ocean trip voyage | an act of traveling by water |
mission charge commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group, a confidential mission to London, his charge was deliver a message |
perpetration commission committal | the act of committing a crime |
commission commissioning | the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions |
Indian Mutiny Sepoy Mutiny | discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in and , the revolt was put down after several battles and sieges (notably the siege at Lucknow) |
French and Indian War | a war in North America between France and Britain (both aided by American Indian tribes), - |
hill myna Indian grackle grackle Gracula religiosa | glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech |
Indian rat snake Ptyas mucosus | enter buildings in pursuit of prey |
Indian python Python molurus | very large python of southeast Asia |
Indian cobra Naja naja | a cobra of tropical Africa and Asia |
Indian mongoose Herpestes nyula | keen-sighted viverrine of southern Asia about the size of a ferret, often domesticated |
cayuse Indian pony | a small native range horse |
Indian rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis | having one horn |
Malayan tapir Indian tapir Tapirus indicus | a tapir found in Malaya and Sumatra |
Indian buffalo | upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive, used for draft and milk |
Indian elephant Elephas maximus | Asian elephant having smaller ears and tusks primarily in the male |
ocean pout Macrozoarces americanus | common along northeastern coast of North America |
rosefish ocean perch Sebastodes marinus | large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe |
ocean sunfish sunfish mola headfish | among the largest bony fish, pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe, worldwide in warm waters |
fishery piscary | a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold |
Indian club | a bottle-shaped club used in exercises |
Indian trail | a trail through the wilderness worn by Amerindians |
liner ocean liner | a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule) |
lodge indian lodge | any of various Native American dwellings |
pearl fishery | a fishery where they fish for pearl oysters |
Indian red | a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians |
commission military commission | an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces |
Amerind Amerindian language American-Indian language American Indian Indian | any of the languages spoken by Amerindians |
commission charge direction | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something, the judge's charge to the jury |
cornmeal Indian meal | coarsely ground corn |
mustard mustard greens leaf mustard Indian mustard | leaves eaten as cooked greens |
acerola barbados cherry surinam cherry West Indian cherry | acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C |
redfish rosefish ocean perch | North Atlantic rockfish |
wild rice Indian rice | grains of aquatic grass of North America |
chutney Indian relish | a spicy condiment made of chopped fruits or vegetables cooked in vinegar and sugar with ginger and spices |
National Liberation Army ELN Nestor Paz Zamora Commission CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
Atomic Energy Commission AEC | a former executive agency (from to ) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC | an independent federal agency created in to license and regulate nuclear power plants |
Interstate Commerce Commission ICC | a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states, was terminated in , the ICC was established in as the first federal agency |
Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
Federal Communications Commission FCC | an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite |
commission plan | a municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission |
Paleo-American culture Paleo-Amerind culture Paleo-Indian culture | the prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America |
Economic and Social Council commission ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
Commission on Human Rights | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights |
Commission on Narcotic Drugs | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with drug traffic |
Commission on the Status of Women | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies |
Economic Commission for Africa | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of African nations |
Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East |
Economic Commission for Europe | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Europe |