surprise attack coup de main | an attack without warning |
Caledonian Canal | a canal in northern Scotland that links North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, runs diagonally between Moray Firth at the northeastern end and Loch Linnhe at the southwestern end, now little used |
Caloosahatchee Canal | a canal that connects Lake Okeechobee with the Caloosahatchee River in southern Florida to form part of the Cross-Florida Waterway |
canal | long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation |
canal boat narrow boat narrowboat | a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals |
electric main | a main that distributes electricity |
gas main | a main that distributes gas |
Gota Canal | a canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden |
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 |
Panama Canal | a ship canalmiles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (-) |
riser riser pipe riser pipeline riser main | a vertical pipe in a building |
sewer main sewer line | a main in a sewage system |
ship canal shipway | a canal large enough for seagoing vessels |
water main | main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water |
birth canal | a passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth |
auditory meatus acoustic meatus ear canal auditory canal external auditory canal | either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane |
spinal canal vertebral canal canalis vertebralis | the canal in successive vertebrae through which the spinal cord passes |
duct epithelial duct canal channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
canal of Schlemm Schlemm's canal sinus venosus sclerae | a circular canal in the eye that drains aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye into the anterior ciliary veins |
root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
semicircular canal | one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another, concerned with equilibrium |
Haversian canal | any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone |
inguinal canal canalis inguinalis | oblique passage through the lower abdominal wall, in males it is the passage through which the testes descend into the scrotum and it contains the spermatic cord, in females it transmits the round ligament of the uterus |
cervical canal canalis cervicis uteri | a spindle-shaped canal extending from the uterus to the vagina |
alimentary canal alimentary tract digestive tube digestive tract gastrointestinal tract GI tract | tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about . meters from mouth to anus, functions in digestion and elimination |
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 |
Rhine wine Rhenish hock | any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) |
main diagonal principal diagonal | the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry |
Main Street | any small town (or the people who inhabit it), generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis), Main Street will never vote for a liberal politician |
Grand Canal | an inland waterway miles long in eastern China, extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south |
Panama Canal Zone Canal Zone | a zone consisting of a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama that contains the Panama Canal |
Frankfurt on the Main Frankfurt Frankfort | a German city, an industrial and commercial and financial center |
Grand Canal | the major waterway in Venice, Italy |
Suez Canal | a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea |
Cape Cod Canal | a canal connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay |
Erie Canal | an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo, built in the th century, now part of the New York State Barge Canal |