| state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
| change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
| Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
| state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
| eastern kingbird | a kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America, distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail |
eastern meadowlark
Sturnella magna | a meadowlark of eastern North America |
eastern red-backed salamander
Plethodon cinereus | common salamander of eastern North America |
eastern cricket frog
Acris gryllus | a cricket frog of eastern United States |
eastern narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne carolinensis | small toad of southeastern United States |
eastern fence lizard
pine lizard
Sceloporus undulatus | small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia |
eastern ground snake
Potamophis striatula
Haldea striatula | in some classifications placed in genus Haldea, small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America |
eastern indigo snake
Drymarchon corais couperi | a variety of indigo snake |
eastern coral snake
Micrurus fulvius | ranges from Central America to southeastern United States |
eastern dasyure
Dasyurus quoll | a variety of dasyure |
eastern pipistrel
Pipistrellus subflavus | one of the smallest bats of eastern North America |
eastern cottontail
Sylvilagus floridanus | widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions |
eastern woodrat
Neotoma floridana | large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States |
eastern grey squirrel
eastern gray squirrel
cat squirrel Sciurus carolinensis | common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America, now introduced into England |
fox squirrel
eastern fox squirrel
Sciurus niger | exceptionally large arboreal squirrel of eastern United States |
eastern chipmunk
hackee
striped squirrel
ground squirrel Tamias striatus | small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches |
eastern lowland gorilla
Gorilla gorilla grauri | a kind of gorilla |
eastern chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii | long-haired chimpanzees of eastentral Africa, closely related to the central chimpanzees |
| chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
| Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway
freeway
motorway
pike state highway
superhighway
throughway
thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
| Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
| state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
cognitive state
state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance
ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
steady state theory
continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
| solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
| Eastern Catholicism | the beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem |
| state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
Chagatai
Jagatai
Jaghatai
Eastern Turki | a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan) |
Oceanic
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian | an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages |
Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front
IBDA-C | a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul, a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
authoritarian state
authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
Eastern Church
Byzantine Church | the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire |
Orthodox Church
Orthodox Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Church Eastern Orthodox | derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites |
| State Department | a department of government in one of thestates |
Department of State
United States Department of State
State Department
State DoS | the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies, the Department of State was created in |
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 |
rogue state
renegade state
rogue nation | a state that does not respect other states in its international actions |
| church-state | a state ruled by religious authority |
city state
city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city |
| welfare state | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. |
puppet government
puppet state
pupet regime | a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed |
| state | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state, the state has lowered its income tax |
| state government | the government of a state in the United States |