Phrase Hound found 72 phrases and 41 compound words that contain wars. The most common are listed below. Open wars in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 72
- Star WarsAn American epic space opera franchise centered on a film series created by George Lucas in a setting where futuristic technology coexists with a semisentient form of magic or religion called the Force.
- civil warsplural of civil war: A war fought between factions of the inhabitants of a single country, or a similar political entity.
- world warsplural of world war: A war involving the major nations of the world.
- Wars of the RosesA civil war that lasted from 1455 to 1487, fought between the English houses of Lancaster and York and allies in France, Burgundy and Scotland.
- wars of aggressionplural of war of aggression: A military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation.
- wars of independenceplural of war of independence: A civil war by which a rebellious party achieves its independence from a state or ruler.
- Bone WarsA period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh.
- wars of liberationplural of war of liberation: A civil war by which a rebellious party achieves its independence from a state or ruler.
- Napoleonic WarsThe series of wars (1803–1815) between France (ruled by Napoleon) and other European countries.
- Star Wars DayA fan holiday celebrating the Star Wars franchise, on May 4th.
- culture warsplural of culture war: A political struggle for control over cultural institutions.
- currency warsplural of currency war: The competition between countries in order to achieve a relatively low exchange rate for their home currencies, so as to assist their domestic industry.
- edit warsplural of edit war: A dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work where opposing editors continually change the page without discussion.
- price warsplural of price war: A situation where commercial competitors repeatedly undercut each other's prices in order to attract buyers.
- race warsplural of race war: A long-term, violent conflict between racial groups.
- ship warsplural of ship war: An intense and sometimes hostile disagreement between shippers of rival ships in a fandom.
- total warsplural of total war: Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed.
- trade warsplural of trade war: The practice of nations creating mutual tariffs or similar barriers to trade.
- Beaver Warsa number of mid-17th century wars fought over land and the fur trade in the Great Lakes region, which ended with the signing of the Great Peace of Montreal in 1701.
- wars of conquestplural of war of conquest: A military conflict where one state, nation, or people conquers or attempts to conquer another; a conquering war.
- wheel warsplural of wheel war: A conflict in which users of a given computer system or (later) wiki who have administrative privileges try to lock each other out of the system or repeatedly attempt to reverse each other’s administrative actions.
- holy warsplural of holy war: A war which is primarily caused or justified by differences in religion and beliefs.
- forever warsplural of forever war: A war or armed conflict that continues without clear conditions for victory or an agreed endpoint, so it appears effectively endless or unwinnable.
- gang warsplural of gang war: A conflict or feuding between two or more gangs (criminal groups).
- dirty warsplural of dirty war: A conflict (particularly one in South America) between a dictatorship against leftist revolutionaries or activists, typically characterized by extrajudicial repression like kidnapping, torture and enforced …
Compound words 41
- nymwarsConflicts over policies mandating that users of Internet services identify themselves using their real legal names.
- warshipsplural of warship: Any ship built or armed for naval combat.
- WarshawA surname.
- salwarsplural of salwar: Loose trousers worn in some South Asian or Islamic countries, especially by women but also by men, especially with a kamees.
- airwarsplural of airwar: A war fought predominantly by aircraft.
- counterwarsplural of counterwar: War waged in response to another war.
- cyberwarsplural of cyberwar: Cyberwarfare.
- Dehwarsplural of Dehwar: A member of an ethnic group of the Balochistan region of Pakistan and Iran, who speak Dehwari.
- ecowarsplural of ecowar: A war waged on ecological or environmental grounds.
- fanwarsplural of fanwar: A rivalry between fandoms, usually carried out on the internet.