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  • manhattan project — U.S. History. the unofficial designation for the U.S. War Department's secret program, organized in 1942, to explore the isolation of radioactive isotopes and the production of an atomic bomb: initial research was conducted at Columbia University in Manhattan.
  • mascarpone cheese — a very rich, white cream cheese of Italy
  • mass spectrograph — a mass spectroscope for recording a mass spectrum on a photographic plate.
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • microphanerophyte — any shrub or tree having a height of 2 to 8 metres
  • modern pentathlon — an athletic contest consisting of five different events: horse riding with jumps, fencing with electric épée, freestyle swimming, pistol shooting, and cross-country running
  • morphic resonance — the idea that, through a telepathic effect or sympathetic vibration, an event or act can lead to similar events or acts in the future or an idea conceived in one mind can then arise in another
  • mother spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium bulbiferum, of tropical Africa and Australasia, the fronds often bearing bulbils that sprout into new plants while still attached, grown as an ornamental.
  • muscle dysmorphia — a mental disorder primarily affecting males, characterized by obsessions about a perceived lack of muscularity, leading to compulsive exercising, use of anabolic steroids, etc. Compare body dysmorphic disorder.
  • nephelometrically — By means of nephelometry.
  • neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
  • non-comprehension — the act or process of comprehending.
  • non-thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • omphalomesenteric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery.
  • overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • parathyroidectomy — the excision of a parathyroid gland.
  • peer of the realm — any of a class of peers in Great Britain and Ireland entitled by heredity to sit in the House of Lords.
  • phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
  • plymouth brethren — a religious sect founded c. 1827, strongly Puritanical in outlook and prohibiting many secular occupations for its members. It combines elements of Calvinism, Pietism, and millenarianism, and has no organized ministry
  • polymorphonuclear — (of a leukocyte) having a lobulate nucleus.
  • portmanteau morph — a phonological unit of more than one morpheme, as French au to (him) from a to + le masculine article, which realizes a preposition and the definite article; a single morph that is analyzed as representing two underlying morphemes.
  • psychometric test — a test designed to test a person's mental state, personality and thought processes
  • put on the market — offer for sale
  • radiometeorograph — a device for the automatic transmission by radio of the data from a set of meteorological instruments
  • rhodope mountains — a mountain range in SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula extending along the border between Bulgaria and Greece. Highest peak: Golyam Perelik (Bulgaria), 2191 m (7188 ft)
  • ribbon microphone — a microphone that utilizes a metal ribbon suspended in a magnetic field.
  • scheme repository — A collection of free Scheme programs.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • spectrophotometer — an instrument for making photometric comparisons between parts of spectra.
  • spectrophotometry — an instrument for making photometric comparisons between parts of spectra.
  • spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
  • spongy parenchyma — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
  • spore mother cell — a cell from which a spore is produced
  • stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • surprise symphony — the Symphony No. 94 in G major (1791) by Franz Josef Haydn.
  • swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • the electoral map — a map showing the distribution of constituencies over a country
  • the metamorphosis — a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
  • the olympic torch — a torch that is symbolically lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia and transported by relay to the place where the Olympic Games are to be held. It is used to ignite a fire in a cauldron that will burn throughout the Games
  • the primrose path — a pleasurable way of life
  • the underemployed — underemployed people
  • the-metamorphosis — a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
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