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  • over-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • overapplication — excessive application
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overcontrolling — excessively controlling
  • overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • oxytetracycline — a dull-yellow, crystalline antibiotic powder, C 2 2 H 2 4 N 2 O 9 , produced by Streptomyces rimosus, used chiefly in treating infections caused by streptococci, staphylococci, Gram-negative bacilli, rickettsiae, and certain protozoans and viruses.
  • painter's colic — Pathology. lead poisoning causing intense intestinal pain.
  • palaeoanthropic — relating to palaeoanthropology
  • paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
  • pedunculate oak — a large deciduous oak tree, Quercus robur, of Eurasia, having lobed leaves and stalked acorns
  • perchloroethane — hexachloroethane.
  • percussion tool — a power driven tool which operates by striking rapid blows: the power may be electricity or compressed air
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phenylketonuric — an inherited disease due to faulty metabolism of phenylalanine, characterized by phenylketones in the urine and usually first noted by signs of mental retardation in infancy.
  • photoelectronic — relating to electronic effects or devices affected by light
  • photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
  • plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
  • positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • pre-contractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • precinct police — the police responsible for a district of a city
  • preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • process control — a method of controlling and improving a process using statistical analysis
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • production line — an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1 (def 29).
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • punctiliousness — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • reception class — A reception class is a class that children go into when they first start school at the age of four or five.
  • reception clerk — a person who works in a hotel at the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recollectedness — the state or quality of being recollected
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
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