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  • international pitch — diapason normal pitch.
  • international style — the general form of architecture developed in the 1920s and 1930s by Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and others, characterized by simple geometric forms, large untextured, often white, surfaces, large areas of glass, and general use of steel or reinforced concrete construction.
  • internuncial neuron — interneuron
  • interrogation point — question mark.
  • interval estimation — the process of estimating a parameter of a given population by specifying an interval of values and the probability that the true value of the parameter falls within this interval.
  • intracutaneous test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
  • introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
  • ipratropium bromide — an anticholinergic bronchodilator, C 20 H 30 BrNO 3 , used in the treatment of chronic bronchitis and in airway obstruction diseases.
  • islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
  • isobutyl propionate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used chiefly as a paint, varnish, and lacquer solvent.
  • it stands to reason — it is logical
  • jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
  • japanese arborvitae — a Japanese evergreen tree, Thuja standishii, having spreading branches with bright-green leaves.
  • jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
  • job creation scheme — a governmental scheme to increase the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc
  • joseph of arimathea — a wealthy disciple who provided a tomb for Jesus' body: Matt. 27:57-60
  • judicial separation — a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.
  • junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
  • keep an eye out for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • kellogg-briand pact — a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
  • keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
  • knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • knock-out agreement — an agreement between bidders at an auction or sale not to bid against each other
  • know better than to — not to be so stupid as to
  • lady baltimore cake — a white layer cake using only the beaten whites of eggs and spread with a fruitnut filling consisting of raisins, figs, walnuts or pecans, and sometimes candied cherries.
  • language laboratory — a special room or rooms with sound-recording and -reproducing equipment for use by students to practice speaking foreign languages, usually with an instructor monitoring the program.
  • lead someone astray — If someone or something leads you astray, they make you believe something that is not true, causing you to make a wrong decision.
  • leave the door open — a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
  • left-luggage locker — a coin-operated locker in which luggage can be left
  • leisure occupations — activities which you enjoy and which you perform in your free time
  • let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • liberation theology — a 20th-century Christian theology, emphasizing the Biblical and doctrinal theme of liberation from oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or political.
  • lie in one's throat — to tell a foul or outrageous lie
  • lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
  • lift the curtain on — to begin
  • line of demarcation — a separation between things deemed to be distinct
  • linear polarization — polarization of light in which the vibrations are confined to a single plane, that of the wave front.
  • liquorice all-sorts — a brand of assorted sweets containing liquorice as well as coloured candy made of sugar, gelatine, and coconut
  • load-bearing printf — (programming, humour)   The kind of bug present in a program which works correctly when producing debug output but fails when the debugging is turned off. The expression combines load-bearing wall and printf as used in debugging by printf.
  • lobster-tail helmet — a burgonet fitted with a long, articulated tail of lames for protecting the nape of the neck, worn by cavalry in the 17th century.
  • local area terminal — (protocol)   (LAT) A DECnet-related, non-routable network protocol.
  • logical unit number — (storage)   (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID.
  • lord baltimore cake — a yellow layer cake, using only the yolks of eggs and having a fruit-nut filling consisting of pecans, almonds, maraschino cherries, and macaroon crumbs.
  • lose one's heart to — to fall in love with
  • love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
  • lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
  • lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
  • lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
  • machine instruction — (programming)   The smallest element of a machine code program.
  • machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
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