Term: variance: an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: desert sand verbena: soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: bight: the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: processing time: the time it takes to complete a prescribed procedure
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: shade: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: corvine bird: birds of the crow family
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: cabana: a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: celestial equator: the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: hydromyinae: water rats of Australia and New Guinea
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: koan: a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning
Broader: license: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Unrelated: eelgrass: submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts