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  • buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
  • bunker mentality — a defensive attitude in which others are seen as hostile or potentially hostile
  • buoyancy chamber — an enclosed section of a canoe, float, ship or other object that contains air, foam, or another buoyant substance in order to help maintain buoyancy
  • burkitt lymphoma — a rare type of tumour of the white blood cells, occurring mainly in Africa and associated with infection by Epstein-Barr virus
  • business machine — a machine for expediting clerical work, as a tabulator or adding machine.
  • business manager — a person who ensures the running of a business by managing the work of relevant staff
  • busman's holiday — If you have a holiday, but spend it doing something similar to your usual work, you can refer to it as a busman's holiday.
  • buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
  • butterfly damper — a damper, as in a flue, that rotates about a central axis across its face.
  • cadmium sulphide — an orange or yellow insoluble solid used as a pigment in paints, etc (cadmium yellow). Formula: CdS
  • calcium arsenate — a toxic, white powder, Ca3(AsO4)2, used as an insecticide in the form of a spray or dust
  • calcium chloride — a white deliquescent salt occurring naturally in seawater and used in the de-icing of roads and as a drying agent. Formula: CaCl2
  • calcium fluoride — a white, crystalline compound, CaF 2 , insoluble in water, occurring in nature as the mineral fluorite: used as a flux in metallurgy and as a decay preventive in dentifrices.
  • calcium silicate — any of the silicates of calcium: calcium metasilicate, dicalcium silicate, and tricalcium silicate.
  • camborne-redruth — a former (until 1974) urban district in SW England, in Cornwall: formed in 1934 by the amalgamation of the neighbouring towns of Camborne and Redruth. Pop: 39 936 (2001)
  • cardinal numbers — Also called cardinal numeral. any of the numbers that express amount, as one, two, three, etc. (distinguished from ordinal number).
  • cascade molecule — a synthetic polymer with a branching, treelike structure; a type of macromolecule in which chains radiate out from a central atom or cluster of atoms to transfer genetic material to living cells.
  • centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
  • champagne bucket — A champagne bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of champagne in and keep the champagne cool.
  • character armour — the defence an individual exhibits to others and to himself or herself to disguise his or her underlying weaknesses: a term coined by William Reich
  • chemoautotrophic — producing organic matter by the use of energy obtained by oxidation of certain chemicals with carbon dioxide as the carbon source
  • chemotherapeutic — of or used in chemotherapy
  • cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
  • christmas cactus — a Brazilian cactus, Schlumbergera (formerly Zygocactus) truncatus, widely cultivated as an ornamental for its showy red flowers
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
  • chronic glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
  • churidar pyjamas — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
  • circular measure — the measurement of an angle in radians
  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulation — The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
  • circumlocutional — Of or relating to circumlocution : circumlocutionary.
  • circumnavigating — Present participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
  • circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
  • circumstantially — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • circumstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumstantiate.
  • circumstantiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumstantiate.
  • clbuttic mistake — the humorous effect created by anti-obscenity filters that automatically replace offensive words in online articles with more acceptable variants
  • cleanup campaign — an organized programme to clean up a place, typically organized at a local or regional level
  • clearance volume — The clearance volume is the volume remaining above the piston of an engine when it reaches top dead center.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
  • command language — the language used to access a computer system
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
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