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  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
  • futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
  • muni bond fund — municipal bond fund.
  • non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
  • non-fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • on firm ground — in a safe situation
  • perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
  • refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
  • stuffed animal — soft toy
  • subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • uncertificated — a document serving as evidence or as written testimony, as of status, qualifications, privileges, or the truth of something.
  • underfulfilled — falling short of having achieved one's potential or desires
  • underinflation — the lack of sufficient air pressure
  • underqualified — having the qualities, accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • unfriendedness — the state of being unfriended
  • unidentifiable — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
  • unprovided for — without income or means
  • unrefrigerated — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
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