɪɡ/ 1. A geographic area and former Danish duchy in Northern Europe, located on the southern Jutland peninsula between the rivers Eider and Kongeå; now politically divided between Denmark and Germany. 2. A town, the administrative seat of Schleswig-Flensburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. 3. A small city in Crawford County, Iowa. 4. A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
Word: bucketsful Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bucketful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bucketwheels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bucketwheel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: farmscape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From farm + -scape. 1. A landscape dominated by a farm or farmland. Example: There are also recent acquisitions and promised gifts to admire: a sulfurous early farmscape by Mondrian; a shimmering Bonnard still life from 1926; a blocky, abstract sculpture in cast plaster by Georges Vantongerloo, also from 1926; and Magritte’s enigmatic “White Race,” from 1937, which dissects a female bather, evoking both Picasso’s monstrous paintings of Olga and his pneumatic treatments of Marie-Thérèse Walter.
Word: farmscapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of farmscape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Magrittean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Magritte + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to René Magritte (1898–1967), Belgian surrealist artist who challenged observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Word: Pollockian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Pollock + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), American abstract expressionist painter.
Word: Mareva injunction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the legal case Mareva Compania Naviera SA v International Bulkcarriers SA [1975] 2 Lloyd's Rep 509, decided in 1975. 1. A court order which freezes assets so that a defendant to an action cannot dissipate their assets from beyond the jurisdiction of the court. Labels: Canada, UK
Word: semihallucinatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + hallucinatory. 1. Somewhat hallucinatory. Labels: not-comparable Example: Mr. Ray’s sculpture is a big-budget production that may become rare in the years ahead, but looking at it and gradually realizing that none of its delicate, desiccated textures are natural is a semihallucinatory experience.
Word: subbasin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + basin. 1. A basin within a larger basin. Example: Since 2006 the surface of the aquifer, in the Kaweah subbasin of the San Joaquin basin, has dropped 50 feet as farmers pumped deeper, Mr. Watte says.
Word: subbasins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subbasin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unsteadier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of unsteady: more unsteady Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: unsteadiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of unsteady: most unsteady Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: unsteadying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unsteady Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: A correspondent suggested that the superior riding qualities of the latter were due to the absence of piston-valve chests above the cylinders, which made it possible to bring the underside of the water-tanks to a lower level than that of the "Rivers", so minimising the unsteadying effect of water surging in the tanks.
Word: unsteadies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unsteady Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: wanderlusty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wanderlust + -y. 1. Full of wanderlust; eager to travel. Labels: informal Example: Some of these intense, wanderlusty New Yorkers were running through the store with packing lists, loudly asking for moisture-wicking undershirts and sleeping pads.
Word: wanderjahrs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wanderjahr Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crateload Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crate + load. 1. A load stored in a crate; a crateful. Example: An art investor in Hallandale, Fla., who died last year at 57, he stored crateloads at his apartment and nearby warehouses.
Word: crateloads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crateload Labels: form-of, plural
Word: earbone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ear + bone. 1. Any bone in the ear. Example: This earbone criterion may seem esoteric — until we learn that the evolution of that bone structure is related to the development of a single lower jaw, which in turn, is associated with the fact that mammals, unlike, say, lizards, have differentiated teeth that allow for different kinds of chewing.
Word: earbones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of earbone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: miserabilism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Miserabilismus, French misérabilisme, corresponding to miserable + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪzɹəbəlɪz(ə)m/ 1. A tendency to take a miserable or pessimistic view on life; a consistently miserable outlook, negativity. Labels: uncountable Example: Parlementary ideas invariably evinced that most thoroughgoing national miserabilism which had impressed poor Damiens [...]. Example: A beautiful-looking slice of British miserabilism, “Fish Tank” traces what happens to a 15-year-old (Katie Jarvis) when her mother’s boyfriend moves into the family’s cramped flat, a story that can be summed up by the lyrics, sung by Nas, that portentously bring the accumulated bleak moments to a close: “Life’s a bitch and then you die.”
Word: multibranched Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + branched. 1. Having more than one branch. Labels: not-comparable Example: So these extreme mammals really are, in a strange way, our relatives, a multibranched, variegated web of life forms, many extinct (as are 99 percent of all species that ever lived) but some of which are still being discovered: the last display shows a reconstruction of a striped rabbit, a new species discovered in 1999 in Laos.
Word: Annamites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Annamite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonblockbuster Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + blockbuster. 1. Not being or pertaining to blockbuster films. Labels: not-comparable Example: The nonblockbuster business has always been tough; now it’s close to Darwinian.
Word: overmuscled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + muscled. 1. Excessively muscled. Example: Rodriguez, like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire before him, is an overmuscled player with freakishly distorted statistics who abetted the distortion of a sport that, when played on the square, rewards homelier virtues like guile and speed.
Word: prerecessionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + recessionary. 1. Prior to a recession. Labels: not-comparable Example: There are no hard times on the red carpet at Cannes, where they know how to party like it’s 1788 or at least like the prerecessionary days of 2008.
Word: firesuit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + suit. 1. A fire-retardant suit worn in motor racing. Example: He was among the hundreds on hand for the unveiling, some arriving as early as 6:30 a.m. to see the new car, the various racecars inside and the Elvis display case that included the orange firesuit worn by Presley as the racecar driver Lucky Jackson in the 1964 film “Viva Las Vegas.”
Word: firesuits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of firesuit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flamencolike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flamenco + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of the flamenco dance. Example: Surrounded by a chorus of beautiful women, he jackhammered his way about the stage, rocking his pelvis and occasionally flourishing his hands in a vaguely flamencolike manner.
Word: uneventfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uneventful + -ness. 1. The quality of being uneventful. Labels: uncountable Example: But maybe the uneventfulness was merely par for the course.
Word: unluxurious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + luxurious. 1. Not luxurious. Example: The hunch proved true; they were spotted in the rather unluxurious Pigalle neighborhood of Paris, notorious for its sex shops and red-light district.
Word: crocketed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crocket + -ed. 1. Having a crocket. Labels: not-comparable Example: He leaned back on this support with his face to the tower of the cathedral, now admirably commanded by their standpoint, the high red-brown mass, square and subordinately spired and crocketted, retouched and restored, but charming to his long-sealed eyes, and with the first swallows of the year weaving their flight all round it. Example: A brief intermission of an Eighteenth Century Barnsdale Forest brought into view the high crocketed tower of Darfield Church on its rugged scarp, beneath whose graveyard gushes out what in the old days was the main water-supply of the village, the Bank Well.
Word: macrocondition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From macro- + condition. 1. A macroscale condition. Example: These are macroconditions that you are asking about.
Word: macroconditions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of macrocondition Labels: form-of, plural
Word: minitractor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + tractor. 1. A small, compact tractor. Example: They want $8,000 sewing machines and $2,800 custom closets and $5,000 minitractors, and sometimes they reach out to Suze Orman, the ubiquitous, telegenic personal-finance expert and beg her for permission to indulge.
Word: minitractors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minitractor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonegocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + egocentric. 1. Not egocentric. Labels: not-comparable Example: But he also displayed a strikingly nonegocentric attitude toward some of his most renowned work.
Word: overfreighted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + freighted. 1. Laden with too much freight. Example: Consider, for example, the symbolically overfreighted names she has chosen for her central characters.
Word: semiscripted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + scripted. 1. Relying only partially on a script. Labels: not-comparable Example: Together these halves make up a mini-retrospective, replete with firsts: the first time that “Ice Bag” will function consistently since its completion (or so the conservators hope), and the first time the public will see rare footage of most of Mr. Oldenburg’s legendary Happenings, the anarchic, semiscripted group performances involving sculptural props and sets that prefigured today’s performance art.
Word: unrevolutionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + revolutionary. 1. Not revolutionary. Example: Mao and Castro were said to be ascetics in their early guerrilla phases, though the paunches of their later years betray unrevolutionary tastes for the lush life.
Word: deconstructionism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deconstruction + -ism. Pronunciation: /diːkənˈstɹʌkʃənɪzəm/, /diːkənˈstɹʊkʃənɪzəm/ 1. The belief in, or application of, deconstruction (theory of textual criticism). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Once he had decided to major in English, “since it sounded like something I might already know,” he learned to enjoy tossing the vocabulary of deconstructionism back at his teachers.
Word: forceless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From force + -less. 1. Without force. Labels: not-comparable
Word: forcemeats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forcemeat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multifigure Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + figure. 1. Of more than one figure. Labels: not-comparable Example: Of the now-vanished panels, Mrs. Gordon hazily recalls a giant, languorous woman stretched the length of one wall, and a multifigure composition on the other.
Word: shakings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shaking Labels: form-of, plural 2. The sweepings from a ship's deck, consisting of leftover cordage, canvas, etc.
Word: subrace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + race. 1. A secondary or subsidiary race. Example: “The people in the south treat the northeast as a subrace of Brazilians,” said Roberto Quiñiero, who owns a small food market in Pedreiras.
Word: subraces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subrace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subquarks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subquark Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blubberfest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blubber + -fest. 1. An event characterized by weeping. Labels: slang Example: There is no crying in space, but Monday was perhaps as close as it gets to a blubberfest in space helmets.
Word: dirndled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dirndl + -ed. 1. Wearing a dirndl. Labels: not-comparable Example: That’s not to mention the little Nazi flags with pretzels in lieu of swastikas that were handed out to everybody in the audience (including a troop of dirndled transvestites who waved them around like lost cheerleaders).
Word: nonmatch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + match. 1. That which is not a match; a mismatch. Example: For example, if blood is found in the general vicinity of a crime scene, a nonmatch would not prove that a defendant was innocent the way a nonmatch of skin from under the fingernails of a stabbing victim might.
Word: nonmatches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonmatch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preconviction Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + conviction. 1. Prior to conviction. Labels: not-comparable
Word: preconviction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + conviction. 1. A prior conviction.
Word: postrecession Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + recession. 1. Occurring after a recession. Labels: not-comparable Example: While Home Depot has emerged from the credit crisis strong enough to borrow at attractive rates now, it has chosen not to do so. Mr. Blake has charted a course away from expansion, one that he holds out as a template for running a big company in postrecession America.
Word: postvote Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + vote. 1. After a vote. Labels: not-comparable Example: Much of the postvote analysis has focused on the daunting domestic agenda.
Word: dropfile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drop + file. 1. A file used by a bulletin board system (BBS) to pass information about the BBS itself and the current user to an external door. Labels: dated
Word: dropfiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dropfile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: extraverted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From German extravertiert, equivalent to extravert + -ed. 1. Alternative form of extroverted. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: An extraverted individual can hardly understand the necessity that forces the introverted to accomplish his adaptation by first formulating a general conception.
Word: extraverted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From German extravertiert, equivalent to extravert + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of extravert Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: venomlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From venom + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of venom. Example: Dr. Fry did not find any venomlike proteins in the mucus, but later he realized mucus was the wrong place to look.
Word: venographic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to venography. Labels: not-comparable
Word: antihippie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + hippie. 1. Opposing hippies.
Word: underpopulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + population. 1. Insufficient population. Labels: uncountable Example: “Panicology” considers the evidence on both sides of a large number of worries that have beset the industrialized world in modern times, including the “population crisis” (now one of underpopulation that threatens the wealth and health of aging populations in countries like Italy and Russia)[…]
Word: underplots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of underplot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underplots Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of underplot Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: eyelinered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From eyeliner + -ed. 1. Wearing eyeliner. Labels: not-comparable Example: Through two hours of rapid-fire songs, the small, rabbitlike, eyelinered Billie Joe Armstrong, the band’s singer and guitarist, kept spreading his arms into their narrow wingspan, and his body language always meant two things: both “What is this world coming to?” and “All together now.”
Word: fatwood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fat + wood. 1. A heartwood of pine trees, impregnated with resin, useful in the manufacture of pitch and pine tar. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He stacked split pieces of well-seasoned, thoroughly dry oak, and started a fire using some newspaper and fatwood, a resinous pinewood that flames easily.
Word: headstamps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of headstamp Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multiangled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + angled. 1. Of more than one angle. Labels: not-comparable Example: Mr. Hoskyns’s book is a chance for a multiangled reappraisal.
Word: nondancing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + dancing. 1. Not dancing. Labels: not-comparable Example: Here the princely hero is a nondancing cavalier amid the many swan-maidens who resemble the one with whom he is falling in love.
Word: nonboating Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + boating. 1. Not of or pertaining to boating. Labels: not-comparable Example: I had lived a happy nonboating life and had never enjoyed getting bounced around in her father’s much smaller boat.
Word: photocarcinogen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo- + carcinogen. 1. Any substance that becomes a carcinogen on exposure to light. Example: So I brought it to campus for testing and turns out there was a suspected endocrine disrupter and a photocarcinogen — a chemical that, when exposed to sunlight, has a carcinogenic potential to it.
Word: photocarcinogens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of photocarcinogen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photocarcinogenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From photo- + carcinogenic. 1. Becoming a carcinogen on exposure to light. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pintuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pin + tuck. 1. A very narrow tuck.
Word: pintuck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pin + tuck. 1. To make a very narrow tuck.
Word: pintucks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pintuck Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flitten Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of flite. Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: forspare Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From for- + spare. 1. To spare; do without. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive Example: I don't never buy no cheese, miss; I can't forspare the money for it.
Word: forridden Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From for- + ridden. Compare Middle English forriden (“to ride ahead of, intercept”), from Old English forrīdan (“to intercept by riding before”). 1. Worn out or weary from hard or excessive riding. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: forestart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + start. Compare German Vorsprung (“headstart”). 1. A head start. Example: c. 1726, Patrick Walker, quoting Alexander Peden in "Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden", Biographia Presbyteriana John, you and I will be both in heaven shortly; but though you be much older than I, my soul will get the forestart of yours, for I will be first in heaven, but your body will have the advantage of mine, for ye will get rest in your grave until the resurrection, and die there; […]
Word: mancus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latinized form of Arabic منقوش (manqūsh). 1. A gold coin used in medieval Europe. Labels: historical 2. An equivalent unit of monetary account. Labels: historical
Word: mancosus Part of Speech: noun 1. mancus
Word: Airy beam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after George Biddell Airy. 1. A non-diffracting waveform that gives the appearance of curving as it travels.
Word: kyloe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic gaidhealach (“Gaelic, Highland”); see Gàidheal. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌɪlə/ 1. One of a breed of small Highland cattle.
Word: kyloes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kyloe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fortake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fortaken, equivalent to for- + take. Cognate with dialectal Norwegian fortaka (“to assail, assault”), Swedish förta (“to deprive, take away, deaden”). 1. To take away; remove; deprive. Labels: transitive Example: Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, [...] Example: In a slaughter wide they fell, woeful days of Bale came on; Famine-death fortook fortitude from men! 2. To mistake; make a mistake. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive 3. To aim or deal a blow at; hit. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive
Word: japeworthy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From jape + -worthy, apparently from Chaucer. 1. Worthy of being japed, mockable. Labels: archaic, rare Example: All over Europe, people were cracking the lewdest jests about them; no one could decide which of the two was the most japeworthy;[…].
Word: birthfather Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From birth + father. 1. The biological father of an adopted child.
Word: complectional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From complection + -al. 1. Obsolete form of complexional. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: basileiolatry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ancient Greek βασίλειος (basíleios, “of the king”) (from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”)) + -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”)). Pronunciation: /basɪleɪˈɒlətɹi/ 1. Worship of the king. Labels: uncountable Example: At Westminster the established religion is Basileiolatry. Example: The “basileiolatry” which we are told is now the prevailing worship at Westminster seems to have begun in the middle ages.
Word: Emmett Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma. 1. A surname transferred from the given name. 2. A male or unisex given name transferred from the surname. 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States:
Word: Emmitt Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma. 1. A surname transferred from the given name. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
Word: Emmott Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma. 1. A surname transferred from the given name.
Word: Ide Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the medieval male (and less often female) given name Ida. 1. A surname transferred from the given name. 2. A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, named after Saint Ida (OS grid ref SX8990).
Word: Ide Part of Speech: contraction 1. Obsolete form of I'd. Labels: alt-of, contraction, obsolete Example: Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]
Word: Tiresias Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τειρεσίας (Teiresías). 1. A long-lived blind soothsayer who participated over seven generations in the legendary history of (the Greek city) Thebes, noted also for being transformed into a woman for seven years, so being symbolic of androgyny. Labels: Greek Example: […]somewhere a ship's radio was blaring out the latest jazz-hit to reach Alexandria: Old Tiresias / No one half so breezy as, / Half so free and easy as / Old Tiresias.
Word: menippea Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Menippea. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: A consequence of this universalism is the appearance in the menippea of what Bakhtin calls the three-planed construction of earth, Olympus, and the nether world. Example: Typical for the menippea is syncrisis (that is, juxtaposition) of precisely such stripped-down "ultimate positions in the world."
Word: Airy beams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Airy beam Labels: form-of, plural
Word: netlist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From net + list. 1. A technical description of the connectivity of an electronic design.
Word: netlists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of netlist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: titmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of titman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subpœna'd Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subpœna Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Johannine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Iōhannēs (“John”) + -ine. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊˈhænaɪn/, /d͡ʒoʊˈhæˌnaɪn/ 1. Of, or pertaining to John, usually John the Apostle or John the Baptist.
Word: reflash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + flash. 1. To flash again; to overwrite the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip. Labels: transitive 2. To burst back into flame after being extinguished and then receiving a large amount of oxygen. Labels: intransitive
Word: reflash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + flash. 1. The situation where a fire bursts back into flame after being extinguished and then receiving a large amount of oxygen.
Word: reflashed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reflash Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reflashing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reflash Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reflashing Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of something being reflashed. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: reflashes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reflash Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reflashes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reflash Labels: form-of, plural
Word: riplock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rip + lock. 1. A deliberate slowdown in the transfer rate when reading data from a DVD, so as to reduce the amount of noise from the drive. Labels: uncountable
Word: make history Part of Speech: verb 1. To do something that will be widely remembered for a long time. Labels: idiomatic Example: Neil Armstrong made history in 1969 when he was the first person to walk on the Moon.
Word: makes history Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of make history Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: making history Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of make history Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: made history Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of make history Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: decreet-arbitral Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of decree arbitral. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: decree arbitral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French decré arbitral. 1. An award made by an arbiter.
Word: phaseoliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin phaseolus (“bean (diminutive)”) + -iform. See Latin phaselus (“bean”). 1. Shaped like a bean; like a bent ellipsoid.
Word: offhold Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ofholden, from Old English ofhealdan (“to withhold, retain”), equivalent to off- + hold. Cognate with Dutch afhouden (“to detain, deter”), German abhalten (“to discourage, prevent, deter”). 1. To retain. Labels: archaic, transitive 2. To hold off; prevent; refrain; avoid; shun. Labels: intransitive Example: A scleral rim should be maintained in contact lenses to off-hold and balance the corneal portion from the cornea, preventing exertion of any pressure. Example: No, Love, you must be shunned by every means, offheld and offstood afar, for the man that has fallen headlong into love comes o greater grief than if he cast himself off a cliff.
Word: concordial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin concordialis. 1. correlated to grammatical concord Labels: not-comparable 2. concordant, harmonious Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: uilleann piper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partial calque of Irish píobairí uilleann, or from uilleann pipes. 1. One who plays uilleann pipes. Example: Associated with The Long Note, he became its producer in 1978, in this series devoting time to documentary features, such as that on nineteenth-century uilleann piper and composer, Johnny Patterson. Example: A twentieth-century master uilleann piper and mentor of many of today's finest pipers.
Word: stinkeye Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of stink eye. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pretas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preta Labels: form-of, plural
Word: premate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + mate. 1. To mate prior to some other operation
Word: kombis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kombi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lutite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lute + -ite. 1. A rock composed of clayey or silty sediment. Labels: dated
Word: gum up Part of Speech: verb 1. To become gooey or gummy. Labels: intransitive Example: Some types of lubricating grease gum up as they age. 2. To cause to be gooey or gummy, especially with the effect of obstructing the operation of some mechanism or process. Labels: transitive Example: Aging grease had gummed up the record changer. Example: I guess they's about 6 other clubs in the American League that if they had seen my name in the dead they wouldn't shed off enough tears to gum up the infield. 3. To make non-functional; to interfere with or put into a state of disorder; to ruin. Labels: broadly, idiomatic, transitive Example: He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home. / "You were right," he said, when I met him out again in it, a week later. "It was gummed up, so to speak; but it's working like a charm to-day.[…]" Example: Erhard presumably felt it was no time to give his enemies grounds for charging him with gumming up relations with France.
Word: austrocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From austro- + -centric. 1. Focused on Australia or the people and culture of Australia 2. Focused on Austria or the people and culture of Austria Example: In his extensive scholarly work, including his four-volume Deutsche Einheir, Srhik tried to merge and transcend Prussocentric and Austrocentric approaches to German history. Example: Although the author claims not to plead for or against the Austrian policy, his study implies on the one hand a criticism of the somewhat biased, austrocentric policy of the government. 3. Focused on the South of England or the people and culture of Southern England Example: Expressions such as “North of Watford Gap” testify to the perceptions of southerners in this “austrocentric” nation (Wales 2002: 46). Example: All of them have extended "our knowledge of the development of English beyond Southern England" (Rissanen 2000: 11), thereby favouring a non-austrocentric perspective.
Word: ouphe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the same origin as awf, oaf (“elf child”). Pronunciation: /ˈuːf/, /ˈaʊf/ 1. A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf. Labels: obsolete Example: Strew good luck, ouphes, on every ſacred room, That it may ſtand 'till the perpetual Doom, In ſtate as wholſom, as in ſtate 'tis fit; Worthy the owner, as the owner it. Example: For an Ouphe has broken his vestal vow; He has loved an earthly maid, And left for her his woodly shade;
Word: noded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From node + -ed. 1. Having or divided into nodes. Labels: not-comparable Example: Polygonization is the process of forming polygons from linework which encloses areas. Linework to be formed into polygons must be fully noded – that is, linestrings must not cross and must touch only at endpoints. 2. Pertaining to a group of individuals, possibly geographically separated from each other, that form temporary or recurring project teams. Labels: neologism, not-comparable Example: The noded philosophy is also about flexibility and efficiency in collaboration, especially among people who are geographically far apart.
Word: West Slavic Part of Speech: name 1. A subgrouping of the Slavic language family spoken mainly in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lusatia (a small area in Germany).
Word: breaking bad Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of break bad Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plaçage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French. 1. a form of marital union, often illegal in nature, found in the Caribbean during the colonial period between a Caucasian man and a woman of mixed races (such as a mulatta or a Creole) Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: turn a new leaf Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of turn over a new leaf. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fullbring Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fulbringen, fulbrengen, equivalent to full- + bring. Cognate with Dutch volbrengen (“to accomplish”), German vollbringen (“to accomplish, complete”). 1. To accomplish; bring about completely; complete; finish; achieve. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: What the goose but thought, that the swan fullbrought; […] Example: […] meaning 'to complete, to bring to a close, to execute (the preparation of ointments), to finish (metalwork), to fullbring'. Hence the title of the Book of Wisdom means, that it gives the necessary advice to complete and fulfill […]
Word: breathing spell Part of Speech: noun 1. An opportunity to rest or give thought to a situation; a short respite.
Word: mignonnette Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of mignonette. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there. Example: Mr. Blueapron — who keeps his vinery so moist that his vines put forth roots, in mid air, the whole length of their new-wood branches — who manures his vine-borders with quarters of dead horse, and will not allow even a mignonnette plant to exhaust their richness — would look aghast if he were told to cultivate such compost as that.
Word: multipipeline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + pipeline. 1. Having or pertaining to more than one pipeline. Labels: not-comparable Example: The idea of Unking vector operations can be generalized to a multipipeline networking concept.