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  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • differentiating — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
  • differentiation — Biology. the process by which cells or tissues change from relatively generalized to specialized kinds, during development.
  • differentiative — That differentiates, or causes differentiation.
  • differentiators — Plural form of differentiator.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • distressfulness — The state or quality of being distressful; the state of having or causing anxiety or strain.
  • distrustfulness — The state or quality of being distrustful or doubtful; distrust; mistrust.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
  • editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • existence proof — non-constructive proof
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • faint-heartedly — nervously
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • feast or famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
  • feast-or-famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • ferranti f100-l — (processor)   A processor, with 16-bit addressing, registers and data paths and a 1-bit serial ALU. The F100-L could only access 32K of memory (one address bit was used for indirection). It was designed by a British company for the British Military. The unique feature of the F100-L was that it had a complete control bus available for a coprocessor. Any instruction the F100-L couldn't decode was sent directly to the coprocessor for processing. Applications for coprocessors at the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern processors, such as the National Semiconductor 32000 series. The disk operating system was written by Alec Cawley.
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • fighting french — Free French.
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • finger painting — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
  • finger-pointing — the imputation of blame or responsibility.
  • fire department — the department of a municipal government charged with the prevention and extinguishing of fire.
  • fire prevention — safety measures to decrease fire risk
  • fire resistance — the amount of resistance of a material or construction to fire.
  • fire water pond — A fire water pond is an area of water which is kept so it can be used if there is a fire.
  • fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
  • first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • first intention — See under intention (def 5a).
  • first messenger — a hormone that triggers a biochemical reaction at a site removed from its release.
  • first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
  • first responder — a person who is certified to provide medical care in emergencies before more highly trained medical personnel arrive on the scene: a firefighter trained as a first responder.
  • first-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • fish restaurant — a restaurant which serves mainly fish
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
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