| Agency | (n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power |
| Agency | (n.) The office of an agent, or factor |
| Agency | (n.) The place of business of am agent. |
| Anti-trade | (n.) A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind. |
| Atomic | (a.) Alt. of Atomical |
| Bas-relief | (n.) Low relief |
| Bass-relief | (n.) Some as Bas-relief. |
| Booking office | () An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. |
| Booking office | () An office where passage tickets are sold. |
| Breast-high | (a.) High as the breast. |
| Capital | (n.) Of or pertaining to the head. |
| Capital | (n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life |
| Capital | (n.) First in importance |
| Capital | (n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation |
| Capital | (n.) Of first rate quality |
| Capital | (n.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column. |
| Capital | (n.) The seat of government |
| Capital | (n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc. |
| Capital | (a.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. |
| Capital | (a.) Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. |
| Capital | (a.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts. |
| Capital | (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book. |
| Capital | (a.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a. |
| Centre | (v. i.) To be placed in a center |
| Centre | (v. i.) To be collected to a point |
| Centre | (v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point. |
| Centre | (v. t.) To collect to a point |
| Centre | (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center. |
| Centre | (n. & v.) See Center. |
| Change | (v. t.) To alter |
| Change | (v. t.) To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else |
| Change | (v. t.) To give and take reciprocally |
| Change | (v. t.) Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for |
| Change | (v. i.) To be altered |
| Change | (v. i.) To pass from one phase to another |
| Change | (v. t.) Any variation or alteration |
| Change | (v. t.) A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another |
| Change | (v. t.) A passing from one phase to another |
| Change | (v. t.) Alteration in the order of a series |
| Change | (v. t.) That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another. |
| Change | (v. t.) Small money |
| Change | (v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business |
| Change | (v. t.) A public house |
| Change | (v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale. |
| Chief justice | () The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. |
| Child | (n.) A son or a daughter |
| Child | (n.) A descendant, however remote |
| Child | (n.) One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another |
| Child | (n.) A noble youth. See Childe. |
| Child | (n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth |
| Child | (n.) A female infant. |
| Child | (v. i.) To give birth |
| Climate | (v. i.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day. |
| Climate | (v. i.) The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life. |
| Climate | (v. i.) To dwell. |
| Coal works | () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. |
| Combat | (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force |
| Combat | (v. t.) To fight with |
| Combat | (n.) A fight |
| Combat | (n.) An engagement of no great magnitude |
| Commission | (n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing |
| Commission | (n.) The act of intrusting |
| Commission | (n.) The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons |
| Commission | (n.) A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties. |
| Commission | (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority |
| Commission | (n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust |
| Commission | (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another. |
| Commission | (n.) The thing to be done as agent for another |
| Commission | (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another |
| Commission | (v. t.) To give a commission to |
| Commission | (v. t.) To send out with a charge or commission. |
| Commissioner | (n.) A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him |
| Commissioner | (n.) An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service. |
| Committee | (n.) One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together. |
| Committee | (v. t.) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority |
| Compensation | (n.) The act or principle of compensating. |
| Compensation | (n.) That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent |
| Compensation | (n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors |
| Compensation | (n.) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. |
| Compensation | (n.) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. |
| Conference | (n.) The act of comparing two or more things together |
| Conference | (n.) The act of consulting together formally |
| Conference | (n.) A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions. |
| Conference | (n.) A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them. |
| Conference | (n.) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. |
| Conference | (n.) A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district |
| Control | (n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register |
| Control | (n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder |
| Control | (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain |
| Control | (v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account |
| Control | (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over |
| Convention | (v. i.) The act of coming together |
| Convention | (v. i.) General agreement or concurrence |
| Convention | (v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical. |
| Convention | (v. i.) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. |
| Convention | (v. i.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty |
| Copper works | () A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. |
| Counter | (adv.) A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition |
| Counter | (v. t.) One who counts, or reckons up |
| Counter | (v. t.) A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc. |
| Counter | (v. t.) Money |
| Counter | (v. t.) A prison |
| Counter | (v. t.) A telltale |
| Counter | (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted |
| Counter | (adv.) Contrary |
| Counter | (adv.) In the wrong way |
| Counter | (adv.) At or against the front or face. |
| Counter | (a.) Contrary |
| Counter | (adv.) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper. |
| Counter | (adv.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor. |
| Counter | (adv.) The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck. |
| Counter | (adv.) The back leather or heel part of a boot. |
| Counter | (n.) An encounter. |
| Counter | (v. i.) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. |
| Counter brace | () The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel. |
| Counter brace | () A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive. |
| Counter-compony | (a.) See Compony. |
| Counter-couchant | (a.) Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions |
| Counter-courant | (a.) Running in opposite directions |
| Counter-paly | (a.) Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure. |
| Counter-roll | (n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. |
| Counter-salient | (a.) Leaping from each other |
| Counter tenor | () One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble |
| Counter weight | (n.) A counterpoise. |
| Crime | (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human |
| Crime | (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare |
| Crime | (n.) Any great wickedness or sin |
| Crime | (n.) That which occasion crime. |
| Crown office | () The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. |
| Development | (n.) The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown |
| Development | (n.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. |
| Development | (n.) The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning. |
| Development | (n.) The equivalent expression into which another has been developed. |
| Development | (n.) The elaboration of a theme or subject |
| Disarmament | (n.) The act of disarming. |
| Drug | (v. i.) To drudge |
| Drug | (n.) A drudge (?). |
| Drug | (n.) Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines |
| Drug | (n.) Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable |
| Drug | (v. i.) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. |
| Drug | (v. t.) To affect or season with drugs or ingredients |
| Drug | (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious. |
| Drug | (v. t.) To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. |
| East | (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth |
| East | (n.) The eastern parts of the earth |
| East | (n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States |
| East | (a.) Toward the rising sun |
| East | (adv.) Eastward. |
| East | (v. i.) To move toward the east |
| East Indian | () Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. |
| East Indian | (n.) A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies. |
| East-insular | (a.) Relating to the Eastern Islands |
| Education | (n.) The act or process of educating |
| Energy | (n.) Internal or inherent power |
| Energy | (n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted |
| Energy | (n.) Strength of expression |
| Energy | (n.) Capacity for performing work. |
| Environment | (n.) Act of environing |
| Environment | (n.) That which environs or surrounds |
| Framework | (n.) The work of framing, or the completed work |
| Framework | (n.) Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom. |
| Fund | (n.) An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. |
| Fund | (n.) A stock or capital |
| Fund | (n.) The stock of a national debt |
| Fund | (n.) An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object |
| Fund | (n.) A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure |
| Fund | (v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of |
| Fund | (v. t.) To place in a fund, as money. |
| Fund | (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest |
| High | (v. i.) To hie. |
| High | (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface |
| High | (superl.) Regarded as raised up or elevated |
| High | (superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual |
| High | (superl.) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like |
| High | (superl.) Of noble birth |
| High | (superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like |
| High | (superl.) Very abstract |
| High | (superl.) Costly |
| High | (superl.) Arrogant |
| High | (superl.) Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree |
| High | (superl.) Strong-scented |
| High | (superl.) Acute or sharp |
| High | (superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11. |
| High | (adv.) In a high manner |
| High | (n.) An elevated place |
| High | (n.) People of rank or high station |
| High | (n.) The highest card dealt or drawn. |
| High | (v. i.) To rise |
| High-blown | (a.) Inflated, as with conceit. |
| High-bred | (a.) Bred in high life |
| High-built | (a.) Of lofty structure |
| High-church | (a.) Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a. |
| High-churchism | (n.) The principles of the high-church party. |
| High-churchman | (n.) One who holds high-church principles. |
| High-churchman-ship | (n.) The state of being a high-churchman. |
| High-colored | (a.) Having a strong, deep, or glaring color |
| High-colored | (a.) Vivid |
| High-embowed | (a.) Having lofty arches. |
| High-fed | (a.) Pampered |
| High-finished | (a.) Finished with great care |
| High-flown | (a.) Elevated |
| High-flown | (a.) Turgid |
| High-flushed | (a.) Elated. |
| High-go | (n.) A spree |
| High-handed | (a.) Overbearing |
| High-hearted | (a.) Full of courage or nobleness |
| High-hoe | (n.) The European green woodpecker or yaffle. |
| High-holder | (n.) The flicker |
| High-low | (n.) A laced boot, ankle high. |
| High-mettled | (a.) Having abundance of mettle |
| High-minded | (a.) Proud |
| High-minded | (a.) Having, or characterized by, honorable pride |
| High-mindedness | (n.) The quality of being highminded |
| High-palmed | (a.) Having high antlers |
| High-pressure | (a.) Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere |
| High-pressure | (a.) Fig.: Urgent |
| High priest | () A chief priest |
| High-priesthood | (n.) The office, dignity, or position of a high priest. |
| High-priestship | (n.) High-priesthood. |
| High-principled | (a.) Possessed of noble or honorable principles. |
| High-proof | (a.) Highly rectified |
| High-proof | (a.) So as to stand any test. |
| High-raised | (a.) Elevated |
| High-raised | (a.) Elated with great ideas or hopes. |
| High-reaching | (a.) Reaching high or upward |
| High-red | (a.) Of a strong red color. |
| High-seasoned | (a.) Enriched with spice and condiments |
| High-sighted | (a.) Looking upward |
| High-souled | (a.) Having a high or noble spirit |
| High-sounding | (a.) Pompous |
| High-spirited | (a.) Full of spirit or natural fire |
| High-stepper | (n.) A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait |
| High-stomached | (a.) Having a lofty spirit |
| High-strung | (a.) Strung to a high pitch |
| High-swelling | (a.) Inflated |
| High-toned | (a.) High in tone or sound. |
| High-toned | (a.) Elevated |
| High-top | (n.) A ship's masthead. |
| High-wrought | (a.) Wrought with fine art or skill |
| High-wrought | (a.) Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree |
| Hors de combat | () Out of the combat |
| Human | (a.) Belonging to man or mankind |
| Human | (n.) A human being. |
| Hunt-counter | (n.) A worthless dog that runs back on the scent |
| Institute | (p. a.) Established |
| Institute | (v. t.) To set up |
| Institute | (v. t.) To originate and establish |
| Institute | (v. t.) To nominate |
| Institute | (v. t.) To begin |
| Institute | (v. t.) To ground or establish in principles and rudiments |
| Institute | (v. t.) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls. |
| Institute | (a.) The act of instituting |
| Institute | (a.) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom. |
| Institute | (a.) Hence: An elementary and necessary principle |
| Institute | (n.) An institution |
| Institute | (n.) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation. |
| International | (a.) Between or among nations |
| International | (a.) Of or concerning the association called the International. |
| International | (n.) The International |
| International | (n.) A member of the International Association. |
| Iron works | () See under Iron, a. |
| Justice | (a.) The quality of being just |
| Justice | (a.) Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct |
| Justice | (a.) The rendering to every one his due or right |
| Justice | (a.) Agreeableness to right |
| Justice | (a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice. |
| Justice | (v. t.) To administer justice to. |
| Knee-high | (a.) Rising or reaching upward to the knees |
| Office | (n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others |
| Office | (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose |
| Office | (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself |
| Office | (n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform |
| Office | (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted |
| Office | (n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office |
| Office | (n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. |
| Office | (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass |
| Office | (v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office |
| Palestinian | (a.) Alt. of Palestinean |
| Population | (n.) The act or process of populating |
| Population | (n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country |
| Post office | (n.) See under 4th Post. |
| Prevention | (n.) The act of going, or state of being, before. |
| Prevention | (n.) Anticipation |
| Prevention | (n.) The act of preventing or hindering |
| Prevention | (n.) Prejudice |
| Programme | (n.) That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement |
| Project | (n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. |
| Project | (n.) That which is projected or designed |
| Project | (n.) An idle scheme |
| Project | (v. t.) To throw or cast forward |
| Project | (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind |
| Project | (v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything |
| Project | (v. i.) To shoot forward |
| Project | (v. i.) To form a project |
| Radiation | (n.) The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated |
| Radiation | (n.) The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light |
| Refugee | (n.) One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety. |
| Refugee | (n.) Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety |
| Regional | (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular region |
| Relief | (n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved |
causal agent
cause
causal agency | any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results |
act
deed
human action
human activity | something that people do or cause to happen |
| social relation | a relation between living organisms (especially between people) |
drug bust
drugs bust | seizure of illegal drugs by the police |
capture
gaining control
seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
change-up
change-of-pace
change-of-pace ball
off-speed pitch | a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball |
| fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
counterpunch
parry
counter | a return punch (especially by a boxer) |
about-face volte-face
reversal policy change | a major change in attitude or principle or point of view, an about-face on foreign policy |
means
agency
way | how a result is obtained or an end is achieved, a means of control, an example is the best agency of instruction, the true way to success |
| change | the action of changing something, the change of government had no impact on the economy, his change on abortion cost him the election |
| pitching change | replacing a pitcher in baseball |
| change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
| withdrawal drug withdrawal | the termination of drug taking |
| development | act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining, he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency, they funded research and development |
| product development | improving an existing product or developing new kinds of products |
| high colonic | an enema that injects large amounts of fluid high into the colon for cleansing purposes |
recompense
compensation | the act of compensating for service or loss or injury |
| oil change | replacing dirty oil with clean |
overhaul
inspection and repair
service | periodic maintenance on a car or machine, it was time for an overhaul on the tractor |
| change of color | an act that changes the light that something reflects |
| international flight | a flight that takes off in one country and lands in another |
change of direction
reorientation | the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented |
| change of course | a change in the direction that you are moving |
| change of magnitude | the act of changing the amount or size of something |
easing
easement
alleviation
relief | the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance), he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain |
| change of integrity | the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something |
| change of shape | an action that changes the shape of something |
| child abuse | the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children |
| child neglect | failure of caretakers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child |
| play child's play | activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules, Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child |
| high jump | the act of jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar |
| child's game | a game enjoyed by children |
| post office | a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters |
all fours
high-low-jack | card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game |
| high-low | poker in which the high and low hands split the pot |
jinks
high jinks
hijinks
high jinx | noisy and mischievous merrymaking |
| social dancing | dancing as part of a social occasion |
| change ringing | ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing |
program
programme | a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation, the program lasted more than two hours |
cinch breeze
picnic
snap duck soup
child's play
pushover
walkover
piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
works
deeds | performance of moral or religious acts, salvation by deeds, the reward for good works |
welfare work
social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
| services | performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others, the mayor tried to maintain city services, the medical services are excellent |
position post
berth
office spot billet
place
situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
President of the United States
President Chief Executive | the office of the United States head of state, a President is elected every four years |
| public office | a position concerning the people as a whole |
Attorney General
Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
Secretary of Education
Education Secretary | the position of the head of the Education Department, the post of Education Secretary was created in |
Secretary of Energy
Energy Secretary | the position of the head of the Department of Energy, the post of Energy Secretary was created in |
| Secretary of Health and Human Services | the position of the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services was created by Congress in |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
| Secretary of Health Education and Welfare | head of a former executive department created in and divided into two departments in |
trade
craft | the skilled practice of a practical occupation, he learned his trade as an apprentice |
| education | the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) |
| inventory control | supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
| research | systematic investigation to establish facts |
| operations research | research designed to determine most efficient way to do something |
| biological research | scientific research conducted by biologists |
| human reproductive cloning | the reproductive cloning of a sentient human being, generally considered ethically unacceptable |
| stemell research | research on stem cells and their use in medicine |
| embryonic stemell research | biological research on stem cells derived from embryos and on their use in medicine |
marketing research
market research | research that gathers and analyzes information about the moving of good or services from producer to consumer |
| product research | marketing research that yields information about desired characteristics of the product or service |
| consumer research | marketing research that yields information about the motives and needs of different classes of consumers |
| Human Genome Project | an international study of the entire human genetic material |
scientific research
research project | research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses |
iontophoresis
ionic medication
iontotherapy
electromotive drug administration
EMDA | therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues |
| justice | judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments |
radiotherapy
radiation therapy
radiation actinotherapy
irradiation | (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance |
function
office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
| classroom project | a school task requiring considerable effort |
mission
charge commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group, a confidential mission to London, his charge was deliver a message |
waste of effort
waste of energy | a useless effort |
extravagance
prodigality
lavishness
highlife
high life | excessive spending |
child pornography
kiddie porn
kiddy porn | the illegal use of children in pornographic pictures or films |
terrorism
act of terrorism
terrorist act | the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature, this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear |
bioterrorism
biological terrorism | terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare |
| chemical terrorism | terrorism using the chemical agents of chemical warfare, can undermine the personal security of citizens, a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced |
cyber-terrorism
cyberwar | an assault on electronic communication networks |
| domestic terrorism | terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people, the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City was an instance of domestic terrorism |
ecoterrorism
ecological terrorism
eco-warfare
ecological warfare | violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists |
| international terrorism | terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country |
| nuclear terrorism | the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials, assaults on nuclear power plants is one form of nuclear terrorism |
| state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
crime
offense criminal offense
criminal offence
offence law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law, usually considered an evil act, a long record of crimes |
| crime | an evil act not necessarily punishable by law, crimes of the heart |
| capital offense | a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
| Had crime | (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran, Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery |
perpetration
commission committal | the act of committing a crime |
sexual assault
sexual abuse
sex crime
sex offense | a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat, most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault |
| Tazir crime | (Islam) minor crimes committed by Muslims, crimes that are not mentioned in the Koran so judges are free to punish the offender in any appropriate way, in some Islamic nations Tazir crimes are set by legislation |
treason
high treason
lese majesty | a crime that undermines the offender's government |
| vice crime | a vice that is illegal |
| victimless crime | an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims, he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime |
| war crime | a crime committed in wartime, violation of rules of war |
pilot project
pilot program | activity planned as a test or trial, they funded a pilot project in six states |
undertaking
project
task labor | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted, he prepared for great undertakings |
| control | the activity of managing or exerting control over something, the control of the mob by the police was admirable |
| crowd control | activity of controlling a crowd |