Phrase Hound found 61 phrases and 15 compound words that contain defense. The most common are listed below. Open defense in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 61
- self-defenseThe means of defending oneself from physical attack.
- air defenseThe use of systems, equipment, and personnel to prevent or reduce the impact of an attack by enemy aircraft or missiles.
- civil defenseEfforts to protect the citizens of a state from military attack.
- defense attorneyA lawyer who represents defendants in legal proceedings.
- Missile Defense
- Criminal defense
- National-defense
- Defense counsel
- defense lawyerdefense attorney
- defense attorneysplural of defense attorney: A lawyer who represents defendants in legal proceedings.
- defense mechanismA psychological strategy used unconsciously by people to cope with harmful or stressful situations.
- prevent defenseAny defense intended to prevent rapid scoring by the offense, at the expense of allowing relatively easy, slower scoring.
- affirmative defenseA defense against a suit or criminal charge that asserts mitigating facts rather than contesting the main fact of the allegation.
- defense lawyersplural of defense lawyer: defense attorney
- Matrix defenseA legal defense in which the defendant claims to have committed a crime in the belief that they were not in the real world, but in a simulated reality.
- Best Defense
- French DefenseUS standard spelling of French Defence.
- tower defenseA style of real-time strategy video game in which the player attempts to stop enemies from crossing a map by building traps to slow them down and towers or turrets which shoot at them as they pass within range.
- defense in depthAlternative form of defence in depth: A strategy that seeks to delay rather than prevent the advance of an attacker, potentially yielding a limited amount of territory in order to stress the attacker's logistics and reduce their momentum.
- thesis defenseThe final step in earning a doctorate: an oral examination in which the doctorand publicly defends his/her thesis to the examiners.
- space defenseAny defensive measure against an attack by missiles etc while in space
- zone defenseA defense in which each player covers an area of the court.
- Nuremberg defenseAn explanation offered as an excuse for behaving in a criminal or wrongful manner, claiming that one acted in this way because one was ordered by others (particularly superiors) to do so.
- chemical defenseAll the methods and procedures involved in defending against attack by chemical agents.
- Modern DefenseA Semi-Open Game in chess, characterized by the moves 1.e4 g6, in which black's first move is king's knight's pawn to the sixth rank.
Compound words 15
- defensiveIntended for defence; protective.
- defensibleCapable of being defended against armed attack.
- DefConAlternative form of DEFCON.
- antidefenseCountering a defense system.
- defensomeThe collection of genes that code for proteins that are chemical stressors
- ecodefenseAlternative spelling of ecodefence: Collectively, actions intended to disrupt human activities perceived to be damaging to the environment, typically including civil disobedience and illegal sabotage.
- immunodefenseimmunological defense
- defenselessLacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack.
- defensemanAlternative spelling of defenceman: In ice hockey and lacrosse, a player position with a primary responsibility to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals; same as defender in many other ballgames.
- biodefenseAny defensive measure taken against an attack using bacteria, viruses or toxins