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  • dextromethorphan — (pharmaceutical drug) An antitussive drug (a cough suppressant) that is found in many over-the-counter cold and cough preparations.
  • dihydroxyacetone — (organic compound) The compound CO(CH2OH)2 that has a number of industrial uses.
  • dimethoxymethane — methylal.
  • draught excluder — a device (such as a strip of wood, or a long cylindrical cushion) placed at the bottom of a door to keep out draughts
  • duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
  • eastern orthodox — of or relating to the Orthodox Church.
  • ecotoxicological — Of or pertaining to ecotoxicology.
  • ex-dividend date — The ex-dividend date is the date after the declaration of a dividend on which the buyer of a stock is not entitled to receive the next dividend payment.
  • examination room — the room designated for a particular examination to take place
  • examine-in-chief — to examine (one's own witness) in attempting to adduce a case
  • exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
  • exchange student — sb who studies abroad
  • exclamation mark — (character)   The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT).
  • exclusion clause — (in a contract) something that serves to limit liabilities
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • existentialistic — Existentialist.
  • exotic shorthair — a short-haired variety of domestic cat with a stocky body, developed through crossing Persian cats with American shorthairs
  • expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
  • expectant mother — a pregnant woman
  • experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
  • experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
  • expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
  • exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
  • exponential horn — a horn for the radiation of acoustic or high-frequency electromagnetic waves, of which the cross-sectional area increases exponentially with the length
  • exponential-time — (complexity)   The set or property of problems which can be solved by an exponential-time algorithm but for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known.
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
  • external affairs — (formerly) the Canadian federal Foreign Affairs department
  • external auditor — sb brought in to check financial records
  • external storage — storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it: Secondary storage for this system is contained on videodisk.
  • external student — a student studying a university subject extramurally
  • exterritoriality — Extraterritoriality.
  • extrachromosomal — Happening outside a chromosome.
  • extracorporeally — Outside the body.
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • extraterrestrial — Of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere.
  • extraterritorial — (of a law or decree) valid outside a country's territory.
  • extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
  • for external use — If medicine is for external use, it is intended to be used only on the outside of your body, and not to be eaten or drunk.
  • foreign exchange — commercial paper drawn on a person or corporation in a foreign nation.
  • forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
  • ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
  • funeral expenses — Funeral expenses are the costs of organizing and carrying out a funeral.
  • general expenses — miscellaneous expenses
  • grape phylloxera — See under phylloxera.
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