Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
- folder
- a small book usually having a paper cover
- Yucateco
- a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec
- umlaut
- a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate a change in sound in some languages
- callathump
- a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple
- Murphy's Law
- humorous axiom stating that anything that can go wrong will go wrong
- dissenting opinion
- an opinion that disagrees with the court's disposition of the case
- Rumansh
- the Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in southeastern Switzerland; it is an official language of Switzerland
- shocker
- a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)
- hypertext
- machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected
- defiance
- a hostile challenge
- jawbreaker
- a word that is hard to pronounce
- Sayanci
- a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
- ballot
- a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting
- Parallel Lives
- a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays
- Atayalic
- a language spoken by a Malaysian people on Formosa
- parole
- a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- constant-width font
- a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter)
- Eysenck Personality Inventory
- a self-report personality inventory based on Hans Eysenck's factor analysis of personality which assumes three basic factors (the two most important being extraversion to introversion and neuroticism)
- threat
- declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another
- piffle
- trivial nonsense
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