| capital offense | a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
execution
executing
capital punishment
death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
capital
chapiter
cap | the upper part of a column that supports the entablature |
| capital ship | a warship of the first rank in size and armament |
capital
capital letter
uppercase
upperase letter
majuscule | one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis, printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases, capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upperase letters |
small capital
small cap | a character having the form of an upperase letter but the same height as lowerase letters |
block letter
block capital | a plain hand-drawn letter |
Das Kapital
Capital | a book written by Karl Marx () describing his economic theories |
| Dominican order | a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the th century |
| Weimar Republic | the German republic founded at Weimar in , The Weimar Republic was overthrown in and replaced by the Third Reich |
Capital
Washington | the federal government of the United States |
democracy
republic
commonwealth | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
| republic | a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch, the head of state in a republic is usually a president |
| banana republic | a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas) |
| capital | a seat of government |
| capital | a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product, the crime capital of Italy, the drug capital of Columbia |
| national capital | the capital city of a nation |
| provincial capital | the capital city of a province |
| state capital | the capital city of a political subdivision of a country |
Namibia
Republic of Namibia
South West Africa | a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa), achieved independence from South Africa in , the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa |
Kabul
capital of Afghanistan | the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in eastern Afghanistan |
Albania
Republic of Albania | a republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula |
Tirana
Albanian capital | the capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country |
Algeria
Algerie
Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria | a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim, colonized by France in the th century but gained autonomy in the early s |
Algiers
Algerian capital | an ancient port on the Mediterranean, the capital and largest city of Algeria |
Angola
Republic of Angola | a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean, achieved independence from Portugal in and was the scene of civil war until |
Luanda
Angolan capital | port city on Atlantic coast, the capital and largest city of Angola |
| St. John's Saint John's capital of Antigua and Barbuda | the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, located on the island of Antigua |
Argentina
Argentine Republic | a republic in southern South America, second largest country in South America |
Buenos Aires
capital of Argentina | capital and largest city of Argentina, located in eastern Argentina near Uruguay, Argentina's chief port and industrial and cultural center |
Bulgaria
Republic of Bulgaria | a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe |
Sofia
Serdica
Bulgarian capital | capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria |
Burundi
Republic of Burundi | a landlocked republic in east central Africa on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika |
Bujumbura
Usumbura
capital of Burundi | the capital and largest city of Burundi, Usumbura was renamed Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in |
Phnom Penh
Pnom Penh
Cambodian capital | the capital and largest city of Kampuchea |
Cameroon
Republic of Cameroon
Cameroun | a republic on the western coast of central Africa, was under French and British control until |
Yaounde
capital of Cameroon | the capital of Cameroon |
Cape Verde
Republic of Cape Verde | an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal |
Praia
Cidade de Praia
capital of Cape Verde | the capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island |
Central African Republic
Central Africa | a landlocked country in central Africa, formerly under French control, became independent in |
Bangui
capital of Central Africa | the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic |
Sri Lanka
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Ceylon | a republic on the island of Ceylon, became independent of the United Kingdom in |
Colombo
capital of Sri Lanka | the capital and largest city of Sri Lanka, has one of the largest harbors in the world, is located on the western coast of the island of Ceylon |
Chad
Republic of Chad
Tchad | a landlocked desert republic in northentral Africa, was under French control until |
N'Djamena
Ndjamena
Fort-Lamy
capital of Chad | the capital and largest city of Chad, located in the southwestern on the Shari river |
Chile
Republic of Chile | a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast |
Gran Santiago
Santiago
Santiago de Chile
capital of Chile | the capital and largest city of Chile, located in central Chile, one of the largest cities in South America |
China
People's Republic of China
mainland China
Communist China
Red China
PRC
Cathay
| a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia, the most populous country in the world |
Beijing
Peking
Peiping
capital of Red China | capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China, nd largest Chinese city |
Taiwan
China Nationalist China
Republic of China | a government on the island of Taiwan established in by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong |