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| Bandar Seri Begawan |
the seaport capital of Brunei. |
| blitz |
(cap.; prec. by "the") the bombing attacks on Britain carried out by the German air force in 1940 and 1941 during World War II. [1/4 definitions] |
| Bonaparte |
see "Napoleon I." |
| boredom |
the state of being bored; dullness; ennui. |
| Bren gun |
a .303 caliber gas-operated submachine gun used by the British army in World War II. |
| bronchoscope |
a slender tubular instrument with an electric light, used for examining and treating the inside of the bronchi. |
| bunt3 |
a disease of wheat and other grain plants that is caused by fungi. |
| catalepsy |
a condition, often associated with epilepsy and schizophrenia, in which the body becomes numb and the limbs rigid, and the victim loses consciousness or fails to respond to external stimuli. |
| cavy |
any of a number of tailless or short-tailed rodents originally of South America, including the guinea pig, capybara, and agouti. |
| Celebes |
an Indonesian island east of Borneo; Sulawesi. |
| chain reaction |
in physics, a self-sustaining reaction in which the particles produced by nuclear fission cause the fission of other nuclei. [1/3 definitions] |
| chile |
variant of chili. |
| chiliburger |
a hamburger topped with chili. |
| chilidog |
a hot dog topped with chili. |
| chili pepper |
the strong, sharp-tasting pod of any of several varieties of a tropical pepper plant; chili. |
| chilli |
variant of chili. |
| coatimundi |
the coati. |
| cocozelle |
a summer squash that resembles zucchini. |
| Coral Sea |
an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean located off the northwestern coast of Australia, extending to the north as far as New Guinea and the Soloman Islands and to the east by Vanuatu. The sea is the location of the Great Barrier Reef. It was also the scene of a fierce naval battle between Japan and the United States in World War II. |
| corgi |
see "Welsh corgi." |
| courgette |
(chiefly British) a cucumber-shaped vegetable with a smooth, dark green rind; a zucchini. |
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