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  • popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
  • portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
  • positional — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
  • postatomic — existing since or subsequent to the explosion of the first atomic bomb or the invention of atomic weapons: the political tensions of the postatomic world.
  • postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • postillate — to annotate, to postil
  • postimpact — occurring after an impact
  • postmating — of or designating the period after mating
  • posttibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
  • praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
  • prestation — a payment in money or in services.
  • prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
  • profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
  • proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
  • prostatism — symptoms of prostate disorder, especially obstructed urination, arising from benign enlargement or chronic disease of the prostate gland.
  • proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
  • proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
  • protistans — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
  • ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
  • pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
  • rat poison — substance toxic to rodents
  • respirator — a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth, or nose and mouth, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.
  • rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
  • scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
  • seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
  • seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
  • semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
  • separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
  • sitophobia — abnormal aversion to food.
  • sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
  • spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
  • spasmodist — a person who is spasmodic, especially in style, as a writer, painter, etc.
  • spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
  • spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
  • spec ratio — (benchmark)   Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
  • speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
  • spermatoid — resembling sperm.
  • spit-roast — to cook on a spit
  • spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
  • spoliative — blood-diminishing
  • stainproof — resistant to stains
  • standpoint — the point or place at which a person stands to view something.
  • star point — a common junction connected to the ends of windings of a polyphase electrical device or system of devices
  • stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
  • stereopair — a pair of photographs of the same area taken from slightly different positions so as to give a stereoscopic effect when properly mounted and viewed.
  • strapontin — a seat which is folded down to sit on
  • stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
  • suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
  • supination — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the palmar surface is facing upward (opposed to pronation).
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