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  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • mosquito netting — netting used in the making of mosquito nets.
  • mothering sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • moulding machine — a machine for pressing sand into a mould
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
  • mountain dogwood — a dogwood tree, Cornus nuttallii, of western North America, having pointed, petallike white or pinkish bracts and clustered scarlet fruits.
  • mourning clothes — clothes worn as a symbol of grief at a bereavement, esp black clothes
  • multiplepoinding — an action to determine the division of a property or fund between several claimants, brought by or on behalf of the present holder
  • multiprogramming — multitasking
  • muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • mutation testing — (testing)   A method to determine test set thoroughness by measuring the extent to which a test set can discriminate the program from slight variants of the program.
  • nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
  • nodding trillium — a hardy plant, Trillium cernuum, of the lily family, of the eastern coast of North America, having wavy-petalled, white or pinkish flowers on short, recurved stalks hanging beneath the three whorled leaves.
  • nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
  • operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
  • people smuggling — People smuggling or people trafficking is the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • pigeon guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
  • pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
  • pneumonic plague — a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
  • postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
  • psychoimmunology — the branch of medicine studying the effects of psychological phenomena on the immune system; the intersection of psychology and immunology.
  • rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
  • rooting compound — a substance, usually a powder, containing auxins in which plant cuttings are dipped in order to promote root growth
  • rumour-mongering — the act of spreading rumours
  • saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
  • uncompromisingly — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • zagros mountains — a mountain range in S Iran: has Iran's main oilfields in its W central foothills. Highest peak: Zard Kuh, 4548 m (14 920 ft)
  • zygosporangium's — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.
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