Term: potemkin: a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: nawab: a governor in India during the Mogul empire
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: charronia: a genus of Mustelidae
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: wild red oat: Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: boat whistle: a whistle on a boat that is sounded as a warning
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: aeolian harp: a harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: sapremia: blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrefied matter
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: chyme: a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: ileum: the part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: nailhead: flattened boss on the end of nail opposite to the point
Broader: serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Unrelated: abstemiousness: restricted to bare necessities