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  • enantiomorphism — (chemistry) The relationship exhibited by a pair of enantiomorphs.
  • enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • enterohepatitis — dual inflammation of the intestine and liver
  • enteropeptidase — Enterokinase.
  • enterprise zone — An enterprise zone is an area, usually a depressed or inner-city area, where the government offers incentives in order to attract new businesses.
  • epitestosterone — (organic compound) An inactive epimer of the steroid hormone testosterone.
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
  • ethnocentricism — Ethnocentrism.
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • existence proof — non-constructive proof
  • export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
  • expression tree — (mathematics, grammar)   The syntax tree of an expression.
  • expressionistic — Expressionist.
  • extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
  • exteriorisation — Mental awareness of the form of something that cannot be directly visualised.
  • externalisation — Alternative spelling of externalization.
  • extraordinaries — things that exceed the usual order, kind, or method
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
  • faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • feast or famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
  • feast-or-famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
  • fencepost error — 1. (Rarely "lamp-post error") A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?" (Either 9 or 11 is a better answer than the obvious 10). For example, suppose you have a long list or array of items, and want to process items m through n; how many items are there? The obvious answer is n - m, but that is off by one; the right answer is n - m + 1. The "obvious" formula exhibits a fencepost error. See also zeroth and note that not all off-by-one errors are fencepost errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one error where N people try to sit in N - 1 chairs, but it's not a fencepost error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one should count one or both ends of a row. 2. (Rare) An error induced by unexpected regularities in input values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically efficient binary tree or hash coding implementation. The error here involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviours of an algorithm.
  • first intention — See under intention (def 5a).
  • first responder — a person who is certified to provide medical care in emergencies before more highly trained medical personnel arrive on the scene: a firefighter trained as a first responder.
  • first-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
  • flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
  • for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
  • forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
  • foreshortenings — Plural form of foreshortening.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • forest of arden — a region of N Warwickshire, part of a former forest: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
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