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  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • forest of arden — a region of N Warwickshire, part of a former forest: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It
  • formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • fraternal order — men's organization
  • frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
  • free-trade zone — foreign-trade zone. free port (def 1). Abbreviation: FTZ.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • fringed gentian — a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (or Gentiana), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
  • greenfield site — a site located in a rural area which has not previously been built on
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
  • in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
  • inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
  • interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
  • on the order of — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • oxford movement — the movement toward High Church principles within the Church of England, originating at Oxford University in 1833 in opposition to liberalizing, rationalizing, and evangelical tendencies and emphasizing the principles of primitive and patristic Christianity as well as the historic and catholic character of the church.
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • perfect cadence — a cadence in which the tonic chord has its root in both bass and soprano.
  • premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • prevent defense — the defensive strategy of adding a defender to prevent completion of a long pass or other long gain.
  • pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
  • repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
  • retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-controlled — Someone who is self-controlled is able to not show their feelings or not do the things that their feelings make them want to do.
  • self-interested — If you describe someone as self-interested, you disapprove of them because they always want to do what is best for themselves rather than for other people.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
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