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  • radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
  • radiosensitize — to make (cells) more sensitive to radiation
  • raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
  • ranch dressing — seasoned mayonnaise sauce
  • random testing — (programming, testing)   A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
  • rational dress — long loose trousers gathered at the ankle and worn under a shorter skirt
  • realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
  • recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
  • reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • redistillation — further distillation; purification of liquid through many distillations
  • reducing glass — a lens or mirror that produces a virtual image of an object smaller than the object itself.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
  • resident alien — an alien who has legally established residence in the U.S.
  • restrainedness — the state or quality of being restrained
  • rhode islander — a person born or living in Rhode Island
  • rise and shine — get out of bed
  • roanoke island — an island off the NE coast of North Carolina, S of Albemarle Sound: site of Raleigh's unsuccessful colonizing attempts 1585, 1587.
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
  • saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
  • salad dressing — a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.
  • salade niçoise — a cold dish consisting of hard-boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, olives, tomatoes, tuna fish, etc
  • san bernardino — a city in S California.
  • sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • sanibel island — an island in the Gulf of Mexico off the SW coast of Florida. 16 sq. mi. (41.5 sq. km).
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
  • screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
  • seanad eireann — the upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland. Compare Oireachtas (def 1).
  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • selenious acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous powder, H 2 SeO 3 , used chiefly as a reagent.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
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