…a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed…
…denoting a slang word, or one that may be offensive or have a negative connotation, specified by the word’s first letter…
…used as a euphemism for the word ‘fuck’ because of the latter’s taboo status…
…used in place of the word ‘liberal’ in a political context where this word is regarded as having negative connotations…
…used instead of or in reference to the word “nigger” because of its taboo nature…
…any of a class of English words used to introduce questions and relative clauses. The main wh-words are why, who, which, what, where, when, and how…
…a word or expression denoting something that is regarded with disapproval or dislike…
…a word used for secrecy or convenience instead of the usual name for something…
…a final or definitive pronouncement on or decision about a subject…
…a group of letters or speech sounds that looks or sounds like a word but that is not accepted as such by native speakers…
…(in word processing) a feature that automatically moves a word that is too long to fit on a line to the beginning of the next line…
…a word that has only a grammatical function, and no meaning in itself (for example, the infinitive marker to in English)…
…a word, phrase, or name that is the subject of and heading for an entry in a dictionary, glossary, or encyclopedia, and is usually set in boldface or another distinctive type; a headword or lemma…
…a word recorded in a dictionary or other reference work which is not actually used…
…a point at which a word is split between two lines of text by means of a hyphen…
…a category of words of similar form or function; a part of speech…
…an image composed of words used in a particular text or subject, in which the size of each word indicates its frequency or importance…
…the sequence of words in a sentence, especially as governed by grammatical rules and as affecting meaning…
…a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases, specifically (in psychiatry) as a form of speech indicative of advanced schizophrenia…
…a puzzle consisting of letters arranged in a grid, containing several hidden words written in any direction…
…a puzzle requiring the discovery of a set of words of equal length written one under another to read the same down as across, e.g. too old ode…
…in exactly the same or, when translated, exactly equivalent words…
…a word whose purpose is to contribute to the syntax rather than the meaning of a sentence, for example do in we do not live here…
…a word in a programming language which has a fixed meaning and cannot be redefined by the programmer…
…an inability to identify spoken words, resulting from a brain defect such as Wernicke’s aphasia…
…(of an actor or speaker) knowing by heart the words for one’s part or speech…
…the problem of determining whether two different products are equal, or two sequences of operations are equivalent…
…believe what someone says or writes without checking for oneself…
…the production, storage, and manipulation of text on a computer or word processor…
…a program or machine for storing, manipulating, and formatting text entered from a keyboard and providing a printout…
