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- arm's-length — lacking intimacy or friendliness, esp when possessing some special connection, such as previous closeness
- arm-twisting — persuasion
- arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
- arraignments — Plural form of arraignment.
- arrangements — preparatory measures taken or plans made; preparations
- arteriograms — Plural form of arteriogram.
- ascertaining — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- asphyxiating — to produce asphyxia in.
- assemblagist — a creative person or artist who is skilled in putting together works of art based on assemblage
- asseverating — Present participle of asseverate.
- assignations — Plural form of assignation.
- assimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- assimulating — Present participle of assimulate.
- astacologist — a person who investigates and analyses crayfish
- astanga yoga — a revived ancient form of yoga that involves a fast and powerful series of movements
- astigmatizer — a cylindrical lens used in a rangefinder to draw out the point image of a point source into a line.
- astigmometer — an apparatus for measuring the degree of astigmatism.
- astigmoscope — astigmatoscope.
- astoundingly — capable of overwhelming with amazement; stunningly surprising.
- astringently — In the manner of an astringent.
- astrobiology — the branch of biology that investigates the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe
- astrogeology — the study of the structure, composition, and history of other planets and other bodies in the solar system
- astrological — the study that assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs.
- astroturfing — a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
- at long last — finally, after difficulty, delay, or irritation
- audiologists — Plural form of audiologist.
- auscultating — Present participle of auscultate.
- autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
- autogenously — In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.
- backstabbing — Backstabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
- backstarting — a marketing technique in publishing, whereby new customers are sent back issues of magazines or journals as part of their subscription
- backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- badger state — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
- bait casting — the act or technique of casting an artificial or natural lure attached to a silk or nylon line wound on a reel having a revolving spool, the rod used being shorter and less flexible than that used in fly casting.
- bait-casting — designating fishing equipment designed for use with live bait or artificial lures, in which the weight of the bait or lure pulls the line from a winch-type reel, as during casting or trolling
- baking sheet — A baking sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as biscuits or pies in an oven.
- barnstorming — A barnstorming performance is full of energy and very exciting to watch.
- basic weight — basis weight.
- basing point — a geographical location from which freight charges are computed by the seller regardless of the point from which the goods are shipped.
- basis weight — the weight in pounds of a ream of paper of a basic size, usually 25 × 38 inches (63 × 96 cm) for book stock, 17 × 22 inches (43 × 55 cm) for writing stock, and 20 × 26 inches (50 × 66 cm) for cover stock.
- basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
- bastard wing — a tuft of feathers attached to the first digit of a bird, distinct from the wing feathers attached to the other digits and the ulna
- bastardizing — Present participle of bastardize.
- bastinadoing — Present participle of bastinado.
- bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
- beta testing — (programming) Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.