tall order
large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
| carrier | (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele, the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring |
| carrier pigeon | a homing pigeon used to carry messages |
| large poodle | the largest breed of poodle |
large civet
Viverra zibetha | common civet of India and southeast Asia |
large white
Pieris brassicae | Old World form of cabbage butterfly |
aircraft carrier
carrier flattop
attack aircraft carrier | a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings |
armored personnel carrier
armoured personnel carrier
APC | (military) an armored vehicle (usually equipped with caterpillar treads) that is used to transport infantry |
| car carrier | a trailer that can be loaded with new cars for delivery to sales agencies |
| carrier | a rack attached to a vehicle, for carrying luggage or skis or the like |
| carrier | a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something, refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business |
| luggage carrier | carrier (as behind a bicycle seat) for luggage |
| personnel carrier | a military vehicle (usually armored) for transporting military personnel and their equipment |
sack
poke
paper bag
carrier bag | a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases |
troop carrier
troop transport | any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops |
| weapons carrier | military vehicle that is a light truck designed to carry mortars or machine guns and their crews |
| extra large | a garment size for a very large person |
| large | a garment size for a large person |
| large intestine | beginning with the cecum and ending with the rectum, includes the cecum and the colon and the rectum, extracts moisture from food residues which are later excreted as feces |
Bernoulli's law
law of large numbers | (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics |
carrier
common carrier | a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages |
| large cap | a corporation with a large capitalization, he works for a large cap |
| Large Magellanic Cloud | the larger of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere |
ball carrier
runner | (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play |
carrier
immune carrier | (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others |
| carrier newsboy | a boy who delivers newspapers |
| carrier bearer toter | someone whose employment involves carrying something, the bonds were transmitted by carrier |
hod carrier
hodman | a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers |
| large person | a person of greater than average size |
mailman
postman
mail carrier
letter carrier
carrier | a man who delivers the mail |
supernumerary
spear carrier
extra | a minor actor in crowd scenes |
carrier wave
carrier | a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal |
southern magnolia
evergreen magnolia
large-flowering magnolia
bull bay
Magnolia grandiflora | evergreen tree of southern United States having large stiff glossy leaves and huge white sweet-smelling flowers |
large-leaved magnolia
large-leaved cucumber tree
great-leaved macrophylla
Magnolia macrophylla | large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base |
large periwinkle
Vinca major | plant having variegated foliage and used for window boxes |
large-leaved aster
Aster macrophyllus | tufted perennial wood aster of North America, naturalized in Europe |
large yellow lady's slipper
Cypripedium calceolus pubescens | plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers |
large crabgrass
hairy finger grass
Digitaria sanguinalis | a European forage grass grown for hay, a naturalized weed in United States |
American cranberry
large cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon | trailing red-fruited plant |
Canadian aspen
bigtooth aspen
bigtoothed aspen
big-toothed aspen
large-toothed aspen
large tooth aspen
Populus grandidentata | aspen with a narrow crown, eastern North America |
large-flowered fiddleneck
Amsinckia grandiflora | annual of the western United States having large coiled flower spikes, a threatened species |
large-flowered calamint
Calamintha grandiflora
Clinopodium grandiflorum
Satureja grandiflora | aromatic herb with large pink flowers, southern and southeastern Europe, Anatolia, northern Iran |
large white petunia
Petunia axillaris | annual herb having large nocturnally fragrant white flowers |
paper electrophoresis
carrier electrophoresis | electrophoresis carried out on filter paper |
Calorie kilogram calorie
kilocalorie
large calorie
nutritionist's calorie | a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure, used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food |
| large integer | an integer equal to or greater than ten |
large indefinite quantity
large indefinite amount | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
battalion
large number
multitude
plurality pack | a large indefinite number, a battalion of ants, a multitude of TV antennas, a plurality of religions |
perfection
flawlessness
ne plus ultra | the state of being without a flaw or defect |
| carrier | an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction |