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- nerve wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nerve-wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nickel-plating — the process of depositing a thin layer of nickel on a surface, usually by electrolysis
- package policy — an insurance policy which incorporates cover for different types of risk, such as liability and property
- packet writing — (storage) A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
- parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
- pink champagne — a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
- ringneck snake — any of several small, nonvenomous North American snakes of the genus Diadophis, usually having a conspicuous yellow or orange ring around the neck.
- rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
- rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
- smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
- sorting tracks — the part of a railroad yard used for the final sorting of cars from a classification yard.
- speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
- stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
- tracking radar — a radar system emitting a narrow beam which oscillates about the target, thus compensating for abrupt changes of direction
- trickle charge — a continuous, slow charge supplied to a storage battery to keep it in a fully charged state.
- virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
- walking ticket — walking papers.
- wrecking crane — a crane for lifting and removing wrecked rolling stock.