slide
glide
coast | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it, his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill, the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope |
| German lesson | instruction in the German language |
| 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 |
islands of Langerhans
isles of Langerhans
islets of Langerhans | cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ, secrete insulin and other hormones |
| coast | the area within view, the coast is clear |
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 |
United States Coast Guard
U. S. Coast Guard
US Coast Guard | an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce |
Luftwaffe
German Luftwaffe | the German airforce |
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in and brought to power by Hitler in |
Adelie Land
Terre Adelie
Adelie Coast | a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia, noted for its large colonies of penguins |
| Barbary Coast | the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates |
| Barbary Coast | a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of ), we'll tolerate no Barbary Coast in this city! |
| Channel Islands National Park | a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life |
| Virgin Islands National Park | a national park in the Virgin Islands having tropical plants and animals, sandy beaches and coral reefs |
| gold coast | a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living, usually along a coastal area, Chicago's gold coast is along Lake Michigan |
| Aran Islands | three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay |
| Cayman Islands | a British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica, an international banking center |
| Cape Verde Islands | a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal |
| Falkland Islands | a group of over islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina, a British Crown Colony |
Comoro Islands
Iles Comores | three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar |
Ivory Coast
Cote d'Ivoire
Republic of Cote d'Ivoire | a republic in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, one of the most prosperous and politically stable countries in Africa |
| Leeward Islands | a group of islands in the eastern West Indies |
Windward Islands
Windward Isles | a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies, the southern part of the Lesser Antilles |
| Virgin Islands | a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in , owned by United States and Britain |
| British Virgin Islands | more thannortheastern Virgin Islands ( inhabited), a dependent territory of the United Kingdom |
United States Virgin Islands
American Virgin Islands
VI | more thansoutheastern Virgin Islands, a dependent territory of the United States |
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 |
Galapagos Islands
Galapagos | a group of islands in the Pacific off South America, owned by Ecuador, known for unusual animal life |
Fiji Islands
Fijis | a group of more than islands ( inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific, larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs, smaller islands are coral |
Aland islands
Aaland islands
Ahvenanmaa | an archipelago of some , islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control |
Egadi Islands
Aegadean Isles
Aegadean Islands
Isole Egadi
Aegates | a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean |
Aleutian Islands
Aleutians | an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska |
Mariana Islands
Marianas
Ladrone Islands | a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan, discovered by Magellan in |
Northern Marianas
Northern Mariana Islands | a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam |
| Caroline Islands | a long archipelago of more than islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines |
| Marshall Islands | a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia |
Marshall Islands
Republic of the Marshall Islands | a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands |
| Gilbert Islands | a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii, formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in |
| Tuvalu Ellice Islands | a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands | a former British possession in Micronesia |
| Sunda Islands | a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago |