capital offense | a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
execution executing capital punishment death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
African clawed frog Xenopus laevis | a tongueless frog native to Africa, established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals |
African chameleon Chamaeleo chamaeleon | a chameleon found in Africa |
African monitor Varanus niloticus | destroys crocodile eggs |
African crocodile Nile crocodile Crocodylus niloticus | a dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa |
African coral snake Aspidelaps lubricus | small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange |
African grey African gray Psittacus erithacus | commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face, native to equatorial Africa |
African hunting dog hyena dog Cape hunting dog Lycaon pictus | a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs, now rare in settled area |
African wild ass Equus asinus | a wild ass of Africa |
central chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes | black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa, closely related to eastern chimpanzees |
green monkey African green monkey Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus | common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail |
African elephant Loxodonta africana | an elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks |
capital chapiter cap | the upper part of a column that supports the entablature |
capital ship | a warship of the first rank in size and armament |
central telephone exchange exchange | a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication |
central heating | a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators |
central processing unit CPU C.P.U. central processor processor mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
headquarters central office main office home office home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
kat khat qat quat cat Arabian tea African tea | the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea, has the effect of a euphoric stimulant, in Yemen kat is used daily by % of adults |
fissure of Rolando Rolando's fissure central sulcus sulcus centralis | a brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres, separates the frontal and parietal lobes |
central artery of the retina arteria centralis retinae | a branch of the ophthalmic artery, enters the eyeball with the optic nerve |
central veins of liver venae centrales hepatis | terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids |
central vein of retina vena centrales retinae | vein formed by the union of the retinal veins, accompanies central arteries of the retina in the optic nerve |
central vein of suprarenal gland vena centralis glandulae suprarenalis | a single draining vein, on the right it empties into the inferior vena cava, on the left it empties into the left renal vein |
centrosome central body | small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus, contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules |
central nervous system CNS systema nervosum centrale | the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord |
central gyrus | either of two gyri on either side of the central sulcus |
central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea, the middle part of the visual field |
capital capital letter uppercase upperase letter majuscule | one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis, printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases, capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upperase letters |
small capital small cap | a character having the form of an upperase letter but the same height as lowerase letters |
block letter block capital | a plain hand-drawn letter |
Thai Siamese Central Thai | a branch of the Tai languages |
African American Vernacular English AAVE African American English Black English Black English Vernacular Black Vernacular Black Vernacular English Ebonics | a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States |
Afrikaans Taal South African Dutch | an official language of the Republic of South Africa, closely related to Dutch and Flemish |
South-Central Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in south central India |
Central Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India |
West African | a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa |
black music African-American music | music created by African-American musicians, early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses |
Das Kapital Capital | a book written by Karl Marx () describing his economic theories |
Central Intelligence Agency CIA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest, headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council |
Weimar Republic | the German republic founded at Weimar in , The Weimar Republic was overthrown in and replaced by the Third Reich |
Central Powers | in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies |
Central America | the nations of Central America collectively |
Central Intelligence Machinery CIM | the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies |
central bank | a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government |
European Central Bank | the central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency, The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve |
Capital Washington | the federal government of the United States |
democracy republic commonwealth | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
republic | a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch, the head of state in a republic is usually a president |