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  • fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
  • fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
  • flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
  • forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
  • forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
  • gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
  • glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
  • glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
  • glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
  • go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
  • granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • hack to bits — to damage severely
  • haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
  • hansom (cab) — a 19th-cent. two-wheeled covered carriage for two passengers, pulled by one horse: the driver's seat is above and behind the cab
  • haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
  • harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
  • harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
  • harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
  • harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
  • heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
  • hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
  • hessian boot — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
  • heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
  • hibernations — Plural form of hibernation.
  • hispanophobe — a person who dislikes Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
  • homo habilis — an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
  • horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
  • hosepipe ban — a ban, due to water shortage, on using hosepipes to water the garden or wash cars
  • hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
  • housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
  • househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
  • hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
  • hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
  • hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
  • illusionable — Liable to illusion.
  • imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
  • in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
  • inconsolable — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
  • inconsolably — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
  • inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
  • indian bison — the gaur.
  • indisposable — Not disposable.
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