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  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • honours course — a degree course at honours level
  • horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
  • hunter's sauce — chasseur (def 4).
  • hyperacuteness — the state of being extremely acute or aware
  • hyperconscious — acutely aware.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
  • liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
  • neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.
  • neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
  • neuromechanism — the function of the nervous system as it relates to its structure.
  • nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
  • nursery school — a prekindergarten school for children from about three to five years of age.
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
  • outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
  • plesiochronous — (communications)   Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • queen's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern cross — Also called Cross. Astronomy. a southern constellation between Centaurus and Musca. Compare Northern Cross.
  • southern crown — the constellation Corona Australis.
  • southern ocean — that part of the Indian Ocean south of Australia
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • stretch runner — an athlete or horse that is especially strong or fast in the final stage of a race.
  • streuselkuchen — coffeecake topped with streusel.
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