soccer
association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
| association | the act of consorting with or joining with others, you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association |
| marsh wren | a wren of the genus Cistothorus that frequents marshes |
long-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
marsh harrier
Circus Aeruginosus | Old World harrier frequenting marshy regions |
marsh hawk
northern harrier
hen harrier
Circus cyaneus | common harrier of North America and Europe, nests in marshes and open land |
gallinule
marsh hen water hen swamphen | any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens |
American coot
marsh hen mud hen
water hen Fulica americana | a coot found in North America |
marsh hare
swamp rabbit Sylvilagus palustris | a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
swamp buggy
marsh buggy | an amphibious vehicle typically having four-wheel drive and a raised body |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
association
connection
connexion | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination, conditioning is a form of learning by association |
| free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
associationism
association theory | (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity |
| association | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
LTTE
Tamil Tigers
Tigers
World Tamil Association
World Tamil Movement | a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began inas a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students, currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam, relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel, the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war |
Orange Order
Association of Orangemen | a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland |
Ulster Defence Association
UDA | the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs |
| association | a formal organization of people or groups of people, he joined the Modern Language Association |
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
National Volunteers Association | an all-male organization begun in to foster nationalism in India's Hindus |
Lions Club
International Association of Lions clubs | club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare |
| professional association | an association of practitioners of a given profession |
International Development Association
IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
news agency
press agency
wire service
press association
news organization
news organisation | an agency to collects news reports for newspapers and distributes it electronically |
National Rifle Association
NRA | a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government |
Federal National Mortgage Association
Fannie Mae
FNMA | a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages |
savings and loan
savings and loan association | a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages |
Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons
AARP | an association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens |
| National Association of Realtors | a United States association of real estate agents which follows a strict code of ethics |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN | an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism |
marsh
marshland
fen
fenland | low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation, usually is a transition zone between land and water, thousands of acres of marshland, the fens of eastern England |
| salt marsh | low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater |
Marsh
Ngaio Marsh | New Zealand writer of detective stories (-) |
| Marsh Reginald Marsh | United States painter (-) |
marsh marigold
kingcup meadow bright
May blob
cowslip water dragon Caltha palustris | swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups |
blue jasmine
blue jessamine
curly clematis
marsh clematis
Clematis crispa | climber of southern United States having bluish-purple flowers |
marsh cress
yellow watercress
Rorippa islandica | annual or biennial cress growing in damp places sometimes used in salads or as a potherb, troublesome weed in some localities |
| annual salt-marsh aster | a variety of aster |
| perennial salt marsh aster | a variety of aster |
Joe-Pye weed purple boneset
trumpet weed
marsh milkweed
Eupatorium purpureum | North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple |
marsh elder
iva | any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers, common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America |
burweed marsh elder
false ragweed
Iva xanthifolia | tall annual marsh elder common in moist rich soil in central North America that can cause contact dermatitis, produces much pollen that is a major cause of hay fever |
marsh bellflower
Campanula aparinoides | bellflower common in marshes of eastern North America having lanceolate linear leaves and small whitish flowers |
| marsh orchid | any of several orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza having fingerlike tuberous roots, Europe and Mediterranean region |
sea lavender
marsh rosemary
statice | any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers |
marsh mallow
white mallow
Althea officinalis | European perennial plant naturalized in United States having triangular ovate leaves and lilac-pink flowers |
salt marsh mallow
Kosteletzya virginica | subshrub of southeastern United States to New York |