Battle of the Marne
Belleau Wood
Chateau-Thierry
Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
Granicus
Battle of Granicus River | the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians ( BC) |
| Metaurus River | a battle during the second Punic War ( BC), Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy |
Meuse
Meuse River
Argonne
Argonne Forest
Meuse-Argonne
Meuse-Argonne operation | an American operation in World War I (), American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November |
| Somme Somme River Battle of the Somme | battle in World War I () |
| Somme Somme River Battle of the Somme | battle of World War II () |
| Yalu River | a battle in the Korean War (November ), when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River , Chinese troops crossed the river and drove them back |
cooter
river cooter
Pseudemys concinna | large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico |
river limpet
freshwater limpet
Ancylus fluviatilis | minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants |
longlawed prawn
river prawn
Palaemon australis | large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers |
| river dolphin | any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia |
hippopotamus
hippo
river horse
Hippopotamus amphibius | massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa |
river otter
Lutra canadensis | sociable aquatic animal widely distributed along streams and lake borders in North America |
river shad
Alosa chrysocloris | shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage, very similar to Alosa sapidissima |
Australian arowana
Dawson River salmon
saratoga
spotted barramundi
spotted bonytongue
Scleropages leichardti | a species of large fish found in Australian rivers |
| cable | a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire |
cable cable television
cable system
cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
| cable line transmission line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
cable car
car | a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway, they took a cable car to the top of the mountain |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
coaxial cable
coax
coax cable | a transmission line for high-frequency signals |
| electrical cable | a cable that provides an electrical connection for telephone or television or power stations |
| ethernet cable | any of several types of coaxial cable used in ethernets |
fiber optic cable
fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
| ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
guy
guy cable
guy wire
guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
jumper cable
jumper lead
lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
| New River Gorge Bridge | a steel arch bridge across New River at Fayetteville, West Virginia |
power line
power cable | cable used to distribute electricity |
| printer cable | a cable between a computer and a printer |
| river boat | a boat used on rivers or to ply a river |
tramway tram aerial tramway
cable tramway
ropeway | a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers |
cable
cablegram
overseas telegram | a telegram sent abroad |
cable television
cable | television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver |
anchovy pear
river pear | West Indian fruit resembling the mango, often pickled |
| river prawn | large Australian prawn |
Hudson River school
romantic realism | the first coherent school of American art, active from to , painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England |
river basin
basin
watershed drainage basin catchment area
catchment basin
drainage area | the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries, an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet, flood control in the Missouri basin |
| East River | a tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn |
| Harlem River | a channel separating Manhattan from the Bronx |
Aare
Aar
Aare River | a river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine |
Acheron
River Acheron | (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon |
Adige
River Adige | a river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea, Verona is on the Adige |
Aire
River Aire
Aire River | a river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire |
Alabama
Alabama River | a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery, flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River |
Allegheny
Allegheny River | a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River |
Amazon
Amazon River | a major South American river, arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic, the world's nd longest river ( miles) |
Amur
Amur River
Heilong Jiang
Heilong | an Asian river between China and Russia, flows into the Sea of Okhotsk |
Angara
Angara River
Tunguska
Upper Tunguska | a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River |
Apalachicola
Apalachicola River | a river in northwestern Florida formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River at the Florida border |