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  • symbolic logic — a modern development of formal logic employing a special notation or symbolism capable of manipulation in accordance with precise rules.
  • symptomatology — the branch of medical science dealing with symptoms.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • texas longhorn — one of a breed of long-horned beef cattle of the southwestern U.S., developed from cattle introduced into North America from Spain and valued for disease resistance, fecundity, and a historical association with the old West: now rare.
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
  • the lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor
  • thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
  • to sb's liking — If something is to your liking, it suits your interests, tastes, or wishes.
  • to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
  • to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • traumatologist — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • ultraglamorous — extremely glamorous
  • unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
  • village school — a school in a village
  • villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
  • vistula lagoon — a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia
  • vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
  • volcanic glass — a natural glass produced when molten lava cools very rapidly; obsidian.
  • voroshilovgrad — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
  • vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
  • walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
  • west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
  • whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
  • william gibson — (person)   Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace". Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
  • wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
  • zooflagellates — Plural form of zooflagellate.
  • zoophytologist — an expert in zoophytology
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