Base-court
(n.) The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house |
Base-court
(n.) An inferior court of law, not of record. |
Court
(n.) An inclosed space |
Court
(n.) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary |
Court
(n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority |
Court
(n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign |
Court
(n.) Attention directed to a person in power |
Court
(n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. |
Court
(n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice |
Court
(n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. |
Court
(n.) The judge or judges |
Court
(n.) The session of a judicial assembly. |
Court
(n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. |
Court
(n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis |
Court
(v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery |
Court
(v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of |
Court
(v. t.) To attempt to gain |
Court
(v. t.) To invite by attractions |
Court
(v. i.) To play the lover |
Court-baron
(n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward |
Court-craft
(n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts. |
Court-cupboard
(n.) A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. |
Court-leet
(n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. |
Courts-martial
(pl. ) of Court-martial |
Court-martial
(n.) A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law. |
Court-martialed
(imp. & p. p.) of Court-martial |
Court-martialing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Court-martial |
Court-martial
(v. t.) To subject to trial by a court-martial. |
Court-plaster
(n.) Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin. |
Court tennis
() See under Tennis. |
Domestic
(a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family |
Domestic
(a.) Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country |
Domestic
(a.) Remaining much at home |
Domestic
(a.) Living in or near the habitations of man |
Domestic
(a.) Made in one's own house, nation, or country |
Domestic
(n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant |
Domestic
(n.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. |
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 |
| domestic flight | a flight that begins and ends in the same country |
| court game | an athletic game played on a court |
royal tennis
real tennis
court tennis | an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court |
family practice
family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
| family therapy | any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole |
| domestic terrorism | terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people, the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City was an instance of domestic terrorism |
| 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 |
| domestic violence | violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner, usually violence by men against women |
| contempt of court | disrespect for the rules of a court of law |
| court-martial | a trial that is conducted by a military court |
court
homage | respectful deference, pay court to the emperor |
appearance appearing
coming into court | formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action |
Monmouth Court House
Battle of Monmouth Court House
Battle of Monmouth | a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution () that ended with the withdrawal of British forces |
Spotsylvania
battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse | a battle between the armies of Grant and Lee during the Wilderness Campaign |
domestic animal
domesticated animal | any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment |
| 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 |
Treponemataceae
family Treponemataceae | small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic |
| protoctist family | any of the families of Protoctista |
Endamoebidae
family Endamoebidae | a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract |
Globigerinidae
family Globigerinidae | a family of protoctists |
Nummulitidae
family Nummulitidae | a family of fossil protoctists |
Arcellidae
family Arcellidae | soil and freshwater protozoa, cosmopolitan in distribution |
Tribonemaceae
family Tribonemaceae | simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae |
Laminariaceae
family Laminariaceae | large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters |