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  • nonrecoverable — unable to be claimed back; damaged or lost forever
  • nonsustainable — Not sustainable.
  • normal balance — The normal balance of an account is the side of the account that is positive or increasing.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • not bat an eye — to blink; wink; flutter.
  • noticeableness — The quality of being noticeable.
  • nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
  • objective caml — (language)   (Originally "CAML" - Categorical Abstract Machine Language) A version of ML by G. Huet, G. Cousineau, Ascander Suarez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny and others of INRIA. CAML is intermediate between LCF ML and SML [in what sense?]. It has first-class functions, static type inference with polymorphic types, user-defined variant types and product types, and pattern matching. It is built on a proprietary run-time system. The CAML V3.1 implementation added lazy and mutable data structures, a "grammar" mechanism for interfacing with the Yacc parser generator, pretty-printing tools, high-performance arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and a complete library. in 1990 Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez designed a new implementation called CAML Light, freeing the previous implementation from too many experimental high-level features, and more importantly, from the old Le_Lisp back-end. Following the addition of a native-code compiler and a powerful module system in 1995 and of the object and class layer in 1996, the project's name was changed to Objective CAML. In 2000, Jacques Garrigue added labeled and optional arguments and anonymous variants.
  • objective case — objective (def 2a).
  • objective-case — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • oboe da caccia — a member of the oboe family; the predecessor of the cor anglais
  • occipital bone — a curved, compound bone forming the back and part of the base of the skull.
  • occipital lobe — the most posterior lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, behind the parietal and temporal lobes.
  • occult balance — asymmetrical balance of visual elements in an artistic composition.
  • olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
  • omega-c baryon — a neutral baryon having a mass 5292 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 6.4 X 10 -14 seconds.
  • omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
  • on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
  • on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
  • on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
  • open to debate — If you say that a matter is open to debate, you mean that people have different opinions about it, or it has not yet been firmly decided.
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
  • orange blossom — the white flower of an orange tree, especially of the genus Citrus, much used in wreaths, bridal bouquets, etc.: the state flower of Florida.
  • orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
  • ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
  • over and above — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
  • over sb's head — If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.
  • over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • oxyhaemoglobin — the bright red product formed when oxygen from the lungs combines with haemoglobin in the blood
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
  • palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
  • paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
  • pancake batter — batter made from eggs and flour and used to make thin flat cakes often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
  • paper mulberry — a mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera, of eastern Asia, having alternate leaves that vary in size, round catkins, and orange-red fruit, grown widely as a shade tree.
  • paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
  • pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
  • particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
  • partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • pas de bourree — a short running step.
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • pebble glasses — spectacles with round thick lenses with a high degree of magnification
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