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  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • representation — the act of representing.
  • repristination — the restoration of something to its original condition; the act of making something pristine again
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • rip-off artist — a person who steals, cheats or swindles
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • road transport — transport by road
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
  • safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
  • saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
  • salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
  • saponification — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • scalar product — inner product (def 1).
  • scaphocephalic — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • scaphocephalus — a condition in which the length of the skull significantly exceeds its breadth
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scorpion grass — either of two small Old World plants, Myosotis sylvatica or M. scorpioides, of the borage family, having a light-blue flower commonly regarded as an emblem of constancy and friendship.
  • scottish topaz — a form of yellow transparent quartz
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • senior partner — high-ranking firm partner
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • serra junipero — Miguel José [mee-gel haw-se] /miˈgɛl hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1713–84, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico.
  • sharptail mola — a fish, Masturus lanceolatus, related to the ocean sunfish but having a pointed tail.
  • sheepback rock — roche moutonnée.
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • ship's company — company (def 11).
  • shoe repairing — the trade of mending shoes
  • shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • shop assistant — a store clerk.
  • shopping plaza — a complex of stores, banks, movie theaters, etc.; shopping center.
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
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