| Capital (n.) Of or pertaining to the head. |
| Capital (n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life |
| Capital (n.) First in importance |
| Capital (n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation |
| Capital (n.) Of first rate quality |
| Capital (n.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column. |
| Capital (n.) The seat of government |
| Capital (n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc. |
| Capital (a.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. |
| Capital (a.) Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. |
| capital offense a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
| execution / executing / capital punishment / death penalty putting a condemned person to death |
| capital / chapiter / cap the upper part of a column that supports the entablature |
| capital ship a warship of the first rank in size and armament |
| capital / capital letter / uppercase / upperase letter / majuscule one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis, "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases, capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upperase letters" |
| small capital / small cap a character having the form of an upperase letter but the same height as lowerase letters |
| block letter / block capital a plain hand-drawn letter |
| Das Kapital / Capital a book written by Karl Marx () describing his economic theories |
| Capital / Washington the federal government of the United States |
| capital a seat of government |