United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, n.
a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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Britain Great Britain U.K. UK United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Britain Great Britain U.K. UK United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
lexical pointers
member of this domain (region)
self-centred
parky
human-centred
ripping
action replay
ringway
ring road
detention centre
call centre
centre
centre bit
centreboard
centrepiece
baking tray
fascia
boot
metrestick
zebra crossing
shopping centre
sandpit
sanitary towel
signal tower
tramcar
tram
jumper
metre
dead centre
centre of curvature
nerve centre
centre
centre of attention
centre
remit
centrepiece
metacentre
centre
centre spread
centrefold
centre
groundnut oil
veg
chips
spring onion
identity parade
centre
nerve centre
centre
centre of immersion
centre of buoyancy
centre of gravity
centre of flotation
centre of mass
centre
centre stage
city centre
storm centre
epicentre
nanna
nan
sod
ponce
shop assistant
current account
square metre
cubic millimetre
cubic centimetre
cubic decimetre
cubic metre
cubic kilometre
femtometre
picometre
micromillimetre
nanometre
millimetre
centimetre
decimetre
metre
dekametre
decametre
hectometre
kilometre
myriametre
figure of eight
centre stage
storm centre
vac
mo
kilometres per hour
centre
concentre
centre
carry the can
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
member of this domain (region)
potted
fly
pawky
dinky
dishy
non-U
u
starkers
boss-eyed
canty
garden
groovy, swagger
gammy
all-mains
niffy
swingeing
shirty, snorty
po-faced
peckish
dicky, dickey
potty
whacking
ex-directory
long-dated
short-dated
takeout, take-away
red-brick, redbrick
grotty
post-free
buckshee
made-up
chuffed
jumped-up
toffee-nosed
major
minor
billion
trillion
tod
bloody-minded, cantankerous
bolshy, stroppy
capital
spiffing
top-flight, top-hole, topping
ropey, ropy
gobsmacked
jiggered
buttoned-up
Brummagem
ratable, rateable
unratable
knackered, drained
whacked
manky
tinpot
fuggy
clapped out
ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
clanger
clawback
lucky dip
flit
rustication
perambulation
fare-stage
pony-trekking
rugby, rugby football, rugger
fives
bagatelle, bar billiards
tombola
ludo
shovel board, shove-halfpenny, shove-ha'penny
lucky dip
piss-up
rag
hornpipe
panto
doddle
minister
headship
costing
eleven-plus, 11-plus
swiz
MOT, MOT test, Ministry of Transportation test
fire watching
snogging
zizz
dekko
square-bashing
rub up
shufti
lie-in
point duty
supplementary benefit, social assistance, national assistance
car boot sale, boot sale
invigilation
aggro
punch-up
go-slow
Battle of Britain
arterial road
backbench
bar
betting shop
bin liner
bottle bank
caff
carriageway
clearway
climbing frame
common room
countinghouse
croft
crossbench
delf
dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dicky-seat
dixie
doorknob, doorhandle
Elastoplast
fairy light
fish slice
fleapit
footplate
free house
front bench
fruit machine
gamp, brolly
glebe house
greengrocery
greengrocery
gun room
Guy
gymslip
hair slide
hall of residence
hard shoulder
highroad, trunk road
home-farm
hosiery, hose
hypermarket
ironmongery
jobcentre
lido
life office
lodge
L-plate
lumber room
macintosh, mackintosh, mac, mack
meat safe
mews
milk float
minicab
minicar
minster
mod con
nearside
nick
overall, boilersuit, boilers suit
Oxbridge
panda car
pannikin
pantechnicon
parka, windbreaker, windcheater, anorak
paternoster
pelican crossing
pillar box
playbox, play-box
plimsoll
plughole
point, power point
saloon, public house, pub, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse
pull-in, pull-up
punnet
push-bike
quarterlight
racing circuit, circuit
redbrick university
rowing boat
scullery
secateurs
sheepwalk, sheeprun
shooting brake
skid lid
skidpan
slip coach, slip carriage
slop basin, slop bowl
stall
stately home
Sten gun
strongroom
surgery
tannoy
teashop, teahouse, tearoom, tea parlor, tea parlour
terraced house
titfer
toilet bag, sponge bag
tuck box
tuck shop
underfelt
van
verge
villa
visual display unit, VDU
washbasin, handbasin, washbowl, lavabo, wash-hand basin
wherry, Norfolk wherry
wincey
winceyette
wooden spoon
workhouse
cert
beastliness
cobblers
conk
physiognomy, countenance, visage, phiz, kisser, smiler, mug
noddle
nous
facer
snorter
niff, pong
wheeze
Thatcherism
Fabianism
gutter press
Rediffusion
Magna Carta, Magna Charta, The Great Charter
royal charter
Higher National Diploma, HND
class list, honours list
rota
whip-round
book token
indent
colour supplement
bumf, bumph
cobblers
double Dutch
gen
Highway Code
Bachelor of Medicine, MB
honours, honours degree
first, first-class honours degree
double first
storm cone
ticktack
shoulder flash
trad
skiffle
argy-bargy, argle-bargle
green paper
plaint
prang
bunfight, bun-fight
jolly
whist drive
Maundy
burnup
race meeting
zizz
tuck
plain flour
whole wheat flour, graham flour, graham, whole meal flour
Fanny Adams
high tea
tea, afternoon tea, teatime
nosh-up
ploughman's lunch
hot pot, hotpot
castor sugar, caster sugar
pudding, pud
tipsy cake
pease pudding
roly-poly, roly-poly pudding
suet pudding
spotted dick
tart
Eccles cake
Christmas cake
simnel
teacake, tea biscuit
cookie, biscuit, cooky
Victoria sandwich, Victoria sponge
lemon curd, lemon cheese
chipolata
polony
banger
saveloy
butty
hasty pudding
Victoria plum
whitefish
rock salmon
cattle cake
salad cream
clotted cream, Devonshire cream
treacle, golden syrup
bubble and squeak
cottage pie
kedgeree
bitter
pale ale
plonk
Rhine wine, Rhenish, hock
sundowner
scrumpy
cuppa, cupper
gob
al-Muhajiroun
National Trust, NT
Special Branch
Inland Revenue, IR
Ordnance Survey
estate of the realm, estate, the three estates
first estate, Lords Spiritual
second estate, Lords Temporal
third estate, Commons
admass
limited company, Ltd., Ld.
slate club
skiffle group
gaudy
beanfeast
Liberal Democrat Party
direct-grant school
training college
Open University
privy council
works council
parliament
conservancy
select committee
Central Intelligence Machinery, CIM
Special Air Service, SAS
Secret Intelligence Service, MI, Military Intelligence Section 6
Security Service, MI, Military Intelligence Section 5
admiralty
county council
British Cabinet
shadow cabinet
High Commission
public school
terrace
spinney
rave-up
local authority
heath, heathland
subtopia
county
county town, shire town
housing estate
stockbroker belt
shire
no-go area
pitch
new town
outport
weald
Great Britain, GB
Home Counties
dale
mere
Anglo-Saxon
backbencher
beadle
berk
boffin
chancellor
Chief Constable
clever Dick, clever clogs
coiner
Colonel Blimp, Blimp
commissionaire
constable, police constable
convener
crossbencher
Esquire, Esq
fire watcher
frontbencher
fruiterer
greengrocer
guvnor
home help
Hooray Henry
inquiry agent
interne, medical intern, intern, houseman
invigilator
justiciar, justiciary
kerb crawler
Lady, noblewoman, peeress
land agent
linendraper
lollipop lady, lollipop woman
Lord Chancellor, Lord High Chancellor
mate
mercer
mod
muffin man
nan
nark, copper's nark
newsreader, news reader
office-bearer
outfitter
parliamentary agent
patrial
peer
peer of the realm
placeman, placeseeker
pointsman
pork butcher
potboy, potman
preceptor, don
publican, tavern keeper
question master, quizmaster
ranker
ranker
ratepayer
recorder
redcap
remover
returning officer
rocker
sandboy
scrimshanker
scrutineer, canvasser
settler
Sir
sixth-former
skivvy, slavey
slopseller, slop-seller
smallholder
spiv
sprog
sprog
squire
stipendiary, stipendiary magistrate
stockjobber
stone breaker
sublieutenant
suffragette
supergrass, grass
supremo
tallyman
tearaway
Ted, Teddy boy
Thatcherite
tout, ticket tout
townee
valuer
victualer, victualler
wally
wog
Wykehamist
knock-on effect
medium wave
pot plant
ratables, rateables
smallholding
Crown land
rent-rebate
peppercorn rent
hire-purchase, never-never
sick benefit, sickness benefit
Christmas box
council tax
rates
poor rates
base rate
refresher
water-rate
assurance
giro account
giro, giro cheque
tenpence
threepence
sixpence, tanner
Maundy money
divvy
carry-over, carry-forward
Premium Bond
Civil List
last
quarter
inch, in
perch, rod, pole
tod
stone
bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams
milliard
billion, one million million, 1000000000000
trillion, one million million million
quadrillion
top-up
poverty trap
crick, kink, rick, wrick
dog's breakfast, dog's dinner
appro
hard cheese
fug
ratability, rateability
town gas
derv
clunch
surgical spirit
half-term
November 5
Guy Fawkes Day
sell-by date
quarter day
guest night
rag, rag week
rag day
Boxing Day
Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday, Poppy Day
speech day
year dot
kip
question time
shake, judder
scrimshank
member holonym
European Union, EU, European Community, EC, European Economic Community, EEC, Common Market, Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
instance hypernym
part holonym
part meronym
hyponym