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  • guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
  • hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
  • hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
  • ignition system — the system in an internal-combustion engine that produces the spark to ignite the mixture of fuel and air: includes the battery, ignition coil, distributor, spark plugs, and associated switches and wiring.
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • inhomogeneities — lack of homogeneity.
  • instant message — an electronic message sent in real time via the Internet and therefore immediately available for display on the recipient's screen. Compare text message.
  • intransigentism — the policy or set of principles of an intransigent
  • it is high time — If you say that it is high time that something happened or was done, you are saying in an emphatic way that it should happen or be done now, and really should have happened or been done sooner.
  • laminated glass — Laminated glass is safety glass in which a transparent plastic film is placed between plates of glass.
  • leptomeningitis — (pathology) inflammation of the leptomeninges.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • madison heights — a city in SE Michigan: suburb of Detroit.
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • messier catalog — a catalog of nonstellar objects compiled by Charles Messier in 1784 and later slightly extended, now known to contain nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
  • metalinguistics — the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • miscegenational — of or relating to miscegenation
  • misintelligence — incorrect information or intelligence
  • misinterpreting — Present participle of misinterpret.
  • misregistration — the act of registering.
  • misrepresenting — Present participle of misrepresent.
  • mitigate a risk — If something or someone mitigates a risk, they make the effects of a loss or risk less unpleasant, harmful, or serious.
  • montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • nigger minstrel — a performer who puts on blackface (exaggerated negro-like make-up) usually to perform songs associated with the American South
  • non-consignment — the act of consigning.
  • nottinghamshire — a county in central England. 854 sq. mi. (2210 sq. km).
  • oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
  • pematangsiantar — a city on NE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pilgrimage site — a shrine or other sacred place that people travel to as an act of religious devotion
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • pragmaticalness — the quality of being pragmatical or meddlesome
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