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  • hyperbolic spiral — rθ = a, (where a is a constant)
  • hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • icosidodecahedron — A semiregular polyhedron with twelve faces that are regular pentagons and twenty that are equilateral triangles.
  • icositetrahedrons — Plural form of icositetrahedron.
  • impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
  • in someone's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • in the same canoe — of the same tribe
  • incline one's ear — to listen favourably (to)
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • inconceivableness — The quality of being inconceivable.
  • inconsequentially — The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence.
  • inconsiderateness — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
  • indicator species — See at indicator (def 6).
  • inefficaciousness — Lack of efficacy.
  • insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
  • inspector general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • inspector-general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • integer specratio — SPECint92
  • integrated course — a course that covers several subjects
  • integrated optics — an assembly of miniature optical elements of a size comparable to those used in electronic integrated circuits.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • intercommunicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercommunicate.
  • interconfessional — common to or occurring between churches having different confessions.
  • intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
  • intersectionality — the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively): Her paper uses a queer intersectionality approach.
  • inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
  • inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • job specification — a detailed description of the qualifications, skills, and experience required for a particular post of employment
  • john of lancaster — Duke of Bedford, 1389–1435, Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke of.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • kaleidoscopically — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • lame-duck session — (formerly) the December to March session of those members of the U.S. Congress who were defeated for reelection the previous November.
  • lance of courtesy — a lance having a blunt head to prevent serious injury by a jouster to an opponent.
  • landlocked salmon — a variety of the Atlantic Ocean salmon, Salmo salar, confined to the freshwater lakes of New England and adjacent areas of Canada.
  • laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
  • larmor precession — the precession of charged particles, as electrons, placed in a magnetic field, the frequency of the precession (Larmor frequency) being equal to the electronic charge times the strength of the magnetic field divided by 4π times the mass.
  • legal aid society — an organization providing free legal guidance and service to persons who cannot afford a lawyer.
  • legal proceedings — court case
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • lexical insertion — the process in which actual morphemes of a language are substituted either for semantic material or for place-fillers in the course of a derivation of a sentence
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • line of scrimmage — an imaginary line parallel to the goal lines that passes from one sideline to the other through the point of the football closest to the goal line of each team.
  • lipopolysaccaride — a molecule, consisting of lipid and polysaccharide components, that is the main constituent of the cell walls of Gram-negative bacteria
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • local anaesthesia — the use of anaesthetics that affect a particular area of the body
  • local anaesthetic — sth injected to numb a body part for pain relief
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