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  • mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
  • ninety-four — a cardinal number, 90 plus 4.
  • of the hour — most prominent at this time
  • out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
  • out of true — not properly set, adjusted, aligned, etc.; inexact
  • outfielders — Plural form of outfielder.
  • outperforms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outperform.
  • overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • overstuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
  • perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
  • petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
  • prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
  • prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
  • quarter cif — (communications, standard)   (QCIF), a video format standard used in videoconferencing, that transfers one fourth as much data as Common Intermediate Format (CIF). QCIF is defined in ITU H.261 as having 144 lines and 176 pixels per line, with half as many chrominance pixels in each direction. QCIF is suitable for videoconferencing systems that use telephone lines. The codec standard specifies that QCIF compatibility is mandatory, and CIF compatibility is optional.
  • quarterlife — designating the period of life immediately following adolescence, usually the early twenties to early thirties
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
  • reformulate — to formulate again.
  • refuctoring — (humour, programming)   Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
  • return fare — the fare charged for a return journey; a two-way fare
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
  • rule out of — If someone rules you out of a contest or activity, they say that you cannot be involved in it. If something rules you out of a contest or activity, it prevents you from being involved in it.
  • rum truffle — a sweet resembling an edible fungus, of the European genus Tuber, in shape, flavoured with rum
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
  • shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
  • square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
  • staff nurse — nurse who works on a ward
  • stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
  • strengthful — full of strength, strong
  • strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
  • stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
  • styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
  • sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
  • suffragette — a woman advocate of female suffrage.
  • superfatted — (of soap) containing excess fat that has not been converted into soap by saponification
  • superfluity — the state of being superfluous.
  • superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
  • superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
  • supersafety — the state of being supersafe
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