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  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
  • equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
  • flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
  • formal argument — (programming)   (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • fundamental law — the organic law of a state, especially its constitution.
  • fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
  • fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
  • gluteus maximus — the broad, thick, outermost muscle of the buttocks, involved in the rotation and extension of the thigh.
  • gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
  • homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
  • immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • in all but name — If you say that a situation exists in all but name, you mean that it is not officially recognized even though it exists.
  • instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
  • instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
  • instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
  • intellectualism — devotion to intellectual pursuits.
  • interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
  • interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
  • lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • laptop computer — portable computer
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