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  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • telejournalism — the writing and broadcasting of journalism for television
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
  • the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
  • the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • thesaurismosis — storage disease.
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • time simulator — (simulation)   (Tsim) A stack-based simulation language. Contact: ZOLA Technologies.
  • trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
  • trumpet marine — an obsolete musical instrument having a long, wooden, pyramid-shaped body, characteristically with one string that is touched with the finger to produce harmonics and is bowed between the touching finger and the upper end.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turmeric paper — paper treated with turmeric: used to indicate the presence of alkalis, which turn it brown, or of boric acid, which turns it reddish-brown.
  • turn on a dime — change direction quickly
  • ultra-feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • ultramicrotome — a microtome capable of producing very fine slices of tissue or cellular specimens for electron microscopic examination.
  • ultraminiature — subminiature.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • unadministered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
  • undeterminable — capable of being determined.
  • universal beam — a broad-flanged rolled steel joist suitable for a stanchion (axial load) or beam (bending load)
  • universal mill — a rolling mill having both horizontal and vertical rolls.
  • universal time — (time, standard)   (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
  • unmarriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
  • unmaterialised — not materialised
  • unmaterialized — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
  • unmatriculated — (of a student) not enrolled in a college, university, or similar institution
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
  • unpremeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • unremunerative — not rewarding or paying for work or service, etc
  • unromanticized — not romantic
  • unsectarianism — the state or quality of being unsectarian
  • uranium series — the radioactive series that starts with uranium 238 and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 206.
  • vacuum residue — Vacuum residue is the substance which is obtained by vacuum distillation (= a process of separating substances by reducing pressure to less than atmospheric pressure).
  • virtual memory — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
  • volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
  • xiphihumeralis — a long pectoral muscle found only in felines
  • young marrieds — young married people
  • yttrium metals — a series of closely related metals including yttrium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and sometimes, terbium, gadolinium, and dysprosium
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