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  • conspiracy theory — A conspiracy theory is a belief that a group of people are secretly trying to harm someone or achieve something. You usually use this term to suggest that you think this is unlikely.
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • contradistinguish — to differentiate by means of contrasting or opposing qualities
  • control character — a character in a data stream that signals the device receiving the data to perform a particular control function, as changing the line spacing on a printer from single to double-spaced.
  • convection heater — A convection heater is a heater that heats a room by means of hot air.
  • corner the market — dominate trade
  • counterchallenges — Plural form of counterchallenge.
  • court of chancery — (in the US) a court of equity
  • court-of-chancery — chancery (def 4a).
  • courtship display — behaviour that is aimed at attracting a mate
  • crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
  • cream of the crop — the best of a group
  • creature of habit — If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things.
  • cross one's heart — to promise or pledge, esp by making the sign of a cross over one's heart
  • cryptographically — In a cryptographic manner; using cryptography; for cryptographic purposes.
  • cytoarchitectonic — Of or pertaining to cytoarchitectonics (cytoarchitecture).
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • dehistoricization — The process or result of dehistoricizing.
  • dehydrochlorinate — to remove hydrogen chloride or chlorine and hydrogen from (a substance).
  • denatured alcohol — ethanol rendered unfit for human consumption by the addition of a noxious substance, as in methylated spirits
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • dessert chocolate — cooking chocolate
  • desynchronisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of desynchronization.
  • desynchronization — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • douglas macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
  • ehelp corporation — (company)   A vendor of Microsoft Windows application development tools such as RoboHELP and RoboDemo. EHelp were formerly (around 1997) Blue Sky Software. Address: 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Telephone: +1-800-793-0364, +1 (619) 459 6365. Fax: +1 (619) 459 6366.
  • electroanesthesia — Anesthesia induced by cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
  • electrochemically — In an electrochemical manner.
  • electromechanical — Of, relating to, or denoting a mechanical device that is electrically operated.
  • electromyographic — Using electromyography.
  • elementary school — primary school
  • 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.
  • first call on sth — If you have first call on something, you will be asked before anyone else whether you want to buy or use it.
  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • further education — adult education.
  • gas chromatograph — a chromatograph used for the separation of volatile substances.
  • 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
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • go for the collar — to go without a hit in a game
  • good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
  • 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
  • hard nut to crack — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
  • harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
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