…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 word that may be offensive or have a negative connotation, specified by the word’s first letter…
…used in place of such words as “liberal,” “lesbian,” and “love,” in contexts where the word is regarded as having negative or taboo 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…
…(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 that is not actually used but is recorded in a dictionary or other reference work…
…a point at which a word is split between two lines of text by means of a hyphen…
…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 more to signal grammatical relationship than the lexical meaning of a sentence, e.g., do in do you live here?…
…a word in a programming language that 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…
…a mathematics exercise presented in the form of a hypothetical situation that requires an equation to be solved; for example, “if George earns a salary of $18,500 and 28% of it is deducted in taxes, how much take-home pay remains?”…
…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…
…a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, for example motel (from ‘motor’ and hotel‘) or brunch (from ’breakfast‘ and ’lunch')…
