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  • glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
  • go into detail — elaborate, recount more fully
  • gold medallist — the winner of competition or race, who is awarded a gold medal
  • golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • good-time girl — a young woman whose chief concern is seeking pleasure and having fun
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • haplodiplontic — (biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages.
  • heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hospital drama — a TV programme or series based on events in a hospital
  • hotel de ville — a city hall.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
  • hydrolytically — By means of hydrolysis.
  • hydrophilicity — (uncountable) The condition of being hydrophilic.
  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • idiopathically — In an idiopathic sense or manner.
  • idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • immethodically — Unmethodically.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indiana ballot — a ballot on which the candidates are listed in separate columns by party.
  • indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
  • indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • indre-et-loire — a department in W central France. 2378 sq. mi. (6160 sq. km). Capital: Tours.
  • induction coil — a transformer for producing high-voltage alternating current from a low-voltage direct current, consisting essentially of two concentric coils with a common soft-iron core, a primary coil with relatively few windings of heavy wire, and a secondary coil with many turns of fine wire. Excitation of the primary coil by rapidly interrupted or variable current induces high voltage in the secondary coil.
  • interelectrode — existing between multiple electrodes
  • intermodillion — a space between two modillions.
  • intraabdominal — Within the cavity of the abdomen.
  • introductorily — By way of introduction.
  • irrationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of irrationalise.
  • isodiametrical — isodiametric
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • kinetheodolite — a type of theodolite containing a cine camera instead of a telescope and giving continuous film of a moving target together with a record of its altitude and azimuth: used in tracking a missile, satellite, etc
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
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