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  • counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
  • countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
  • countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
  • counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • dechristianize — to make non-Christian
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • dennis ritchie — (person)   Dennis M. Ritchie, co-author of the Unix operating system, inventor of the C programming language and demigod. See also K&R, Core War, If you want X, you know where to find it.
  • desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • die in harness — to die while still working or active, prior to retirement
  • disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disenthralling — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
  • disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
  • distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
  • do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • dragon's teeth — conical or wedge-shaped concrete antitank obstacles protruding from the ground in rows: used in World War II
  • drainage holes — the holes in a plant pot that allow excess water to drain away
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • east-northeast — the point on a compass midway between east and northeast.
  • eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
  • eastern thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
  • emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
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