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  • photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
  • photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
  • photosystem — either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants
  • phycomycete — any of various fungi that resemble algae, as downy mildew.
  • physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
  • phytochrome — a plant pigment that is associated with the absorption of light in the photoperiodic response and that may regulate various types of growth and development.
  • phytotomist — someone who studies or who is an expert in phytotomy
  • pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • polychotomy — the division of something into multiple parts
  • polylithism — (programming)   A property of a data-object that can exist in many shapes and sizes, but not simultaneously; which distinguishes it from a union. It is often implemented as a set of classes (or structs) derived from a common base class (or with a common header, as in the case of structs), typically without any methods. It has been loosely described as polymorphic data.
  • potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
  • potato moth — a gelechiid moth, Phthorimaea operculella, the larvae of which feed on the leaves and bore into the tubers of potatoes and other solanaceous plants.
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
  • prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
  • protophloem — the part of the primary phloem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
  • psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
  • psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
  • psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
  • radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
  • ramos-horta — José, born 1949, East Timorese resistance leader, political activist (1975–99) during Indonesian occupation, and foreign minister from independence in 2000 to 2006; president since 2007: Nobel prize 1996.
  • remote echo — (communications)   (Obsolete: "full-duplex") A mode of operation of communicating programs or devices in which the sending system does not display the characters the user enters, but only sends them to the remote system which then "echoes" them back to be displayed to the user. This lets the operator see not only typing errors, but also transmission errors. This is now the usual mode of most systems with remote users. Contrast: local echo.
  • rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
  • rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
  • right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
  • river-mouth — an estuary
  • roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • room mother — a female volunteer, often the mother of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • sam houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
  • scheme-to-c — (language)   A Scheme compiler written in C that emits C and is embeddable in C. Scheme-to-C was written by Joel Bartlett of Digital Western Research Laboratory. Version 15mar93 translates a superset of Revised**4 Scheme to C that is then compiled by the native C compiler for the target machine. This design results in a portable system that allows either stand-alone Scheme programs or programs written in both compiled and interpreted Scheme and other languages. It supports "expansion passing style" macros, foreign function calls, records, and interfaces to Xlib (Ezd and Scix). Scheme-to-C runs on VAX, ULTRIX, DECstation, Alpha AXP OSF/1, Windows 3.1, Apple Macintosh 7.1, HP 9000/300, HP 9000/700, Sony News, SGI Iris and Harris Nighthawk, and other Unix-like 88000 systems. The earlier 01nov91 version runs on Amiga, SunOS, NeXT, and Apollo systems.
  • schistosome — Also called bilharzia. any elongated trematode of the genus Schistosoma, parasitic in the blood vessels of humans and other mammals; a blood fluke.
  • school time — the period of the day or year when children are at school
  • schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
  • scotch mist — a combination of mist or fog and drizzle, occurring frequently in Scotland and parts of England.
  • scotchwoman — Scotswoman.
  • scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
  • semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • shittimwood — the wood of the shittah tree, believed to be a species of acacia
  • shoot-em-up — A shoot-em-up is a computer game that involves shooting and killing characters.
  • shoot'em-up — a book, film, TV show, video game, etc. characterized by much violent content, gunplay, etc., esp. one in the western, crime, or war genres
  • short metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, the third of which has eight syllables, while the rest have six
  • short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
  • short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
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