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  • optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
  • pack of lies — false account
  • pack rolling — the hot rolling of metal sheets in two or more thicknesses to produce composite sheets.
  • packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • prickly pear — any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit.
  • quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
  • quillai bark — soapbark (def 2).
  • rack railway — cog railway.
  • rapacki plan — the denuclearization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and West Germany, proposed by Adam Rapacki (1909–70), the Polish foreign minister, in 1957
  • rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
  • risk capital — venture capital.
  • rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
  • salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • sat sri akal — a salutation used in India
  • sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
  • scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • smoke signal — If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals, they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out.
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • spark-killer — a device for diminishing sparking, consisting of a capacitor and a resistor connected in series across two points where sparking may occur in a circuit.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • stackability — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
  • stanislavski — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
  • stanislavsky — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
  • stickability — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
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