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  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • fill the bill — a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
  • filterability — The state or condition of being filterable.
  • finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • foot the bill — pay the costs
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
  • geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
  • genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
  • germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
  • give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
  • glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
  • globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
  • globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
  • governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
  • great britain — an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea: since 1707 the name has applied politically to England, Scotland, and Wales. 88,139 sq. mi. (228,280 sq. km).
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
  • heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heavily built — with a big heavy body
  • helianthine b — methyl orange.
  • hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
  • hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
  • heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • herborization — the act or process of herborizing
  • hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
  • heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
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