nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: consumerizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of consumerize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: consumerized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of consumerize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: endocrinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From endocrine + -al. 1. endocrine Labels: not-comparable Example: That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers. Example: The agency said that the 67 pesticides were chosen because humans and animals are widely exposed to them, not because they are necessarily the most likely disruptors of endocrinal functions.
Word: eskrima Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tagalog escrima or eskrima, borrowed from Spanish esgrima, noun form of the verb esgrimir (“to handle a melee weapon whether for offensive or defensive purposes”). 1. The traditional martial arts of the Philippines, which emphasize the use of sticks, knives, and various improvised weapons. Labels: uncountable Example: Of all the disciplines covered here, the arts of kali, arnis and eskrima, from the Philippines, are perhaps the most vigorous, employing an almost balletic violence to prepare for rough nights on the town.
Word: galanthophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Galanthus + -o- + -phile. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlanθə(ʊ)fʌɪl/ 1. An enthusiastic collector of snowdrops. Example: Mr. Lyman owns the Temple Nursery, a mail order business little known beyond the world of galanthophiles, or snowdrop lovers. Example: The world of snowdrop fanciers (galanthophiles) is full of headstrong egos. […] However, one gently spoken and quiet Gloucestershire galanthophile, Phil Cornish, sidesteps all that nonsense.
Word: galanthophiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of galanthophile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: galantines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of galantine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neckstrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neck + strap. 1. A strap worn around the neck for carrying something. Example: So we’re stuck with two camera categories: pocket ones that take mediocre pictures and big heavy black ones (S.L.R.’s) that take stunning photos but require a neckstrap or, ideally, a wheelbarrow.
Word: neckstraps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neckstrap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overcollection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + collection. 1. Excessive collection, as: Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Excessive collection, as: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: overcollections Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of overcollection Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rewriter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rewrite + -er. 1. One who, or that which, rewrites. Example: On the threshold of 1984, Communist rewriters of history have scored a significant victory in their longtime effort to erase inconvenient individuals and events from the chronicle of modern times. Example: Part of why both books dragged on so long is that Mr. Talese, who once worked for The New York Times, is a perfectionist, an obsessive tinkerer and rewriter, and also a famously meticulous reporter and researcher who spurns devices like composite characters and faked identities. 2. Part of a compiler that makes a second pass to fix the generated object code by implementing postconditions, patching in calls or pointers to point to the correct locations, etc.
Word: rewriters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rewriter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: audios Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of audio Labels: form-of, plural
Word: competingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From competing + -ly. 1. So as to compete.
Word: restabilization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + stabilization. 1. The process of restabilizing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: restabilizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of restabilization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uncurbable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + curbable. 1. Incapable of being curbed. Labels: not-comparable Example: The score is also a reminder of what fueled Morgan’s shopping mania, uncurbable and lifelong.
Word: Weimaraner Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪməɹɑːnəɹ/ 1. A breed of gun dog with an athletic build and short coat.
Word: Weimaraners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Weimaraner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nontransportation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + transportation. 1. Not of or pertaining to transportation. Labels: not-comparable Example: The tax provision, which originated in the 2005 transportation bill and provides a tax credit of 50 cents a gallon, was extended two years ago to include nontransportation energy sources.
Word: postmedium Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + medium. 1. In a time when choice of medium no longer matters. Labels: not-comparable Example: Today many aspects of craft have been absorbed — minus the reverence — by contemporary art, now considered in its postmedium phase.
Word: bleacherlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bleacher + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of bleachers. Example: Children often scrambled up the narrow staircases to play on the bleacherlike seats.
Word: hemangiopericytoma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hemangiopericyte + -oma (“neoplastic tumor”), the former from hemangio- + pericyte. 1. A sarcoma of the soft tissue that originates in the pericytes in the walls of capillaries. Example: The cause was hemangiopericytoma, a rare vascular cancer, said his wife, Dizzy Cox.
Word: hemangiopericytomata Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hemangiopericytoma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hemangiopericytomas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hemangiopericytoma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonporosity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + porosity. 1. The quality of being nonporous. Labels: uncountable
Word: insectan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From insect + -an. 1. Of insects. Labels: not-comparable
Word: megastudio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + studio. 1. A large film studio. Example: As the novel begins, he is on his way to Universum Film AG, better known as Ufa, the megastudio on Berlin’s outskirts that has bankrolled a stream of breakthrough movies.
Word: megastudios Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megastudio Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multihyphenated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + hyphenated. 1. Having more than one hyphen. Labels: not-comparable
Word: don't dip your pen in company ink Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of you don't dip your pen in company ink. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fisheye lens Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined in 1906 by the American physicist Robert W. Wood. 1. A wide-angle lens having an extremely wide field of view (approaching or exceeding 180 degrees) and producing images that are circular or distorted by curvature at the edges.
Word: fish-eye lens Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fisheye lens. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: factionalise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From factional + -ise. 1. Alternative form of factionalize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Superstitial Part of Speech: noun 1. A proprietary standard in online advertising created by Unicast, featuring animation and interactivity; advertising produced under this standard. Labels: attributive, capitalized, often, sometimes Example: Over 10% of viewers have visited the truth site through one of these Superstitial ads. Example: [T]he value of superstitials, say, or any type of out-of-banner rich media ad, is just as potent as it was two years ago.
Word: superstitial Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Superstitial. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cosmodicy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world, universe”) + δίκη (díkē, “justice”); influenced by theodicy. 1. A justification of the fundamental goodness of the universe, especially in regard to the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of the universe. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: aik Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse aka (“to drive, sail, navigate”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną. 1. To drive. Labels: Northern-England, rare Example: The herd aiked his neat out to the leas.
Word: steamies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of steamie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: simple majorities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of simple majority Labels: form-of, plural
Word: circuit boards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of circuit board Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dreap Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of dreep. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: safron Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of saffron. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: shrined Part of Speech: adj 1. Enshrined. Labels: not-comparable
Word: shrined Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of shrine Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: flittings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flitting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: livingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From living + -ly. 1. In actual living experience; really, vitally. Example: Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out. Example: If we believed—if the great mass of people known as the civilized world did actually and livingly believe—that there was really anything beyond or above the physical order of nature, our children's literature, wrongly so called, would not be what it is. 2. Realistically; as if experienced in life or as if alive. Example: It was so strange, to have that gay Italian bay, with all its memories, […] and those great old heroes, with their awful deeds for good and evil, all brought so suddenly and livingly before me, […] Example: Take an extreme case. A group of people are photographed by Edison's new process—say Titiens, Trebelli, and Jenny Lind, with any two of the finest men singers the age has known—let them be photographed incessantly for half an hour while they perform a scene in "Lohengrin"; let all be done stereoscopically. Let them be phonographed at the same time so that their minutest shades of intonation are preserved, let the slides be coloured by a competent artist, and then let the scene be called suddenly into sight and sound, say a hundred years hence. Are those people dead or alive? Dead to themselves they are, but while they live so powerfully and so livingly in us, which is the greater paradox—to say that they are alive or that they are dead?
Word: untruss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + truss. 1. To free from a truss; to untie or unfasten Example: a. 1701, John Dryden, epistle to Mr Julian The choleric wight, untrussing all in rage
Word: untruss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + truss. 1. an untrusser or public whipper Labels: obsolete
Word: cuckoldy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cuckold + -y. 1. Characteristic of a cuckold. Example: Hang him, poor cuckoldy knave! I know him not.
Word: dryasdusts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dryasdust Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dryasdust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust. 1. A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer. Example: […] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?
Word: dryasdust Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust. 1. Boring and pedantic in speech or writing. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] Casaubon, the dryasdust scholar in Middlemarch, is said to woo his bride with a “frigid rhetoric . . . as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.”
Word: snibbed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of snib Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: snibs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of snib Labels: form-of, plural
Word: snibbing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of snib Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: oose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots oose, an alternative form of oos, the plural form of oo (“wool”). Pronunciation: /uːs/, /uːz/, /uz/, /us/ 1. Fluff, particularly from a textile source such as cotton or wool. Labels: Scotland, uncountable Example: But I found how I could read in the bedroom and not lie on the bed. It was a wee place down between my bed and the wall where the door was. The bed was pressed against the wall but ye could just squash down and under. My da kept all suitcases under my bed but I shifted them the gether and it was easy to squash in. But when I came out it was all fluff and oose stuff down my pyjamas. My maw was shouting. Oh Kieron it is filfy it is just filfy. Example: I used to collect oose. If you have an inny bellybutton, this is the linty stuff you find in its crevices at the end of the day when you have nothing better to do than explore useless parts of your body.
Word: oose Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of yucca. Labels: US Example: A favorite substitute for soap was the root of the "oose," or yucca, sometimes called "soap root." This root looked about like a sugarbeet. Cut up and left in water it soon made a fluffy suds. Colored clothes came out fresh and bright because the cleanser did not harm the dyes. White clothes however were turned slightly yellow by it and therefore were not generally washed with oose. I remember how soft, fluffy, and sweet-smelling my hair always felt after a shampoo with oose suds. For mopping the wooden floors the oose root served not only as soap but as scrubbing brush as well. And how white and beautiful those floors would look. Example: She climbed the Red Hill one cold day and dug oose root with which to bring a new luster to her long black hair.
Word: oose Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic form of ooze. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: thissun Part of Speech: pron 1. Contraction of this + 'un, literally “this one”. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction
Word: fankled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fankle + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of fankle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fankled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fankle + -ed. 1. Tangled. Labels: Scotland Example: I did not like the bushes where I was sitting. Ye could not see in. It was just leaves and leaves and all thick branches all fankled, all stuff poking out, fuzzy stuff and poison too, so ye could not go in [...].
Word: highwire walker Part of Speech: noun 1. An acrobat who performs tightrope walking on a wire which is at an especially high elevation above the ground, usually with the aid of a pole for balance. Example: A renowned Canadian highwire walker who has been trying unsuccessfully for decades to walk over Niagara Falls said Nik Wallenda's proposal to cross the Horseshoe Falls next year will have to be cleared by an "onslaught" of government officials.
Word: Mentone Part of Speech: name Etymology: The places in the United States and Australia from the Italian name for Menton, a town in the French Riviera on the Franco-Italian border. 1. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia. 2. A place in the United States: 3. A place in the United States: 4. A place in the United States: 5. A place in the United States:
Word: high-wire walker Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of highwire walker. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sergeants-major Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sergeant-major Labels: form-of, plural
Word: evangelic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French evangelique (French évangélique). Pronunciation: /iːvænˈd͡ʒɛlɪk/ 1. evangelical Labels: not-comparable
Word: evangelic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French evangelique (French évangélique). Pronunciation: /iːvænˈd͡ʒɛlɪk/ 1. evangelical
Word: Georgism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From George + -ism; from the writings of American economist Henry George (1839–1897). 1. An economic philosophy stating that things found in nature, most importantly land, belong equally to all. It is usually associated with the idea of a single tax on the value of land. Labels: uncountable
Word: change of tack Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of tacking, turning into the wind so the sail moves to the opposite side. 2. A reversal of an opinion. Labels: idiomatic
Word: rone pipes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rone pipe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wickmaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wick + maker. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪkmeɪkə/ 1. Someone who makes wicks. Labels: uncommon Example: Piggot Samuel, watchmaker 215½ Hudson Piggott Augusta wickmaker 159 Grand Example: […] apparently assumes that the Talmud does not totally reject that there was a wickmaker’s office.
Word: ant mill Part of Speech: noun 1. A phenomenon where a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle and eventually dying of exhaustion.
Word: wickmakers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wickmaker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insensates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of insensate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: psychophants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of psychophant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: untrussing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of untruss Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: untrusses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of untruss Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: line-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from line up. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/ 1. Alternative spelling of lineup. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The result in Greece meant Tottenham could not progress, no matter how many goals they scored against Rovers but, after making nine changes to his starting line-up, Harry Redknapp will be pleased with the performance of his fringe players. Example: The railway faces a line-up of strong-willed metro mayors with four-year terms and a new big-majority government covering the same period.
Word: line-ups Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of line-up Labels: form-of, plural
Word: short stuff Part of Speech: noun 1. Term of address for a child or small person. Labels: derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncountable Example: Snarks cut in. "I know all about that sort of thing! And I can tell a demon from a phantom as well as the next magical creature!" "Yes," the Brownie replied. "But did you?" "Listen, short stuff!" Snarks was shouting now. Example: "Okay, short stuff," he said upon reaching the kitchen table where they'd started. "Time for bed. You too, Grace." 2. Deliveries that bounce relatively far from the batsman or batswoman. Labels: uncountable
Word: whanghee Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of whangee. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: whanghees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whanghee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: astrolaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From astro- + law. 1. The practice of law in outer space. Labels: uncountable Example: At present astrolaw is only an aspect or a subdivision of general space law. Example: Astrolaw contemplates the practice of law in outer space, the direct subjects being national and legal persons.
Word: astrointerferometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of astrointerferometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: basilicon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Ancient Greek βασιλικόν (basilikón) (also in the form basilicum, via the Latin basilicum), the neuter form of βασιλικός (basilikós, “royal”) (basilicus in Latin), understood as in the phrase βασιλικόν φάρμακον (basilikón phármakon, “royal drug”). Doublet of basil and basilicum. 1. Any of various ointments believed to have “sovereign” virtues. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: basilicons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of basilicon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nondialect Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + dialect. 1. Not in or pertaining to dialect. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonbasilectal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + basilectal. 1. Not basilectal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: enframement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From enframe + -ment. 1. That which enframes; a frame. Example: The last house in the row, No. 648, is much more elaborate than the others, with a composite-order door enframement and something like a Palladian window on the second floor, richly modeled and topped with a broken pediment.
Word: enframements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enframement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nontalent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + talent. 1. Absence of talent. Labels: uncountable Example: The downside, though no one seems terribly worried about it, is that with new programs springing up every year, a lot of costly nurturing of nontalent takes place as well. 2. An area in which one is not talented. Labels: countable
Word: nontalents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nontalent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: preground Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + ground. 1. Having been ground in advance. Labels: not-comparable Example: Nor does she cotton to combination grind-and-brew makers or anything dependent on pod packets of preground coffee.
Word: wh-movement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, who, whom, whose, what, which, when, where, why, etc. (though how is an exception). Pronunciation: /ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/ 1. a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: prehadronic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prehadron + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to prehadrons. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pixelating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pixelate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pixelates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pixelate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pixellate Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of pixelate. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pixellates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pixellate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pixellating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pixellate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reappropriation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + appropriation. 1. The act or process of reappropriating. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: reappropriations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of reappropriation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wiredrawn Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of wiredraw Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: wiredraws Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wiredraw Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: wiredrawing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wiredraw + -ing. 1. gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes. Labels: form-of, gerund Example: Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings, this wild man of the Desert [Muhammad], with his wild sincere heart, earnest as death and life, with his great flashing natural eyesight, had seen into the kernel of the matter.
Word: wiredrawing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From wiredraw + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of wiredraw Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: microcelebrity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + celebrity. Coined by Theresa Senft in 2008. 1. Celebrity on a small scale or in a specific area. Labels: uncountable Example: It was in this culture of microcelebrity that Anderson, an intellectual drifter who had been a hacker in his teens, saw an opportunity for MySpace. Example: Microcelebrity involves ways of relating to audiences that developed with earlier forms of participatory technology and have shifted with the introduction of new platforms. Senft (2008) first described microcelebrity in her study of camgirls, women using webcams in the late 1990s to share about their lives. 2. A celebrity whose fame is on a small scale or in a specific area. Labels: countable Example: Gary's personal brand skyrocketed as he became a micro-celebrity, and speaking engagements started pouring in. It wasn't long before he started to affect the culture around him. Example: A guest brought up Scott Alexander, one of the scene's microcelebrities, who is often invoked mononymically.
Word: microcelebrities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microcelebrity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sectionwide Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From section + -wide. 1. Throughout a section. Labels: not-comparable Example: […]a sectionwide cheer went up for the Yankee hitter Jorge Posada[…]
Word: shes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of she Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonsiphonate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + siphonate. 1. Not siphonate. Labels: not-comparable
Word: slicken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From slick + -en. 1. To make slick. Labels: transitive Example: Sweat dewed her skin, slickening it.
Word: slicken Part of Speech: adj 1. Sleek; smooth. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:slicken.
Word: slickened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of slicken Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: slickening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of slicken Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: slickens Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of slicken Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: slickens Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ultimately a reference to the slimy, slick nature of the material. Compare slicken (“smooth”, adjective), slick (noun). 1. Fine, harmful, and (when wet) slimy pulverized rock, a waste product (pollution) produced by hydraulic mining and quartz milling, which can silt up rivers and accumulate on soil downstream of such activities. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:slickens.
Word: slickensides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of slickenside Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shloka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sanskrit श्लोक (śloka). 1. A distich of Sanskrit verse, in which each line contains sixteen syllables. Example: But it's not to be yet. There's a series of slokas to be recited. Example: They had heard Swamiji on their radio sets describe yoga asanas and quote shlokas from ancient Sanskrit texts.
Word: shlokas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shloka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slokas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sloka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slurrily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From slurry + -ly. 1. In a slurry manner. Example: “I want to see how people who come here hold themselves and their drinks,” he explained slurrily, guzzling his own.
Word: specularization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From specular + -ization. 1. The act or process of specularizing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Here is a sentence (or what I took to be one because it ended with a period) from the contribution by the Frenchman Jacques Derrida, the volume’s most prestigious name: “He speaks his mother tongue as the language of the other and deprives himself of all reappropriation, all specularization in it.”
Word: specularizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of specularization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unspectacled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + spectacled. 1. Not wearing spectacles. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unbespectacled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + bespectacled. 1. Not wearing spectacles. Labels: not-comparable
Word: specularities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of specularity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: taxonomizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From taxonomize + -er. 1. One who, or that which, taxonomizes. Example: Children are irrepressible taxonomizers, placing the world of distinct individuals into categories based on their appearance, their patterns of movement and their presumed deeper natures, and some psychologists have argued that the hard-wired capacity to organize and structure the world is specially adapted to nature: we are natural-born zoologists and botanists.
Word: taxonomizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of taxonomizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quippiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of quippy: most quippy Labels: form-of, superlative Example: We were the cutest, quippiest girls there were. We weren't sarcastic, and we weren't selling our bodies for humor or anything like that. We actually got laughs by acting like ladies.
Word: untoothsome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + toothsome. 1. Not toothsome. Example: But the deer, perhaps in solidarity with the native trees, ate my magnolias, camellias and even several obviously untoothsome holly trees.
Word: chairwomanship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κατά (katá) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English chairwoman Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English chairwomanship From chairwoman + -ship. 1. The office or term of chairwoman. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: One of the officials said he was familiar with the transcript of “at least one phone call” in which Ms. Harman discussed weighing in with the department on the investigation of the Aipac officials and her possible chairwomanship of the Intelligence Committee.
Word: chairwomanships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chairwomanship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: electroejaculation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From electro- + ejaculation. 1. A procedure for obtaining semen samples by stimulating nerves in the rectum, resulting in contraction of the pelvic muscles and ejaculation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Before treatment, boys who have gone through puberty can provide semen samples through masturbation, electroejaculation or surgical sperm extraction.
Word: immunocontraceptive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From immuno- + contraceptive. 1. Any drug that causes immunocontraception. Example: The real answer, according to Jay F. Kirkpatrick, director of the nonprofit science and conservation center at ZooMontana in Billings, is an immunocontraceptive called P.Z.P.
Word: immunocontraceptives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of immunocontraceptive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PZP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of porcine zona pellucida. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: houseled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of housel Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: houseling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English houselyng, housling, from Old English hūslung (“administration of the sacrament”), from Old English hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”), equivalent to housel + -ing. 1. The act of administering the eucharist.
Word: houseling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English houselyng, housling, from Old English hūslung (“administration of the sacrament”), from Old English hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”), equivalent to housel + -ing. 1. Of or pertaining to the eucharist. Labels: not-comparable 2. Pertaining to any of the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, such as marriage. Labels: not-comparable
Word: houseling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English houselyng, housling, from Old English hūslung (“administration of the sacrament”), from Old English hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”), equivalent to housel + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of housel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: houseling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + -ling. 1. A small or miniature house. Example: There was a copula up there, one of those small, windowed houselings whose pointed roof inevitably supported the weathervane, as it did here. 2. One who frequently remains indoors or at home. Example: It meant that pallid houselings sat in the sunshine and got well. 3. A tame animal, or one reared by hand.
Word: houselling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of housel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: houselled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of housel Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Haietlik Part of Speech: name 1. A mythical sea serpent from Nootka mythology.
Word: insurability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From insure + -ability. 1. The quality of being insurable. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Doing so could be crucial to his future insurability because federal law allows insurers to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions when there has been a gap in coverage of at least 63 days.
Word: noncoverage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + coverage. 1. Absence of coverage; the state of not being covered. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: neurophysical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From neuro- + physical. 1. Pertaining to the nervous system and the physical body. Labels: not-comparable Example: For example, in a 2004 study in The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, the researchers noted the difficulty of devising such a study but settled on one in which 86 healthy participants, 15 to 90 years old, were asked to perform tests in which they estimated the amount of time needed to draw a clock and the duration of a neurophysical evaluation they underwent.
Word: neurophenomenological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥ Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der. Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron) Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der. English neuro- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor. Late Latin phaenomenonder. English phenomenon Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English phenomenology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English phenomenological English neurophenomenological From neuro- + phenomenological. 1. Pertaining to neurophenomenology.
Word: prophetlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prophet + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet. Example: Mr. Park, an unemployed 31-year-old who wrote about economic matters, gained an almost prophetlike status among many South Koreans after he correctly predicted the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the crash of the South Korean currency and the effects of the American subprime mortgage crisis on South Korea.
Word: Nootka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Nootka nuutkaa (“go around”), a direction given to European explorers reaching Nootka Sound, subsequently misapplied to the location and group. 1. A member of the Nuu-chah-nulth people, an indigenous people from Vancouver Island, Canada
Word: Nootka Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Nootka nuutkaa (“go around”), a direction given to European explorers reaching Nootka Sound, subsequently misapplied to the location and group. 1. The Nuu-chah-nulth language.
Word: repressurizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of repressurize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: repressurizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of repressurize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: repressurized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of repressurize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: semireclined Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + reclined. 1. Somewhat reclined. Labels: not-comparable Example: Women who lay down — lying flat, in a semireclined position or on their sides — were no more likely than those who sat upright or stood to have unexpected needs like a Caesarean section.
Word: tearily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From teary + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈtɪəɹɪli/, /ˈtɪɹɪli/ 1. In a teary manner. Example: When Danna Walker left the second-floor conference room and returned tearily to her desk — where someone had already deposited a packing box for her belongings — her first thought was not of the 14 years she had worked for DHL or the loss of her $37,000-a-year salary. Example: That's so funny. The cop up there, [the] border patrol officer, like, tearily recounting the incident, y'know? How he nearly died? God, that's funny.
Word: nonabdominal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + abdominal. 1. Not abdominal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: counterkilling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + killing. 1. A killing carried out in response to another killing. Example: The mob pummeled the men suspected of being thugs, and this normally tranquil spot exploded into a melee of killings and counterkillings that left nearly 30 people dead.
Word: counterkillings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of counterkilling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mezcals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mezcal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonwind Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + wind. 1. Not of or pertaining to wind. Labels: not-comparable Example: The supply charge for electricity from nonwind sources ranges from approximately 10 to 15 cents per kilowatt hour — not simply “13 or 14 cents,” which is the average.
Word: schlockier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of schlocky: more schlocky Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: schlockbuster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of schlock + blockbuster. Pronunciation: /ˈʃlɒkˌbʌstəɹ/ 1. A schlocky blockbuster; a film that is tasteless and inferior but still very successful. Labels: US, slang Example: If the stalker thriller “Obsessed,” which opens on Friday, tops the box office, Clinton R. Culpepper will cement his reputation as Hollywood’s king of the schlockbuster.
Word: schlockbusters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of schlockbuster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spokescreature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of spokesperson + creature. 1. A creature used as a spokesperson. Example: The duck is the spokescreature for Aflac, formally the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus. Example: The bee, acting in his capacity as spokescreature for the swarming things, adds his buzzing voice to the proceedings[…]
Word: spokescreatures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spokescreature Labels: form-of, plural
Word: syllabically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From syllabic + -ally. 1. In terms of syllables. Labels: not-comparable Example: Entries on her personal Twitter stream are all written as senryu, a syllabically constrained poetic form like haiku.
Word: unfollow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + follow. 1. To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow. Example: The calls came from Iranian intelligence as soon as the protests began. Agents threatened the family and friends of a DW editor, telling them to cut off contact with him and to unfollow him on Instagram. The journalist was said to be a "muharebbe" (Engl. warrior against God) – which is punishable by death in Iran.
Word: unfollowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unfollow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unfollows Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unfollow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unfoldomes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unfoldome Labels: form-of, plural
Word: untrustful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + trustful. 1. Not trustful. Example: “They’re untrustful today, for a lot of reasons,” he added.
Word: batfishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of batfish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Batesian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Bates + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪt.si.ən/ 1. Of or relating to Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. 2. Of or relating to H. E. Bates (1905–1974), English writer.
Word: Bates Part of Speech: name Etymology: A patronymic surname that is derived from Batte, a medieval form of the male given name Bartholomew + -s (denoting "son of") hence meaning "son of Bartholomew". Pronunciation: /beɪts/ 1. A surname originating as a patronymic. 2. A number of places in the United States: 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States:
Word: nonmover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English move Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English mover English nonmover From non- + mover. 1. One who does not move house. Example: Over all, movers were more likely than nonmovers to be unemployed, renters, poor and black.
Word: nonmovers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonmover Labels: form-of, plural
Word: waterboardings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of waterboarding Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dividedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From divided + -ness. 1. The quality of being divided. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: “The intensely personal energy of this dividedness, the deep-down tension in Mitchell, Selznick and Leigh between vulgarity and refinement,” she concludes, “is what gives the archetypes in ‘Gone With the Wind’ their extraordinary human resonance,” and thanks to the way the three of them threw themselves into the project, “that historical ‘costume’ story” never feels remotely past.
Word: flapperesque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flapper + -esque. 1. Reminiscent of a flapper (unconventional young woman of the 1920s). Example: Ms. Haskell also goes over the autobiographical correspondences between Margaret Mitchell and her two creations, Scarlett and Melanie, contrasting the author’s tomboy childhood and flapperesque youth with the ladylike gentility she assumed later in life; her fierce determination to become a writer and her fear of the social backlash the publication of her novel might set off.
Word: nodelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From node + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a node. Example: Its ability to absorb new ideas and collaborate with other mediums is evident in installations like Kelley Walker’s digital layering of bright cabochon shapes and news images of disasters, which form a kind of wallpaper for further works, or Jim Lambie’s relatively low-tech wall piece, where appropriated images of eyes held in place by black tape form networks of alien, nodelike clusters that challenge and deflect our gaze with the horrors of mascara gone mad.
Word: unrepenting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + repenting. 1. Not repenting. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unrepentance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + repentance. 1. Lack of repentance; failure to repent. Labels: uncountable
Word: rainscape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rain + -scape. 1. A landscape dominated by rain.
Word: rainscapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rainscape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rainbowish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rainbow + -ish. 1. Resembling a rainbow.
Word: ekiden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 駅伝. 1. A Japanese long-distance relay race, typically on roads. Example: Kenyan runners were highly sought after to anchor teams that competed in the Japanese distance relay, known as ekiden, in which 10 runners often combine to cover more than 200 kilometers.
Word: jaipong Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jaipongan. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: The governor of West Java, a member of the Prosperous Justice Party, tried to ban a dance called jaipong, deeming it too erotic, but many people view it as part of their cultural heritage.
Word: jaipongan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Sundanese ᮏᮄᮕᮧᮍᮔ᮪ (jaipongan). 1. A traditional dance of the Sundanese people of Indonesia. Labels: uncountable
Word: postsale Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + sale. 1. After a sale. Labels: not-comparable Example: So-called postsale revenue, which includes the sale of ink and other supplies to companies that already own or lease Xerox machines, fell 14 percent, to $2.78 billion.
Word: tulku Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan སྤྲུལ་སྐུ (sprul sku, “tulku”). 1. A high-ranking lama who can choose the manner of his or her rebirth. Labels: Tibetan Example: The abbot is considered a tulku by Tibetans and called a living Buddha in Chinese — an especially revered figure who is believed to be the essence of a prominent religious leader.
Word: tulkus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tulku Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antiblast Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + blast. 1. Countering a blast. Labels: not-comparable Example: Hescos — antiblast protection consisting of big wire containers of rubble — defy all attempts at decoration.
Word: antiemotional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion English -al English emotional English antiemotional From anti- + emotional. 1. Opposing emotion. Example: For two decades he lectured on the emergence of Western lay Zen, arguing against what he saw as the antiemotional bias of monastic Asian Zen in favor of an approach that integrated psychological experience into meditation practice.
Word: Diogenean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Diogenes + -an. Pronunciation: /daɪˌɒdʒəˈnɪən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Diogenes.