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  • dynamic language — (language)   (Dylan) A simple object-oriented Lisp dialect, most closely resembling CLOS and Scheme, developed by Advanced Technology Group East at Apple Computer. See also Marlais.
  • dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
  • ellesmere island — a Canadian island in the Arctic Ocean: part of Nunavut; mountainous, with many glaciers. Area: 212 688 sq km (82 119 sq miles)
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • embroidery frame — a frame in the form of a pair of (usually circular) rings, designed to keep the fabric taut while an embroiderer works on it
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • enriched uranium — uranium in which the proportion of the fissile isotope U-235 has been increased to make it more fissile
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • farmer's reducer — a solution of ferricyanide and hypo for reducing density and increasing contrast in a negative.
  • feme-sole trader — a married woman who is entitled to carry on business on her own account and responsibility, independently of her husband.
  • femme de chambre — a chambermaid
  • ferdinand marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
  • fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • flat-felled seam — a seam on the face of a garment, as on the outside of the legs of blue jeans, made by overlapping or interlocking one seam allowance with the other and top-stitching them together onto the garment with two parallel rows of stitches.
  • follow-my-leader — a game in which the players must repeat the actions of the leader
  • for good measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
  • full steam ahead — If something such as a plan or a project goes full steam ahead, it progresses quickly.
  • fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
  • fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
  • fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
  • fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
  • fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
  • gallium arsenide — a crystalline and highly toxic semiconductor, GaAs, used in light-emitting diodes, lasers, and electronic devices.
  • garden apartment — an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
  • garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
  • gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
  • gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • general medicine — non-surgical branch of medicine
  • gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
  • gingerbread palm — doom palm.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
  • glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
  • gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • grant-maintained — funded by national government
  • haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
  • hammer and tongs — with great vigor, determination, or vehemence: When he starts a job he goes at it hammer and tongs.
  • hamming distance — (data)   The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • hard times token — any of a series of U.S. copper tokens, issued 1834–41, bearing a political inscription or advertising message and serving as currency during coin shortages.
  • have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
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