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  • mercury autocode — Autocode for the Ferranti Mercury machine.
  • mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • monohybrid cross — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
  • non-carbohydrate — any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.
  • nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
  • nondiscretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.
  • opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
  • ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
  • overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
  • periodic tenancy — the letting of a dwelling for a repeated short term, as by the week, month, or quarter, with no end date
  • pharmacodynamics — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the course of action, effect, and breakdown of drugs within the body.
  • photoperiodicity — the response, as affecting growth or reproduction, of an organism to the length of exposure to light in a 24-hour period.
  • pinot chardonnay — Chardonnay.
  • play one's cards — to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)
  • polyacrylic acid — a polymer of acrylic acid used as a sizing agent in the manufacture of nylon and other synthetic textiles.
  • postcode lottery — a situation in which the standard of medical care, education, etc, received by the public varies from area to area, depending on the funding policies of various health boards, local authorities, etc
  • primary producer — any green plant or any of various microorganisms that can convert light energy or chemical energy into organic matter.
  • process industry — business of treating raw materials
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • pyramidal orchid — a chalk-loving orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis, bearing a dense cone-shaped spike of purplish-pink flowers with a long curved spur
  • pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
  • pyroracemic acid — pyruvic acid.
  • pyrovanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
  • radiographically — the production of radiographs.
  • radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
  • recovered memory — a memory of a past event that has been recalled after having been forgotten or repressed for a long time. Compare false-memory syndrome.
  • redundancy money — a sum of money given by an employer to an employee who has been made redundant: usually calculated on the basis of the employee's rate of pay and length of service
  • rhabdomyosarcoma — a malignant tumor made up of striated muscle tissue.
  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • secondary accent — a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
  • secondary cancer — a cancerous growth in some part of the body away from the site of the original tumour
  • secondary colour — a colour formed by mixing two primary colours
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • secondary modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
  • secondary source — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • secondary stress — Engineering. a stress induced by the elastic deformation of a structure under a temporary load.
  • secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  • street directory — a directory containing an alphabetical list of streets along with other information such as the names and addresses of householders and tradespeople
  • synchronous dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
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