country-dance country dancing contredanse contra danse contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
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 |
country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
positive pole positive magnetic pole north-seeking pole | the pole of a magnet that points toward the north when the magnet is suspended freely |
University of North Carolina | a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
North Atlantic Treaty | the treaty signed in by countries that established NATO |
Northern | a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans |
Scandinavian Scandinavian language Nordic Norse North Germanic North Germanic language | the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland |
Norman-French Norman French Old North French | the medieval Norman dialect of Old French |
North Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in eastern India |
country music country and western C and W | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States, usually played on stringed instruments |
cross country | a long race run over open country |
New England clam chowder | a thick chowder made with clams and potatoes and onions and salt pork and milk |
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 |
boiled dinner New England boiled dinner | corned beef simmered with onions and cabbage and usually other vegetables |
country people countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
Anglican Church Anglican Communion Church of England | the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs), has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head |
American Baptist Convention Northern Baptist Convention | an association of Northern Baptists |
nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
commonwealth country | any of the countries in the British Commonwealth |
developing country | a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically |
foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
North America | the nations of the North American continent collectively |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO | an international organization created in by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security |
country club | a suburban club for recreation and socializing |
North Atlantic Council NAC | a council consisting of permanent representatives of all the member countries of NATO, has political authority and powers of decision |