rail technology railroading | the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads |
ratite ratite bird flightless bird | flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, rheas, kiwis, elephant birds |
guinea fowl guinea Numida meleagris | a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white, native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world |
guinea hen | female guinea fowl |
Guinea worm Dracunculus medinensis | parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates |
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 |
guinea pig Cavia cobaya | stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy, often kept as a pet and widely used in research |
fife rail | the railing surrounding the mast of a sailing vessel |
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 |
guinea hen | flesh of a guinea fowl (especially of hens) |
Equatorial Guinea Republic of Equatorial Guinea Spanish Guinea | a country of west central Africa (including islands in the Gulf of Guinea), became independent from Spain in |
New Guinea | a Pacific island to the north of Australia, the nd largest island in the world, the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea |
Papua New Guinea Independent State of Papua New Guinea | a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, in it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations |
Port Moresby capital of Papua New Guinea | the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea |
Guinea Republic of Guinea French Guinea | a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic, formerly a French colony, achieved independence from France in |
Conakry Konakri capital of Guinea | a port and the capital of Guinea |
Guinea-Bissau Republic of Guinea-Bissau Guine-Bissau Portuguese Guinea | a republic on the northwestern coast of Africa, recognized as independent by Portugal in |
Bissau capital of Guinea-Bissau | the capital of Guinea-Bissau |
Gulf of Guinea | a gulf off the southwest coast of Africa |
wop dago ginzo Guinea greaseball | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent |
rail-splitter splitter | a laborer who splits logs to build splitail fences |
subject case guinea pig | a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures, someone who is an object of investigation, the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly, the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities |
Guinea pepper negro pepper Xylopia aethiopica | tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine |
durra doura dourah Egyptian corn Indian millet Guinea corn | sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa |
grains of paradise Guinea grains Guinea pepper melagueta pepper Aframomum melegueta | West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds |
guinea gold vine guinea flower | any of several Australasian evergreen vines widely cultivated in warm regions for their large bright yellow single flowers |
snake's head fritillary guinea-hen flower checkered daffodil leper lily Fritillaria meleagris | Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times, widely grown as an ornamental |
guinea | a former British gold coin worth shillings |
Guinea-Bissau monetary unit | monetary unit in Guinea-Bissau |
Guinea-Bissau peso peso | the basic unit of money in Guinea-Bissau, equal to centavos |
Guinea worm disease Guinea worm dracunculiasis | a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin |
guinea gold | #NAME? |
red brass guinea gold | brass with enough copper to give it a reddish tint, used for plumbing pipe and other brass hardware and in cheap jewelry |
fulminate rail | criticize severely, He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare, She railed against the bad social policies |
vilify revile vituperate rail | spread negative information about, The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews |
rail inveigh | complain bitterly |
rail | fish with a handline over the rails of a boat, They are railing for fresh fish |
rail | lay with rails, hundreds of miles were railed out here |