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  • bombardier beetle — any of various small carabid beetles of the genus Brachinus, esp B. crepitans of Europe, which defend themselves by ejecting a jet of volatile fluid
  • bronze star medal — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroic or meritorious achievement or service in combat not involving aerial flight
  • butterfly diagram — a graphical butterfly-shaped representation of the sunspot density on the solar disc in the 11-year sunspot cycle
  • calomel electrode — a reference electrode consisting of calomel, mercury, and a solution of potassium chloride.
  • cardiac tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
  • cardiac-tamponade — Medicine/Medical. the use of a tampon, as to stop a hemorrhage.
  • case-study method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
  • chartered company — a company formed for the purpose of exploration and colonization
  • chemopallidectomy — an operation for treating Parkinson's disease and certain other diseases characterized by muscular rigidity, consisting of destroying a specific part of the corpus striatum by injecting it with a chemical, usually alcohol.
  • chemoradiotherapy — (medicine) A combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy used to treat some cancers.
  • christmas disease — a relatively mild type of haemophilia, caused by lack of a protein (Christmas factor) implicated in the process of blood clotting
  • climbing accident — an accident occurring during climbing
  • coldstream guards — a guard regiment of the English royal household: formed in Coldstream, Scotland, 1659–60, and instrumental in restoring the English monarchy under Charles II.
  • collateral damage — Collateral damage is accidental injury to non-military people or damage to non-military buildings which occurs during a military operation.
  • come to handgrips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • commercial credit — credit issued by a bank to a business to finance trading or manufacturing operations.
  • commodity markets — stock markets in which commodities are traded
  • compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
  • compartmentalized — separated into several discrete areas
  • compass deviation — deviation (def 4).
  • compensated grade — a grade that has been reduced along a curve to offset the additional resistance due to the curve.
  • complementary dna — a form of DNA artificially synthesized from a messenger RNA template and used in genetic engineering to produce gene clones
  • compound fracture — A compound fracture is a fracture in which the broken bone sticks through the skin.
  • compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
  • consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
  • damage limitation — Damage limitation is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
  • death's-head moth — a European hawk moth, Acherontia atropos, having markings resembling a human skull on its upper thorax
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • decriminalization — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
  • defamiliarization — Art, Literature. a theory and technique, originating in the early 20th century, in which an artistic or literary work presents familiar objects or situations in an unfamiliar way, prolonging the perceptive process and allowing for a fresh perspective.
  • degenerate matter — the highly compressed state of matter, esp in white dwarfs and neutron stars, supported against gravitational collapse by quantum mechanical effects
  • delaney amendment — an amendment to the U. S. Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act banning the use of carcinogenic food additives, as certain artificial sweeteners and food colorings.
  • demand management — the regulation of total spending in an economy to required levels, attempted by a government esp in order to avoid unemployment or inflation: a measure advocated by Keynesian economists
  • dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • dematerialization — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • demythologization — The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
  • dendroclimatology — The science that uses dendrochronology to reconstruct historical climate conditions.
  • denominate number — a number associated with a unit of measurement.
  • denominationalism — adherence to particular principles, esp to the tenets of a religious denomination; sectarianism
  • denominationalist — One imbued with a denominational spirit.
  • departmentalizing — Present participle of departmentalize.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • deterministically — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
  • development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
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