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  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • deagglomeration — Deagglomeration is the process of breaking up agglomerates.
  • decriminalising — Present participle of decriminalise.
  • decriminalizing — (rare) present participle of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
  • defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
  • deglamorization — the act or process of making less glamorous
  • dematerializing — Present participle of dematerialize.
  • demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
  • engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
  • erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
  • ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
  • examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • farm gate price — the price for the sale of farm produce direct from the producer
  • feynman diagram — a network of lines that represents a series of emissions and absorptions of elementary particles by other elementary particles, from which the probability of the series can be calculated.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
  • flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
  • fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • garage mechanic — sb employed to repair vehicles
  • general meeting — business: for all members
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • geometric ratio — the ratio of consecutive terms in a geometric progression.
  • gerald mulliganGerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
  • geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
  • german-speaking — able to speak German
  • gesneria family — the plant family Gesneriaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having a basal rosette of usually toothed leaves, tubular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the African violet, gloxinia, and streptocarpus.
  • gingerbread man — biscuit in the shape of a man
  • girlie magazine — soft porn magazine
  • give me a break — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
  • glass menagerie — a play (1945) by Tennessee Williams.
  • go like a dream — to move, develop, or work very well
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
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