One-Letter Words A Dictionary 7

... O’Brien and Jim Sharman, Shock Treatment Johnny spun to face a bookcase of art criticism and wondered desperately if K came before or after N. The alphabet, a pillar, a solace and a certainty ... Q and M, the Coca- Cola Company] churned out a bewildering set of statements and commercials aimed at disparaging Pepsi’s results, starting with the claim that people had a psycho...

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... movie. X is a power of magnification, an axis on a graph, and a female chromosome. It is a multiplication operator, a letter of the alphabet, and an arbitrary point in time. X is a kiss at the ... herring, and oysters), lean meats, poultry, cheese, and eggs are also good sources. The only known plant sources are yeast, alfalfa, and two Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu. —Am...

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... known plant sources are yeast, alfalfa, and two Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu. —Ameri - can Medical Association 29. n. A blood type. Genes for types A and B are dominant, and will always ... urinary tracts and maintains healthy skin and hair. Beta carotene (also known as pro vitamin A) is converted to vitamin A by the body. Unlike retinol, beta carotene is an antioxi- dant...

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... beam radar: a height- finding radar that emits a vertical beam and another at 45 degrees.” —Dr. John Burkardt 33. n. V belt: a belt with a V- shaped cross section which engages a similarly ... —Joseph E. Rael, Tracks of Dancing Light: A Native American Approach to Understanding Your Name Like his father, and Grandfather Darwin as well, he tended to stammer, having special d...

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... Matt Brelje, Sheryl Burgstahler, John Burkardt, Tara Calishain, Alison Callahan, Jonathan and Hilary Caws- Elwit, Andrew Chorney, Steve Chrisomalis, Norris and Donna Clark, Ken Clinger, Allan ... Allan and June Conley, Frank and Ramesh Conley, Bernie DeKoven, Dirk Dupon, Terry and Cathi Edward, Randy Fairbanks, Frank and Laura Farley, Frank Farley III, Kate Flannery, John K. Flynn, Ian...

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... vegetables, although breast milk and organ meats contain small amounts. Citrus fruits, tomatoes, pep - pers, strawberries, and cantaloupe are all excellent sources. —American Medical Association ... Aspartate, an amino acid. 30. n. A layer of the ionosphere, as in the “D layer.” [The D layer is the] lowest part of the ionosphere, which appears at an altitude of 50–80km. This layer h...

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... universal affi rmative A, the universal negative E, the par - ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O. 30. n. (mathematics) The natural number e, used as the base for natural logarithms ... Millikan in 19 17, was later refined through the discovery of the relationship between the Avogadro’s constant N and the Faraday constant F. 35. n. (biology) Glutamate, an amino acid....

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... posterior (dorsal) horns are gray matter areas at the rear of each side of the H. . . . The lateral horns are small projections of gray matter at the sides of H. —Phillip E. Pack, Anatomy and Physiology ... (cooked); smaller amounts are found in whole- wheat prod - ucts, dairy products, fish, and tomatoes. —Ameri- can Medical Association And it doesn’t really matter, anyway, because we’ll...

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... universal negative E, the par - ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O. 37. n. A unit vector parallel to the x- axis. 38. n. Candlepower. The term candlepower is based on a measurement ... notation of a particular affi rma- tive statement, such as “some humans are men.” In categorical logic, the square of opposition describes the relationship between the universal af...

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... which only zeros appear above the diagonal. L is a lower triangular matrix. —Marie A. Vitulli, A Brief History of Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory” 20. n. (mechanics) L head: a gasoline engine ... 15. n. L square: a carpenter’s ruler which is L- shaped. 16. n. L sill: in carpentry, a sill used in a building frame. A plate is attached to a basement wall, and an upright...

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