capital offense | a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
air cover | the use of military aircraft to provide protection against attack by enemy aircraft during ground or naval operations |
cover covering fire | fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations, artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal |
cover covering screening masking | the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it, the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft |
cover | a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent), her new name and passport are cover for her next assignment |
cover-up | concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public |
execution executing capital punishment death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
bedspread bedcover bed cover bed covering counterpane spread | decorative cover for a bed |
binding book binding cover back | the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book, the book had a leather binding |
blanket cover | bedding that keeps a person warm in bed, he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep |
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 |
cover cover version cover song | a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else, they made a cover of a Beatles' song |
cover glass cover slip | a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide |
cover plate | covering consisting of a plate used to cover over or close in a chamber or receptacle |
dust cover | a removable plastic protective covering for a piece of equipment |
dust cover dust sheet | a large piece of cloth used to cover furniture that is not in use for a long period |
floor cover floor covering | a covering for a floor |
lens cap lens cover | cap used to keep lens free of dust when not in use |
manhole cover | a flush iron cover for a manhole (as in a street) |
mattress cover | bedclothes that provide a cover for a mattress |
protective covering protective cover protection | a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury, they had no protection from the fallout, wax provided protection for the floors |
record sleeve record cover | a sleeve for storing a phonograph record |
screen cover covert concealment | a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something, a screen of trees afforded privacy, under cover of darkness, the brush provided a covert for game, the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background |
top cover | covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container), he removed the top of the carton, he couldn't get the top off of the bottle, put the cover back on the kettle |
covering letter cover letter | a letter sent along with other documents to provide additional information |
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 |
book jacket dust cover dust jacket dust wrapper | a paper jacket for a book, a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed |
Das Kapital Capital | a book written by Karl Marx () describing his economic theories |
Capital Washington | the federal government of the United States |
capital | a seat of government |
capital | a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product, the crime capital of Italy, the drug capital of Columbia |
national capital | the capital city of a nation |
provincial capital | the capital city of a province |
state capital | the capital city of a political subdivision of a country |
Kabul capital of Afghanistan | the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in eastern Afghanistan |
Tirana Albanian capital | the capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country |
Algiers Algerian capital | an ancient port on the Mediterranean, the capital and largest city of Algeria |
Luanda Angolan capital | port city on Atlantic coast, the capital and largest city of Angola |
St. John's Saint John's capital of Antigua and Barbuda | the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, located on the island of Antigua |
Buenos Aires capital of Argentina | capital and largest city of Argentina, located in eastern Argentina near Uruguay, Argentina's chief port and industrial and cultural center |
Sofia Serdica Bulgarian capital | capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria |
Bujumbura Usumbura capital of Burundi | the capital and largest city of Burundi, Usumbura was renamed Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in |
Phnom Penh Pnom Penh Cambodian capital | the capital and largest city of Kampuchea |
Yaounde capital of Cameroon | the capital of Cameroon |
Praia Cidade de Praia capital of Cape Verde | the capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island |
Bangui capital of Central Africa | the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic |
Colombo capital of Sri Lanka | the capital and largest city of Sri Lanka, has one of the largest harbors in the world, is located on the western coast of the island of Ceylon |