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  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • carrier signal — (communications)   A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
  • changelessness — The state or quality of being changeless.
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
  • cilician gates — a pass in S Turkey, over the Taurus Mountains
  • cisalpine gaul — (in the ancient world) that part of Gaul between the Alps and the Apennines
  • class struggle — in Marxism, the constant economic and political struggle held to exist between social classes regarded as exploiting and those regarded as exploited; specif., in capitalist countries, the struggle between capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat)
  • clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
  • clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • cloister garth — garth (def 1).
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
  • color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
  • cyclooxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins; their inhibition is the mode of action of aspirin and ibuprofen.
  • cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
  • daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
  • daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • de los angeles — Victoria (bikˈtorja). 1923–2005, Spanish soprano
  • decentralising — Present participle of decentralise.
  • demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
  • diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
  • dialectologist — a specialist in dialectology.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • dogmaticalness — The quality of being dogmatical.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
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