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1. abscisin, n. View full entry 1961
...Either of two substances that promote leaf abscission, (more fully abscisin I) one isolated from cotton bolls (now hist.);(more fully abscisin II) = abscisic acid...
2. Abwehr, n. View full entry 1945
...In Germany: a military intelligence and counter-intelligence agency (192144) founded as a division of the defence ministry, and expanded to include foreign espionage assignments in 1934 by...
3. acholuria, n. View full entry 1900
...Absence of bile pigments in the urine in certain types of jaundice, esp. that associated with chronic haemolytic anaemias. In early use also: a disorder giving rise to this, spec....
4. ack emma, n. and adv. View full entry 1909
...The signal used to denote the letters a.m. (for ante meridiem) in telephone communications, etc.; (hence colloq.) the morning....
5. acker, n.2 View full entry 1937
...A piastre. hist. in later use....
6. actino-uranium, n. View full entry 1918
...The (fissile) isotope of uranium of mass number 235....
7. activist, adj. and n. View full entry 1908
...Philos. Of or relating to the theory of activism (activism2)....
8. adalin, n. View full entry 1911
...A carbamate compound used as a sedative and hypnotic drug....
9. Adcock, n. View full entry 1928
...Designating a type of radio aerial having four equidistant vertical elements, typically used for determining the direction of a source....
10. adrenin, n. View full entry 1901
...= adrenaline1....
11. adreno-, comb. form View full entry 1909
...Forming terms relating to the adrenal gland or adrenaline (epinephrine)....
12. adviserate, n. View full entry 1938
...Usu. with capital initial. In Bahrain: the office or establishment of the person appointed as principal British adviser to the head of state. Also: the (former) residence of this adviser. Cf. ...
13. aeronat, n. View full entry 1903
...An airship, a dirigible....
14. Africanthropus, n. View full entry 1938
...Any of several extinct fossil hominids of the former genus or subgenus Africanthropus, known from Pleistocene fossil remains found in South and East Africa, and now regarded as various archaic...
15. agene, n. View full entry 1921
...Nitrogen trichloride (NCl3) used as an additive to bleach and artificially age flour....
16. agglutino-, comb. form View full entry 1900
...Forming terms relating to agglutination (agglutination7)....
17. agitprop, n. and adj. View full entry 1925
...Usu. with capital initial. A department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, or a local department, responsible for ‘agitation and propaganda’ on behalf of Communism; the...
18. agrogorod, n. View full entry 1951
...In the Soviet Union: an administrative unit formed from the amalgamation of a group of collective farms (see kolkhoz), having the infrastructure of a town or city. Cf. agro-city...
19. agroville, n. View full entry 1960
...In the Vietnam War (195575): any of a number of purpose-built fortified agricultural centres in South Vietnam, established under a policy of relocating and concentrating dispersed farming communities for...
20. air gunner, n. View full entry 1916
...A gunner in a military aircraft....
