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  • family-sized packet — a large packet
  • forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
  • fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
  • functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
  • functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
  • glyceryl trinitrate — nitroglycerin.
  • hatfield-mccoy feud — a blood feud between two mountain clans on the West Virginia–Kentucky border, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, that grew out of their being on opposite sides during the Civil War and was especially violent during 1880–90.
  • heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
  • hermetically sealed — airtight
  • histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
  • historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
  • holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • hydrochlorothiazide — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 7 H 8 ClN 3 O 4 S 2 , used as a diuretic and in the treatment of hypertension.
  • hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
  • hydroxybutyric acid — ketone body.
  • hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
  • hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
  • hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
  • hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
  • hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
  • indemnity insurance — insurance covering against damage or loss
  • individualistically — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  • industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
  • inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
  • intelligence agency — a government department charged with obtaining intelligence, or information, especially for use by the armed forces.
  • intentional fallacy — (in literary criticism) an assertion that the intended meaning of the author is not the only or most important meaning; a fallacy involving an assessment of a literary work based on the author's intended meaning rather than on actual response to the work.
  • interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
  • interferometrically — By means of interferometry.
  • internet relay chat — (chat, messaging)   (IRC) /I-R-C/, occasionally /*rk/ A client-server chat system of large (often worldwide) networks. IRC is structured as networks of Internet servers, each accepting connections from client programs, one per user. The IRC community and the Usenet and MUD communities overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular folks who have discovered the wonders of computer networks. Some Usenet jargon has been adopted on IRC, as have some conventions such as emoticons. There is also a vigorous native jargon (see the entry for "chat"). The largest and first IRC network is EFNet, with a smaller breakaway network called the Undernet having existed since 1992, and dozens of other networks having appeared (and sometimes disappeared) since. See also nick, bot, op.
  • introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
  • joint-stock company — an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business.
  • kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
  • lady baltimore cake — a white layer cake using only the beaten whites of eggs and spread with a fruitnut filling consisting of raisins, figs, walnuts or pecans, and sometimes candied cherries.
  • liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against losses arising from injury or damage to another person or property.
  • magnetic hysteresis — hysteresis in a ferromagnetic material; the lag in the response of magnetic induction to changes of magnetic intensity.
  • magnetohydrodynamic — Of or pertaining to magnetohydrodynamics.
  • maternity allowance — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a payment made to a pregnant woman who usually works but does not qualify for statutory maternity pay, normally from 11 weeks before confinement for a period of 18 weeks
  • metropolitan county — (in England) any of the six conurbations established as administrative units in the new local government system in 1974; the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986
  • microelectronically — by microcircuits
  • molar heat capacity — the heat capacity of one mole of a substance.
  • monoclonal antibody — antibody produced by a laboratory-grown cell clone, either of a hybridoma or a virus-transformed lymphocyte, that is more abundant and uniform than natural antibody and is able to bind specifically to a single site on almost any chosen antigen or reveal previously unknown antigen sites: used as an analytic tool in scientific research and medical diagnosis and potentially important in the treatment of certain diseases. Abbreviation: MAb.
  • narcotics anonymous — an organization that helps drug users recover from drug addiction
  • nasty piece of work — malicious person
  • necessary condition — prerequisite
  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
  • non-confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • oil-catalyst slurry — Oil-catalyst slurry is a heavy aromatic by-product of a refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit, that forms a small part of global fuel oil supply.
  • orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
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