nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: tideline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tide + line. 1. A line of floating debris, seaweed etc. that marks the boundary between two surface currents. Example: And last year, at 5:26 a.m. on August 10, a whole mountainside toppled into the tideline of the shrunken Sawyer Glacier, not far from the Alaskan capital, Juneau. The impact jetted a tsunami a staggering 500 meters up the walls of the fjord.
Word: transcortical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trans- + cortical. 1. Between the two parts of the cerebral cortex Labels: not-comparable Example: Because association fibers are compromised in the transcortical aphasias, Lichtheim (1885) called what we know as transcortical aphasia commissural dysphasia or white matter dysphasia.
Word: unalleviated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + alleviated. 1. relentless
Word: unicuspid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uni- + cuspid. 1. Having a single cusp. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unicuspid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uni- + cuspid. 1. A tooth with a single cusp.
Word: womanism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From woman + -ism. Coined by Alice Walker in 1983. 1. An extension to feminism that incorporates respect for women of all races and classes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Although womanism raises the issue of gender, it simultaneously offers a distance from the “enemy,” in this case, Whites generally and White women in particular. Example: In line with femalism, African womanism is committed to the quest for total freedom of the colonized African men and women.
Word: Bua Part of Speech: name 1. A language spoken in Chad
Word: Bua Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bua. 1. A surname from Italian.
Word: iguanodons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of iguanodon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: agrestal Part of Speech: adj 1. That grows wild in cultivated fields
Word: bloused Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From blouse + -ed. 1. Wearing a blouse. Labels: not-comparable Example: Whatever you do, when a good number has been recommended to you, never, by any chance, attempt to go yourself to the donkey-shed, but send for the animal; else you will be assailed, and tossed to and fro for an hour, by the red-capped, blue-bloused attendant, pushed and jostled, and stunned with their exclamations and attempts to address you in English, until a police officer comes to your rescue, recommends a particular animal, and away you go—having previously made a bargain to pay, either by the hour or according to distance. Example: There was a bloused and bearded Frenchman or two; but the majority were, as was to have been expected, the oppressed, the starved, the untaught, the despairing, the insane;[…].
Word: bloused Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From blouse + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of blouse Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cutwork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cut-werk, equivalent to cut + work. 1. A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fiberless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fiber + -less. 1. Lacking fibers
Word: fibrocystic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fibro- + cystic. 1. Having increased fibrosis together with increased cystic spaces. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fibrositis Part of Speech: noun 1. fibromyalgia
Word: fibrously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From fibrous + -ly. 1. In a fibrous manner
Word: flowerheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flowerhead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inflexed Part of Speech: adj 1. inflected
Word: infodemic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of information + epidemic. Coined by American writer and foreign policy strategist David Rothkopf in 2003 in the context of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, see quotations. 1. An excessive amount of information concerning a problem such that the solution is made more difficult. Labels: informal Example: [… 2. A wide and rapid spread of misinformation. Labels: informal Example: But his inclination to prioritise free speech over moderation would soon become a flashpoint with a White House trying to battle a so-called “infodemic” of online conspiracies about the disease and the vaccine.
Word: infodemic Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to infodemiology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: infoholic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.? Latin fōrma Latin fōrmō Latin īnfōrmō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Late Latin īnfōrmātiōder. Middle English enformacioun English information English info- Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor. Medieval Latin alcoholder. Middle English alcofol English alcohol Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English alcoholic English -holic English infoholic From info- + -holic. 1. A person who has an insatiable desire for news and information, especially when obtained online. Labels: informal Example: On the other hand the production of concordances in itself is scarcely less "dangerous" than the undue enthusiasm for on line retrieval systems rightly characterised as "infoholics" by some reviewers. Example: We've become infoholics. Try a vacation without TV or newspapers. . . .
Word: interlobular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + lobular. 1. Between lobules. Labels: not-comparable
Word: intermediateness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From intermediate + -ness. 1. The condition of being intermediate Labels: uncountable
Word: intermediator Part of Speech: noun 1. An intermediate agent; a mediator.
Word: ironbark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iron + bark. Pronunciation: /ˈʌɪənbɑːk/ 1. Any of several unrelated eucalypts that have dark, deeply furrowed bark. Labels: Australia 2. The hard wood of these trees, as used in building and construction. Labels: Australia Example: The tents and sheets are made of the best Canadian duck, tanned for the purpose of preservation with a strong extract of iron-bark and wattle-bark. Example: When he had trimmed a bit of ironbark to size, or knocked the worst splinters off a split fence post, he would swing it around his head a few times before crashing it down on the rails.
Word: litoptern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From modern Latin Litopterna (order name), from Ancient Greek λῑτός (lītós, “smooth”) + πτέρνη (ptérnē, “heel-bone”). Pronunciation: /lɪˈtɒptəːn/ 1. An extinct hoofed mammal of the order †Litopterna, from the Cenozoic period. Example: [C]ertain litopterns like the camel-like Macrauchenia also lived on until within 15,000 years before the present.
Word: mohairs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mohair Labels: form-of, plural
Word: muslined Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From muslin + -ed. 1. Decorated with, or dressed in muslin
Word: oilless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oil + -less. 1. Lacking, or not using, oil. Example: Even oil-less, Central Asian Afghanistan was perceived by many Muslims as the object of a crusading infidel occupation, driven by Israel and designed to establish bases or extract cheaper oil.
Word: orthotropous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By surface analysis, orthotrope + -ous. 1. Growing straight and having the micropyle at the apex Labels: not-comparable
Word: overstitch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + stitch. 1. An embroidery stitch made over another
Word: overstitch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + stitch. 1. To sew with these stitches
Word: semifitted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + fitted. 1. Partially fitted (with appliances etc) Labels: not-comparable 2. That partially conforms to the outlines of the body Labels: not-comparable
Word: sundrops Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sun + drops. 1. evening primrose Labels: uncountable
Word: thistlelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thistle + -like. 1. Having the form or characteristics of a thistle Example: The thistlelike leaves of artichokes glowed silver.
Word: understored Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + stored. 1. Having fewer stores (shops) than are needed by the available market Labels: US
Word: urticate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From or formed like (post-Classical?) Latin urticatus, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”). 1. To have or produce a stinging sensation, as of nettles or urticating hair.
Word: urticate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From or formed like (post-Classical?) Latin urticatus, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”). 1. Marked by the presence of wheals. Labels: not-comparable Example: In certain cases of erythemata there was an urticate look.
Word: unquailing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + quailing. 1. Without quailing; brave.
Word: playsome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From play + -some. Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪsəm/ 1. Playful; frolicsome. Labels: dated, literary Example: I have heard his brother Edm and M'r Wayte his schoole fellow &c, say that when he was a Boy he was playsome enough: but withall he had even then a contemplative Melancholinesse. Example: Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale; Where all the flowers are fair, and frail (Like her fair self,) a slender fairy, And like a zephyr, playsome, airy, But lovelier far, than buxom Mary.
Word: velamen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vēlāmen. 1. A covering membrane or velum 2. A spongy, usually pale, multiseriate epidermis (i.e. consisting of multiple layers of cells) covering the roots of some kinds of plants, especially plant species with an epiphytic or semi-epiphytic habit. Examples include various orchid and Clivia species
Word: cryovolcanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cryo- + volcanic. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌɪəʊvɒlˈkanɪk/ 1. of or pertaining to a cryovolcano Labels: not-comparable
Word: popularities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of popularity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unparametrised Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of unparameterized. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: monographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From monograph + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to a monograph or treatise. Labels: not-comparable 2. Drawn in lines without colours. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of or pertaining to monographia, the use of only one writing system. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Arians Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹɪənz/ 1. plural of Arian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Song Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 宋 (Sòng). 1. A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan. Labels: historical Example: Up until the Song dynasty (960 to 1279 A.D.), it was the case that, like in the West, each person would get their own meal. Example: A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold at auction for $37.7 million on Tuesday, breaking the record for Chinese porcelain, auction house Sotheby's said. The small piece -- which dates from 960-1127 -- broke the previous record of $36.05 million set in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was sold to a Shanghai tycoon. 2. A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China. Labels: historical 3. The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned. Labels: historical 4. A surname from Chinese. 5. A river in China; any of various minor rivers in China.
Word: Song Part of Speech: name 1. A river in Papua New Guinea.
Word: Song Part of Speech: name 1. A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Word: Song Part of Speech: name Etymology: Derived from Khmer សុង (song). 1. A surname from Khmer.
Word: Song Part of Speech: name Etymology: Derived from Thai สอง (sɔ̌ɔng). 1. A district of Phrae Province, Thailand.
Word: Grau Part of Speech: name Etymology: * As a German surname, borrowed from German Grau, a nickname for someone with grey hair or beard. * As a Catalan and southern French surname, from Occitan and Catalan Grau, a topographic surname from grau (“degree, level”). * Also as a Catalan surname, reduced from the personal name Guerau; see Gerald. * As a French surname, from Old French grau (“kind of fork”), from Frankish/Germanic, probably related to Old Norse grein (“fork, branch”). 1. A surname.
Word: unquailingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unquailing + -ly. 1. Without quailing; bravely. Example: Emily looked across at the girl. Large, steady, purplish-grey eyes gazed into beady, twinkling, black ones—gazed unquailingly—with something in them that cowed and compelled. The black eyes wavered and fell, their owner covering her retreat with another giggle and toss of her short braid of hair.
Word: playsomeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From playsome + -ness. 1. The quality of being playsome. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: personability Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being personable. Labels: uncountable
Word: personableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From personable + -ness. 1. The quality of being personable. Labels: uncountable Example: […] I know no other set of men but what lose something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young. Example: Osborn's personableness was not of a kind attractive to the unbiassed male observer.
Word: personably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From personable + -ly. 1. In a personable manner.
Word: unpersonable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + personable. 1. Not personable. Example: By the time I had finished the looking-glass showed a not unpersonable young man.
Word: prechew Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + chew. 1. To chew (food) in advance. Labels: transitive Example: In “A Man Among Wolves,” a bizarre and riveting nature documentary that will be shown tonight on the National Geographic Channel, a British former gamekeeper named Shaun Ellis feeds wolf cubs prechewed food from his own mouth.
Word: prechews Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of prechew Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: prechewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of prechew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prechewed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of prechew Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: electrostimulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electro- + stimulation. 1. Stimulation with electricity, sometimes used in medicine. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: electrostimulations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of electrostimulation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flannelly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flannel + -y. 1. Resembling or characteristic of flannel material.
Word: planthood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From plant + -hood. 1. The state or period of being a plant. Labels: uncountable
Word: polychordal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From polychord + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to a polychord.
Word: polychords Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polychord Labels: form-of, plural
Word: projicients Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of projicient Labels: form-of, plural
Word: binagoongan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog binagoongan (literally “that to which bagoong (shrimp paste) is applied”). 1. A sautéed pork dish of the Philippines, flavoured with shrimp paste. Labels: uncountable
Word: asshattery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From asshat + -ery. 1. The obnoxious behavior of an asshat. Labels: humorous, informal, uncountable, vulgar Example: […] we can only speculate that Pratt's imminent departure is the reason her August editor's letter was so full of bitter, reader-insulting asshattery. Example: It was such a momentous culmination of prophetic asshattery that even the elements themselves, Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, Toilet Cake, were forced to stand up and take notice.
Word: hypergamous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + -gamous. 1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypergamy. Example: This is, in fact, an issue on which modern anthropologists have been divided, particularly among those north Indians who are held to practise hypergamous 'upward' marriage. Example: Readers can't help siding with Jane's heroines, so sympathetically portrayed in their efforts to get the right man, whereas Becky Sharp may well represent male distrust of scheming hypergamous females.
Word: doppelbock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Doppelbock (“double bock”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒ.p(ə)lˌbɒk/, /ˈdɑ.p(ə)lˌbɑk/ 1. A Bavarian speciality beer, deep gold to dark brown, with a large, creamy, persistent head and a strong malty aroma. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As with so many beer styles, we have monasteries to thank for doppelbock, in particular the devout monks of St. Francis of Paula.
Word: doppelbocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of doppelbock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypergamously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hypergamous + -ly. 1. In a hypergamous manner. Example: At the middle and lower levels of the status hierarchy among Kanbis and Rajputs, families faced a double financial burden of dowry payment for marrying their daughters hypergamously and bride price for marrying sons. Example: Ravi had married hypergamously—he had married up—and Vimalesh hypogamously, down.
Word: nondeployed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + deployed. 1. Not deployed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: overbake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + bake. 1. To bake too much: for too long, at too high a temperature, or both. Labels: transitive Example: And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat. Example: It’s for an eight-inch pan, and the only thing you need to fear is overbaking; somewhere between 20 and 25 minutes is just about right.
Word: overbakes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overbake Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overbaking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overbake Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overbaked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overbake Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: scrawlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scrawling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scrawnily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English scrawny Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English scrawnily From scrawny + -ly. 1. In a scrawny manner.
Word: stormwaters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stormwater Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trapshooter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trap + shooter. 1. A participant in the sport of trapshooting.
Word: trapshooters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trapshooter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: roadworn Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From road + worn. 1. Worn out by long travel on roads, or (figurative) in a damaged or depleted state due to constant or prolonged usage or exertion. Example: Now that they were close, Lirith could see the vehicles were more than a little roadworn: wood cracked, gilt peeled, and dust flecked sun-faded paint. Example: When he was just beyond the house Kwan Moh Kia dropped down between the shafts, on that March afternoon in 1906, when his aorta exploded like a roadworn tyre.
Word: unmeet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unmete, vnmete, unimete, from Old English unġemǣte, unmǣte (“immense, enormous; unsuitable”), equivalent to un- + meet (“fit, right”). 1. Not meet or proper. Labels: archaic Example: I haue (purpoſelie) omitted and left out ſome fond & friuolous Ieſtures, digreſſing (and in my poore opinion) farre vnmeete for the matter[…]. Example: […] O, my father! / Prove you that any man with me convers'd / At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight / Maintain'd the change of words with any creature, / Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.
Word: unmeet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + meet. 1. To undo the process of meeting. Labels: transitive Example: Tell him […] that I wish I could unmeet him because he’s on my brain so much it makes me feel crazy. Example: But if I could unmeet him somehow, make all this unhappen, I would.
Word: roadworker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From road + worker. 1. A worker who carries out road construction or maintenance.
Word: roadworkers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roadworker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: agapanthus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἀγαπάω (agapáō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γᾰ́πη (ăgắpē) Proto-Indo-European *h₂endʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂éndʰos Proto-Hellenic *ántʰos Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́νθος (ắnthos) New Latinder. taxonomic name Agapanthusbor. English agapanthus Borrowed from taxonomic name Agapanthus, from Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē, “love, affection”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) 1. Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants. Example: Agapanthi and hydrangeas bloom on brown-stone front steps, and an occasional elm wears majestically its century of age, and extends its kindly and dignified protection to the emerald-turfed croquet ground nestling at its feet. Example: Even the succulent blue lilies—a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses—hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like the draught from a volcano.
Word: lily of the Nile Part of Speech: noun 1. Agapanthus praecox, a plant species in the family Alliaceae. 2. Zantedeschia aethiopica, a plant species in the family Araceae.
Word: echium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Echium. Pronunciation: /ˈɛkiəm/ 1. Any member of the genus Echium of flowering plants.
Word: echiums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of echium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fretworked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fretwork + -ed. 1. Adorned with fretwork. Labels: not-comparable Example: I own three or four low, fretworked Chinese tables of various heights that I found at flea markets; the top of each is about the size of a standard box of tissues or a little serving tray.
Word: ganglioneuroma Part of Speech: noun 1. A tumour of the sympathetic nerve fibres arising from neural crest cells.
Word: ganglioneuromas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ganglioneuroma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ganglioneuromata Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ganglioneuroma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ideations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ideation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neurochemistries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neurochemistry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neuroprosthetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neuro- + prosthetic. By surface analysis, neuro- + prosth- + -etic. 1. Of or pertaining to neuroprosthetics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: neuroprosthetic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neuro- + prosthetic. By surface analysis, neuro- + prosth- + -etic. 1. A neuroprosthesis.
Word: paperbush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From paper + bush. 1. A bush in the family Thymelaeaceae, found in China and Japan, whose bark can be used to make paper. Labels: uncountable
Word: postmarital Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + marital. 1. After marriage. Labels: not-comparable
Word: postmaritally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From postmarital + -ly. 1. After marriage. Labels: not-comparable
Word: premaritally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From premarital + -ly. 1. Before marriage. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ambilocal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ambi- + local. 1. bilocal Labels: not-comparable Example: Village exogamy was preferred but residence was ambilocal so neither the household nor the village formed any kind of definable kin group.
Word: ambilocality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ambi- + locality. Pronunciation: /ˌæm.bɪ.loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/, /ˌæm.bi.ləʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/ 1. bilocality Labels: uncountable
Word: bilocality Part of Speech: noun 1. The state or quality of being bilocal. Labels: uncountable
Word: prehearing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + hearing. 1. Before a legal hearing. Labels: not-comparable
Word: posthearing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + hearing. 1. After a legal hearing. Labels: not-comparable
Word: preloved Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + loved. 1. Used; previously owned by somebody else. Labels: euphemistic, not-comparable Example: Providing low rates for preloved cars available for hire near airports and cheaper downtown hotels Example: When you buy an older, or preloved home, make sure to put an inspection contingency in your contract.
Word: unspoil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + spoil. 1. To make less spoiled. Labels: transitive Example: The week before, watching her work, Logerwell had called out to her, "I can tell you right now, if you mollycoddle a horse he'll turn out spoilt, and I've had to unspoil plenty of horses that've been girl-broke. […] Example: A few negative people can ruin an entire office environment, which shows you how powerful negativity is. It is so bad, even positive workers can't “unspoil” it.
Word: shoeboxlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shoebox + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a shoebox. Example: People may store their pictures as ongoing collections in shoeboxlike containers, or they may order them carefully in albums...
Word: unspoiling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unspoil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pseudosibling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + sibling. 1. One who is not a sibling but has a relationship of that kind. Example: […] the girls were older than average when they entered the family and thus did not develop the usual pseudosibling relationship […] Example: With multiple stepparents, stepsiblings, half siblings and pseudosiblings, it’s a whole new type of family, and with it comes the challenge to design a home where everyone feels welcome.
Word: pseudosiblings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pseudosibling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suitemate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From suite + -mate. 1. One who shares the same suite. Example: Gary Lee had to flee the dorms because he was brutally harassed by his suitemates. Example: On Tuesday evening CNN had found two suitemates who recounted some of the most chilling details about the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, including that he had an imaginary girlfriend named Jelly.
Word: suitemates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suitemate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: broochlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brooch + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a brooch. Example: Craft and detail are even more dominant in the recent, broochlike pieces.
Word: citycentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From city + -centric. 1. Focusing on a city. Example: That citycentric view has not always gone over well outside New York. Example: While he may not agree with the design aesthetic, Mr. King's essay smacks of a citycentric view that suggests that authentic experiences are impossible in the suburbs.
Word: conguero Part of Speech: noun 1. A musician who plays the conga drum.
Word: congueros Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of conguero Labels: form-of, plural
Word: evolutionlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From evolution + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of evolution. Example: When she moves from anthropological classification to fantasy, her figures adapt, evolutionlike, to the tasks at hand.
Word: antifarmer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + farmer. 1. Opposing farmers.
Word: harbourscape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From harbour + -scape. 1. Alternative spelling of harborscape. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: harbourscapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of harbourscape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sandscape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sand + -scape. 1. A landscape dominated by sand.
Word: sandscapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sandscape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: harborscape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From harbor + -scape. 1. A landscape dominated by a harbor. Example: Displayed among all three floors of the Yale center’s public exhibition galleries, “Legacy,” organized in association with the academy, presents every aspect of Mellon’s collecting activities in the field, from an iconic, light-steeped harborscape by J. M. W. Turner, “Dort, or Dordrecht, the Dort Packet-boat From Rotterdam Becalmed” (1818), to a manuscript map from 1587 that shows the route of Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe a decade earlier.
Word: harborscapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of harborscape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonacting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + acting. 1. Not acting. Labels: not-comparable 2. Not of or pertaining to acting. Labels: not-comparable Example: Like his Nixon, Mr. Langella is an agile interviewee, taking the conversation toward anything but the specifics of his nonacting life.
Word: singings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of singing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dissectible Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of dissectable. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: extrarational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From extra- + rational. 1. Above or beyond the rational. Example: Imagination is an extrarational function of the brain. Example: But a rational faith in such an utter inconceivability is out of the question, and an extra-rational and mere dogmatic faith, in such an idea, can not generally, if ever, be kept free from superstition, and hence, from a greater or less degree of mental degradation and slavery.
Word: hiccuplike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hiccup + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a hiccup. Example: Later, raising her arms overhead like a gymnast, Ms. Olson sprints across the stage, only to chicken out, performing a barely perceptible, hiccuplike jump.
Word: mopiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mopy + -ness. 1. The quality of being mopey. Labels: uncountable Example: And if his briskness in Chopin’s famous Funeral March restored dignity to the usual mopiness, much of the rest of the concert hung somewhere between a deeply musical evening and a day at the races.
Word: nongoal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + goal. 1. Not of or pertaining to a goal. Labels: not-comparable Example: a nongoal state
Word: nongoal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + goal. 1. That which is not a goal (in various senses). Example: A disputed goal by the Sabres in Game 3, and a disputed nongoal by the Islanders in Game 4, began a kind of bad luck theme. Example: When you think it is important to state what the study will not achieve, add a brief description of nongoals. Nongoals help everyone understand what the team is not after.
Word: nongoals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nongoal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oversweeten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + sweeten. 1. To make too sweet. Labels: transitive Example: I could barely eat the oversweetened processed foods.
Word: oversweetens Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of oversweeten Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: oversweetening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of oversweeten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: movent Part of Speech: adj 1. Moving; that moves; that is being moved. Labels: obsolete Example: It was concluded even now, that to make a moveable to move; the movent vertue must be increased in proportion to the velocity wherewith it is to move.
Word: movent Part of Speech: noun 1. Anything that is moved or that moves, or that gives motion; mover. Labels: archaic Example: I define force to be the Impetus or Quickness of Motion multiplyed either into it self, or into the Magnitude of the Movent, by means wherof the said Movent works more or less upon the Body that resists it. 2. Alternative form of movant. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: monkshoods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monkshood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hexadeuterated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hexa- + deuterated. 1. Deuterated with six atoms of deuterium per molecule. Labels: not-comparable
Word: bannerless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From banner + -less. 1. Without a banner. Labels: not-comparable Example: bannerless troops
Word: whinstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly corrupted from quern stone, i.e. stone suitable for making querns; or else, from whin + stone. 1. A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Any hard dark-coloured rock. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: ‘A rough fellow, rather, Mrs. Dean. Is not that his character?‘ ‘Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.’
Word: whinstones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whinstone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: superrational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- + rational. 1. Above or beyond the rational. Example: Imagination is a superrational function of the brain. 2. Relating to superrationality.
Word: whitewasher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From whitewash + -er. 1. One who, or that which, whitewashes.
Word: whitewashers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whitewasher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: margarite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “a pearl”). Doublet of Margaret (and various forms, q.v.), margarita, Margherita, and marguerite. 1. pearl Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: margarite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “a pearl”) + -ite. 1. A calcium-rich member of the mica group of phyllosilicates, forming white to pinkish or yellowish-gray masses or thin laminae. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: margarites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of margarite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: untaxing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + taxing. 1. Not taxing.
Word: misemploy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + employ. 1. To employ incorrectly; to misuse. Labels: transitive
Word: misemploys Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misemploy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: misemployed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of misemploy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: misemploying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misemploy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: housekeep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from housekeeping. 1. To carry out the domestic duties of housekeeping. Labels: intransitive Example: I would go to school, and practise, and housekeep, and club; all in their proper proportions⁠—— Example: "I knew our week at this hotel was out to-morrow," she continued, "and we've about used up this place, anyway, and the new village that I've b'en to is the prettiest place we've seen yet; it's got an up-and-down hill to it, just like home, and the house I've partly rented is opposite a fair green, where there's a market every week, and Wednesday's the day; and we'll save money, for I shan't cost you so much when we can housekeep." 2. To perform the general tasks of housekeeping. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.
Word: housekeep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from housekeeping. 1. The person in charge of a house; a housekeeper or innkeeper. Labels: archaic Example: The housekeep was back rather quickly with a tray, which held a flagon of ale and a pewter cup as well as bread and cheese. Example: Something clearly went wrong, for in the accounts for 1624, against the record of £50 paid to Jenninges the Housekeep at Theobalds for the setting of those Trees wch my Lord sent the king', Sackville Crowe has written in the margin that "This my Lord would not have comaunded againe though it were for the [king's] use'.
Word: housekeeps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of housekeep Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: housekept Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of housekeep Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: railway time Part of Speech: noun 1. A standardized time arrangement formerly used by railways to overcome the confusion caused by varying local times at different stations. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: The disparate time zones of Britain were unified under 'railway time' - as Dickens famously observed in Dombey: 'It was if the sun itself had given in.'
Word: nonspace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + space. 1. That which is not a social or physical space, or lacks the traditional attributes of spaces. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Today, the elevator cars of skyscrapers themselves have become the most intimidating nonspaces of the American metropolis. 2. A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For instance, spaces in a filename shipped from a DOS client are not translated to nonspace characters...
Word: nonspaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonspace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: alligator apple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the fact that American alligators sometimes eat the fruit. 1. A tropical fruit tree, of species Annona glabra, that grows in swamps in the tropical Americas and West Africa. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Fruit of Annona glabra, oblong to spherical and roughly apple-sized. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: ephemeris time Part of Speech: noun 1. A former standard astronomical time scale intended to overcome the drawbacks of irregularly fluctuating mean solar time, superseded in the 1970s. Labels: uncountable 2. A modern relativistic-coordinate time scale. Labels: uncountable
Word: nine-ball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Nine colored balls are used, in addition to the cue ball. 1. A form of pool in which players must hit with the cue ball the object ball with the lowest numerical value, but may legally pot any ball apart from the white; whichever player pots the nine ball wins the game. Labels: uncountable
Word: shrubless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shrub + -less. 1. Without shrubs. Labels: not-comparable Example: shrubless crags within the mist
Word: midibus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mid- + minibus. 1. A single-decker bus, generally smaller than a traditional bus but larger than a minibus.
Word: midibuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of midibus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: worshipless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From worship + -less. 1. Devoid of religious worship. Labels: not-comparable Example: How long by tyrants shall thy land be trod! / How long thy temple worshipless, Oh God!
Word: overproud Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + proud. 1. Excessively proud.
Word: intermaxillary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + maxillary. 1. Between the maxillae. Labels: not-comparable
Word: intermaxillary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inter- + maxillary. 1. An intermaxilla or premaxilla.
Word: unmasker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unmask + -er. 1. One who unmasks.
Word: unmaskers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unmasker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: carnivory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carnivore + -y. Pronunciation: /kɑːˈnɪvəɹi/ 1. The eating of meat; carnivorousness. Labels: uncountable Example: But if the natural carnivory of other species counts for something, why not the natural carnivory of Homo sapiens […]?
Word: resignment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From resign + -ment. 1. resignation Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: resignments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of resignment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unproclaimed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + proclaimed. 1. Not proclaimed; unannounced. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unreverent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + reverent. 1. Not reverent. Example: As priest unreverent, Streyght to the sacrament He made his hawke to fly, With hogeous showte and cry. Example: See not your bride in these unreverent robes: Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.
Word: caretake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From care + take, as a back-formation from caretaker or caretaking. 1. To look after as a caretaker. Labels: transitive Example: "Webster wants me to caretake his place while they're away."
Word: caretakes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of caretake Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: caretook Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of caretake Labels: form-of, past
Word: caretaken Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of caretake Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outbreeds Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outbreed Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outbreeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of outbreed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outbred Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outbreed Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: silvopastoral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From silva + -o- + pastoral. 1. Of or pertaining to silvopasture. Labels: not-comparable
Word: citole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably a French diminutive form of Latin cithara, and not from Latin cista (“a box”). 1. An archaic musical instrument whose exact form is uncertain, generally shown with four strings
Word: citoles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of citole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tarantass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian таранта́с (tarantás). Pronunciation: /taɹənˈtas/ 1. A low horse-drawn carriage without springs used in Russia, capable of having its wheels replaced with runners during the winter. Example: Three kinds of conveyances are available: the telega, or cart without springs, which has to be changed at every station, and for which a charge of about 8d. is made at every stage; the kibitka, or cart (in winter a sledge) with a hood; and the tarantas, a kind of carriage on wooden springs, which admits of the traveller lying down full length, and which can be made very comfortable at night. Example: From Samarkand, using that peculiarly Russian means of transport, the springless, horse-drawn tarantass, Curzon reached Tashkent by the post road in thirty uncomfortable hours.
Word: tarantasses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tarantass Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ad verbum Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad verbum (“to the word”). 1. On a word-by-word basis, without rephrasing; word for word; verbatim. Labels: not-comparable
Word: intwine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + twine (verb). 1. Archaic spelling of entwine. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: intwines Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of intwine Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: intwined Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of intwine Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: intwining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of intwine Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inuksuk Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of inukshuk. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: inuksuks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inuksuk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: firmamental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From firmament + -al (“of, pertaining to”, suffix forming an adjective). 1. Of, belonging to, or relating to the firmament or heavens; celestial. Labels: not-comparable Example: But there were certain early winter days in Casterbridge—days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests—when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet. 2. Of, belonging to, or relating to support or strengthening. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: institutor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin īnstitūtor. Compare French instituteur. By surface analysis, institute + -or. 1. One who institutes something. Example: institutors of civil policy 2. One who educates; an instructor. Labels: obsolete Example: The two great aims which every institutor of youth should mainly and intentionally drive at 3. A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church. Labels: obsolete
Word: institutors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of institutor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chalcedonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chalcedony + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to chalcedony. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Chalcedonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Chalcedon + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌkæl.sɪˈdəʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌkæl.səˈdoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. Relating to the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD). 2. Accepting the Christological definition dogmatized at Chalcedon.
Word: Chalcedonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chalcedon + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌkæl.sɪˈdəʊ.ni.ən/, /ˌkæl.səˈdoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. One who accepts the definition given at the Council of Chalcedon of how the divine and human relate in the person of Jesus Christ.
Word: Chalcedonians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Chalcedonian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: osnaburg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Osnaburg, the former English name of the German city of Osnabrück (from which it may have been first imported into English-speaking countries). 1. A plain, coarse textile fabric made from flax, tow or jute yarns. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: [I]f he attended those solemn meetings at which the price of freight or the quality of Osnaburghs was discussed, he turned the venerable persons of the old merchants and grocers into ridicule […].
Word: osnaburg Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Osnaburg, the former English name of the German city of Osnabrück (from which it may have been first imported into English-speaking countries). 1. Designating or made from this fabric. Labels: US Example: So that winter morning, I put on my osnaburg shirt and pants.
Word: osnaburgs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of osnaburg Labels: form-of, plural
Word: untiled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tiled. 1. Not tiled. Labels: not-comparable
Word: shoeblack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shoe + black. 1. One who cleans and polishes shoes (and boots) as an occupation.
Word: shoeblacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shoeblack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diamondiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From diamond + -i- + -ferous. 1. Yielding diamond. Example: diamondiferous sand
Word: shitass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shit ass. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As she was leaving Bernice said to her, “Lucille, I'm sorry my son was such a shitass.” 2. a disrespectful term of address Labels: colloquial, vulgar Example: “Hey, shitass, wake up,” said Hooter, then gave the kid's shoulder a shake. Example: “Hey, shitass, you studying the crowd charts?”
Word: femspeak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fem + -speak. 1. The characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse. Labels: derogatory, uncountable Example: The aim of this jargon-sodden Femspeak is to set up a myth of women artists as a hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women. Example: The Bergers assert that “the family is a problem”, and note that the concept of 'gender roles' is merely “femspeak” – a technique for arguing that the assignment of roles within the family is arbitrary and that it can/should be changed, so as to advance women's welfare (p 64).
Word: shit ass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shit + ass. 1. A jerk; a mean, contemptible or obnoxious person. Labels: derogatory, vulgar
Word: vairs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vair Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retwist Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + twist. 1. To twist again or anew. Labels: transitive Example: "Pshaw!—there, all's right again—but you must pay me for my trouble." So saying, he retwisted the note, kissed the bearer, and walked off with a careless composure.
Word: retwists Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of retwist Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person