nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Parnassus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Parnāsus, from Ancient Greek Παρνασσός (Parnassós). 1. A mountain in central Greece, adjacent the site of the ancient city of Delphi, that in Greek mythology was sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs and was the home of the Muses. Example: Go down beside thy native rill, ⁠On thy Parnassus set thy feet, ⁠And hear thy laurel whisper sweet About the ledges of the hill. Example: Phocis separates the Aonian from the Actæan region; a fruitful land while it was a land; but at that time it had become a part of the sea, and a wide plain of sudden waters. There a lofty mountain rises towards the stars, with two tops, by name Parnassus, and advances beyond the clouds with its summit. 2. The home of poetry, literature, and learning. Labels: figuratively Example: Such lovely and truly British poetry cannot be too often brought to view; we shall therefore insert in thk part of our work several of these gems of our Parnassus, distinguishing by a different character such acts and attributes as appear properly to belong to the Fairy of popular belief. Example: His intrinsic beauty and power meant nothing to the hundreds of thousands who were acclaiming him and buying his books. He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded. 3. A small town in Hurunui district, north Canterbury, New Zealand, named after Mount Parnassus.
Word: Perun Part of Speech: name Etymology: Most likely borrowed from Russian Перу́н (Perún). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *Perunъ. 1. The highest god in the pantheon of Slavic mythology, the god of thunder and lightning.
Word: generalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From general + -ism; compare generalist. 1. Generalization: lack of specialization. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Factors that predispose pathogens to generalism include high levels of genetic diversity and abundant opportunities for cross-species transmission, and the taxonomic distributions of generalists and specialists appear to reflect these factors. Example: What the biologists call the hedgehog's generalism, its lack of slick speciality, the way it noses for beetles, caterpillars, earwigs and worms, sometimes eating frogs, baby mice, eggs and chicks, its happy existence at the bottom of hedges and in people's back gardens, its inability to cope with very large, chemically denuded arable fields - in other words its fondness for the private, the scruffy and the marginal - all make it a measure of the state of the landscape's health as a whole.
Word: generalisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of generalism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ciceronian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Latin Cicerōniānus. Pronunciation: /sɪsəˈɹəʊnɪən/, /sɪsəˈɹoʊnɪən/ 1. Of or relating to Marcus Tullius Cicero, or the ideas in his philosophical treatises. 2. Eloquent, resembling Cicero’s style. Labels: rhetoric Example: 'But why should I attempt to depict and describe in detail, and feature by feature, the beauty of the peerless Dulcinea, the burden being one worthy of other shoulders than mine, an enterprise wherein the pencils of Parrhasius, Timantes, and Apelles, and the graver of Lysippus ought to be employed, to paint it in pictures and carve it in marble and bronze, and Ciceronian and Demosthenian eloquence to sound its praises?' / 'What does Demosthenian mean, Senor Don Quixote?' said the duchess; 'it is a word I never heard in all my life.' / 'Demosthenian eloquence,' said Don Quixote, 'means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world.' 3. With effusive use of antithesis and long sentences. Labels: rhetoric
Word: Ciceronian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin Cicerōniānus. Pronunciation: /sɪsəˈɹəʊnɪən/, /sɪsəˈɹoʊnɪən/ 1. One who adopts or favours Cicero's literary style. Example: One thing is observable in all the professed Ciceronians, namely, the using a multitude of words to express their meaning. This they learned from their master, since it cannot be denied that Cicero is rather verbose. Example: The fact that he scoffed at their so-called purity of style, declaring that any reputable Latin was standard and that matter was more important than form, brought him into conflict with the sect of Ciceronians.
Word: confirmation names Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of confirmation name Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cabrito Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cabrito (“kid”). 1. Meat from a young goat; kid. Labels: uncountable Example: Mutton rivaled beef in prominence until this century, and cabrito, or kid, remains a major food in Nuevo León. Example: Mr. Dean O. Smith, who is the game warden in the Dripping Springs area, barbecues the cabrito for us, and what a treat that is! Cabrito is a very young Spanish goat between one and a half and two years old.
Word: Prus Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Prus. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: electron number Part of Speech: noun 1. The number of electrons in an atom or ion
Word: video assist Part of Speech: noun 1. A system that allows a video version of a take to be viewed immediately after it is filmed. Labels: uncountable
Word: isonuclear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From iso- + nuclear. 1. Having the same nucleus Labels: not-comparable
Word: millimagnitude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From milli- + magnitude. 1. One thousandth of a magnitude
Word: overspeeding Part of Speech: verb 1. Present participle and gerund of overspeed. Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: HM Chief Inspector of Railways has stepped in to speed up work to resolve incidents of overspeeding, having been concerned that progress on the issue has been too slow.
Word: overspeeding Part of Speech: adj 1. Travelling at an excessive speed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: overstability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + stability. 1. A condition in which oscillation increases due to excessive feedback Labels: uncountable
Word: overstable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + stable. 1. Of, pertaining to, or causing overstability. 2. Of a flying disc, having a flight path curving to the right of the expected flight path.
Word: photodissociating Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From photo- + dissociating. 1. Causing, or undergoing photodissociation
Word: primordially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From primordial + -ly. 1. In a primordial manner. Labels: not-comparable 2. With regard to a primordium. Labels: not-comparable
Word: quasiholes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quasihole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: technifermions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of technifermion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: technifermion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From techni- + fermion. 1. A technicolor fermion
Word: ultrafaint Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ultra- + faint. 1. Very faint
Word: wavemaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wave + maker. 1. An oscillating device that creates reproducible waves in a liquid.
Word: Brit. Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Britain. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of British English. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: Brit. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of British. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: uneulogised Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + eulogised. 1. Alternative spelling of uneulogized. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Eulerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Euler + -ian. Pronunciation: /ɔɪˈlɪəɹi.ən/, /juːˈlɪəɹi.ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having an Eulerian circuit. Labels: not-comparable
Word: essaylike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From essay + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of an essay. Example: He championed the essaylike novel mainly because Tanizaki appeared to overpraise the novel that had an interesting story to tell.
Word: Canad. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of Canadian. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Canad..
Word: noncanalized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + canalize + -ed. 1. Not canalized. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Amer. Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of America. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: Amer. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of American. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Amer..
Word: dogooder Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of do-gooder. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dogooders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dogooder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vihuela Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish vihuela. 1. A guitar-like string instrument of 15th- and 16th-century Spain, usually with six courses or sets of strings (twelve strings in total). 2. A guitar-like string instrument of 19th-century Mexico with five strings, typically played in mariachi bands.
Word: vihuelas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vihuela Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wayfinding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From way + finding. 1. The ability of a person or animal to orientate itself and to navigate; the process used by a person or animal for orienting and navigating. Labels: attributive, often, uncountable Example: Buncombe County’s Tourism Development Authority unveiled its $1.65 million wayfinding program in 2009, consisting of more than 300 signs directing visitors to nearly 90 attractions, public spaces, historic sites and other destinations. Example: And that difference in style is often cast as being part of the basis of gender differences in wayfinding. People say that women are more likely to navigate with landmarks and men are more likely to navigate using the cardinal directions.
Word: selfhoods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of selfhood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: selfenergies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of selfenergy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gittern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English giterne, from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Latin cithara. Doublet of cittern. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪtən/, /ˈɡɪtəɹn/ 1. A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain. Example: Now they can no more hear thy ghittern’s tune, / For venturing syllables that ill beseem / The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.
Word: gittern Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English giterne, from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Latin cithara. Doublet of cittern. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪtən/, /ˈɡɪtəɹn/ 1. To play on the gittern. Example: c. 1639-1640. John Milton, The Cambridge Manuscript; Excerpts from pages 35-41, as Reprinted in David Masson, editor & author, The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time; Volume II, London and New York.: MacMillan and Co, 1871, page 109. … [E]ach evening every one with mistress, or Ganymede, glitterning along the streets, or solacing on the banks of Jordan, or down the stream.
Word: gitterns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gittern Labels: form-of, plural
Word: do-badder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From do bad + -er, after do-gooder. 1. A person who does bad things. Labels: informal Example: "Later, he was given artificial life by a do-badder called Diablo--and almost destroyed the Fantastic Four themselves..."
Word: do-badders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of do-badder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: merdurinous Part of Speech: adj 1. Consisting of excrement and urine. Labels: archaic, rare Example: 163?, John Taylor, A Bawd Theſe are the right paternes of an induſtrious Bawd, for ſhee pickes her living out of the layſtall or dunghil of our vices ; if ſhe thrive and grow fat, it is with the Merdurinous draffe of our imperfections […] Example: 16??, Ben Jonson, Epigrams Of all your Night-tubs, when the Carts do cluster, Who shall discharge first his merdurinous Load […]
Word: main man Part of Speech: noun 1. One's closest male friend. Labels: idiomatic Example: Thanks to Aaron (my main man) Priest... Example: "Dungo," Henry would say, "you're my main man." He would pronounce these words in front of Jeanine, or even strangers.
Word: sitarlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sitar + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a sitar. Example: During the final section treble strings maintained a tingly sitarlike drone over a mellow countermelody and Mr. Sawyer’s tick-tock pulse, inducing a bucolic Krautrock-style hypnosis.
Word: gothness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From goth + -ness. 1. Traits associated with the goth subculture, such as philosophical melancholy. Labels: uncountable Example: Thirdly, they claim ordinariness by rationalising their general status as human being, and by, at the same time, 'radiating' their gothness. Example: Your gothness is then measured by your peers with a 'gothier-than-thou' approach, facing ridicule if you are falling short.
Word: cefadroxil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of cephalosporanic acid + hydroxy(phen)yl. 1. A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic. Labels: uncountable
Word: cuneonavicular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cuneo- + navicular. 1. Of or pertaining to the cuneiform bones and the navicular. Labels: not-comparable
Word: main men Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of main man Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hand towel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hand towelle, equivalent to hand + towel. Pronunciation: /ˈhæn(d)ˌtaʊ(ə)l/ 1. A small towel used for drying the hands or face.
Word: diastomatomyelia Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of diastematomyelia. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: sagittally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From sagittal + -ly. 1. In a sagittal direction. Labels: not-comparable
Word: quidlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quid (“pound”) + -let (“forming diminutives”). 1. Synonym of quid: one pound sterling. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: All we want to see is that our three hundred quidlets are sitting comfy in the bank. Example: Say he had lost five thousand quidlets. And what about it? What were five thousand paper quidlets to him?
Word: quidlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quidlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acycloguanosine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a- + cyclo- + guanosine. From having less cyclic structure (acyclo-) than the basis molecule guanosine. 1. A guanosine analogue antiviral drug. Labels: uncountable
Word: aciclovir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From acyclo(guanosine) + -vir (“antiviral”). Pronunciation: /eɪˈsʌɪ.klə(ʊ)ˌvɪə/, /eɪˈsaɪ.kloʊˌvɪɹ/ 1. A cyclic synthetic nucleoside C₈H₁₁N₅O₃ used as an antiviral drug (trademarks Avirax, Zovirax) chiefly in the treatment of chicken pox, shingles, the genital form of herpes simplex, and AIDS. Labels: uncountable Example: In cells infected with the herpes virus, acyclovir is converted to a metabolic blocking agent, thereby largely overcoming the old and plaguing problem of toxicity to the host. Example: From the description, Letha felt sure Jane had herpes zoster, or shingles, which often strikes cancer patients or others with depressed immune systems. Jane spent another week in the Bubble, treated with acyclovir.
Word: uncamouflaged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + camouflaged. 1. Not camouflaged. Labels: not-comparable Example: The cinematic persona, like the tragedian's mask, is lowered long enough for a good long gaze into the uncamouflaged artist's self.
Word: cyberoperations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyberoperation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: handbagging Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From handbag + -ing. Originally, a metonymic reference to Margaret Thatcher's handbag. 1. A verbal attack or criticism. Labels: UK, humorous Example: Much of the resistance to women at the altar had always derived from women in the pews; Dr Hewitt's handbagging style helped to undermine the feminists' refrain that these women's conservatism was the result of brutal oppression by men. Example: I think the short answer is that six weeks ago the Prime Minister was promising his Back Benchers a handbagging for Europe, but now he is reduced to hand wringing.
Word: handbagging Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From handbag + -ing. Originally, a metonymic reference to Margaret Thatcher's handbag. 1. present participle and gerund of handbag Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: handbagged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of handbag Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: clutch bag Part of Speech: noun 1. A small handbag without a shoulder strap, designed to be held in the hand.
Word: scratch together Part of Speech: verb 1. To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty; to scrape together. Labels: idiomatic
Word: Strephon Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek στρέφων (stréphōn), the active present participle of Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist, to avert”, verb), chiefly from its use as the name of a rustic lover in Sir Philip Sidney's 1593 pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. 1. A male given name from Ancient Greek. Labels: literary Example: To see her from her pillow rise, All reeking in a cloudy steam, Crack'd lips, foul teeth, and gummy eyes, Example: As when two doves, or two wood-pigeons, or as when Strephon and Phyllis (for that comes nearest to the mark) are retired into some pleasant solitary grove, to enjoy the delightful conversation of Love[…]
Word: Strephon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek στρέφων (stréphōn), the active present participle of Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist, to avert”, verb), chiefly from its use as the name of a rustic lover in Sir Philip Sidney's 1593 pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. 1. A male lover. Labels: literary Example: […] those palmy days of pastoral revelry;—when every lover was a Damon or a Strephon, and his beloved a Delia or a Celia. Example: I am still sick with his sentimentality of a Strephon. He is a flippant coxcomb.
Word: cheatable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cheat + -able. 1. Capable of being cheated 2. Able to be potted at either edge rather than in the middle
Word: redd up Part of Speech: verb 1. To clean up, especially a room. Labels: Pennsylvania, Scotland, US, Western, dialectal Example: There, sir, you are redd up and made decent.
Word: cheliferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cheli- + -ferous. Pronunciation: /kiːˈlɪfəɹəs/, /kəˈlɪfəɹəs/ 1. Having chelae (cheliform claws)
Word: cheliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cheli- + -form. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːlɪfɔːm/ 1. Having the form of a chela
Word: yinz Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Contraction of you + ones or ye ones. Compare you-uns, yens. 1. You. Labels: Appalachia, Pennsylvania, US, Western, dialectal, especially, in-plural
Word: chemoreflex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chemo- + reflex. 1. A reflex in response to a chemical stimulus
Word: hæsitate Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of hesitate. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Next to Socrates comes his Scholar Plato, a famous Oratour indeed, that could be ſo daſht out of countenance by an illiterate rabble, as to demur, and hauk, and hæſitate, before he could get to the end of one ſhort ſentence. Example: I anſwer, that this objection made me hæſitate a long time; and rather incline to fix his haveing the word of wiſdom communicated to him, when he became an apostle.
Word: zibet Part of Speech: noun 1. The large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha). Labels: archaic Example: 1797, Unnamed translator, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Buffon's Natural History, Volume 7, J. S. Barr, page 119, Certain it is, that our zibet bears a ẛtronger reẛemblance to the muẛk animal than to the civet, and conẛequently they may be conẛidered as the ẛame ẛpecies. Example: 1807, Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, A General History of Quadrupeds, 5th Edition, T. Bewick and S. Hodgson, page 273, The perfume of the Zibet is peculiarly violent and piercing, beyond that of either the Civet or the Genet.
Word: zibets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zibet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forward slashes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forward slash Labels: form-of, plural
Word: narrowbodies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of narrowbody Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cheeky monkey Part of Speech: noun 1. An impudent person, usually a child. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, idiomatic
Word: nonbidding Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + bidding. 1. Not making a bid (in an auction, the game of bridge, etc). Labels: not-comparable
Word: monotoned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of monotone Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: monotoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of monotone Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: nonexpired Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + expired. 1. Not expired; still current or valid. Labels: not-comparable
Word: illinium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Illinois + -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an unverifiable claim to have discovered the element in 1926. 1. A rejected name for promethium. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: koulak Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of kulak. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: nondiscriminator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + discriminator. 1. One who does not discriminate.
Word: nondiscriminators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nondiscriminator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonusing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + using. 1. Not using, especially recreational drugs. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonangry Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + angry. 1. Not angry. Labels: not-comparable Example: For nonangry subjects heat again increased aggression, but not for those subjects drinking lemonade.
Word: nonscreened Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + screened. 1. Not screened. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonplanned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + planned. 1. unplanned Labels: not-comparable
Word: cybertexts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cybertext Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cybernetician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cybernetic + -ian. 1. cyberneticist
Word: fishball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fish + ball. 1. A food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese and Scandinavian cuisine and elsewhere around the world. Example: In Singapore, the most popular surimi-based product is the fish ball, which is used in a local application, Yong Tau Foo.
Word: fishballs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fishball Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cyberneticians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cybernetician Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moblike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mob + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a mob.
Word: crowdlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crowd + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a crowd.
Word: marriable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From marry + -able. 1. Capable of being married; marriageable.
Word: strawberryish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From strawberry + -ish. 1. strawberrylike
Word: unmarriable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + marriable. 1. Not marriable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Tetris effect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tetris + effect, since players of the video game may find themselves thinking about fitting shapes together in the real world. The earliest known use of the term is in Jeffrey Goldsmith's article "This is Your Brain on Tetris", published in Wired in May 1994. 1. The effect of seeing hallucinatory images of a repetitive activity done earlier. Labels: no-plural
Word: cartoon physics Part of Speech: noun 1. The comically exaggerated physics seen in cartoons. Labels: uncountable
Word: Portuñol Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish portuñol, blend of portugués (“Portuguese”) + español (“Spanish”). 1. A mix of Portuguese and Spanish.
Word: chyliferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chyle + -i- + -ferous. Pronunciation: /kaɪˈlɪfəɹəs/ 1. That bears or transmits chyle. Labels: not-comparable
Word: chylific Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chyle + -ific. Pronunciation: /kaɪˈlɪfɪk/ 1. That produces chyle
Word: chylification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chyle + -ification. Pronunciation: /ˌkaɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The production of chyle
Word: chylopoiesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chylo- (“digestive fluid”) + -poiesis (“production”). 1. The production of chyle Labels: uncountable
Word: chylocaulous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From German chylocaul (from chyl- + Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”)) + English -ous. 1. Having fleshy / succulent stems Labels: not-comparable
Word: chymiferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chyme + -i- + -ferous. Pronunciation: /kaɪˈmɪfəɹəs/ 1. Bearing or containing chyme
Word: chymification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chyme + -ification. 1. The conversion of food into chyme
Word: cicadellid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any leafhopper (of family Cicadellidae).
Word: ciliferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cilia + -i- + -ferous. 1. Bearing cilia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ciliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cilia + -iform. 1. Having the form of cilia
Word: round brackets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of round bracket Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cinerarium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin cinerarium. Pronunciation: /ˌsɪnəˈɹɛəɹi.əm/, /ˌsɪnəˈɹɛɹi.əm/ 1. A place or receptacle for depositing the ashes of cremated people. Example: They were called ossuaria, from their containing bones,—cineraria, in reference to their containing ashes,—or ollæ, pots; these had generally a narrow pointed bottom. Example: On a great marble cinerarium (or vase for human ashes) is an inscription.
Word: empoverish Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of impoverish. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: A sudden chill would precipitate the grosser, and diffuse the lighter dregs throughout the fermenting fluid, which should be thrown off from the surface in cleansing; this would retard the fining, and empoverish the beer or ale; while the mode recommended will be found to promote transparency, and give strength and body, that is, fullness and spirituosity. Example: But we cannot refuse our admiration to the fervent and generous order of public spirit existent at that time, when we find that it was a popular leader who proposed to, and carried through, a popular assembly the motion, that went to empoverish the men who supported his party and adjudged his proposition.
Word: empoverishes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of empoverish Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: empoverishing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of empoverish Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: empoverished Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of empoverish Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cinerator Part of Speech: noun 1. A furnace used to convert dead bodies to ashes
Word: empyric Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of empiric. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: empyrics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of empyric Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cinereal Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to cinerea 2. cinereous, ashen
Word: enallage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐναλλαγή (enallagḗ, “interchange, variation”). Pronunciation: /ɛˈnæləd͡ʒiː/ 1. Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable 2. The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: And when all men shall have adopted this enallage, the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation.
Word: enallages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enallage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: encephalic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From encephalon + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌɛnsəˈfælɪk/, /ɪnˈsɛfəlɪk/ 1. of or relating to the encephalon Labels: not-comparable Example: From men wholly without philosophy, who never looked heavenward, the more brutal land animals are derived, losing the round form of the cranium by the slackening and stopping of the rotations of the encephalic soul. Example: The misfortune was that he could not find in himself any of the causes which resolve into insomnia; he had neither meningitis nor brain fever, nor anything that indicated a cerebral tumor; he was not anaemic; he ate well; he did not suffer with neuralgia, nor with any acute or chronic affection that generally accompanied the absence of sleep; he drank neither tea nor alcohol; and without this state of over-excitement of the encephalic centres, he might have said that he was in good health, a little thin, but that was all.
Word: circline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of circle + line. 1. A fluorescent light in the form of a ring. 2. A generalized circle.
Word: circumadjacent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From circum- + adjacent. 1. Lying immediately around Example: The pain and heat, by degrees derive a vast flux of blood and humors which distend all the circumadjacent vessels, in order to quench the incendium.
Word: encephalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From encephalize + -ation. 1. The amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total bodymass. Example: The answer to this will determine the encephalization quotients of the two types of early hominids, which is an important indicator of relative "braininess," an issue that is now up for grabs. Example: It is believed that the encephalization of early Homo was made possible by the consumption of energy- and nutrient-rich animal foods to "pay" for its metabolically expensive brain.
Word: circumcinct Part of Speech: adj 1. girdled about, encompassed Labels: not-comparable
Word: encephalizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of encephalization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: encline Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of incline. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: "Now sure, and by my hallidome," quoth he 545 "Yea great master are in your degree: Great thankes I yeeld you for your discipline, And doo not doubt but duly to encline My wits theretoo, as ye shall shortly heare." Example: My dities indited may counsell many one, But not you, your maners surmounteth my doctrine Wherefore, I regard you, and your maners all one, After whose living my processes, I combine: So other men instrusting, I must to you encline Conforming my process, as much as I am able, To your sad behaviour and maners commendable.
Word: circumcorneal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From circum- + corneal. 1. Surrounding the cornea Labels: not-comparable
Word: circumflect Part of Speech: verb 1. To mark with a circumflex; hence to accentuate or emphasize. Labels: transitive 2. To bend around.
Word: encumberment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English encombrement, from Old French encombrement. By surface analysis, encumber + -ment. 1. encumbrance Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The paths of art, so choked and so dangerous, are, despite encumberment and obstacles, day by day more crowded, and consequently Bohemians were never more numerous. Example: Then she realized that, in a peculiar lapse of abstraction, she had forgotten about his encumberment.
Word: encumberments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of encumberment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: endemical Part of Speech: adj 1. endemic Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: The situation is damp and unwholesome, and the water so bad, that I should suppose a long continuance here of such a number of prisoners must be productive of endemical disorders. Example: In his own grounds he never wore a hat: he used to say, that on his first visit to Paris he was ashamed of his effeminacy, when he saw every meagre little Frenchman whom he could have knocked down in a breath walking without a hat, which he could not do without a certainty of taking the disease which the Germans say is endemical in England, and which they call to catch cold.
Word: engineman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From engine + -man. 1. A man who operates, manages, and maintains an engine. Labels: dated Example: The engineman having only to turn two cocks, so as to connect the steam with the one or the other vessel." Example: It was only when I sat, an hour later, disgustedly reflecting on this incident, that I remembered that there was always some 'hand-working' of the engine during the cage-descents, an engineman reversing the action by a handle at every stroke of the piston, to prevent bumping. 2. A man who operates, manages, and maintains an engine. Labels: dated Example: As an aid to this end, and that the railroad companies may derive the highest efficiency from the man employed as a locomotive engineman, a code of questions is given him, and it is expected that the preparation necessary to correctly answer the questions will indicate how well he has progressed. Example: A few keen enginemen, such as Driver Rosewarne of York, could coax good work out of them when engaged in heavy East Coast express service, but to most footplate crews, especially firemen, they were rather heartbreaking and backbreaking machines, and gradually were relegated to secondary or fast goods duties. 3. A man who operates, manages, and maintains an engine. Labels: dated
Word: enginemen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of engineman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enolases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enolase Labels: form-of, plural
Word: enrapt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From en- + rapt. 1. fascinated, enraptured Labels: archaic, poetic Example: Come Hector, come, go back, / Thy wife hath dreamt, thy mother hath had viſions, / Caſſandra doth foreſee, and I my ſelfe, / Am like a prophet ſuddenly enrapt, / To tell thee that this day is ominous: / Therefore come back. Example: The tune carried among the lanes and dwellings of the village, and naked feet pad-padded quickly up over dust and the grass; the audience distributed itself within and without the head-man's hut, and listened enrapt; and the head-man felt the glow of satisfaction that a London hostess feels when she has hired for money the most popular drawing-room entertainer of the day, and her guests condescend to enjoy, and not merely to exhibit themselves as blases.
Word: eny Part of Speech: det 1. Pronunciation spelling of any. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: FREE--and that the schulehouses war a d--d sight thicker than the bugs in Miles Privett's beds! and thet's saying a heap, for ef eny on you kin sleep in his house, excep' he takes to the soft side of the floor, I'm d--d. Example: Ther stranger pays fur eny bow they make, for any smile they give. 2. Obsolete spelling of any. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: epigrammatist Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings)
Word: epigrammatists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of epigrammatist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: essenced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From essence + -ed. 1. Having an essence; scented. Example: Oh evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit, And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places, and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day of June, That we saw their banners dance, and their cuirasses shine, And the Man of Blood was there, with his long essenced hair, And Astley, and Sir Marmaduke, and Rupert of the Rhine. Example: Painted for ſight, and eſſenc'd for the ſmell, / Like frigates fraught with ſpice and cochine'l, / Sail in the Ladies: how each Pyrate eyes / So weak a veſſel, and ſo rich a prize!
Word: establishable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From establish + -able. 1. Able to be established.
Word: filigranes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of filigrane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apple-corers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apple-corer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apple dumplings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apple dumpling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apple strudels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apple strudel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: approach shots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of approach shot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arch doxies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arch doxy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Arctic loons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Arctic loon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arithmetic functions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arithmetic function Labels: form-of, plural
Word: armorists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of armorist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aromatherapists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aromatherapist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Arrhenius equations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Arrhenius equation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: army ants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of army ant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dancing girl Part of Speech: noun 1. A female dancer. Example: Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition.
Word: dancing-girl Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dancing girl. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: arternoons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arternoon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: asbo Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of ASBO. Labels: alt-of
Word: geologic timescales Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of geologic timescale Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Razzie Part of Speech: noun 1. A Golden Raspberry Award, an award given for poor performances in the film world. Example: A retarded sense of meta is achieved whenever Leto’s Chapman goes on about the phony theatrics of film actors, but it’s Lindsay Lohan, as über–Lennon fan Jude, who breaks your heart, looking convincingly horrified that she has three undeserved Razzies while Leto has none.
Word: sex comedy Part of Speech: noun 1. A genre of comedy film with sexual content or themes. Example: Just as the screwball comedy had well-defined elements which the films in the group share, the sex comedy shares conventions of narrative and visual patterning, not only across the originating mid-1950s phase, but observable in later examples, up to the present day.
Word: in one's book Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Refers to a notional book or list of one's opinions and beliefs. Slang from the mid-1900s. 1. In one's opinion. Labels: informal Example: Near-synonyms: in one's view, in one's eyes, to one's mind; see also Thesaurus:in my opinion Example: Clara did nothing wrong in my book. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, one's, book. Example: Today's homework is in your book. Could I borrow it?
Word: spank you very much Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From spank you, formed by imitation of thank you very much. 1. thank you very much Labels: humorous Example: He giggled with that obnoxious hyena laugh he has. "Spank you very much. I know you missed me, Cindy."
Word: pretty please with sugar on top Part of Speech: phrase Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɪti ˌpliz wɪθ ˈʃʊɡəɹ ɑn ˌtɑp/ 1. Exaggerated form of please or pretty please. Labels: exaggerated, form-of Example: I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top? Clean the fucking car!
Word: scoop up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From scoop + up. 1. to pick up or clear up by scooping Example: Use this to scoop up the ice cream. Example: You need to go in the backseat, scoop up all those little pieces of brain and skull. Get it out of there. -- said by The Wolf 2. To take enthusiastically. Example: We scooped up every one of their albums as soon as they were released. Example: You put suntan lotion in a bottle and call it Joe's Suntan Lotion and people won't buy it. But you put the exact same product in the bottle, change the label to Coppertone and raise the price, and they'll scoop it right up. 3. To grab or pick up something by accident. Labels: transitive Example: We must've scooped up a cold virus along with those kids.
Word: circumforaneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin circumforāneus (“itinerant”), from circum- (“around”) + forum (“marketplace”) + -aneus (“-aneous”). Pronunciation: /sɜːkəmfəˈɹeɪnɪəs/ 1. Wandering from place to place or market to market. Example: Gyrovagues: Monks who were accustomed to wander from place to place. In modern times, perhaps, any of the various circumforaneous proselytizers who go from door to door—Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, et al. Example: It is perfect for a thirteen-year-old child of NoVA when in the throes of another fit of aimlessness and maddening, ravenous boredom in which only the entering of a mall, the circumforaneous wandering amid others of your kind, or the buying of a CD (usually more like the stealing of a CD) can cure the disease. 2. Indirect, roundabout, or unnecessarily complex. Labels: broadly Example: The reason that this has not been the subject of extended commentary in science studies was that the path along which thermodynamics wrought its magic was unprecedentedly indirect and circumforaneous:[…]
Word: circumfusion Part of Speech: noun 1. diffusion, suffusion Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: circumgyrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin circumgȳrō; equivalent to circum- + gyrate. Pronunciation: /ˌsə.kəmˈdʒaɪ.ɹeɪt/, /ˌsɝ.kəmˈd͡ʒaɪ.ɹeɪt/ 1. To move around something. Labels: intransitive Example: Only an incident in the sun’s system is eight small potatoes, called planets, circumgyrating at distances from 36 million to 2,791 million miles from the central sun. Example: Volyendesta is a watery planet, with a large, rapidly circumgyrating moon afflicting its inhabitants with a vast variety of unstable moods […] 2. To cause to move around something; to cause to orbit. Labels: transitive Example: The soul about it self circumgyrates Her various forms, 3. To turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point. Labels: intransitive Example: Indirect power is the same as that which is sometimes called directive power or potestas directiva. For the word “direct,” one day, got up and turned its back upon itself. Its meaning has circumgyrated. 4. To cause to turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point. Labels: transitive Example: […] a wheel, when circumgyrated upon its Axe, is sensibly moved, but not removed from one place to another. Example: […] the one who impressed me most [was] a rumba dancer […] known for dancing to the rhythm of Cuban drums in a bikini with silver fringes while somehow circumgyrating at variable and independent speeds, each of her enormous tits […] 5. To make circuits (around an area or space). Labels: intransitive Example: […] every motion of the small fish playing in its [the stream’s] pellucid pools, was as distinctly visible as those of the unfortunate goldfish one sometimes observes pensively circumgyrating in the interior of its enchanted globular ball in the shop-window. Example: […] the philosopher with his long white hair hanging down his shoulders, either writing in his library or “circumnavigating” round his garden […] 6. To be formed into a bent or curved shape (around something). Labels: intransitive Example: 1850, Oliver Tiffany, Canada Patent No. 298,“Certain improvement in the apparatus for warming houses,” Patents of Canada, from 1849 to 1855, Volume 2, Toronto, 1865, […] it circumgyrates round the stove, and exposes its large surfaces to the air warming space […] 7. To form into a bent or curved shape. Labels: transitive Example: […] that […] all the Glands of the Body should be Congeries of various sorts of Vessels curl’d, circumgyrated and complicated together, whereby they give the Blood time to stop and separate through the Pores of the capillary Vessels into the Secretory ones, Example: You can’t begin to try to tell him till you’ve clean circumgyrated yourself away down into his confidence.
Word: circumgyration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From circum- + gyration. 1. rotation, revolution Labels: countable, uncountable 2. circling, wheeling (around) Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: circumlittoral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From circum- + littoral. 1. Around, or bordering the shore. 2. Describing the part of the sea bottom immediately beyond the littoral.
Word: circumlocute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from circumlocution. 1. To use circumlocution.
Word: circumnutate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From circum- + nutate. 1. to bend in a direction that is continuously moving in a horizontal direction
Word: circumocular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From circum- + ocular. 1. That extends around the eye Labels: not-comparable
Word: talk about Part of Speech: verb 1. Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, imperative Example: Talk about a loose cannon! Did you hear his TV speech? Example: "I should say yes," agreed George. "And talk about speed!" he added. "Wow! One ball he threw soaked me in the ear. I can feel it yet!" and he rubbed the side of his head reflectively. 2. Used to draw attention to the speaker's approval or affirmation of someone or something. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, present, progressive, usually Example: - I'm gonna wine you and dine you and give you everything you need. - Yes! Now that's what I'm talking about! 3. To say; used before a direct quote or paraphrase. Example: Some nigga was saying something / Talking 'bout smoke something / "Hey, man, you remember me from school?" "No, not really" / But he kept smiling like a clown, facial expression looking silly / And he kept asking me, "What kinda car you drive?" 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talk, about.
Word: circumrenal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From circum- + renal. 1. Around the kidney Labels: not-comparable
Word: circumrotation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From circum- + rotation. 1. rotation or revolution around an axis
Word: circumscissile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From circum- + scissile. Pronunciation: /sˌɜː.kəmˈsɪs.ɪl/, /ˌsɝ.kəmˈsɪs.ɪl/ 1. Describing any seed-vessel that splits along a circumference, with the upper part coming off as a lid. Labels: not-comparable
Word: circumscriptive Part of Speech: adj 1. That circumscribes or outlines
Word: circumscriptively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From circumscriptive + -ly. 1. In a circumscriptive manner 2. With regard to circumscription
Word: circumspatial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From circum- + spatial. 1. Of or pertaining to the surrounding space Labels: not-comparable
Word: sowbellies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sowbelly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sowarrees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sowarree Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cracka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Modification of cracker + -a. 1. Alternative spelling of cracker (impoverished white person) Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur
Word: crackas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cracka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Runyonesque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Runyon + -esque. 1. Reminiscent of Damon Runyon (1880–1946), American newspaperman and writer, best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era.
Word: buzz-bomb Part of Speech: verb 1. To bomb with a buzz bomb (jet-propelled missile or doodlebug). Labels: transitive
Word: buzz-bombing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of buzz-bomb Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: buzz-bombed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of buzz-bomb Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rollest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: roll + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of roll Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: malest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of male: most male Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: pseudomonacidal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From translingual Pseudomonas + -cidal. 1. That kills Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.