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  • sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
  • stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
  • team teaching — a system whereby two or more teachers pool their skills, knowledge, etc, to teach combined classes
  • telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
  • the archenemy — the devil
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
  • time constant — the time required for a changing quantity in a circuit, as voltage or current, to rise or fall approximately 0.632 of the difference between its old and new value after an impulse has been applied that induces such a change: equal in seconds to the inductance of the circuit in henries divided by its resistance in ohms.
  • trace element — any element that is required in minute quantities for physiological functioning.
  • transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
  • transmittance — Physics. the ratio of the radiant flux transmitted through and emerging from a body to the total flux incident on it: equivalent to one minus the absorptance.
  • trauma center — a hospital or medical center equipped to treat victims of trauma.
  • trench mortar — a portable, muzzle-loaded mortar, usually having a smooth bore, fired at high angles of elevation to reach concealed enemy targets.
  • triamcinolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid drug, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used in the symptomatic treatment of inflammation.
  • truman capote — Truman, 1924–84, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  • tympanic bone — (in mammals) a bone of the skull, supporting the tympanic membrane and enclosing part of the tympanum or middle ear.
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • uncompensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • uncompletable — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • uncomplicated — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
  • unconsummated — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
  • undomesticate — to make wild
  • unemancipated — not constrained or restricted by custom, tradition, superstition, etc.: a modern, emancipated woman.
  • unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
  • unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
  • wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
  • woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
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