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  • cranborne money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Lords to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1996
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • cry blue murder — to make an outcry
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
  • cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • emergency brake — hand brake in car
  • ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
  • french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • honeycomb tripe — a part of the inner lining of the stomach of the steer, calf, hog, or sheep, resembling a honeycomb in appearance and considered a table delicacy.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
  • incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • ineradicability — the quality of being ineradicable
  • inextricability — The condition of being inextricable.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • intracerebrally — Within the cerebrum.
  • john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • large cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • merchantability — The state of being merchantable.
  • motorcycle club — a club of motorcycle enthusiasts
  • nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
  • nonbelligerency — the state or status of not participating in a war.
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
  • polycarboxylate — a salt or ester of a polycarboxylic acid. Polycarboxylate esters are used in certain detergents
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
  • public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
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