dead-man's float
prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
| dead reckoning | navigation without the aid of celestial observations |
| Office of the Dead | an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church |
Lake Trasimenus
Battle of Lake Trasimenus | a battle in BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius |
lesser scaup
lesser scaup duck
lake duck
Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
landlocked salmon
lake salmon | Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada |
lake trout
salmon trout
Salvelinus namaycush | large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States |
lake whitefish
Coregonus clupeaformis | found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska |
cisco
lake herring
Coregonus artedi | important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America |
blind alley
cul de sac
dead-end street
impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
cul
cul de sac dead end | a passage with access only at one end |
| dead-air space | an unventilated area where no air circulates |
| dead axle | an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it |
| dead load | a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself |
kettle
boiler | a metal pot for stewing or boiling, usually has a lid |
kettle kettledrum
tympanum
tympani
timpani | a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it |
lake dwelling
pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake, specifically in prehistoric villages |
| Lake Mead | the largest reservoir in the United States, located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, the center of a recreational area |
| Lake Powell | the second largest reservoir in the United States, located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River |
| Lake Volta | the Volta river in southeastern has been dammed to create one of the world's largest man-made lakes |
morgue
mortuary
dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
reservoir artificial lake
man-made lake | lake used to store water for community use |
| dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
dead center
dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
dead hand
dead hand of the past
mortmain | the oppressive influence of past events or decisions |
| body dead body | a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person, they found the body in the lake |
guess
guesswork
guessing
shot
dead reckoning | an estimate based on little or no information |
| dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
| dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
| Dead Sea scrolls | (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late s, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus |
dead letter
dead mail | mail that can neither be delivered nor returned |
funeral march
dead march | a slow march to be played for funeral processions |
dead metaphor
frozen metaphor | a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake') |
| dead heat | a tie in a race |
| lake trout | flesh of large trout of northern lakes |
lake herring
cisco | cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward |
| dead | people who are no longer living, they buried the dead |
| lake poets | English poets at the beginning of the th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it |
| Finger Lakes | a geographical area in central New York State that is named for a series of narrow glacial lakes that lie parallel in a north-south direction |
| dead drop | a drop used for the clandestine exchange of intelligence information, a dead drop avoids the need for an intelligence officer and a spy to be present at the same time |
| Crater Lake National Park | a national park in Oregon having the deepest lake in the United States in the crater of an extinct volcano |
| Lake Clark National Park | a national park in Alaska having Eskimo and Athapaskan archeological sites |
Lake District
Lakeland | a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain |
Michigan
Wolverine State
Great Lakes State
MI | a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region |
Salt Lake City
capital of Utah | the capital and largest city of Utah, located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah, world capital of the Mormon Church |
Balaton
Lake Balaton
Plattensee | a large shallow lake in western Hungary |
Canandaigua Lake
Lake Canandaigua | a glacial lake in central New York, one of the Finger Lakes |
Cayuga Lake
Lake Cayuga | a glacial lake in central New York, the longest of the Finger Lakes |
Baikal
Lake Baikal
Baykal
Lake Baykal | the largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world |
| Lake Chelan | a narrow very deep lake in central Washington in the Cascade Range |