nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: unbottomed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + bottom + -ed. 1. bottomless Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: who shall tempt with wand'ring feet / The dark unbottom'd infinite Abyss Example: The atoms, as their own weight bears them down / Plumb through the void, at scarce determined times, / In scarce determined places, from their course / Decline a little – call it, so to speak, / Mere changed trend. For were it not their wont / Thuswise to swerve, down would they fall, each one, / Like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void; / And then collisions ne'er could be nor blows / Among the primal elements; and thus / Nature would never have created aught.
Word: epicleidium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin, from epi- + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “key, clavicle”) + -ium. 1. A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the furcula of many birds
Word: platitudinousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From platitudinous + -ness. 1. The quality of being platitudinous. Labels: uncountable
Word: dimethylaminopropylamine Part of Speech: noun 1. A diamine used in the preparation of surfactants such as cocamidopropylbetaine. Labels: uncountable
Word: DMAPA Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of dimethylaminopropylamine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: azobisisobutyronitrile Part of Speech: noun 1. An organic compound often used as a foamer in plastics and rubber and as a radical initiator. Labels: uncountable
Word: AIBN Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of azobisisobutyronitrile. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable Example: The O–O bond in benzoyl peroxide and the C–N bonds in AIBN homolyze under thermal or photochemical conditions.
Word: Sqn Ldr Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of squadron leader. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: diphenyldichloromethane Part of Speech: noun 1. An organic compound used in the synthesis of tetraphenylethylene. Labels: uncountable Example: Benzophenone is reacted with phosphorus pentachloride to give diphenyldichloromethane.
Word: tetraphenylethylene Part of Speech: noun 1. An organic compound, 1,2,2-triphenylvinylbenzene. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Tetraphenylethylene can be synthesized from diphenyldichloromethane.
Word: tetraphenylethylenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tetraphenylethylene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: criminatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusatory. Labels: archaic Example: a criminatory behaviour Example: a criminatory conscience
Word: denization Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a vast number of charters of denization were granted to particular persons of Irish descent from the reign of Henry II. downwards, which gave them and their posterity the full birthrights of English subjects
Word: denizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of denization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neuridin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neurine. 1. Alternative spelling of neuridine Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: archiepiscopality Part of Speech: noun 1. The rank or dignity of an archbishop; archbishopric. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Offa being dead , down fell the best pillar of Lichfield church , to support the archiepiscopality thereof
Word: randing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rand + -ing. 1. The manufacture or application of rands in shoemaking. Labels: uncountable 2. Plain weave basketwork. Labels: uncountable
Word: ctenoidean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ctenoidei + -an. 1. Relating to the former group of fish Ctenoidei; ray-finned. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: ctenoidean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ctenoidei + -an. 1. Any member of the former group Ctenoidei; a ray-finned fish. Labels: archaic
Word: ctenoideans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ctenoidean Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dethronization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dethronize + -ation. 1. Dethronement. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: [T]he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas […] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in her vvittes: […]
Word: dethronizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dethronization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beastlihead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beastly + -head. 1. Beastliness (as a mock title or style akin to "Highness" or "Holiness"). Labels: nonce-word, obsolete, uncountable Example: But I be relieved by your beastlyhead
Word: sulphantimonate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sulph- + antimonate. 1. Any ion or derived salt in which one or more oxygen atoms of an antimonate is replaced by one of sulfur
Word: sulphantimonates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sulphantimonate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aldermanship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From alderman + -ship. 1. The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Example: the Geneuian Aldermanshippe began vnder the lawe, and was practised under the Gospell
Word: aldermanships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aldermanship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forealleged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fore- + alleged. 1. alleged or cited before Labels: not-comparable
Word: blacksalter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From black salt + -er. 1. A maker of black salts. Labels: obsolete
Word: swainish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From swain + -ish. 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain according to any definition; but commonly conveying the sense of "ignorant", or "rustic". Example: [W]hen good and faire in one Perſon meet, argues both a groſſe and ſhallow Judgement, and withall an ungentle, and ſwainiſh breſt. Example: Falconer's characters are few; but the calm sagacious commander, and the rough obstinate Rodmond, are well contrasted. Some part of the love-story of Palemon is rather swainish and protracted, yet the effect of his being involved in the calamity, leaves a deeper sympathy in the mind for the daughter of Albert, when we conceive her at once deprived both of a father and a lover.
Word: superrewarded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + rewarded. 1. Given an excessive reward. Labels: rare Example: 1621, Francis Bacon, letter to the King superrewarded by your Majestie's benefits which you heaped upon me Example: Consequently , it is this same group who stand to be rewarded or super-rewarded for their accumulation and investment .
Word: Gen-Xer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Gen X, shortened from Generation X + -er. 1. A member of Generation X. Labels: informal
Word: servilest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of servile: most servile Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: unbespeak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + bespeak. 1. To unsay; to annul or cancel something that has been said. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] after spending most of the afternoon also, I away home, and there sent for W. Hewer, and he and I by water to White Hall to loop among other things, for Mr. May, to unbespeak his dining with me to-morrow.
Word: unbespeaking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unbespeak Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unbespeaks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unbespeak Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unbespoke Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of unbespeak Labels: form-of, past
Word: unbespoken Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of unbespeak Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unbespoken Part of Speech: adj 1. Not having been bespoken; not specifically requested. Labels: not-comparable Example: The appearance, however, of Mrs. Kittle was an unbespoken interlude, and the baronet's thirst for something new was highly gratified.
Word: inclasp Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of enclasp. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: The flatt'ring ivy who did ever see / Inclasp'd the huge trunke of an aged tree.
Word: inclasped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of inclasp Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: inclasping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of inclasp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inclasps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of inclasp Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rudderhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁roh₁-(ye-)-tider. Proto-Germanic *rōaną Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Germanic *-þrą Proto-Germanic *rōþrą Proto-West Germanic *rōþr Old English rōþor Middle English rother English rudder substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English head English rudderhead From rudder + head. 1. The upper part of the rudderstock, to which a tiller is attached.
Word: rudderheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rudderhead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cotrustee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + trustee. 1. A joint trustee.
Word: cotrustees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cotrustee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lawnd Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of laund. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: lawnds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lawnd Labels: form-of, plural
Word: constructiones ad sensum Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɒnstɹʌktɪˈəʊniːz æd ˈsɛnsəm/ 1. plural of constructio ad sensum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: palmatilobed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin palmatus (“palmate”) + English lobed. 1. Synonym of palmatilobate; palmate lobed, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common centre. Labels: not-comparable Example: palmatilobed leaves
Word: purgatorian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From purgatory + -ian. 1. One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory. Example: we must either suppose that passage to be metaphorical , or hold with many divines , and all the Purgatorians , that departed souls do not all at once arrive at the utmost perfection of which they are capable
Word: purgatorians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of purgatorian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aslug Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + slug, to move slowly. 1. sluggishly Labels: nonce-word, not-comparable, obsolete Example: [He] drags on muddy shore his boat, / That comes aslug against the stream.
Word: collectorship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From collector + -ship. 1. The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
Word: collectorships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of collectorship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stomatous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stoma + -ous. 1. Having a stoma, or by means of a stoma Labels: not-comparable
Word: backjoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + joint. 1. A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling. Labels: archaic
Word: backjoints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of backjoint Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wavey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: According to one theory, from Cree. An alternative etymology, perhaps a folk etymology, attributes the name to their peculiar, wavy flight. 1. The snow goose (Chen caerulescens) Labels: Canada, US, dialectal
Word: wavey Part of Speech: adj 1. Uncommon form of wavy. Labels: form-of, uncommon Example: Pears and Apples I could never diſcover any thing to breed in but only the leſſer Phælænæ, about ⁴⁄₁₀ Inch long, whitiſh underneath; greyiſh brown above (dappled with brown Spots, inclining to a dirty Red) all but about a third part at the end of the Wings, which is not grey, but brown, elegantly ſtriped with wavey Lines of a Gold-Colour, as if Gilt. Example: The healthful breeze from off the wavey lake, / Fiavor’d and filtered through your tremulous pines; / Your crazy brawling stream wild babblings make, / But gives the sun-like gleam that nightly shines.
Word: waveys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wavey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apothecia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apothecium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apothecium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined in 1803, probably based on Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”). By surface analysis, derived from thecium, see there also for related terms. 1. A type of fructification of some ascomycete fungi, forming cyst structures of various shapes. Often the fungal components of lichens have this sort of fertile structure. Example: Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient.
Word: escaloped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From escalop + -ed. 1. Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped. 2. Covered with a scaly pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. (Compare papelonné.)
Word: weanel Part of Speech: noun 1. A weanling. Labels: obsolete Example: 16thC, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd′s Calendar: September, 1862, George Gilfillan, Charles Cowden Clarke (editors), The Poetical Works Of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, page 278, A lamb, or a kid, or a weanel wast; / With that to the wood would he speed him fast. Example: 1835, Lord Huntingfield′s Important Agricultural Stock Sale, The Farmer′s Magazine, Volume 3: July - December, page 358, […] the weanel calves for stock sold at from 12l to 20l 5s per pair […] .
Word: weanels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of weanel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bloodbird Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blood + bird, from the bright red colour of the male. 1. An Australian honeyeater, the scarlet myzomela (Myzomela sanguinolenta). Example: I was watching a lovely little read-headed honey-eater—that beautiful scarlet and black bird, familiarly known as the bloodbird— feeding busily in the top of a small turpentine tree, and ceasing operations now and again to utter his little running call. Example: At first only one bloodbird dipped low to catch insects in the last of the milkweed bursting their pods in the fields.
Word: bloodbirds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bloodbird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: holy cricket Part of Speech: intj 1. An interjection showing an extreme form of surprise that can be used for both positive and negative moments of sudden enlightenment (like an epiphany); oh my God, great Scott. Example: Hermione Granger: Holy cricket, you're Harry Potter!
Word: Eudoxian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Eudoxius + -an, from Ancient Greek Εὐδόξιος (Eudóxios), from εὐδοξία (eudoxía, “good judgment”), from εὖ (eû) + δόξα (dóxa). 1. A follower of Eudoxius of Antioch (died in 370), patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius. 2. A follower of Eudoxus of Cnidus (408–355 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician.
Word: Eudoxian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Eudoxius + -an, from Ancient Greek Εὐδόξιος (Eudóxios), from εὐδοξία (eudoxía, “good judgment”), from εὖ (eû) + δόξα (dóxa). 1. Of or relating to Eudoxius of Antioch Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to Eudoxus of Cnidus. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Eudoxians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Eudoxian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vermeti Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vermetus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vermetus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Vermetus, from Latin vermis (“worm”). 1. Any of the many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae.
Word: idiothermic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From idio- + thermic. 1. Self-heating; warmed by processes going on within itself. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Mammals are idiothermic.
Word: dingthrift Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ding + thrift. Compare English spendthrift and wastethrift. 1. A spendthrift. Labels: obsolete Example: Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, / A dingthrift and a knave?
Word: dingthrifts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dingthrift Labels: form-of, plural
Word: circumflexion Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 2. A winding about; a turning or fold. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: circumflexions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of circumflexion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seditionaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seditionary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seditionary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sedition + -ary. 1. An inciter or promoter of sedition; a seditionist. Example: They believed the Americans to be traitors and seditionaries, ungrateful for the benefits that had accrued to them and unwilling to pay a fair contribution to the expenses of empire.
Word: seditionary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sedition + -ary. 1. Constituting or relating to sedition.
Word: lophostea Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lophosteon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lophosteon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin lophosteon, from Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos, “crest”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”). 1. The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds, or the keel itself. Labels: archaic
Word: aflat Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + flat. Pronunciation: /əˈflæt/ 1. Level with the ground; lying flat. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: When you would have many new roots of fruit trees , take a low tree and bow it , and lay all its branches aflat upon the ground , and cast earth upon them
Word: technism Part of Speech: noun 1. A technicality. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Technology. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An excessive emphasis on technique. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: technisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of technism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: malepractice Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of malpractice. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: malepractices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of malepractice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: malversations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of malversation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antilibration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + libration. 1. A balancing; equilibrium. Labels: archaic, countable, rare, uncountable Example: having enjoyed his artful antithesis, and solemn antilibration of cadences - we have had the cream of his peculiar excellencies, and may exclaim with Juvenal, Venimus ad summum fortune, or with Romeo, that it is time to be gone
Word: antilibrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antilibration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: capuched Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From capuche + -ed. 1. hooded; or covered with something resembling a hood Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: They are differently cucullated or capuched upon the head and back
Word: cytococcus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyto- + -coccus. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪtə(ʊ)ˈkɒkəs/, /ˌsaɪtəˈkɑkəs/ 1. The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell. Example: from the mixture of the two forms the parent-kernel (cytococcus) seems to originate Example: After fertilization, cytococci divided speedily and free edosmosis with nuclei formed, started the growth of the embryo.
Word: rhabarbarate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin rhabarbarum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Rhabarbarate purges
Word: deoppilate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + oppilate. 1. To deobstruct Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: [S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c.
Word: moonery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From moon + -ery. 1. The conduct of one who moons. Labels: dated, rare, uncountable Example: […] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?
Word: despotat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French despotat; equivalent to despot + -ate (forms nouns denoting a rank or office). Compare despotate. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛspətæt/ 1. The government or domain of a despot. Example: In Northern Greece the Greek despotat of Epeiros died out, to leave us in a bewildering confusion of shifting powers
Word: despotats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of despotat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pisasphaltum Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of pissasphalt. Labels: alt-of, dated, uncountable
Word: overraked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overrake Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overrakes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overrake Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overraking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overrake Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mesoscapula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meso- + scapula. 1. A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula. Labels: dated
Word: mesoscapulae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mesoscapula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hawkey Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hawkie (“white-faced cow”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hawkey Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of hockey (“the sport”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: hawkey Part of Speech: noun 1. A harvest supper. Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: stagely Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stage + -ly. 1. Suited or related to the stage; theatrical. Labels: obsolete Example: But Tuthill I perfectly understood, and his fine acting was stagely and amusing. Example: We started out of the vestibule with, I should say, rather an accelerated movement, and looked at the dome against the clear, soft blue, afternoon sky, and saw that was all right; whereupon one of the party in a deep stagely tone began "Hark from the tombs a doleful sound," looking at the ornamental coffin on the verandah. 2. Occurring in stages. Example: Glaciation in the Alps instead of displaying moraines of four Glacial cycles may be actually represented by the tills of only one cycle, the four now recognized being merely stagely phenomena. Example: Stagely integration for real machines is connected with difficulties, caused by small relative length of each of these stages and the necessity of approximation of various active resistance under the brush edges.
Word: stagely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From stage + -ly. 1. In a stagey or theatrical manner. Example: He was a priggish old party too, celebrated for walking up to his pupils and for whispering stagely, after a salute with the foil, “This, sir, is not so much a School of Arms as a School of Politeness." Example: Miss Sarah Brooke, Mr. Dion Boucicault, and Mr. Laurence Irving play as of the stage, stagely, but are, of course, absolutely sound, firm, and hold the audience with an iron hand. 2. In stages; Labels: nonstandard, proscribed Example: For preparation of complex esters the etherification was carried out stagely (two or three stages) Example: In order to get the idea result of processing, the ore must be grinded^([sic]) and concentrated stagely.
Word: swainmote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From swain + mote. Compare Latin swanimotum. 1. A court held before the verderers of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, three times a year, the swains or freeholders of the forest composing the jury. Labels: UK, historical, obsolete Example: The court of sweinmote is to be holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the sweinmote, thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury.
Word: swainmotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swainmote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: homilete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ὁμιλητής (homilētḗs), from ὁμιλέω (homiléō) + -της (-tēs). 1. A homilist. Labels: archaic
Word: homiletes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of homilete Labels: form-of, plural
Word: edulcorative Part of Speech: adj 1. Tending to sweeten or purify. Labels: also, archaic, figuratively
Word: pickedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From picked + -ness. 1. The state of being sharpened or pointed. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. fineness; spruceness; smartness Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber Too much pickedness is not manly.
Word: do-naught Part of Speech: noun 1. A lazy idler. Labels: archaic
Word: do-naughts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of do-naught Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dispassioned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dis- + passion + -ed. 1. Lacking passion; dispassionate. Example: dispassioned men
Word: pentecoster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστήρ (pentēkostḗr), from πεντηκοστύς (pentēkostús, “pentekostys”), from πεντηκοστός (pentēkostós, “fiftieth”). 1. An officer who commands fifty men, particularly (historical) in the Spartan army. Example: ...they would have the command of the pentecoster, penteconter, or pentecoptater (for thus variously the title is written)...
Word: pentecosters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pentecoster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wych elm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English wiche (“a kind of elm”), wice (“a kind of tree”). Compare wicker. 1. An elm (Ulmus glabra) found in northern and western Europe.
Word: wych-elms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wych-elm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: iambize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From iamb + -ize. 1. To satirize in iambs; to lampoon. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: iambized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of iambize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: iambizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of iambize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: iambizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of iambize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: legific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin lex, legis (“law”) + -ficare (“to make”, comparative). See -fy. 1. Of or pertaining to lawmaking. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: 1876', John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals Practically, in many cases, authority or legific competence has begun in bare power.
Word: eupittone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eu- + pittacal + -one. 1. A yellow crystalline substance, resembling aurin, obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; eupittonic acid. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: euphuistically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From euphuistic + -ally. 1. In a euphuistic manner.
Word: roundaboutly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From roundabout + -ly. 1. In a roundabout manner; indirectly. Example: Now, all of a sudden, he found himself cautious, trying to be a politician, and the result was, he expressed his frustrations roundaboutly instead of directly.
Word: revivificate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin revīvificātus, past participle of revīvificō. Compare revivify. By surface analysis, re- + vivificate. 1. To revive; to revivify. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: revivificated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of revivificate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: revivificates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of revivificate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: revivificating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of revivificate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: antimeter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- (“physically opposite”) + -meter (“measuring device”). 1. A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles. Labels: obsolete Example: A description of Mr. Garrard's Antimeter, or Reflecting Circle, may be seen in his pamphlet, published in 1785; and in the article Antimeter, by the Author of this work
Word: antimeter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- (“opposing counterpart”) + meter (“metrical pattern”). 1. A contrasting rhythm or meter that deliberately interrupts or clashes with the naturally expected metrical pattern. Example: Blake and Dickinson looked in the same place for an anti-meter (Hollander's term) ; Blake's rough fourteeners employ a one-line adaptation of the meter Dickinson favored, the ballad or hymn stanza. Example: The conflict between meter and antimeter is a critical aspect of the textural rhythm, and takes on significance as a rhetorical code that lends affective immediacy to the psychological drama of the recording.
Word: antimeter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- (“against”) + meter (“device for collecting payment”). 1. Opposed to the use of meters (such as parking meters, water meters, etc.). Example: Hence, as might have been forseen, the few meters installed have not materially reduced the total wastage, and the antimeter people have been enabled to cry, I told you so!" Example: After being fined one dollar for overtime parking, Howard Henry launched an antimeter campaign which resulted in two referendunms in which voters outlawed them throughout the State.
Word: antimeters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antimeter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Golding Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. Example: Writing at Hello Beautiful, Shenequa Golding says she’s most upset at African Americans who stereotype her based on a choice her mother made.
Word: goldhammer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gold + hammer. 1. A yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella). Labels: dated
Word: goldhammers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of goldhammer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photophonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From photo- + -phonic. 1. Of or pertaining to the photophone. Labels: historical, not-comparable Example: photophonic apparatus Example: photophonic receiver
Word: infraposition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From infra- + position. 1. A situation or state of being beneath something else. Labels: uncountable Example: 1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack This floe is now more than two hundred and fifty yards long by four hundred wide; a size too large for infraposition of tables 2. A type of malposition of a tooth such that its occlusal surface falls short of the occlusal plane (that is, apical to it); an instance of such malposition. Labels: uncountable
Word: longlegs Part of Speech: noun 1. A daddy longlegs. Example: No longlegses could make me jump like them queer creatures in a drop on it, […] Example: Thinking with animals – be it with sheep and dogs or with longlegs, moths, dumbledores, and flies – allows Hardy and his readers to reconsider what it means to be part of “the whole conscious world collectively,” […]
Word: orthotone Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρθότονος (orthótonos, “with unmodified accent”). By surface analysis, ortho- + tone. 1. Retaining the accent independently; not enclitic; said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which are enclitic in other situations. Labels: Greek, not-comparable Example: orthotone coordinators Example: orthotone word
Word: orthotone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρθότονος (orthótonos, “with unmodified accent”). By surface analysis, ortho- + tone. 1. An orthotone form.
Word: seemless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From seem + -less. 1. Unseemly; unfit; indecorous. Labels: obsolete Example: That Arthegal himself her seemless Plight did rue 2. Misspelling of seamless. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: dedecoration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin dedecoratio. 1. Disgrace; dishonour. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Alas! he fears my lacerated coat, And visage pale with frigorisic want, Would bring dedecoration on his chaise. Example: In any case it is vulgar, and in its small way, as a dedecoration of Caswall's little treatise, is as sad a case of the confounding of things essentially different as I have seen for a long time. 2. The removal of decoration. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: And it is, as I said, with unmingled satisfaction, that I find that no disposition has been evinced among us, to commit any of these irregular reappropriations; or to adopt any of these devices, novel or obsolete, for the decoration or dedecoration of sacred edifices, and those who minister in them. Example: He was advised that it clearly might; that these mummers had no right to lay their hands on this public ornament, whether for the purpose of decoration or dedecoration 3. Decimation (the elimination of points from a lattice); the inverse of decoration. Labels: uncountable Example: Dedecoration did not produce any advantages in observing the size of the displacement of dislocations. Example: Applying the star-triangle and dedecoration transformations[…]
Word: mightless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mightles, from Old English mihtlēas, mihtelēas, from Proto-Germanic *mahtilausaz; equivalent to might + -less. Cognate with Scots michtles, Saterland Frisian machtloos, West Frisian machteleas, Dutch machteloos, German Low German machtlos, German machtlos, Swedish maktlös, Icelandic máttlaus. 1. Lacking in might or vigour; powerless; weak. Example: So the mightless Tannenbaum, with two cups of wine in hand, plus a burger, chased Lilly back down as Ezra scooted into the shadows, leaving her to face the mayor all by herself.
Word: tottle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare toddle and totter. Pronunciation: /ˈtɒt.əl/, /ˈtɑ.təl/, [ˈtʰɑɾɫ̩] 1. To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events.
Word: tottle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From total. Pronunciation: /ˈtɒt.əl/, /ˈtɑ.təl/, [ˈtʰɑɾɫ̩] 1. To add up; to sum to a total. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: It may be that the days o' fine follow ane anither fast; or that the foul times linger likewise. But in the end, the figures of fine and foul tottle up, in accord wi' their ordered sum.
Word: tottle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of tube + bottle. Pronunciation: /ˈtɒt.əl/, /ˈtɑ.təl/, [ˈtʰɑɾɫ̩] 1. A container, generally of plastic, which is not a simple tube and which is kept with its cap down.
Word: tottled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tottle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tottles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tottle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: tottling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tottle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cental Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + -al, perhaps modeled after quintal. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntəl/ 1. A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds. Labels: historical Example: Thin native steers, dressing 56 pounds per cwt., $10.50 per cental; Example: The practice of buying or selling grain by the 100 pounds, or the cental system, is becoming almost universal, and has many advantages over the old practice of selling grain by the bushel.
Word: cental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + -al, perhaps modeled after quintal. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntəl/ 1. Relating to a hundred. Labels: not-comparable 2. Pertaining to a cent (unit of currency, typically worth 1/100 of the base unit of currency). Labels: not-comparable Example: cental coins Example: Cental coin will be exchanged at the rate of two cents of a shilling for one cent of a rupee or florin .
Word: dwarfy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dwarf + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈdwɔɹ.fi/, /ˈdwɔː.fi/ 1. Much undersized; dwarfish. Example: […] Adam vvas thus abſtracted from humane feculencies, and carryed above the perch and flight of the narrovv and dvvarfie proſpect of mortality; […]
Word: dedendums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dedendum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clinometric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From clino- + -metric. 1. Relating to, or measured by, a clinometer. Labels: not-comparable 2. Relating to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes. Labels: not-comparable Example: the clinometric systems
Word: supraclavicle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From supra- + clavicle. 1. A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the posttemporal in the pectoral girdle of fishes.
Word: supraclavicles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of supraclavicle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ridgehead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ridge + head. 1. Any of the family Melamphaidae of small, deep-sea stephanoberyciform fish.
Word: bigscale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From big + scale. 1. A fish, the ridgehead.
Word: ridgeheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ridgehead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bigscales Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bigscale Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stephanoberyciform Part of Speech: noun 1. Any fish of the order Stephanoberyciformes
Word: ensate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin ensatus, from Latin ensis (“sword”). 1. sword-shaped Labels: archaic Example: ensate appendages Example: ensate ovipositors
Word: intertie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inter- + tie. 1. In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another. 2. A bond or support. Labels: figuratively
Word: intertie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From inter- + tie. 1. To interlink.
Word: interties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of intertie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interties Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of intertie Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: entrochal Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites. Labels: not-comparable Example: entrochal marble or limestone
Word: cholesterolemias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cholesterolemia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cholesterolemic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cholesterolemia + -ic. 1. Having or relating to cholesterolemia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cholesterolaemic Part of Speech: adj 1. Having or relating to cholesterolaemia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: balanus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin balanus, from Ancient Greek βάλανος (bálanos, “acorn”). 1. The glans Example: GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis. Example: There is both a local and a general predisposition to Lues Venerea: Jews and Mahometans, from the constant exposure of the glans and prepuce, have the cuticle of the balanus of much firmer texture than those who have not been circumcised.
Word: nadger Part of Speech: noun 1. A non-specific illness or affliction Labels: especially, informal, plural 2. The testicles Labels: in-plural, informal
Word: Penobscots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Penobscot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nadgers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nadger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: adsignified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of adsignify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: adsignifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of adsignify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: adsignify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin adsignificare (“to show”). By surface analysis, ad- + signify. 1. To denote additionally. Labels: archaic, rare, transitive Example: And if it were so , then indeed the word we are now considering , besides the signification of the Verb , must likewise adsignify some Manner and the Present Time
Word: adsignifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of adsignify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overcarking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + carking. 1. Too anxious; expressing or taking too much care. Labels: archaic Example: being solicitously overcarking for the future
Word: overcarking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + carking. 1. present participle and gerund of overcark Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: nadide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; NAD⁺
Word: dissentive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dissent + -ive. 1. disagreeing; inconsistent Labels: obsolete Example: He is a Monster in Nature: for his Heart and Tongue, are Incongruous, and dissentive
Word: styrolene Part of Speech: noun 1. styrene Labels: dated
Word: styrolenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of styrolene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cinnamene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cinnamic + -ene, because derived from cinnamic acid. 1. styrene Labels: archaic
Word: cinnamenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cinnamene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gastrohysterotomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gastro- + hystero- + -tomy. 1. Caesarean section Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: nadroparin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From [Term?] + -parin (“heparin derivative”). 1. A relatively low-molecular weight fraction of heparin that is used as an antithrombotic agent in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis Labels: uncountable
Word: enclavement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French 1. An enclave. 2. The state of being an enclave, or the act of making an enclave. 3. Retention due to a constriction; impaction, as of the head in the pelvic strait.
Word: enclavements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enclavement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: callisection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin callere (“to be insensible”) + English section. 1. painless vivisection Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: The two kinds of vivisection, sentisection and callisection
Word: callisections Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of callisection Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Orcus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogre and orc. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːrkəs/ 1. The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld. Labels: Roman Example: Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench, And with their Cannons mouth’d like Orcus gulfe Batter the wales, and we will enter in: And thus the Grecians ſhalbe conquered. 2. A plutino and planetoid, possibly a dwarf planet; sometimes referred to as the “anti-Pluto”. Its moon is Vanth.
Word: curledness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From curled + -ness. 1. The state of being curled. Labels: uncountable
Word: naegleria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of several amoebas, of the genus Naegleria, that are pathogenic to humans and other animals.
Word: soothings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of soothing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disadvise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + advise. 1. To advise against. Labels: rare, transitive Example: I had a clear reason to disadvise the purchase of it. Example: In this case, therefore, I conceive the plaintiff must be nonsuited and I should disadvise the bringing any such action. 2. To dissuade. Labels: rare, transitive Example: I am sure he disadvised you from it Example: The Convention sanctioned the exercise in Bechuanaland of that Imperial influence and protection which Sir Hercules had opposed at Pretoria and disadvised Her Majesty's Government against, as quoted above.
Word: disadvised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disadvise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disadvises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disadvise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disadvising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disadvise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: dulcamarin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dulcamara + -in. 1. A yellow glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara). Labels: uncountable
Word: bioblast Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of bioplast. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: bioblasts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bioblast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: areolet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Diminutive of Latin areola. See -et, -let. 1. A small space on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the radii. Example: closed areolet Example: discal areolet
Word: areolets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of areolet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: praseo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πράσιος (prásios, “leek-green, green”), from Ancient Greek πράσον (práson, “leek”). 1. green Labels: morpheme, rare
Word: praseocobalt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From praseo- + cobalt. 1. A green variety of cobalt. Labels: uncountable
Word: naphthacenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of naphthacene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: purpureocobalt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From purpureo- + cobalt. 1. A violet-red variety of cobalt. Labels: uncountable
Word: luteocobalt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From luteo- + cobalt. 1. A yellow variety of cobalt. Labels: uncountable
Word: stammels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stammel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: puriform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin pus, puris (“pus”) + -form. Compare French puriforme. 1. In the form of pus. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: purulent, pussy Example: puriform discharge from the ear
Word: primariness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From primary + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, act, or intention. Labels: uncountable Example: there is difference as to the Necessity of the Determination, as well as to the Primariness of it
Word: Croesi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Croesus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: naphthaleneacetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From naphthalene + acetic. 1. Of or pertaining to naphthaleneacetic acid or its derivatives Labels: not-comparable
Word: superanions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superanion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: naphthaleneacetic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From naphthalene + acetic acid. 1. Either of two isomeric carboxylic acids in which a carboxymethyl group is attached to a naphthalene residue; the 1- isomer is an auxin
Word: naphthalenol Part of Speech: noun 1. naphthol
Word: naphthalin Part of Speech: noun 1. naphthalene Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: naphthaline Part of Speech: noun 1. naphthalene Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: push someone's buttons Part of Speech: verb 1. To do specific things to anger someone (or, less commonly, to sexually arouse or otherwise elicit a strong reaction from them), especially intentionally or maliciously. Labels: informal Example: Near-synonyms: trigger, get on someone's nerves Example: You really knew how to push my buttons.
Word: naphthoate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From naphthoic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. Any salt or ester of naphthoic acid.
Word: disendow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + endow. 1. To deprive of an endowment. Example: by law established, you cannot disestablish and disendow the Irish Branch without also disestablishing and disendowing the United Church
Word: disendowed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disendow Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disendowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disendow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disendows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disendow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cliencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cliency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cliency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From client + -cy? 1. clientship; the state of being a client. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: naphthoates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of naphthoate Labels: form-of, plural