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Dec 16, 2004, 09:42 PM
 
maximum 2 words and share it here, for e.g.:

adiabatic expansion
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funny I was just talking about those today. How about the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer as they call it on CSI (I love it when they spell out acronyms)
     
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Critical Current
     
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simplo-regulatory spongification.
     
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quasiperiodic boundary-crisis
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Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). First that came to mind.
     
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More cowbell?
     
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(the) ribosome (is a) ribozyme
     
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coefficient of restitution

(yea - its technically three words... but it's just a little 'of').
     
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deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate
     
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Fictive temperature
     
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Rotavirus gastroenteritis
     
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Bam!

     
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chromatic aberation

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beatin' wrench

as in, using a wrench in a hammer like fashion as your hammer isn't as close to you as your wrench was.
     
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plasma relays
     
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nuclear fission

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gap junction
     
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mind the gap !

oh...

wait..

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geosynchronous orbit
     
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thixotropic behavior
     
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spinodal decomposition
     
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reticulating splines
/Earth\ Mk\.\ I{2}/
     
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standard deviation
reduced chi-squared
charm quark
Lyapunov exponent
Hamiltonian dynamics
Hermitian operator
Greene's function
Quantum electordynamics
Quantum chromodynamics
Quadrupole radiation
Eigen vector

I have to admit, though, that nobody beats biologists for confusing non-standardized terminology. The chemists make the longest words, but at least there's a system to the nomenclature.

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Young's modulus
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phosphophoenol pyruvate

Has a nice ring to it.
     
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super duper
     
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bling bling
     
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shake 'n bake
     
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edit: damn.. 2 words.
okay:
finite automata
     
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Turing Machine
Booth's Algorithm
Splay Tree
Drunkards Walk
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Rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron

Um...

Guar gum.

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Vitreous humor
     
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spatio-temporal distribution pattern


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no life
     
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Originally posted by macaddict0001:
no life
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heteroskedasticity

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Nobody gets any points.
     
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Originally posted by Cubeoid:
Nobody gets any points.
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Runny ketchup
     
 
 
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