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  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
  • cross-platform — (software, hardware)   A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
  • date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
  • falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family compact — any influential clique
  • fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
  • fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
  • fantastication — the act of making fantastic
  • faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
  • farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
  • fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
  • fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
  • fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
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