nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: netherdom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nether + -dom. 1. The condition, realm, or sphere of things below; a lower kingdom or domain; netherregion; the netherworld; Hell. Labels: uncountable Example: It is a spectacle that ought to make the imps of netherdom tremble for their laurels — man. Example: A great gathering of the lost, the waste, " the drift of both banks," as my Officer-guide aptly puts it. It is, surely, a sight more for tears than wonder. Actual Netherdom.
Word: Nola Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Nola. 1. A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy. 2. Its bishopric.
Word: Nola Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see). 1. A female given name from Irish. Example: "What kind of name is Nola?" "My grandmother's," she said and sighed. "The kind of name no one ever just picks out." "Excuse me?" "You get named a name like Nola," she said. "Because of someone else. That someone else was my grandmother." 2. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
Word: Nola Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Nola. 1. A surname from Italian.
Word: Nola Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /noʊ.lə/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Labels: alt-of
Word: Nola Part of Speech: name 1. The capital city of Sangha-Mbaéré prefecture, Central African Republic.
Word: netherness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nethernesse, from Old English niþernes (“deepness, the bottom, lowness, a low position”), from Proto-West Germanic *niþernassī, equivalent to nether + -ness. Cognate with Old High German nidarnassi, nidarnessi (“damnation”). 1. The state or quality of being nether or beneath; lowness; inferiority. Labels: uncountable Example: Riley's sardony preserves the duplicity, the netherness, the not-me of the narcissistic identification. 2. Deepness; depth; abyss. Labels: uncountable Example: It was as if the vines and roots of those withered giants would imminently wrap themselves around the old fraternity and drag it into the dark netherness that secret old, places have always held. Example: The memory of the swirling netherness sent a chill down her spine. She shook her head. “But—” The waterfire had been both more and less than she had expected.
Word: stariest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of starey: most starey Labels: form-of, superlative 2. superlative form of stary: most stary Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: starier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of starey: more starey Labels: comparative, form-of 2. comparative form of stary: more stary Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: theft by finding Part of Speech: noun 1. The crime of failing to take reasonable steps to find the owner of property that has been found. Labels: uncountable
Word: exocervix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From exo- + cervix. 1. The protective mucous membrane on the exterior of the cervix.
Word: ordoliberalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Ordoliberalismus (coined in 1950 by the German economist Hero Moeller (1892–1974)), from ORDO (the name of a journal, the full title of which is ORDO — Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (ORDO – Yearbook of Economic and Social Order) + Liberalismus (“liberalism”). ORDO is derived from Latin ōrdō (“methodical arrangement, order, or series”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix”); while Liberalismus is from French libéralisme (ultimately from Latin līber (“free, independent, unchecked, unrestricted”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”)) + -ismus (“suffix forming the names of schools of thought, systems, or theories”). Pronunciation: /ˌɔːdəʊˈlɪbɹəlɪz(ə)m/, /-bəɹəl/, /ˌɔɹdoʊˈlɪbəɹəlɪzəm/, /-də-/, /-bɹəl/ 1. A political philosophy that emphasizes the desirability of the government establishing rules to maximize the potential of the free market to produce results. Labels: uncountable
Word: ordoliberal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably a back-formation from ordoliberalism, borrowed from German Ordoliberalismus (coined in 1950 by the German economist Hero Moeller (1892–1974)), from ORDO (the name of a journal, the full title of which is ORDO — Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (ORDO – Yearbook of Economic and Social Order)) + Liberalismus (“liberalism”). ORDO is derived from Latin ōrdō (“methodical arrangement, order, or series”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix”). Pronunciation: /ˌɔːdəʊˈlɪbɹəl/, /-bəɹəl/, /ˌɔɹdoʊˈlɪbəɹəl/, /-də-/, /-bɹəl/ 1. A proponent of the theories and ideals of ordoliberalism (“a political philosophy that emphasizes the desirability of the government establishing rules to maximize the potential of the free market to produce results”). Example: [W]hile ordoliberals share strong policy preferences (in some cases "elevated to the status of a religion"), they rest their case on rigorous micro analysis and stress the pertinence of a long-term orientation.
Word: ordoliberal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably a back-formation from ordoliberalism, borrowed from German Ordoliberalismus (coined in 1950 by the German economist Hero Moeller (1892–1974)), from ORDO (the name of a journal, the full title of which is ORDO — Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (ORDO – Yearbook of Economic and Social Order)) + Liberalismus (“liberalism”). ORDO is derived from Latin ōrdō (“methodical arrangement, order, or series”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix”). Pronunciation: /ˌɔːdəʊˈlɪbɹəl/, /-bəɹəl/, /ˌɔɹdoʊˈlɪbəɹəl/, /-də-/, /-bɹəl/ 1. Of or relating to ordoliberalism. Example: The institutional design of EZ [the Eurozone], being influenced by the rules versus discretion debate, has some ordoliberal touches (not the least since some German architects were imbued with ordoliberal ideas), but, of course, in reality, in particular in the wake of the crisis, they were not upheld.
Word: dispose of Part of Speech: verb 1. To get rid of; to dispense with. Labels: transitive Example: They disposed of the stolen property. Example: The national power committee has trouble disposing of nuclear waste. 2. To transfer to another's control. Labels: transitive 3. To deal with conclusively, e.g. a threat, a difficult situation. Labels: transitive 4. To arrange in an orderly way. Labels: transitive 5. To settle or conclusively deal with, e.g. a dispute; to dispose. Labels: transitive 6. To have available, or at one's disposal. Labels: European-Union, transitive Example: The Commission may not be able to assess the reliability of the data provided by Member States and may not dispose of independent information sources.
Word: quinquennially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From quinquennial + -ly. Pronunciation: /kwɪŋˈkwɛnɪəli/ 1. Every five years. Labels: not-comparable Example: The clergy's affairs, for example, were regulated by an Assembly of the Clergy, meeting quinquennially to deal with matters of common concern.
Word: Eastie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From east + -ie. 1. An inhabitant of the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: Eastie Part of Speech: name Etymology: From east + -ie. 1. EastEnders, a long-running British soap opera set in the East End of London. Labels: UK, informal
Word: eastie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From east + -ie. 1. An inhabitant of the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Labels: Australia, slang Example: Even if people pay out the Easties, they still aspire to live among them.
Word: mazarinade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French mazarinade, from Jules Mazarin, the chief minister and a popular target of such pamphlets. 1. A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France. Labels: historical Example: More important for our purposes, the mazarinade confirms the tenacious image of the captal as an uncivilized tyrant whose visible presence at the heart of the city in Puy-Paulin was an offense to the city's dignity. Example: In one of the most infamous of the scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlets known an mazarinades which appeared at this time, the Contrat de mariage, the constitution was figured not as a marriage between king and nation but as a union between Parlement and the people of Paris […]
Word: mazarinades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mazarinade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Louis Quatorzian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Louis Quatorze + -ian. 1. Pertaining to Louis XIV of France, or the perceived opulence of his court. Example: Miss Huddle was unable to decide in her mind whether the action savoured of Louis Quatorzian courtliness or the reprehensible Roman attitude towards the Sabine women. Example: Well before 1700, the surface glamour of court life on which the Louis-Quatorzian myth had been founded had begun to pall.
Word: lettres de cachet Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lettre de cachet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: position papers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of position paper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: budtenders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of budtender Labels: form-of, plural
Word: homotaxic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From homotaxis + -ic. 1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting homotaxis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: despose Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of dispose. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: if god should so order it that my wife should remaine my widdou & mary no othr man then I leue the land to my wife & hir desposing: the tow cows which we cal mouse & spek to be att my mother hows desposing I mene shee shall haue them to hir self & all so so much of the march as shall find them hay if it be Required vntell my mother be be desesed || for hir vse || allso that those which uses the land shall yerly let …
Word: desposes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of despose Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: palagonitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From palagonite + -ic. 1. Pertaining to, or containing, palagonite.
Word: palagonite Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpæləɡənaɪt/ 1. A material similar to basalt formed by the action of water on volcanic ash
Word: head starts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of head start Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Pallottine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pallottino, from Pallotti (surname, after Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate) + -ino (“-ine”). By surface analysis, Pallotti + -ine. 1. Of or pertaining to the Society of the Catholic Apostolate.
Word: Pallottine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pallottino, from Pallotti (surname, after Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate) + -ino (“-ine”). By surface analysis, Pallotti + -ine. 1. A member of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate.
Word: Pantelleria Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pantelleria, from Sicilian Pantiddirìa, from Arabic بِنْتُ الرِّياح (bintu ar-riyāḥ, “daugther of the winds”), perhaps through a dialectal Arabic form with a genitive particle (equivalent to a theoretical Maltese *bint tar-rjieħ, *bint tal-irjieħ). Pronunciation: /ˌpæntəˈlɛəɹiə/, /ˌpʌntəˈlɛəɹiə/ 1. An inhabited volcanic island belonging to the province of Trapani, Sicily, between Italy and Tunisia.
Word: pantoscopic Part of Speech: adj 1. Designed to focus on both near and distant objects at the same time, typically by means of a tilt in the lens Labels: not-comparable
Word: nimbate Part of Speech: adj 1. nimbed, haloed Labels: not-comparable
Word: Dadibi Part of Speech: name 1. A language of Papua New Guinea, of the Trans-New Guinea family.
Word: siheyuan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 四合院 (sìhéyuàn). Pronunciation: /ˌsə.həˈjɛn/, /ˌsə.hoʊˈjɛn/ 1. A traditional type of Chinese residence consisting of four houses with a courtyard in the middle; a Chinese quadrangle. Example: Traditional ssu ho yuan, the former homes of courtiers, both mission dwellings consisted of clusters of single-storied, gray-tiled pavilions built around shady courtyards adorned with rock gardens, lotus pools, and ancient fruit trees.
Word: sentence connective Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of logical connective. Example: Standard ("classical") propositional logic deals with sentence connectives having a special property: they are truth functional. The terminology derives from the mathematical notion of a function, and one can use this to give a mathematically precise definition of truth functionality.
Word: poietic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ποιητικός (poiētikós). Doublet of poetic. Pronunciation: /pɔɪˈɛtɪk/ 1. creative, formative
Word: Vò Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /vəʊ/, /vɔː/ 1. A town in Padua, Veneto, Italy. Example: The small town of Vò, in northern Italy, where the first coronavirus death occurred in the country, has become a case study that demonstrates how scientists might neutralise the spread of Covid-19. […] When the study began, on 6 March, there were at least 90 infected in Vò.
Word: posttonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + tonic. 1. That immediately follows a stressed syllable Labels: not-comparable
Word: pretonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + tonic. 1. That immediately precedes a stressed syllable Labels: not-comparable Example: The pretonic -u in krukkúri, krukkúri̯u is likely due to assimilation to the following stressed vowel.
Word: nither Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈnɪð.ə/, /ˈnɪð.ɚ/ 1. Alternative form of nether Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nither Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈnɪð.ə/, /ˈnɪð.ɚ/ 1. Alternative form of nether Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nither Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈnɪð.ə/, /ˈnɪð.ɚ/ 1. Alternative form of nether Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. To shiver or tremble, especially with cold. Labels: intransitive
Word: nither Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈnɪð.ə/, /ˈnɪð.ɚ/ 1. Alternative form of nether Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: industrial punk Part of Speech: noun 1. A musical genre that is a fusion of punk rock with industrial music. Labels: uncountable
Word: prosopographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prosopography + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to prosopography Labels: not-comparable
Word: poplitei Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of popliteus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: orpedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English orpedliche, orpedly, from Old English orpedlīċe (“boldly, clearly, definitely”), equivalent to orped + -ly. 1. Boldly; bravely; stoutly. Labels: obsolete
Word: orl flies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of orl fly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disgorgers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disgorger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: watchpocket Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of watch pocket. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nomenclations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nomenclation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: canopying Part of Speech: noun 1. The activity of going through the canopy of a forest on a zipline Labels: uncountable
Word: canopying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of canopy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: philo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From phil- + -o- (interconsonantal). 1. Alternative form of phil-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: personal god Part of Speech: noun 1. A deity who can be related to or thought of as a person, through an anthropomorphized persona, rather than an impersonal, and faceless, force of nature. Example: Albert Einstein was not an atheist, but did not believe in a personal god.
Word: happy trail Part of Speech: noun 1. A vertical line of hair that extends up along the middle of a person's abdomen from pubic hair to navel. Labels: slang Example: His shirt has come dislodged from his pants, revealing a hint of his happy trail.
Word: happy trails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of happy trail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: happy trails Part of Speech: intj 1. An expression of good wishes for somebody departing for a voyage or for an indefinite period of time: best wishes, good luck. Example: Happy trails, Hans. Example: Well, happy trails. Give me a call when you get back.
Word: personal gods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of personal god Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grade on a curve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Referring to the bell curve of a normal distribution. 1. To use a grading system based on the scale of performance of a group to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject; to curve a grade. Example: He asked the teacher to grade (the test) on a curve. 2. To compare the members of a set or group by using a relative scale, based on performance relative to other members. Labels: broadly
Word: BEREC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications. Labels: European-Union, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: treasure trail Part of Speech: noun 1. A vertical line of hair that extends up along the middle of a person's (usually a man's) abdomen from pubic hair to navel. Labels: slang Example: As he says good-bye, he puts both arms over his head and stretches big, causing his shirt to lift up a few inches, exposing the sexiest abs and treasure trail I've ever seen.
Word: treasure trails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of treasure trail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: very-large-scale integration Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of very large scale integration. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: map of Tasmania Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the perceived similarity between the roughly triangular shapes of a woman's pubic hair and the Australian island state of Tasmania. 1. The female pubic hair. Labels: Australia, slang Example: Walking down the street I'm the lady - ah / Showing off my map of Tasmania
Word: heliocentricism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heliocentric + -ism. 1. Alternative form of heliocentrism. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: And as to Copernicus, he declared most expressly in his preface that he spoke of Heliocentricism as a pure hypothesis; the imagination of which was useful for the calculation of planetary orbits, but which “need not be true or even probable,” i.e., resting on any solid ground whatever. Example: I do not say for example that Heliocentricism is no truer than Geocentricism, but is only a simpler hypothesis.
Word: frontal wedgie Part of Speech: noun 1. A crease in the crotch of a woman's pants, shorts, bikini bottom, etc. caused by the tight-fitting garment clinging to her labia. Labels: slang Example: She walked right by / The poor woman didn't know / She had a frontal wedgie / A cameltoe
Word: frontal wedgies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frontal wedgie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shutter shades Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the trademarked name of a brand of sunglasses created by Shutter Shades, Inc., in 2007. Similar louvered/slatted sunglasses which existed as early as the 1950s and were popular in the 1980s were known by other names, such as "Venetian blinders". 1. A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: "Never trust anything you read online," Tanya said, pushing up her shutter shades.
Word: dance attendance Part of Speech: verb 1. To wait obsequiously (on or upon someone). Labels: archaic, idiomatic Example: A man of his place, and so near our favour, / To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure. Example: Astonishingly, the king's health rallied, causing Orléans's antechamber to become deserted again as courtiers rushed back to dance attendance at the royal bedside.
Word: linea nigra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin līnea nigra (literally “black line”). 1. A dark vertical line, running up the abdomen from the pubis to the navel (though it sometimes runs further, to the top of the abdomen) that forms during pregnancy.
Word: meat trays Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of meat tray Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rudraksha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit रुद्राक्ष (rudrākṣa, “Rudra's eyes”), from रुद्र (Rudra, “Rudra, a Rigvedic deity of wind and storm”), and अक्ष (ákṣa, “eye”), variant form of अक्षि (ákṣi). 1. The dried seed of a large evergreen broad-leaved tree, Elaeocarpus ganitrus, which is traditionally used as prayer beads in Hinduism. Example: But the room […]contained many tokens of her family and forebears—among them such relics as her dead father's wooden clogs, a necklace of rudraksha beads left to her by her mother, and faded imprints of her grandparents' feet, taken on their funeral pyres. Example: One of my favorite photographs shows a Hindu sadhu right out of central casting – naked body, long matted hair and beard, ash-smeared forehead, rudraksha-mala around his neck, the works – chatting away on a mobile phone.
Word: Schio Part of Speech: name 1. A town in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy.
Word: Gish gallop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by American physical anthropologist Eugenie C. Scott in 1994, referencing a rhetorical strategy often employed by creationist Duane Gish in debates about evolution. 1. A rhetorical technique in which a dishonest speaker lists a string of falsehoods or misleading items so that their opponent will be unable to counter each one and still be able to make their own counterpoints.
Word: half cells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of half cell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: half-cells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of half-cell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: in the open Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Outdoors. Example: I find I can breathe more easily when I'm out in the open. Example: These locomotives have been stored under cover at places as far apart as Arbroath and Crianlarich, but at present seven of them, four from Haymarket and three from Eastfield, are standing in the open at Longniddry. 2. Easily visible; out of shelter or concealment. Example: I got a clear photo of them when they finally came out in the open. 3. Known to various people. Example: Now that everyone knows, I'm glad it's finally out in the open.
Word: message sticks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of message stick Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sulfonitric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sulfo- + nitric. 1. Describing a mixture of sulfuric acid and nitric acid Labels: not-comparable
Word: sulphonitric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sulpho- + nitric. 1. Alternative form of sulfonitric. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: great grey shrikes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of great grey shrike Labels: form-of, plural
Word: graphitizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of graphitize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: face cards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of face card Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sakoku Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鎖国, literally "closed country". 1. The isolationist foreign policy of Japan between the 1630s and 1866, in which entry to and exit from Japan were severely restricted. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: orgiast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀργιαστής (orgiastḗs, “attender or celebrator of an orgy”), from Ancient Greek ὀργιάζειν (orgiázein, “to celebrate orgies”). Pronunciation: /ˈɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒiˌæst/ 1. One who attends an orgy. Example: The cult of Cybele, which for the first time formally organized as a mystic society in Rome, but the orgiast frenzy clung to it at all times. Example: Rasputin became instrumental in the naming of ministers, men whose qualifications were that they were not going to interfere with the cushy double life he led — as sainted adviser to the royal family and as accomplished orgiast. 2. One who is prone to excessive indulgence. Labels: idiomatic
Word: absides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of absis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: punctation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Punktation, from Medieval Latin punctatio. 1. A preliminary treaty or contract. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the Punctation of Olmütz 2. Markings of minute spots, holes, or depressions. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The practice of writing with dots, as in Hebrew. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: genetic memory Part of Speech: noun 1. The state of a biological system encoded in its genetic material. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A memory present at birth that exists in the absence of sensory experience. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An artificial neural network combination of genetic algorithm and the mathematical model of sparse distributed memory. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: charmwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From charm + work. 1. Any magical practice involving creating or casting magical charms. Labels: uncountable 2. The formula or formulation of one or more charms or enchantments; the individual parts constituting such a formulation; the inner workings or structure of a (magical) charm. Labels: uncountable
Word: infuriable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From infuriate + -able. 1. Tending to fury; capable of being infuriated. Labels: rare
Word: race memory Part of Speech: noun 1. A supposed memory, present at birth, and that exists in the absence of sensory experience, that arises from the common experience of one's ancestors. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even in my short life I had learned as much as that - or had inherited it in that race memory which we call instinct.
Word: role conflicts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of role conflict Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shave and a haircut Part of Speech: noun 1. A seven-note riff played at the end of a song for comic effect. Labels: uncountable
Word: trench mentality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the use of trench warfare in the first great war. 1. an attitude towards differences of opinion, where oppositional stand-off or conflict is preferred over debate and compromise.
Word: trench mentalities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trench mentality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: improductive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin im- English im- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Late Latin prōductīvusbor. English productive English improductive From im- + productive. 1. Misconstruction of unproductive. Labels: alt-of, misconstruction, rare Example: But, as the principal of the loan, or, if you will, the capital lent, is generally consumed in consequence of this transfer, public loans produce an improductive consumption, a destruction of capital.
Word: naïs Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of naiad (“female water deity”) Labels: Greek, rare Example: Yet though thus exalted in rank, the Homeric Nymphs frequently 'blessed the bed' of heroes; and many a warrior who fought before Troy could boast descent from a Naïs or a Nereis.
Word: yesh Part of Speech: intj 1. Pronunciation spelling of yes. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: Kontor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of kontor. Labels: alt-of
Word: carpet snake Part of Speech: noun 1. A harmless snake found in New Guinea and Australia, the carpet python (Morelia spilota) and its six to eight subspecies. 2. A harmless colubrid species of snake found in North America, a pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus).
Word: carpet python Part of Speech: noun 1. A carpet snake (snake of the species Morelia spilota).
Word: troid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Metroid. 1. Any of the video games in the Metroid franchise. Labels: slang Example: Games I look forward to next year: [...] Metroid Prime 4 (I’ve never played one of the 3D troids but I wanna) Example: It kinda ruined parts of Metroid 2 and it's definitely one of the weaker 2D troids, but it has solid moment to moment gameplay and Samus "feels" great to control. 2. An individual member of the fictional alien Metroid species in this franchise. Labels: slang Example: The much derided linearity is merely a reappearance of the linearity of Metroid 2, with it's coincidental earthquakes when you killed troids Example: the metroid fights, meanwhile, their counter tells are SO LONG i always miss them by hitting the button early. like, it can't possibly be that long. except it is. i have no success trying to do it on reaction either.. also, the troids spend too long being invuln for w/e reason
Word: troid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tranny + -oid, probably as an abbreviation of earlier slur trannoid. 1. A transgender person. Labels: Internet, derogatory, offensive Example: at least we both concede that troids are hard on the eyes Example: Ever wonder why the majority of troids are trans "woman"?
Word: protest too much Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortened from the lady doth protest too much. 1. To insist so passionately about something that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying. Labels: idiomatic
Word: dhindo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali ढिँडो (ḍhĩḍo). 1. A Nepalese staple, similar to polenta, made from maize flour and water. Labels: uncountable
Word: baresark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bare + sark (“shirt”). 1. A berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armour. Labels: obsolete Example: Eric gives before him right to the edge of the cliff. Then the Baresark smites at him and Brighteyes catches the blow on his shield, and smites at him in turn so well and truly, that the head of the Baresark flies from his shoulders and spins along the ground, […] Example: You said that I was a Berserker. And truth you shall speak; for baresark I go to-morrow to the war[.]
Word: baresarks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baresark Labels: form-of, plural
Word: briered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brier + -ed. 1. Synonym of briared. Example: a., 1770, Thomas Chatterton, Aella Harke! the ravenne flappes his wynge, / In the briered delle belowe […]
Word: gormander Part of Speech: noun 1. A gourmand; a greedy person. Labels: obsolete
Word: gormanders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gormander Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pommage Part of Speech: noun 1. The set of apple and/or pear varieties grown in a region or location. Example: In a certain locality, however, it is not all the varieties included in the regional pommage that are traditionally grown, and that locality might have a pommage which is a subset of the regionl one. 2. The ground-up apples from which cider is pressed. Example: In grinding the apples for this use into pommage, several methods are practised; but the two most chiefly in use are, the bruising-stone with a circular trough, and the apple-mill. Example: This is effected by placing clear sweet straw, or hair cloths, between the layers of pommage, till there is a pile of ten or twelve layers. This pile is then subjected to different degrees of pressure in succession, till all the must or juice is squeezed from the pommage. 3. pomace Labels: obsolete
Word: thussock Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of tussock. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: thussocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thussock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cirrhous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cirrhose. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: crowstep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crow + step. 1. corbiestep
Word: crowsteps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crowstep Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tolypeutine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Tolypeutes + -ine? 1. The apar, a kind of armadillo. Labels: rare 2. Any armadillo of the Tolypeutinae subfamily
Word: tolypeutines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tolypeutine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: assession Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin assessio. See sit. 1. A sitting beside or near; especially as a participant in an official proceeding such as a meeting of an organization or a court case; an official membership or seat. Example: The committee recommended the Senate give advice and consent to assession in order that the United States would be able to influence the regulations and laws of the Organization to the advantage of domestic "industry and commerce." Example: A significant point has been the quiet and un-eventful assession of Belarus to the Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT), and the implementation of regular international nuclear safeguards inspections. 2. An official review and recognition of the feudal distribution of land, including the tenants living on that land and the terms of their holdings, which was held every seven years (the term of each tenant's lease). Labels: historical Example: Before the holding of the assession court (a), the steward of each manor prepares from his copy of the assession book of the preceding assession, and from the memorandums which he has there entered of the subsequent alienations and deaths, a new assession book in duplicate, one part for the commissioners, the other for himself. Example: This book was called the assession book, and was made up thus: The deputy steward of each manor entered in a duplicate of the assession book, read at the last preceding assession, all the alienations and changes which took place between the two assessions; those alienations, which were made in form of surrenders and admittances, before alluded to, some deputy stewards noted down at the time on loose papers, while others entered them in a book kept for the purpose; and these memoranda were afterwards transferred to the margin of the duplicate assession book by the several deputy stewards. 3. The act of assessment. Example: The design criteria are evaluated on the basis of stress assession, which are the nature constraint conditions for optimum design . Example: Attention was paid to serious problems arising at the assession of the stocks due to the worsening of report data on the catches and other statistical information on some basic harvesting areas. 4. Misspelling of accession. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: The category "dismemberment only" would include such crises as the death of a child, spouse, or parent while the category of "assession only" includes crisis situations like an unwanted pregnancy, some adoptions, or an aged relative's coming to live with a family. Example: Since May and the assession of King George to the throne, we have observed a truce, hoping that in a spirit of goodwill the government would give priority to a bill for women's suffrage.
Word: assessions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of assession Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dispeed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + speed. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpiːd/ 1. To send off with speed; to dispatch. Labels: obsolete Example: Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law. Example: a Detachment of four thousand Horse were dispeeded under Covert of the Hills
Word: dispeeded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of dispeed Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dispeeding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dispeed Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dispeeds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dispeed Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ditation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin ditare (“to enrich”), from dis, ditis, same as dives (“rich”). 1. The act of making rich; enrichment. Labels: obsolete Example: Late at night, and early in the morning, did I give myself to me ditation in thy word
Word: skreen Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of screen. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: “All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?” “Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover skreens, and net purses. I scarcely know any one who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished.” “Your list of the common extent of accomplishments,” said Darcy, “has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse, or covering a skreen.[…]” Example: [The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.
Word: skreen Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of screen. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: skreens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of skreen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skreening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of skreen Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: skreened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of skreen Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hemaphaein Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of haemaphaein. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: subarration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + Latin arra, arrha (“earnest money”). See earnest (“a pledge”). 1. The custom of betrothing by the bestowal, on the part of the man, of marriage gifts or tokens, such as money or rings, upon the woman. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: Mischnic Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic form of Mishnaic. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: bog rosemary Part of Speech: noun 1. Any shrub in the genus Andromeda, especially Andromeda polifolia. Labels: uncountable
Word: e-statement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From e- + statement. 1. A financial statement transmitted electronically. Example: In most instances, e-statements contain all the information a traditional statement contains such as account transaction dates and amounts and any fees assessed.
Word: e-statements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of e-statement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reyse Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of raise. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: reyse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English reysen (“to travel, journey, go on a military expedition”), probably from Middle Dutch reisen, resen (compare Old English rāsian (“to explore”)), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *raisōn (“to set out, depart, journey”). Cognate with Danish rejse (“to travel”), Dutch reizen (“to travel”), German reisen (“to travel”), Norwegian reise (“to travel”), Swedish resa (“to travel”). See also reys. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. To go on a military expedition. Labels: obsolete 2. To journey or travel. Labels: obsolete
Word: reysed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reyse Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reyses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reyse Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reysing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reyse Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: microsthene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + Ancient Greek σθένος (sthénos, “might, strength”). 1. Any of a group of mammals characteristically of small size, including various rodents (used in the 19th century by James Dana to classify animals, but not adopted thereafter) Labels: archaic, in-plural
Word: microsthenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microsthene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stoccade Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of stockade. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: stoccade Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of stockade. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: stoccade Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of stoccado. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: stoccades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stoccade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stoccading Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stoccade Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stoccaded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of stoccade Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sizeless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From size + -less. 1. Without a size. Labels: not-comparable Example: A point is considered a sizeless entity in geometry.
Word: mislen Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of maslin. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: peritropous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of peritropal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: pedicular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin pedicularis, from pediculus (“louse”). Compare French pédiculaire. By surface analysis, pedic(u)le + -ar. 1. Of or relating to lice. Labels: not-comparable Example: 1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Hartley Coleridge in H. J. Jackson (ed.), Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Letters, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, p. 226, We proceed—(at a tortoise or pedicular Crawl, you will say—but believe me, dear Boy! there is no other way of attaining a clear and productive Insight […] [)] Example: Has humanity ever been put to a viler use than by the Banians of Surat, who support a hospital for vermin in that city, and regale the souls of their friends who are undergoing penance in the shape of fleas, or in loathsome pedicular form, by hiring beggars to go in among them, and afford them pasture for the night! 2. Caused by lice. Labels: not-comparable Example: And as for my Body, this shape which I now bear is more healthfull farr and neat, for now I am not subject to breed Lice and other Vermin; And whereas this pedicular disease, with a nomberlesse sort of other maladies and distempers, attend Mankind, ther’s but one onely disease that our Species is subject unto, which the Veterenarians or Farriers call Malila […] Example: 1750, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, London: W. Innys et al., 6th edition, Volume 2, entry “Pedicularis morbus,” Herod is said to have died of the Pedicular disease. 3. Having the lousy distemper, phthiriasis; infested with lice. Labels: not-comparable Example: When a philosopher condescends to regard commonplace man, he assumes much the attitude that a dandy might if brought, perforce, into contact with some one suspected of being pedicular. Example: The dead Americans stirred Harry more than the pedicular European Jews he observed at Bergen-Belsen. 4. Relating to a stem or pedicle. Labels: not-comparable
Word: collodia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of collodium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: collodium Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of collodion. Labels: alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable
Word: encoach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + coach. 1. To place or carry in a coach. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: When, with my Minds right Eye, I do behold (From nought, made nothing lesse) great Tamburaline, (Like Phaeton) drawne, encoach in burnisht Gold,
Word: encoached Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of encoach Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: encoaches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of encoach Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: encoaching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of encoach Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bleareyedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bleareyed + -ness. 1. The state of being bleareyed. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: prefeudal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + feudal. 1. Before feudalism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Phalangists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Phalangist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin intundere (“to bruise”), from in- (“in”) + tundere, tusum (“to beat, bruise”). 1. A bruise; a contusion. Labels: obsolete Example: The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe, To abate all spasm and soke the swelling bruzé; And, after having searcht the intuse deepe, She with her scarf did bind the wound.
Word: brezilin Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of brazilin. Labels: alt-of, archaic, uncountable
Word: sortment Part of Speech: noun 1. assortment Labels: obsolete 2. The process of sorting something.
Word: sortments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sortment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: defoamer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From defoam + -er. 1. Any chemical agent used for defoaming; an antifoaming agent. Example: Nowadays silicone-free defoamers are used moreand more in many applications.
Word: defoamers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of defoamer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: defoam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + foam. 1. To remove the foam from. Labels: transitive
Word: defoaming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of defoam Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: defoams Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of defoam Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: defoamed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of defoam Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: corvorant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A modification, due to folk etymology, of cormorant by combining it with Latin vorantem, the accusative masculine or feminine singular of vorāns (“devouring; swallowing up”), the present active participle of vorō (“to devour, eat greedily; to swallow up”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, eat; to swallow”). 1. Synonym of cormorant. Labels: obsolete
Word: corvorants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of corvorant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: empyroses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of empyrosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: empyrosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek in + to burn. 1. A general fire; a conflagration. Labels: obsolete Example: the former Opinion that held these Cataclysms and Empyroses universal
Word: allmouth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From all + mouth. 1. Any of the order Lophiiformes of anglerfish, such as Lophius piscatorius.
Word: allmouths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of allmouth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chlorimetric Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of chlorometric. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: chlorimetry Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of chlorometry. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: forcible-feeble Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Francis Feeble, a character in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet forcible. 1. Having a vigorous appearance, but in reality, weak or insipid. Labels: dated Example: He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. Example: But [allegory] is apt to spoil two good things—a story and a moral, a meaning and a form; and the taste for it is responsible for a large part of the forcible feeble writing that has been inflicted on the world.
Word: diruption Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin diruptio, from dirumpere. See disrupt (adjective). 1. disruption Labels: archaic
Word: enfreeze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + freeze. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɹiːz/ 1. To freeze; to congeal. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Yet to augment the anguish of my smart, Thou hast enfrozen her disdainful brest , That no one drop of pity there doth rest. Example: It is to bee seene in some notorious malefactors, whose hearts, a long continnance in prophane villanies, a furious pursuit of bloud and outrages, and the just curse of God upon them, has so enfrozen and emmarbled, that they are senslesse & fearlesse of whatsoever can befall them.
Word: enfrozen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From en- + frozen. 1. Frozen. Labels: not-comparable, poetic Example: From her poetic heat Harmonious flows, and taught by her oft paints The visionary scene, and touches all The Springs of Passion; her's each winning Grace, And comely Gesture her's: enfrozen'd age, Bending to earth beneath the weight of years, With wrinkled front, and venerable hair, Melts at her fair approach; Example: My sad despair, enfrozen soul, Yields to joy's false but fond control.
Word: enfrozen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From en- + frozen. 1. past participle of enfreeze Labels: form-of, participle, past