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  • george pattonCharley (Charlie Patton) 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • gospel singer — a singer performing gospel music
  • gossipmongers — Plural form of gossipmonger.
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
  • groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
  • hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
  • horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
  • impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
  • intercropping — Present participle of intercrop.
  • interpolating — Present participle of interpolate.
  • introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • kernel parlog — (language)   A modeless intermediate language for Parlog compilation.
  • kinematograph — cinematograph.
  • laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
  • leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
  • magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
  • megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • mimeographing — Present participle of mimeograph.
  • mongol empire — an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe.
  • morning paper — a paper published the night before for distribution in the morning (as opposed to an evening paper)
  • morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
  • morphogenetic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
  • nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
  • nephrological — of or relating to nephrology
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • nonperceiving — Unperceiving.
  • nonperforming — not performing well or properly.
  • nonprogrammer — a person who is not a programmer
  • nosogeography — the study of the geographical causes and distribution of diseases.
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