Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
- open house
- an informal party of people with hospitality for all comers
- schola cantorum
- a school that is part of a cathedral or monastery where boys with singing ability can receive a general education
- covert
- a flock of coots
- coronary care unit
- a hospital unit specially staffed and equipped to treat patients with serious cardiac problems
- clade
- a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor
- band
- instrumentalists not including string players
- Sacred College of Cardinals
- (Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope
- Red Army Faction
- a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
- trilogy
- a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme
- Home Office
- the government department in charge of domestic affairs
- American Federalist Party
- a major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; founded by Alexander Hamilton; favored a strong centralized government
- ministry
- a government department under the direction of a minister of state
- attendance
- the number of people that are present
- synthetic cubism
- the late phase of cubism
- security department
- a department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants
- Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement
- a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
- Puka Inti
- a small but violent terrorist organization formed in Ecuador in the early 1990s; responsible for bombing several government buildings
- straight flush
- a poker hand with consecutive cards in the same suit
- country club
- a suburban club for recreation and socializing
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