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And besides, 'postcoital' is a scientific word".
"What's the scientific word for boinging?" Mr. Silverman asked.
"I purposely chose the most difficult scientific word I could to show this is not an erotic scene," he said.
(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Who wouldn't sign up for placentophagia, the scientific word (usually referring to animals) for the practice of eating one's own placenta?
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Such dictionaries naturally omit many extremely rare or scientific words.
And he must admit to himself that perhaps the disappointed are not misguided but rational, even scientific — words he likes.
"The staff sits up nights throwing scientific words out of the articles submitted by college professors," Littledale wrote.
But the O.E.D. has always been inclusive of a wide variety of English — slang, foreign borrowings, scientific words, dialect.
The scientific words in the title refer to the molecular structure responsible for a drug's action (the pharmacophore) versus the therapeutic impact of merely believing that one is receiving treatment (the placebo effect).
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