nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: multigame Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + game. 1. Pertaining to more than one game. Labels: not-comparable Example: If fans want to guarantee a seat, they must buy season tickets or a multigame package.
Word: nondetrimental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + detrimental. 1. Not detrimental; harmless. Labels: not-comparable Example: “The whole purpose of Cites is to allow trade only if there is a nondetrimental finding,” Ms. Roberson added, “and this screams to me it’s detrimental to the fish.”
Word: sevruga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian севрю́га (sevrjúga). 1. stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An expensive caviar made from its eggs. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sevrugas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sevruga Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cheflike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chef + -like. Piecewise doublet of headlike. 1. Resembling or befitting a chef; culinary. Example: Mr. Bradsell earned his renown with an exhaustive knowledge of classic cocktails, precision and speed in constructing them, and, especially, a cheflike ability to build on them continually.
Word: kupuna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hawaiian kupuna. 1. A grandparent or elder. Example: That's why, according to my kupunas, the chiefs had these male lovers. They were there to be with the chiefs as a friend and companion.
Word: kupunas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kupuna Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multirole Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + role. 1. Pertaining to, or serving in, many roles. Labels: not-comparable Example: As part of its marketing effort, Boeing has brought in two multirole combat F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft, a Chinook helicopter and the C-17 transport aircraft to show potential buyers.
Word: Chinesey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Chinese + -y. 1. Somewhat Chinese; affecting a Chinese style.
Word: pyridines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pyridine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spirelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From spire + -like. 1. Resembling a spire. Example: To the left, the spirelike tower of Riverside Church.
Word: bushwalker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bush + walker. 1. A hiker or backpacker. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: In the following years the Kanangra country became the object of a mild form of cult worship as bushwalkers discovered its many delights[…]. Example: There are numerous stories of bushwalkers spending several hours up a tree waiting for a wild pig to go away.
Word: bushwalkers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bushwalker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jibbing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jib + -ing. 1. The performance of tricks using jibs (objects in a skatepark, etc.). Labels: uncountable Example: Cousino, 24, competes in a variety of disciplines, but said, “Now, jibbing is huge.”
Word: skate park Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of skatepark. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: megafloral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From megaflora + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to megaflora. Labels: not-comparable
Word: miofloral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mioflora + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to mioflora. Labels: not-comparable
Word: microfloral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From microflora + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to microflora. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mouseover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mouse + over. 1. The event of an on-screen pointer being over an on-screen shape.
Word: mouseovers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mouseover Labels: form-of, plural
Word: minidisaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + disaster. 1. A minor disaster. Labels: informal Example: When the Lamp Dude and the Academic decided to go into business together, it had all the makings of a minidisaster.
Word: minidisasters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minidisaster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonsystemic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + systemic. 1. Not systemic. Labels: not-comparable Example: It’s a nonsystemic drug.
Word: superorganized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + organized. 1. Very organized. Labels: informal Example: “A business can thrive when it’s run by people whose styles are vastly different but complement one another,” said Phyllis Ezop, a business strategy and marketing information consultant in La Grange Park, Ill. If one owner is superorganized and the other is a slob, the business needs to give each one responsibilities that fit their own individual nature.”l.
Word: ultracooled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ultra- + cooled. 1. Cooled to a very low temperature. Labels: not-comparable Example: In 1999, Dr. Hau headed a team of scientists that slowed light, which travels a brisk 186,282 miles a second when unimpeded, to a leisurely 38 miles an hour by shining it into an exotic, ultracooled cloud of sodium atoms.
Word: Jewless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Jew + -less. 1. Without Jews. Labels: not-comparable Example: It began with his shrugging off of both family and faith and taking the Amtrak Vermonter out of Penn Station to major in minor hedonism and minor in the major modernists at a hippie college in the great Jewless north.
Word: chimneypiece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chimney + piece. 1. A mantelpiece. Example: Partridge Fine Art of London has a carved and gilded rococo chimneypiece festooned with Ho-Ho birds, garlands of flowers, fruit and female masks.
Word: chimneypieces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chimneypiece Labels: form-of, plural
Word: compartmentlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.? Proto-Italic *partis Latin pars Latin partiō Latin partior Latin compartīrībor. Italian compartire Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Italian -mento Italian compartimentobor. Middle French compartimentder. English compartment Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English compartmentlike From compartment + -like. 1. Resembling a compartment. Example: His art and his story are like few others, and MoMA puts both across in an inspired installation: a single long corridor with compartmentlike rooms of paintings on each side, and at the very end, against a sea-green wall, a life-size doll with giant bat wings floating above her.
Word: cybertrail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + trail. 1. A trail (of evidence, etc.) on the Internet or in cyberspace.
Word: cybertrails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cybertrail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cyberdetective Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + detective. 1. A detective who operates on the Internet or in cyberspace. Labels: rare
Word: cyberdetectives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyberdetective Labels: form-of, plural
Word: demilune Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-lune. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛmɪluːn/ 1. In the shape of a half-moon, i.e. semicircular. Labels: not-comparable Example: A handsome pair of tall, walnut-veneered Biedermeier bookcases from Austria, circa 1835, can be had from Iliad Antik of New York for $95,000, while Clinton Howell of New York has a rare pair of marquetry inlaid demilune consoles that he attributes to the workshop of John Linnell of England, circa 1755.
Word: demilune Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-lune. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛmɪluːn/ 1. A fortification constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. 2. A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.
Word: molelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mole + -like. 1. Resembling a mole. Example: Disaster strikes, and in the end goofy Saul Malone is left alone to discover the core world, which is peopled by molelike creatures whom he describes as “cockeyed copulators,” “drunk on fornication and cheap pineapple wine.”
Word: mouse-over Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of mouseover. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mouse-overs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mouse-over Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unfair competition Part of Speech: noun 1. In commercial law and specifically competition law, any of various distinct violations or criminal offenses that may give rise to civil causes of action (being taken to court), usually including antitrust violations such as restraint of trade and predatory pricing, trademark infringement, passing off or palming off, and misappropriation of trade secrets. Labels: uncountable
Word: subadnate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + adnate. 1. Loosely linked or fused to something unlike itself; slightly adnate.
Word: staidest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of staid: most staid Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: staider Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of staid: more staid Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: sublageniform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + lageniform. 1. Slightly lageniform.
Word: subcampanulate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + campanulate. 1. Slightly bell-shaped or campanulate.
Word: subellipsoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + ellipsoid. 1. Somewhat ellipsoid. Labels: not-comparable
Word: subrhomboid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + rhomboid. 1. Somewhat rhomboid.
Word: subviscid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + viscid. 1. Slightly viscid.
Word: subumbonate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + umbonate. 1. Having a slight umbo.
Word: klezmerlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From klezmer + -like. 1. Alternative spelling of klezmer-like. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare Example: His compositions, mostly bearing Yiddish titles and klezmerlike scales, made ingenious use of them.
Word: subsinuate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + sinuate. 1. Somewhat sinuate.
Word: subovoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + ovoid. 1. Somewhat ovoid.
Word: xalam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wolof [Term?]. Pronunciation: /kɑˈlɑm/, /xɑ-/, /zɑ-/ 1. A traditional lutelike string instrument of West Africa.
Word: xalams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of xalam Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subpruinose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + pruinose. 1. Somewhat pruinose.
Word: codriver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + driver. 1. The navigator in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat and gives directions to the driver. Example: According to Roberto Moreno, one of Mr. Haywood’s codrivers at Daytona and a veteran of 41 Formula One and 122 Indy car races, “No team takes better care of its drivers than Brumos.” 2. A fellow driver; where multiple people take turns driving, a person who is not currently driving.
Word: codrivers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of codriver Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pace notes Part of Speech: noun 1. Detailed notes describing the route to be driven in rally racing, read by the codriver to the driver. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: couchbound Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From couch + bound. 1. Confined to a couch, or refusing to move from it. Labels: not-comparable Example: He may be truly agoraphobic — he doesn’t venture outside until the sixth episode — but his couchbound apathy masks a ruthless manipulative streak, as when he cons a Meals on Wheels volunteer into delivering his lunches.
Word: webspace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From web + space. 1. Disk space used to store web pages and other content that can be accessed through the World Wide Web. Labels: Internet, uncountable, usually Example: Some Internet providers offer free webspace to subscribers.
Word: webspace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From web + space. 1. One of the spaces between the fingers or toes that contains a web of skin. Example: The first webspace flap has been classified into 4 types based on this versatility […] Example: Digital contractures and webspace contractures of the foot are dealt with using the same principles and techniques as in the digits of the hand.
Word: incommunicative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + communicative. 1. Uncommunicative. Example: The author tries hard to breathe life into his subject, but it seems there was little vitality left in the octogenarian Djuna. At her best she was vituperative and incommunicative. She says to Mr. Field that he has come too late to write a book about her.
Word: incommunicatively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From incommunicative + -ly. 1. In an incommunicative way.
Word: incommunicativeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From incommunicative + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being incommunicative. Labels: uncountable
Word: mishegoss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish משוגעת (meshugas), from משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”), from Hebrew משוגע (meshugga`, “crazy”), from שׁוּגַּע (shugga‘, “be driven mad”), שִׁיגַּע (shigga‘, “drive mad”). Pronunciation: /ˌmɪʃəˈɡɒs/, /ˈmɪʃəɡɒs/ 1. Madness; silliness. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: On the contrary, the Michigander’s mishegoss is driven by my choice of the on-guard anticipate when he thinks I should have used the more general, all-purpose verb expect. Example: You know what? Let's forget all the mishegoss and try to enjoy our lunch, huh? Take the edge off.
Word: nonadmirer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + admirer. 1. One who is not an admirer. Example: In comes a snail-mail missive from a nonadmirer in Detroit enclosing that column, underlining the word anticipate and scrawling across the ripped-out page “we can expect .”
Word: nonadmirers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonadmirer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pistonlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From piston + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a piston.
Word: hammerlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hammer + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a hammer.
Word: screwlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From screw + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a screw (mechanical fastener).
Word: noncanine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + canine. 1. Not canine. Labels: not-comparable Example: I predicted that “we can anticipate such a description of noncanine involvement.” Example: The sight of that problem was much bigger for such a little dog than I would have ever imagined possible—had I even imagined it. Imagine my four-pound Yorkie as a miniature stallion. It was appalling to me, his noncanine mother.
Word: nonsoundtrack Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + soundtrack. 1. That is not a soundtrack. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: “A Date With John Waters” (New Line Records), his second nonsoundtrack album, is a collection of his favorite twisted love songs.
Word: overintellectual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + intellectual. 1. Excessively intellectual.
Word: overseason Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + season. 1. To season (flavour) too much. Labels: transitive
Word: overseasons Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overseason Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overseasoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overseason Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overseasoned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overseason Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pushbutton Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From push + button. 1. Alternative spelling of push-button. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the idea of ethical robotic killing machines is unrealistic, and all too likely to support dangerous fantasies of pushbutton wars and guiltless slaughters.
Word: pushbutton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From push + button. 1. Alternative spelling of push-button. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pushbuttons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pushbutton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antimusic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + music. 1. Any form of music that defies convention to such a degree that some people would not recognise it as musical. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] the current vogue, on the internet, for creating “black midi” files using software to create musical performances with literally millions of notes being played […] is unlikely to appeal to the general listener and we should probably consider it a deviant case of anti-music made for frivolous purposes rather than any kind of polemic.
Word: antimusic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + music. 1. Opposing music. Labels: not-comparable Example: In other words, the lack of musical ritual in Canada cannot be understood as yet another case of Muslim antimusic sentiment.
Word: palming off Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of misrepresenting a counterfeit product as the genuine article. Labels: uncountable Example: It is sufficient that the complainant is entitled to the custom—the good-will—of a business and that this good-will is injured or is about to be injured, by the palming off of the goods of another as his.
Word: palming off Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of palm off Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unfadingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unfading + -ly. 1. In an unfading way; eternally, immortally.
Word: unsurmised Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + surmised. 1. Not surmised. Labels: not-comparable
Word: isibongo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *kɪ́- Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀- Proto-Bantu *kɪ́-kɪ̀- Zulu ísi- Proto-Nguni *-bonga Zulu -bonga Zulu -o Zulu isíbongobor. English isibongo Borrowed from Zulu isíbongo. 1. A complimentary metonym used to describe members of a Zulu clan.
Word: izibongo Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of isibongo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: izibongo Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of Zulu praise poetry that extols somebody's fame. Labels: uncountable
Word: tautonym Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From taut- + -onym or alternatively tauto- + -nym. 1. A binomial name consisting of the same word twice, such as Bison bison. Example: And that would mean a species named Leucanthemum leucanthemum, with the genus and species epithet the same (a tautonym), which is a total no-no in botany. 2. A word or term made from two identical parts or syllables, such as bonbon or dada. Example: The chapter on reduplication - "flip-flopping higgledy- piggledy through the riffraff" - differentiates rhyming compounds like bigwig, hotshot, ragtag, sci-fi from repetitions called tautonyms, such as bye-bye, so-so, rah-rah, as well as from ricochet words in which the repeated element is modified: chit-chat, roly-poly, shilly-shally. 3. An absolute synonym.
Word: tautonyms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tautonym Labels: form-of, plural
Word: miniconcert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + concert. 1. A small or minor concert. Example: It did not take long for Zoundz miniconcerts to start popping up on YouTube.
Word: miniconcerts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of miniconcert Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nontelevision Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + television. 1. That is not, or does not relate to, television. Labels: not-comparable Example: Before the explosion of Internet news and gossip blogs, People and its competitors would have dominated the nontelevision Anna Nicole coverage.
Word: quasigovernmental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From quasi- + governmental. 1. Having a certain degree of funding or influence from the government. Labels: not-comparable, usually
Word: tumbao Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cuban Spanish tumbar (“to knock off, fall”). 1. The basic rhythm played on the conga drum and the bass in Afro-Cuban music. Example: After all, its encore introduced some new musical elements, including a pulse faintly suggestive of an Afro-Cuban tumbao.
Word: tumbaos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tumbao Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + face. 1. That which is not a face (especially in computer face-recognition software). Example: As the computer amassed the information, it was able to discover relationships that were of great significance to almost all faces, but very few nonfaces.
Word: nonfaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonface Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prepregnancy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + pregnancy. 1. Before the onset of pregnancy. Labels: not-comparable Example: After adjusting for prepregnancy weight, smoking status and other variables, the average birth weight of babies in the decaf group was a statistically insignificant one-half ounce higher than that of babies in the coffee-drinking group.
Word: spiderwebbing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spiderweb Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spiderwebbed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of spiderweb Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: interiorize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From interior + -ize. 1. To internalize; to bring inside oneself. Labels: transitive
Word: interiorizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of interiorize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: interiorizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of interiorize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: interiorized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of interiorize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: nonengineered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + engineered. 1. Not engineered; traditional, natural, or organic. Labels: not-comparable Example: “An action which potentially eliminates or at least greatly reduces the availability of a particular plant — here, nonengineered alfalfa — has a significant effect on the human environment,” he wrote.
Word: forwardable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From forward + -able. 1. That can be forwarded. Labels: not-comparable Example: Text is searchable, sortable, copyable, pastable, printable and forwardable.
Word: midthought Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid English mid- Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought English midthought From mid- + thought. 1. Some time during a thought. Labels: uncountable Example: All the segments chewed over their ideas yet tended to end inconclusively, sometimes in midthought, as if they had reached the end of productive interaction with that particular line of inquiry.
Word: midthought Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid English mid- Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought English midthought From mid- + thought. 1. During a thought; in midthought. Labels: not-comparable
Word: manelessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From maneless + -ness. 1. The state of being maneless. Labels: uncountable Example: Yet the manelessness of the lioness is one of its most obvious features, and one which is never to my knowledge incorrectly shown by artists in the East where lions were familiar. Example: But are they really tougher? And if so, is there any connection between their manelessness and their ferocity?
Word: emblaze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From em- + blaze. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbleɪz/, /ɛmˈbleɪz/ 1. To kindle; set ablaze. Labels: transitive 2. To adorn with glittering embellishments; cause to glitter or shine. Labels: transitive 3. To illuminate; to etch or display in a bright, fiery way; blazon. Labels: poetic, transitive Example: When a window screen is emblazed with a pretty design, one cannot look into the room beyond because of arrest of vision by the figure upon the screen. Example: This feeling emblazed inside. / Every nerve like a firefly.
Word: emblazes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of emblaze Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: emblazing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of emblaze Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: emblazed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of emblaze Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: postvictory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + victory. 1. Occurring after a victory. Labels: not-comparable Example: He had slept for two hours after winning Best in Show Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and now was 13 hours into his postvictory news media tour.
Word: unimpeachability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unimpeachable + -ity. 1. The state or condition of being unimpeachable; blamelessness. Labels: uncountable
Word: impeachability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From impeachable + -ity. 1. The state or condition of being impeachable. Labels: uncountable
Word: baldish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bald + -ish. 1. Somewhat bald; balding.
Word: belovedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beloved + -ness. Pronunciation: /bɪˈlʌvɪdnɪs/ 1. The state or condition of being beloved. Labels: uncountable
Word: cabinlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cabin + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a cabin. Example: In fact, the production is an all-female affair, from the sound designer, Elise Kermani, to the artist Barbara Kilpatrick, who constructed a cabinlike structure for the set and created costumes from clothing donated by Eileen Fisher.
Word: divadom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From diva + -dom. 1. The condition of being a diva; the sphere of divas. Labels: uncountable Example: And Carmen Cortés, fast approaching divadom, will offer examples of Gypsy flamenco puro in a program on Thursday with the flamenco guitarist Gerardo Núñez and his quintet.
Word: lunkish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lunk + -ish. 1. Like a lunk; stupid, foolish. Example: The lunkish Jannik (the enormously affecting Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is the family screw-up just out of prison for robbery.
Word: maqamat Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of maqam Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonmale Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + male. 1. Not male. Labels: not-comparable Example: Feminists and others were expanding it by introducing aspects of beading, sewing, quilting, rug-making and more performance, thereby introducing elements of craft, the body and personal identity, and forcefully defining creators as nonmale or nonwhite.
Word: nonmale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + male. 1. One who is not male.
Word: objectlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From object + -like. 1. Resembling an object. Example: Some were trying out unusual materials and techniques — cotton balls, fake jewels, pigmented wax, spray guns, squeegees — either to make painting more perversely objectlike or to reopen the spatial illusions shut down by the Judd-Stella-Greenberg juggernaut.
Word: panleukopenia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pan- + leukopenia. 1. A distemper of cats caused by a strain of Parvovirus. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The viruses were Parvovirus, canine distemper and feline panleukopenia; the bacterial infection was a fatal hemorrhagic, or bloody, pneumonia.
Word: scumblings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scumbling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thanka Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of thangka. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative spelling of tanka. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: thankas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thanka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uncontainably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From uncontainable + -ly. 1. In an uncontainable way. Example: Here, Mr. Hodgkin has slathered green onto a cheap frame, as he frequently does, incorporating the frames as objects and also making the pictures seem to spill out, uncontainably, beyond their edges.
Word: chacarera Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish chacarera. 1. A genre of Argentinian and Bolivian folk music, a dance form played by contemporary musicians as soloists or in small ensembles of voice, guitar, violin and bombo drum. Labels: uncountable Example: Along the way, he has built some fascinating bridges between jazz, pop, classical music and the chacareras and tangos of his native Argentina. 2. A dance accompanying this music. Labels: countable
Word: chacareras Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chacarera Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insulinlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From insulin + -like. 1. Resembling insulin or some aspect of it. Example: Both sell drugs that were approved in 2005 to treat extremely short children who are deficient in a hormone called insulinlike growth factor one, or IGF-1.
Word: restraint of trade Part of Speech: noun 1. An agreement that prevents fair competition on the open market, such as an agreement by one party to hire a second party to work within a profession on the condition that the second party will not compete against the first. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: missort Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + sort. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈsɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. To sort incorrectly; to misorder. Labels: transitive Example: And if four clubs was to be taken as natural, presumably South had missorted his hand, perhaps originally thinking he had 4-3-3-3 distribution when he was really 7-3-3-0; or, more likely, he had a six-card club suit and was willing to risk ending in four no-trump if North did not have extra values.
Word: missort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + sort. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈsɔː(ɹ)t/, /ˈmɪs.sɔː(ɹ)t/ 1. An incorrect sorting. 2. Something incorrectly sorted.
Word: missorting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of missort Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: restraints of trade Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of restraint of trade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: missorted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of missort Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: missorts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of missort Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: missorts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of missort Labels: form-of, plural
Word: strangulates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of strangulate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: strangulating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of strangulate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: strangulated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of strangulate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: strangulated Part of Speech: adj 1. Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression. Labels: not-comparable Example: a strangulated hernia 2. Strangled; affected by strangulation. Labels: not-comparable Example: Robert at once performed the strangulated antics of one arising. 3. Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted. Labels: not-comparable
Word: superbrand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + brand. 1. An extremely popular brand. Example: But Nascar has become a global superbrand, still undeniably American yet ubiquitous enough for the world’s best — not just auto manufacturers, but racers like Juan Montoya, the Colombian who has dominated Formula 1 — to want to test its drivers and its superspeedways.
Word: superbrands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superbrand Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superconnected Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + connected. 1. Whose every minimum vertex cut leads to isolated vertices. Example: For a superconnected probe interval graph G, a tree 4-spanner can be constructed easily. 2. Being a major user of communication technologies. Labels: informal Example: The superconnected may develop a dual-dependency,” Robert Bornstein, a psychologist at Adelphi University, told the author of the article, Carlin Flora.
Word: unflooded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + flooded. 1. Not flooded. Labels: not-comparable Example: These inequities, and the missing geographic counterpoint, do a disservice to those who want to stay in flooded areas, and a disservice to those who still live in unflooded areas.
Word: uninundated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + inundated. 1. Not inundated. Labels: not-comparable
Word: aromatherapeutic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aroma + therapeutic. 1. Of or pertaining to aromatherapy Labels: not-comparable
Word: passing off Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of misrepresenting the origin of a product. Labels: uncountable
Word: passing off Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pass off Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: integrity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French intégrité, from Latin integritās (“soundness, integrity”), from integer. Doublet of entirety. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/, /ɪnˈtɛɡɹɪti/ 1. Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Stand up, good Canterbury: Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted […] Example: Living a lie saps us of integrity and moral cohesion to the point that we can no longer distinguish between the artifice being propped up and the real world. 2. The state of being wholesome; unimpaired Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The quality or condition of being complete; pure Labels: countable, uncountable 4. With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Trustworthiness; keeping one's word. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pinacocyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pinaco(derm) + -cyte. 1. Any of a group of flattened polygonal cells that together make up the pinacoderm in the dermal epithelium of sponges. Example: Minchin (1896, 1898, 1908) also concluded that the pinacocytes could leave the dermal epithelium and become calcoblasts in both larva and adult sponge. Example: As you can see in Fig 27.7, sponges have only three types of cells in their bodies: pinacocytes (epithelial cells), choanocytes (collar cells) and amoebocytes (amoeboid cells).
Word: squamule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See squamo- and -ule. Pronunciation: /ˈskweɪmjuːl/ 1. A small scale. Example: The cap of the mushroom has squamules.
Word: unni Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of unnie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: penteract Part of Speech: noun 1. A five-dimensional hypercube.
Word: alme Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of almah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pencil skirt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pencil + skirt, referring to its shape. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛnsəl skɜːt/ 1. A slim skirt (clothing) with a straight and narrow cut, usually approximately knee-length. Example: Anna decided to wear a black pencil skirt with her blue blouse that day to work. Example: And for Italian sportswear giant MaxMara, the cornerstone of the show was a crisp khaki safari jacket shown over a pencil skirt.
Word: polyhalogenated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From poly- + halogenated. 1. Halogenated with multiple halogen atoms. Labels: not-comparable
Word: there being Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of there be Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: revulsive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French révulsif. 1. Causing revulsion. Example: It was so clearly a bad idea. It had certainly given her enough squirming, revulsive qualms, before she’d done it.
Word: revulsive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French révulsif. 1. That which causes revulsion; a revulsive remedy or agent.
Word: unformat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + format. 1. To remove or undo a format; to reverse the formatting of a disk. Example: Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk. Example: This step releases the button so that it isn't pressed in anymore, and the formatting should disappear. If one click doesn't do the trick, then some of the text probably wasn't formatted. It is now! Click the button again to unformat the text.
Word: aretalogy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -logy. 1. A form of sacred biography in which a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person.
Word: aretalogies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aretalogy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aretalogist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aretalogy + -ist. 1. One who recites or who authors aretalogies.
Word: aretalogists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aretalogist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spaneria Part of Speech: noun 1. A scarcity of males. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: The constant state of warfare was a fact of life in the reign of King Louis-Philippe, and although the spaneria was a high price to pay, the nation overflowed with riches and national pride.
Word: lappets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lappet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lanch Part of Speech: noun 1. A large bed of flints. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: […] difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints called locally a 'lanch' or 'lanchet.'
Word: lanch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See lance, launch. 1. To pierce, as with a lance; to lance. Labels: obsolete Example: And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home. 2. To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch. Labels: obsolete
Word: lanches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lanch Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lanches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lanch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lanching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lanch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lanched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lanch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: secret service Part of Speech: noun 1. A governmental agency that deals with espionage and other acts of secrecy. Example: True, we have people of the fifth column, and, unfortunately, the sixth column, with us; they have them in every country; but so far in this war the British diplomatic and secret service has not been so successful as that clever, astute brute-man Hitler and his agents. Example: On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services.
Word: angstbunnies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of angstbunny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: battlezones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of battlezone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scutellum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin scūtellum, diminutive of Latin scūtum (“shield”). 1. Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc 2. Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc 3. Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc 4. Any of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
Word: semielliptical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + elliptical. 1. Having the form of half an ellipse (divided along the major axis). Labels: not-comparable
Word: sensillum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Sensillum, from New Latin sensillum, diminutive of Latin sēnsus (“perception, feeling”). Coined by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel in Systematische Phylogenie (1895). 1. A sensory receptor in certain invertebrates, especially arthropods.
Word: designated survivor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: designated + survivor 1. A member of the cabinet who stays at a physically distant, secure, and undisclosed location when the president and all those in the line of succession are gathered at a single location, so as to provide a successor should a catastrophic event occur where the others die or are incapacitated. Labels: US
Word: leathering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of leather Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: leathering Part of Speech: noun 1. A beating.
Word: leathered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of leather Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: leathered Part of Speech: adj 1. Very drunk; intoxicated. Labels: slang Example: He'd been out with some of his work colleagues and naturally, got leathered. He remembers leaving the group to go to an ATM to get some much needed 'funds for more alcohol'. Example: When Seini was born, we had a bash in a pub near my house called the Delph. All the St Helens lads came down as well as my schoolmates and we got leathered.
Word: no-see-ums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of no-see-um Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Stepanakert Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Armenian Ստեփանակերտ (Stepʻanakert). Named after Stepan Shahumyan, a communist revolutionary active throughout the Caucasus. 1. The capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Word: biting midge Part of Speech: noun 1. Any Ceratopogonidae, a family of small flies (1-4 mm long) in the order Diptera.
Word: biting midges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biting midge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lerps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lerp Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lerps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lerp Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: acrylations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acrylation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: actinins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of actinin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: actinoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of actinoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subjectivities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subjectivity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: satsivi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian საცივი (sacivi). Pronunciation: /səˈtsiː.viː/, /səˈtsi.vi/ 1. A Georgian sauce made of walnuts and served cold either as a dipping sauce for bread, or sauce for boiled or fried game or fish. Labels: uncountable 2. A poultry, fish, or vegetable appetizer made with the satsivi sauce. Labels: uncountable
Word: adamantyls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of adamantyl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aerodontalgias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aerodontalgia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: afterguards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of afterguard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: afterloads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of afterload Labels: form-of, plural
Word: akiapolaaus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of akiapolaau Labels: form-of, plural
Word: allophycocyanins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of allophycocyanin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ambries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ambry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: solstitial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sōlstitiālis. Pronunciation: /sɒlˈstɪʃ.əl/ 1. Pertaining to a solstice. Labels: not-comparable Example: a solstitial point Example: In the Assyrian Standard [...] we see the figure of an Archer above that of a galloping Bull, and in another Assyrian Standard, that of Sargon II., we find not only the Archer and the Bull, the two constellations which 4,000 b.c. marked the equinoctial colure, but we may also clearly trace a reference to the two constellations which at the same date marked the solstitial colure, namely, those of the Lion and the Water-man. 2. Occurring on a solstice. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] the moment of his birth, the solstitial moon is to be full, […] Example: These two stages of the descriptive and the solstitial moon series were long ago passed through in southern Mexico and a need felt for a more precise time reckoning.
Word: effluviant Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to effluvium. 2. Offensively smelly. Example: "A formal idea of the heaven and the earth may be obtained by imagining the heaven as at first an effluviant generation from a mono central point, occupying, or creating and occupying space; the earth, as the airiest or end of such generative action, with the gradual relaxation of central tension and abnegation of such centre, the consequence being the formation of a huge internal spherical vacuity, termed in the genetic record 'earth.'" ("Clear as Mud," Richmond Daily Dispatch http://imls.richmond.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ddr;cc=ddr;idno=ddr0886.0025.062;view=text;rgn=div3;node=ddr0886.0025.062%3A3.3.2,Sept. 11, 1863
Word: leaf casting Part of Speech: noun 1. A process in which damaged paper is repaired by means of wetting the old paper in a cast and concurrently aging pulp to the damaged part or parts.
Word: stichic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stich + -ic. 1. Describing verse that is not divided into stanzas, but consists of lines all having the same metrical form Labels: not-comparable
Word: subpentagonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + pentagonal. 1. Having five sides, but not forming a regular pentagon Labels: not-comparable
Word: subtriangular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + triangular. 1. Somewhat triangular Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonkilling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + killing. 1. Not engaging in killing. Labels: not-comparable Example: Hunger does not normally induce frog killing in a nonkilling laboratory rat. However, if that rat has had the experience of watching a rat kill frogs, .... Example: I'm a nonkilling accomplice in a felony murder — a robbery-murder. ... It's a defense to felony murder, for nonkilling accomplices
Word: nonkilling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + killing. 1. Lack of killing; permitting to live. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] respect of harmlessness to living beings and nonkilling of living beings. Example: Buddhist belief inculcates nonkilling of sentient life […] 2. An action or occurrence other than a direct killing (but possibly having a similar effect). Labels: countable, usually Example: […] then its death is a moral wrong even if the result of "nonkillings" will be a marked decrease in the population of that part of the animal kingdom. Example: But actions in the world don't come neatly dividing into killings and nonkillings: the gray area of the concept shades smoothly
Word: non-killing Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of nonkilling. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: Christologies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Christology Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drive wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. A wheel that transmits power to other elements of a mechanism. Example: Squeezing two handles together pressed a serrated drive wheel against the can rim. And rotating a T-handle turned a toothed drive wheel Example: A year later, in 1706, Hauksbee produced his Influence Machine. By cranking round a large drive wheel he was able to spin a glass globe inside which a vacuum had been produced. 2. One of the wheels of a motor vehicle that drives (in the engineering sense), that is, one of the wheels that takes power from the drivetrain and applies it to the ground so as to propel the vehicle. Example: You should have tire chains on your drive wheels in this weather.
Word: drive wheels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drive wheel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: breeding-grounds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of breeding-ground Labels: form-of, plural
Word: celestials Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of celestial Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cobbler's Part of Speech: noun 1. shoe repair shop