face-amount certificate company: a regulated investment company that pays a stated amount to certificate holders on a stated maturity date
investment company: a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies
apocrypha: 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status