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  • defect analysis — (programming)   Using defects as data for continuous quality improvement. Defect analysis generally seeks to classify defects into categories and identify possible causes in order to direct process improvement efforts.
  • delaying action — a measure or measures taken to gain time, as when weaker military forces harass the advance of a superior enemy without coming to a pitched battle
  • delaying tactic — Delaying tactics are things that someone does in order to deliberately delay the start or progress of something.
  • demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
  • demythification — the act of demythifying
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disenchantingly — In a disenchanting manner.
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • distance medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards (402 meters), the second runs 880 yards (805 meters), the third runs 1320 yards (1207 meters), and the fourth runs 1760 yards (1609 meters).
  • dixiecrat party — States' Rights Democratic Party.
  • dysteleological — Of or pertaining to dysteleology.
  • early christian — denoting or relating to the style of architecture that started in Italy in the 3rd century ad and spread through the Roman empire until the 5th century
  • econometrically — In terms of econometrics.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electroanalyses — Plural form of electroanalysis.
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodialytic — Relating to electrodialysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • electromyograms — Plural form of electromyogram.
  • electromyograph — A device used in electromyography to generate electromyograms.
  • eleutherodactyl — (of a bird) having the hind toe free
  • entomologically — In terms of entomology.
  • epicyclic train — a cluster of gears consisting of a central gearwheel with external teeth (the sun), a coaxial gearwheel of greater diameter with internal teeth (the annulus), and one or more planetary gears engaging with both of them to provide a large gear ratio in a compact space
  • escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
  • ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
  • excess capacity — unused production capacity
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • extracellularly — In an extracellular manner.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • extrajudicially — Outside of the legal system.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
  • fetishistically — in a fetishistic manner
  • first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • for a certainty — without doubt
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
  • genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
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