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  • orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
  • orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
  • overachieving — Present participle of overachieve.
  • parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • parencephalon — a cerebral hemisphere
  • parenthetical — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parry channel — a water channel in N Canada running between Baffin Bay on the E and the Arctic Ocean on the W: separates the Queen Elizabeth Islands (N) from the rest of the Arctic Archipelago.
  • part exchange — If you give an old item in part exchange for something you are buying, the seller accepts the old item as part of the payment, so you do not have to give them as much money.
  • parthenocarpy — the production of fruit without fertilization of an egg in the ovary.
  • party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
  • perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
  • perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
  • phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
  • preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
  • preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
  • rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • reading chair — a chair of the 18th century having an adjustable reading stand attached to the back and a crest rail extending forward on both sides to form armrests, designed to be sat on facing the back.
  • redondo beach — a city in SW California.
  • regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
  • seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
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