12-letter words containing state
- badger state — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- beaver state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
- boomer state — Oklahoma
- border state — a state adjacent to a border
- buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
- client state — A client state is a country which is controlled or influenced by another larger and more powerful state, or which depends on this state for support and protection.
- cotton state — Alabama (used as a nickname).
- counterstate — across state; traversing the state
- coyote state — South Dakota (used as a nickname).
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- curvicostate — having curved ribs
- empire state — state of New York
- estate agent — sells homes, property
- failed state — a nation in which the government has lost political authority and control and is unable to fulfill the basic responsibilities of a sovereign state.
- fifth estate — any class or group in society other than the nobility, the clergy, the middle class, and the press.
- first estate — the first of the three estates: the clergy in France; the Lords Spiritual in England. Compare estate (def 5).
- fissicostate — having divided or separated ribs
- garden state — New Jersey (used as a nickname).
- ghost estate — (esp in Ireland) a housing estate built during an economic boom but unfinished or unoccupied during a recession
- golden state — California (used as a nickname).
- gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- holkar state — a former state of central India, ruled by the Holkar dynasty of Maratha rulers of Indore (18th century until 1947)
- joint estate — an estate owned by two or more people with the same rights of possession
- lie in state — the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
- malay states — the former states of the Malay Peninsula that, together with Penang and Malacca, formed the Union of Malaya (1946) and the Federation of Malaya (1948). Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Pahang were established as the Federated Malay States by the British in 1895 and Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, and Trengannu as the Unfederated Malay States in 1909 (joined by Johore in 1914)
- misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
- multicostate — having several costae or ribs
- nation-state — a sovereign state inhabited by a relatively homogeneous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality.
- nutmeg state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- out-of-state — of, relating to, or from another state of the U.S.: a car with an out-of-state license plate; out-of-state vacationers.
- papal states — the temporal domain of the popes in central Italy from 756 ad until the unification of Italy in 1870
- photo-stated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- police state — a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.
- purple state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
- silver state — Nevada (used as a nickname).
- sooner state — Oklahoma (used as a nickname).
- state church — established church.
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
- state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
- state school — A state school is a school that is controlled and funded by the government or a local authority, and which children can attend without having to pay.
- state secret — an official secret
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
- statesperson — a statesman or stateswoman, a respected senior politician
- steady state — physics: condition which does not change over time
- sunset state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
- thermostated — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
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