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  • good king henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
  • good-king-henry — a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.
  • gorlin syndrome — a rare congenital disorder in which cancer destroys the facial skin and causes blindness; skeletal anomalies can also occur
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
  • griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
  • gross indecency — sexual offence
  • gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
  • hydrogen iodide — a colorless gas, HI, having a suffocating odor: the anhydride of hydriodic acid.
  • hyper-energetic — possessing or exhibiting energy, especially in abundance; vigorous: an energetic leader.
  • hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
  • infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • internal energy — a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, that represents the internal state of a system that is due to the energies of the molecular constituents of the system. The change in internal energy during a process is equal to the net heat entering the system minus the net work done by the system. Symbol: U.
  • interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
  • interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
  • intertwistingly — by intertwisting
  • intransigeantly — intransigently
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • knight errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • knight-errantry — the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
  • lady's-earrings — any of several plants having pendent flowers thought to resemble earrings, as the jewelweed or the fuchsia.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laser ring gyro — a system of aerial navigation in which rotation is sensed by the measuring of the frequency shift of laser light in a closed circuit in a horizontal plane
  • lay a finger on — to harm
  • lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
  • linear topology — (theory)   A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • maternity grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a flat-rate benefit for pregnant women on low incomes
  • microtechnology — technology that uses microelectronics
  • mineralogically — With regard to mineralogy.
  • montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • neuroimmunology — a branch of immunology concerned with the interactions between immunological and nervous system functions, especially as they apply to various autoimmune diseases.
  • neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neurotoxicology — the science that deals with the effects of poisons on the nervous system.
  • nonbelligerency — the state or status of not participating in a war.
  • oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
  • operating cycle — the period of time between starting a business and making a profit
  • ordinary degree — a university degree without honours
  • oxygen cylinder — a metal cylinder containing oxygen under pressure
  • phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
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