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  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • pseudosolution — a colloidal suspension in which the finely divided particles appear to be dissolved because they are so widely dispersed in the surrounding medium.
  • puertorriqueno — a native or inhabitant of Puerto Rico.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • put it over on — to deceive; trick
  • put money into — to invest money in
  • put the lid on — to be the final blow to
  • quarter window — (on a car) a small triangular side window with hinges that can be opened for extra ventilation
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
  • questionmaster — quizmaster.
  • questionnaires — Plural form of questionnaire.
  • queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
  • quinquecostate — having five lines or ribs
  • quinquefoliate — (of leaves) having or consisting of five leaflets
  • quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
  • quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
  • quotient space — a topological space whose elements are the equivalence classes of a given topological space with a specified equivalence relation.
  • re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • re-enumeration — an act of enumerating.
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • reconstitution — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
  • reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • reintroduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • requisitioning — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • requisitionist — a person who requisitions; a person who makes a requisition
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionizer — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • ride to hounds — to take part in a fox hunt with hounds
  • rolling cutter — A rolling cutter is a drill bit which is often used for drilling hard rock.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • run its course — (of something) to complete its development or action
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