Lanius borealis, a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae) native to North America and Siberia.

A nickname for Saint Petersburg.

A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.

of, or relating to North Macedonia

A native or inhabitant of North Macedonia.

A Turkic language spoken in the Altai Krai, Russia on the border of Kazakhstan. There is no mutual intelligibility with Southern Altai.

(algebra) A finite, algebraic extension of some field such that if it contains any root of any irreducible polynomial over that base field then it contains all of the roots of that polynomial.

A pair of archipelagos off the north coast of mainland Scotland, comprising Orkney and Shetland.

(astronomy, especially Asia) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.

A council area of Scotland, one of 32 formed in 1996, with its headquarters in Irvine. It includes the Isle of Arran.