city planning
town planning
urban planning | determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community |
surprise attack
coup de main | an attack without warning |
Battle of the Marne
Belleau Wood
Chateau-Thierry
Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
Granicus
Battle of Granicus River | the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians ( BC) |
| Metaurus River | a battle during the second Punic War ( BC), Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy |
Meuse
Meuse River
Argonne
Argonne Forest
Meuse-Argonne
Meuse-Argonne operation | an American operation in World War I (), American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November |
| Somme Somme River Battle of the Somme | battle in World War I () |
| Somme Somme River Battle of the Somme | battle of World War II () |
| Yalu River | a battle in the Korean War (November ), when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River , Chinese troops crossed the river and drove them back |
cooter
river cooter
Pseudemys concinna | large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico |
river limpet
freshwater limpet
Ancylus fluviatilis | minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants |
longlawed prawn
river prawn
Palaemon australis | large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers |
| river dolphin | any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia |
hippopotamus
hippo
river horse
Hippopotamus amphibius | massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa |
river otter
Lutra canadensis | sociable aquatic animal widely distributed along streams and lake borders in North America |
river shad
Alosa chrysocloris | shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage, very similar to Alosa sapidissima |
Australian arowana
Dawson River salmon
saratoga
spotted barramundi
spotted bonytongue
Scleropages leichardti | a species of large fish found in Australian rivers |
| city hall | a building that houses administrative offices of a municipal government |
| city university | an urban university in a large city |
| electric main | a main that distributes electricity |
| gas main | a main that distributes gas |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
highway
main road | a major road for any form of motor transport |
| main | a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage |
| main course | a square mainsail |
main deck
second deck | the uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel |
| main drag | the main street of a town or city |
| main line | the principal route of a transportation system |
| main rotor | rotor consisting of large rotating airfoils on a singleotor helicopter that produce the lift to support the helicopter in the air |
main street
high street | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town |
| main-topmast | the topmast next above the mainmast |
| main-topsail | a topsail set on the mainmast |
| main yard | yard for a square mainsail |
| New River Gorge Bridge | a steel arch bridge across New River at Fayetteville, West Virginia |
riser riser pipe
riser pipeline
riser main | a vertical pipe in a building |
| river boat | a boat used on rivers or to ply a river |
sewer main
sewer line | a main in a sewage system |
| water main | main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water |
Celestial City
City of God
Heavenly City
Holy City | phrases used to refer to Heaven, the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress' |
citation form
main entry word
entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |
main clause
independent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence |
master file
main file | (computer science) a computer file that is used as the authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent |
entree
main course | the principal dish of a meal |
anchovy pear
river pear | West Indian fruit resembling the mango, often pickled |
| river prawn | large Australian prawn |
| the City | used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain |
city desk
city room | the editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news |
Third Reich
Nazi Germany | the Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (-) |
city state
city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city |
city
metropolis | people living in a large densely populated municipality, the city voted for Republicans in |