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  • hash function — (programming)   A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
  • haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
  • honoris causa — for the sake of honour
  • housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
  • melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
  • melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
  • nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • short account — the account of a short seller.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • such and such — definite or particular, but not named or specified: They turned out to be such and such kind of people.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • uncharismatic — (of a person) not charismatic; lacking charisma; dull
  • unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
  • under hatches — below decks
  • unethicalness — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
  • unstaunchable — incapable of being stopped
  • unstretchable — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • xanthochroous — light-skinned and fair-haired
  • zinc sulphate — a colourless soluble crystalline substance usually existing as the heptahydrate or monohydrate: used as a mordant, in preserving wood and skins, and in the electrodeposition of zinc. Formula: ZnSO4
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