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  • paperbound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
  • peduncular — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
  • perdurance — permanence; the quality of lasting or enduring forever
  • piano duet — a musical composition for two pianists playing two pianos or together at one piano.
  • plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
  • pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
  • prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
  • quadrennia — Plural form of quadrennium.
  • quadricone — a quadric surface swept out by a straight line that passes through a fixed point such that no straight line can intersect it at more than two points
  • quadrumane — a quadrumanous animal, as a monkey.
  • quandaries — Plural form of quandary.
  • quantified — Measured.
  • queensland — a state in NE Australia. 670,500 sq. mi. (1,736,595 sq. km). Capital: Brisbane.
  • re-adjourn — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
  • read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
  • redcurrant — any of various currant shrubs of the genus Ribes, bearing an edible, red fruit.
  • redundance — the state of being redundant.
  • redundancy — the state of being redundant.
  • refundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • reguardant — (of a beast) looking backward: a stag regardant.
  • roadrunner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
  • round tape — (storage, jargon)   Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
  • roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
  • rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
  • run ragged — to cause to be exhausted, as by constant pressure or harassment
  • run scared — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • rural dean — a cleric ranking just below an archdeacon, in charge of an archdeaconry.
  • saint jude — the author of this, stated to be the brother of James (Jude 1) and almost certainly identical with Thaddaeus (Matthew 10:2–4). Feast day: Oct 28 or June 19
  • sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
  • sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
  • sans doute — without doubt; certainly.
  • seleucidan — Seleucid.
  • slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • snare drum — a small double-headed drum, carried at the side or placed on a stationary stand, having snares across the lower head to produce a rattling or reverberating effect.
  • sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
  • sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
  • soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
  • soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
  • soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
  • squanderer — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
  • stand mute — to refuse to plead guilty or not guilty
  • staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
  • subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
  • subdecanal — of or relating to a subdean or subdeanery
  • subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
  • submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
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