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  • maxwell demon — a hypothetical agent or device of arbitrarily small mass that is considered to admit or block selectively the passage of individual molecules from one compartment to another according to their speed, constituting a violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
  • methylglyoxal — pyruvic aldehyde.
  • mexican apple — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • mixed ability — A mixed ability class or teaching system is one in which pupils of different abilities are taught together in the same class.
  • mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
  • non-excitable — easily excited: Prima donnas had the reputation of being excitable and temperamental.
  • nonexpendable — capable of being expended.
  • nonhomosexual — a person who is not homosexual
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • oligosiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any polysiloxane having a relatively small number of -Si-O- groups.
  • oral examiner — someone who administers oral exams
  • orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
  • overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
  • oxymetazoline — a sympathomimetic drug, C 1 6 H 2 4 N 2 O, used as a topical, long-lasting nasal decongestant.
  • parasexuality — parasexual behaviour
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • reflex camera — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
  • sacral plexus — a nerve network originating from the nerves of the sacral spine and innervating large areas of the lower trunk and legs, especially via the sciatic nerves.
  • saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
  • sexagesimally — into sixtieths
  • sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
  • sexual health — health care and counselling related to sexual relations, reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, etc
  • sexualization — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
  • six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
  • sulfisoxazole — a white to yellowish, crystalline, slightly bitter sulfonamide, C 1 1 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 S, used chiefly in the treatment of infections of the urinary tract.
  • tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
  • tax collector — sb employed to gather taxes
  • tax duplicate — the certification of real-estate assessments to the taxing authorities
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • texas leaguer — a pop fly that falls safely between converging infielders and outfielders.
  • unexceptional — not exceptional; not unusual or extraordinary.
  • unexpectantly — having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
  • unexplainable — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • unexplainably — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • unexplanatory — serving to explain: an explanatory footnote.
  • unextractable — to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force: to extract a tooth.
  • vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
  • visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
  • xerophthalmia — abnormal dryness of the eyeball characterized by conjunctivitis, caused by a deficiency of tears and attributed to a lack of vitamin A.
  • xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.
  • zooxanthellae — any of various symbiotic yellow-green or yellow–brown algae in the cytoplasm of certain radiolarians and marine invertebrates.
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