Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | a spectacular show organized in by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale, toured the United States and Europe |
| German lesson | instruction in the German language |
West Nile virus
West Nile encephalitis virus | the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis |
| West Highland white terrier | small white longoated terrier developed in Scotland |
| German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany,
pointer and
bloodhound |
German shepherd
German shepherd dog
German police dog
alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
black bee
German bee | darkolored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin |
German cockroach
Croton bug
crotonbug
water bug Blattella germanica | small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe, a common household pest |
central chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes troglodytes | black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa, closely related to eastern chimpanzees |
central
telephone exchange
exchange | a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication |
| central heating | a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators |
central processing unit
CPU
C.P.U.
central processor
processor
mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
Mae West
air jacket | an inflatable life jacket |
| University of West Virginia | a university in Morgantown, West Virginia |
fissure of Rolando
Rolando's fissure
central sulcus
sulcus centralis | a brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres, separates the frontal and parietal lobes |
central artery of the retina
arteria centralis retinae | a branch of the ophthalmic artery, enters the eyeball with the optic nerve |
central veins of liver
venae centrales hepatis | terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids |
central vein of retina
vena centrales retinae | vein formed by the union of the retinal veins, accompanies central arteries of the retina in the optic nerve |
central vein of suprarenal gland
vena centralis glandulae suprarenalis | a single draining vein, on the right it empties into the inferior vena cava, on the left it empties into the left renal vein |
centrosome
central body | small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus, contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules |
central nervous system
CNS
systema nervosum centrale | the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord |
| central gyrus | either of two gyri on either side of the central sulcus |
| central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea, the middle part of the visual field |
Thai
Siamese
Central Thai | a branch of the Tai languages |
West Germanic
West Germanic language | a branch of the Germanic languages |
| West Midland | a dialect of Middle English |
Southwestern
West Saxon | a dialect of Middle English |
| West Saxon | a literary dialect of Old English |
German
High German
German language | the standard German language, developed historically from West Germanic |
| Old High German | High German prior to |
| Middle High German | High German from to |
Low German
Plattdeutsch | a German dialect spoken in northern Germany |
| Middle Low German | Low German from to |
Kuchean
West Tocharian
Kuchean dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
| South-Central Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in south central India |
| Central Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India |
| West Chadic | a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria, Hausa in the most important member |
| West African | a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa |
pfannkuchen
german pancake | puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce |
acerola
barbados cherry
surinam cherry
West Indian cherry | acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C |
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest, headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council |
| Central Powers | in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies |
| Central America | the nations of Central America collectively |
Luftwaffe
German Luftwaffe | the German airforce |
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in and brought to power by Hitler in |
Central Intelligence Machinery
CIM | the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies |
| central bank | a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government |
| European Central Bank | the central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency, The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve |
city center
city centre
central city | the central part of a city |