Family
(v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager |
Family
(v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. |
Family
(v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor |
Family
(v. t.) Course of descent |
Family
(v. t.) Honorable descent |
Family
(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals |
Family
(v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order |
Field
(n.) Cleared land |
Field
(n.) A piece of land of considerable size |
Field
(n.) A place where a battle is fought |
Field
(n.) An open space |
Field
(n.) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected. |
Field
(n.) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. |
Field
(n.) The whole surface of an escutcheon |
Field
(n.) An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement |
Field
(n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting. |
Field
(n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond |
Field
(v. i.) To take the field. |
Field
(v. i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball. |
Field
(v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder. |
Garden
(n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. |
Garden
(n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. |
Garden
(v. i.) To lay out or cultivate a garden |
Garden
(v. t.) To cultivate as a garden. |
Grey
(a.) See Gray (the correct orthography). |
Milky
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, milk. |
Milky
(a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk |
Milky
(a.) Yielding milk. |
Milky
(a.) Mild |
Northern
(a.) Of or pertaining to the north |
Northern
(a.) In a direction toward the north |
Sea slug
() A holothurian. |
Sea slug
() A nudibranch mollusk. |
Slug
(n.) A drone |
Slug
(n.) A hindrance |
Slug
(n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails. |
Slug
(n.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk |
Slug
(n.) A ship that sails slowly. |
Slug
(n.) An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun. |
Slug
(n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc. |
Slug
(v. i.) To move slowly |
Slug
(v. t.) To make sluggish. |
Slug
(v. t.) To load with a slug or slugs |
Slug
(v. t.) To strike heavily. |
Slug
(v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel |
Slug-horn
(a.) An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan. |
Zoological
(a.) Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals. |
punch
clout
poke
lick biff
slug | (boxing) a blow with the fist, I gave him a clout on his nose |
| field goal | a score in American football, a score made by kicking the ball between the opponents' goal posts |
basket
field goal | a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop |
| field trip | a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination |
outdoor sport
field sport | a sport that is played outdoors |
| track and field | participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it |
| field game | an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions |
field hockey
hockey | a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field, two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net |
family practice
family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
| field work | an investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters |
dark ground illumination
dark field illumination | a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light, specimens appear luminous against a dark background |
| family therapy | any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole |
left field
leftfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
center field
centerfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield |
right field
rightfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
quarterback
signal caller
field general | (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team, quarterback is the most important position on the team |
| field trial | a test of young hunting dogs to determine their skill in pointing and retrieving |
| field press censorship | security review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces |
| natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
birth control
birth prevention
family planning | limiting the number of children born |
basal body temperature method of family planning
basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning
ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
field
field of operation
line of business | a particular kind of commercial enterprise, they are outstanding in their field |
grey market
gray market | an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency |
| Bosworth Field | the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (), Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII |
Flodden
Battle of Flodden Field | a battle in , the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed |
| bacteria family | a family of bacteria |
Rhizobiaceae
family Rhizobiaceae | a small family of rod-shaped bacteria |
Bacillaceae
family Bacillaceae | typically rod-shaped usually Gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores |
Myxophyceae
family Myxophyceae
Schizophyceae
family Schizophyceae | former terms for Cyanophyceae |
Nostocaceae
family Nostocaceae | blue-green algae |
Oscillatoriaceae
family Oscillatoriaceae | blue green algae |
Pseudomonodaceae
family Pseudomonodaceae | rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria, include important plant and animal pathogens |
Athiorhodaceae
family Athiorhodaceae | small motile sulphur bacteria |
Nitrobacteriaceae
family Nitrobacteriaceae | usually rod-shaped bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrites: nitrobacteria |
Thiobacteriaceae
family Thiobacteriaceae | free-living coccoid to rod-shaped bacteria that derive energy from oxidizing sulfur or sulfur compounds |
Spirillaceae
family Spirillaceae | rigid spirally curved elongate bacteria |
Bacteroidaceae
family Bacteroidaceae | family of bacteria living usually in the alimentary canal or on mucous surfaces of warm-blooded animals, sometimes associated with acute infective processes |
Corynebacteriaceae
family Corynebacteriaceae | a large family of mostly Gram-positive and aerobic and nonmotile rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Enterobacteriaceae
family Enterobacteriaceae | a large family of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the order Eubacteriales |
Rickettsiaceae
family Rickettsiaceae | microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates |
Chlamydiaceae
family Chlamydiaceae | Gram-negative parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates |
Mycoplasmataceae
family Mycoplasmataceae | pleomorphic Gram-negative nonmotile microorganism similar to both viruses and bacteria, parasitic in mammals |
Actinomycetaceae
family Actinomycetaceae | filamentous anaerobic bacteria |
Streptomycetaceae
family Streptomycetaceae | higher bacteria typically aerobic soil saprophytes |
Mycobacteriaceae
family Mycobacteriaceae | a family of bacteria |
Polyangiaceae
family Polyangiaceae
Myxobacteriaceae
family Myxobacteriaceae | bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung |
Micrococcaceae
family Micrococcaceae | spherical or elliptical usually aerobic eubacteria that produce yellow or orange or red pigment, includes toxin-producing forms as well as harmless commensals and saprophytes |
Lactobacillaceae
family Lactobacillaceae
Lactobacteriaceae
family Lactobacteriaceae | lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens, bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid |
Spirochaetaceae
family Spirochaetaceae | large coarsely spiral bacteria, free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters |