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  • pixelated — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
  • pixie hat — a hat, usually knitted, that comes to a point
  • pixilated — slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
  • pizza box — [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
  • plain tex — (publication)   Donald Knuth's original set of user-level macros for interaction with his TeX formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more user-friendly LaTeX macros used by the majority of the TeX community.
  • plaintext — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
  • pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.
  • pleonexia — excessive greed
  • plexiglas — material: acrylic glass
  • polyaxial — having more than one axis
  • postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
  • postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
  • preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
  • proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
  • pseudaxis — sympodium.
  • pyridoxal — a naturally occurring derivative of pyridoxine that is a precursor of a coenzyme (pyridoxal phosphate) involved in several enzymic reactions. Formula: (CH2OH)(CHO)C5HN(OH)(CH3)
  • ready-mix — a commercial preparation in which the principal ingredients have already been mixed for easy use: a novice cook's reliance on ready-mixes.
  • real axis — the horizontal axis in an Argand diagram.
  • reexamine — to examine again.
  • reexplain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
  • rituximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • saxifrage — any plant of the genus Saxifraga, certain species of which grow wild in the clefts of rocks, other species of which are cultivated for their flowers.
  • saxitoxin — a powerful neurotoxin, C 1 0 H 1 7 N 7 O 4 , produced by the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax catenella, the causative agent of red tide.
  • sex ratio — the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate, expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
  • sexaholic — a person who is addicted to sex
  • sexennial — of or for six years.
  • sextarius — an ancient Roman measurement for volume
  • sexualism — any discrimination based upon sexual preference
  • sexualist — a botanist who employs or advocates Linnaeus' sexual system of classifying plants
  • sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
  • sexualize — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
  • sioux war — any of a series of skirmishes or wars between the Sioux Indians and settlers or the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1890.
  • six sigma — a business management strategy that uses statistical methods to identify defects and improve performance
  • sixth man — a team's best substitute.
  • subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
  • submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
  • synaxaria — a summary of the life of a saint or of the particulars of a feast, read at the orthros.
  • tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
  • tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
  • tax exile — a person who moves outside the jurisdiction of a country to avoid paying taxes.
  • tax title — a title, acquired by the purchaser at a forced sale of property for nonpayment of taxes.
  • taxi fare — the money a customer pays for a journey in a taxi
  • taxi rank — queuing area for hire cabs
  • taxidermy — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
  • taximeter — a device fitted to a taxicab or other vehicle, for automatically computing and indicating the fare due.
  • taxiplane — an airplane available for chartered or unscheduled trips.
  • taxonomic — the science or technique of classification.
  • telotaxis — orientation or movement, by an organism with sensory receptors, toward or away from a particular source of stimulation.
  • testatrix — a woman who makes a will.
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