1. defense

noun. ['dɪˈfɛns'] (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies.

Rhymes with Defense

• misrepresents
• commonsense
• suspense
• pretense
• expense
• dispense
• condense
• intense
• incense
• defence
• commence
• whence
• spens
• spence
• offense
• immense
• ferenc
• thence
• tense
• sense
• pense
• pence
• hense
• hence
• fence
• dense
• cents
• bence

Sentences with defense

1. Noun, singular or mass
A positive spin is the best defense against a bad reference.

Quotes about defense

1. There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
- Thomas W. Higginson

2. Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks

3. The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.
- Charles L. Allen

2. self-defense

noun. ['ˌsɛlfdɪˈfɛns'] the act of defending yourself.

3. defense

noun. ['dɪˈfɛns'] protection from harm.

4. defense

noun. ['dɪˈfɛns'] (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring.

5. defense

noun. ['dɪˈfɛns'] the justification for some act or belief.

6. defense

noun. ['dɪˈfɛns'] (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.

7. Defense

noun. the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947.

8. defense

noun. ['dɪˈfɛns'] the defendant and his legal advisors collectively.

9. defense

noun. ['dɪˈfɛns'] the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions.

10. defense

noun. ['dɪˈfɛns'] a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him.