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  • double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
  • drogue parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • dutch guinea pig — a breed of two-tone short-haired guinea pig
  • dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
  • echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
  • echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
  • fair-trade price — the price set for a commodity by the Fairtrade Foundation
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
  • gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
  • golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.
  • graphic designer — person: commercial artist
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics)   (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
  • hairy woodpecker — a North American woodpecker, Picoides villosus, resembling but larger than the downy woodpecker.
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
  • harvard graphics — (graphics, tool)   A presentation graphics product by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc..
  • head post office — the main post office in a town
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
  • hold one's peace — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • hydnocarpic acid — an acid, C 16 H 28 O 2 , obtained from chaulmoogra oil, and used in the treatment of leprosy.
  • hydrophyllaceous — belonging to the Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family of plants.
  • hyperchlorhydria — excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
  • hyponitrous acid — an unstable, crystalline acid, H 2 N 2 O 2 .
  • in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
  • incontinence pad — an absorbent pad used by incontinent people
  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • independence day — July 4, a U.S. holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
  • indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
  • isophthalic acid — a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 8 H 6 O 2 , the meta isomer of phthalic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and plasticizers.
  • laserdisc player — a device that plays laserdiscs
  • macrolepidoptera — a collector's name for that part of the lepidoptera that comprises the butterflies and the larger moths (noctuids, geometrids, bombycids, springtails, etc): a term without taxonomic significance
  • mad-dog skullcap — a North American skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, having underground stems and one-sided clusters of blue to white flowers.
  • manic depression — bipolar disorder.
  • manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
  • microlepidoptera — a collector's name for the smaller moths: a term without taxonomic significance
  • mutual impedance — the ratio of the potential difference between either of two pairs of terminals to the current applied at the other pair of terminals when the circuit is open.
  • non-incorporated — formed or constituted as a legal corporation.
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • orographic cloud — any cloud whose existence and form are largely controlled by the disturbed flow of air over and around mountains, as the banner cloud and crest cloud.
  • paediatric nurse — a nurse who specializes in the care of children
  • palmitoleic acid — a colorless, unsaturated fatty acid, C 1 6 H 3 0 O 2 , occurring in oils and fats of plants and animals.
  • panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
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