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  • immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
  • incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
  • incorruptibility — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
  • insurance policy — contract that insures sth
  • insusceptibility — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
  • intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
  • jerusalem cherry — an Old World plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, of the nightshade family, having white flowers and bearing cherrylike scarlet or yellow fruits, cultivated as an ornamental.
  • journalistically — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
  • judicial inquiry — a formal legal investigation conducted into a matter of public concern by a judge, appointed by the government
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • justices in eyre — the justices travelling on circuit and presiding over such courts
  • kentucky warbler — a wood warbler, Oporornis formosus, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and marked with black on the face.
  • kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
  • keyman insurance — life insurance taken out by a business firm on an essential or very important employee, with the firm as beneficiary.
  • kidney corpuscle — Malpighian corpuscle.
  • krebs urea cycle — urea cycle.
  • lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • lucas van leyden — (Lucas Hugensz) 1494–1533, Dutch painter and engraver.
  • luminosity class — a classification of stars of a given spectral type according to their luminosity, breaking them down into dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
  • lymphatic tissue — tissue, such as the lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen, and thymus, that produces lymphocytes
  • malchus-porphyry — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
  • managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
  • mauchly, john w. — John Mauchly
  • maximum-security — designed for or housing prisoners regarded as being very dangerous to society.
  • medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
  • mercury autocode — Autocode for the Ferranti Mercury machine.
  • mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
  • methyl cellulose — a grayish-white powder prepared from cellulose that swells to a highly viscous colloidal solution in water: used as a food additive and in water paints, leather tanning, and cosmetics.
  • mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
  • migratory locust — any of several locusts that migrate in great swarms, especially Locusta migratoria, of Africa and Asia.
  • minimum-security — (of a prison) designed for prisoners regarded as being less dangerous; having fewer restrictions.
  • minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • monocotyledonous — belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
  • multi-way branch — switch statement
  • multicellularity — The condition of being multicellular.
  • multiplicatively — tending to multiply or increase.
  • naturalistically — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
  • neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
  • neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
  • nicoya peninsula — a peninsula in NW Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean.
  • nitrosylsulfuric — of or derived from nitrosylsulfuric acid.
  • nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
  • nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
  • nucleophilically — In a nucleophilic manner.
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
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