52 Rhymes For POSTDOCS

• thoroughbred horses (collectively)

• the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten

• Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916)

• Moloch horridus, an Australian lizard thought to be the sole member of the genus Moloch.

• any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective

• a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

• merchandise that is shoddy or inferior

• a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air

• game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

• Binoculars

• a group of countries in special alliance

• A crocodile.

• A plastic slip-on shoe.

• the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

• a licensed medical practitioner

• A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America.

• a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid

• violent and needless disturbance

• Moccasin (type of shoe)

• found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies

• mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength

• a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers

• A small, unassuming automobile.

• short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

• an antacid

• a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Vioxx) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract; voluntarily withdrawn from the market in 2004

• a terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fight the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaeda

• colloquial British abbreviation