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— English words —

• defence n. The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
• defence n. Something used to oppose attacks.
• defence n. An argument in support or justification of something.
• defence n. (Team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
• defence n. (Team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
• defence n. Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
• defence n. (Obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
• defence v. (Obsolete, transitive) To furnish with defences; to fortify.

— English words, defined in German —

• defence S. Defense.
• defence S. Militär, allgemein: Verteidigung, Verteidigungskunst, Schutz.
• defence S. Militär, speziell: Schutzwall, Befestigung, Verteidigung.
• defence S. Rüstung, Waffen, Schutzwaffe, Fechtkunst.
• defence S. Rechtfertigung.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• defence n. Verdediging.
• defence n. Bescherming.

— English words, defined in French —

• defence n. Défense.
• defence n. (Droit) Défense.
• defence n. Soutenance (de thèse), action de soutenir une thèse.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• defence s. Grafía alternativa de defense.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• defence s. Difesa.

48 English words from 8 English definitions

action and argument attack attacks contrasted danger dedicated defences defending employed fortify from furnish Government infra injury justification military Obsolete of␣a offence oppose ordinance other policy portion prevent preventing Prohibition prohibitory protecting related scoring something sports strategy structure support tactics team Team␣sports the to␣the transitive used used␣to with

3 English words from 12 foreign definitions

action defense Droit

22 foreign words from 12 foreign definitions

allgemein alternativa Befestigung Bescherming Défense Difesa Fechtkunst Grafía Militär Rechtfertigung Rüstung Schutz Schutzwaffe Schutzwall Soutenance soutenir speziell thèse une Verdediging Verteidigung Waffen

15 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

defenced defences defenceman defencemen defenceless defence␣accord defence␣lawyer defencelessly defence␣accords defence␣in␣depth defencelessness defences␣in␣depth defence␣diplomacy defence␣mechanism defence␣mechanisms

10 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

ride␣fences undefenced biodefences wing␣defences point␣defences space␣defences Pac-Man␣defences Twinkie␣defences Nuremberg␣defences personal␣defence␣weapon

34 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

ride␣fence biodefence ecodefence eco-defence nondefence goal␣defence Pirc␣Defence rush␣defence self-defence wing␣defence civil␣defence point␣defence space␣defence tower␣defence French␣Defence Indian␣Defence Pac-Man␣defence Petrov␣Defence Damiano␣Defence Petrov's␣Defence Twinkie␣defence Caro-Kann␣Defence Sicilian␣Defence Alekhine's␣Defence Nuremberg␣defence Bogo-Indian␣Defence Portsmouth␣defence Two␣Knights␣Defence Two␣Knights'␣Defence Nimzo-Indian␣Defence Nimzowitsch␣Defence millionaire's␣defence Scandinavian␣Defence preemptive␣self-defence

9 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

def DEF Def. EFE Efé enc -ence fen fence

9 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

EFE Efé e-fed fed Fed FED Fed. f***ed nef

3 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

defenced defences refenced

3 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

decene feened fenced

3 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

decence defense refence

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