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- saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
- semester hour — a unit of academic credit fulfilled by completing one hour of class instruction each week for one semester.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- short-termism — If you accuse people of short-termism, you mean that they make decisions that produce benefits now or soon, rather than making better decisions that will produce benefits in the future.
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
- somersetshire — a county in SW England. 1335 sq. mi. (3455 sq. km).
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- spermatophore — a capsule surrounding a mass of spermatozoa, produced by the male of various animal species and transferred to the female.
- spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
- spermatorrhea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- sweet sorghum — sorgo.
- tapestry moth — carpet moth.
- temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
- the comforter — the Holy Spirit: John 14:26
- the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
- the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
- theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
- theriomorphic — (of deities) thought of or represented as having the form of beasts.
- thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
- thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermoammeter — an ammeter that measures amperage by means of a thermocouple.
- thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
- thermocurrent — a thermoelectric current.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoelement — a device made up of a heating mechanism and a thermocouple and used to measure small currents
- thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
- thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
- thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
- thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thermostatted — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thermotensile — of or relating to tensile strength in so far as it is affected by temperature
- thermotherapy — treatment of disease by means of moist or dry heat.
- thermotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to heat.
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- think more of — to have a higher opinion of
- thiocarbamide — thiourea.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thomas hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- thremmatology — the science of breeding or propagating animals and plants under domestication.