a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets

the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five

the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet

denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units

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

the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves

English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901)

date of the Allied landing in France, World War II

the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves

English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)

United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)

a doctor's degree with a special disciplinary focus

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

abbreviation for `dead on arrival' at the emergency room

a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948

an official prosecutor for a judicial district

Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524)

Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)

missionary work for Islam

a light touch or stroke

a small quantity of something moist or liquid

apply (usually a liquid) to a surface

hit lightly

a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad

dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

play in or as if in water, as of small children

work with in an amateurish manner

bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water

covered with bright patches (often used in combination)

an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling

any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling

small European grebe

a dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae

low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple

the capital and largest city of Bangladesh

small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body

Australasian kingfishers

Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry

Russian country house

a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany

small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows

small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows

a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals

relating to or consisting of dacite

the honeycreepers

a member of an armed gang of robbers

robbery by a gang of armed dacoits

low-growing to prostrate shrub with slender trailing branches; New Zealand

a kind of polyester fabric