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  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • duino elegies — a collection of ten poems (1923) by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • dun laoghaire — a seaport in E Republic of Ireland, near Dublin.
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
  • encouragingly — In an encouraging manner.
  • ethnolinguist — a person who studies ethnolinguistics
  • eugeosyncline — a geosyncline characterized by lithology typical of deep ocean environments
  • expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • flying column — (formerly) a force of troops equipped and organized to move swiftly and independently of a principal unit to which it is attached.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
  • giulio romano — (Giulio Pippi de' Giannuzzi) 1492?–1546, Italian painter and architect.
  • gluconeogenic — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
  • gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glutinousness — The quality of being glutinous.
  • golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
  • gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • grand guignol — a short drama stressing horror and sensationalism.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandiloquous — grandiloquent
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • gulf of lions — a wide bay of the Mediterranean off the S coast of France, between the Spanish border and Toulon
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
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