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  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prototherian — belonging or pertaining to the group Prototheria, comprising the monotremes.
  • psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
  • pyonephritis — suppurative inflammation of the kidney.
  • pyritohedron — a crystal form of 12 pentagonal faces.
  • pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
  • pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
  • radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • short notice — little warning
  • short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • shortcomings — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
  • stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
  • strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
  • synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
  • synarthrosis — immovable articulation; a fixed or immovable joint; suture.
  • synchro unit — a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.
  • synchroneity — the state of being synchronous; synchronism.
  • technetronic — pertaining to or characterized by cultural changes brought about by advances in technology, electronics, and communications: a technetronic era.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the interior — the domestic or internal affairs of any of certain countries
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
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