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  • dehydrogenation — to remove hydrogen from (a compound).
  • desktop manager — A user interface to system services, usually icon and menu based like the Macintosh Finder, enabling the user to run application programs and use a file system without directly using the command language of the operating system.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • dongola leather — a leather similar to kid, made from goatskin, sheepskin, or calfskin.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
  • drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • encounter group — a group of people who meet in order to develop self-awareness and mutual understanding by openly expressing their feelings, by confrontation, physical contact, etc
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • ergatandromorph — an ant with the characteristics of both worker and male
  • export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
  • extreme ironing — an activity that involves ironing items of laundry while engaged in a sport such as snowboarding or rock climbing
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • finger-pointing — the imputation of blame or responsibility.
  • fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • fore-topgallant — being a sail, yard, or rigging belonging to a fore-topgallant mast.
  • foreshortenings — Plural form of foreshortening.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • formal argument — (programming)   (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • fringing forest — gallery forest.
  • front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
  • gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • gardening tools — tools used for gardening, such as a trowel, spade, rake, etc
  • gastroenteritis — inflammation of the stomach and intestines.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • generalisations — Plural form of generalisation.
  • generalizations — Plural form of generalization.
  • geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
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