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  • pyromucic aldehyde — furfural.
  • quasi-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • rhodes scholarship — one of a number of scholarships at Oxford University, established by the will of Cecil Rhodes, for selected students (Rhodes scholars) from the British Commonwealth and the United States.
  • richard p. feynman — (person, computing, architecture)   /fayn'mn/ 1918-1988. A US physicist, computer scientist and author who graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton. Feynmane was a key figure in helping Oppenheimer and team develop atomic bomb. In 1950 he became a professor at Caltech and in 1965 became Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics for QED (quantum electrodynamics). He was a primary figure in "solving" the Challenger disaster O-ring problem. He "rediscovered" the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Tuva. The 2001 film "Infinity" about Feynman's early life featured Matthew Broderick and Patricia Arquette. In 2001, "QED", a play about Feynman's life featuring Alan Alda opened.
  • richard p. gabriel — Richard Gabriel
  • saint peter's fish — another name for tilapia, taken from a Bible story about Saint Peter catching a fish with a coin in its mouth
  • scholarship holder — a person who, because of academic merit, receives financial aid for their studies
  • secondary syphilis — the second stage of syphilis, characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane.
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • septic sore throat — an acute, toxic, streptococcus infection of the throat producing fever, tonsillitis, and other serious effects.
  • shape-note singing — a traditional style of a capella singing using shape-note notation.
  • sharp-shinned hawk — a North American hawk, Accipiter striatus, having extremely slender legs, a bluish-gray back, and a white, rusty-barred breast.
  • shepherd satellite — a small moon orbiting near a planetary ring, whose gravitational pull helps confine the ring and the ring's extent.
  • shipping container — a large, strong container, usually of metal, used to store goods in during shipment
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • spanish succession — War of thea war (1701-14) between European powers disputing the succession to the Spanish throne
  • specialist teacher — a teacher with expertise in working with children with special educational needs, such as dyslexia
  • spectroheliography — the process of obtaining an image of the sun in light of a particular wavelength, such as calcium or hydrogen, showing the distribution of the element over the surface and in the solar atmosphere, using a spectroheliograph
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spike-tooth harrow — a harrow equipped with straight teeth on horizontal bars, usually employed to smooth and level plowed soil or seedbeds for planting or sowing.
  • spinal anaesthesia — anaesthesia of the lower half of the body produced by injecting an anaesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane surrounding the spinal cord
  • supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
  • sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • teaching equipment — teaching aids
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  • the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
  • to lick into shape — If you lick, knock, or whip someone or something into shape, you use whatever methods are necessary to change or improve them so that they are in the condition that you want them to be in.
  • to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
  • to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
  • upper palaeolithic — the latest of the three periods of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 40 000 bc and ending, in Europe, about 12 000 bc: characterized by the emergence of modern man, Homo sapiens
  • vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
  • vulcan nerve pinch — (jargon)   (Or "three-finger salute", Vulcan death grip; from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers) The keyboard combination that forces a soft boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature). On an Amiga this is done with Ctrl/Right Amiga/Left Amiga; on IBM PCs and many microcomputers it is Ctrl/Alt/Del; on Suns, L1-A; on some Macintoshes, it is -! Silicon Graphics users are obviously the most dextrous however, as these machines use the five-finger combination: Left Shift/Left Ctrl/Left Alt/Keypad Divide/F12. Compare quadruple bucky.
  • warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse
  • welland ship canal — a ship canal in S Canada, in Ontario, connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario: 8 locks. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • wernicke's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical but more or less meaningless speech and an apparent inability to comprehend speech.
  • whispering gallery — a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.
  • white-spotted hyla — a type of tree frog (H. leucophyllata) of tropical America
  • wilson's phalarope — a phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, that breeds in the prairie regions of North America and winters in Argentina and Chile.
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