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  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
  • granite state — New Hampshire (used as a nickname).
  • grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • great goddess — The, a vaguely defined deity symbolizing maternity, the fertility of the earth, and femininity in general; the central figure in the religions of ancient Anatolia, the Near East, and the eastern Mediterranean, later sometimes taking the form of a specific goddess, as Cybele, Rhea, or Demeter.
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • great russian — a member of the main stock of the Russian people, dwelling chiefly in the northern or central parts of the Russian Federation in Europe.
  • great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
  • greater scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
  • greater siren — a salamander, Siren lacertina, having external gills, tiny front legs, and no hind legs, inhabiting shallow waters in the southeastern U.S.
  • gross tonnage — the total volume of a vessel, expressed in units of 100 cubic feet (gross ton) with certain open structures, deckhouses, tanks, etc., exempted.
  • growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
  • 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.
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • hart's-tongue — a fern, Phyllitis scolopendrium, having long, leathery, wavy-edged leaves.
  • head register — the high register of the human voice.
  • heart massage — rhythmic manual compression of the sternum or heart to restore normal heartbeat, as after cardiac arrest.
  • heart surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in performing operations on the heart
  • heart surgery — operation to treat cardiac problems
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
  • heritage site — a historical site, a building, or an area of the unspoilt natural environment, considered to be important to a country or area's heritage
  • heterogametes — Plural form of heterogamete.
  • heteroglossia — (linguistics) the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code.
  • histaminergic — releasing histamine
  • home straight — the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
  • horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
  • horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
  • housetraining — Present participle of housetrain.
  • image formats — (graphics, file format)   There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
  • impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • integral test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the function whose value at each integer is the corresponding term in the series is decreasing, tends to zero, and results in a finite number when integrated from one to infinity.
  • interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
  • internalising — Present participle of internalise.
  • interrogators — Plural form of interrogator.
  • intransigeant — intransigent
  • intransigence — the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
  • intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
  • introgressant — an individual resulting from introgression
  • investigators — Plural form of investigator.
  • investigatory — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • kindergartens — Plural form of kindergarten.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
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