land reform | a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action) |
farming land | agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life, farming is a strenuous life, there's no work on the land any more |
ecoterrorism ecological terrorism eco-warfare ecological warfare | violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists |
land development | making an area of land more useful |
psychological warfare war of nerves | the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale |
electronic warfare EW | military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum |
class struggle class war class warfare | conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) |
trench warfare | a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other, instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare |
chemical warfare chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
biological warfare BW biological attack biologic attack bioattack | the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food |
biological warfare defense biological warfare defence BW defense BW defence | defense against biological warfare |
war warfare | the waging of armed conflict against an enemy, thousands of people were killed in the war |
electronic warfare-support measures ESM | electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition |
germ warfare bacteriological warfare | the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon |
information warfare IW | the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries, not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare |
land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
war warfare | an active struggle between competing entities, a price war, a war of wits, diplomatic warfare |
trench warfare | a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win, the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare |
corncrake land rail Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
land line landline | a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits, a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave |
land mine ground-emplaced mine booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
land office | a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted |
Polaroid camera Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
twilight zone no man's land | the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression |
acreage land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
clouduckoo-land | an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality |
Promised Land | the goal towards which Christians strive |
never-never land dreamland dreamworld | a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination |
nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division NAWCWPNS | the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems |
Naval Special Warfare NSW | the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare |
Naval Surface Warfare Center NSWC | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare |
Naval Underwater Warfare Center NUWC | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems |
law of the land | a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law), today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process, the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land' |
Adelie Land Terre Adelie Adelie Coast | a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia, noted for its large colonies of penguins |
fatherland homeland motherland mother country country of origin native land | the country where you were born |
Coats Land | a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea |
commons common land | a pasture subject to common use |
country state land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
domain demesne land | territory over which rule or control is exercised, his domain extended into Europe, he made it the law of the land |
Eden paradise nirvana heaven promised land Shangri-la | any place of complete bliss and delight and peace |
Enderby Land | a region of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Wilkes Land, claimed by Australia |
no man's land | an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies |
pasture pastureland grazing land lea ley | a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock |
Queen Maud Land | a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea, claimed by Norway |
site land site | the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located), a good site for the school |
tract piece of land piece of ground parcel of land parcel | an extended area of land |
plot plot of land plot of ground patch | a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation, a bean plot, a cabbage patch, a briar patch |
Victoria Land | a mountainous area of Antarctica bounded by the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land |