capital offense | a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
execution executing capital punishment death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
Leyte Leyte Island Leyte invasion | a battle in World War II, the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October , the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese |
Battle of Wake Battle of Wake Island | in December the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines |
Rhode Island red | American breed of heavy-bodied brownished general-purpose chicken |
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 |
gas pump gasoline pump petrol pump island dispenser | a pump in a service station that draws gasoline from underground storage tanks |
island | a zone or area resembling an island |
kitchen island | an unattached counter in a kitchen that permits access from all sides |
Prince Albert | a man's double-breasted frock coat |
traffic island safety island safety isle safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
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 |
Das Kapital Capital | a book written by Karl Marx () describing his economic theories |
Lane's Prince Albert | apple used primarily in cooking |
Thousand Island dressing | mayonnaise with chili sauce or catsup and minced olives and peppers and hardooked egg |
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 |
Bouvet Island | an island belonging to Norway in the South Atlantic near the Antarctic Circle |
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 |
Sao Tiago Island | largest of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean |
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 |
N'Djamena Ndjamena Fort-Lamy capital of Chad | the capital and largest city of Chad, located in the southwestern on the Shari river |
Gran Santiago Santiago Santiago de Chile capital of Chile | the capital and largest city of Chile, located in central Chile, one of the largest cities in South America |
Beijing Peking Peiping capital of Red China | capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China, nd largest Chinese city |
Taipei Taipeh capital of Taiwan | the capital of Nationalist China, located in northern Taiwan |
Bogota capital of Colombia | capital and largest city of Colombia, located in central Colombia on a high fertile plain |
San Jose capital of Costa Rica | the capital and largest city of Costa Rica |
Guatemala City capital of Guatemala | the capital and largest city of Guatemala |
Tegucigalpa Honduran capital | the capital and largest city of Honduras |
San Salvador Salvadoran capital | the capital and largest city of El Salvador, has suffered from recurrent earthquakes |
Managua capital of Nicaragua Nicaraguan capital | the capital and largest city of Nicaragua |
Panama City capital of Panama Panamanian capital | the capital and largest city of Panama |