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  • hypochondriac — Also, hypochondriacal, H05/H0509000 hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-kuh l, ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl. Psychiatry. pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health: The comedy is aimed at the hypochondriac demographic. produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
  • hypohydration — Dehydration.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • idiochromatic — (of a mineral) deriving a characteristic color from its capacity to absorb certain light rays.
  • in order that — used to introduce a clause of purpose
  • interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
  • korf, richard — Richard Korf
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
  • losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
  • maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
  • matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
  • moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
  • nonauthorized — Not authorized.
  • nonhereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
  • north reading — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
  • orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal
  • orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
  • orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • radio horizon — the locus of points on the earth's surface where rays from a transmitting antenna are tangent to the surface. The radio horizon for a fixed antenna varies with refraction by the atmosphere of radio waves.
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
  • roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
  • rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • the high road — the principal road from one place to another
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
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