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  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
  • foursome reel — a lively Scottish dance for two couples who combine in square and circular formations
  • froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • 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.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
  • glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
  • goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
  • gross premium — A gross premium is the total premium of an insurance contract before brokerage or discounts have been deducted.
  • gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
  • hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
  • harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
  • he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
  • homeomorphous — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
  • homeothermous — remaining at an almost constant temperature
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
  • horse's mouth — horse (def 36).
  • host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
  • house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housemistress — A female teacher in charge of a dormitory at a boarding school.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • humorlessness — The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
  • hunter's moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
  • hydromedusoid — a jellyfish or something resembling a jellyfish that lives in water
  • hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • hyracotherium — eohippus.
  • illuminometer — an instrument for measuring illumination.
  • immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
  • immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
  • imperiousness — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
  • importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
  • importunities — Plural form of importunity.
  • income source — something that provides a regular supply of money, such as employment, investments, a pension etc
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