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  • asthenospermic — (medicine) Characterised by or pertaining to asthenospermia, hence infertile.
  • asthenospheric — relating to the asthenosphere
  • at knife-point — under threat of being stabbed
  • at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
  • atlantic liner — a large passenger ship that regularly crosses the Atlantic Ocean
  • atlantic ocean — the world's second largest ocean, bounded in the north by the Arctic, in the south by the Antarctic, in the west by North and South America, and in the east by Europe and Africa. Greatest depth: 9220 m (30 246 ft). Area: about 81 585 000 sq km (31 500 000 sq miles)
  • atomic veteran — a veteran of the armed forces who was exposed to radioactivity during the testing or use of nuclear (atomic) weapons in World War II or subsequent wars.
  • attainableness — The state or quality of being attainable.
  • attention line — a line of text after the address on a piece of correspondence, directing it to a particular person or department.
  • attention span — the period of time during which someone's attention is held by something in particular
  • attractiveness — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
  • attrition rate — the rate at which customers or subscribers switch from one supplier to another
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
  • auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • authenticating — to establish as genuine.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
  • autoconfiscate — (software, jargon)   A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
  • autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
  • auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
  • auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
  • avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • aviation badge — wings.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • axial skeleton — the bones that together comprise the skull and the vertebral column
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • azidothymidine — an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/AIDS
  • babbling error — (networking)   An Ethernet node attempting to transmit more than 1518 data bytes - the largest allowed Ethernet packet. This is why the Maximum Transmission Unit for IP traffic on Ethernet is 1500.
  • baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
  • backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
  • backing singer — a singer providing a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
  • backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • bactrian camel — a two-humped camel, Camelus bactrianus, used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia
  • badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
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