One-Letter Words A Dictionary 8

... up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel offi cer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had ... the bear in A. A. Milne’s Winnie- the- Pooh stories: “ ‘It’s a Missage,’ he said to himself, ‘that’s what it is. And that letter is a “P,” and so is that, and so is that, and “P” m...

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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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... 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 a substance ... milk and dairy products, and margarine. Beta carotene is found in dark- green and deep- yellow fruits and vegetables, such as carrots, apri - cots, and spinach. —American Medical Associa...

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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 ... Read a Book Z 2 28 Credits Cover design by Leander Reeves/www.kittycave.com Y Thank You Rana Bakhtiari, Firda Beka, Colleen Bell, John and Virginia Berland, Dan and Jan Bond, Wyman Brant...

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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 80 km. This layer...

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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 1917, 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 ... obsession with a more or less arbitrary letter of the alphabet has spread to the point where several generations of H 68 H A Native American Approach to Understanding Your Nam...

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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 ... baseball, a strikeout. 23. n. A mountain, as in K 2 (the second highest moun- tain on earth, located in the Karakoram range in Pakistan). SHAPES AND DESIGNS 24. n. Something havin...

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