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  • bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
  • brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
  • brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
  • brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
  • brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
  • brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
  • buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
  • buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
  • buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
  • buonarroti — Michelangelo.
  • burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
  • burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
  • butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
  • cacuminous — (of a tree) having a pointed or a pyramidal top
  • caliginous — dark; dim
  • calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
  • calumniate — to slander
  • calumnious — of or using calumny
  • canaliculi — a small canal or tubular passage, as in bone.
  • candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
  • capitulant — a person who capitulates
  • cappuccino — Cappuccino is coffee which is made using milk and has froth and sometimes powdered chocolate on top.
  • capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
  • cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
  • carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
  • carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
  • casuarinas — Plural form of casuarina.
  • caucussing — the act of holding a private, often secret meeting of members of a political party prior to an election or general party meeting
  • caudal fin — the tail fin of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates, used for propulsion during locomotion
  • causations — Plural form of causation.
  • cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
  • cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
  • cautioning — Present participle of caution.
  • cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
  • centaurian — resembling or of the nature of a centaur
  • centauries — Plural form of centaury.
  • chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
  • chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
  • chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
  • charmonium — an elementary particle that contains an antiquark and a charm quark
  • chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
  • chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
  • chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • china blue — a bright greenish blue.
  • chine nual — (documentation)   /sheen'yu-*l/ (MIT) The LISP Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
  • chinquapin — a dwarf chestnut tree, Castanea pumila, of the eastern US, yielding edible nuts
  • churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
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