This page gathers the 399 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Specifically” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 3 of 4: from “insect” to “puppet army”.
- insect noun An arthropod or invertebrate.
- integral noun Any of several analytic formalizations of this operation: the Riemann integral, the Lebesgue integral, etc.
- intellectual disability noun An IQ below 70 or a severely below average ability to reason and to develop basic living skills.
- intermittent adj Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
- internet verb To connect (a computer, an electronic device, etc.) into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).
- internetted adj Connected to, or able to access, the Internet.
- intifada noun The Palestinian uprisings against Israel.
- investiture noun The formal installation or, generally, the appointment of a bishop, or (uncountable) bishops in general.
- involve verb To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply.
- Italianate adj Pertaining to a style of Latin pronunciation imitating the modern Roman dialect of Italian, originally popularized outside of Italy by…
- ithyphallic adj Of a poem or song: having the metre of an ode sung in honour of the bacchic phallus.
- Jacksonesque adj Resembling or reminiscent of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), American president and military governor.
- jobpocalypse noun The widespread technological unemployment expected to be caused by advances in artificial intelligence.
- justifiable adj Describing an illegal and intentional act that is nevertheless not blameworthy, for example because its positive consequences outweighed…
- khokhol noun A Ukrainian nationalist.
- kingdom come noun Heaven or paradise.
- knap verb To break away flakes from (a brittle material which fractures conchoidally (“with planar concentric curves”), usually a mineral such as…
- Lagrangian noun A function summarizing the dynamics of a physical system, typically in non-relativistic contexts amounting to the kinetic energy minus the…
- lass noun A female member of the Salvation Army; a hallelujah lass.
- leftist noun Someone who holds socialist or communist-leaning economic views, usually alongside progressive social views; an anticapitalist.
- lioncelle noun Treated as feminine and applied figuratively to a woman; a lioness.
- literal adj Following the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation.
- localization noun The switch of positions in power from the colonizing population to the local population.
- logion noun A saying that is attributed to Jesus in ancient or reconstructed texts that was (originally) handed down without narrative context.
- lookup table noun A color filter.
- lues noun Syphilis.
- lum noun A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
- macro language noun An extension to an assembly language in which macroinstructions, containing a series of instructions, may be written.
- man-of-war noun A frigatebird (family Fregatidae), especially the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens).
- marriage noun The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others.
- Martian noun A male Martian.
- McChurch noun A megachurch.
- medicine noun Scientific medicine.
- megillah noun The Book of Esther.
- mellow noun A comfortable or relaxed mood.
- membranes noun The amniotic sac.
- merchandising noun The promotion of a film, music group, theatre production, etc., through the sale of goods bearing motifs associated with the subject being…
- mercury verb to apply to (the face) a preparation of mercury to beautify it
- meridian noun Chiefly followed by of: the middle period of someone's life, when they are at their full abilities or strength; one's prime.
- meson noun An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much…
- metastasize verb Of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis (“a secondary focus away from the primary site”) in (a body organ).
- microdata noun A WHATWG standard for embedding metadata in HTML documents; data encoded in such a way.
- milieu noun A social environment or setting.
- militant noun Someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant.
- millet noun Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
- milliner noun A person involved in the design, manufacture, or sale of hats for women.
- minelayer noun A ship capable of laying naval mines.
- minesweeper noun A ship specializing in removing naval mines.
- modesty noun Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness.
- mogilization noun The Russian mobilization in 2022.
- Molotov breadbasket noun The RRAB-3, a Soviet cluster bomb.
- muggle noun A person not involved in the pastime of geocaching.
- mukhtar noun Alternative spelling of muhtar: an elected official overseeing a village or neighborhood in modern Turkey.
- mullet noun Those of the genus Mullus within that family.
- nail noun The thin, flat type of such a plate on the fingers and toes of humans, chimpanzees and some other primates.
- national service noun Compulsory military service via conscription.
- naturalistic adj Recreational; nontherapeutic; self-administered.
- night of the long knives noun The violent purge against the Sturmabteilung ordered by the leadership of Nazi Party in 1934.
- nonmycotic adj Not infectiously caused.
- obtuse adj Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, equivalently more than 90° and less than 180°.
- on high prep_phrase Up in, or to, Heaven.
- one-handed adj Pornographic in nature.
- oratory noun A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.
- oximeter noun A device that measures the oxygen saturation of arterial blood.
- packaged goods noun Synonym of groceries.
- paddlefish noun The American paddlefish.
- pamphlet noun Such a work containing political material or discussing matters of controversy.
- pandemic noun The COVID-19 pandemic.
- parasite noun An internal parasite that is an animal or protist.
- pastille noun A small pellet containing aromatic substances, burned to diffuse a fragrance or to disinfect or fumigate.
- patch noun A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- patent noun A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
- perv verb To look at lasciviously or voyeuristically.
- pig noun A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- pipeweed noun The common horsetail or field horsetail (Equisetum arvense).
- pix noun Motion pictures; movies.
- plaudit noun An award or commendation; a formal recognition of approval or achievement.
- poecilitic adj Of or relating to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colours.
- Polandball noun Poland as a countryball.
- polypill noun Any of a class of such pills for reduction of cardiovascular risk, some for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in healthy people…
- pony fucker noun A fan of the television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: a brony.
- poot verb To expel a poot (sense 2).
- posadnik noun the mayor or leader of Novgorod and Pskov.
- power noun Electricity or a supply of electricity.
- precarity noun The condition of existence without predictability or security, thus affecting material or psychological welfare; (countable) an instance of…
- predestination noun The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
- preponderance noun The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
- primipara noun A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.
- pro-life adj Opposed to the legalization of euthanasia.
- procedural noun Ellipsis of police procedural.
- profession of faith noun A formulaic declaration asserting the orthodoxy of one's beliefs, usually made at baptism, entry into a particular Church, or upon the…
- pronoun noun Any of the third-person pronouns by which a person prefers to be referred to, typically reflecting their gender identity; often…
- prophylactic noun A prophylactic condom.
- prophylaxis noun The cleaning of a patient's teeth.
- prudence noun Synonym of frugality (“the quality of avoiding unnecessary expenditure; economy, parsimony, thrift, thriftiness”).
- pseudoprime noun A Fermat pseudoprime; a composite integer n satisfying bⁿ⁻¹≡1(mod n) for some integer b such that b > 1.
- public domain noun The realm of intellectual property which is not or no longer protected by copyrights or patents, and thus over which no person can…
- pug noun Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”).
- puncture noun A hole in a vehicle's tyre, causing the tyre to deflate.
- puppet army noun Such an army in China during the Sino-Japanese War.