Granite State
() New Hampshire |
Half-port
(n.) One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole. |
Port
(n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol. |
Port
(v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms |
Port
(v.) In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages. |
Port
(n.) A passageway |
Port
(n.) An opening in the side of a vessel |
Port
(n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine |
Port
(v. t.) To carry |
Port
(v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder |
Port
(n.) The manner in which a person bears himself |
Port
(n.) The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow) |
Port
(v. t.) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship |
Port-royalist
(n.) One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist. |
State
(n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. |
State
(n.) Rank |
State
(n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur |
State
(n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity |
State
(n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais |
State
(n.) Estate, possession. |
State
(n.) A person of high rank. |
State
(n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character |
State
(n.) The principal persons in a government. |
State
(n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country |
State
(n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. |
State
(n.) A political body, or body politic |
State
(n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited. |
State
(n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease |
State
(a.) Stately. |
State
(a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic |
State
(v. t.) To set |
State
(v. t.) To express the particulars of |
State
(n.) A statement |
States-general
(n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty. |
States-general
(n.) In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers. |
| state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
| change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
President of the United States
President Chief Executive | the office of the United States head of state, a President is elected every four years |
Attorney General
Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
| Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
| port-access coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine |
| state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
| Port Arthur | a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (), Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese |
American Civil War
United States Civil War
War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
carport
car port | garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles |
| chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
| Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway
freeway
motorway
pike state highway
superhighway
throughway
thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
| Great Seal of the United States | the seal of the United States government |
| interface port | (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) |
larboard
port | the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose |
National Library of Medicine
United States National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine | the world's largest medical library |
| Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
parallel interface
parallel port | an interface between a computer and a printer where the computer sends multiple bits of information to the printer simultaneously |
port
embrasure
porthole | an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through |
| serial port | an interface (commonly used for modems and mice and some printers) that transmits data a bit at a time |
| state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
USACIL | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command, the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence |
United States Mint
U.S. Mint
US Mint | the mint that manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation through Federal Reserve Banks, processes gold and silver bullion |
port-wine stain
nevus flammeus | a flat birthmark varying from pink to purple |
| states' rights | the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution |
cognitive state
state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance
ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
steady state theory
continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
| solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
| states' rights | a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states |
United States Constitution
U.S. Constitution
US Constitution
Constitution Constitution of the United States | the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states |
United States Code
U. S. Code | a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States, is prepared and published by a unit of the United States House of Representatives |
| state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
port
port wine | sweet darked dessert wine originally from Portugal |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
authoritarian state
authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
| State Department | a department of government in one of thestates |
United States Postal Service
US Postal Service
USPS | an independent federal agency that provides mail processing and delivery service for individuals and businesses in the United States |
United States Postal Inspection Service
US Postal Inspection Service | the primary law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service |
United States Trade Representative
US Trade Representative | the executive agency that administers the President's policies on international trade |
Department of Defense
Defense Department
United States Department of Defense
Defense DoD | the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States, created in |
United States Public Health Service
PHS | an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General, includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health |
United States Border Patrol
US Border Patrol | the mobile law enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that detects and prevents illegal entry of aliens into the United States |
Department of State
United States Department of State
State Department
State DoS | the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies, the Department of State was created in |
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
US Fish and Wildlife Service
FWS | an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats, assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution |
Department of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Treasury United States Treasury | the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances, the Treasury Department was created in |
United States Marshals Service
US Marshals Service
Marshals | the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system |
United States Post Office
US Post Office
Post Office
PO | an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States |
United States Senate
U.S. Senate
US Senate
Senate | the upper house of the United States Congress |