nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mockbusters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mockbuster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mythomaniacal Part of Speech: adj 1. Afflicted with mythomania. Example: Tony Wilson, the mythomaniacal founder of Factory, a producer of “Control” and the subject of Michael Winterbottom ’s “24 Hour Party People” (which touches on the Joy Division story), died in August.
Word: hydrostats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydrostat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hydrosulfates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydrosulfate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hydrosulphate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hydro- + sulphate. 1. Alternative form of hydrosulfate. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hydrosulphates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hydrosulphate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noncolor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + color. 1. That which is not a color. Example: Because of the overwhelming consensus, a test for ability to separate the names of colors from those of noncolors would be fatuous (figure 5-1). Few test takers will achieve less than perfect scores. Example: Fake Steve Jobs is a perfectionist who is as insistent that his chai latte be served at 165 degrees as that his iMacs, iPods and iPhones be exactly the right noncolor.
Word: noncolors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of noncolor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oakmoss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oak + moss. 1. Evernia prunastri, a lichen found primarily on oak trees and used in perfume. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He shellacked them with smoky labdanum, oakmoss and incense black as pitch.
Word: oaktags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oaktag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prerational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + rational. 1. Before the application of reason. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is hard to escape the impression that if retailers could they would find some way to hook up directly to the prerational brain — the part of us that knows nothing about common sense, budgets, late fees and interest rates — a part of the brain to which, for many of us, our cellphones have constant access.
Word: indwelling catheters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of indwelling catheter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preshift Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + shift. 1. Before a shift (in various senses). Labels: not-comparable Example: The factory workers in Plant 2 would stop at Uncle Nancy’s for preshift pick-me-ups, and the executives at Maytag headquarters down the street would come for lunch.
Word: preshift Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + shift. 1. To shift in advance. Labels: transitive Example: We preshifted the game sprites to avoid having to redraw them at different positions during gameplay.
Word: preshift Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + shift. 1. A shift performed in advance. Example: […] and the preshifts required to move the rectangle up one, right two or up one, left two.
Word: reputationally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From reputational + -ly. 1. In terms of reputation. Labels: not-comparable Example: Wherever the parties stand, at the end of the day, the person with the swing vote is Mr. Flowers, who has the most riding on the deal — financially and reputationally.
Word: semirevealing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + revealing. 1. Somewhat revealing. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: When I stepped from the wings to look through the camera itself, I saw, in one semimystical, semirevealing moment, the artist as one with the artist he was trying to artificially reassemble.
Word: nonshreddable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + shreddable. 1. Not shreddable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: squadronmate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From squadron + mate. 1. One who is in the same squadron. Example: After the war, he studied engineering at the University of Washington, and maintained his friendship with a former squadronmate, George H.W. Bush .
Word: squadronmates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of squadronmate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: amensh Part of Speech: adj 1. Equal; level. Labels: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
Word: trioval Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of triangle + oval. 1. A shape that is a hybrid of triangle and oval, sometimes used for motor racetracks. Example: It is a 2.66-mile trioval with long stretches of speed-building asphalt, which have been made less threatening by restrictor plates that cut the horsepower of the powerful stock car engines.
Word: tryless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From try + -less. 1. With no tries scored. Labels: not-comparable Example: It was a record fourth time England had posted a tryless victory in a World Cup game. Example: Scotland, so disappointing in defeat to Argentina a week ago, tryless against the comparative minnows of Georgia, carried all the menace and mobility.
Word: unfunniness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unfunny + -ness. 1. The quality of being unfunny. Labels: uncountable Example: In a state that offers festival seating on death row, there is only one capital offense for the Favorite Son Humor Writer: first-degree unfunniness.
Word: megaprofit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + profit. 1. A vast profit. Example: But all of them also made megaprofits during the mortgage bubble.
Word: megaprofits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megaprofit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ultrasensitivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ultra- + sensitivity. 1. The quality of being ultrasensitive. Labels: uncountable Example: “In the age of ultrasensitivity to sexual harassment, people might think that this guy’s response about women being depreciating assets is not exactly how they want their firm to be perceived by the public,” he said.
Word: uncast Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + cast. 1. To detach (a rope, line, etc.). Example: […] the vessel, uncasting the hawser which had detained it, instantly left the ice […] Example: […] I pulled up my dinghy and uncast the painter, and pushed off and left them there together, Sir Philip and Lady Stenning. 2. To bring back to a standing position (a horse or other large animal that is lying down with its legs under it). Example: At about one o’clock we finally put Araby in her stall, but she kept getting cast. She would roll over, hitting the side of the stall with her legs and was unable to get up. […] We had to uncast her every fifteen minutes from one A.M. until seven the next morning. 3. To reverse the effects of (a magical spell). Example: The while it is the fairies’ hour The fairies’ tricks are full of power. But when the hour is overpast By wisdom we their spells uncast. Example: […] I saw the shamans casting and uncasting spells to protect themselves and steal the souls of their neighbors’ children. 4. To remove (an actor) from a role that was previously assigned to them. Example: ‘You CANNOT uncast me, Randy!’ hurtles from the prostrate patient. ‘Keep calm. I’m not saying you’re gonna get uncast. It’s just that having shot yourself, the insurance people are gonna be problematic. But it’ll be sorted. Trust me.’
Word: uncast Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + cast. 1. Not having been cast (in various senses). Labels: not-comparable Example: […] if in casting your flie, the line fall into the water before it, the flie were better uncast, because it frights the fish […] Example: Let us hold the die uncast, Free to come as free to go: For I cannot know your past, And of mine what can you know?
Word: unprecious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + precious. 1. Not precious. Example: But other designers have done the same, notably John Galliano and Rick Owens, in a very similar style. Mr. Theyskens may have wanted loose dresses and tops in mauve and lilac-gray silk to look indistinct, his rough jackets and blousons to seem worn and unprecious.
Word: unchildish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + childish. 1. Not childish. Example: But that doesn’t mean it has been easy for her to outgrow her former self. Ms. Rimes recently turned 25, and though she has always had a remarkably unchildish voice (her 1996 breakthrough single was a beautiful, Patsy Cline-ish song called “Blue”), she has spent much of this decade trying to figure out where she fits on the country-pop continuum.
Word: minilab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mini- + lab. 1. A small photographic developing and printing system. Example: Some of those kiosks are free-standing, and others are connected to an in-store minilab.
Word: minilabs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of minilab Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oligotroph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oligo- + -troph. 1. An organism capable of living in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients. Example: While some were common types that thrive on human skin, such as Staphylococcus species, others were oligotrophs, rarer microorganisms that have adapted to grow under extreme conditions by absorbing trace nutrients from the air or from unlikely surfaces like paint.
Word: oligotrophs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oligotroph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: racerlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From racer + -like. 1. Resembling a racer (type of North American snake). Example: For Mr. Rucci, a slithery black jersey dress with a pavé of sequins at the hip and a taut, racerlike bodice signaled a turn.
Word: handblocked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hand + blocked. 1. Having been blocked (shaped) by hand. Labels: not-comparable Example: Another choice is handblocked cotton curtains from Urban Outfitters, which come in sassy, bohemian motifs and range in price from $14.99 to $36 a panel.
Word: handscreened Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hand + screened. 1. Screen-printed by hand. Labels: not-comparable Example: Chateau 66 is a handscreened print on a handpainted background from Nama Rococo, a wallpaper design studio in the Berkshires.
Word: undermarketed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + marketed. 1. Insufficiently marketed. Example: “The design aesthetic of New York is an undermarketed attraction,” said George A. Fertitta, chief executive of NYC & Company.
Word: Germanistics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German Germanistik. By surface analysis, German + -ist + -ics, or also by surface analysis, Germanist + -ics or also by surface analysis, German + -istics. 1. German studies Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: manurey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From manure + -y. 1. Covered in, or characteristic of, manure. Example: “I was never competitive in the girly sense; I was a tomboy, on all the sports teams, and I started riding at 3 and kept on riding whatever pony my sister grew out of,” she says, trying to wrestle the muddy, possibly manurey football she found in her bed from the jaws of her bull terrier, Mabel. Example: The rainwater was accumulating in deep manurey puddles around the barn and stables.
Word: tabloidize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tabloid + -ize. 1. To convert or assimilate into tabloid journalism; to make tawdry and sensational. Labels: transitive Example: Make the strategic mistake — toward the end of a pleasantly blunt chat conducted while traipsing around her farm and ogling its stellar inhabitants — of mentioning her tabloidized romance with Cian O’Connor, a garrulous Irish horseman who forfeited an Olympic gold medal in 2005 when his mount failed a drug test, and she instinctively puts on the verbal brakes.
Word: tabloidized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tabloidize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tabloidizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tabloidize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tabloidizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tabloidize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tourgoer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tour + goer. 1. One who goes on a tour. Example: While Mr. Burke readily tells tourgoers that he earns a fee if they buy a property (it’s not unusual for a tour participant to spend $350,000 on a condo), he said “there is no sales pressure.”
Word: tourgoers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tourgoer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wheatstack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wheat + stack. 1. A stack of wheat. Example: The wheatstacks have also inspired one of this show’s mildly irritating interactive components: a digital gallery inviting viewers to design their own exhibitions of the series.
Word: wheatstacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wheatstack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preauthorization Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + authorization. 1. Prior to authorization. Labels: not-comparable Example: Coordinate term: postauthorization Example: Preauthorization research, development, nonclinical and clinical investigation describe at the time of approval a “model” of the medicinal product.
Word: preauthorization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + authorization. 1. Authorization given in advance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “Every time a patient calls me telling me a prescription can’t be filled, or I have to call insurance for preauthorization, that’s my time or my staff’s time, and that’s money and time diverted to taking care of other people,” he said.
Word: REMIC Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit. Labels: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: frikadelle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Danish frikadelle and its etymon, the German Frikadelle. Pronunciation: /fɹɪkəˈdɛlə/ 1. An oblate-spheroid meatball of North European origin, eaten hot or cold, and typically consisting of: minced pork or beef/veal (or, commonly, a blend of these meats); chopped onions; eggs; milk or water; breadcrumbs, oatmeal, or flour; salt; and pepper. Example: 1. Mix ingredients for frikadelles together. 2. Make 6-8 frikadelles. 3. Place in oven dish with lid, or in a frying pan. 4. Mix ingredients for sauce, and pour over frikadelles. Example: Add 5 frikadelles per bowl of soup, and garnish with green onions.
Word: frikadellen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the German Frikadellen, not the Danish frikadellen. 1. plural of frikadelle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frikadeller Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frikadelle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suprematist Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /s(j)uːˈpɹɛmətɪst/ 1. Of or pertaining to the art movement Suprematism. Example: Included are classic examples of suprematist design by Lissitzky, who served as a Russian cultural ambassador.
Word: suprematist Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /s(j)uːˈpɹɛmətɪst/ 1. An artist working in the style of Suprematism.
Word: suprematists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suprematist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: frikadelles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frikadelle Labels: form-of, plural, rare
Word: antipopulist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + populist. 1. One who opposes populism. Example: It seems from “The Age of Turbulence” that Greenspan enjoyed the obfuscation game: as a frank antipopulist, he thought and still thinks that an air of mystery around the Fed is a good thing.
Word: antipopulists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antipopulist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chasmlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chasm + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a chasm. Example: This Norwegian electro-acoustic avant-garde supergroup — not a contradiction in terms, for those who pay attention to such things — favors a chasmlike extreme of dynamics and scale, shifting easily between the intricate and almost precious to the ferocious and monolithic.
Word: prismlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prism + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a prism.
Word: downsloping Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From down + sloping. 1. Sloping downward. Example: With seats folded or erect, the downsloping roof impinges on cargo capacity; a Kia Spectra ’s hatch seems as big as an S.U.V.’s in comparison.
Word: downsloping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From down + sloping. 1. Air descending a slope, resulting in adiabatic warming and reduction in relative humidity. Labels: uncountable Example: Downsloping creates an environment that is far less conducive to thunderstorms[…] Example: While dewpoints are still fairly elevated, due to west downsloping dewpoints are about 2-4 degrees lower than yesterday in the mid to upper 60s.
Word: hoydenism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hoyden + -ism. 1. The behaviour of a hoyden. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1899, Mary A. Ward, Life and works of the sisters Brontë, Introduction to Jane Eyre And there can be no doubt that there was in Miss Bronte a curious vein of recklessness, roughness, one might also say - hoydenism - that exists side by side with an exquisite delicacy and a true dignity, and is none the less Irish and Celtic for that. Example: After a decade of hoydenism, she developed a strategy called “The Four Man Plan,” or “4MP.”
Word: nonmedia Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + media. 1. Not of or pertaining to the media. Labels: not-comparable Example: But in the same period, it increased its nonmedia ad spending 33 percent, to $457.9 million, according to the Advertising Age data.
Word: nonroyals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonroyal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: normalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From normal + -ness. 1. normalcy Labels: rare, uncountable Example: The book was written with the cooperation of Mr. Schulz’s family, but in the weeks leading up to its release, some family members have criticized it, saying that it overemphasizes his melancholy and chilly side at the expense of other aspects of his personality — his generosity, his sense of humor, his love of family and, in many ways, his resolute normalness.
Word: marginated Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈmɑɹd͡ʒɪneɪtəd/ 1. Having a distinct margin. Labels: not-comparable 2. marginalized Labels: not-comparable Example: My basic ethical thesis is that women, and other marginated people, are less cut off from the real, material conditions of life than are those who enjoy the privileges of patriarchy.
Word: photopaper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo + paper. 1. Photographic paper; paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, used for making photographic prints on traditional film cameras. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Now online photo services are offering an upgrade to the humble photopaper card — by selling fancy, folded cards that can display as many as 10 digital snapshots on glossy, high-quality paper stock.
Word: postsurge Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + surge. 1. After a surge. Labels: not-comparable Example: When reports surfaced early this summer that our contractors in Iraq (180,000, of whom some 48,000 are believed to be security personnel) now outnumber our postsurge troop strength, we yawned.
Word: prebrowned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + browned. 1. Browned in advance (as of packaged meat). Labels: not-comparable Example: There have been four other outbreaks in the state from frozen breaded, prebrowned chicken since 1998, caused in part by confusion over microwave instructions.
Word: puzzlements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of puzzlement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reacknowledge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + acknowledge. 1. To acknowledge again or anew. Labels: transitive Example: Now that decades of hostility are past, maybe it is time to reacknowledge the pervasive impact of this path-breaking development.
Word: reacknowledges Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reacknowledge Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reacknowledged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reacknowledge Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reacknowledging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reacknowledge Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gloomish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gloom + -ish. Compare glummish, glumpish. 1. Gloomy.
Word: technopunk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From techno + punk. 1. A style of electronic punk music. Labels: uncountable Example: “Yet we know that by running it through the filter of four Mexicans who are all around 40 years old and who’ve spent 18 years playing everything from sones huastecos to technopunk, the result would be something pretty original.”
Word: unfocus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + focus. 1. To bring out of focus. Labels: transitive Example: Pancake writes: “If you can unfocus your eyes right — and Corey can — wading the creek is like walking the aisle of a Wal-Mart made for Corey, with all the price tags saying free.” 2. To move the input focus away from. Labels: transitive Example: to unfocus a window
Word: unfocuses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unfocus Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unfocusing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unfocus Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: carapacelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree substrateder.? Spanish carapachobor. French carapacebor. English carapace Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English carapacelike From carapace + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a carapace. Example: Then they become sashaying runway models and later giggling friends, eventually succeeded by a mysterious creature who is revealed to be a woman hidden in a carapacelike coat.
Word: caramoussals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caramoussal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cornettos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cornetto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oversexualize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + sexualize. 1. To sexualize excessively. Labels: transitive Example: The latest iteration of Unilever’s “Real Beauty” advertising campaign for Dove products, which celebrates women of all shapes and sizes, urges girls to reject the underfed and oversexualized images of women that dominate advertising.
Word: oversexualizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of oversexualize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: oversexualizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of oversexualize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: oversexualized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of oversexualize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sensualization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sensual + -ization. 1. The process of making sensual. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: the later secularization and sensualization of the theme of sex in art and literature 2. Conversion into a form that can be sensed. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: the sensualization of data in virtual realities
Word: sensualizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sensualization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seamhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seam + -head, referring to the distinctive seam on a baseball. 1. A devoted baseball fan. Labels: slang Example: But the sport is an old flame for romantic types, as proved by numbers even sabermetric lords can wrap their seamheads around. Example: He was a baseball lifer, a seamhead through and through, who just absolutely liked nothing better than sitting down and talking baseball.
Word: seamheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seamhead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gloomth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gloom + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ɡluːm(p)θ/ 1. Gloominess. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: normohydration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From normo- + hydration. 1. Normal hydration. Labels: uncountable
Word: oxymetry Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of oximetry. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: cardiorenal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cardio- + renal. 1. Of the heart and the kidney. Labels: not-comparable
Word: euvolemia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eu- + volume + -emia. By surface analysis, eu- + volemia. 1. The presence of a normal amount (or flow) of blood Labels: uncountable
Word: euvolemic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From eu- + volemic. 1. Having a normal amount of body fluids. Labels: not-comparable
Word: neurohormonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neuro- + hormonal. 1. Of or pertaining to a neurohormone. Labels: not-comparable
Word: predischarge Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + discharge. 1. Before a discharge (especially, discharge from a hospital, military service, or other institution). Labels: not-comparable Example: In general, patients who cannot perform a predischarge exercise test have a worse prognosis than those than can do the test.
Word: predischarge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + discharge. 1. To discharge beforehand. Example: Filling gas is predischarged by a mini-size coaxial plasma gun, inserted in a side port. Example: Initially all signal triplets are predischarged and held at high impedance.
Word: predischarge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pre- + discharge. 1. The act of predischarging, or that which is predischarged. Example: The experiments undertaken in order to determine which of the predischarges, the positive or the negative, is the more important for long sparks. Example: The transition in predischarges at certain gap distances resulted in two different breakdown voltages.
Word: bioimpedance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + impedance. 1. The response of a living organism to an applied electric current. Labels: uncountable
Word: interuniversity Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + university. 1. Existing or taking place between universities. Labels: not-comparable
Word: antihypertrophic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + hypertrophic. 1. Acting against hypertrophy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cardioplegic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cardio- + -plegic. 1. Exhibiting or characterized by cardioplegia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nefand Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /nɪˈfænd/ 1. unspeakable; nefandous Labels: obsolete Example: nefand buggeries.
Word: Santander Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Santander. Possibly from the name of Saint Andrew (through a form Sanct Ander) or from Saint Emeterio (through forms Santemter > Santenter > Santander), a martyr whose head was brought there in the third century. Pronunciation: /ˌsæntænˈdɛə(ɹ)/ 1. A city and port, the capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, on the north coast of Spain. 2. A department in northern Colombia. See Wikipedia:Santander Department 3. A Spanish surname
Word: Segovia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Segovia, from Latin Segovia, from Celtiberian Segouia, from a suffixed form of Proto-Celtic *segos (“victory”). Related city names include Segeda and Segontia. Pronunciation: /sɪˈɡəʊviə/ 1. A city in Castile and León, Spain. 2. A province of Castile and León, Spain. 3. The letter S in the Spanish spelling alphabet
Word: Alcorcón Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Alcorcón. 1. A city in Spain, southwest of Madrid.
Word: scarfies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scarfie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: takas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of taka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aftermind Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From after- + mind. 1. A new or changed way of thinking, often as a result of repentance; a renewed mind. Example: Now, brethren, what we want you to mark is this, repentance is not the gushing forth of tears from the fountain of a man's head, under the pressure of calamity; but true repentance is an aftermind, as the word in the Greek literally signifies — a new mind, a turning of the heart to God. Example: [...] one respected journal for advocating cocaine as a medicine without realizing that it could become an addictive drug; and somewhere, deep in the recesses of his aftermind, he knew this charge to be partly true.
Word: mission creep Part of Speech: noun 1. Gradual unplanned expansion of the objectives, scope, and/or cost of a project, especially a military mission. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: Initially presented as a purely humanitarian mission, Operation Restore Hope gradually shifted from feeding Somalis to fighting them. Unaware of the "mission creep," the public was outraged when 18 U.S. soldiers died in an October 1993 fire fight. Example: General John Shalikashvili . . . said it was important to set a target date of one year and then bring the troops home, because "in the absence of that, you find yourself staying there, and that's how very often mission creep comes in."
Word: undermind Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + mind. 1. The subconscious mind or self. Example: The doctor assists the undermind, and his assistance is often utterly indispensable: for instance, he "sets" a broken limb, and gives the undermind every assistance, [...] 2. The unconscious mind; intuition. Example: Others have named this "tortoise mind" as intuition, or the unconscious, and the id. Caxton goes on to name it the "undermind."
Word: Itō Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Japanese 伊東 (Itō). 1. A city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Word: inhoop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + hoop. 1. To confine or enclose as with a hoop or hoops; coop up. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: His cocks do win the battle still of mine, When it is all to nought; and his quails ever Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds.
Word: inbind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + bind. Cognate with Dutch inbinden (“to bind”), German einbinden (“to integrate”), Swedish inbinda (“to bind”). 1. To bind or hem in; enclose. Labels: transitive
Word: inbeat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English inbeten, equivalent to in- + beat. 1. To beat in. Labels: transitive Example: […] and in part imputeth it, that the river Rother is not contained in his channel, and so loseth his force to carry away the sands and beach which the sea doth inbeat into the haven. Example: […] a man may be superior to his circumstances, and even to these constantly outlying and inbeating influences which deteriorate his life.
Word: inbeat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inbeten, equivalent to in- + beat. 1. An inward beat. Example: The bullet […] came through my chest between two ribs, slightly shattering them, went past my heart, as the doctors later told me, when it must have been on an inbeat instead of an outbeat, and then missed my backbone as it went through the other side of my body about an inch.
Word: inbeat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English inbeten, equivalent to in- + beat. 1. Occurring on an inward beat. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] two-beat: an outbeat gesture of (usually circumscribed) ecstasis as my glance is released from my bodily self, and an inbeat return of the glance to the bodily-self now modified by having just perceived its own image in the mirror.
Word: inbreak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *inbreken, from Old English inbrecan (“to break into”), equivalent to in- + break. Cognate with Dutch inbreken (“to break in”), German einbrechen (“to break in”). 1. To break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt. Labels: transitive Example: Its role is various: to make a claim on, to encounter, to confront, to shake, to inbreak, to erupt, to disrupt, and to disclose. Example: "You come back to inbreak again, or you bring kids to do it for you?"
Word: inbreak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *inbreken, from Old English inbrecan (“to break into”), equivalent to in- + break. Cognate with Dutch inbreken (“to break in”), German einbrechen (“to break in”). 1. A sudden violent inroad or incursion; an irruption; a breaking in. Example: The inbreak of self-consciousness brought out the facts of his inner life into ritualistic and afterwards into intellectual forms.
Word: inbreaking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + breaking. 1. The act of breaking in; incursion; invasion; inroad.
Word: shield law Part of Speech: noun 1. legislation designed to provide a news reporter with the right to refuse to testify as to information and/or sources of information obtained during the news gathering and dissemination process. Labels: US
Word: agrin Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + grin. Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹɪn/ 1. Grinning; having happiness or satisfaction apparent on one's face. Labels: not-comparable, predicative Example: Yea, let her see me fall! and with that I drave Among the thickest and bore down a Prince, And Cyril, one. Yea, let me make my dream All that I would. But that large-moulded man, His visage all agrin as at a wake, Made at me through the press, and, staggering back With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came As comes a pillar of electric cloud, Flaying the roofs and sucking up the drains, And shadowing down the champaign till it strikes Example: When a ray from a lantern (the three pedestrians of the party carried each one) fell on Mr. Moore's face, you could see an unusual, because a lively, spark dancing in his eyes, and a new-found vivacity mantling on his dark physiognomy; and when the rector's visage was illuminated, his hard features were revealed all agrin and ashine with glee.
Word: agrin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From AGRN (“the name of the associated gene”) + -in. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.ɡɹɪn/ 1. a protein involved in the formation of neuromuscular junctions during embryonic development
Word: infula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnfula. 1. A fillet of white wool, worn on the head by ancient Roman priests. 2. A head covering worn by early Christian priests. 3. A ribbon on a bishop's mitre.
Word: kezboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From keyboard, with z taking the place of y (as it does on such keyboards). Pronunciation: /ˈkɛzbɔː(ɹ)d/ 1. A computer keyboard whose keys are arranged in the qwertz layout. Labels: slang
Word: kezboards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kezboard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parclo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By clipping and ellipsis. 1. Clipping of partial cloverleaf interchange. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: parclos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parclo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: camelry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From camel + -ry, modelled after cavalry. Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.məl.ɹi/ 1. A military arm of service that fights while riding camels. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A column of camelry emerged from the city as her honor guards.
Word: agrins Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæ.ɡɹɪnz/ 1. plural of agrin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pseudostuttering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + stuttering. 1. The deliberate production of stuttering speech, sometimes used in therapy to teach a patient to control a stutter. Labels: uncountable
Word: vells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vell Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vells Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of vell Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sob sister Part of Speech: noun 1. A journalist, usually female, who writes mainly sentimental articles or has an advice column. Labels: informal Example: I've read the word unmanned plenty of times — it's a favorite of the pulpsmiths and sob-sisters — but this was the first time I'd ever actually felt that way.
Word: imaginariness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From imaginary + -ness. 1. the state of being imaginary Labels: uncountable Example: Now Pierre began to see mysteries interpierced with mysteries, and mysteries eluding mysteries; and began to seem to see the mere imaginariness of the so supposed solidest principle of human association.
Word: tweetheart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of tweet + sweetheart. 1. A Twitter user who is popular with others. Labels: Internet Example: My colleague in the US, Heather Hopkins recently covered the blaze of publicity around Oprah Winfrey starting to tweet and its immediate impact on Twitter’s US share of visits. In Australia the influences seem to be broader than America’s new 'tweetheart’. Example: When Vanity Fair published a story earlier this year on a group of all-American, all-white "tweethearts," the real Twitterati took the magazine to task for ignoring a growing force on Twitter: African-Americans. 2. A Twitter user who is one's personal friend or within one's broader social networking circle. Labels: Internet Example: "I liked the idea of people who don't really know each other except through short messages getting together and meeting for the first time, putting a face to a name, and also telling people how much I enjoy reading their updates," said Tim Lara, Twitter user @timothydanger. "Meeting new tweeps was nice too. I gained a couple of tweethearts since then and enjoy the banter. (My twitter is never serious)." Example: "Just got the imaging for my new fragrance Radiance and thought I'd share it with all my tweethearts," she wrote. 3. A Twitter user with whom one is infatuated or involved romantically, especially if they were first met through the service. Labels: Internet Example: "I actually met my girlfriend on Twitter," says Verdino, who has been tweeting for the last two years. "We call ourselves tweethearts." Example: When I got to my car and dialed up my friend to tell her about the tweetheart I just met she informed me she just got a tweet from Lindsay Lohan.
Word: sailour Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of sailor. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Two pasportes to all Maiours, &c., the one for one John Randall, a maymed sailour that had served in her Majesty’s Fleet against the Spanyardes, to passe into Cornewall, &c., th’other to Elisabeth Randall to travaile with six small children and a daughter in lawe of hers which was blinde to travaile (sic) to Hull in Yorkshire to a brother of hers to place with him some of her children, and bothe these to continewe no longer in force then to the laste of December next ensuinge.
Word: has a word Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of have a word Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: having a word Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of have a word Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: had a word Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of have a word Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: euryphage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eury- + -phage, from Ancient Greek εὐρύς (eurús, “wide”) + φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”). 1. Any animal that eats a large variety of food.
Word: chaunter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of chanter. 1. A street seller of ballads or similar songs. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang 2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. Labels: colloquial Example: He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. 3. The chanter or flute of a bagpipe. 4. Obsolete spelling of chanter Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: ingravidate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin ingravidatus, past participle of ingravidare (“to impregnate”). Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈɡɹævɪdeɪt/ 1. To impregnate (literal or figurative). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: they may keep stews in their hearts, and be so pregnant and ingravidated with lustfull thought
Word: imaginarily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From imaginary + -ly. 1. In an imaginary way, in the imagination. Labels: not-comparable Example: But we end with those famous Artists leauing them to their graues, and their works to the admiration of all posterity, and speake of Statuary or Caruing, which thus farre differeth from painting; this doth expresse hir image in the plaine or smooth superficies imaginarily; the other in the hollow and vneuen superficies, really. Example: 1724, Aaron Hill and William Bond, The Plain Dealer No. 40, 7 August, 1724, Volume 1, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 335, The Father (if all our Family guesses right, and much I fear we do) will be inraged at the Loss of an Estate, in which he had imaginarily placed the whole Sum of his Son’s Felicity in this World; 2. By way of an image. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: The which Sacrament Melchisedech King of Salem first offered vp figuratiuely in type (or token) of the body and bloude of Christe: and the same man first of al expressed imaginarily (or in image) the Mysterie of this so great a Sacrifice, foreshewing the likenesse of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christe the euerlasting Priest. Example: […] some desiring to please their tyrannous Princes, put up their statues, and at distance by a phantastical presence flattered them with honours. And in process of time, these were made Gods; and the incommunicable name was given to wood and stones. Not that the Heathens thought that image to be very God, but that they were imaginarily present in them, and so had their Name.
Word: soundbox Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sound box. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: soupfin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From soup + fin. 1. The school shark.
Word: souther Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From south + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊðə/ 1. comparative form of south: more south; southern Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: souther Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From south + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊðə/ 1. A strong wind blowing from the south. Example: A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.
Word: souther Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From south + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊðə/ 1. To move toward the south. Example: Having passed across in sight of this place, the Santa Anna tacked and stood off, as though she were awaiting a pilot, but none appearing, southered her course as if about to proceed down the coast ; having, however, rounded a small island in the river's mouth, covered with lofty trees, which completely concealed their presence, they again anchored. Example: In that time three other packets loaded, and when the wind southered the four put to sea in company. 2. To fix; remedy; put to rights. Labels: Scotland, dialectal Example: Reuben's a gude lad and a kind—I have aye allowed that ; but as to his not allowing enquiry anent the scandal of Margery Kittlesides and Rory MacRand, under pretence that they have southered sin wi' marriage, it's clear again the Christian discipline o' the kirk. Example: He works brass and copper, an' a' sic like mettles, Walds broken brass pans, southers auld copper kettles;
Word: soya sauce Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɔɪ.ə sɔːs/ 1. soy sauce Labels: Commonwealth, countable, uncountable
Word: spaz out Part of Speech: verb 1. To lose one's physical or emotional control. Labels: intransitive, slang 2. To stop working properly. Labels: slang Example: Oh no, my pen's spazzed out!
Word: spearpoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spear + point. 1. The point or tip of a spear. Example: Those overall numbers are in line with Schumer's year-old plan to make NSF the spearpoint of a massive federal investment in research aimed at outinnovating China.
Word: daggerpoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dagger + point. 1. The point or tip of a dagger.
Word: breastpoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From breast + point. 1. The place or point of a breast. Labels: rare
Word: swordpoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sword + point. 1. The point or tip of a sword.
Word: bladepoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blade + point. 1. The point or tip of a blade.
Word: spectacled bear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Since some specimens have spectacle-like markings on their faces. 1. Tremarctos ornatus, a species of small, short-faced bear native to South America.
Word: yokai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 妖怪 (yōkai, “ghost, phantom”). 1. Any of various supernatural monsters, sometimes shapeshifters, in Japanese folklore. Labels: Japanese Example: Earl didn’t know all the details about what that type of yokais’ powers were, her mother kept the family secrets close to the vest, and he knew even less about which of those powers had gotten passed onto her half-human offspring.
Word: inblow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inblāwan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- + blow. Doublet of inflate. 1. To blow into; puff up; inflate. Labels: transitive 2. To breathe into; inspire. Labels: transitive Example: Then the spiritual and sensory faculties follow the creation of this partial spirit that is inblown by way of tawḥīd, for He says, I blew [15:29]. As for the spirit of Jesus, it is inblown through bringing together and manyness, for within him are the faculties ... 3. To blow in. Labels: intransitive
Word: inblow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inblāwan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- + blow. Doublet of inflate. 1. The act or process of blowing in or into; inflation. Example: During the full gasification stage, after piercing has been effected, the enlargement of the cracks requires a progressively increasing inblow. Example: Within the frame of the Pandtl model the evident formula for the principle of rate defect in a turbulent boundary layer are obtained when unregular inblow takes place as well as in tubes with exhausting and inblow. 2. That which is blown in.
Word: imbreed Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of inbreed. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard
Word: Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu Part of Speech: name Etymology: law (“rule”) + of + conservation (“preservation”) + of + ninjutsu (“a martial art used by ninjas”) The law implies that each team of ninjas has the same finite amount of "power" of martial arts, therefore a team with fewer ninjas has more powerful ninjas. 1. The ability of one or few people to win fights against many opponents. Labels: humorous, informal Example: > The more creativity and ingenuity you give your aliens, the less is > available for your humans, generally the protagonists, which means > things will end poorly for Our Heroes. [...] Sort of like a SCIENCE application of the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu? Example: In other words, if I can tweak the minion->normal->elite->solo system into a^([sic]) in-game representation of the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu, there will be much win.
Word: go poof Part of Speech: verb 1. to disappear Labels: informal Example: Yet-a second look-and zugzwang, and Black's game goes poof!
Word: going poof Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of go poof Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: went poof Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of go poof Labels: form-of, past
Word: gone poof Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of go poof Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: goes poof Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of go poof Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Start menu Part of Speech: noun 1. A menu in some operating systems that is launched by pressing an on-screen button and provides a central launching point for applications and tasks.
Word: inburn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *inbernen, *inbrennen, from Old English *inbiernan, *inbærnan, suggested by Old English inbryne (“fire, burning”) and inbærnednes (“burning, incense”), equivalent to in- + burn. Compare Old English onbiernan (“to be burning”). Cognate with Dutch inbranden (“to burn”), German einbrennen (“to burn”). 1. To burn in; burn or affect as to make a permanent or lasting impression or mark. Labels: transitive Example: Nicias has written upon this picture that he 'inburned' it, [...] Example: The habits of their fathers and their own early years have been so deeply inburned that they have not yet come to appreciate the value and convenience of modern toilets. 2. To burn within. Labels: intransitive Example: Of life complete — the outer rays / That show what fire of love inburns, [...]
Word: Windows key Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First appeared on a Microsoft keyboard in 1994. 1. A key on a computer keyboard bearing the Microsoft Windows logo, used to open the Start menu and as a modifier key for various other functions.
Word: Windows keys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Windows key Labels: form-of, plural
Word: faa Part of Speech: noun 1. The letter ف in the Arabic script.