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  • birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
  • birth father — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
  • black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
  • bosom friend — an intimate friend
  • bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
  • brain freeze — Also called ice-cream headache. a pain in the temples and forehead brought on by quickly consuming very cold food or drink.
  • brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
  • c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
  • cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
  • carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
  • carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
  • carrier-free — (of a radioactive isotope) capable of functioning as a tracer without the use of a carrier.
  • cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
  • center field — the middle area of the outfield
  • central-fire — center-fire.
  • centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
  • centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
  • certificates — Plural form of certificate.
  • chaetiferous — having bristles
  • chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
  • chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
  • chicago fire — a three-day fire in Chicago, Ill., in 1871 that largely destroyed the city and took several hundred lives.
  • chief priest — the highest ranking among a number of priests
  • chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
  • childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
  • chromiferous — Containing, or yielding chromium.
  • cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
  • circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
  • circumflexes — Plural form of circumflex.
  • circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
  • circumfusile — able to be diffused or poured around
  • city fathers — You can refer to the members of a city council or city's government as the city fathers.
  • clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
  • cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
  • cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
  • clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
  • club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
  • color filter — colored glass, dyed gelatin, etc., used to produce certain color or light effects, as in photography
  • comic relief — a comic interlude, or comic element, in a tragedy
  • conchiferous — (esp of molluscs) having or producing a shell
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