nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: vocabularium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vocābulārium. Doublet of vocabulary. 1. Vocabulary. Labels: countable, humorous, often, rare, uncountable Example: I therefore want to know if a captain of volunteers is justified in applying to his superior officer language unbecoming an officer and a gentleman? If he is, then I would suggest that a regulation vocabulary should be served out to the whole force, so that officers and men may know the class of language an officer may be justified in applying to those of superior or inferior rank to himself. This would prevent a surprise, and all branches of the service would thoroughly comprehend the nature of orders given, no matter how much vocabularium, rhetoric or polite word-painting the most learned officer may lavish upon them in discharge of his arduous duties. Example: “This,” said Mr. Esking, with a sly smile, “is a very early transcript of Archbishop Alfric’s vocabularium, and this other is sent to me by a friend at Brussels, who believes it to be that copy of the same work which was in possession of Rubens, the painter, missing ever since his death.”
Word: less than threes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of less than three Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: less than threeing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of less than three Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: less than threed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of less than three Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Ellan Vannin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Manx Ellan Vannin. 1. Poetic, literary or affectionate name for the Isle of Man; an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
Word: Mannin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Manx Mannin. 1. The Isle of Man; an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
Word: multilateralist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multilateral + -ist. 1. Supporting or advocating multilateralism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: multilateralist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From multilateral + -ist. 1. An advocate of multilateralism.
Word: riblets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of riblet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: riblet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rib + -let. 1. Boneless processed pork or beef rib meat, served at restaurants and fast food places. Labels: US 2. A cut of veal or lamb taken from near the rib Labels: UK
Word: rollaway Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From roll + away. 1. Having wheels to allow for storage. Labels: not-comparable Example: This rollaway bed goes under my main bed.
Word: mycelial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mycelium + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to the mycelium Labels: not-comparable Example: Mycelial lives are so other, their possibilities so strange.
Word: neurocristopathy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neuro- + crest + -pathy. 1. Any disorder related to the abnormal development of the neural crest.
Word: neuroectodermal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neuro- + ectodermal. 1. Of or pertaining to the neuroectoderm. Labels: not-comparable
Word: neurofibromin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neurofibroma + -in. 1. Any of a group of proteins associated with neurofibromatosis
Word: ooplasm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oo- + -plasm. 1. The cytoplasm of an egg or ovum Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: organoperoxy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From organo- + peroxy. 1. Any organic peroxy radical (R-O-O-)
Word: neurofibromins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neurofibromin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fratboy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of frat boy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: palometa Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of numerous types of fish. (See Wikipedia for a list.)
Word: paper aeroplanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paper aeroplane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paper planes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paper plane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parenthesizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parenthesization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: poker run Part of Speech: noun 1. A motorcycling event where each participant pays a fee, and then follows a course with checkpoints, at each of which a playing card is drawn. At the last checkpoint, the rider with the best poker hand is the winner. Typically poker runs end with a party, and the proceeds benefit a charity.
Word: dice run Part of Speech: noun 1. Similar to a poker run, an organized event where motorcyclists pay an entry fee and then follow a prescribed course with checkpoints, at each of which dice are rolled and the result recorded. At the last checkpoint a winner is determined and prizes awarded, typically at a party. Proceeds usually go to benefit a charity.
Word: scapulalgia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scapula + -algia. 1. Pain in the shoulder.
Word: mind games Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mind game Labels: form-of, plural
Word: VEOS Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of virtual environment operating shell. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: scapulalgias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scapulalgia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: organoperoxys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of organoperoxy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neurocristopathies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neurocristopathy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multilateralists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of multilateralist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sensory receptors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sensory receptor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: methionyls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of methionyl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leukemogeneses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leukemogenesis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hemagglutinations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hemagglutination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: encephalomyopathies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of encephalomyopathy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dysautonomias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dysautonomia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oversat Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of oversit Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: asphericities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of asphericity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: adipimidates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of adipimidate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subqualities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subquality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: submodalities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of submodality Labels: form-of, plural
Word: picoeukaryotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of picoeukaryote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neuromedins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neuromedin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: memcapacitors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of memcapacitor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: memcapacitances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of memcapacitance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: benchtops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of benchtop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: excavation units Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of excavation unit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lava domes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lava dome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cinder blocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cinder block Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cinder cones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cinder cone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eruca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin eruca, in its senses of "caterpillar" and "colewort" respectively. Cognate with arugula, rucola, rocket, roquette. 1. Caterpillar; larva. 2. Arugula: rocket. Example: The eruca, or rocket, so called from the Greek, […] was had in so great esteem heretofore, as to its efficacy in conjugal performances, that many of the antient authors, both in poetry and prose, make mention of it purely for that purpose:[…] Example: Eruca, or Garden Rocket, was formerly much used as a salad herb, but has been long rejected on account of its ungrateful smell.
Word: BCDs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of BCD Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sifu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cantonese 師傅／师傅 (si1 fu6-2, “master”) and 師父／师父 (si1 fu6-2, “my master”), both also conveying the sense of teacher. 1. A master or teacher in the context of martial arts, especially kung fu and tai chi. Example: Who is -- don't get cute with me, you dumb bastard, I'm your sifu. 2. A spiritual father in esoteric contexts.
Word: know beans about Part of Speech: verb 1. To know something, even if only a little, about. Labels: US Example: But the great artist doesn't know "beans" about driving oxen. He has put his driver on the "off" side of the yoke. Example: If this self-styled expert in the field of human relations knew beans about handling people he'd get more work out of the women and fewer tears. 2. To know nothing, or almost nothing, about. Labels: US, idiomatic Example: His primary opponent, Raphael Herman, is a real estate salesman who frankly admits he knows beans about insurance.
Word: isostatically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From isostatic + -ally. 1. In an isostatic manner.
Word: talweg Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of thalweg. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: oviparity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin ōviparus + -ity. Pronunciation: /əʊvɪˈpæɹɪti/, /oʊvɪˈpæɹɪti/ 1. The condition of being oviparous. Labels: uncountable
Word: ovoviviparity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ovo- (“egg”) + viviparity. 1. The condition of being ovoviviparous. Labels: uncountable Example: I have not had opportunities of examining any of the animals of this group preserved in spirits, but have found no difficulty in making out the fact of ovoviviparity by macerating the dried animal in cabinet specimens of the shells, when the oviduct in the females, in several species, was found to be filled with young animals with four- to six-whorled shells about one-eighth of an inch in length. Example: […] the wide dispersal of certain household species, the development of ovoviviparity in several tropical forms and of myrmecophilous and sphegophilous habits in others […]
Word: peginterferon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From peg- + interferon. 1. A pegylated interferon.
Word: perivitelline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From peri- + vitelline. 1. Situated around (or near) the vitellus. Labels: not-comparable
Word: polyornithine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + ornithine. 1. The polypeptide whose constituent amino acid is ornithine Labels: uncountable
Word: precoated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + coated. 1. Coated in advance of another process. Labels: not-comparable
Word: biggers Part of Speech: noun 1. Those bigger than oneself. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Forest and Stream (1882), Outing, Volumes 1-2, page 62: “Do not his biggers and betters brag of scores which would not have been made if their guides and oarsmen had not fished?” Example: For whether he clung to the walls, or made stepping-stones of his brothers and sisters (as do many of his betters, or at least his biggers), who can tell?
Word: biggers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bigger Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: biggering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bigger Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: biggered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bigger Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: prehydrated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + hydrated. 1. hydrated in advance of another process
Word: reptilia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reptilium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reptilium Part of Speech: noun 1. An enclosure in which reptiles are kept
Word: retrotransposes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of retrotranspose Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sauropterygians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sauropterygian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sauropterygian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Sauropterygia + -ian. 1. A reptile of the extinct superorder Sauropterygia. Example: The sauropterygians had streamlined bodies and their limbs were more or less modified to function as paddles or flippers.
Word: secretome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From secrete + -ome. 1. That part of a proteome consisting of proteins secreted from a cell
Word: selenomethionyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From selenomethionine + -yl. 1. The univalent radical derived from selenomethionine.
Word: selenomethionyl Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From selenomethionine + -yl. 1. Containing selenomethionine. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sesquiterpenes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sesquiterpene Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shastasaurid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any extinct ichthyosaur in the family Shastasauridae.
Word: spectrographic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to spectrography or spectrographs. Labels: not-comparable
Word: strokelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stroke + -like. 1. Characteristic of a stroke (medical incident)
Word: plasma wakefield acceleration Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of high-gradient particle acceleration which uses the longitudinal electric field of plasma wakefield excited by a laser pulse or bunch of relativistic charged particles. Labels: uncountable
Word: superjacent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin superjacēns, present participle of superjacēre, from super- + jacēre (“to lie”). Pronunciation: /s(j)uːpəˈdʒeɪsənt/ 1. Positioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying. Labels: not-comparable Example: Pemulis, Troeltsch, and Schacht's triple-room is subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House and so superjacent to the Dining Hall […].
Word: supraspinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From supra- + spinal. 1. Positioned above the spine Labels: not-comparable
Word: varanid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scientific Latin Varanidae (family name). 1. Any lizard of the genus Varanus; a monitor lizard. Example: Although fossils of giant varanids had been known since the mid-1800s, the discovery that giant lizards were still among us, albeit on a few isolated islands in far-away Southeast Asia, was met with fascination and excitement.
Word: versican Part of Speech: noun 1. An extracellular matrix proteoglycan that is present in human tissue Labels: uncountable
Word: asbos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of asbo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bierkellers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bierkeller Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bierkeller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Bierkeller, from Bier (“beer”) + Keller (“cellar”). 1. An underground pub where German beer is served.
Word: foundationwear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From foundation + -wear. 1. corsetry (foundation garments) Labels: uncountable
Word: genitrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin genitrīx. By surface analysis, genitor + -trix. 1. The biological mother of a child.
Word: amperometry Part of Speech: noun 1. An analytical technique that involves the continuous measurement of electric current during a reaction or titration. Labels: physical
Word: ethylmaleimide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ethyl + maleimide. 1. An N-ethyl derivative of maleimide that is used to modify cystine residues in proteins and peptides Labels: uncountable
Word: exocytosing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of exocytose Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: exocytose Part of Speech: verb 1. To undergo exocytosis
Word: foldome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fold + -ome. 1. The totality of folded structures of proteins
Word: immunome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From immune + -ome. 1. All the genes and proteins associated with an immune system
Word: nosepiece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nose + piece. 1. Anything (originally a piece of armour) that protects the nose. Example: The big craze from this source [television] in 1966 was for a Batman outfit. This consisted of a large black cape, shaped cowl and pants with belt, with 'shimmering P.V.C. contrasting bat decorations'. So for 29s. 6d. a child was disguised and pictured himself flying over the treetops and in fact, with slit eyes and a nose-piece, a child did not look himself at all, and knew that his appearance was frightening. Example: At impact, the nosepiece of Phelps’s goggles snapped. 2. An animal's noseband. 3. The bridge between spectacle lenses that rests on the nose. 4. The part of a microscope that holds the objectives. 5. The outer end or point of a pipe, bellows, etc.
Word: ORFeome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ORF + -ome. 1. The totality of open reading frames in a genome
Word: phogrin Part of Speech: noun 1. A protein present on insulin-secretory granules of pancreatic beta cells Labels: uncountable
Word: piecharts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of piechart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: piechart Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pie chart. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: plasmalemma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From plasma + lemma. 1. The cell membrane.
Word: porocytosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poro- + -cyte + -osis. 1. The secretion of neurotransmitters through an array of docked vesicle/secretory pore complexes Labels: uncountable
Word: bean counters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bean counter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balancings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of balancing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: baklavalike Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of baklava-like. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It makes a nice pairing with the nutty, honey-laden brewate, a baklavalike dessert made with almonds, sesame seeds, and orange blossom water.
Word: baldachin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of baldacchin. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: She rode beneath a purple baldachin, which the doctors of Ferrara--that is, the members of the faculties of law, medicine, and mathematics--supported in turn. Example: The bronze that formerly ornamented this temple was made use of to fabricate the baldachin of St Peter's.
Word: balseros Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of balsero Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balsero Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish balsero. 1. A refugee who travels from Cuba to America by sea. Example: If Manglano-Ovalle sympathizes with the balseros, Kara Walker's installation at the Renaissance Society is so over-the-top it can hardly be reduced to a simple argument.
Word: syncollin Part of Speech: noun 1. A small protein found in the exocrine pancreas Labels: uncountable
Word: timecourse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From time + course. 1. The variation of a quantity over time. 2. The varying activity of a medicine over time following administration.
Word: translatome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translate + -ome. 1. The totality of proteins formed by translation of mRNA
Word: unknome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unknown + -ome. 1. The totality of genes of unknown function in a genome. Labels: neologism
Word: physiome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From physio- + -ome. 1. The totality of physiological functions associated with the genes of a genome
Word: deca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deca-, from Latin decas (“ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás, “10”). Sense 1 is a clipping of decanoate. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkə/ 1. The anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate. Labels: slang, uncountable 2. Clipping of decathlon. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
Word: NMEA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of National Marine Electronics Association; shortened form of NMEA 0183. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: balloony Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From balloon + -y. 1. Tending to balloon Example: His low-cut shirt-collar and narrow silken neck-tie were in the style called "English," as quite decidedly, also, were his cross-barred trousers of balloony build; nor, although thus flinging himself for diversion into the vortex of the lower crowd, had he foregone the luxury of tan-colored kid gloves and patent-leather shoes. Example: Above the word is part of "Central," rendered in a dated balloony script, underlining the archaic nature of Gross's subject.
Word: ballhawk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ball + hawk. 1. A player who is particularly good at catching interceptions. 2. A fielder who is particularly good at catching fly balls. Example: They documented Waveland Avenue's ballhawk culture, where Moe Mullins, who's recovered more than 3,500, is king, and followed him home to gape at his bounty: 1,000 major-league balls hoarded like dinosaur eggs. Example: Last season, when the Giants came to town, a noted ballhawk named Wes Wagner scored tickets in the first row of the bleacher boxes in right field.
Word: loblolly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + dialect lolly (“broth”). 1. Gruel. Labels: countable, dialectal, uncountable 2. A thick stew; lobscouse or similar. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable 3. A mudhole. Labels: Southern, US, countable, uncountable Example: he and Narcissa paddled and splashed with tucked-up garments and muddy bottoms, after the crudest of whittled boats, or made loblollies by treading and treading in one spot with the intense oblivion of alchemists. 4. A bumpkin or lout. Labels: countable, dialectal, uncountable Example: Whil'st he, not dreaming of thy folly, Lies gaping like a great Lob-lolly Example: 1694, François Rabelais, (trans. Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux), The Fourth Book. This also is to be as silly as that jolt-headed loblolly of a carter, who, having laid his waggon fast in a slough, down on his marrow-bones was calling on the strong-backed deity, Hercules, might and main, to help him at a dead lift, but all the while forgot to goad on his oxen and lay his shoulder to the wheels, as it behoved him; as if a Lord have mercy upon us alone would have got his cart out of the mire. 5. Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda). Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Loblolly bay (plant). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: loblolly Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + dialect lolly (“broth”). 1. To behave in a loutish manner. Example: 1898, William Black, Wild Eelin, page 174, OCLC 2066856. You'd rather lob-lolly about these refreshment-rooms, and stuff yourselves until you can't stir.
Word: loblolly pine Part of Speech: noun 1. A pine tree, Pinus taeda, native to the southeastern US and extensively planted. Labels: countable Example: He drove [his tee shot] behind a tree and tried to slip his second [shot] through a narrow opening, but hit another tall loblolly pine. Example: For $600, they dropped an obese white oak that was lurching after my roof deck, two poplars and a diseased maple, plus three more loblolly pines. 2. The wood of Pinus taeda. Labels: uncountable Example: The living area, 32 feet by 20 feet, consists of a great room; a pocket-size kitchen set off by a granite counter and an indoor pergola of loblolly pine; a dining space just big enough for a table and four chairs; and a sleeping nook with a double bed.
Word: baldachins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baldachin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beatnikism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beatnik + -ism. 1. The social and artistic ideas associated with beatniks Labels: uncountable Example: At the time, existentialism was the philosophical equivalent of beatnikism, conjuring up images of berets, iconoclasm, and the rejection of status quo values.
Word: beatless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From beat + -less. 1. Having no beat. Labels: not-comparable Example: Labradford's debut album, Prazision, was ambient music for indie rockers, blissfully devoid of both high-gloss digitalia and New Age goo--a series of drifting, beatless soundscapes created with analog synthesizers and heavily treated guitar.
Word: beavering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beaver + -ing. 1. Hunting or trapping beaver. Labels: uncountable Example: Thank'ee, Hurry; thank'ee, with all my heart--but I do a little beavering for myself as occasions offer.
Word: beavering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From beaver + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of beaver Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: beavering away Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of beaver away Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: becardiganed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From be- + cardigan + -ed. 1. Wearing a cardigan Labels: not-comparable Example: While Carrabba doesn't fit the stereotype of the bespectacled, becardiganed emo boy--he looks rather like a rockabilly refugee--his personal history reflects that of his fans.
Word: bedroomy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bedroom + -y. First use appears c. 1842. See cite below. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a bedroom; thus, intimate or sleepy. Example: Dr. Rigby states, that before this plan was adopted, the air of the wards was always close, oppressive, and bedroomy, owing to a want of proper ventilation. Example: When we brought our furniture from the house in the town, the large front rooms and the open halls used it up so, that it seemed as if there were hardly anything left but bedsteads and washstands and bureaus, - the very things that make up-stairs look so very bedroomy.
Word: crustation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crust + -ation. Pronunciation: /kɹʌsˈteɪʃən/ 1. An adherent crust; an incrustation
Word: bus. Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɪz/ 1. Abbreviation of business. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of bushel Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: beachgoing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beach + going. 1. The activity of going to the beach for recreation. Labels: uncountable Example: Even in the posthippie era, no Chicago territory could be claimed for bare-ass beachgoing. Example: […] he and Frances Sternhagen played a long-married couple whose beachgoing idyll is interrupted by the arrival of two inquisitive amphibians.
Word: beachgoing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From beach + going. 1. Visiting a beach recreationally. Labels: not-comparable
Word: beeg Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /biːɡ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of big, imitating certain foreign accents. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: He is beeg like his beeg country. Example: "Because," said Gideon, smiling down at her, "I ain' got no beeg club like she has."
Word: beeing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bee Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: I know it took not beeing at thy birth: thou hast been merrie, thou hast sounded hoopes, swallowed whiffes, walkt late, worn favours, seene whoresons; thou canst feele and understand, come thou hast bene a sinner, unloade, discharge, untune, confesse, is Venus dominatrix? art not in love?
Word: beerhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beer + -head. 1. A drunk. Labels: colloquial Example: I can lick a whole regiment of them beerheads with one hand tied behind me an' my feet in a sack. Example: You know, fools and beerheads.
Word: beerheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beerhead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bayadere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bayadère. Pronunciation: /ˌbaɪ.əˈdɛə(ɹ)/ 1. A female dancer. Labels: countable, dated Example: Her performance being finished, the bayadere was succeeded by others, each of whom appeared to have her specialty--one imitating by her postures a serpent-charmer; another quite unequivocally representing a man-charmer; another rapidly executing what seemed an interminable pirouette. Example: For the time, at any rate, the neat dexterity of counting and numbering machines, building machines, spinning engines, patent doorways, explosive motors, grain and water elevators, slaughter-house machines and harvesting appliances, was more fascinating to Graham than any bayadere. 2. A type of fabric having strongly contrasting stripes. Labels: attributive, countable, uncountable Example: Bertha had chosen a blue and white silk of a bayadere stripe, with lace ruffles at the neck and wrists and a skirt of voluminous fulness.
Word: bayaderes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bayadere Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bassless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bass + -less. 1. Lacking a bass Labels: not-comparable Example: (The band is bassless, consisting of guitarist Brace Paine, drummer Hannah Blilie, and Ditto.)
Word: basslike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bass + -like. 1. Resembling a bass. Example: On tracks like "Mama's Gonna Make Us a Cake" one guitarist plays basslike parts while the other goes nuts in a scrappy way; for "Evil Operations Classified" Billotte and Wilcox drop into lockstep to exhilarating effect. 2. Resembling a bass (the fish). Example: Royal dorado was the only disappointment — intensely basslike in flavor, but dry.
Word: ballade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of balada and ballad. 1. Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements. Example: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. Example: "Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade[… 2. A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.
Word: ballades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ballade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plasmalemmae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plasmalemma Labels: form-of, nonstandard, plural
Word: balladic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ballad + -ic. 1. Characteristic of a ballad Example: Still, my favorite moments are the quiet ones, like when Henry, the tell-me-about-the-rabbits-George deviate, croons his balladic confession, "I did a thing." Example: Vedder and the rest of the band are at their best when they're feeling balladic.
Word: immunomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of immunome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nosepieces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nosepiece Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bandleading Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From band + leading. 1. Leading a musical band. Labels: not-comparable Example: Great jazz quartets have often flowered when a bandleading pianist finds a soulmate on sax: Monk and Charlie Rouse, for instance, or Brubeck and Paul Desmond.
Word: bandleading Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From band + leading. 1. The art of leading a musical band. Labels: uncountable Example: But Israel belongs to the select group of drummers--Art Blakey, Max Roach, Paul Motian, and Ronald Shannon Jackson among them--who approach bandleading with fresh and distinctive vision. Example: Gonzalez has undoubtedly developed his musical facility by learning to occupy either the foreground of a piece as a trumpeter or its background as a conguero; his bandleading and horn playing have kept him pretty busy over the years, but he easily could've succeeded as a drummer.
Word: foldomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of foldome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: banjolike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From banjo + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a banjo Example: In flashes, they do transcend their influences--particularly Newman, whose beautifully illogical machinations can morph from dry harmonic plinks to banjolike plonks to ominous, industrial-sounding hums. Example: The lyrics were in several West African languages, and the lineup paired African instruments — the kora (the djelis’ 21-string harp-lute), the xylophonelike balafon, the small banjolike ngoni and the booming djembe (hand drum) — with modern counterparts: electric guitar, bass, keyboard and trap drums.
Word: selenomethionyls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of selenomethionyl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: secretomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of secretome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loblollies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of loblolly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peginterferons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of peginterferon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: banjouke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From banjo + uke. Pronunciation: /ˈbænd͡ʒəʊˌjuːk/ 1. A ukulele with the head of a banjo Example: […] Morris's banjo and banjouke improvisations pulse along with William Parker's basslike zintir and Hamid Drake's drumming for an avant-garde Moroccan hoedown.
Word: banjoukes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of banjouke Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bannerlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From banner + -like. 1. Resembling a banner Example: In the center of Flag are five bannerlike horizontal colored bands, each containing a row of plants--but this flag is no fixed symbolic entity. Example: On talk shows Mr. Huckabee would hold up his campaign pledges and the bannerlike size 50 pants he wore in his previous life.
Word: bannerlike Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From banner + -like. 1. So as to resemble a banner Example: He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.
Word: barnburners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of barnburner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: barleycorns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of barleycorn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: barklike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bark + -like. 1. Resembling the bark of a tree Example: […] a gray vertical cylinder has a rough barklike exterior and a smooth white plaster interior[…]
Word: barless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bar + -less. 1. Lacking bars or a bar. Labels: not-comparable Example: The French have re-occupied a fort twenty miles up the pretty barless river, the outlet of a great lagoon; it was abandoned during the Prusso-Gallic war. Example: Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal.
Word: barracudalike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From barracuda + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a barracuda Labels: not-comparable Example: It's hard to be sorry that Peyankov almost upstages his fellow players, who are excellent but not amazing--such as Mary Kay Blaschke as the sometimes whimpering, sometimes barracudalike Cutts[…].
Word: bashy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bash + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbæ.ʃi/ 1. Intensely percussive Example: The record doesn't refuse to rock: the trebly attack of songs like "Drown" and "Route" is reminiscent of the bashy splendor of the earliest Tupelo releases.
Word: basswork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bass + work. 1. The playing of the bass Labels: uncountable Example: His basswork is both sure-fingered and mercifully sparse[…].
Word: terminal figures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of terminal figure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: batidas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of batida Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bearbaiting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bere baityng; equivalent to bear + baiting or bearbait + -ing. 1. A blood sport in which dogs are set upon a chained bear Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But bearbaiting, then a favourite diversion of high and low, was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries. Example: By this the whole matter had presented itself to them as an entertainment more diverting than bullfight or bearbaiting. 2. A bloodthirsty free for all. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: All of these pivoted on the larger Problems: Not only how the press should discuss sexual morality of public officials but whether this ever should be a measure of fitness for public office; not only how the local press will allow its judgment to be pre-empted or conditioned by the Washington press, but also how news judgments, always contagious, can degenerate into bear baiting. Example: But that's not the worst part of the phenomenon that the press conference bearbaiting illustrates.
Word: bearbaiting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bere baityng; equivalent to bear + baiting or bearbait + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of bearbait Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: beanbrawl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bean + brawl. 1. A fight between teams at a baseball game, typically caused by a beanball. Labels: informal 2. A fiercely competitive baseball game. Labels: broadly, informal Example: The Sox had fought their way out of the doldrums, just as they'd done in April in their beanbrawl with the Detroit Tigers--another game that involved Parque.
Word: whatevers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From whatever + -s (plural suffix). 1. plural of whatever Labels: form-of, plural Example: Maybe it's neither fiber, optics nor wires that are incubating the revolution in communications. Maybe it's the cellular whatevers that go into those phones you see people ostensibly talking into while driving automobiles. Example: In 1999, when lists featuring the best and worst whatevers of the last hundred or thousand years were appearing all over, A. S. Byatt wrote on the Times Web site that she loved lists.
Word: whatevers Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From whatever + -s (hypocoristic suffix). 1. Synonym of whatever. Labels: slang
Word: battement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French battement (“beating, hitting”). 1. A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg Example: […] he raised slowly his rounded arms, stretched them gracefully backward and forward, moved his feet with precision and lightness, took a few small steps, made some battements and pirouettes, and disappeared like a butterfly. Example: Ernst and Watson are superb dancers--extraordinarily agile and acrobatic, and their unison spins, battements, and body lines showed a split-second timing. 2. A thumping or beating sensation Labels: obsolete Example: Secondly, though there is an audible vertigo, as is known by the battement, or undulations of sound in the ears, which many vertiginous people experience[…].
Word: battements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of battement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beanbrawls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beanbrawl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loblolly bay Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of species Gordonia lasianthus of elegant white-flowered evergreen shrubs or small trees, growing in the maritime parts of the southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Example: [T]hat elegant evergreen-tree, called in South Carolina and the Floridas, the Loblolly-bay[.] 2. A similar West Indian tree of species Gordonia haematoxylon.
Word: loblolly bays Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of loblolly bay Labels: form-of, plural
Word: barwalking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bar + walking. 1. A form of showmanship in which a musician stands on the bar Labels: uncountable Example: He sang in an urgent, desperate sort of chant, and on saxophone he exaggerated the squealing sharpness of the R & B barwalking tradition.
Word: barstaurant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of bar + restaurant. 1. A combined bar and restaurant. Example: It's hard to find spiritual reverence in an advertisement for "Kokopelli," a Chicago "barstaurant" that "endeavors to honor its namesake […]" Example: Thus the owners of Boka hope to imprint an atmosphere of fellowship on their new venture, LANDMARK, a noisy and for the moment crowded barstaurant at the epicenter of the neighborhood once voted Most in Denial of the Housing Project Next Door.
Word: barstaurants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of barstaurant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: talkathon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From talk + -athon. 1. A lengthy speech, discussion or debate. Example: Another senate talkathon shaped up today as southern solons fashioned a vocal onslaught against new anti-lynching legislation. Example: Moreover, opponents are threatening a prolonged talkathon that could drag on into next year's presidential primary season.
Word: solons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of solon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: talkathons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of talkathon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: barotrauma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From baro- + trauma. 1. Damage to body tissue caused by a difference in pressure between an air space in or near the body and the surrounding air. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Of course, one must take care not to inadvertently seal the ear canal with the suction tip, thereby risking "tympanic membrane barotrauma" and possibly sucking out the patient's brains. Example: The timing raised suspicions that the whales had been disoriented by "barotrauma," or pressure injuries to sensitive ear and brain tissues caused by sound waves.
Word: barhopper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bar + hopper. 1. Someone who engages in barhopping. Example: They water their patch lawns and struggle to pick up the garbage left by Belmont Avenue barhoppers.
Word: barback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bar + back, due to working in the back area of the bar and not interacting with the patrons. Compare back of house and back office. 1. An assistant to a bartender. Example: Cerda moved to Chicago and worked at a series of bars and clubs: the Orbit Room, the Paradise Club, even a stint at Limelight, where he supplemented his earnings as a barback by performing as Nina Hagen in one of the cages.
Word: barback Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bar + back, due to working in the back area of the bar and not interacting with the patrons. Compare back of house and back office. 1. To work as a barback. Labels: intransitive
Word: barbacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of barback Labels: form-of, plural
Word: barbacks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of barback Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: barhoppers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of barhopper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: timecourses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of timecourse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plasmalemmas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plasmalemma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plasmalemmata Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plasmalemma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: transflective Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of transmissive + reflective. 1. Of a liquid crystal display: that reflects and transmits light.
Word: secondee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From second (“to transfer (someone) temporarily to alternative employment”, verb) + -ee (suffix forming terms meaning persons or things that actions are done to). Pronunciation: /sɪˌkɒnˈdiː/, /səˌkɑnˈdiː/ 1. A person who is seconded (“transferred temporarily to alternative employment”). . Labels: Commonwealth, UK Example: At the very least, the government should consider restricting the emigration of skilled people who are in short supply and extend its monitoring system to include emigrating graduates of vocational and higher institutes, as well as government secondees and people officially contracted to work abroad. Example: Operator shall engage or retain only such employees, Secondees, contractors, consultants and agents as are reasonably necessary to conduct Joint Operations. For the purposes of this Article 4.3, "Secondee" means an employee of a Non-Operator (or its Affiliate) who is seconded to Operator to provide services under a secondment agreement to be negotiated and entered into between Operator and such Non-Operator; […]
Word: disclarity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + clarity. 1. The quality of being inconsistent; inconsistency Labels: uncountable Example: […] film (with its postmodern allegory: disclarity between text and subtext) […] 2. The quality of being opaque, vague or unclear Labels: uncountable
Word: Uachtarán Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Irish. 1. Title of a person who holds the office of President of Ireland. 2. The head of state of Ireland; the Irish president.
Word: viscously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From viscous + -ly. 1. In a viscous manner.
Word: quartzose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From quartz + -ose. 1. Pertaining to quartz; made of quartz.
Word: putschist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Putschist. Equivalent to putsch + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊtʃɪst/ 1. One who participates in a putsch. Example: The Forum itself would always, henceforth, wield a strange kind of mesmeric fascination upon the mob demagogue or would-be putschist. Example: The alleged putschists are said to have taken inspiration from the global QAnon movement.
Word: putschists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of putschist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyperenergetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + energetic. 1. Extremely energetic. Example: "The Moor's Last Sigh" -- a narratively manic, verbally hyperenergetic, comical, fantastical, roiling multicultural mulch of a novel of India -- would also have been a commendable winner.
Word: tsebe Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtsɛbeɪ/ 1. The springbok. Labels: archaic Example: […] the Tsebe, or Spring-Boc, Prong-Boc, or Showy Goat, is perhaps the most graceful in its proportions, and beautifully varied in its colours, of all the antelope tribe. Example: Pair of Antlers of Axis Deer and Horns of Spring-Boc, or Tsebe, Antidorcas Euchore.
Word: tilapias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tilapia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: turboencabulator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A fanciful construction from turbo-, en-, cab, -ule, -ate, and -or. 1. A fictional machine whose name is used to illustrate the perils of excessive jargon in technical writing. Labels: humorous
Word: turboencabulators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of turboencabulator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Rastus Part of Speech: name Etymology: Thought to be derived from Erastus. Despite paucity of actual usage, the name became associated with African-American men because of a character in the first Uncle Remus book by Joel Chandler Harris. 1. A male given name of American usage.
Word: Rastus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Thought to be derived from Erastus. Despite paucity of actual usage, the name became associated with African-American men because of a character in the first Uncle Remus book by Joel Chandler Harris. 1. A stereotypical African American man, often a cheerful character in minstrel shows. Labels: historical, offensive Example: But neither did it turn them into Rastuses and Sambos; nor deprive their behaviour of logical and recognisable roots in the conditions of a regional culture whose impact had been distilled into Negro spirituals or the blues. Example: From the end of slavery to the period of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, ads in the U.S. continued to show blacks as Aunt Jemimas, Uncle Bens and Rastuses—individuals subservient to whites.
Word: Erastus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἔραστος (Érastos), from ἐραστός (erastós, “lovable”). 1. A certain early Christian and city chamberlain. (biblical character) Example: Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother. 2. A male given name from Ancient Greek of biblical derivation. Labels: rare
Word: sleeping cars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sleeping car Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reëvaluate Part of Speech: verb 1. Rare spelling of re-evaluate. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: reëvaluating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reëvaluate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: The Commission amended its previously issued Order 19, reëvaluating the needs of the various services on the grounds of public interest, convenience and necessity. Example: […] and reëvaluating existing test procedures and methods of reporting data.
Word: reëvaluates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reëvaluate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reëvaluated Part of Speech: verb 1. Rare spelling of re-evaluated; simple past and past participle of reëvaluate. Labels: alt-of, rare