word
smallest linguistic element that will be said in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content
barbarism
linguistic deviation
lean
recreational drug combining prescription-grade cough syrup with a soft drink and hard candy
weasel word
word that appears meaningful but is vague
Potestas
Latin word meaning power or faculty
foreign word
word in a foreign language
head
word that determines the syntactic category of a phrase
American
demonym for the Americas
Boffin
slang term
fart
word in the English language most commonly used in reference to flatulence
faxing
Verb for using the fax machine
spastic
adjective; often considered derogatory
unpaired word
word that, according to the usual rules of a language, would appear to have a related word, but does not
Nipa
Word in Quechua
clipped compound
form of linguistic clipping for a compound term
jazz
word (as opposed to musical form)
one-letter word
word containing only one single letter when spelled
modal word
word that expresses modal semantics
Janusz
pejorative term
americanism
Spanish word of Indigenous American origin
if
word used in English interrogative subordinate clauses
antonym
word with opposite meaning to a given word
copula
word that links the subject of a clause to a subject complement
blend word
word or phrase formed from parts of two or more other words
epicene
linguistics term; word with identical female and male forms
hybrid word
word that etymologically derives from at least two languages
four-letter word
euphemism for words like cunt, fuck, shit, slut or tits
Mohammedan
formerly common term referring to Islam
flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict
specific kinds of shipwreck
ideograph
frequently used word in political discourse that uses an abstract concept to develop support
Lani
Hawaiian language word
longest word in Turkish
word in the Turkish language
orange
word in the English language
Senhor
Portuguese word
huerta
fertile area, or a field within a fertile area, common in Spain and Portugal, where a variety of common vegetables and fruit trees are cultivated for family consumption and sale
ville
French word and English suffixe
Kalin
Tamil origin word derived from "கலி" which means flourishing, thriving and prospering
correlative in Esperanto
aspect of language
English word
word in the English language
Lar
Portuguese word; "home", "at home"
stop word
word filtered out at natural language processing
loanword
word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language
paronym
word that is pronounced or written in a similar way with another but which has different lexical meanings
isogram
word or phrase without a repeating letter
Code word
an element of a standardized code or protocol
Bott
word for some annual general meetings of associations or guilds
function word
words with little/ambiguous lexical meaning that express grammatical relationships or specify the speaker’s attitude/mood of the speaker; e.g. articles, pronouns, adpositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, interjections, particles
filler
words or sounds used without meaning, like "umm" or "Err.."
Jew
word derived from the Hebrew-language word "Yehudi"