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  • jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
  • keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
  • lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
  • larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
  • letters page — the page in a newspaper or magazine containing letters sent to the editor by readers
  • macrogametes — Plural form of macrogamete.
  • macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
  • magistracies — Plural form of magistracy.
  • manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
  • masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
  • mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
  • mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
  • melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
  • menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
  • mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
  • metallurgist — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
  • mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
  • miscegenator — a person who advocates or engages in miscegenation
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • nai register — (in Britain) a list of children deemed to be at risk of abuse or injury from their parents or guardians, compiled and held by a local authority, area health authority, or NSPCC Special Unit
  • narragansett — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family formerly located in Rhode Island but now almost extinct.
  • near-sighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
  • net earnings — income after tax
  • neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
  • newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
  • nonstrategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
  • orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
  • outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • paraglossate — having paraglossae
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pearly gates — the entrance to heaven.
  • poetastering — the profession of being a poetaster
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • prestigiator — someone who practises sorcery or prestidigitation
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • racing skate — a tubular ice skate having a long blade extending beyond the heel and toe.
  • reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
  • real storage — (in a virtual storage system) the portion of addressable memory that consists of main storage.
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