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  • bristol fashion — clean and neat, with newly painted and scrubbed surfaces, brass polished, etc
  • broca's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • brother-in-arms — a fellow soldier or comrade in a shared struggle
  • caernarvonshire — (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • catastrophizing — Present participle of catastrophize.
  • catheterisation — Alternative spelling of catheterization.
  • chairpersonship — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • charlottesville — city in central Va.: pop. 45,000
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • choral speaking — recitation of poetry, dramatic pieces, etc. by a chorus of speakers
  • chorioallantois — the membrane of a fetus that is formed by the merging of the allantois and the chorion
  • christmas carol — a joyful hymn or religious song, celebrating the birth of Christ
  • chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
  • chronic disease — long-term illness
  • church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • cocktail shaker — a container in which cocktails are mixed
  • comparison-shop — to compare prices and quality of competing merchandise.
  • conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
  • countercathexis — (psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • court christian — ecclesiastical court.
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • crohn's disease — inflammation, thickening, and ulceration of any of various parts of the intestine, esp the ileum
  • cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • dermatophytosis — a fungal infection of the skin, esp the feet
  • diaheliotropism — the tendency among plants to respond to the light of the sun by orienting their leaves perpendicular to the sun's rays, such that the upper surface of the leaves receives maximum light
  • diaphototropism — growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light
  • diastrophically — in a diastrophic fashion
  • dionysius thrax — c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
  • dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
  • doctoral thesis — a thesis written as part of a doctorate
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
  • dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
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