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1. A metal frame or container holding cartridges.
5. A visual presentation showing how something works.
9. One thousandth of a second.
13. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
16. Similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region.
17. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
19. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins.
21. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
23. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. Spoken with emphasis.
29. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
30. One who is playfully mischievous.
32. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
33. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
35. A castrated tomcat.
36. Being nine more than ninety.
38. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
41. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A state in northwestern North America.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
55. Used especially of machinery.
59. Extremely robust.
60. An imperfection in a device or machine.
62. Unusual or striking.
63. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
64. Any of various Spanish fortresses or palaces built by the Moors.
65. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
66. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
67. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
68. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
71. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
74. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
75. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
76. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
78. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
79. A canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log.
82. Absent without permission.
83. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
86. The univalent unsaturated organic radical C3H5.
88. New Zealand conifer.
92. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
96. A quantity of no importance.
97. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
99. A genus of Strigidae.
100. The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally.
101. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
102. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
103. The act of rubbing or wiping.
104. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
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1. People having the same social or economic status.
2. Of a pale purple color.
3. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
4. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
5. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
6. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
7. Informal terms for a mother.
8. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
9. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
10. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
11. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
12. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
13. A man who serves as a sailor.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
15. A city in east central Texas.
22. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
24. A state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs.
27. Any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
34. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
37. Weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields.
39. A graphic character used in ideography.
40. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
42. Trained in a skill by repetitious practice.
43. Someone who rubs or kneads parts of the body to stimulate circulation and promote relaxation.
44. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
45. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
52. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
54. Closed with a lace.
56. Type genus of the family Hirudinidae.
57. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
58. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
61. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
69. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
70. Any plant of the genus Inula.
72. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
73. A city in central Florida.
74. A man who serves as a sailor.
77. (British) Something badly botched or muddled.
80. A state in midwestern United States.
81. Hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
82. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
84. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
85. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
87. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
89. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
90. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
91. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
93. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
94. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
95. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
98. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
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