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  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • in all but name — If you say that a situation exists in all but name, you mean that it is not officially recognized even though it exists.
  • in-and-out bond — a stonework or brickwork bond having headers and stretchers alternating vertically.
  • incalculability — The quality or state of being incalculable.
  • incommutability — The quality or state of being incommutable.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
  • insubstantially — In an insubstantial manner.
  • interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
  • interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra
  • invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
  • jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
  • justifiableness — Justifiability.
  • lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
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