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  • keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
  • lauraldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
  • laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • lecture hall — conference room
  • lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
  • mare humorum — (Sea of Moisture) a dark plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 45,000 sq. mi. (117,000 sq. km).
  • megachurches — Plural form of megachurch.
  • meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
  • metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
  • metamorphous — metamorphic.
  • misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
  • multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
  • necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
  • neurasthenia — Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
  • neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
  • neurohumoral — of or pertaining to a neurohumour
  • neuronopathy — A form of polyneuropathy caused by destruction of neurons.
  • neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
  • neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
  • noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
  • nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
  • orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
  • orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
  • out of reach — beyond arm's length
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • paper-pusher — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
  • parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.
  • perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
  • pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
  • pre-purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
  • proudhearted — full of pride.
  • pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
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