nailful (plural nailfuls)
Enough to be stored under one's fingernail.

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additional amplifier
air drome
alginate
ancient books
anti-asthmatic
Appalachian dulcimer
assigned state
asterina orthodon
attribute of floating point type
audit data
be puffed with ambition
beneficiarios
bottle openers
bundle cable assembly
calcoid
Carley floats
ceratium inflatum
chairpeople
cock up
Colima
combined fare
condescensive
constructive ordinal
Cruex
cubital area
d4
datel services
delay cracking
deroofs
diagraming
dick beaters
dimethylamylamine
Ducetius
electrostatic measuring device
field hospitals
food balance sheet
glucuronates
grain header
groot
high-density cargo
hull ventilation
hydrolytic deaminization
i-feng
idle operator lamp
Innocent's Day
intact male
interim index
Jhao
Leptohymenium
letter of credit without recourse
light vehicle
linear output
loop quantum gravity
male screwbolt
martempering oil
marthability
meg.
metabolites
metallic reservoir
miniatum
molyneaux
Montels
myocardial depressant
myohyoid line
name-dropping
nonrusted
parser generator
pasik
pass the buck to
peasantlike
phenocoll acetate
play a joke on sb.
procedural security
production intensification
prolongable Riemann surface
quadrant filter
quillen
Reichel's chondromatosis
relational database theory
remote identifier
Rhynchosporium
riveting pressure
rock salt karst
sewing spasm
South African jade
spectacularisms
spring bumper
synthesiser
technique of c1ose coup1ed canard configuration
terms and coditions
thermal rod effect
thermal transmittance
thick source
train coach supply winding
tubular wire
tyuyamunite
vegetable-growings
video alteration
volume controller
wooden resonance
woodturning
zantzinger