surprise attack
coup de main | an attack without warning |
| Caledonian Canal | a canal in northern Scotland that links North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, runs diagonally between Moray Firth at the northeastern end and Loch Linnhe at the southwestern end, now little used |
| Caloosahatchee Canal | a canal that connects Lake Okeechobee with the Caloosahatchee River in southern Florida to form part of the Cross-Florida Waterway |
| canal | long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation |
canal boat
narrow boat
narrowboat | a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals |
| electric main | a main that distributes electricity |
| gas main | a main that distributes gas |
| Gota Canal | a canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
highway
main road | a major road for any form of motor transport |
| main | a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage |
| main course | a square mainsail |
main deck
second deck | the uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel |
| main drag | the main street of a town or city |
| main line | the principal route of a transportation system |
| main rotor | rotor consisting of large rotating airfoils on a singleotor helicopter that produce the lift to support the helicopter in the air |
main street
high street | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town |
| main-topmast | the topmast next above the mainmast |
| main-topsail | a topsail set on the mainmast |
| main yard | yard for a square mainsail |
| Panama Canal | a ship canalmiles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (-) |
riser riser pipe
riser pipeline
riser main | a vertical pipe in a building |
sewer main
sewer line | a main in a sewage system |
ship canal
shipway | a canal large enough for seagoing vessels |
| water main | main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water |
| birth canal | a passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth |
auditory meatus
acoustic meatus
ear canal
auditory canal
external auditory canal | either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane |
spinal canal
vertebral canal
canalis vertebralis | the canal in successive vertebrae through which the spinal cord passes |
duct
epithelial duct
canal
channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
canal of Schlemm
Schlemm's canal
sinus venosus sclerae | a circular canal in the eye that drains aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye into the anterior ciliary veins |
| root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
| semicircular canal | one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another, concerned with equilibrium |
| Haversian canal | any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone |
inguinal canal
canalis inguinalis | oblique passage through the lower abdominal wall, in males it is the passage through which the testes descend into the scrotum and it contains the spermatic cord, in females it transmits the round ligament of the uterus |
cervical canal
canalis cervicis uteri | a spindle-shaped canal extending from the uterus to the vagina |
alimentary canal
alimentary tract
digestive tube
digestive tract
gastrointestinal tract
GI tract | tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about . meters from mouth to anus, functions in digestion and elimination |
citation form
main entry word
entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |
main clause
independent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence |
master file
main file | (computer science) a computer file that is used as the authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent |
entree
main course | the principal dish of a meal |
Rhine wine
Rhenish
hock | any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage) |
main diagonal
principal diagonal | the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry |
| Main Street | any small town (or the people who inhabit it), generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis), Main Street will never vote for a liberal politician |
| Grand Canal | an inland waterway miles long in eastern China, extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south |
Panama Canal Zone
Canal Zone | a zone consisting of a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama that contains the Panama Canal |
Frankfurt on the Main
Frankfurt
Frankfort | a German city, an industrial and commercial and financial center |
| Grand Canal | the major waterway in Venice, Italy |
| Suez Canal | a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea |
| Cape Cod Canal | a canal connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay |
| Erie Canal | an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo, built in the th century, now part of the New York State Barge Canal |