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  • phenomenological — the study of phenomena.
  • physiognomically — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • pneumonic plague — a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
  • policy statement — a declaration of the plans and intentions of an organization or government
  • polyvinyl formal — a colorless, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal produced from partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate and formaldehyde, used chiefly in the manufacture of lacquers.
  • porcelain enamel — a glass coating, made to adhere to a metal or another enamel by fusion.
  • potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
  • precontemplation — the act of contemplating; thoughtful observation.
  • primary election — primary (def 15a).
  • primary electron — in thermionics, any of the electrons falling on a body, distinguished from those emitted by it
  • print journalism — journalism as practiced in newspapers and magazines.
  • proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
  • professionalisms — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • promotional code — A promotional code is a code offered by retailers to customers who can use it to receive a discounted price when buying products online.
  • pulse modulation — a type of modulation in which a train of pulses is used as the carrier wave, one or more of its parameters, such as amplitude, being modulated or modified in order to carry information
  • punctuationalism — punctuated equilibrium.
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
  • relational model — relational data model
  • remilitarization — the act of re-arming a country or territory that has previously been disarmed
  • remineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
  • residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
  • royal commission — (in Britain) a body set up by the monarch on the recommendation of the prime minister to gather information about the operation of existing laws or to investigate any social, educational, or other matter. The commission has prescribed terms of reference and reports to the government on how any change might be achieved
  • saint-ulmo-light — St. Elmo's fire.
  • sales automation — Sales Force Automation
  • sales commission — Sales commission is the percentage of the value of a sale that a sales associate or sales representative may earn.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
  • social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
  • social economics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
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