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- affine group — the group of all affine transformations of a finite-dimensional vector space.
- affrontingly — in an affronting manner
- after-dinner — immediately following dinner: an after-dinner speech.
- afterburning — a process in which additional fuel is ignited in the exhaust gases of a jet engine to produce additional thrust
- against time — in an effort to complete something in a limited period
- agglutinable — Able to be agglutinated; that readily undergoes agglutination.
- agglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of agglutinate.
- agglutinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglutinate.
- agglutinogen — an antigen that reacts with or stimulates the formation of a specific agglutinin
- aggrandising — Present participle of aggrandise.
- aggrandizing — Present participle of aggrandize.
- agribusiness — Agribusiness is the various businesses that produce, sell, and distribute farm products, especially on a large scale.
- agrippina ii — a.d. 16?–59? mother of the Roman emperor Nero and sister of Caligula.
- agrobusiness — the businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products.
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- aid climbing — climbing that employs mechanical devices (aids) to accomplish difficult manoeuvres (artificial moves)
- aiming point — the point at which a gun or bombsight is aimed in order to strike a desired target, often a point in advance of or behind the actual target.
- air cylinder — a cylinder containing air, esp one fitted with a piston and used for damping purposes
- air drilling — Air drilling is a drilling method in which compressed air or nitrogen is used to cool the drill bit and lift cuttings out of the wellbore.
- air layering — a method of propagating a plant by girdling or cutting part way into a stem or branch and packing the area with a moist medium, as sphagnum moss, stimulating root formation so that the stem or branch can be removed and grown as an independent plant.
- air ministry — (in England) the department of government administering all civil and military matters concerning aviation.
- air terminal — An air terminal is a building in which passengers wait before they get on to an aeroplane.
- albumenizing — Present participle of albumenize.
- albuminoidal — (chemistry) Of the nature of an albuminoid.
- alcoholizing — Present participle of alcoholize.
- alexandrines — Plural form of alexandrine.
- alexandrinus — the Greek uncial codex, dating from the early 5th century a.d., originally containing the complete text of the Greek Old and New Testaments.
- alginic acid — powdery substance extracted from kelp
- aliasing bug — stale pointer bug
- all kinds of — You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people.
- allegorizing — Present participle of allegorize.
- alluringness — The state or quality of being alluring.
- almightiness — The state or quality of being almighty.
- alpine-style — of or in an ascent (esp in high mountains like the Himalayas) in which the climbers carry all their equipment with them in a single ascent from base to summit
- altitudinous — pertaining to altitude or height
- amalgamating — Present participle of amalgamate.
- ambisinister — clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
- amboina wood — the hard, heavy wood of a tree, Pterocarpus indicus, of southern Asia, having a curly or mottled grain.
- ameliorating — Present participle of ameliorate.
- amethopterin — (now rare) Methotrexate.
- aminobenzene — aniline (def 1).
- aminobenzoic — as in aminobenzoic acid
- aminobutyric — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
- aminomethane — (organic compound, often in combination) methylamine (or a derivative of it).
- aminophenols — Plural form of aminophenol.
- amphetamines — Plural form of amphetamine.
- amphiregulin — (protein) A particular autocrine growth factor.
- amphotericin — an amphoteric antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus and used in the treatment of fungal infections.
- an open mind — If you have an open mind, you avoid forming an opinion or making a decision until you know all the facts.
- anastomosing — Present participle of anastomose.