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  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • quasi-legitimate — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • raster subsystem — (graphics)   The part of a graphics system concerned with an image after it has been transformed and scaled to screen coordinates. It includes scan conversion and display.
  • re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
  • real-time pascal — (language)   A later name for Pascal-80 by RC International, Denmark.
  • real-time system — a data-processing system in which a computer receives constantly changing data, such as information relating to air-traffic control, travel booking systems, etc, and processes it sufficiently rapidly to be able to control the source of the data
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • replacement cost — fee to obtain new version of sth
  • research quantum — the standard by which the contribution to a university of individual academics is measured and on the basis of which universities receive government funding and academics are promoted
  • residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • root mean square — the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the numbers in a given set of numbers. Abbreviation: rms.
  • safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
  • saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
  • sales automation — Sales Force Automation
  • sault ste. marie — the rapids of the St. Marys River, between NE Michigan and Ontario, Canada.
  • scarlet clematis — a slightly woody vine, Clematis texensis, of Texas, having bluish-green leaves, plumed fruit, and solitary, urn-shaped, scarlet-to-pink flowers.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • sealyham terrier — one of a Welsh breed of small terriers having short legs, a docked tail, and a wiry, mostly white coat.
  • second amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms as necessary to maintain a state militia.
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • security measure — a precaution taken against terrorism, espionage or other danger
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • self-sustainment — self-supporting.
  • self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
  • semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • semi-mountainous — abounding in mountains: a mountainous wilderness.
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semidomesticated — living in a state of partial domestication.
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