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  • interlisp — (language)   A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
  • interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
  • isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
  • isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
  • kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
  • kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
  • lapsarian — Of or pertaining to the fall of man from innocence, especially to the role of women in that fall.
  • lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
  • mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
  • marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
  • miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
  • minorship — the state of being a minor
  • misprints — Plural form of misprint.
  • misprison — Misconstruction of misprision.
  • nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
  • nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
  • nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
  • newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
  • offprints — Plural form of offprint.
  • offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
  • optronics — Optoelectronics.
  • outspring — to spring out
  • outsprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
  • ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
  • paintress — a female painter
  • panderism — the work of a pander
  • parenesis — exhortation; admonition
  • parkinson — a common neurologic disease believed to be caused by deterioration of the brain cells that produce dopamine, occurring primarily after the age of 60, characterized by tremors, especially of the fingers and hands, muscle rigidity, shuffling gait, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression.
  • parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
  • parsonish — like a parson
  • parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
  • passerine — of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
  • pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
  • pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
  • patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • penis war — (jargon, abuse)   (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
  • pensioner — a person who receives or lives on a pension.
  • penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
  • perfusion — the act of perfusing.
  • periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
  • perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
  • perkiness — jaunty; cheerful; brisk; pert.
  • peronista — Peronist.
  • perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
  • persienne — a kind of calico that is printed with a pattern, or a material that resembles this
  • persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
  • personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
  • pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
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