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  • ethnopharmacology — The scientific study correlating ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • farthingale chair — an English chair of c1600 having no arms, a straight and low back, and a high seat.
  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • further education — adult education.
  • genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
  • gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
  • go for the collar — to go without a hit in a game
  • good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
  • grande chartreuse — the Carthusian monastery at Grenoble, France: the chief monastery of the Carthusians until 1903.
  • grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
  • grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • haemorrhoidectomy — surgical removal of haemorrhoids
  • hairline fracture — a very fine crack in a bone
  • handicap register — a list of the disabled people in its area that a local authority had a duty to compile under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
  • harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • health care proxy — a legal document in which a person can appoint someone to make decisions about medical treatment in the event that he or she is no longer mentally competent or able to communicate.
  • helicopter parent — 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.
  • hemoconcentration — an increase in the concentration of cellular elements in the blood, resulting from loss of plasma.
  • henry cabot lodge — Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • higher arithmetic — arithmetic (def 2).
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • horatio kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • hyaline cartilage — the typical, translucent form of cartilage, containing little fibrous tissue.
  • hydroelectrically — Using hydroelectric power.
  • hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hyperchlorination — Chemistry. to combine or treat with chlorine. to introduce chlorine atoms into an organic compound by an addition or substitution reaction.
  • hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperintellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
  • hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • icositetrahedrons — Plural form of icositetrahedron.
  • ignoratio elenchi — the fallacy of offering proof irrelevant to the proposition in question.
  • immunotherapeutic — (immunology, medicine) Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • indecipherability — Quality of being indecipherable.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • intertrochanteric — (anatomy) Between the two trochanters of the femur.
  • iontophoretically — By means of iontophoresis.
  • jack-in-the-green — (in England, formerly) a man who wore or supported a leaf-covered wooden framework while dancing in May-Day celebrations
  • john of lancaster — Duke of Bedford, 1389–1435, Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke of.
  • junior technician — a rank in the RAF senior to aircraftman: comparable to that of private in the army
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