attainder
civil death | cancellation of civil rights |
American football
American football game | a game played by two teams of players on a rectangular field yards long, teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays |
tort
civil wrong | (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought |
| civil censorship | military censorship of civilian communications (correspondence or printed matter of films) entering or leaving of circulating within territories controlled by armed forces |
| civil defense | activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster |
| civil war | a war between factions in the same country |
| civil marriage | a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman |
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
| civil disobedience | a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination), Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience |
| civil contempt | a failure to follow a court order that benefits someone else |
| civil suit | a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant |
| civil action | legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution) |
American Civil War
United States Civil War
War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
American Revolution
American Revolutionary War
War of American Independence
American War of Independence | the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain, - |
| English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I, - |
Spanish-American War
Spanish War | a war between the United States and Spain in |
| Spanish Civil War | civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government, during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries, - |
flagfish
American flagfish
Jordanella floridae | a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes, found in swamps and streams of Florida |
American smooth dogfish
Mustelus canis | found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas |
robin American robin
Turdus migratorius | large American thrush having a rusted breast and abdomen |
American redstart
redstart Setophaga ruticilla | flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail |
New World oriole
American oriole
oriole | American songbird, male is black and orange or yellow |
American crow
Corvus brachyrhyncos | common crow of North America |
American magpie
Pica pica hudsonia | a magpie of Rocky Mountains in North America |
brown creeper
American creeper
Certhia americana | a common creeper in North America with a downurved bill |
American water ouzel
Cinclus mexicanus | a water ouzel of western North America |
sparrow hawk American kestrel
kestrel Falco sparverius | small North American falcon |
bald eagle
American eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus | a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body |
crapaud
South American bullfrog
Leptodactylus pentadactylus | large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog |
American toad
Bufo americanus | common toad of America |
American green toad
Bufo debilis | small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes |
| South American poison toad | a South American toad |
American chameleon
anole
Anolis carolinensis | small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color |
American alligator
Alligator mississipiensis | large alligator of the southeastern United States |
wood tick
American dog tick
Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
American widgeon
baldpate
Anas americana | a widgeon the male of which has a white crown |
American merganser
Mergus merganser americanus | common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander |
American shrew mole
Neurotrichus gibbsii | greyish-black shrew mole of the United States and Canada |
American water shrew
Sorex palustris | water shrew of North America |
American lady crab
lady crab
calico crab
Ovalipes ocellatus | brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
American lobster
Northern lobster
Maine lobster
Homarus americanus | lobster of Atlantic coast of America |
| American crayfish | common large crayfishes of eastern North America |
American egret
great white heron Egretta albus | a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America, it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus |
American bittern
stake driver
Botaurus lentiginosus | a kind of bittern |
American gallinule
Porphyrula martinica | American purple gallinule |
American coot
marsh hen mud hen
water hen Fulica americana | a coot found in North America |
American woodcock
woodcock snipe Philohela minor | small long-billed woodcock, prized as a game bird |
South American sea lion
Otaria Byronia | of the southern coast of South America |
| American foxhound | an American breed of foxhounds used for hunting both in packs and individually |
American Staffordshire terrier
Staffordshire terrier
American pit bull terrier
pit bull terrier | American breed of muscular terriers with a short close-lying stiff coat |