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  • psychoanalytical — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • pygmy chimpanzee — a small chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, primarily of swamp forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a threatened species.
  • queen's champion — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • radio microphone — a microphone incorporating a radio transmitter so that the user can move around freely
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • rancho cucamonga — a city in SE California.
  • rate of exchange — exchange rate.
  • reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • 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
  • research student — a student studying for a doctoral award, that is, a PhD or an MPhil
  • rhynchocephalian — belonging or pertaining to the Rhynchocephalia, an order of lizardlike reptiles that are extinct except for the tuatara.
  • richard stallman — (person)   Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. He went on to establish the Free Software Foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • ring the changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
  • saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
  • saint catharines — a city in SE Ontario, in SE Canada.
  • sandwich islands — the Hawaiian Islands
  • savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • school librarian — a librarian who works in or is in charge of a school library
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scratch hardness — resistance of a material, as a stone or metal, to scratching by one of several other materials, the known hardnesses of which are assembled into a standard scale, as the Mohs' scale of minerals.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
  • secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
  • shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
  • shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • situation ethics — a view of ethics that deprecates general moral principles while emphasizing the source of moral judgments in the distinctive characters of specific situations.
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
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