Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Situated beneath a continent; of or pertaining to what underlies a continent.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to a subcontinent.
- adj. geology Located or occurring beneath continental crust.
Examples
“Though the entire city of Waukesha is outside the Great Lakes drainage basin, the compact allows the city to apply for use of lake water because it is within a county that straddles the basin boundary, known as a subcontinental divide.”
“Sri Lanka have a wonderfully unorthodox bowling attack, which can cope with most conditions, but which should be suited to the Caribbean, where pitches have become ever more "subcontinental".”
The Guardian: Hit and giggle game can put the smile back on Caribbean faces
“There are nice images ( "dented tureens of mulligatawny" exactly captures a certain kind of subcontinental dining room) and aggressive descriptions.”
“What about VJD, the alternative system now being used in the IPL, which has influential supporters in cricket's subcontinental power base?”
The Guardian: Being Duckworth-Lewis: cricket's weather-break mathematicians
“Along with the heavy Indian presence among senior ICC dignitaries, there had been the promise of a distinctly subcontinental presence.”
The Guardian: England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards
“My view is rather different, for however thrilling the match was taken in isolation, all I saw were two teams, neither of which possesses the range of requisite skills to challenge the best in subcontinental conditions.”
The Guardian: England use of the batting powerplay is short-circuiting their efforts
“Both have prospered for the A team on their subcontinental travels.”
The Guardian: England's Kevin Pietersen backed to open ODI batting against Pakistan
“Bollywood abides, but a new wave of young filmmakers is poised to turn received notions about subcontinental cinema inside out.”
“He writes about cricket, ecology, subcontinental political thought, and the post-independence history of India his 2007 blockbuster India After Gandhi has already become the standard text on contemporary India.”
“The problem is finding an effective middle order in subcontinental conditions and, despite Monty's protestations, the England batsmen were only in a "good place" on Mondaybecause they were not plonked down in front of a load of old pressmen trying to fathom out why they cannot score any runs.”
The Guardian: Monty Panesar puts good spin on potential of partnering Graeme Swann
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘subcontinental’.
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SCIE - Be the first...
... to use these words in spoken English and reap esteem. In the SPOKEN corpus of the COCA (full corpus: 450 million words) none of these occur.
stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
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How low can you go?
A list of words that does the opposite of raising the bar
underscore, underwear, underachiever, underrated, underbite, undercapitalization, undercharged, underfloor, underground, underexposed, underfed, underboss and 105 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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Notably Unique
Words that are in the record books, or otherwise attract comment.
pneumonoultramicr..., set, misconjugatedly, uncopyrightables, tesseradecades, hypolimnion., teetertotter, aftercataracts, sweaterdresses, aegilops, antiskepticism, bababadalgharaght... and 72 more...
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special
euouae, facetiously, orange, cabbaged, billowy, spoonfeed, overnumerousnesses, honorificabilitud..., misconjugatedly, subcontinental, strengths, borschts and 5 more...
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Words with all vowels
eunoia, subcontinental, facetious, miaoed, sequoia, eulogia, aerious, abstemious, affectious, majestious
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