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  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
  • geotechnology — the application of science and technology in order to utilize the earth's natural resources
  • gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
  • goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • hallucinative — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
  • halotolerance — The quality or degree of being halotolerant.
  • han character — (character)   (From the Han dynasty, 206 B.C.E to 25 C.E.) One of the set of glyphs common to Chinese (where they are called "hanzi"), Japanese (where they are called kanji), and Korean (where they are called hanja). Han characters are generally described as "ideographic", i.e., picture-writing; but see the reference below. Modern Korean, Chinese and Japanese fonts may represent a given Han character as somewhat different glyphs. However, in the formulation of Unicode, these differences were folded, in order to conserve the number of code positions necessary for all of CJK. This unification is referred to as "Han Unification", with the resulting character repertoire sometimes referred to as "Unihan".
  • hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
  • harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
  • harness hitch — a hitch forming a loop around a rope, especially one formed at the end of a bowline.
  • hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
  • haute cuisine — fine or gourmet cooking; food preparation as an art.
  • health center — medical clinic
  • health centre — A health centre is a building in which a group of doctors have offices or surgeries where their patients can visit them.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
  • heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
  • heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
  • hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
  • heterochronic — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • heterogenetic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
  • heterostracan — any of several ostracoderms of the order Heterostraci, from the Silurian and Devonian Periods, having the anterior part of the body enclosed in bony plates.
  • hexactinellid — a type of sponge characterized by their (usually) six siliceous spicules or rays
  • histaminergic — releasing histamine
  • home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
  • homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
  • honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
  • honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • hyacinth bean — an Old World tropical vine, Dolichos lablab, of the legume family, having purple or white flowers and black or white seeds in a papery, beaked pod.
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • hypercyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
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