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  • discontinuity — lack of continuity; irregularity: The plot of the book was marred by discontinuity.
  • discontinuous — not continuous; broken; interrupted; intermittent: a discontinuous chain of mountains; a discontinuous argument.
  • discounselled — lacking support or counsel
  • discount card — a card that entitles the holder to buy goods from a seller at a discount
  • discount rate — the rate of interest charged in discounting commercial paper.
  • discourtesies — Plural form of discourtesy.
  • disfunctional — dysfunction.
  • do justice to — to show to full advantage
  • document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
  • dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
  • douglas scale — an international scale of sea disturbance and swell ranging from 0 to 9 with one figure for disturbance and one for swell
  • dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
  • duck shooting — duck hunting with a gun
  • ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
  • duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
  • echo question — a question uttered by a listener that in effect repeats a speaker's sentence, replacing an unclear or doubted portion of the sentence with a stressed interrogative word, as You said WHAT to John? or He WHAT?
  • echo sounding — the determining of depth of water by means of a device (echo sounder) that measures the time required for a sound wave to be reflected from the bottom: a similar process (echo ranging) is used to measure the distance to an underwater object
  • educationists — Plural form of educationist.
  • efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
  • encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
  • encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
  • endonucleases — Plural form of endonuclease.
  • equisetaceous — belonging to the family Equisetaceae
  • equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
  • equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
  • estrous cycle — the regular female reproductive cycle of most placental mammals that is under hormonal control and includes a period of heat, followed by ovulation and complex changes of the uterine lining
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
  • eugeosyncline — a geosyncline characterized by lithology typical of deep ocean environments
  • eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
  • exclusionists — Plural form of exclusionist.
  • excursionists — Plural form of excursionist.
  • facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
  • false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
  • fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
  • fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
  • floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
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