German lesson | instruction in the German language |
armed robbery heist holdup stickup | robbery at gunpoint |
armed forces censorship | military censorship of personal communications to or from persons in the armed forces |
combat armed combat | an engagement fought between two military forces |
German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany, pointer and bloodhound |
German shepherd German shepherd dog German police dog alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
black bee German bee | darkolored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin |
German cockroach Croton bug crotonbug water bug Blattella germanica | small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe, a common household pest |
pogge armed bullhead Agonus cataphractus | northern Atlantic sea poacher |
slot one-armed bandit | a slot machine that is used for gambling, they spend hours and hours just playing the slots |
tablet-armed chair | a chair with an arm that has been widened for writing |
German High German German language | the standard German language, developed historically from West Germanic |
Old High German | High German prior to |
Middle High German | High German from to |
Low German Plattdeutsch | a German dialect spoken in northern Germany |
Middle Low German | Low German from to |
pfannkuchen german pancake | puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce |
Armed Islamic Group GIA | a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in , aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state, the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres |
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda ALIR Former Armed Forces FAR Interahamwe | a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again, in ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists |
Forces of Umar Al-Mukhtar Umar al-Mukhtar Forces | a little known Palestinian group responsible for bombings and for killing Israelis, seeks to defeat Israel and liberate southern Lebanon, Palestine, and Golan Heights |
Lautaro Youth Movement Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces | a violent terrorist group organized in the s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government, leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths |
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia FARC | a powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party, opposed to the United States, has strong ties to drug dealers |
army regular army ground forces | a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state |
navy naval forces | an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare |
Luftwaffe German Luftwaffe | the German airforce |
military service armed service service | a force that is a branch of the armed forces |
military armed forces armed services military machine war machine | the military forces of a nation, their military is the largest in the region, the military machine is the same one we faced in but now it is weaker |
Special Forces U. S. Army Special Forces United States Army Special Forces | a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting |
National Socialist German Workers' Party Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in and brought to power by Hitler in |
East Germany German Democratic Republic | a republic in north central Europe on the Baltic, established by the Soviet Union in , reunified with West Germany in |
Berlin German capital | capital of Germany located in eastern Germany |
German American | an American who was born in Germany or whose ancestors were German |
German | a person of German nationality |
East German | a native or inhabitant of the former republic of East Germany |
cousin first cousin cousin-german full cousin | the child of your aunt or uncle |
Nazi German Nazi | a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party |
Louis II Louis le Begue Louis the Stammerer Louis the German | king of France and Germany (-) |
van der Waal's forces | relatively weak attraction between neutral atoms and molecules arising from polarization induced in each particle by the presence of other particles |
German ivy Delairea odorata Senecio milkanioides | South African succulent evergreen twining climber with yellow flowers grown primarily as a houseplant for its foliage, sometimes placed in genus Senecio |
sweet false chamomile wild chamomile German chamomile Matricaria recutita Matricaria chamomilla | annual Eurasian herb similar in fragrance and medicinal uses to chamomile though taste is more bitter and effect is considered inferior |
German millet golden wonder millet Setaria italica stramineofructa | millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes |
common evening primrose German rampion Oenothera biennis | a coarse biennial of eastern North America with yellow flowers that open in the evening, naturalized in Europe |
false tamarisk German tamarisk Myricaria germanica | Eurasian shrub resembling the tamarisk |
German iris Iris germanica | a large iris with purple or white flowers, native to central and southern Europe |
German iris Iris kochii | iris of northern Italy having deep blue-purple flowers, similar to but smaller than Iris germanica |
market forces | the interaction of supply and demand that shapes a market economy |
German monetary unit | monetary unit in Germany |
mark German mark Deutsche Mark Deutschmark | formerly the basic unit of money in Germany |
German measles rubella three-day measles epidemic roseola | a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days, can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester |
nickel silver German silver | a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel |