Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 4 compound words that contain defenses. The most common are listed below. Open defenses in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- affirmative defensesplural of affirmative defense: A defense against a suit or criminal charge that asserts mitigating facts rather than contesting the main fact of the allegation.
- air defensesplural of air defense: The use of systems, equipment, and personnel to prevent or reduce the impact of an attack by enemy aircraft or missiles.
- chemical defensesplural of chemical defense: All the methods and procedures involved in defending against attack by chemical agents.
- passive defensesplural of passive defense: Forms of defense that offer protection without counterattacking.
- prevent defensesplural of prevent defense: Any defense intended to prevent rapid scoring by the offense, at the expense of allowing relatively easy, slower scoring.
- self-defensesplural of self-defense: The means of defending oneself from physical attack.
- space defensesplural of space defense: Any defensive measure against an attack by missiles etc while in space
- special defensesplural of special defense: A special move used to defend against damage.
- thesis defensesplural of thesis defense: The final step in earning a doctorate: an oral examination in which the doctorand publicly defends his/her thesis to the examiners.
- zone defensesplural of zone defense: A defense in which each player covers an area of the court.
- Nuremberg defensesplural of Nuremberg defense: An 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.
- black rage defensesplural of black rage defense: A defense of a crime committed by a black person on the grounds that the person was driven to temporary insanity as a result of other people's racial prejudice.
- defenses in depthplural of defense 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.
- gay panic defensesplural of gay panic defense: A claim of self-defense against an unwanted homosexual advance.
- homosexual panic defensesplural of homosexual panic defense: A claim of self-defense against an unwanted homosexual advance.
- Pac-Man defensesplural of Pac-Man defense: A response to an attempted hostile takeover of a company, in which the target company, or a 'white knight' acting on its behalf, tries to turn the situation round by acquiring all or much of the other company.
- trans panic defensesplural of trans panic defense: A claim of self-defense against an unwanted transgender sexual advance.
- Chewbacca defensesplural of Chewbacca defense: Any legal strategy or propaganda strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience with nonsensical arguments, as a way of confusing the audience and drowning out legitimate opposing arguments.
- man-to-man defensesplural of man-to-man defense: A defense in which each player guards a particular opposing player.
Compound words 4
- biodefensesplural of biodefense: Any defensive measure taken against an attack using bacteria, viruses or toxins
- counterdefensesplural of counterdefense: A defensive response to another organism's defense, such as of a parasite or pathogen
- cyberdefensesplural of cyberdefense: Defense against internet attack.
- immunodefensesplural of immunodefense: immunological defense