nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: white sheep Part of Speech: noun 1. a conformist; an ordinary or conventional person Labels: idiomatic 2. a disliked person; one who is disfavored Labels: idiomatic, ironic Example: I was the white sheep of the family, the straight man. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, sheep.
Word: chytridiomycosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chytridio- + mycosis, from Ancient Greek χυτρίδιον (khutrídion, “little pot”), and μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”). 1. An infectious disease of amphibians caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (amphibian chytrid fungus) or (chiefly in salamanders and newts) by Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In epidemic outbreaks and when it is present as an endemic, vulnerability to chytridiomycosis caused by B. dendrobatidis varies widely among species. Example: 2013, Evan A. Eskew, Brian D. Todd, Parallels in Amphibian and Bat Declines from Pathogenic Fungi, D. Peter Drotman (editor-in-chief), Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, page 379, Pathogenic fungi have substantial effects on global diversity, and 2 emerging pathogenic species—the chytridiomycete Batrachochrytium dendrobatidis, which causes chytridiomycosis in amphibians, and the ascomycete Geomyces destructans, which causes white-nose syndrome in hibernating bats—are implicated in the widespread decline of their vertebrate hosts.
Word: rebindings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rebinding Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wagger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wag + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Pronunciation: /ˈwæɡə/, /ˈwæɡəɹ/ 1. One who, or that which, wags. Example: a finger-wagger waggers of tongues 2. A truant, notably who ditches school. Example: With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.
Word: wagger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ellipsis of wagger-pagger-bagger. Pronunciation: /ˈwæɡə/, /ˈwæɡəɹ/ 1. Ellipsis of wagger-pagger-bagger. Labels: British, abbreviation, alt-of, dated, ellipsis, humorous, slang
Word: waggers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wagger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hobbyistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hobbyist + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to hobbyists; amateurishly enthusiastic. Example: Society but wounds itself when it seeks to discredit the teachings of Science, by setting against the comprehensive and well-weighed decisions of her true representatives, the crude opinions and hobbyistic dogmas of men whose perceptions are dimmed by the gloom of the den in which they think and move. Example: If history is no longer a realm of concatenation, if there are no necessary connections among discrete events and no possibility of a hierarchy of materials ranged along some scale of significance, any associative chain of fantasies, any crotchety hobbyistic interest, any technical fascination with the rendering of odd trivia, can be pursued by the novelist as legitimately as the movement of supposedly “significant” actions.
Word: nonslippage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + slippage. 1. Absence of slippage. Labels: uncountable
Word: show a clean pair of heels Part of Speech: verb 1. To run away; to make an escape quickly. Labels: idiomatic Example: ‘[...]No, gentlemen; he'll always show ’em a clean pair of heels very early in the scuffle, and sneak away.’ Example: But in the second column the "Britannia" Pacific , though with one coach less, showed a cleaner pair of heels, [...].
Word: nonburning Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + burning. 1. Not burning. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonimmutable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + immutable. 1. Not immutable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: immutables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of immutable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noncalorific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + calorific. 1. Not calorific. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonym: noncaloric
Word: literateur Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of litterateur. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Tha'alibi was one of the leading literateurs of the 4th/10th and early 5th/11th centuries who was endowed with a comprehensive knowledge of Arabic prose and poetry.
Word: literateurs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of literateur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: litterateuse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Analogically from litterateur + French -euse (feminine agent suffix). (The correct French feminine form is in fact littératrice.) Pronunciation: /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜːz/, /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtuːz/ 1. Female equivalent of litterateur: a female literary writer; an authoress of literature. Labels: feminine, form-of Example: [T]he Queen henceforth considered herself an author, her Highland home not merely a peaceful retreat but the inspiration for a litterateuse.
Word: literateuse Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of litterateuse. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It is impossible to read a dozen pages of the writings of this genial, kind-hearted literateuse without being forcibly impressed with her genius — not talent — a genius which has never been properly appreciated in her own land.
Word: literateuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of literateuse (alternative spelling of litterateuses). Labels: form-of, plural
Word: litterateuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of litterateuse Labels: form-of, plural Example: Litterateurs and litterateuses have nothing to do with making the popular mood.
Word: Queen Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of queen (“consort or widow of a king”). Labels: alt-of 2. Alternative letter-case form of queen (“female monarch”). Labels: alt-of 3. A title used before the personal name of a queen. Example: Queen Elizabeth II Example: The reminiscences of Princess Mary Louise, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, vividly evoke this continuity of royal women “performing” masculinity, by a page of illustration showing Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II, mounted on horseback in almost identical uniform, reviewing troops. 4. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter Q.
Word: Queen Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative letter-case form of queen (“Virgin Mary”). Labels: alt-of 2. In Commonwealth realms, the personification of the Crown, particularly in legal matters. Example: Her Majesty the Queen v. John Smith, style of cause of a criminal case. 3. A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a nickname. 4. An unincorporated community in Eddy County, New Mexico, United States, named after the Queen Ranch. 5. An unincorporated community in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Word: decade-long Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From decade + -long. 1. Extending over a decade. Labels: not-comparable Example: By 1960, NASA had sketched the outline for a decadelong effort toward unmanned and then manned lunar explorations, as well as sending spacecraft to Venus and Mars.
Word: decade long Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of decade-long. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Krungthep Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Krung Thep (Bangkok). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: non-integers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of non-integer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hems in Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hem in Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: hemming in Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hem in Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hemmed in Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hem in Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: valence bond Part of Speech: noun 1. A bond formed between one or more pairs of electrons in the valence shell of two or more atoms
Word: nonbridge Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + bridge. 1. That does not form part of a bridge; nonbridging. Labels: not-comparable
Word: angioproliferative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From angio- + proliferative. 1. Relating to, or causing angioproliferation Labels: not-comparable
Word: endoreduplication Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From endo- + reduplication. 1. The replication of chromosomes without mitotic cell division. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: glycosidation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glycoside + -ation. 1. The formation of a glycoside; glycosylation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: skillygalee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown and much-speculated (compare lobscouse and other fancifully-named hardy foods), but possibly Irish in root. 1. A type of gruel made from oatmeal, oft-served historically in poorhouses, sailors' ships, etc. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Breakfast was served at 8am and sometimes consisted of skillygalee, a sort of oatmeal gruel prepared in fatty water and which by the time of Trafalgar included butter and sugar. 2. A thin broth generally prepared by soaking hardtack in water, and frying with pork fat/lard. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Skillygalee was born of left-over pork grease and crackers too tough to bite and chew.
Word: quadfecta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of quad- + perfecta. 1. A bet in which the bettor must select the winners of the first four places (i.e., first, second, third, and fourth) of a race in the correct order. Example: He won the Superfecta and the Quadfecta all in the same day at Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles. 2. A set of four wins at related events; a set of four events. Labels: broadly Example: 2008, Milwaukee Magazine, Volume 33, Issues 7-12, page 59, You can either carry or drag your boat through the tunnel to UPPER NASHOTAH LAKE to complete your chaino—lakes quadfecta. Example: 2010, Tyler DeAngelo, Brad Emmett, Learn Just Enough . . . to Get Laid, Seven Footer Press, US, page 100, It′s also the definitive Just Enough to Get Laid meal, incorporating cooking, wine, and French in an unstoppable three-pronged attack. Hell, say grace before you eat and you can hit what′s known as the Just Enough quadfecta.
Word: skilly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪli/ 1. Skillygalee. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: “I would be given for supper six ounces of bread and ‘three parts of skilly.’ ‘Three parts’ means three-quarters of a pint, and ‘skilly’ is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.” Example: Of course unlike the officers we never got fresh bread, we got what came from barrels stored in the lower peak and under the steward's padlock. Pantiles baked brick hard, mouldy oats for skilly, dried peas for soup, embalmed pork and beef more fat and bone than meat.
Word: skilly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English skylly, skily, equivalent to skill + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪli/ 1. Skilled, skilful. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: So, being a fell impatient man, and skilly with his hands, he took Sam Gourlay a clout in the lug that couped him down in the stour […]
Word: legionella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From legion + translingual -ella, from Latin legio. Constructed from American Legion, after an outbreak of a then-unknown "mystery disease" (Legionnaires' disease) at a convention of the American Legion in Philadelphia in 1976. 1. Bacteria of the genus Legionella. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thameslink Train Services Director Rob Mullen responded: "A very low level of legionella was found during testing in a small number of our Class 700 train toilets. While it is extremely unlikely this would cause any harm, the toilets were immediately locked out of use. The trains were taken out of service and these toilets have now been drained, bleached and had their tanks completely re-filled. There is no recorded case of anyone, ever, having contracted legionella from a train."
Word: lunule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French lunule, from Latin lūnula, diminutive of lūna (“moon”). By surface analysis, luna + -ule. Pronunciation: /ˈluː.njuːl/ 1. Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula or lune. Example: A healthy lunule is usually most prominent on the thumb and may be invisible on the pinky finger. Example: The architect incorporated a lunule design into the arched windows of the cathedral. 2. An area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells, sometimes shaped like a double crescent, but more often heart-shaped.
Word: octavofinal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From octavo- + final, after quarterfinal. 1. A match or game between two of the last sixteen competitors in a given tournament or sporting competition. Labels: US Example: The Americans finish top of the group. They’ll meet Ghana, Germany, Serbia or Australia in the octavofinals as the knockout phase begins.
Word: malacofauna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From malaco- + fauna. 1. The molluscs of an area.
Word: Wenceslaus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Wenceslaus, a Latinization of Old Czech Vácslav, from Proto-Slavic *Vęťeslavъ (from *vęťьjь (“greater, more”) + *slava (“fame, glory”)). Doublet of Vyacheslav. 1. A male given name from the Slavic languages.
Word: Wenceslas Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Wenceslas (variant of Venceslas), from Medieval Latin Wenceslaus. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛnsəsˌlæs/, /ˈwɛnsəsləs/, /ˈwɛnsəsˌlɑs/ 1. A male given name from the Slavic languages. Example: Good King Wenceslas look'd out, On the Feast of Stephen; / When the snow lay round about, Deep, and crisp, and e-ven: / Brightly shone the moon that night, Though the frost was cru-el, / When a poor man came in sight, Gath'ring win-ter fu-el.
Word: blood sister Part of Speech: noun 1. A sister by birth. 2. A female bound to another one in commitment and friendship by a ceremonial mingling of blood (aka the blood oath).
Word: blade connector Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of single wire connection using a flat blade which is inserted into a blade receptacle.
Word: combat boot Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of boot designed to be worn by soldiers during actual combat or combat training
Word: aeroshell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aero- + shell. 1. An aerodynamic shell that protects a spacecraft during travel from lift-off through the atmosphere from aerodynamic forces
Word: backcrawl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + crawl. 1. backstroke Labels: uncountable
Word: backswimmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + swimmer. 1. Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.
Word: backwind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back + wind. 1. To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel Example: If a sailing boat's bow is pointing too high into the wind the sails backwind.
Word: backwind Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + wind. 1. The flow of air so deflected
Word: backwind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back + wind. 1. To wind backwards. Labels: transitive Example: This works because tape packs with equal diameters also have equal circumferences, therefore the distance the tape on each deck travels when backwound from the edit point is the same.
Word: blameful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English blameful, equivalent to blame + -ful. Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪmfl̩/ 1. That imputes or conveys blame 2. blameworthy
Word: bringdown Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bring + down. 1. A disappointment; a letdown. 2. A comedown.
Word: docutainment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of documentary + entertainment. 1. infotainment Labels: uncountable
Word: earwitness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ear + witness, by analogy with eyewitness. Pronunciation: /ˈɪə̯wɪtnəs/, /-wɪtnɪs/, /ˈɪɹwɪtnəs/ 1. A witness who provides evidence or testimony based on auditory observations. Example: But the Poor, as they cannot provide Persons to educate their Children; so from the Way in which they live together in poor Families, a Child must be an Eye and Ear-witness of the worst Part of his Parents Talk and Behaviour. Example: My object being to ascertain the truth, and the truth only, on receiving your last letter I immediately wrote to the Rev. H. Seymour, author of the "Pilgrimage to Rome," although I have no acquaintance with him–and I now give you the evidence of this eye and ear-witness, as copied from his letter, dated Bath, Feb. 6th, 1851, now lying before me.
Word: earwitness Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ear + witness, by analogy with eyewitness. Pronunciation: /ˈɪə̯wɪtnəs/, /-wɪtnɪs/, /ˈɪɹwɪtnəs/ 1. To hear an event or incident directly. Labels: transitive
Word: estimative Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɛstɪmətɪv/, /ˈɛstɪˌmeɪtɪv/ 1. Of or pertaining to an estimate or to estimation.
Word: evacuative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From evacuate + -ive. 1. That causes evacuation; cathartic; purgative.
Word: evacuative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From evacuate + -ive. 1. A purgative remedy.
Word: imagism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From image + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈɪmɪd͡ʒɪzəm/ 1. A form of poetry utilising precise imagery and clear language. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The theory that thinking is based on the formation of images in the mind. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: paginal Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to a page (as in a book); consisting of pages. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a reprint: consisting of copies of the pages of the original edition. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rebreathe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + breathe. 1. To breathe in air that has been exhaled.
Word: reconsolidate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + consolidate. 1. To consolidate again
Word: America's Cup Part of Speech: name Etymology: From America, the name of the yacht which won the first race, and was awarded the trophy. 1. A sailing regatta between two yachts, usually held every three or four years. 2. the trophy awarded to the winner of the above regatta.
Word: America's Cup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From America, the name of the yacht which won the first race, and was awarded the trophy. 1. An edition of the sailing regatta 2. A win of the sailing regatta
Word: subjectless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From subject + -less. 1. Lacking a subject (citizen). Labels: not-comparable Example: The subjects without King can do nothing; the subjectless King can do something. 2. Lacking a subject or theme. Labels: not-comparable Example: Using a painstaking technique favored by 15th-century Italians for their most sacred images, Young makes disarmingly beautiful pictures in a loose, almost subjectless language of color and texture and form. 3. Lacking a grammatical subject. Labels: not-comparable Example: “We’re here to help you” versus “Were here to help you” makes no sense; a subjectless, past-tense message — as in, “The doctors were here to help you, but now they’re gone” — has scarcely appeared in the history of the universe.
Word: midbowman Part of Speech: noun 1. a member of the crew who works with the mast and often packs the sails below deck.
Word: midbow Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mid- + bow. Pronunciation: /mɪdˈbaʊ/, /mɪdˈbəʊ/ 1. in the middle of a bow (all meanings) Labels: not-comparable
Word: jinky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From jink + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋki/ 1. Mazy, windy, zigzagging in its motion. Example: Trap the long ball to the wing on the run, carry it down the touch-line at speed, passing the half-back with a body-swerve, take the ball almost to the corner flag, then cut inside the fullback with a jinky one-two, and place the ball […] Example: The 2nd is a jinky little 345 yards, and is anything but simple. A large eucalyptus tree on the right, 100 yards out, shuts off half of the target area from the tee. A big bunker on the left at 220 yards tightens it even further, […]
Word: zigzaggy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From zigzag + -y. 1. Resembling or consisting of one or more zigzags. Labels: informal Example: Oh, he had a cutlass / That swung at his thigh / And he had a parrot named / Pepperkin Pye / And a zigzaggy scar / At the end of his eye / Had Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee
Word: ziggy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From zig + -y. 1. zigzaggy
Word: ciggie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cig + -ie. 1. cigarette
Word: niggy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nigger + -y; compare nig. 1. A nigger (black person). Labels: ethnic, offensive, slur Example: Joe cotton, dig corn, / Den we feed de niggies, / An oh, lord Moses, / What a liscious time for niggas. Example: "Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."
Word: crinky Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪŋki/ 1. crinkly Labels: rare Example: […] cotton, wool or silk fabric, of various weight, having a crinky surface, formed by using alternately right hand and left hand twist yarns, in the filling.
Word: shrinker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shrink + -er. 1. Something that makes something else shrink. Example: It's been an everyday sight on the East Coast Main Line since it started testing in 1977... but no longer. They may have been marketed as the 'Journey shrinker' upon their arrival on the route, but time has caught up with the 'InterCity 125s'. 2. A psychiatrist; a head-shrinker. Labels: slang 3. A sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation. 4. One who shrinks or recoils. Example: His peculiar character of shrinker from everything and every one, always retreating into his shell of contemptuous opposition as a snail into his shell, led, perhaps, to his rejection of ordinary phraseology, the simple mode of expression used by the million. Example: Mr. Druggist, are you a shrinker? Hold a minute now — before getting excited. A late dictionary defines a shrinker in a general sense as one who recoils, or draws back fearfully from something dreaded. 5. Something that itself shrinks. Example: Sometimes I think that humanity is divided into two classes, the Shrinkers and the non-Shrinkers. If you are a Shrinker, you are able to diminish yourself at will, and to slip into the kingdom of Lilliput, not in the role of Gulliver, Example: These can be called the Blaster (aggressive), the Shrinker (overly passive), or the Me (effective).
Word: tinner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tin + -er. 1. A tinsmith. 2. A worker in a tin mine. Example: The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. 3. The pied wagtail. Labels: Cornwall Example: The country-people say that the "tinner," that is the "dishwasher" or water-wagtail, is scarcer than it was before the blizzard, which must have caused the death of tens of thousands of birds. They call it the tinner, because it builds its nest in the mouth of the old mine-shafts.
Word: zincsmith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zinc + smith. 1. A person who makes things with zinc Labels: rare
Word: unwrinkle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + wrinkle. 1. To remove wrinkles from. Labels: transitive Example: He and she sat side by side like two wax people while the waiter stretched across to unwrinkle the tablecloth and straighten the knives. Example: The job was done before Silver could unwrinkle the grimace on his face. 2. To stop being wrinkly; to become flat or smooth. Labels: intransitive Example: His head protruded out of his torn collar much as the head of the tortoise protrudes from its shell, the throat unwrinkling, the eyes like beads, or pips of jet. Example: In a rain barrel, water unwrinkles to glass; a lime tree’s daughter there studies her face.
Word: sprinkly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sprinkle + -y. 1. Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly. Example: The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition. 2. Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling. Example: Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion. 3. Subject to being sprinkled on. Example: I had rather a sprinkly seat in the bow, but, as we bobbed up and down, I had a good backward look at the town, which, with the ascent of mud in the foreground, looked almost set on a hill. 4. Haphazardly and incompletely distributed. Example: Mary Richmond, general secretary of the Baltimore Organization Society, was disturbed because "under the name of settlement, the old-fashioned mission, distributing a cheap and sprinkly sort of charity, can do more harm than under the right name." 5. Resembling having been sprinkled with something. Example: I have it planned exactly what you look like--very satisfactorily--until I reach the top of your head, and then I AM stuck. I can't decide whether you have white hair or black hair or sort of sprinkly grey hair or maybe none at all. 6. Resembling sprinkles. Example: When they are cool, ice them in pretty pastel colours and decorate with interesting sprinkly things. These might include hundreds-and-thousands, sugar flowers, the tops of iced gems (bite the biscuit off first), crystallised violets... Example: Christmas cookies and lemonade I made it safe and sound to my godmother's house in time to frost cookies and dip them in those little sprinkly things...
Word: on serve Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. With each player or pairing having won the same number of games as they have served. Example: The fourth set between Gabashvili and Melzer is still on serve, the Russian leading 4-3, but the Austrian holding a two sets to one lead.
Word: spaghetti junction Part of Speech: noun 1. A complicated interchange with many intertwining roads. 2. Any complicated intertwining of paths, whether physical or metaphorical.
Word: protocetid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a group of extinct cetaceans, of the family †Protocetidae, from the Eocene period
Word: Cimmerians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Cimmerian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cimmerianize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cimmerian + -ize. 1. to make totally dark Labels: nonce-word, obsolete Example: O who perswades my willing errorie, Into this Cymerianized night?
Word: cimmerianizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cimmerianize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cimmerianized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cimmerianize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cimmerianizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cimmerianize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cimmerianism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cimmerian + -ism. 1. mental darkness; ignorance. Labels: figuratively, uncountable Example: 1824, Blackwood's magazine, Volume 16, Letters of Timothy Tickler, Esp. No. XVIII. It is sufficient to have given all who understand anything about such matters, a glimpse of the awful cimmerianism of the philologer and classical critic of the Edinburgh Review. Example: I earnestly recommend to those who are sensible of their own culpable deficiencies in these branches of information, or rather indeed I should say, of common education, to remain no longer in their present Cimmerianism.
Word: augmentable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From augment + -able. 1. Capable of being augmented or increased. Labels: not-comparable 2. Capable of increasing. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unguiculate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin unguiculātus. 1. Having nails or claws, as distinguished from hoofs. 2. Having a claw or narrow base, like the petal in some flowers.
Word: unguiculate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin unguiculātus. 1. Any of the Unguiculata.
Word: if so be Part of Speech: conj 1. If; if it happens (that); supposing that. Labels: archaic
Word: guest-friendly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compound of guest + friendly. Compare German gastfreundlich. 1. Friendly to guests, hospitable; welcoming.
Word: guestfriendliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a compound of guest + friendliness, or a derivative of guestfriendly. 1. Hospitality. Labels: nonce-word, uncountable Example: Guestfriendliness to callers Is your surest thief of time They're so much at holmes when with you They don't dream of gugging heim.
Word: guestfriendship Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of guest-friendship. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually Example: Penélopê formally extends her personal hospitality to the stranger, thereby creating that special relationship of guestfriendship which involves each party in making the other's interests his or her own. Example: We saw this in the renewed pledge of guestfriendship between Diomedes and Glaukos, the one's father having been a xeinos philos to the other's.
Word: intermediatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inter- + mediatrix. 1. A female intermediator.
Word: malgre Part of Speech: prep 1. Alternative spelling of maugre. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: blorp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. A sound suggesting a splash of or into a volume of semiliquid material. Example: "Lesser artists might have been satisfied with, say, a 'blorp.' Or with a 'squoph.' Not Disney's noise trust. They said it must be 'voomp.' Their only trouble was that 'voomp' wasn't among the hundreds of crazy sounds they have catalogued." Example: "The center of the pond made a sound like, 'blorp, blorp,' and began once again to boil and bubble as if it had never ceased."
Word: blorp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. To move or be deposited with a blorp. Example: "She would sooner have touched what blorped out of a stuck drainpipe." Example: "Down below, this batter was blorping out onto pans covered with waxed paper."
Word: prebatch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From pre- + batch. 1. To batch in advance. Labels: transitive Example: Scott was going on holiday so he prebatched the EFTs for me to process.
Word: rectilineal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From recti- + lineal. 1. Alternative form of rectilinear. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: troposmia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tropo- + -osmia. 1. Parosmia. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: troposmias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of troposmia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phantosmia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * Blend of phantom (from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma)) and Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”). 1. A form of parosmia involving olfactory hallucinations in which the perceived smell is triggered apparently without cause rather than by another smell. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In addition, phantosmias or, in essence, olfactory hallucinations have been described in association with seizure activity, psychiatric illness, and Alzheimer's Disease. Example: Most often, phantosmias occur after trauma or URTI and consist of unpleasant odors occurring without being elicited through environmental odor sources.
Word: phantosmias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phantosmia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slouchingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From slouching + -ly. 1. With a slouching posture or motion.
Word: matsuris Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of matsuri Labels: form-of, plural
Word: old sweat Part of Speech: noun 1. An experienced soldier. Labels: UK, World-War-I, slang 2. A veteran soldier or war veteran. Labels: UK, slang Example: A lifelong buddy of mine, this Herring, linked to me by what are called imperishable memories. Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said. So we were, you might say, rather like a couple of old sweats who had fought shoulder to shoulder on Crispin's Day, if I've got the name right. 3. Someone experienced in his or her field. Labels: UK, figuratively, slang
Word: old sweats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of old sweat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: old-sweat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of old sweat. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: old-sweats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of old-sweat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Taimyr Part of Speech: name 1. A large peninsula in the Russian North that forms the northernmost part of mainland Eurasia and Asia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
Word: Yamal Part of Speech: name Etymology: Ultimately from Tundra Nenets Я мал (Ya mal°), meaning "land's end". 1. A large peninsula in northern Russia.
Word: asymtope Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of asymptote. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: Facilitation of discrimination learning by the addition of relevant cues within a given stimulus dimension such as the dimension of shape may be limited by the information processing capacity of the organism with performance reaching an early asymtope and then decreasing with added cues (Rappaport, 1957; Attneave, 1960; Miller, 1956; and French, 1953).
Word: word association Part of Speech: noun 1. An activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sight in Part of Speech: verb 1. To align the sights of a firearm.
Word: bibl. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of biblical. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: bibl. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of bibliography. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: the 'G' Part of Speech: name 1. The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), situated in Melbourne, Australia Labels: Australia, informal Example: When Ted Hopkins wrote his eulogy to the ‘G’ for The Herald Sun, 1 April 1995, he described it as a place where stories are created and legends made, a place of epic footy and mega-concerts that contribute richly to every Melburnian’s general sense of well-being. Example: The multigenerational families throughout Australia file off to the footy (again the word football seemed too difficult to say so the word was shortened; the Melbourne Cricket Ground was reduced to the MCG but that was shortened to the “G” – the next permutation will probably be just the sound “gah”) every Saturday afternoon be it Aussie Rules or Rugby.
Word: culture war Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German Kulturkampf. 1. A political struggle for control over cultural institutions. Labels: rare 2. Conflict between different ideological groups, especially political conflict for cultural dominance between liberals and conservatives in the United States. Labels: in-plural, often Example: Little wonder, then, that stories about the “culture wars” have been burning up the pages of newspapers, magazines, and intellectual journals for the past few years: There’s so much more to fight about these days. Example: Bush’s other accomplishments in office include […] prolonging the life of the severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in a cynical bid to burnish his culture wars résumé.
Word: unguinal Part of Speech: adj 1. Pertaining to a biological nail or to the nails; resembling a nail; ungual.
Word: afflate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin afflātus, perfect passive participle of afflō (“to blow or breathe on or towards”). 1. To fill, especially with divine inspiration. Labels: obsolete Example: There was[…]a “spirit of courage” breathed into his [sc. Luther's] being, of which the heroism of this world knows nothing. Nor may we question that the same afflating influence could have wrought an equal boldness in creatures whose constitutional timidity was excessive and effeminate.
Word: guidette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From guido + -ette. Pronunciation: /ɡwiˈdɛt/ 1. A female Italian, particularly an Italian-American woman. Labels: US, ethnic, slang, slur, uncommon
Word: Guidette Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of guidette. Labels: alt-of
Word: spectromagnetograph Part of Speech: noun 1. An instrument that measures the vectors and velocities of the magnetic fields on the surface of the sun.
Word: uncollapsible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + collapsible. 1. Not collapsible. Labels: not-comparable Example: She carried six boats, an unusually large number for a craft of her size; two were surf-boats, I found on inspection; two were uncollapsible lifeboats; one was an ordinary ship's gig, while the other was a small steam launch of excellent build and workmanship. Example: The dining-table, uncollapsible and highly varnished, the piano, the chesterfield, stuffed chairs and a few sofas made a foundation on which to heap lesser articles.
Word: undry'd Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of undried. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: A tree of stateliest growth, and yet undry'd, Green from the wood; of height and bulk so vast
Word: browserless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From browser + -less. 1. Without a web browser. Labels: not-comparable Example: Exchanging information via documents formatted in XML is a fundamental part of the browserless Web. Example: Web services build on the success of the Web and allow operational, or browserless, exchanges between organizations.
Word: undry Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + dry. 1. Not dry. Labels: rare Example: If paint is applied and is undry when evening comes, the frosty air of night may destroy the gloss and make the surface paint very unsightly. Example: His clothes were only a little damp, despite the undry weather.
Word: undry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + dry. 1. To cause (something) to be not dry. Labels: rare, transitive Example: As we continued to "undry the throat" with a Cognac de guerre, Claudine suddenly interrupted. Example: to give you even more bad news, you may need fat in your diet to undry your hair. your body produces oil to moisturize your hair. it needs fat to manufacture these( fatty acid deficiencies in animals produce a dry, rough haircoat) .
Word: teambuilding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From team + building. 1. Activities designed to improve the cohesion and performance of a team. Labels: uncountable Example: The Accounts department climbed a mountain together as a teambuilding exercise.
Word: antichild Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + child. 1. Opposing children. Example: An antichild pedagogical milieu in which antichild sentiments are prevalent and where the child experiences his situation in the family and community as being such that he cannot be accommodated.
Word: upsettingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From upsetting + -ness. 1. The quality of being upsetting. Labels: uncountable Example: And the Utrechters, after they were whisked round their beautiful Singel, and even through the noble bosky alley of the Maliebaan, were only restrained from an intolerable upsettingness by the gibes of the Hagenaars at the old horse-express, now departed, which survived for a time to ply a raucous and tortuous course around their Dom.
Word: upsetter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From upset + -er. 1. One who upsets (something); a disrupter. Example: And so were all Christians in Pliny's time, insane like others, and called not long after, followers of madness, upsetters of men, vicious innovators […] 2. A person or device that turns something upside down. 3. A kind of forging machine that moves horizontally.
Word: upsetters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of upsetter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Pfaffian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Pfaff + -ian, after Johann Friedrich Pfaff. Pronunciation: /ˈfæfɪən/ 1. The determinant of a skew-symmetric matrix, capable of being written as the square of a polynomial in the matrix entries. Example: If A is a skew symmetric matrix then det A is the square of a polynomial in the entries of A. This polynomial is known as the Pfaffian of A, and we denote it by Sym(pf A).
Word: Pfaffian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After Charles Ignatious Pfaff, the founder of the restaurant. Pronunciation: /ˈfæfɪən/ 1. A member of a circle of artists that met at Pfaff's, a restaurant on Broadway. Labels: historical Example: Charles E. Hurd, assistant editor of the Boston Transcript, has published in the Commercial Bulletin an academic account of the literary Bohemia of New York at the time the Pfaffians flourished and Ada Clare, Whitman's friend, reigned as its queen. Example: While the publication became noted for its conservatism, the Pfaffians, inspired by the writings of Henri Murger and visits to Parisian bohemian quarters, avowedly dismissed the restraints of convention and pursued a freewheeling personal lifestyle.
Word: Pfaffians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Pfaffian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retrodictive Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to retrodiction.
Word: nematicon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined in 2003 by G. Assanto. 1. A spatial optical soliton in a nematic liquid crystal.
Word: unfateful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + fateful. 1. Not fateful.
Word: nonsoporific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + soporific. 1. Not soporific. Labels: not-comparable
Word: drillstock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From drill + stock. 1. The part of a drill that holds the shank of the bit.
Word: drillstocks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drillstock Labels: form-of, plural
Word: drimanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of drimane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foodgrain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From food + grain. 1. cereal (grain grown as human food)
Word: pinolenic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. A polyunsaturated fatty acid, (5Z,9Z,12Z)-octadeca-5,9,12-trienoic acid, found mainly in pine nuts. Labels: uncountable
Word: nontimed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + timed. 1. Not timed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: historiated Part of Speech: adj 1. Adorned with decorative pictures that tell a story. Example: It is difficult to imagine that Bernard of Clairvaux was gullible enough to accept dozens of historiated windows, grisaille fields of griffins, mosaic pavements, carved acanthus capitals, inhabited vine columns, and golden altarware on the strength of the justifications offered by a single window, one tympanum, and Suger's libelli Example: In Norwich Cathedral there are over 1000 stone roof bosses. Of these about 700 are historiated, that is they either tell a story in themselves or are part of a story told in a sequence of bosses.
Word: nontime Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + time. 1. Not of or pertaining to time. Labels: not-comparable Example: While the other nontime uses may have an unwanted effect of forcing more detail into the Project Schedule than would otherwise be included […]
Word: nontime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + time. 1. That which is not time. Labels: uncountable Example: […] how perception, taking sensation into consciousness, can take place in the nontime of the Now.
Word: foodgrains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of foodgrain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subacromial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + acromial. 1. Below the acromion.
Word: nutsedge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nut + sedge. 1. Any of certain species of invasive perennial sedge, of the genus Cyperus, that have edible, nutlike tubers. Labels: US
Word: nonoutlet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + outlet. 1. Not of or pertaining to the thoracic outlet. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nutsedges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nutsedge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tellable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English tellabyll; equivalent to tell + -able. 1. That may be told
Word: nutshelling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of nutshell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: nutshelled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of nutshell Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unbacked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + backed. 1. Having no back. Labels: not-comparable Example: an unbacked bench 2. Not supported or backed up (by someone or something). Example: The warlike Wench amongst the Greekes doth stand Vnbackt by Troy, left of her Damsels all, The battery of a thousand swords she bides, Till her yron plates are hew’d off from her sides. Example: The simple statement, unbacked by any proof but the weight of Ralph’s new authority, brought light and happiness. 3. Having no (or few) backers. Example: an unbacked racehorse Example: a largely unbacked fundraising project 4. Of an animal: never having been ridden or not accustomed to being ridden; not (currently) being ridden. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: […] like unback’d colts, they prick’d their ears, Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses As they smelt music: Example: […] a well wayed horse will safely convay thee to thy journeys end, when an unbackt Filly may by chance give thee a fall: 5. (of a plate) Not having an antihalation backing.
Word: filmwise Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From film + -wise. 1. Into a film, rather than in drops (dropwise). Labels: not-comparable
Word: filmwise Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From film + -wise. 1. Into a film, rather than in drops (dropwise). Labels: not-comparable
Word: boxwise Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From box + -wise. 1. In the form of a box. Labels: not-comparable Example: ...lying on his side enclosed by stones that had been placed boxwise round him, and surrounded by his burial-offerings of jugs and bowls. Example: First, it should appear to be a part of the site and not a foreign element set up boxwise on edge to the utter humiliation of every natural thing in sight.
Word: nightshift Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of night shift. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nightshifts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nightshift Labels: form-of, plural
Word: veratrine Part of Speech: noun 1. A poisonous mixture of alkaloids (veratridines) obtained from the seeds of the sabadilla plant (Schoenocaulon officinale). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: veratridine Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a family of neurotoxic steroid-derived alkaloids, occurring in herbs of the genus Veratrum and seeds of the sabadilla plant. Labels: uncountable Example: Like batrachotoxin and veratridine, grayanotoxins act at the voltage-dependent sodium channel in its open conformation, inhibiting its inactivation. Example: 2013, Thomas D. White, The Demonstration and Measurement of Adenosine Triphosphate Release from Nerves, David Paton (editor), Methods in Pharmacology, Volume 6: Methods Used in Adenosine Research, page 47, The veratrum alkaloid, veratridine, depolarizes excitable tissues by activating the Na⁺ channels present in the cell membranes. Therefore, one would expect veratridine to produce a depolarization of nerve that is quite similar to physiological depolarization insofar as it is mediated by changes in Na⁺ conductances.
Word: stilbites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stilbite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stilbite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek στίλβω (stílbō, “shine”) + -ite. 1. A tectosilicate zeolite mineral consisting of hydrated calcium aluminium silicate, common in volcanic rocks. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: verbalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From verbal + -ism. 1. The expression of a concept in words; the wording used in such an expression Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The excessive use of words, often with little meaning Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: managing directors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of managing director Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acrosomal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From acrosome + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to acrosomes Labels: not-comparable
Word: acrosomeless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From acrosome + -less. 1. Having no acrosomes Labels: not-comparable
Word: acrosomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acrosome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: autophagosomal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From autophagosome + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to autophagosomes Labels: not-comparable