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  • mordant rouge — a solution of aluminum acetate in acetic acid, used in dyeing and calico printing.
  • mount gambier — a city in S Australia.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • multiregional — of, relating to or involving several regions
  • neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  • non-dangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • nongregarious — (zoology) Not gregarious; solitary. Compare 'ungregarious'.
  • nonguaranteed — Not guaranteed; unguaranteed.
  • nonregulation — not regulation, not conforming to accepted standards
  • numerological — Of, pertaining to, or based on numerology.
  • nusa tenggara — an island chain east of Java, mostly in Indonesia: the main islands are Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Alor, and Timor. Pop: 11 112 702 (2000). Area: 73 144 sq km (28 241 sq miles)
  • nutmeg grater — a utensil used to grate the seed nutmeg, so that is can be used as a spice in cooking, etc
  • orange roughy — a marine food fish, Hoplosthenus atlanticus, of S Pacific waters
  • orange squash — an orange-flavoured drink made from fruit juice, sugar, and water
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • out of danger — no longer at risk
  • outgeneraling — Present participle of outgeneral.
  • outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • overencourage — to encourage too much
  • pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
  • prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
  • quarter grain — the grain appearing in quartersawed wood.
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • queen regnant — a queen who reigns on her own behalf
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • reacquainting — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
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