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  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
  • dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
  • governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
  • governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
  • governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • governmentalize — (US) To bring a private entity under government control; to nationalize.
  • graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
  • gravitationally — As a result of the force of gravity.
  • gravity anomaly — a deviation from the normal value of gravity at the earth's surface, caused by density differences at depth, for example those caused by a buried mineral body
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • heteronormative — noting or relating to behavior or attitudes consistent with traditional male or female gender roles and the assumption of heterosexuality as the norm: our heteronormative culture.
  • hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
  • hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
  • hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
  • improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
  • in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
  • in vino veritas — in wine there is truth; people speak the truth when they are drunk
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
  • interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • interventionary — the act or fact of intervening.
  • intervisitation — the act of visiting.
  • inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • invitation card — a card given to someone to invite them to something
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
  • javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
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