Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 8 compound words that contain movements. The most common are listed below. Open movements in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- social movementsplural of social movement: An effort by a group of people to achieve a social or political goal.
- bowel movementsplural of bowel movement: The discharge of feces from the body, an act of defecation.
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- new religious movementsplural of new religious movement: (abbreviated NRM) Any religious community or spiritual group of modern origins, having a peripheral place within a state's dominant religious culture.
- art movementsplural of art movement: Any of many styles of art having an underlying philosophy or goal; many of them have names with an -ism suffix.
- youth movementsplural of youth movement: A political, religious, or social movement led by or consisting of mainly young people.
- human potential movementsplural of human potential movement: initiative encapsulating self-help groups, encounter groups and sensitivity training in order to attempt to increase human potential
- civil rights movementsplural of civil rights movement: Any of a number of movements against systemic oppression in various different countries, but especially
- rapid eye movementsplural of rapid eye movement: Fast movement of the eyes, characterising REM sleep
- temperance movementsplural of temperance movement: A social movement which campaigned against the consumption of alcohol, and which spread to many countries in its heyday in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- aircraft movementsplural of aircraft movement: The take-off or landing of an aircraft at an airport.
- beta movementsplural of beta movement: The optical illusion whereby a series of static images shown in rapid succession on a screen appear to show a moving image.
- voluntary movementsplural of voluntary movement: A willed physical action that is the result of a cognitive process.
- streaming movementsplural of streaming movement: The circulation of protoplasm within a cell.
- wh-movementsplural of wh-movement: a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the …
- involuntary movementsplural of involuntary movement: An abnormal, unintended or uncontrollable movement of the body.
- Brownian movementsplural of Brownian movement: Random motion of particles suspended in a fluid, arising from those particles being struck by individual molecules of the fluid.
- pincer movementsplural of pincer movement: An attack in which two or more forces attack from multiple sides at once.
- choreiform movementsplural of choreiform movement: repetitive and rapid, jerky, involuntary movement that appears to be well-coordinated; often seen in Huntington's disease.
Compound words 8
- aftermovementsplural of aftermovement: The movement of a limb following contraction of a muscle.
- antimovementsplural of antimovement: A social or political movement that opposes something specific.
- countermovementsplural of countermovement: A movement in opposition, or retaliation to another.
- ecomovementsplural of ecomovement: A movement promoting the protection of the natural environment.
- holomovementsplural of holomovement: According to the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics, the holistic idea that everything is in a state of process or becoming.
- micromovementsplural of micromovement: A microscopic movement.
- photomovementsplural of photomovement: The movement of an organism either towards or away from a source of light
- submovementsplural of submovement: A movement making up part of a larger movement.