world record | the best record in the whole world |
mail-order buying catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
tall order large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
order arms | a position in the manual of arms, the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground, often used as a command |
close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
world war | a war in which the major nations of the world are involved |
order ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement, there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list |
rank order | an arrangement according to rank |
holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
world affairs international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
the way of the world the ways of the world | the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen, the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world, she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil, he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world |
World War I World War Great War First World War War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
World War II World War Second World War | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from to |
animal order | the order of animals |
protoctist order | the order of protoctists |
bacteria order | an order of bacteria |
Eubacteriales order Eubacteriales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms, some are motile, in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes |
Pseudomonadales order Pseudomonadales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella, some contain photosynthetic pigments |
Rickettsiales order Rickettsiales | pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms |
Mycoplasmatales order Mycoplasmatales | coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae |
Actinomycetales order Actinomycetales | filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria |
order Myxobacteria Myxobacterales order Myxobacterales Myxobacteriales order Myxobacteriales | an order of higher bacteria |
Spirochaetales order Spirochaetales | higher bacteria, slender spiral rodlike forms |
Heliozoa order Heliozoa | mostly freshwater protozoa |
Radiolaria order Radiolaria | marine protozoa |
Amoebida order Amoebida Amoebina order Amoebina | the animal order including amoebas |
Foraminifera order Foraminifera | foraminifers |
Testacea order Testacea | testacean rhizopods |
Heterotrichales order Heterotrichales | yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments, comprising the single family Tribonemaceae |
Laminariales order Laminariales | in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas |
Fucales order Fucales | coextensive with the family Fucaceae |
Ulvales order Ulvales | an order of protoctist |
Volvocales order Volvocales | chiefly freshwater green algae, solitary or colonial |
Zygnematales order Zygnematales Zygnemales order Zygnemales | pond scums, desmids |
Chlorococcales order Chlorococcales | unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores |
Oedogoniales order oedogoniales | simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae |
Charales order Charales | small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts |
Dinoflagellata order Dinoflagellata Cilioflagellata order Cilioflagellata | in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista, in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta |
Hypermastigina order Hypermastigina | cellulose-producing flagellates |
Polymastigina order Polymastigina | small usually parasitic flagellates |
Coccidia order Coccidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Gregarinida order Gregarinida | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Haemosporidia order Haemosporidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Sarcosporidia order Sarcosporidia | imperfectly known parasites of the muscles of vertebrates |
Haplosporidia order Haplosporidia | an order in the subclass Acnidosporidia |
Actinomyxidia order Actinomyxidia | parasites of worms |
Mycrosporidia order Mycrosporidia | an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
Myxosporidia order Myxosporidia | an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
Ostariophysi order Ostariophysi | in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes |