rail technology railroading | the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads |
Leyte Leyte Island Leyte invasion | a battle in World War II, the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October , the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese |
Battle of Wake Battle of Wake Island | in December the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines |
Rhode Island red | American breed of heavy-bodied brownished general-purpose chicken |
rail | any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud |
corncrake land rail Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
fife rail | the railing surrounding the mast of a sailing vessel |
gas pump gasoline pump petrol pump island dispenser | a pump in a service station that draws gasoline from underground storage tanks |
island | a zone or area resembling an island |
kitchen island | an unattached counter in a kitchen that permits access from all sides |
line railway line rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
picture rail | rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures |
plate rail | rail or narrow shelf fixed to a wall to display plates |
rail | a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal) |
rail | short for railway, he traveled by rail, he was concerned with rail safety |
rail fence | a fence (usually made of split logs laid across each other at an angle) |
railing rail | a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports |
safety rail guardrail | a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety |
split rail fence rail | a rail that is split from a log |
third rail | a rail through which electric current is supplied to an electric locomotive |
towel rail towel bar | a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels |
track rail rails runway | a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll |
traffic island safety island safety isle safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
Thousand Island dressing | mayonnaise with chili sauce or catsup and minced olives and peppers and hardooked egg |
Bouvet Island | an island belonging to Norway in the South Atlantic near the Antarctic Circle |
Sao Tiago Island | largest of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean |
Guadalupe Island | a Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California |
Caribbean Island | an island in the Caribbean Sea |
Aegean island | an island in the Aegean Sea |
Baffin Island | the th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada, lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay |
Vancouver Island | an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia), the largest island off the west coast of North America |
Cape Breton Island | an island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia |
Prince Edward Island | an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the smallest province of Canada |
Norfolk Island | an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia, formerly a British penal colony |
Wake Island Wake | an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii |
Nauru Nauru Island Pleasant Island | a small island in the central Pacific Ocean , miles to the southwest of Hawaii, in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands |
Bahrain Bahrain Island Bahrein Bahrein Island | an island in the Persian Gulf |
Channel Island | any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France |
Jersey island of Jersey | the largest of the Channel Islands |
Guernsey island of Guernsey | a Channel Island to the northwest of Jersey |
Anglesey Anglesey Island Anglesea Anglesea Island Mona | an island to the northwest of Wales |
North Island | the smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand, separated from South Island by Cook Strait |
South Island | the larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand, separated from North Island by Cook Strait |
Singapore Singapore Island | an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula |
Admiralty Island | an Alaskan island in the Alexander Archipelago near Juneau |
Santa Catalina Catalina Island | an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California |
Hawaii Hawaii Island | the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands, has several volcanic peaks |
Kahoolawe Kahoolawe Island | an island of southentral Hawaii |
Kauai Kauai Island | an island of Hawaii to the northwest of Oahu |
Lanai Lanai Island | an island of central Hawaii, a pineapple-growing area |