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  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disincorporation — to remove from an incorporated state or status.
  • disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
  • do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
  • drift transistor — a transistor in which the impurity concentration in the base increases from the collector-base junction to the emitter-base junction, producing a resistivity gradient that greatly increases its high-frequency response
  • dry distillation — destructive distillation.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
  • eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromechanics — the engineering aspects of devices that are controlled by either static or magnetic electric charges
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • endarterectomies — Plural form of endarterectomy.
  • endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
  • environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
  • environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
  • external storage — storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it: Secondary storage for this system is contained on videodisk.
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
  • farmington hills — a city in SE Michigan.
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • father confessor — confessor (def 2).
  • feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • first generation — 1.   (architecture)   first generation computer. 2.   (language)   first generation language.
  • first-generation — being the first generation of a family to be born in a particular country.
  • fisherman's knot — a knot for joining two ropes of equal thickness consisting of an overhand knot or double overhand knot by each rope round the other, so that the two knots jam when pulled tight
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • for external use — If medicine is for external use, it is intended to be used only on the outside of your body, and not to be eaten or drunk.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • fort sam houston — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in San Antonio, Tex.
  • francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
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