We compromised by calling it a geyesmeyer, a word coined by a boaty friend of ours, and used quite profusely by him to describe anything from a bilge-pump to a rhinoceros.

The exodermal suberin was transesterified with MeOH/BF 3 and the chemical composition was measured using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) and flame ionization detector (GC-FID).

Hawthorne Effect: This completely un-self-explanatory and technical sounding term describes a discovery that is basic to psychological experimentation.

[…] what might be called the Irishization of American popular culture. This Irishization, roughly contemporary with the Latin Explosion and also short-lived, included the new mainstream success of the openly political Irish rock band U2