nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: catch breath Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of catch-breath. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: However, you can remain believable as your character if you fill your catch breath with a reinforcement of the impulse that initially inspired the phrase. Example: A full breath would take enough time for a deep intake of air, while a half breath would be more like a short catch breath.
Word: semipowerful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + powerful. 1. Somewhat powerful. Labels: not-comparable Example: Then, in deference to Nevada’s Harry Reid, the semipowerful Senate majority leader, the caucuses were moved to January, creating a sense of excitement and New Hampshire-like entitlement on the part of the local population.
Word: catch-breaths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catch-breath Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superbull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + bull. 1. A very bullish investor. Example: But Abby Joseph Cohen, the superbull at Goldman Sachs, maintained that the Dow would roar back to finish 2008 at a level 22 percent higher — 14,750 is the number — as the economy perks up later in the year.
Word: superbulls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superbull Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unconventionals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unconventional Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deglorification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + glorification. Pronunciation: /diːˌɡlɔːɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The process of deglorifying; making something less glorious. Labels: uncountable Example: Debunking military myths and the deglorification of war is nothing new in Israeli culture. Example: Obviously the satirists' deglorification of war and Kant's practical ideas on how to reduce it did not catch on widely enough to spare Western civilization the catastrophes of the next century and a half.
Word: you win some, you lose some Part of Speech: proverb 1. Everybody experiences some successes and some failures.
Word: elations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of elation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flickerings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flickering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grungily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From grungy + -ly. 1. In a grungy manner. Example: Mr. Jia is part of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers, which emerged in the 1990s with grungily realistic portrayals of contemporary China that stood apart from the historical epics that came before.
Word: grungers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grunger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypnotizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypnotize + -er. 1. One who, or that which, hypnotizes. Example: We also encounter Jean-Martin Charcot, Freud’s first mentor in Paris, who charted the stages of hysteria and proposed that the power of hypnosis depended upon the abnormal nervous condition of the hypnotized, not the magus-like potency of the hypnotizer.
Word: hypnotizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hypnotizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypnotizingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hypnotizing + -ly. 1. So as to hypnotize or entrance; mesmeric.
Word: hypnotisingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hypnotising + -ly. 1. Alternative form of hypnotizingly. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ignorers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ignorer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: megahome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + home. 1. A very large and luxurious home. Labels: informal Example: But as Mr. McGinn notes, “Unlike the robber baron-era mansions, modern-day megahomes don’t feature dozens of bedrooms or entirely new kinds of rooms — they mostly just take the rooms you’d find in a normal house and make them really, really big.”
Word: megahomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megahome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multithemed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + themed. 1. Having more than one theme. Labels: not-comparable Example: Live out your Rhodes Scholar fantasy this spring with Insider’s Oxford, a new program offered by the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University, which is based on the popular, multithemed summer program Oxford Experience.
Word: fucktard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of fuck(ing) + retard, or fuck + -tard. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌktɑɹd/ 1. An extraordinarily stupid person. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar Example: That fucktard spilled soda all over my keyboard! Example: No it's not, fucktard. There are different types and degrees of deceptive advertising.
Word: postliterate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + literate. 1. After the decline of literacy. Labels: not-comparable Example: Those who bemoan the self-absorption of the postliterate generation will be happy to know that before the self-indulgent, amateurish blog there was the self-indulgent, amateurish log. Example: There were noises made briefly, a few years ago, about the idea that we were living in a post-literate world, in which the ability to make sense out of written words was somehow redundant, but those days are gone: words are more important than they ever were: […].
Word: statemate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From state + -mate. 1. One who comes from the same state. Example: We in southern Colorado have little in common with our northern statemates. Nobody who hasn't been there can appreciate Kansas. Example: Tauscher is his lone statemate on the Packers.
Word: statemates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of statemate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: postbattle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + battle. 1. After a battle. Labels: not-comparable Example: They can be noisy and turbulent, as in “That Man I Shot,” a soldier’s postbattle reactions set to a feedback-drenched Crazy Horse stomp, or steadfast and long-suffering, as in the album’s other Iraq war song, “The Home Front,” Mr. Hood’s sketch of a soldier’s family.
Word: telegraphese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From telegraph + -ese. 1. The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this. Labels: uncountable Example: Vythilingam said: "Injection every day. Perhaps all right then." Anstruther had not been long in Malaya. He attributed this wog's clipped telegraphese to the shyness of one who meets socially a racial superior. Example: Despite the new gadgetry, these journalists are actually rediscovering telegraphese — the clipped (ideally witty) style that flourished because of word limits imposed by an earlier technology, the telegraph.
Word: burnlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From burn + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a burn. Example: What is happening to cause these burnlike skin lesions?
Word: drippingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dripping + -ly. 1. So as to drip. Example: a basket of drippingly ripe peaches Example: Still confounding critics more than 40 years after its making, “Le Bonheur” could qualify as either the most drippingly sentimental film ever made or the most dryly ironic.
Word: infrasonically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From infrasonic + -ally. 1. By means of infrasound. Labels: not-comparable Example: Among elephants, it is the females who are the born politicians, cultivating robust and lifelong social ties with at least 100 other elephants, a task made easier by their power to communicate infrasonically across miles of savanna floor.
Word: mistranscribe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + transcribe. 1. To transcribe incorrectly. Labels: transitive Example: Now a recently published compendium of his personal notebooks is coming under attack from two critics who say that the editor of the volume, Robert Faggen, mistranscribed hundreds, if not thousands, of Frost’s words.
Word: mistranscribed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of mistranscribe Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mistranscribing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mistranscribe Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mistranscribes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mistranscribe Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mistranscription Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + transcription. 1. Incorrect transcription. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The first edition of the book included the mistranscription "jolly days" for "July days".
Word: mistranscriptions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mistranscription Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preparty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + party. 1. A party held before the start of an event, usually a public event. Example: In true Sundance fashion, there was a preparty for the film, an intimate little dinner that was blown out to include hundreds, followed by the movie itself, and then an afterparty featuring a set by the Honey Brothers, a band that includes both Mr. Grenier and Mr. Gold.
Word: preparties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of preparty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semiaccidentally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From semiaccidental + -ly. 1. In a manner that is partly accidental. Labels: not-comparable Example: As ominous thwacking sounds are heard — she asks some dancers to demonstrate a few moves — Ms. Streb tells of the time she set herself on fire, semiaccidentally.
Word: understructure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + structure. 1. The supporting structure underneath something, such as a vehicle or bridge. Example: Holonym: infrastructure (facilities sense) Example: Near-synonyms: infrastructure (foundations sense), underpinnings
Word: understructures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of understructure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: distortionist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From distortion + -ist. 1. One who distorts. Example: The Japenese^([sic]) show this trait also in their daily life; it is their greatest pleasure to attend the exhibitions of professional face distortionists, who to the delight of the public make the oddest faces. Example: When Hillary tried once more to take Obama’s remarks about Ronald Reagan out of context, making it seem as though Obama had praised Reagan’s policies, he turned sarcastic about getting two distortionists for the price of one.
Word: distortionists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distortionist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mahonias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mahonia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metasequoia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meta- + sequoia. Pronunciation: /ˌmɛtəsəˈkwɔɪə/ 1. Metasequoia, the dawn redwood, a fast-growing deciduous conifer native to China. Example: Instead of fantasy landscapes forced into bloom, a trade show has the energy of an international marketplace, where growers discuss the fine points of their new favorites — plants like Citronelle, a lime-green heuchera that can stand up to heat and humidity; or new hibiscuses like Plum Crazy and Copper King, which tolerate dry soil and are hardy to 30 below zero; or the rarest of plants, like a bonsai metasequoia, also known as dawn redwood, which grows only three inches a year, making it perfect for a pot on your patio.
Word: metasequoias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metasequoia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noncommitment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + commitment. 1. Lack of commitment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “At age 52, I learned that according to the Executive Board I had allegations of noncommitment to Islam, lack of belief in the system of the Islamic Republic and lack of following the Constitution of the Islamic Republic,” Mr. Alami said
Word: taranabant Part of Speech: noun 1. A drug, a cannabinoid receptor type 1 inverse agonist investigated for the treatment of obesity but later dropped because of side effects including depression and anxiety. Labels: uncountable Example: Just this month, the results of a trial of Merck’s obesity drug, taranabant, were published showing similar psychiatric problems.
Word: cofavorite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + favorite. 1. A joint favorite to win a sporting event. Example: Phil Mickelson, who was the pretournament cofavorite with Woods, struggled to a two-under-par 70 on the North.
Word: cofavorites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cofavorite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hokeyness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hokey + -ness. 1. Alternative form of hokiness. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: The hokeyness is also all too familiar: smoke and mirrors (literally), overwrought music and well-scrubbed, overly rehearsed contestants who cry and laugh on cue.
Word: semiwhisper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From semi- + whisper. 1. A low voice close to a whisper. Example: Her friend April turned to her and asked in a semiwhisper, “Is it worth $100,000 to learn that?”
Word: underconfidence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + confidence. 1. Insufficient confidence. Labels: uncountable Example: The cycle of overconfidence becomes a cycle of underconfidence because nobody knows who is holding worthless paper.
Word: methylnaltrexone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From methyl + naltrexone. 1. A peripherally-acting μ-opioid antagonist that acts to reverse some of the side effects of opioid drugs such as constipation without affecting analgesia or precipitating withdrawals. Labels: uncountable Example: Since Jan. 1, 2007, the Food and Drug Administration has postponed clearance of Wyeth’s bifeprunox for schizophrenia, Pristiq for depression and menopausal hot flashes, Viviant for bone loss and methylnaltrexone for constipation.
Word: bobrun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bob + run. 1. A track for a bobsleigh. Example: The passengers get ready to ride down the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bobrun.
Word: bobruns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bobrun Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bullyable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bully + -able. 1. Susceptible to being bullied. Example: The Judiciary bill died this week, with the help of other bullyable Democratic senators like Mr. Rockefeller, Claire McCaskill, Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson.
Word: bully boys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bully boy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antitrain Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + train. 1. Opposing trains. Labels: not-comparable Example: The citizens like Ms. Yang who marched on People’s Square are wary of calling their event and the antitrain movement a protest.
Word: Santorum Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Italian. For most bearers, the surname is from Latin sanctorum (“of the saints”). For some individuals of Italian or Maltese ancestry, the name is related to the Italian Santorino (“from the island of Santorini”). 1. A surname from Italian. Example: On April 7, 2003, Senator Rick Santorum signaled his opposition to same-sex marriage in no uncertain terms.
Word: blogospheric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From blogosphere + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to the blogosphere. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: By the time he’s done quoting, in blogospheric fashion, the wisdom of his earlier works (he cites “A Republic, Not an Empire,” “State of Emergency” and “Where the Right Went Wrong” in the first 33 pages alone), including articles in political journals like The American Conservative and The National Interest, “Day of Reckoning” has begun to feel like a cross between a greatest-hits anthology and “The Patrick J. Buchanan Reader.”
Word: castful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cast + -ful. 1. A group of people making up a theatrical cast. Labels: no-plural Example: In a recent interview Mr. Stewart spoke happily, even sentimentally, about his Enterprise-commanding days, which left him with a castful of close friends and an unexpected appreciation for the importance of “Star Trek” in American culture.
Word: climactically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From climactic + -ally. 1. In a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax. Example: When Ike thinks about why he loves New York, he muses on its “sense of possibility” and the ducks in Central Park and all that, but, climactically, he thinks of being another face in the crowd: “He loves the liberating feeling that this city doesn’t seem to give a damn about him and never did.”
Word: counterslogan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + slogan. 1. A slogan created to oppose another slogan. Example: His rallying cry inspired the partisan crowd, but Truman supporters reminded voters of Lincoln’s admonition when running for re-election in 1864 — not to “swap horses while crossing the river” — which could not be overcome by the Republican counterslogan “Change horses or drown!”
Word: counterslogans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterslogan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flushings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flushing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: highish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From high + -ish. 1. Somewhat high. Example: Reading Barron, though, I realized that part of the reason his stories leave me cold is that they assume, as too much genre fiction does, a highish level of reader credulity, and I resent it.
Word: hyperactivism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + activism. 1. A high level of involvement in activism. Labels: uncountable Example: His approach is also personal, reflecting his hyperactivism, his passions and his determination to promote French business around the world.
Word: medievality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From medieval + -ity. 1. The quality of being medieval. Labels: uncountable Example: His late wife ran a Victorian inn in upstate New York; his son grew up mimicking his father’s medievality and, shunning his contemporaries, devoted himself to early music; his mother-in-law is an ethnic Lemko from the Carpathians, intent on recreating the way of life her people lived before their slaughter and forced deportations in the 1940s.
Word: multifamilies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of multifamily Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonsuperstar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + superstar. 1. One who is not a superstar. Example: Employees on the nonsuperstar rungs of many industries can ask a less personal kind of intermediary for career-management help: employment Web sites like freeagent.com, guru.com and monster.com. Example: In a way it is comforting, perhaps even life affirming, for the majority of human beings, nonsuperstars, to think they have chosen the other course.
Word: nonsuperstars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonsuperstar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preinsulated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + insulated. 1. Insulated in advance, as at the time of manufacture. Labels: not-comparable Example: The foundation was delivered separately in preinsulated concrete slabs, and builders are finishing the interior and exterior details on site.
Word: rescreen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + screen. 1. To screen again. Labels: transitive Example: The insufferable lines and the need to be rescreened at security even though you have never left a secured area is unexplained.
Word: rescreening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rescreen Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rescreening Part of Speech: noun 1. A second or subsequent screening.
Word: rescreens Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rescreen Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rescreened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rescreen Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: surprisers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of surpriser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underarticulated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + articulated. 1. Inadequately articulated. Example: Although Wodicka turns up a provocative thought here and there, this musing, typical of Burt’s grief-laden vaporousness, serves also to illustrate the artless, wordy and underarticulated writing that makes “All Shall Be Well” such a Black Death of a chore to read.
Word: unquenchably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unquenchable + -ly. 1. In a manner that cannot be quenched. Example: Kazin, by contrast, was God-haunted (“I want my God back” is the next-to-last sentence of his 1978 memoir, “New York Jew”); unquenchably fascinated by American literature and American history; and politically radical, but in a fashion that owed less to Marx than to Whitman — Kazin’s radicalism was democratic, generous, angry and thoroughly in the American grain.
Word: penurity Part of Speech: noun 1. penury Labels: rare, uncountable, usually
Word: penurities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of penurity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative; compare beep. Pronunciation: /buːp/ 1. A low-pitched beeping sound. Example: When something important happened, a polite sort of boop went off, and up in the right-hand corner of your screen, above the copy, a word or two appeared: Urgent, Bulletin, Late Stocks, whatever. Example: Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops. And to suggest that the rhythms laid down by a^([sic]) electronic drummer were anything close to swingin' was humorous. 2. A gentle or playful tap or strike, especially on the nose. Labels: colloquial Example: “Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose!” “He's bypassing our shields. We can't take many more boops.” “Thanks to Father giving me full access to Starfleet data systems, I know all possible shield frequencies. Boop!”
Word: boop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative; compare beep. Pronunciation: /buːp/ 1. To produce a low-pitched beeping sound. Labels: intransitive Example: The music on “LP” is almost entirely unnatural, booping and puffing, buzzing and ticking in tones no acoustic instrument would make. 2. To strike gently or playfully; to bop (especially on the nose). Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: He spun around and booped me on the nose.
Word: cyberwizard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + wizard. 1. A computer expert. Example: Fifth place went to the newcomer “Untraceable” (Sony), the horror thriller starring Diane Lane as an F.B.I. cyberwizard. Example: The cyberwizard again worked his keyboard. First a map of the world appeared in greens and blues on the screen, overlaid with lines of latitude and longitude. Then the perspective of the screen shifted smoothly.
Word: cyberwizards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyberwizard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: elusions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of elusion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interlegislative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + legislative. 1. Between legislative bodies. Labels: not-comparable Example: In addition to politics, the bill might have been put in jeopardy by other factors, including its timing — a big-money plan pitched during a budget crisis — as well as a kind of interlegislative rivalry between the Assembly and the Senate.
Word: marimbalike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From marimba + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a marimba. Example: A crucial element was the percussionist Erik Charlston, whose vibraphone often doubled Mr. Fisher’s piano to produce a marimbalike effect.
Word: roadman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From road + -man. 1. A man who builds or repairs roads. Example: Ernest Tipping had known the road for over 35 years and seen the roadman repairing it. Example: Any reader turning to the original novel would hardly recognize it in the shadow of Hitchcock’s film, so preoccupied is it with describing the glens and heathery mountains of the Scottish highlands, inhabited with an unlikely cavalcade of native eccentrics: an innkeeper with literary aspirations, a Liberal candidate with pacifist sympathies, a lower-class roadman laid up by drink, a bald archaeologist who isn’t quite what he seems. 2. A member of a subculture characterised by their clothing (notably puffer jackets and sportswear) as street fashion and the music they listen to, notably drill music. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, UK, slang Example: And officers’ definition of ‘roadman’ could prove to be controversial. They described the term as a ‘teenager who involves themselves in smoking weed, no education, puffa jacket and man bag, acts hard on a bike’. Example: The roadman look is very working-class (although it can be made to appear high-end), and features key pieces like matching tracksuits, technical jackets (like Nike wind runners or lightweight Stone Island shells) running caps, ‘trainers’ (like any Nike Air Max or a Reebok Classic), bum/shoulder bags, and maybe even a scarf on colder days.
Word: roadmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roadman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: songkok Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay songkok. 1. An Asian cap resembling a fez, worn mostly by male Muslims. Example: He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea. Example: Short and thick set, he almost invariably dressed in a Western business suit or a safari jacket once he gave up his military uniform, and a black songkok, the flat traditional Indonesian cap.
Word: songkoks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of songkok Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unresonant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + resonant. 1. Not resonant. Example: For the most part the group’s performance was elegant and polished, but the sound that sailed into this unresonant high school auditorium was oddly tepid, given the energy these players seemed to be putting into it.
Word: vaudevilles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vaudeville Labels: form-of, plural
Word: resecure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + secure. 1. To secure again. Labels: transitive Example: Egypt has slowly tried to resecure the border, refusing to allow the resupply of goods to the border towns of El Arish and Egyptian Rafah and taking steps to narrow the breaches.
Word: resecuring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of resecure Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: resecured Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of resecure Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: resecures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of resecure Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unexportable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + exportable. 1. Not exportable. Labels: not-comparable Example: In “The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate,” Norma Barzman, Ben Barzman’s widow, writes that Mr. Bronston had been able to finance his Spanish operations thanks to an arrangement with the DuPont family, who wanted to sell oil to Spain under Franco but did not want to be paid in unexportable Spanish pesetas.
Word: vulvodynia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vulvo- + -odynia. 1. Pain in the vulva unexplained by vulvar or vaginal infection or skin disease. Labels: uncountable Example: Anodynia (anorectal pain) most frequently occurs together with other pain syndromes, like vulvodynia or phallodynia, but sometimes it may be isolated.
Word: vulvitides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vulvitis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonpelvic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + pelvic. 1. Not pelvic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vestibulodynia Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of vulvodynia (vulvar pain) localized in the vestibular region (the entry point into the vagina). Labels: uncountable
Word: hotbloodedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hotblooded + -ness. 1. The quality of being hotblooded; passionate rashness. Labels: uncountable Example: So enthralled is the composer with Italian hotbloodedness that no opportunity is allowed to pass.
Word: lupinelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lupine + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of the lupine plant. Example: A. Ah, B. australis: so beautiful with its lush foliage, spires of lupinelike flowers and decorative seedpods; so easy to grow in poor, dry soil; so frustrating.
Word: overemotive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + emotive. 1. Excessively emotive. Example: Yet for all his stylistic authenticity, his singing was overemotive, sometimes sloppy and vocally blatant.
Word: ultradiscreet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ultra- + discreet. 1. Very discreet. Example: Even Mr. Margiela’s ultradiscreet trademark, four little white pick stitches on sweaters, shirts and bags, is instantly discernible to the style cognoscenti while invisible to others, like a whistle only dogs can hear.
Word: noninevitability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + inevitability. 1. The property of not being inevitable, of perhaps being avoidable. Labels: uncountable Example: CHARLOTTE GIBBONS AND CLARINDA MAC LOW (Friday and Saturday) Ms. Gibbons will present “disappearing never-ending return,” which she describes as a dance of lightness, possibilities and noninevitability. Ms. MacLow will present “Rui(nation),” an exploration of the seductive nature of power and authority that is loosely based on Shakespeare ’s “Macbeth.”
Word: outnice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + nice. 1. To surpass in apparently nice behaviour; to make oneself seem nicer than. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Still, it was almost as if the battle was to see which of them could outnice the other.
Word: postplaying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + playing. 1. After retirement from playing a sport. Labels: not-comparable Example: Might the sport revealed and recognized as a destroyer of postplaying lives become more of a turnoff?
Word: snowdrifted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From snowdrift + -ed. 1. Covered in snowdrifts. Labels: not-comparable Example: The last 12 miles across snowdrifted sagebrush flats, up into Jeffrey pines and curl-leaf mountain mahogany, to the warmth of the well-appointed hut would have to be covered by snowmobile, with gear, food and a guest dragged in on a sled with steel runners.
Word: leadsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ledes-man (“a military commander”, “a general”); equivalent to leads (the genitive form of lead: “a leading”, “a directing”, “a guiding”) + man. Pronunciation: /ˈliːdz.mən/ 1. lodesman (a leader or guide) Labels: obsolete
Word: leadsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From (genitive form of) lead (“heavy metal; Pb”) + man. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛdzmən/ 1. A sailor who takes soundings with a lead, measuring the depth of water. Example: In the same moment the leadsman hove the lead, and, finding it directly take the ground, he, in his fright, called out, ‘There's only three fathom.’
Word: Ngai Part of Speech: name Etymology: The Cantonese romanization of any of three different surnames: 魏 (ngai6), 倪 (ngai4), and 危 (ngai4). Pronunciation: /naɪ/, /(ə)ŋaɪ/ 1. Any of three Chinese surnames of Cantonese origin, used primarily in Hong Kong.
Word: Ngai Part of Speech: name 1. The monolithic creator god of the Kikuyu and related groups of Kenya, and the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania.
Word: ye're Part of Speech: contraction 1. Contraction of ye are. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
Word: leadsmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leadsman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ABG Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of arterial blood gas. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of acoustic bass guitar. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of Asian baby girl. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable Example: All my ABGs get cute for me
Word: large skipper Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, brown butterfly, Ochlodes sylvanus, of the family Hesperiidae. Example: Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper' (35%).
Word: large skippers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of large skipper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: large tortoiseshells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of large tortoiseshell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Roman hands and Russian fingers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A jocular modification of roaming hands and rushing fingers. 1. A tendency towards unwanted sexual touching. Labels: euphemistic, humorous, plural, plural-only Example: He might turn in test papers that were utterly blank—or blank except for a large, decorative question-mark—and Mrs. Douglas had discovered it was best to keep him away from the girls because of his Roman hands and Russian fingers, but he was quiet, so quiet that there were times when he might have been taken for a big lump of clay that had been crudely fashioned to look like a boy. Example: "Let's just say he had Roman hands and Russian fingers," she said. "I made him take me back home."
Word: councilmember Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From council + member. 1. A councilman or councilwoman; a member of a council, often a city council or town council. Labels: US Example: Near-synonyms: councilman, councilwoman, selectperson, selectman, selectwoman Example: An El Portal Village councilmember is under fire for using the N-word twice during a meeting.
Word: phy ed Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of physical education. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: gymp Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of guimpe. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: gymp Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of gimp. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: EHEC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of enterohemorrhagic E. coli. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: The news media regale us with horror stories about dangerous flu viruses, multidrug-resistant superbugs, and EHEC-contaminated food.
Word: economicalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From economical + -ness. 1. The quality of being economical. Labels: uncountable
Word: silver mine Part of Speech: noun 1. A mine for silver ore.
Word: BES Part of Speech: noun 1. N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid Labels: uncountable
Word: BES Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of British Election Study. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: I use data from several recent academic national surveys: the 2013 Austrian Election Study (AES), British Election Study Panel Survey (BES) conducted in January 2014 (from which I include respondents living in England), and the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) wave conducted in May 2013. […] These questions measuring RWA (or what I would term “authoritarian values”) are available in the BES data.
Word: enstrew Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of instrew. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: haematoma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From haemato- + -oma. 1. UK standard spelling of hematoma.
Word: small tortoiseshells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of small tortoiseshell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: large white Part of Speech: noun 1. The big, white and black butterfly Pieris brassicae, of the family Pieridae.
Word: Pokémon Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Old French poche Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Old French -ete Anglo-Norman poketbor. Middle English pocket English pocketbor. Japanese ポケット Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti Proto-Italic *man-eje- Proto-Italic *moneō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Proto-Italic *monestrom Latin mōnstrumbor. Old French monstrebor. Middle English monstre English monsterbor. Japanese モンスター Japanese ポケットモンスターclip. Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon)bor. English Pokémon Borrowed from Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a clipped compound of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster. The acute accent was added to signify the pronunciation. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊkəmɒn/, /ˈpoʊ.kə.mɑn/, /ˈpoʊkiˌmɑn/, /ˈpoʊ.keɪˌmɑn/, /ˈpəʉkəmɔn/ 1. A Japanese media franchise featuring fictional creatures that are captured by humans and trained to battle each other. Example: The organization has also named three newly discovered, rare beetles after characters from Pokémon – the Japanese anime series that spawned an entire franchise of video games, toys and trading cards.
Word: Pokémon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Old French poche Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Old French -ete Anglo-Norman poketbor. Middle English pocket English pocketbor. Japanese ポケット Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti Proto-Italic *man-eje- Proto-Italic *moneō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Proto-Italic *monestrom Latin mōnstrumbor. Old French monstrebor. Middle English monstre English monsterbor. Japanese モンスター Japanese ポケットモンスターclip. Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon)bor. English Pokémon Borrowed from Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a clipped compound of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster. The acute accent was added to signify the pronunciation. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊkəmɒn/, /ˈpoʊ.kə.mɑn/, /ˈpoʊkiˌmɑn/, /ˈpoʊ.keɪˌmɑn/, /ˈpəʉkəmɔn/ 1. A pocket monster; a fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise. Example: Pokémons are the latest and adamantly conformist craze among middle-childhood boys. The theme of the video games that started the craze is, as usual, the triumph of good over evil. The hero is a child, twelve-year-old Ash. His goal is to capture all 150-plus nonhuman creatures called Pokémons, train them to be good, and use them to capture the remaining wicked Pokémons that so far have escaped. In the games, Ash is not your ally: he is you. Each of the Pokémons has its own sort of power which, after conversion, accrues to Ash’s (your) favor. Example: Game strategy (and tactics) are full of such learning about real life, like the rules, the strategy in games needs to be lifelike for the games to make sense, even if the characters, such as Pokémons, are purely imaginary.
Word: large whites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of large white Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cabbage white Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The name refers to the fact that many butterflies of this genus favor cabbages (among other plants) as host plants for their eggs. 1. Any of various largely white butterflies with dark markings in the family Pieridae, especially the species Pieris brassicae, Pieris canidia, and Pieris rapae.
Word: cabbage whites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cabbage white Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lulworth skipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The first specimens in Great Britain were collected in 1832 at Lulworth Cove in Dorset. 1. The dull brown butterfly Thymelicus acteon, of the family Hesperiidae.
Word: Lulworth skippers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Lulworth skipper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: normie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From norm + -ie, or a clipping of normal + -ie. Compare normalfag. Pronunciation: /ˈnɔː.mi/, /ˈnɔɹ.mi/ 1. A normal person; one with commonly held, normative beliefs, neurology, tastes or interests. Labels: derogatory, slang, usually Example: But if you're not a socie, chances are you're a normie and you feel left out. Example: This place is a sure cure for a gimp's feeling out of place and a sure cure for a normie feeling awkward around a wheelchair. 2. A person who is not a member of an ingroup, such as a fandom or other (online) community; an outsider. Labels: Internet, derogatory, usually 3. A nonalcoholic. Labels: slang Example: Be jovial but not a comedian. We have a sense of humor that the normies don't have.
Word: normie Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From norm + -ie, or a clipping of normal + -ie. Compare normalfag. Pronunciation: /ˈnɔː.mi/, /ˈnɔɹ.mi/ 1. Like a normal person; mainstream, belonging to an outgroup. Labels: derogatory, slang, usually Example: “Hillary will unintentionally give us the biggest public platform we’ve ever had,” wrote one anonymous poster. “The people who will reject our ideas are already voting for Hillary. The normie conservatives, lolbertarians, etc, will be drawn into the movement in record numbers.” Example: The split from Pauling, and the death of Laurelee, sent Robinson hurtling further out into the fringe, where he found a small but ardent caucus of contrarians: scientists, like him, who had abandoned — or been ejected from — the normie, left-leaning research community and who made common cause in puncturing prevailing views on smoking, DDT, radiation, depletion of the ozone hole and changes to the climate.
Word: normies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of normie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superchilled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + chilled. 1. Chilled to a very low temperature. Labels: not-comparable
Word: alphamosaics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From alphabetical and mosaic, perhaps modelled on alphanumerics or similar. 1. A display made up of text characters combined with simple block graphics, as used in certain videotex systems. Labels: uncountable
Word: Lincolnian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Lincoln + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), 16th president of the United States. Example: We should never forget that the 14th Amendment was essentially Lincolnian[.]
Word: Lincolnian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Lincoln + -ian. 1. A political supporter of Abraham Lincoln.
Word: marbled white Part of Speech: noun 1. The large black-and-white chequered butterfly Melanargia galathea, of the family Nymphalidae.
Word: marbled whites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of marbled white Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rosiculture Part of Speech: noun 1. The cultivation of roses. Labels: uncountable Example: It is not exactly a book for specialists, but the reference may be useful to many friends of roses who are interested in the pathological aspects of rosiculture.
Word: Whedonverse Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Whedon + -verse. 1. The loosely-defined fictional universe encompassing the worlds forming the setting for the television and film works of Joss Whedon — notably the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, and the film Serenity. Labels: slang Example: In the Whedonverse (among other places) institutions are dangerous; communities can be life-giving. Example: Neither Joss Whedon nor any other writer in the Whedonverse harbors the misogyny that drove and characterized texts like the Hammer of Witches.
Word: trades in Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of trade in Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: trading in Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of trade in Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: traded in Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of trade in Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: dekasecond Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of decasecond. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dekametre Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of decametre. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dekaampere Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of decaampere. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cœlomata Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cœloma. Labels: form-of, plural Example: It is not so completely closed as to prevent communication between the cœlomata of the two individuals it separates.
Word: Pollyanish Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Pollyannish. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: barock Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of baroque Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete Example: These motives […] resisted during the centuries all sorts of styles and yielded to only some reshaping. We meet them in the innumerable settings of the last two centuries, now in the barock style of the eighteenth century, now in the classical style of the first part of the nineteenth century.
Word: Pollyanna-ish Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Pollyannaish. Labels: alt-of, alternative, derogatory
Word: alphaphotographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *ʔalp- Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (ʾlp)bor. Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha) Proto-Semitic *bayt- Phoenician 𐤁𐤕 (bt)bor. Ancient Greek βῆτᾰ (bêtă) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos) Byzantine Greek ἀλφάβητον (alphábēton)der. Classical Latin alphabētumbor. Middle English alphabete English alphabet English alpha- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Ancient Greek -γραφικός (-graphikós)der. Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -graphic ▲ English photo- ▲ Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English photograph ▲ English -ic English photographic English alphaphotographic From alpha- + photographic. 1. Of or pertaining to alphaphotographics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: alphaphotographics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From alphabetical and photographic, perhaps modelled on alphanumerics or similar. 1. A display made up of text characters combined with high-resolution photographic images (proposed as a future form of videotex). Labels: uncountable Example: Photographic quality or alphaphotographics have arrived, and interaction with videodiscs and video images represent a next level. But it is a question of feasibility rather than technological breakthroughs.
Word: alphageometrics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From alphabetical and geometric, perhaps modelled on alphanumerics or similar. 1. A display made up of text characters combined with vector graphics (once an advanced form of videotex, introduced by the Telidon system). Labels: uncountable
Word: alphageometric Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to alphageometrics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: zettampere Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of zettaampere. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: megampere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + ampere. 1. A unit of electrical current, equal to a million amperes.
Word: microhm Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of micro-ohm. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: squeezeboxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of squeezebox Labels: form-of, plural
Word: syncretise Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of syncretize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: old pence Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of old penny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: throw a party Part of Speech: verb Etymology: throw + a + party 1. To organize and execute a party. Labels: informal Example: Let's throw a party this Friday. Example: We threw a big party for John's 8th birthday.
Word: noncreationary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + creationary. 1. Not creationary. Labels: not-comparable
Word: non-creational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + creational. 1. Not creational. Labels: not-comparable
Word: non-creationary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + creationary. 1. Not creationary. Labels: not-comparable
Word: non-evolutionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + evolutionary. 1. Not evolutionary
Word: nonevolutional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + evolutional. 1. Not evolutional
Word: non-evolutional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + evolutional. 1. Not evolutional Labels: not-comparable
Word: round robins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of round robin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: derm- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative form of dermo-. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme