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  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • corticotrophin — (hormone) adrenocorticotropic hormone.
  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
  • cross holdings — the holding of shares by one company in another company
  • cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
  • cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
  • cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
  • cycling shorts — tight-fitting shorts reaching partway to the knee for cycling, sport, etc
  • cyproheptadine — a type of antihistamine drug used in the treatment of allergies
  • dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • desynchronized — Simple past tense and past participle of desynchronize.
  • diachronically — in a diachronic fashion
  • dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
  • dihydrocodeine — a synthetic drug similar to codeine, used as an analgesic, an antidiarrhoeal, and to relieve coughing, or used recreationally
  • draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • driving school — vehicle operation lessons
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
  • enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
  • epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
  • ethnographical — Ethnographic.
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
  • flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
  • french oceania — former name of French Polynesia.
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
  • geochronologic — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • geomorphogenic — relating to geomorphogeny
  • gerontomorphic — relating to mature masculine characteristics
  • graph coloring — graph colouring
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • hanging scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
  • herring choker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
  • heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
  • heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
  • hinoki cypress — an evergreen tree, Chamaecyparis obtusa, of Japan, having scalelike leaves and orange-brown cones, grown for timber and as an ornamental.
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