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  • counterfactuals — Plural form of counterfactual.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • counterproposal — a proposal offered as an alternative to a previous proposal
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • crestone needle — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,197 feet (4330 meters).
  • crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
  • cross tolerance — the resistance to one or more effects of a substance because of tolerance to a pharmacologically similar substance: a cross-tolerance of some alcoholics to anesthetics.
  • cross-pollinate — to subject or be subjected to cross-pollination
  • cross-tolerance — the resistance to one or more effects of a substance because of tolerance to a pharmacologically similar substance: a cross-tolerance of some alcoholics to anesthetics.
  • crown-of-jewels — an annual herb, Lopezia coronata, of Mexico, having lilac-colored flowers with a red base.
  • cryoelectronics — the branch of electronics dealing with the application of low-temperature behavior, especially superconductivity, to electronic devices.
  • crystal counter — an instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity of high-energy radiation, in which particles collide with a crystal and momentarily increase its conductivity
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
  • deleteriousness — The quality of being deleterious.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • demonstrational — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
  • demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
  • depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
  • desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • deserialization — The act or process of deserializing.
  • desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
  • dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • dextrosinistral — left-handed, but having the right hand trained for writing.
  • dictatorialness — The state or quality of being dictatorial.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • discretionarily — subject or left to one's own discretion.
  • disk controller — (hardware, storage)   (Or "hard disk controller", HDC) The circuit which allows the CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. The most common disk controllers in use are IDE and SCSI controllers. Most home personal computers use IDE controllers. High end PCs, workstations and network file servers mostly have SCSI adaptors.
  • dolphin striker — a short vertical strut between the bowsprit and a rope or cable (martingale) from the end of the jib boom to the stem or bows, used for maintaining tension and preventing upward movement of the jib boom
  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
  • dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • downward closed — closure
  • dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • electroanalyses — Plural form of electroanalysis.
  • electroanalysis — (physics, chemistry) Any of several electrochemical forms of analysis.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • electrokinetics — the branch of physics concerned with the motion of charged particles
  • electron optics — the study and use of beams of electrons and of their deflection and focusing by electric and magnetic fields
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