listening watch
continuous receiver watch | a watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch |
amphetamine
pep pill
upper speed | a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite, used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression |
| fixer-upper | a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price) |
rerebrace
upper cannon | cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm |
second balcony
family circle
upper balcony
peanut gallery | rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats |
| semi-abstraction | a semiabstract painting |
| semi-detached house | a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side |
semitrailer
semi | a trailer having wheels only in the rear, the front is supported by the towing vehicle |
trailer truck
tractor trailer
trucking rig
rig articulated lorry
semi | a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together |
| upper | piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot, Uppers come in many styles |
upper berth
upper | the higher of two berths |
| upper deck | a higher deck |
| upper surface | the side that is uppermost |
| stiff upper lip | selfestraint in the expression of emotion (especially fear or grief), the British like to keep a stiff upper lip |
upper hand
whip hand | position of advantage and control |
upper jaw
upper jawbone
maxilla
maxillary | the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium |
| upper respiratory tract | the nose and throat and trachea |
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 |
semifinal
semi | one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament |
bittersweet chocolate
semi-sweet chocolate
dark chocolate | chocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla, lecithin is usually added |
| semi-skimmed milk | milk from which some of the cream has been removed |
upper class
upper crust | the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy |
| upper limit | the limit on the upper (or northernmost) side of something |
top
top side
upper side
upside | the highest or uppermost side of anything, put your books on top of the desk, only the top side of the box was painted |
Burkina Faso
Upper Volta | a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa, was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in |
| Upper Egypt | one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt, extends south from Cairo to Sudan |
Haute-Normandie
Upper-Normandy | a division of Normandy |
Angara
Angara River
Tunguska
Upper Tunguska | a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River |
Avon
River Avon
Upper Avon
Upper Avon River | a river in central England that flows through Stratford-on-Avon and empties into the Severn |
| upper mantle | the upper part of the mantle |
| Upper Peninsula | the peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan |
maximum
upper limit | the largest possible quantity |
progressive
progressive tense
imperfect
imperfect tense
continuous tense | a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going |
| upper bound | (mathematics) a number equal to or greater than any other number in a given set |
| upper respiratory infection | infection of the upper respiratory tract |
Pennsylvanian
Pennsylvanian period
Upper Carboniferous
Upper Carboniferous period | frommillion tomillion years ago, warm climate, swampy land |
| Upper Paleolithic | the time period during which only modern Homo sapiens was known to have existed, ended about , years BC |
semi-automatize
semi-automatise | make semiautomatic, Can we semi-automatize the semantic tagging process? |
| upper-lower-clas | occupying the upper part of the lower class |
| upper-middle-class | occupying the upper part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society |
| upper-clas | occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society |
| continuous uninterrupted | continuing in time or space without interruption, a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light- James Jeans, a continuous bout of illness lasting six months, lived in continuous fear, a continuous row of warehouses, a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it, moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks |
| continuous | of a function or curve, extending without break or irregularity |
semi-evergreen
half-evergreen | of a plant that is incompletely evergreen, it was evergreen where the weather was mild but deciduous in the rigorous parts of the range |
semiformal
semi-formal
black-tie | moderately formal, requiring a dinner jacket, he wore semiformal attire, a black-tie dinner |
| upper | higher in place or position, the upper bunk, in the upper center of the picture, the upper stories |
| semi-climbing | of plants that are semi-climbers |
| semi-erect | of plants that are partly erect |
| semi-upright | of animals that are partly erect |
| semi-prostrate | imperfectly prostrate, prostrate for part of its length, the semi-prostrate evergreen, purple heather |