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  • narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
  • neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
  • non-motorized — to furnish with a motor, as a vehicle.
  • nondemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • obiter dictum — an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
  • old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
  • open-timbered — constructed so that the timbers are exposed.
  • over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overcommitted — to commit more than is feasible, desirable, or necessary.
  • overdemanding — excessively demanding
  • overdetermine — Determine, account for, or cause (something) in more than one way or with more conditions than are necessary.
  • overdominance — excessive dominance
  • overdramatise — Alternative spelling of overdramatize.
  • overdramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
  • overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
  • overimpressed — very impressed
  • overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
  • overmultitude — to exceed in number
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
  • post meridiem — p.m.
  • postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
  • postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • pre-committed — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • pre-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
  • preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
  • reindeer moss — any of several lichens of the genus Cladonia, especially the gray, many-branched C. rangiferina, of arctic and subarctic regions, eaten by reindeer and caribou.
  • rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
  • romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
  • rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
  • sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
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