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  • ochronosis — An autosomal-recessive metabolic disorder that causes an excess of homogentisic acid, resulting in adverse pigmentation, calcification, and inflammation of cartilaginous and related tissue throughout the body.
  • offshoring — the practice of moving employees or certain business activities to foreign countries as a way to lower costs, avoid taxes, etc.: the offshoring of software jobs to China.
  • ornithosis — psittacosis, especially of birds other than those of the parrot family.
  • orpharions — Plural form of orpharion.
  • patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
  • prehension — the act of seizing or grasping.
  • print shop — a shop where prints or graphics are sold.
  • pyrrhonism — the Skeptic doctrines of Pyrrho and his followers.
  • rhinestone — an artificial gem of paste, often cut to resemble a diamond.
  • rhinoceros — any of several large, thick-skinned, perissodactyl mammals of the family Rhinocerotidae, of Africa and India, having one or two upright horns on the snout: all rhinoceroses are endangered.
  • rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
  • rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
  • rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.
  • ribbonfish — any of several marine fishes of the families Trachipteridae, Regalicidae, and Lophotidae, having a long, compressed, ribbonlike body.
  • richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
  • ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
  • rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
  • rosy finch — any of several finches of the genus Leucosticte, of Asia and western North America, having dark brown plumage with a pinkish wash on the wings and rump.
  • rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
  • ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
  • shirtfront — front of a shirt
  • shoestring — a shoelace.
  • short iron — a club, as a pitcher, pitching niblick, or niblick, with a short shaft and an iron head the face of which has great slope, for hitting approach shots.
  • short line — a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
  • short loin — the front part of a loin of beef, from the ribs to the sirloin
  • shortening — butter, lard, or other fat, used to make pastry, bread, etc., short.
  • silverhorn — any of various usually darkish caddis flies of the family Leptoceridae, characterized by very long pale antennae. The larvae are a favourite food of trout
  • smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
  • stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
  • synchronic — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
  • the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball
  • trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
  • trichinous — pertaining to or of the nature of trichinosis.
  • unactorish — not resembling or characteristic of actors or acting
  • unhistoric — not famous or important in history
  • urosthenic — having a tail which drives movement of the body
  • windhovers — Plural form of windhover.
  • worshiping — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • worthiness — having adequate or great merit, character, or value: a worthy successor.
  • wristphone — A mobile phone that is built into a wristwatch.
  • xiphosuran — any chelicerate arthropod of the subclass Xiphosura, including the horseshoe crabs and many extinct forms
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