D, n.
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a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets
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| calciferol |
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| cholecalciferol |
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| ergocalciferol |
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| viosterol |
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| vitamin D |
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D and C, n.
a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion
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| dilatation and curettage |
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| dilation and curettage |
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D region, n.
the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves
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| D-layer |
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D'Oyly Carte, n.
English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901)
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| D'Oyly Carte |
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| Richard D'Oyly Carte |
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D-day, n.
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D-layer, n.
the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves
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| D-layer |
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D. H. Lawrence, n.
English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
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| D. H. Lawrence |
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| David Herbert Lawrence |
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| Lawrence |
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D. W. Griffith, n.
United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)
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| D. W. Griffith |
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| David Lewelyn Wark Griffith |
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| Griffith |
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D.A., n.
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D.C., n.
the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia
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| DC |
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| District of Columbia |
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D.P.R.K., n.
a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
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| DPRK |
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| Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| North Korea |
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DA, n.
an official prosecutor for a judicial district
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| district attorney |
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DARPA, n.
the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11
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| Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
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DAT, n.
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DBA, n.
(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation
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| Doing Business As |
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| assumed name |
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| fictitious name |
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DBMS, n.
a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database
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| database management system |
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DC, n.
the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia
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| DC |
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| District of Columbia |
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an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
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| direct current |
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| direct electric current |
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DCCP, n.
an agency of the United Nations that promotes drug control and crime prevention
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| DCCP |
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| United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention |
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DCI, n.
the head of the United States Intelligence Community and director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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| DCI |
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| Director of Central Intelligence |
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DD, n.
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DDC, n.
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DDI, n.
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DDS, n.
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DDT, n.
an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972
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| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane |
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DE, n.
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
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| Del. |
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| Delaware |
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| Diamond State |
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| First State |
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United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
Mid-Atlantic states
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DEA, n.
federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations
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| DEA |
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| Drug Enforcement Administration |
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| Drug Enforcement Agency |
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DEAE cellulose, n.
used for chromatography
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| DEAE cellulose |
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| diethylaminoethyl cellulose |
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DES, n.
synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy
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| DES |
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| diethylstilbesterol |
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| stilbesterol |
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a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
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| diethylstilbestrol |
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| diethylstilboestrol |
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| stilbestrol |
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| stilboestrol |
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DEd, n.
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DFLP, n.
a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
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| DFLP |
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| Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
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| PDFLP |
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| Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
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"in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren"
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