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 |
distribution channel channel | a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors, possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores |
channel catfish channel cat Ictalurus punctatus | freshwater food fish common throughout central United States |
blue catfish blue cat blue channel catfish blue channel cat | a large catfish of the Mississippi valley |
red drum channel bass redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
channel | a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through, the fields were crossed with irrigation channels, gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street |
channel television channel TV channel | a television station and its programs, a satellite TV channel, surfing through the channels, they offer more than one hundred channels |
chunnel Channel Tunnel | the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
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 |
morgue mortuary dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
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 |
duct epithelial duct canal channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
guess guesswork guessing shot dead reckoning | an estimate based on little or no information |
dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
channel transmission channel | a path over which electrical signals can pass, a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company |
channel communication channel line | (often plural) a means of communication or access, it must go through official channels, lines of communication were set up between the two firms |
back channel | an alternative to the regular channels of communication that is used when agreements must be made secretly (especially in diplomacy or government), they negotiated via a back channel |
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 |
dead | people who are no longer living, they buried the dead |
backwater | a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring, the country is an economic backwater |
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 |
Channel Islands National Park | a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life |
Channel Island | any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France |
backwater | a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam, the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos |
Bristol Channel | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England |
channel | a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels, the ship went aground in the channel |
Dead Sea | a saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan, its surface in feet below sea level |
English Channel | an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain |
Mozambique Channel | an arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and southeastern Africa |
North Channel | a strait between Northern Ireland and Scotland that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea |
dead person dead soul deceased person deceased decedent departed | someone who is no longer alive, I wonder what the dead person would have done |
ringer dead ringer clone | a person who is almost identical to another |
zombi zombie living dead | a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force |
richweed clearweed dead nettle Pilea pumilla | a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves |
hemp nettle dead nettle Galeopsis tetrahit | coarse bristly Eurasian plant with white or reddish flowers and foliage resembling that of a nettle, common as a weed in United States |
dead nettle | any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips |