armed robbery
heist holdup
stickup | robbery at gunpoint |
| armed forces censorship | military censorship of personal communications to or from persons in the armed forces |
combat
armed combat | an engagement fought between two military forces |
| spiny dogfish | small bottom-dwelling dogfishes |
Atlantic spiny dogfish
Squalus acanthias | destructive dogfish of the Atlantic coastal waters of America and Europe, widely used in anatomy classes |
Pacific spiny dogfish
Squalus suckleyi | dogfish of Pacific coast of North America |
spiny softshell
Trionyx spiniferus | river turtle of western United States with a warty shell, prefers quiet water |
| spiny lizard | any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales, of North America and Central America |
mountain devil
spiny lizard Moloch horridus | desert lizard that feeds on ants |
| echidna spiny anteater anteater | a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites, native to Australia |
| echidna spiny anteater anteater | a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites, native to New Guinea |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
spiny lobster
langouste
rock lobster
crawfish crayfish sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
spiny-finned fish
acanthopterygian | a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
pogge
armed bullhead
Agonus cataphractus | northern Atlantic sea poacher |
| spiny puffer | puffers having rigid or erectile spines |
| slot one-armed bandit | a slot machine that is used for gambling, they spend hours and hours just playing the slots |
| tablet-armed chair | a chair with an arm that has been widened for writing |
spiny lobster
langouste
rock lobster
crayfish | warm-water lobsters without claws, those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails, caught also in Florida and California |
Armed Islamic Group
GIA | a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in , aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state, the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres |
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda
ALIR
Former Armed Forces
FAR
Interahamwe | a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again, in ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists |
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia
FARC | a powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party, opposed to the United States, has strong ties to drug dealers |
military service
armed service
service | a force that is a branch of the armed forces |
military
armed forces
armed services
military machine
war machine | the military forces of a nation, their military is the largest in the region, the military machine is the same one we faced in but now it is weaker |
spiny talinum
Talinum spinescens | low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die, southwestern United States |
yellow spiny daisy
Haplopappus spinulosus | slender perennial of western North America having weakly bristly leaves and yellow flower heads |
| Armed Forces Day | the rd Saturday in May |
| armed | (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms, armed robbery |
| light-armed | armed with light equipment and weapons, a light-armed brigade |
| armed | (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns |
d barbed
barbellate
briary
briery
bristled
bristly
burred
burry
prickly
setose
setaceous
spiny
thorny ddcb | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc., a horse with a short bristly mane, bristly shrubs, burred fruits, setaceous whiskers |
| armed | having arms or arms as specified, used especially in combination, the many-armed goddess Shiva |
| long-armed | having relatively long arms |
| one-armed | having one arm, a one-armed veteran |
| spiny-backed | having the back covered with spines |
| spiny-edged | having a spiny border |
| spiny-stemmed | having a spiny stem |
light-armed
lightly-armed | armed with light weapons |
spiny-leaved
spiny-leafed | having spiny leaves |
| heavy-armed | having massive arms, he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed |
spinous
spiny | having spines, the dorsal fin is spinous |
| spiny-finned | of or relating to fish with spiny fins |