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- assassination — to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
- assassinators — Plural form of assassinator.
- assembly line — An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product. The product passes from one worker to another until it is finished.
- astonishingly — causing astonishment or surprise; amazing: an astonishing victory; an astonishing remark.
- at knifepoint — If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you.
- at this point — at this moment in time
- attainability — capable of being attained.
- attitudinally — in a manner expressive of personal attitudes or emotions
- attitudinized — Simple past tense and past participle of attitudinize.
- attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
- attitudinizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attitudinize.
- auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
- audio-lingual — pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
- aum shinrikyo — a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995
- austenitizing — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
- austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
- auto-injector — An auto-injector is a hypodermic syringe that you can use to inject yourself with a liquid.
- autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
- award-winning — An award-winning person or thing has won an award, especially an important or valuable one.
- awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
- awning window — a window frame having one or more sashes hinged at the top and swinging outward.
- back clipping — a word formed by omitting the last part of the form from which it is derived.
- back-breaking — Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
- back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
- back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
- backing light — Also called backing striplight, backing strip. Theater. a striplight providing diffused illumination for the background of a stage set.
- backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
- backing track — a recorded instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
- backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- bacteriotoxin — any toxin that kills bacteria
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
- bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
- baggage train — a train of wagons carrying the equipment needed by an army on the march
- baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
- balanced line — a transmission line in which the oppositely directed components are symmetrical with respect to each other and to the ground.
- balancing act — If you perform a balancing act, you try to deal successfully with two or more people, groups, or situations that are in opposition to each other.
- balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
- ball and ring — a simplified bead-and-reel turning, used especially in English and American furniture of the 17th century.
- ball handling — the control of the ball, as in basketball or soccer, by skillful dribbling and accurate passing.
- bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
- bank examiner — a public official appointed under U.S. state or federal laws to inspect and audit the operations and accounts of banks in the examiner's jurisdiction.
- banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
- banking house — a more formal term for a bank
- bargain offer — something for sale at a low price