Phrase Hound found 535 phrases and 72 compound words that contain states. The most common are listed below. Open states in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 535
- United StatesA country in North America, also including Hawaii in Oceania; in full, United States of America.
- States GeneralAn ad hoc consultative assembly in prerevolutionary France uniting representatives of the three estates of clergy, nobles, and commons.
- member statesplural of member state: A sovereign state which is a member of an international organisation or some kind of confederation of other such states.
- United States of AmericaA country located primarily in North America, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and consisting of fifty states (including Alaska and Hawaii) and the District of Columbia, while asserting sovereignty over several …
- states of natureplural of state of nature: The way that people lived before there was any organized society.
- states of mindplural of state of mind: The psychological state of someone's cognitive processes at a certain time; the condition or character of a person's thoughts or feelings.
- states' rightsRights reserved to the 50 state governments of the United States that allow each one to set policy on some issues, rather than being subject to federal policy, especially in reference to their right to allow slavery before the Civil War.
- states of emergencyplural of state of emergency: An unusually difficult or dangerous situation in which a government gives itself special powers or suspends normal legal procedures so as to regain control.
- Commonwealth of Independent StatesAn alliance and confederation of nine former Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed as a successor to the Soviet Union.
- U. StatesAbbreviation of United States: A country in North America, also including Hawaii in Oceania; in full, United States of America.
- city statesplural of city state: A sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.
- free statesplural of free state: A political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state, as with the former Congo Free State and the former Irish Free State.
- Two-states
- end statesplural of end state: The specified situation at the successful completion of the final phase of a military operation.
- states of matterplural of state of matter: Any of the different phases of matter whose properties are dependent on the motions and forces of the molecules of which they are composed.
- states of affairsplural of state of affairs: A specific situation; a set of circumstances.
- United Mexican StatesOfficial name of Mexico: a country in North America.
- several statesThe states of the United States, collectively.
- Papal StatesA country in southern Europe that existed until 1870, comprising the territories of Italy (and some enclaves in France) over which the pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense.
- states of warplural of state of war: A state of armed conflict between states, irrespective of a declaration of war.
- Books in the United States
- Books of the United States
- C-states
- Center of the United States
- Copyright in the United States
Compound words 72
- statesideIn the United States.
- statesmenplural of statesman: A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
- StatesvilleA city, the county seat of Iredell County, North Carolina, United States.
- StatesboroA city, the county seat of Bulloch County, Georgia, United States.
- interstatesplural of interstate: Of, or relating to two or more states.
- eigenstatesplural of eigenstate: A dynamic quantum mechanical state whose wave function is an eigenvector that corresponds to a physical quantity.
- apostatesplural of apostate: Guilty of apostasy.
- reinstatesthird-person singular simple present indicative of reinstate: To restore to a former position or rank.
- overstatesthird-person singular simple present indicative of overstate: To state or claim too much.
- understatesthird-person singular simple present indicative of understate: To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.