confederation alliance | the act of forming an alliance or confederation |
War of the Grand Alliance War of the League of Augsburg | an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (-) |
parula warbler northern parula Parula americana | small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast, of eastern North America |
northern oriole Icterus galbula | a kind of New World oriole |
northern shrike Lanius borealis | a butcherbird of northern North America |
marsh hawk northern harrier hen harrier Circus cyaneus | common harrier of North America and Europe, nests in marshes and open land |
northern cricket frog Acris crepitans | a cricket frog of eastern and central United States |
lowland burrowing treefrog northern casque-headed frog Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
northern bobwhite Colinus virginianus | a favorite game bird of eastern and central United States |
American lobster Northern lobster Maine lobster Homarus americanus | lobster of Atlantic coast of America |
northern phalarope Lobipes lobatus | breeds in Arctic regions of Old and New Worlds, large flocks often seen far out at sea |
stormy petrel northern storm petrel Hydrobates pelagicus | sooty black petrel with white markings, of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean |
northern bog lemming Synaptomys borealis | of wet alpine and subalpine meadows of Canada and Alaska |
northern pocket gopher Thomomys talpoides | greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States |
northern flying squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus | large flying squirrel, chiefly of Canada |
woolly mammoth northern mammoth Mammuthus primigenius | very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere |
northern snakehead | a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China, can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days, a threat to American populations of fish |
Australian bonytongue northern barramundi Scleropages jardinii | a species of large fish found in Australian rivers |
northern pike Esox lucius | voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere |
scup northern porgy northern scup Stenotomus chrysops | found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine, esteemed as a panfish |
northern whiting Menticirrhus saxatilis | whiting of the east coast of United States, closely resembles king whiting |
northern sea robin Prionotus carolinus | large searobin, found from Nova Scotia to Florida |
alliance | a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim |
Northern | a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans |
Northern Spy | large lateipening apple with skin striped with yellow and red |
American lobster Northern lobster Maine lobster | flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws, caught from Maine to the Carolinas |
American Baptist Convention Northern Baptist Convention | an association of Northern Baptists |
alliance coalition alignment alinement | an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty |
Northern Alliance United Front | a multiethnic alliance in Afghanistan who practice a moderate form of Islam and are united in their opposition to the Taliban |
northern hemisphere | the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator |
northern Europe | the northernmost countries of Europe |
Northern Territory | a territory in north central Australia |
Northern Marianas Northern Mariana Islands | a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam |
United Kingdom UK U.K. Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Great Britain | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles, divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland, `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom |
Northern Ireland | a division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland |
Belfast capital of Northern Ireland | capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland |
Zambia Republic of Zambia Northern Rhodesia | a republic in central Africa, formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in |
Northern Cross | a cluster of bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus |
Northern Baptist | a member of the American Baptist Convention |
aurora borealis northern lights | the aurora of the northern hemisphere |
pitch pine northern pitch pine Pinus rigida | large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, closely related to the pond pine |
American arborvitae northern white cedar white cedar Thuja occidentalis | small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets |
northern dune tansy Tanacetum douglasii | lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers, sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America |
jack oak northern pin oak Quercus ellipsoidalis | small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America, leaves have sharply pointed lobes |
northern red oak Quercus rubra Quercus borealis | large symmetrical deciduous tree with rounded crown widely distributed in eastern North America, has large leaves with triangular spiny tipped lobes and coarse-grained wood less durable than that of white oaks |
Northern dewberry American dewberry Rubus flagellaris | of eastern North America |
Northern bedstraw Northern snow bedstraw Galium boreale | North American stoloniferous perennial having white flowers, sometimes used as an ornamental |
northern Jacob's ladder Polemonium boreale | perennial erect herb with white flowers, circumboreal |
limestone fern northern oak fern Gymnocarpium robertianum | yellow-green fern of rocky areas of northern hemisphere |
northern holly fern Polystichum lonchitis | evergreen European fern widely cultivated |