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  • encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
  • encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
  • euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • gestalt therapy — holistic psychotherapy
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • hair specialist — an expert in the treatment and care of human hair
  • half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
  • heath speedwell — a temperate scrophulariaceous plant, Veronica officinalis, having small blue or pinkish white flowers
  • hemel hempstead — a town in W Hertfordshire, in SE England.
  • hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
  • hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
  • hip replacement — a surgical procedure involving replacing the hip joint with an artificial implant
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • homeopathically — By means of homeopathy.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
  • hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercatalectic — (of a line of verse) containing an additional syllable after the last dipody or foot. Compare acatalectic (def 2), catalectic.
  • hypercritically — In a hypercritical manner.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
  • indian elephant — See under elephant.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • latter prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, comprising those books which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets and which are divided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets
  • learn the ropes — become familiar with sth
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • lymphadenectomy — the excision of one or more lymph nodes, usually as a procedure in the surgical removal or destruction of a cancer.
  • lymphadenopathy — chronically swollen lymph nodes.
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