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  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • distributorship — a franchise held by a distributor.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • duchesse brisee — See under duchesse.
  • dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
  • dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • herpes labialis — oral herpes.
  • hiberno-english — Also called Anglo-Irish. the English language as spoken in Ireland.
  • hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
  • hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
  • inapprehensible — That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
  • ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
  • irreprehensible — Not reprehensible, blameless, without blame; innocent.
  • irreprehensibly — in an irreprehensible manner
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • muslim brothers — an organization founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna (1906–49), calling for a return to rigid orthodoxy, the overthrow of secular governments, and a restoration of the theocratic state.
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
  • phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
  • pink-shirt book — (publication)   "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a different picture of Norton wearing a pink shirt. See also book titles.
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • riding breeches — calf-length trousers of whipcord or other durable fabric, flaring at the sides of the thighs and fitting snugly at and below the knees, worn with riding boots for horseback riding, hunting, etc.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • scrubbing brush — a handheld brush with short stiff bristles, used esp for scrubbing floors
  • she'll be right — that's all right; not to worry
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
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