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  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
  • ethyl chloride — a colorless liquid, C2H5Cl, prepared by heating ethyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride in the presence of zinc chloride: used in preparing tetraethyl lead and ethyl cellulose, and as a local anesthetic
  • exhereditation — A disinheriting; disherison.
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
  • food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
  • galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
  • geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
  • get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • have a mind to — think about doing
  • heads or tails — a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
  • helicopter pad — landing area
  • hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
  • hepatectomized — That has undergone hepatectomy.
  • hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
  • hermaphroditic — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • hermit kingdom — Korea during the period, c1637–c1876, when it was cut off from contact with all countries except China.
  • hither and yon — Hither and thither means in many different directions or places, and in a disorganized way. In American English, the expression hither and yon is sometimes used.
  • hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • hollerith code — a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.
  • hotel de ville — a city hall.
  • hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • hydronephrotic — of, relating to, or affected by hydronephrosis
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hydroxyapatite — a mineral, Ca 10 (PO 4) 6 OH 2 , that is the principal storage form of calcium and phosphorus in bone.
  • hypereutectoid — (of an alloy) having more of the alloying element than the eutectoid composition.
  • hypermodernist — a person who adheres to hypermodernism
  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • immethodically — Unmethodically.
  • in other words — that is to say
  • in short order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • kinetheodolite — a type of theodolite containing a cine camera instead of a telescope and giving continuous film of a moving target together with a record of its altitude and azimuth: used in tracking a missile, satellite, etc
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