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  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
  • ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
  • exchange rate — relative value of currency
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • french letter — a condom.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • 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.
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
  • han character — (character)   (From the Han dynasty, 206 B.C.E to 25 C.E.) One of the set of glyphs common to Chinese (where they are called "hanzi"), Japanese (where they are called kanji), and Korean (where they are called hanja). Han characters are generally described as "ideographic", i.e., picture-writing; but see the reference below. Modern Korean, Chinese and Japanese fonts may represent a given Han character as somewhat different glyphs. However, in the formulation of Unicode, these differences were folded, in order to conserve the number of code positions necessary for all of CJK. This unification is referred to as "Han Unification", with the resulting character repertoire sometimes referred to as "Unihan".
  • harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
  • harness hitch — a hitch forming a loop around a rope, especially one formed at the end of a bowline.
  • health center — medical clinic
  • health centre — A health centre is a building in which a group of doctors have offices or surgeries where their patients can visit them.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
  • heterochronic — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • heterogenetic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
  • heterostracan — any of several ostracoderms of the order Heterostraci, from the Silurian and Devonian Periods, having the anterior part of the body enclosed in bony plates.
  • histaminergic — releasing histamine
  • honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hypercyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
  • hypertonicity — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
  • hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.
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