Term: civil authority: a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: suspension: a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: crusade: any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: eunuch: a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: east-sider: a resident of the east side of Manhattan in New York City
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: halite: naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: staphylococcal enterotoxin: a soluble exotoxin produced by some strains of staphylococcus; a cause of food poisoning
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: clubfoot: congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: diodontidae: spiny puffers
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: secession: formal separation from an alliance or federation
Broader: authority: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | Unrelated: saxon: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest