| search and rescue mission | a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them |
| party game | a game to amuse guests at a party |
| search | an investigation seeking answers, a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing, the outcome justified the search |
| search | boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas, right of search |
search
hunt hunting | the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone |
| strip search | searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes |
| search mission | a mission to discover something |
| search and destroy mission | an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam, troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them |
| Boston Tea Party | demonstration () by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor, organized as a protest against taxes on tea |
| party spirit | devotion to a political party |
| air search radar | a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft |
party favor
party favour
favor
favour | souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party |
| party line | a telephone line serving two or more subscribers |
| party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
| surface search radar | a naval radar to search for surface targets |
| freedom from search and seizure | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
| right of search | the right of a belligerent to stop neutral ships on the high seas in wartime and search them |
| search | the examination of alternative hypotheses, his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful |
| search warrant | a warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to search for objects or people involved in the commission of a crime and to produce them in court, the warrant describes the locations where the officials may search |
| search engine | a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) |
| party line | the policy of a political group, He won in a vote along party lines |
command language
query language
search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
| party | an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment, he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day |
| birthday party | a party held on the anniversary of someone's birth |
| cocktail party | an afternoon party at which cocktails are served |
| house party | a party lasting over one or more nights at a large house |
| tea party | a party at which tea is served |
a Hizballah
Hezbollah
Hizbollah
Hizbullah
Lebanese Hizballah
Party of God
Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
Revolutionary Justice Organization
Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Freedom Party | the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia, advocates `pure' Islam and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state |
Islamic Group of Uzbekistan
IMU
Islamic Party of Turkestan | a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in , opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia, is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries |
Khmer Rouge
KR
Party of Democratic Kampuchea
Communist Party of Kampuchea | a communist organization formed in Cambodia in , became a terrorist organization in when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people, was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until |
Kurdistan Workers Party
Kurdistan Labor Pary
Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan
PPK | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey |
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party
Revolutionary People's Liberation Front | an extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States, attacks Turkish security and military officials |
gang
crew
work party | an organized group of workmen |
| party | a group of people gathered together for pleasure, she joined the party after dinner |
masquerade
masquerade party
masque
mask | a party of guests wearing costumes and masks |
dinner
dinner party | a party of people assembled to have dinner together, guests should never be late to a dinner party |
garden party
lawn party
fete champetre | a party of people assembled for social interaction out of doors |
| bachelor party | stag party held for a bachelor (usually on the night before he is married) |
stag party
smoker | a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only) |
| hen party | a party for women only |
| slumber party | an overnight party of girls who dress in nightclothes and pass the night talking |
wedding
wedding party | a party of people at a wedding |
| party political party | an organization to gain political power, in Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level |
| American Labor Party | a former political party in the United States, formed in in New York when labor and liberals bolted the Democratic Party |
American Party
Know-Nothing Party | a former political party in the United States, active in the s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics |
| Anti-Masonic Party | a former political party in the United States, founded in in opposition to Freemasonry in public affairs |
| Communist Party | a political party that actively advocates a communist form of government, in Communist countries it is the sole political party of the state |
| Conservative Party | a political party (especially in Great Britain or Australia) that believes in the importance of a capitalist economy with private ownership rather than state control |
| Constitutional Union Party | a former political party in the United States, formed in by former Whigs who hoped to preserve the Union |