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  • buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
  • buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
  • buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
  • bulbaceous — bulbous
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bull block — a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
  • bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
  • bullbucker — a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
  • bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
  • bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
  • bunch pink — sweet william.
  • bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
  • bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
  • bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
  • buononcini — Bononcini.
  • bur clover — any of several Eurasian legumes of the genus Medicago, as M. hispida, having yellow flowers and prickly, coiled, black pods, naturalized in North America.
  • burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
  • burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
  • bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
  • bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
  • by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
  • byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
  • c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
  • cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
  • cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
  • cactaceous — belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.
  • cacuminous — (of a tree) having a pointed or a pyramidal top
  • cadaverous — If you describe someone as cadaverous, you mean they are extremely thin and pale.
  • cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
  • cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
  • calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
  • calcaneous — Misspelling of calcaneus.
  • calcareous — of, containing, or resembling calcium carbonate; chalky
  • calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
  • calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
  • calculated — If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
  • calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
  • calculator — A calculator is a small electronic device that you use for making mathematical calculations.
  • calendulas — Plural form of calendula.
  • calico bug — harlequin bug.
  • caliginous — dark; dim
  • calixtus i — Saint, a.d. c160–222, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 218–222.
  • call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
  • callathump — a shivaree.
  • callithump — a noisy band or parade
  • calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
  • calumniate — to slander
  • calumnious — of or using calumny
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