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  • counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • cryptozoological — (cryptozoology) Of or pertaining to cryptozoology.
  • cryptozoologists — Plural form of cryptozoologist.
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
  • cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
  • cygnus tcl tools — (tool)   A rebundling of Tcl and Tk into the Cygnus GNU build framework with "configure" by david d 'zoo' zuhn <[email protected]>.
  • cytotechnologist — a technician who specializes in identifying cells and cellular abnormalities.
  • day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
  • daylight robbery — If someone charges you a great deal of money for something and you think this is unfair or unreasonable, you can refer to this as daylight robbery.
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
  • dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
  • deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
  • depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
  • dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
  • destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
  • dimethylglyoxime — (organic compound) The oxime 2,3-butanedione dioxime that is used as a reagent in the analysis of nickel and palladium.
  • discographically — In terms of discography.
  • doctor's surgery — A doctor's surgery is the same as a doctor's office.
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • echocardiography — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • economic geology — the branch of geology dealing with the location and exploitation of industrial materials obtained from the earth.
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electromyography — The recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue, or its representation as a visual display or audible signal, using electrodes attached to the skin or inserted into the muscle.
  • emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
  • emergency worker — a person whose job is to help people in emergencies
  • ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
  • eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • ethnomethodology — A method of sociological analysis that examines how individuals use everyday conversation and gestures to construct a common-sense view of the world.
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • foot reflexology — reflexology (def 1).
  • foreign currency — money used in another country
  • formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
  • fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
  • gastroenterology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
  • gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.
  • geoffrey chaucer — Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
  • geological cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
  • get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  • get one's eye in — to become accustomed to the conditions, light, etc, with a consequent improvement in one's performance
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
  • glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
  • glottochronology — the branch of lexicostatistics that studies the rate of replacement of vocabulary and attempts to determine what percentage of basic vocabulary two presently distinct but related languages share, using the information thus obtained to estimate how long ago they ceased being a single language.
  • glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
  • go for your life — an expression of encouragement
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