| Antarctic Circle |
an imaginary line drawn around the earth parallel to the equator and north of the South Pole. |
| antipodes |
places directly opposite each other on the surface of the earth, as the North Pole and the South Pole. |
| apartheid |
a policy of racial segregation, esp. the official segregation of blacks and whites as it existed in the Republic of South Africa from 1948 until 1994. |
| AR |
abbreviation of "Arkansas," a south central U.S. state between Mississippi and Oklahoma. |
| Arawak |
a member of an Indian people once widespread throughout the West Indies, now living chiefly in northern South America. [1/2 definitions] |
| Arawakan |
a family of South American Indian languages that includes Arawak. |
| Arctic Circle |
an imaginary line drawn around the earth parallel to the equator and south of the North Pole. |
| Argentina |
a country in the southern part of South America, between Chile and Uruguay. |
| Arkansas |
a south central U.S. state between Mississippi and Oklahoma. (abbr.: AR) |
| armadillo |
a burrowing nocturnal mammal of the southern United States and South America, whose body is armored by jointed, bony plates. |
| aurora australis |
the aurora of the Southern Hemisphere, seen esp. near the South Pole; southern lights. |
| austral1 |
of, concerning, or originating in the south; southern. [1/2 definitions] |
| Australasia |
Australia, New Zealand, and nearby islands south of the equator and north through Malaysia and the Philippines. |
| Austria |
a central European country that lies between Germany and the Czech Republic to the north and Italy and Slovenia to the south. |
| azimuth |
an arc measured horizontally and clockwise from a point north, in navigation, or a point south, in astronomy, to another point where a vertical circle intersects the horizon. [1/2 definitions] |
| Baja California |
a Mexican peninsula south of California; Baja; Lower California. |
| Bloemfontein |
the judicial capital of South Africa. (Cf. Cape Town, Pretoria.) |
| bluefish |
a blue-colored game and food fish found in temperate Atlantic waters of the North and South American coast. [1/2 definitions] |
| Boer |
a South African of Dutch ancestry. [2 definitions] |
| bola |
a throwing weapon with heavy balls attached to the ends of a rope, used by South American herdsmen to entangle the legs of cattle and game. |
| Bolivia |
a South American country south of Brazil and Peru. |