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  • french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
  • french guinea — former name of Guinea.
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
  • hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
  • in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • keep in touch — stay in contact
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
  • niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
  • nike hercules — a 40 feet (12 meters) U.S. surface-to-air missile effective at medium to high altitudes and having a range of more than 87 miles (140 km).
  • non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
  • nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
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