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  • discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
  • discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • dramatic irony — irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
  • electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
  • electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
  • electrolytical — Dated form of electrolytic.
  • electromyogram — A record or display produced by electromyography.
  • electronically — By means of electronics, or of electronic technology.
  • electrotherapy — The use of electric currents passed through the body to stimulate nerves and muscles, chiefly in the treatment of various forms of paralysis.
  • electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
  • empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
  • endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
  • extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
  • fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
  • foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
  • friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
  • geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
  • grammaticality — the state or quality of being grammatical.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
  • hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
  • heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
  • histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
  • holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
  • home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
  • hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
  • hydroextractor — a device that dries things by means of the material to be dried being spun around the device's central axis
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