Menshevik
noun
Men·she·vik ˈmen(t)-shə-ˌvik 
-ˌvēk
plural Mensheviks or Mensheviki ˌmen(t)-shə-ˈvi-kē
-ˈvē-kē
: a member of a wing of the Russian Social Democratic party before and during the Russian Revolution believing in the gradual achievement of socialism by parliamentary methods in opposition to the Bolsheviks
Menshevism
ˈmen(t)-shə-ˌvi-zəm
noun Menshevist
ˈmen(t)-shə-vist
noun or adjective 
Word History
Etymology
Russian men'shevik, from men'she less; from their forming the minority group of the party
First Known Use
1906, in the meaning defined above
- forked chain
- forked chickweed
- forked leaf
- forked over, out, or up
- forked tongue
- forked worm
- forked-tailed petrel
- forked-tongued
- forkednesses
- forker
- forkers
- forkful
- forkfuls
- forkhead
- forkheads
- forkier
- forkiest
- forkiness
- forking
- forking (over, out, or up)
- forking catchfly
- forking over, out, or up
- forkless
- forklift
- forklift truck