Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
- jocosity
- fun characterized by humor
- primitive
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- Otoe
- a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Oto
- recognition
- the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country
- gape
- an expression of openmouthed astonishment
- press
- the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines
- royal charter
- a charter granted by the sovereign (especially in Great Britain)
- diatonic scale
- a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones
- parley
- a negotiation between enemies
- won-lost record
- (sports) a record of win versus losses
- allusion
- passing reference or indirect mention
- conversion
- interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
- estoppel
- a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled
- recto
- right-hand page
- indenture
- formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
- filename extension
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- Massachusetts
- the Algonquian language of the Massachuset
- system command
- a computer user's instruction (not part of a program) that calls for action by the computer's executive program
- gamut
- the entire scale of musical notes
- running headline
- a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book
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