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  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
  • cricopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the cricoid cartilage and the pharynx.
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • dehydrogenating — Present participle of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
  • demographically — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
  • dephlogisticate — to reduce or remove inflammation from
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • endolymphangial — (anatomy) Within a lymphatic vessel.
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
  • exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
  • general holiday — a public holiday
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
  • gregorian chant — the plain song or cantus firmus used in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • hanging offence — a crime that is punishable by hanging
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • have a right to — be entitled to
  • have got it bad — to be infatuated
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