War of the Grand Alliance War of the League of Augsburg | an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (-) |
bottom-feeder bottom-dweller | a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water |
bottom-feeder | a scavenger that feeds low on the food chain |
bottom lurkers | a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
groundfish bottom fish | fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) |
bottom freighter merchantman merchant ship | a cargo ship, they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms |
false bottom | a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
c buttocks nates arse butt backside bum buns can fundament hindquarters hind end keister posterior prat rear rear end rump stern seat tail tail end tooshie tush bottom behind derriere fanny ass a d | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on, he deserves a good kick in the butt, are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing? |
bottom line | the decisive point |
bottom round | cut from the round, suitable for pot roast |
major-league team major-league club | a team that plays in a major league |
minor-league team minor-league club | a team that plays in a minor league |
Foggy Bottom | United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River |
Arab League | an international organization of independent Arab states formed in to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation |
League of Nations | an international organization formed into promote cooperation and peace among nations, although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless, it was dissolved in after the United Nations was formed |
league conference | an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members |
major league big league majors | the most important league in any sport (especially baseball) |
minor league minors bush league | a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) |
baseball league | a league of baseball teams |
little league | a commercially sponsored baseball league for players between and years of age |
little-league team | a team that plays in a little league |
basketball league | a league of basketball teams |
bowling league | a league of bowling teams |
football league | a league of football teams |
hockey league | a league of hockey teams |
Ivy League | a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige |
Hanseatic League | a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas, formed in and most influential in the th century when it included over towns and functioned as an independent political power, the last official assembly was held in |
league | an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action |
Iroquois League League of Iroquois Five Nations Six Nations | a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations), after they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations) |
bottom underside undersurface | the lower side of anything |
bottom | the lowest part of anything, they started at the bottom of the hill |
rock bottom | the absolute bottom |
bed bottom | a depression forming the ground under a body of water, he searched for treasure on the ocean bed |
bottomland bottom | low-lying alluvial land near a river |
bottom quark beauty quark | a quark with a charge of - and a mass about , times that of an electron |
lake bed lake bottom | the bottom of a lake |
ocean floor sea floor ocean bottom seabed sea bottom Davy Jones's locker Davy Jones | the bottom of a sea or ocean |
riverbed river bottom | a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river |
bottom dog | a person of low status |
bottom feeder | an opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others |
bottom rot fungus Corticium solani | fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce |
bottom line | the last line in an audit, the line that shows profit or loss |
bottom fermentation | a slow kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature low enough that the yeast cells can sink to the bottom of the fermenting liquid, used in the production of lager |
league | an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually miles) |
bottom rot | fungous disease of lettuce that first rots lower leaves and spreads upward |
bottom fermenting yeast | brewer's yeast used in bottom fermentation of lager |
bottom bottom of the inning | the second half of an inning, while the home team is at bat |
league | unite to form a league |