Term: retaining wall: a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: antiaircraft: artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: astringency: a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: portage: the cost of carrying or transporting
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: homozygote: (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: jack: tool for exerting pressure or lifting
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: guitarfish: primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: terminal velocity: the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: bouteloua: forage grasses
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: samovar: a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea
Broader: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Unrelated: spider flower: native to South America but naturalized in warm parts of United States; grown for its long-lasting spider-shaped white to pink-purple flowers