- Types Of Speech
- You can use defense as a noun in a sentence.
- About Defense
- A 3 syllables noun and 7 letters with the letters d, e, f, n, and s, 4 consonants, 3 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter e. Defense starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters d, de, def, defe, defen, and the ending characters are e, se, nse, ense, fense, ..
- Definition
- Protection from harm; "sanitation is the best defense against disease"
- Origin/Roots
- French
- Scrabble
- Is defense a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Defense in Pig Latin is said as "efenseday or efensedway".
- Unigram
- d | e | f | e | n | s | e
- Bigram
- de | ef | fe | en | ns | se
- Trigram
- def | efe | fen | ens | nse
- Quadrigram
- defe | efen | fens | ense
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- protection from harm;
"sanitation is the best defense against disease" - military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies;
"they died in the defense of Stalingrad";
"they were developed for the defense program" - a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him;
"he gave evidence for the defense" - a structure used for defense;
"the artillery battered down the defenses" - the justification for some act or belief;
"he offered a persuasive defense of the theory" - the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions;
"his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive";
"in defense he said the other man started it" - an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack;
"he joined the defense against invasion" - the defendant and his legal advisors collectively;
"the defense called for a mistrial" - (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring;
"his teams are always good on defense" - (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abnegation | renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others |
| Aegis | |
| Answer | a nonverbal reaction "his answer to any problem was to get drunk" "their answer was to sue me" |
| Apologetic | offering or expressing apology "an apologetic note" "an apologetic manner" |
| Apologetics | the branch of theology that is concerned with the defense of Christian doctrines |
| Apologia | a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly |
| Apology | a poor example "it was an apology for a meal" "a poor excuse for an automobile" |
| Arch Dam | |
| Arguing | a contentious speech act a dispute where there is strong disagreement "they were involved in a violent argument" |
| Argument | a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable |
View all cognitive synonyms for Defense
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Defense | protection from harm "sanitation is the best defense against disease" |
View English words with the unique letters used in defense. Words With The Letters Defns
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Protection | payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence "every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection" |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense (7 letters) | 11 | 12 | defense | ||
| Deftness (8 letters) | 12 +1 | 13 +1 | deftness | ||
| Daftness (8 letters) | 12 +1 | 13 +1 | daftness | ||
| Deafness (8 letters) | 12 +1 | 13 +1 | deafness | ||
| Fastened (8 letters) | 12 +1 | 13 +1 | fastened | ||
| Unstaffed (9 letters) | 16 +5 | 18 +6 | unstaffed | ||
| Fadedness (9 letters) | 14 +3 | 15 +3 | addeefnss | ||
| Snafued (7 letters) | 11 | 13 +1 | snafued | ||
| Defenses (8 letters) | 12 +1 | 13 +1 | defenses | ||
| Snuffed (7 letters) | 14 +3 | 16 +4 | snuffed |
Defense Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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