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  • austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
  • authorisation — Alternative spelling of authorization.
  • authorization — an authorizing or being authorized
  • autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
  • autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
  • autooxidation — autoxidation.
  • averruncation — the act of averting or turning away
  • back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
  • back mutation — the reversion of a mutant to the original phenotype
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • bacterization — subjection to bacterial action
  • balkanization — If you disapprove of the division of a country into separate independent states, you can refer to the Balkanization of the country.
  • ballet lesson — a class in which ballet is taught
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
  • beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
  • benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
  • beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
  • binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
  • bioconversion — the use of biological processes or materials to change organic substances into a new form, such as the conversion of waste into methane by fermentation
  • bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
  • black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
  • bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
  • book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • branding iron — a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.
  • branding-iron — an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
  • brutalization — to make brutal.
  • bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
  • bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  • busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
  • by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • c corporation — A C corporation is a type of corporation which is taxed on its income.
  • calcification — the process of calcifying or becoming calcified
  • cantonization — the process of dividing into cantons
  • caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
  • capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
  • carbon ribbon — the ribbon in a typewriter which contains the ink which produces the letters on paper
  • carbonatation — saturation or reaction with carbon dioxide.
  • carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
  • carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
  • carbonization — Carbonization is a process in which a fuel is heated without air to leave solid porous carbon.
  • carbonylation — the introduction of a carbonyl group into a compound through chemical reaction
  • carboxylation — a chemical reaction that introduces a carboxyl group into a molecule or compound, forming a carboxylic acid or a carboxylate
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