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  • interpsychic — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
  • iontotherapy — (medicine) The therapeutic use of iontophoresis.
  • ip telephony — (communications)   (IPT, Internet Telephony) Use of IP data connections to exchange voice and fax data that have traditionally been carried over the public switched telephone network. During the late 1990s, an increasing number of telephone calls have been routed over the Internet. Calls made in this way avoid PSTN charges. Unlike traditional telephony, IP telephony is relatively unregulated. Companies providing these services are known as Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs). They include telephone companies, cable TV companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). There are still many problems with voice quality, latency, compression algorithms, and quality of service. See also Computer Telephone Integration.
  • iron pyrites — pyrite; fool's gold.
  • isoperimetry — the study of isoperimeters.
  • keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
  • keystone kop — Usually, Keystone Kops. (in early silent movies) a team of comic policemen noted for their slapstick routines.
  • kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • lahore party — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
  • liberty pole — Also called liberty tree. American History. a pole or tree, often with a liberty cap or a banner at the top, usually located on a village green or in a market square, used by the Sons of Liberty in many colonial towns as a symbol of protest against British rule and around which anti-British rallies were held.
  • liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
  • lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
  • lymph system — Anatomy, Zoology. the system by which lymph is returned from the cells to the blood and by which white blood cells are produced in response to inflammation or presence of antigens; in mammals, the system includes the lymph glands, vessels and sinuses through which lymph is carried, and lymphoid tissues, as bone marrow and the thymus.
  • lyophilizate — A lyophilizate is a freeze-dried product.
  • mac playmate — (games)   An early (~1985) example of a pornographic computer game. Mac Playmate runs on the Macintosh and involves trying to stimulate a simulated woman to orgasm by applying various implements to her erogenous zones.
  • magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
  • massotherapy — treatment by massage.
  • metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
  • methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
  • micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
  • money expert — someone knowledgeable about money, esp ways to save money
  • monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
  • monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.
  • movable type — type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.
  • multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.
  • mumblety-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
  • mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.
  • myrmecophyte — A plant that lives in association with a colony of ants. The degree of association varies and is assumed to be symbiotic in some cases.
  • mystery play — a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story, usually dealing with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
  • mythographer — a person who collects or records myths in writing.
  • mythopoetize — to produce myths or mythological poetry.
  • mythopoiesis — (mythology) the creation of myth.
  • narcotherapy — an infrequently used method of treating mental disorders by intravenous injection of barbiturates.
  • naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
  • nephelometry — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
  • neuronopathy — A form of polyneuropathy caused by destruction of neurons.
  • neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
  • new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
  • new plymouth — a seaport on W North Island, in New Zealand.
  • night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
  • northern spy — an American variety of red-striped apple that ripens in autumn or early winter.
  • note payable — A note payable is a written legal obligation to repay an amount of borrowed money at a particular future date.
  • nympholeptic — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
  • octyl phenol — a white to pink, water-insoluble, flaky substance having the formula C 1 4 H 2 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of commercial surface-active agents.
  • office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
  • omnipotently — almighty or infinite in power, as God.
  • one-act play — a short play consisting of only one act
  • oophorectomy — the operation of removing one or both ovaries; ovariectomy.
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