nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: glass harp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a calque of German Glasharfe, from Glas (“glass”) + Harfe (“harp”) (see the 1969 quotation). Pronunciation: /ɡlɑːs hɑːp/, /ɡlæs hɑɹp/ 1. A musical instrument consisting of glasses (typically wine glasses) tuned by putting different amounts of liquid into them. Sound is produced by rubbing one's fingers around the rims of the glasses, causing them to vibrate. Example: A newer glass instrument is the glass harp [G[erman] Glasharfe] constructed by B[runo] Hoffmann in 1929. Similar to the musical glasses of England, it consists of 46 individually tuned glasses fixed on a resonant table. Example: Glass harmonicas are basically of two types. One type employs vertical wine glasses arranged so that the performer can rub more than one glass at a time. A collection of glasses played in this manner is sometimes called a glass harp. The other type, called the armonica by its inventor Benjamin Franklin, employs glass bowls or cups turned by a horizontal axle, so the performer need only touch the rims of the bowls as they rotate to set them into vibration[…].
Word: planktic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From plankton + -ic. By surface analysis, plankt- + -ic. 1. planktonic Labels: not-comparable
Word: pneumatophore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pneumato- + -phore. 1. A gas-filled sac or float of some colonial marine coelenterates, such as the Portuguese man-of-war. 2. An aerial root, in mangroves etc., specialized for gaseous exchange. 3. An apparatus consisting of a bag with a tube and mouthpiece, which may be attached to the body. The bag contains oxygen to be breathed by the wearer in rescue work in mines, etc.
Word: popularism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From popular + -ism. 1. Any political doctrine chosen to appeal to a majority of the electorate: populism. Labels: uncountable
Word: Copperheadism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Copperhead + -ism. 1. The state of being a Copperhead; sympathy in the North for Southern secessionists during the American Civil War. Labels: US, historical, uncountable Example: The project went nowhere, but it did plant seeds of copperheadism that germinated a couple of years later.
Word: shibori Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese しぼり. 1. A form of Japanese tie-dye on silk Labels: uncountable
Word: -craft Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krafjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *kraftuz Proto-West Germanic *kraftu Old English cræft Old English -cræft Middle English -craft English -craft From Middle English -craft, -creft, from Old English -cræft (“art or skill in”), from cræft (“art, skill”). More at craft. 1. A skill of a particular kind. Labels: morpheme, uncountable, usually Example: statecraft Example: stagecraft
Word: -craft Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krafjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *kraftuz Proto-West Germanic *kraftu Old English cræft Middle English craft English craft English -craft From craft (“vehicle, vessel”). 1. A vehicle of a particular type. Labels: morpheme Example: aircraft Example: hovercraft
Word: -craft Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Back-formation from Minecraft; ultimately from etymology 1 above. 1. A Minecraft mod or server with a particular theme. Labels: morpheme Example: hermit + -craft → Hermitcraft Example: security + -craft → SecurityCraft
Word: oversanguine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + sanguine. Pronunciation: /əʊvəˈsaŋɡwɪn/ 1. Too sanguine; overconfident, too disposed to hopes of success. Example: So when the Elizabethan bishop, Edwin Sanders, claimed that ‘the gospel hath chased away walking spirits’, he was over-sanguine. Example: In that respect the popular clamor for "smashing" the rebels was based on sound if oversanguine instinct.
Word: forfex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin forfex. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːɹfɛks/ 1. A pair of shears. Labels: obsolete Example: The Peer now spreads the glitt'ring Forfex wide, T'inclose the Lock; now joins it, to divide. Example: the Classical forfices
Word: railbus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rail + bus. 1. A lightweight passenger railway vehicle, similar in appearance to a bus. Example: Constructional features of the railbus include the use of rubber suspension for axlebox/underframe and underframe/body mountings, the use of B.U.T. power transmission equipment, many components of which are interchangeable with those on British Railways standard railcars, power-operated sliding doors, and an absence of normal sidebuffers or drawgear. Example: They were ruled out as over-engineered and too expensive for mass production, and lost out to Class 141 and '142' railbuses, and then Class 150s.
Word: regardlessly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From regardless + -ly. 1. In a regardless manner.
Word: repetend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin repetendum (something to be repeated). 1. A refrain (having repeated words, sounds or phrases). 2. A repeated part in repeating decimals.
Word: repeating decimal Part of Speech: noun 1. A decimal representation of a real number that, at some point, becomes periodic (and repeats some sequence of digits infinitely)
Word: wordcraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From word + -craft. 1. Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric. Labels: uncountable Example: It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […] Example: To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft.
Word: retable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French retable, ultimately from Medieval Latin retrotabulum. Pronunciation: /rɪˈteɪbəl/ 1. A table or shelf behind an altar, on which are placed images or holy objects. Example: Near-synonym: reredos (often synonymous)
Word: retable Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + table. Pronunciation: /riːˈteɪbəl/, /riˈteɪbəl/ 1. To table again. Labels: transitive Example: Politicians are keen to retable the bill.
Word: starcraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From star + -craft, the latter part from Old English -cræft (“-craft”). 1. The art of interpreting or reading the stars, astrology. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: On the same morning, almost the same hour, / Under the selfsame aspect of the stars, / (Oh falsehood of all starcraft!) we were born. / How like each other was the birth of each! Example: They were the keepers of starcraft, runecraft, lorecraft and wortcraft and they guided many through the darkness of the future and healed bodies and minds.
Word: starcraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From star + -craft. 1. A vehicle which travels to or among the stars.
Word: Islamic Republic of Pakistan Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Pakistan: a country in South Asia.
Word: end of quote Part of Speech: intj 1. Used in speech to indicate the end of a quotation.
Word: take a dirt nap Part of Speech: verb 1. To die. Labels: slang
Word: revelational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From revelation + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to revelation
Word: revelationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From revelation + -ist. 1. A person who believes in divine revelation. 2. A person who makes a revelation. Example: Otherwiſe, by this plea of an unction from the Spirit, you may take upon you the function of Kings in the world, as well as of Prieſts in the Church; for the Revelationiſt joyns them both together, ſaying, He hath made us Kings and Prieſts. Example: Such were thoſe that preſented to be inſpired with ſome divine Fury, or ſtrange Rapture, called Lymphatici, q. d. Νυμφόληπτοι, And the Enthuſiaſts, or pretended Revelationiſts.
Word: rudist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French rudistes (plural), from rude (“rough, uneven”), or its source, Latin rudis. Compare scientific Latin Rudista. 1. Any of many box-, tube- or ring-shaped marine heterodont bivalves from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Example: In its shallow waters, now-extinct clams known as rudists formed extensive beds.
Word: frontage roads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of frontage road Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bite the biscuit Part of Speech: verb 1. To die. Labels: slang Example: David Scott . . . admits he "nearly bit the biscuit," during a 1985 trip to Kluane National Park in the Yukon. Scott was crossing a chest-deep river with a racing current, when he slipped. The near-freezing water whisked him away. Example: Trained assassins shoot people in the head, and that should be a relatively painless way to bite the biscuit. 2. To undertake an unpleasant task or to acknowledge an unfavorable situation or responsibility; bite the bullet. Labels: idiomatic Example: Weibe, who fought the effects of allergy medicine and a winless streak since the Hardee's Golf Classic (1986), had to bite the biscuit and settle for second place. Example: Sometimes owners need to bite the biscuit and call in professional help in order to solve a nasty canine behavioral problem.
Word: schmutter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish שמאַטע (shmate, “rag”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃmʌtə/ 1. Clothing. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: ‘Has something worried you – the business at the Cardin Foundation?’ ‘Cardin? Not my favourite schmutter.’ 2. Rubbish, worthless material. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable
Word: securement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From secure + -ment. 1. The act of securing. Example: a wheelchair securement device used on a bus Example: 1673, Elisha Coles, A Practical Discourse of God’s Sovereignty, London: J. Murgatroyd, 1794, “Of Perseverance,” pp. 367-367, In the tenth of John, our Saviour says, his “sheep shall never perish,” ver. 28. which is, in effect, their faith shall never fail; for, safe they cannot be from perishing, without the securement of their faith.
Word: sexivalent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sexi- + valent. 1. Synonym of hexavalent. Labels: not-comparable
Word: shammer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sham + -er. 1. A person who shams; a liar or faker.
Word: palinopsia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάλιν (pálin, “again”) + -opsia. 1. A visual disturbance that causes images to persist to some extent even after their corresponding stimulus has left. Labels: uncountable
Word: delectate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1647; borrowed from Latin dēlectātus, perfect passive participle of dēlectō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). 1. To delight, to charm, to bring pleasure to. Labels: archaic, transitive 2. To take delight in, to take pleasure in. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: I wiss Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From an incorrect assumption made by editors where i-wiss, iwis (“certainly, for sure”) was hypercorrected to I wiss, as if wiss were a verb and I were the pronoun I. See also wiss, wis, iwis. 1. surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly Labels: archaic, not-comparable, poetic Example: To tell the truth, I'm well informed / Yon match is a wile; The sheriff, I wiss, devises this / Us archers to beguile. Example: Such wholesome directions doth the bishop of Rome give unto those that will be ruled by him : far different (I wiss) from that holy doctrine, wherewith the Church of Rome was at first seasoned by the apostles [...]
Word: I wis Part of Speech: adv 1. assuredly, truly, indeed Example: I wis, your grandam had a worser match
Word: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Part of Speech: name 1. Official name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia.
Word: range hood Part of Speech: noun 1. An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, US
Word: cooker hood Part of Speech: noun 1. An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.
Word: kitchen hood Part of Speech: noun 1. An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.
Word: rangehood Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of range hood. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: beswink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English beswinken, from Old English beswincan (“to labour, toil, exert oneself”); equivalent to be- + swink. More at swink. 1. to labour, toil; belabour Labels: obsolete
Word: shink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English shynken, schenken, schenchen (“to pour, pour a drink”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Doublet of skink. 1. To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.
Word: shink Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk. 1. The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc). Example: The shink of a blade drawn from its scabbard rent the air. The dim light of a wall torch flashed upon the steel. With a lunge in tierce, Riccoboni slashed at the small man by his side. Pasquale groped clumsily at his waist for his own sword[…] Example: The men-at-arms knocked their visors down with the edges of their shields, a multiple metallic shink-shink sound, transformed from men to steel figures[…] 2. The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc). Example: SHINK! Maraki's sword impales the demon from behind. Example: Knocked off balance from Bell's charge, the cleaver was useless in defense. SHINK! The knife buried itself into the Minotaur's right hand, cutting flesh, bone and tendons alike.
Word: shink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk. 1. To slide with the shink sound of metal sliding.
Word: Puck Part of Speech: name Etymology: From puck (“mischievous spirit”), from Middle English pouke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Icelandic púki, dialectal Swedish puke (“devil”), Middle Low German spūk (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). More at spook. 1. A mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore. 2. One of the satellites of the planet Uranus.
Word: inconducive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + conducive. 1. Not likely to produce or support some desired outcome. Example: Whole families are often obliged to live in one—or two—room apartments, inconducive either to good morals or good health. Example: The dinner conversation was becoming inconducive to smooth digestion.
Word: unconducive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + conducive. 1. Not likely to produce or support some desired outcome. Example: [A]nd anyone who knows the stimulating effect of that beverage is aware that it could not fail to be unconducive to order. Example: About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. […] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
Word: propeller-head Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of propeller head. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Osasco Part of Speech: name 1. A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
Word: backreacting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From back + reacting. 1. That generates backreaction. Labels: not-comparable
Word: backreacting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From back + reacting. 1. present participle and gerund of backreact Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: globality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From global + -ity. 1. The end-state of globalization – a hypothetical condition in which the process of globalization is complete or nearly so, barriers have fallen, and "a new global reality" is emerging. Labels: uncountable
Word: magnetoexcitons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of magnetoexciton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: magnetoexciton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From magneto- + exciton. 1. An exciton created by a high magnetic field
Word: surrogation Part of Speech: noun 1. The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas […] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in her vvittes: […] 2. The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: tachionic Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of tachyonic. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: compasser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From compass + -er. 1. One who or that which compasses. Example: If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers?
Word: comprehender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From comprehend + -er. 1. One who comprehends. Example: Less-skilled comprehenders do not know when it is appropriate to draw inferences. Example: This mental representation provides the comprehender with a general plan according to which he can organize, interrelate and memorize the incoming information.
Word: Thumbelina Part of Speech: name Etymology: From thumb, as a calque of Danish Tommelise, the original name created by Hans Christian Andersen. Pronunciation: /ˌθʌmbəˈliːnə/ 1. A fairy tale about a thumb-sized girl. 2. The main character in this story.
Word: Thumbelina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thumb, as a calque of Danish Tommelise, the original name created by Hans Christian Andersen. Pronunciation: /ˌθʌmbəˈliːnə/ 1. A variety of small, roundish carrot that does not need to be peeled.
Word: bullockies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bullocky Labels: form-of, plural
Word: costmary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin costum, from Ancient Greek κόστος (kóstos, “an Oriental aromatic plant”), and Maria (“the Virgin Mary”); only indirectly related to English rosemary. 1. An aromatic plant (Tanacetum balsamita), once used to flavour ale (prior to use of hops); also used as a bookmark in Bibles and other holy texts to dissuade silverfish and other pests. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The Marigolde, and cherefull Rosemarie; / The Spartan Mirtle, whence sweet gumb does flowe; / The purple Hyacinths, and fresh Costmarie, / And Saffron, sought for in Cilician soyle
Word: dumbshow Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of dumb show. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: mendelize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Mendel + -ize, from Gregor Mendel, an Austro-Hungarian priest and scientist, who gained posthumous fame as the figurehead of the new science of genetics. Mendel showed that the inheritance of certain traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him. 1. To be inherited according to Mendel's laws.
Word: monial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, from Old French moinel, noun use of moienel (“middle”), from moien. 1. A mullion. Labels: obsolete
Word: monial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman monyale, Middle French monyalle, or their source, Late Latin monialis. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊnɪəl/ 1. A nun, especially one dedicated to an enclosed order. Labels: archaic Example: For the first time since I had glimpsed her across the crowded ballroom I understood how I could have mistaken her for a monial of the order whose habit she wore.
Word: nivation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Dutch-American topographer and geologist François E. Matthes. 1. Erosion caused by freezing and thawing due to snow. Labels: uncountable
Word: notchback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From notch + back; compare hatchback. 1. A motor car whose rear window makes an angle with its back segment
Word: optophone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From opto- + -phone. Pronunciation: /ˈɑptəˌfoʊn/, /ˈɒptəˌfəʊn/ 1. A device that transforms light into sound. 2. A device, used by the blind, that scans text and generates a different sound for each character
Word: power gamer Part of Speech: noun 1. A regular gamer who plays computationally demanding games on state-of-the-art hardware. 2. A player who focuses on making his or her characters as powerful as possible.
Word: pipestone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pipe + stone. 1. A hard, red clay used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pitpan Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of dugout canoe used in Central America
Word: vergée Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Norman vergée, from Anglo-Norman vergé, vergee, originally terre vergee (“measured land”). Doublet of virgate. Pronunciation: /ˈvəːʒeɪ/ 1. A measure of land, having varying values in Guernsey and Jersey, but approximately 18,000 square feet. Example: Her father had given her a cottage in the Robergerie with a vergée of land and a greenhouse.
Word: Lides Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Lide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lide Part of Speech: name Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Lyde, from Old English hlȳda, from hlȳdan (“to make noise”) + -a (agentive suffix), literally “noise-maker”; thus the only Germanic month name to survive in Modern English. Compare loud, and more distantly listen, slave. Pronunciation: /laɪd/ 1. March (third month of the Gregorian calendar) Labels: dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Example: "Eat Leekes in Lide, and Ramsins in May, / And all the yeare after Physitians may play." Example: I have heard this archaism only among tinners, where it exists in such sayings as this: 'Ducks wānt lay until they've a drink'd lide water.'
Word: Lide Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the German surname, possibly Americanized from Leid. Pronunciation: /laɪd/ 1. A surname.
Word: Rach Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ɹeɪt͡ʃ/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Rachel.
Word: nonulcerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + ulcerous. 1. Not ulcerous. Labels: not-comparable
Word: noncultured Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + cultured. 1. Not cultured. Labels: not-comparable Example: noncultured cell preparations
Word: camptocormias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of camptocormia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pop a squat Part of Speech: verb 1. To urinate in a squatting position, especially in a public place. Labels: slang Example: Now, if I was here at my mother's house and someone was out in the yard popping a squat, I'd have to say something […] Example: Looking around she popped a squat in front of the car. She had a handful of tissue from the glove box. Finished, she stood up, relieved to not have gotten caught. 2. To crouch down. Labels: slang Example: Scotty, come here. Pop a squat right next to daddy.
Word: codesheet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From code + sheet. 1. A document listing codes and their meanings. Example: This codebook replaced American codesheets which had been in use since the 1780's. Example: The analysts entered the information on a set of standardized codesheets.
Word: codesheets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of codesheet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. 1. A tape or braid; an ornament. Labels: obsolete 2. A layer. Labels: obsolete Example: And then if it be before Mid-Cancer,& the hony-weather hold; your best way is to double the stall, by turning the skirt of the Hiue vpward, and setting a leere prepared Hiue fast vpon it: into which they will ascend, and worke and tbreed there as well as in the old, Example: First, make an hole in the earth with very good tempered clay that will hold water, and let it be narrow in the bottome, and wider and wider above to the toppe to the breadth of 2 or 3 or 4 yards; then fill the Pit with water & lay over it barres of iron of sufficient strength and thicknesse to beare the burden that must lye upon it; and let them lye so neare together that the stones & wood cannot fal through: then lay thereupon a leere of drye wood, and a leere of your red stone not broken small, and so doe againe till it be a yard thick or more, then give fire to it on the wind side, and goe a-way out of the danger of the fumes, till you see a far off that the fire is finished and burned quite out. 3. A look or glance. Labels: obsolete Example: I gave a leere With that same eye that made her turne her whites up. Example: Pursuing my Voyage through the City, and casting a Leere into the Shops of the Rich Drapers, Mercers, and Lacemen, I saw them haunted by many People in Want, especially young Heirs newly at Age, and Spendthrifts, that came to borrow Money of them. 4. A joke or jest; a bit of comedy. Labels: obsolete Example: A leere put upon the Father by his Sonne. Example: Cell. You Wit, Sir, will be better imploy'd anotther way; Come Cousin, let's go listen to the Gentleman, no doubt, we shall find a great reformation. Hyl. Why, look ye Gentlemen, this is alwayes my damn'd luck, Pox on't, they won't allow me so much as a Leere; but hush —here comes the Monfieur.
Word: tumblerful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tumbler + -ful. 1. As much as a tumbler will hold. Example: The old man handed me a tumblerful of whisky.
Word: tumblerfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tumblerful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tumblersful Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tumblerful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonsecured Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + secured. 1. Not secured; not fastened; not attached. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a loan or guarantee, without collateral. Labels: not-comparable
Word: varnishable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From varnish + -able. 1. Capable of being varnished. Labels: not-comparable
Word: e-crime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From e- + crime. 1. Cybercrime. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When asked what e-crimes were committed against their organizations in 2004, respondents cited virus or other malicious code as most prevalent (82%)... Example: The National Hi Tech Computer Crime Unit was established as a specialist e-crime unit and was folded into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency in 2006.
Word: e-crimes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of e-crime Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prestigeful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prestige + -ful. 1. respected, admired
Word: rodham Part of Speech: noun 1. A bank of silt on the bed of a dried-up river
Word: sailable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sail + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪləbl̩/ 1. That can be sailed. Example: The canoes of that tribe were not sailable; they were paddled on rivers and lakes, and they did not go to sea, as the sea coast was controlled by other tribes. 2. Navigable. Example: The upper reaches of this bay are not sailable; there are too many shoals and no dredged channel.
Word: swordfighter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sword + fighter. 1. One who fights with a sword.
Word: swordfighters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swordfighter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sharara Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Urdu شرارہ. 1. A pair of loose trousers worn (typically with a kameez and dupatta) by women in South Asia. Example: She is dressed in a jade-green sharara with pink blossoms embroidered on the fabric.
Word: coloring book Part of Speech: noun 1. A book containing line art for readers (usually children) to add color using crayons, colored pencils, markers, paint, or other artistic media.
Word: shararas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sharara Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coloring books Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coloring book Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sherwani Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu شیروانی (śervānī)/Hindi शेरवानी (śervānī), from the name of a town in Persia. 1. A knee-length coat that buttons to the neck, worn by men in parts of India and Pakistan. Example: The band that leads the procession wears red-and-green sherwanis. Example: Friom a distance, Komal secretly observes Lakshaya, dressed in a fitted maroon sherwani, carefully mount the decorated animal.
Word: guddled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of guddle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: guddling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of guddle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: backword Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + word. 1. A contention, retort, or reply. 2. A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand. Example: Richard has compounded with some Italians to paint a mural of his triumph [...] The time may come when the scene is bitter in his eyes, but he should paint it anyway. He should not give backword to the Italians — it is how they get their living. 3. A section of commentary at the end of a book.
Word: backwords Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of backword Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shochet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew שׁוֹחֵט (shokhét, “slaughterer, butcher”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃoʊxɛt/, /ˌʃoʊˈxɛt/ 1. A person certified under Jewish law to slaughter cattle and poultry Example: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 9, He was by profession a boot and shoe manufacturer, a shochet (a kosher slaughterer), and later a grocer […]
Word: sherwanis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sherwani Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shochets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shochet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shochetim Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shochet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: startler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From startle + -er. 1. One who, or that which, startles.
Word: startlers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of startler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trackwidth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From track + width. 1. The width of a track.
Word: trackwidths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trackwidth Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rodhams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rodham Labels: form-of, plural
Word: starwort Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From star + wort. 1. Any of several not closely related plants that have a star-shaped flowers or leaves, but especially members of the genus Stellaria.
Word: subungulate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + ungulate. 1. Any of various mammals, thought to have evolved from ungulates, sometimes grouped in the taxon Paenungulata.
Word: subungulate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + ungulate. 1. Hoofed, but with several digits. Labels: not-comparable
Word: succah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of sukkah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Indian peacock Part of Speech: noun 1. Pavo cristatus, a species of peacock native to the Indian subcontinent. 2. A member of the aforementioned species Labels: colloquial 3. A male Pavo cristatus.
Word: tactus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin tactus. Doublet of tact. 1. The sense of touch. Labels: uncountable 2. beat, pulse Labels: uncountable
Word: tailwheel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *taglą Proto-West Germanic *tagl Old English tæġl Middle English tayl English tail Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel English tailwheel From tail + wheel. 1. A wheel attached to the tail of an aircraft that supports it when on the ground.
Word: thinnings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thinning Labels: form-of, plural
Word: titlark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tit + lark. 1. Anthus pratensis, the meadow pipit, a songbird.
Word: toileted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From toilet + -ed. 1. Having a toilet. Labels: rare Example: He thought that the people who had fed him rich foods, driven him about in new cars and opened up their majestically toileted homes to him were living expensively, even greedily, in a fool’s paradise. Example: Excessively toileted houses, Keynes noted, tend to require walls and gates and private guards to protect the porcelain treasure.
Word: toileted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From toilet + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of toilet Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: truffling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From truffle + -ing. 1. Searching for, and digging up truffles. Labels: uncountable
Word: turfman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From turf + -man. 1. A person who goes horse racing, or who owns racehorses
Word: undercrackers Part of Speech: noun 1. Men's underpants Labels: UK, informal, plural, plural-only
Word: undershrub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + shrub. 1. A low-growing shrub.
Word: vespertilionid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of very many bats of the family Vespertilionidae.
Word: yandy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Yindjibarndi yandy. 1. To separate (grain or pieces of mineral) by shaking in a special shallow dish Labels: Australia
Word: yandy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yindjibarndi yandy. 1. The dish used in this process Labels: Australia
Word: catulus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin catulus (literally “puppy”) 1. A catkin. Labels: obsolete
Word: same exact Part of Speech: adj 1. Same, exactly the same, exact same. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: They both did the same exact things in the same exact way.
Word: exact same Part of Speech: adj 1. Exactly the same; identical. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: They both did the exact same things in the exact same way.
Word: Spanish walk Part of Speech: noun 1. A movement in which the horse raises the forelegs off the ground in an extreme upward and out manner, with much expression.
Word: atextual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + textual. 1. Not textual; not derived from written works. Example: What Marx attacks are the atextual theses that history is made up of free events and that history is guided by superior individuals. 2. Of an interpretation of a statute or similar governing provision, derived from something other than the text of the provision. Example: Neither party to the present case challenges the atextual extension of the habeas statute to United States citizens held beyond the territorial jurisdictions of the United States courts...
Word: stonecraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stone + -craft. 1. The art or skill of working in stone Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: defendor Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of defender. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: edumacate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From educate + -ma-. Pronunciation: /ˈɛdʒəməkeɪt/ 1. To educate. Labels: humorous
Word: edumacates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of edumacate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: edumacating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of edumacate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: edumacated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of edumacate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: flumpet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of flugelhorn + trumpet. 1. A musical instrument that blends qualities of the trumpet and flugelhorn.
Word: flumpets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flumpet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: engineeress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From engineer + -ess. 1. A female engineer. Labels: dated, rare Example: But at least they learned to dance and smile and talk and choose engineeresses appropriate to their engineering futures.
Word: engineeresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of engineeress Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prolocutions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prolocution Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unswervable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + swervable. 1. Not swervable.
Word: unturnable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + turnable. 1. Not turnable.
Word: prolocution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pro + locution. 1. An introductory speech. Labels: obsolete Example: “Sir,” said I, “if I tell you my story, I must commit a friend’s life to your discretion. Pass me your word it shall be sacred; and for what touches myself, I will ask no better guarantee than just your face.” He passed me his word very seriously. “But,” said he, “these are rather alarming prolocutions; and if there are in your story any little jostles to the law, I would beg you to bear in mind that I am a lawyer, and pass lightly.” 2. Speaking on behalf of others. Labels: obsolete
Word: wouldn't you know Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of wouldn't you know it. Labels: alt-of, alternative, idiomatic
Word: balsam Canada Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Canada balsam. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: idiolectical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From idiolect + -ical. 1. Alternative form of idiolectic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: PDLC Part of Speech: noun 1. polymer dispersed liquid crystal. 2. project delivery (or project development, or program development) life cycle.
Word: trolamine Part of Speech: noun 1. triethanolamine Labels: uncountable
Word: wisecracky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wisecrack + -y. 1. Relating to or habitually using wisecracks. Labels: informal
Word: circle strafe Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of circle-strafe. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: circle strafes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of circle strafe Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: circle strafing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of circle strafe Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: circle strafed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of circle strafe Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: frained Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of frain Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gangliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ganglion + -iform. 1. Having the form of a ganglion. Labels: not-comparable
Word: frains Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of frain Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: gasiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gas + -iform. 1. Having the form of a gas; gaseous. Labels: not-comparable
Word: coraciform Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of coraciiform. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: coraciiform Part of Speech: noun 1. Any bird of the order Coraciiformes
Word: corolliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From corolla + -iform. 1. Having the form of a corolla Labels: not-comparable
Word: corymbiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From corymb + -iform. 1. Having the form of a corymb 2. clustered
Word: coryneform Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Corynebacterium, from Ancient Greek κορύνη (korúnē, “club”), + -form. 1. Any bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium 2. Bacteria resembling such bacterium, having irregularly shaped, non-spore-forming, aerobic, gram-positive rods.
Word: costiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From costa + -iform. 1. Having the form of a rib.
Word: cotyliform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cotyle + -iform. 1. Having the form of a cup.
Word: comarcas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of comarca Labels: form-of, plural
Word: monooleate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mono- + oleate. 1. A compound having a single oleate ion or group per molecule, or per anion.
Word: hirn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hirne, herne, from Old English hyrne (“horn, corner, angle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurnijā, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“horn, corner, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ is a diminutive form of *hurną, from which comes English horn. Doublet of hern. Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːn/, /ˈhɝn/ 1. Corner; nook; hiding-place. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: hirns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hirn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stoushes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stoush Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stoushes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stoush Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: omphaloscopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From omphalo- + -scopy, literally "the contemplation of one's navel". Pronunciation: /ˌɒmfəˈlɒskəpi/ 1. Navel-gazing; introversion. Labels: uncountable
Word: self-abnegation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self- + abnegation. 1. The denial or invalidation of one's own needs, interests, etc. for the sake of another's; the setting aside of self-interest. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [Self commendation] should bee accompanied with Self-abnegation, or a renouncing of all Self-conceit, Self-sufficiency, Self seeking, or Self worthiness; to prick the bladder of pride in us. Example: You understand, of course, that it is only by serving and self-abnegation that we advance in the higher world." 2. An act of self-denial. Labels: countable Example: […] self-abnegations often repeated imply on the part of the actor a tacit ascription of relative selfishness to others who profit by the self-abnegations. Example: There was something monstrous about his self-abnegations. Perhaps he denied himself the things for which he did not care. He wanted to seem nobler than any one else.
Word: self-abnegation Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: snake charmers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of snake charmer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: snake charming Part of Speech: noun 1. The practice of hypnotising a snake by playing an instrument, the performance of which may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts. Labels: uncountable
Word: gargling fluid Part of Speech: noun 1. Mouthwash. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: A teaspoonful of table salt added to a pint of warm, not hot, water makes a good gargling fluid.
Word: Palinism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Palin + -ism. 1. The political philosophy associated with U.S. public figure Sarah Palin. Labels: uncountable Example: The essence of Palinism is emotional, not ideological. Example: Palinism still seeks to balance the social conservatism and economic liberty of Reaganism, but it takes seriously the Goldwater extremism speech in its hyperactive purism and refusal to compromise. 2. A statement or turn of phrase used by U.S. public figure Sarah Palin that is unintentionally comical due to malapropisms, dubious coherency, etc. Labels: countable Example: Sarah Palin has stepped in with her peculiar style of speaking. There are literally thousands of sites catering to the insatiable appetite for Palinisms. Example: An entire book could be dedicated to 'Palinisms'—the gaffes made by the Republican vice-presidential candidate.
Word: TWIMC Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of to whom it may concern. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: rockhound Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of rock hound. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Many veteran rockhounds will tell you that nothing can replace the knowledge gained by experience in identifying semi-precious stones and gems.
Word: rockhounds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rockhound Labels: form-of, plural
Word: houndfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hound + fish. 1. Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae. 2. A small European shark (Scyliorhinus canicula), small-spotted dogfish.
Word: gamefishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gamefish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: houndfishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of houndfish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sashless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sash + -less. 1. Without a sash. Labels: not-comparable Example: Windows in the South Bend house are sashless. They are simply plates of glass that slide in the grooves of a wood casing.
Word: adiantum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name Adiantum. 1. The maidenhair fern and related ferns (of the genus Adiantum)
Word: tollhouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From toll + house. In previous centuries it was common for the toll collector to live in the tollhouse, his housing counting as part of his compensation. 1. A building where a toll is collected on a toll road. Example: At the tollhouse the road turns inland to Gledsmuir, and he who goes to the Sker Bay must leave it and cross the wild land called the Whinny Knowes, a place rough with bracken and foxes' holes and old stone cairns.
Word: tollhouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tollhouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: afforce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French afforcer, aforcer, from Latin exfortiāre, from fortis (“strong”). By surface analysis af- + force. 1. To reinforce (a team etc.) with extra people Labels: rare
Word: lapstrake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lap + strake. 1. A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A boat built in this style. Labels: countable, usually
Word: lapstrake Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lap + strake. 1. Descriptive of or resembling a boat, or a section of a boat, so constructed. Labels: not-comparable Example: The hotel nightlights shine behind the drawn venetian blinds and the slatted patterns on the curbside cars give them the look of anchored smallcraft with lapstrake hulls.
Word: lapstrakes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lapstrake Labels: form-of, plural
Word: afterdeck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From after- + deck. 1. The part of a ship's deck from amidships toward the stern. Example: Holonyms: watercraft, vessel, vessel
Word: aftersun Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From after- + sun. 1. Describing a cooling or moisturizing lotion applied to the skin after exposure to the sun, especially to soothe sunburn. Labels: not-comparable Example: Apply aftersun lotion to avoid peeling and flaking caused by sun damage.
Word: aftersun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From after- + sun. 1. A lotion of this kind. Labels: uncountable Example: Put some aftersun on when you get home.
Word: agrion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the neuter, ἄγρῐον (ágrĭon), of Ancient Greek ἄγριος (ágrios, “wild, fierce; living in open fields”). 1. Any of several damselflies of the genus Calopteryx (syn. Agrion).
Word: tinley Part of Speech: noun 1. A torch, made from burning straw, supposed to represent the burning of souls Labels: obsolete
Word: areligious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + religious. 1. Not religious; irreligious. Example: From September 1792, for example, the registration of births, marriages and deaths was made a purely civil function, while legislation on divorce introduced at the same time was also entirely areligious.
Word: cyberflaneur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + flaneur. 1. A person who idly surfs the Internet. Labels: Internet Example: The attraction that it exerts on the millions that stroll through its maze of information might be used to reinvigorate our cities. Cyberflaneurs have become captivated with the Internet's ready supply of huge amounts of information... Example: What about the widely heralded hope that cyberspace will be the new street, the piazza in our sprawling cities of connected isolation; that cyberflaneurs will promenade around the Net like Baudelaire taking a stroll around Paris?
Word: cyberflaneurs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyberflaneur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: afterdecks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of afterdeck Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arrangeable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From arrange + -able. 1. That can be arranged (especially in a specified manner)
Word: ehuru Part of Speech: noun 1. African nutmeg Labels: uncountable
Word: Whitehead Part of Speech: name Etymology: From white + head. 1. A surname. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A place name: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A place name: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A place name: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A place name: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A place name: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Whitehead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From white + head. 1. A form of self-propelling torpedo.
Word: lamming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lam Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lamming Part of Speech: noun 1. A beating. Example: This blood, I am informed, saved him many lammings from the head of the house, who, though Keeper of the Fives, fainted at first sight of it […]
Word: lammed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lam Labels: form-of, participle, past