| state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
| change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
| Royal National Eisteddfod | an eisteddfod with competitions in music and drama and poetry and the fine arts |
| national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
| Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
| state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
| national censorship | censorship under civil authority of communications entering or leaving of crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions |
| national insurance | social insurance program in Britain, based on contributions from employers and employees, provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services |
supplementary benefit
social assistance
national assistance | benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law |
| chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
| Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway
freeway
motorway
pike state highway
superhighway
throughway
thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
| National Baseball Hall of Fame | a Hall of Fame and museum in Cooperstown, New York, honoring great baseball players |
National Library of Medicine
United States National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine | the world's largest medical library |
| national monument | memorial consisting of a structure or natural landmark of historic interest, set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment |
| Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
| state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
cognitive state
state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance
ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
steady state theory
continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
| territory | an area of knowledge or interest, his questions covered a lot of territory |
| solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
Higher National Diploma
HND | a diploma given for vocational training that prepares the student for a career in a particular area, good students may progress to a course leading to a degree |
trade policy
national trading policy | a government's policy controlling foreign trade |
| state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
national flag
ensign | an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality |
| national anthem | a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation |
| Grand National | an annual steeplechase run in Liverpool, England |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
National Liberation Army
ELN
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
| National Liberation Army ELN | a Marxist terrorist group formed in by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution, responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade, ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations |
National Liberation Front of Corsica
FLNC | a terrorist group formed in to work for Corsican independence, attacks on Corsica are aimed at sabotaging public infrastructure and symbols of colonialism |
National Trust
NT | an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty, founded in and supported by endowment and private subscription |
authoritarian state
authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
| State Department | a department of government in one of thestates |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight |
National Archives and Records Administration
NARA | the independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections |
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB | an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions |
National Science Foundation
NSF | an independent agency of the federal government responsible for the promotion of progress in science and engineering by supporting programs in research and education |
National Security Council
NSC | a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security, supervises the Central Intelligence Agency |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA | an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources, predicts changes to the earth's environment, provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather |
National Climatic Data Center
NCDC | the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data |
| National Weather Service | the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps |
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST | an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs |
National Technical Information Service
NTIS | an agency in the Technology Administration that is a primary resource for government-funded scientific and technical and engineering and business related information |
National Institutes of Health
NIH | an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health, is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government |
Department of State
United States Department of State
State Department
State DoS | the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies, the Department of State was created in |
| National Park Service | an agency of the Interior Department responsible for the national parks |