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  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
  • fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • frankensteinian — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
  • fraternal twins — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
  • free enterprise — an economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation.
  • free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
  • french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
  • friar's lantern — ignis fatuus (def 1).
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • fringing forest — gallery forest.
  • ft-se 100 index — Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index
  • functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
  • furniture store — shop: sells furnishings
  • future interest — an interest in personal or real property, the possession and enjoyment of which is to commence at a later date.
  • gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
  • gastroenteritis — inflammation of the stomach and intestines.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • generalisations — Plural form of generalisation.
  • generalizations — Plural form of generalization.
  • gentlemanliness — like, befitting, or characteristic of a gentleman.
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
  • get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
  • giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • gift of tongues — speaking in tongues.
  • gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • gluteus minimus — the innermost muscle of the buttocks, involved in the abduction and rotation of the thigh.
  • gnu mirror site — GNU archive site
  • go into details — If someone does not go into details about a subject, or does not go into the detail, they mention it without explaining it fully or properly.
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
  • governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
  • governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
  • grammaticalness — (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
  • grand staircase — a large and impressive staircase
  • great recession — the protracted worldwide economic recession following the financial crisis of 2007–08
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