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  • gastro-resistant — A gastro-resistant tablet is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid.
  • gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
  • gaussian integer — a complex number of the form a + bi where a and b are integers.
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
  • generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
  • generation jones — members of the generation of people born in the Western world between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s
  • giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
  • glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
  • glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • goods in transit — articles that are in the process of being carried by vehicle from one place to another
  • grade separation — separation of the levels at which roads, railroads, paths, etc., cross one another in order to prevent conflicting rows of traffic or the possibility of accidents.
  • grand inquisitor — (often initial capital letters) the presiding officer of a court of inquisition.
  • great depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
  • greater antilles — See under Antilles.
  • guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
  • hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
  • hamming distance — (data)   The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
  • hamstring injury — an instance of physical damage to a person's hamstring
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
  • herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
  • housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
  • hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • ill-gotten gains — Ill-gotten gains are things that someone has obtained in a dishonest or illegal way.
  • illegitimateness — Quality of being illegitimate.
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
  • in general terms — generally, approximately
  • indian wrestling — arm wrestling
  • indiscriminating — not discriminating.
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
  • interest-bearing — paying interest
  • interest-earning — paying interest
  • interstratifying — Present participle of interstratify.
  • inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
  • investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
  • isoagglutination — the clumping of the red blood cells by a transfusion of the blood or serum of a genetically different individual of the same species.
  • italian dressing — a strongly flavored vinaigrette for salads, containing garlic, oregano, red peppers, etc.
  • japanese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • juxtapositioning — Present participle of juxtaposition.
  • keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
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