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  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • cranial suture — a type of immovable joint between the bones of the skull
  • creatureliness — creatural.
  • crested auklet — any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella (crested auklet) having a crest of recurved plumes.
  • critical value — the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis.
  • croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • cultured pearl — A cultured pearl is a pearl that is created by putting sand or grit into an oyster.
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
  • delta aquarids — either of two collections of meteors comprising meteor showers having their apparent origin in the constellation Aquarius and visible either in early May (Eta Aquarids) or late July (Delta Aquarids)
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • disarticulated — Simple past tense and past participle of disarticulate.
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • draw-out table — draw table.
  • electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • enteropneustal — relating to enteropneusts
  • equiangularity — the state of being equiangular
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • fault tolerant — fault tolerance
  • fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
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