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  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • de-specialization — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
  • deepwater horizon — an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 40 miles (64km) south-east off the coast of Louisiana, that suffered a massive oil spill following an explosion in April 2010
  • dehospitalization — hospitalization insurance.
  • depersonalisation — Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
  • depersonalization — the act or an instance of depersonalizing
  • dephlogisticating — Present participle of dephlogisticate.
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • deportation order — a notification that a foreign national is legally required to leave the country
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • dextroamphetamine — a dextrorotatory amphetamine, used to suppress appetite
  • diphenylhydantoin — a white, slightly water-soluble powder, C 15 H 11 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its sodium salt to prevent or arrest convulsions in epilepsy.
  • dispassionateness — The state or quality of being dispassionate.
  • dispensationalism — the interpreting of history as a series of divine dispensations.
  • disproportionates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disproportionate.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
  • dramatis personae — (used with a plural verb) the characters in a play.
  • droplet infection — infection spread by airborne droplets of secretions from the nose, throat, or lungs.
  • eastern townships — an area of central Canada, in S Quebec: consists of 11 townships south of the St Lawrence
  • ectopic pregnancy — the development of a fertilized ovum outside the uterus, as in a Fallopian tube.
  • ehelp corporation — (company)   A vendor of Microsoft Windows application development tools such as RoboHELP and RoboDemo. EHelp were formerly (around 1997) Blue Sky Software. Address: 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Telephone: +1-800-793-0364, +1 (619) 459 6365. Fax: +1 (619) 459 6366.
  • election campaign — efforts to promote party or candidate to voters
  • electrodeposition — The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification.
  • emission spectrum — the continuous spectrum or pattern of bright lines or bands seen when the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a substance is passed into a spectrometer. The spectrum is characteristic of the emitting substance and the type of excitation to which it is subjected
  • emotional capital — When people refer to the emotional capital of a company, they mean all the psychological assets and resources of the company, such as how the employees feel about the company.
  • emotional cripple — someone who is unable to feel or show true emotion and so cannot form relationships with other people
  • employee benefits — benefits, such as health insurance, pension payments, or childcare, given to employees in addition to their usual salary or wage
  • employee discount — When the employees of a store or other retail business are entitled to an employee discount, they do not have to pay the full price for goods they buy in the store.
  • employment equity — a policy or programme designed to reserve jobs for people formerly disadvantaged under apartheid
  • employment office — any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers
  • encephalomyelitic — Relating to encephalomyelitis.
  • encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
  • epithelialization — (biology) the process that covers a wound with epithelial tissue.
  • equal opportunity — policies that bar discrimination
  • equinoctial point — either of the two points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic
  • examination paper — a paper with examination questions printed on it set to test the knowledge of examination candidates
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • exceptional child — a gifted child
  • exclamation point — exclamation mark
  • explicit function — a function whose values may be computed directly, as y = x2 + 1
  • export-orientated — (of an industry, company, etc) mainly concerned with the export of goods or services
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
  • fingerling potato — a finger-shaped potato
  • fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
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