| capital offense | a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
execution
executing
capital punishment
death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
amphiuma
congo snake
congo eel
blind eel | aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet, of still muddy waters in the southern United States |
afropavo
Congo peafowl
Afropavo congensis | both sexes are brightly colored |
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 |
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 |
| Niger-Congo | a family of African language spoken in west Africa |
Das Kapital
Capital | a book written by Karl Marx () describing his economic theories |
congou
congo
congou tea
English breakfast tea | black tea grown in China |
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
DFLP
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PDFLP | a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change, in the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren |
Khmer Rouge
KR
Party of Democratic Kampuchea
Communist Party of Kampuchea | a communist organization formed in Cambodia in , became a terrorist organization in when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people, was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until |
| Weimar Republic | the German republic founded at Weimar in , The Weimar Republic was overthrown in and replaced by the Third Reich |
| Democratic Party | the older of two major political parties in the United States |
| Democratic-Republican Party | a former major political party in the United States in the early th century, opposed the old Federalist party, favored a strict interpretation of the constitution in order to limit the powers of the federal government |
| Social Democratic Party | a political party in Germany and Britain (and elsewhere) founded in late th century, originally Marxist, now advocates the gradual transformation of capitalism into democratic socialism |
States' Rights Democratic Party
Dixiecrats | a former political party in the United States, formed in by Democrats from southern states in order to oppose to the candidacy of Harry S Truman |
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 |
| banana republic | a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas) |
| 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 |
Namibia
Republic of Namibia
South West Africa | a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa), achieved independence from South Africa in , the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa |
Kabul
capital of Afghanistan | the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in eastern Afghanistan |
Albania
Republic of Albania | a republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula |
Tirana
Albanian capital | the capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country |
Algeria
Algerie
Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria | a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim, colonized by France in the th century but gained autonomy in the early s |
Algiers
Algerian capital | an ancient port on the Mediterranean, the capital and largest city of Algeria |
Angola
Republic of Angola | a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean, achieved independence from Portugal in and was the scene of civil war until |
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 |
Argentina
Argentine Republic | a republic in southern South America, second largest country in South America |
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 |
Bulgaria
Republic of Bulgaria | a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe |
Sofia
Serdica
Bulgarian capital | capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria |
Burundi
Republic of Burundi | a landlocked republic in east central Africa on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika |
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 |
Cameroon
Republic of Cameroon
Cameroun | a republic on the western coast of central Africa, was under French and British control until |
Yaounde
capital of Cameroon | the capital of Cameroon |
Cape Verde
Republic of Cape Verde | an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal |
Praia
Cidade de Praia
capital of Cape Verde | the capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island |
Central African Republic
Central Africa | a landlocked country in central Africa, formerly under French control, became independent in |
Bangui
capital of Central Africa | the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic |