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  • opus anglicanum — fine embroidery, esp of church vestments, produced in England c.1200–c.1350; characterized by the rich materials used, esp silver gilt thread
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • parallel cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's sister or of one's father's brother.
  • past continuous — past progressive.
  • peace offensive — an active program, policy, propaganda campaign, etc., by a national government for the purpose of terminating a war or period of hostility, lessening international tensions, or promoting peaceful cooperation with other nations.
  • percussion lock — a gunlock on a firearm that fires by striking a percussion cap.
  • percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
  • phosphocreatine — a compound, C 4 H 1 0 O 5 N 3 P, found chiefly in muscle, formed by the enzymatic interaction of an organic phosphate and creatine, the breakdown of which provides energy for muscle contraction.
  • photo-secession — an association of photographers founded in New York City in 1902 by Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen that advocated the development and public recognition of photography as a fine art.
  • physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pickling onions — small onions suitable for pickling
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • pissing contest — Slang: Vulgar. a contentious argument; confrontation.
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • police presence — attendance or proximity of police officers
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
  • position effect — the alteration in the expression of a gene or genetic region due to its relocation within the genome as a result of inversion or translocation.
  • positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • post-conception — the act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
  • post-experience — a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
  • post-production — In film and television, post-production is the work such as editing that takes place after the film has been shot.
  • postinoculation — the act or process of inoculating.
  • postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
  • postvaccination — occurring after a vaccination
  • potting compost — Potting compost is soil that is specially prepared to help plants to grow, especially in containers.
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
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