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  • disregulation — Misspelling of dysregulation.
  • distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • edmund gunterEdmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
  • electrocuting — Present participle of electrocute.
  • encouragement — The action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope.
  • enculturating — Present participle of enculturate.
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
  • extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
  • finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • gartner group — (company)   One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA.
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
  • generic thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
  • genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
  • genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • grand quarter — a quartered coat of arms, itself one of the quarters of a coat of arms.
  • granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • great russian — a member of the main stock of the Russian people, dwelling chiefly in the northern or central parts of the Russian Federation in Europe.
  • grotesqueness — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground return — Ground return is the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to ground at each end.
  • ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • gunters-chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
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