8-Letter Words Containing: _,_,D,E,E,E,S,S

• marked by or paying little heed or attention

• characterized by careless unconcern

• plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae

• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

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

• protection from harm

• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

• the justification for some act or belief

• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

• a structure used to defend against attack

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

• someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will

• a bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting

• free from weeds

• a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end

• ride on a plank

• move up and down as if on a seesaw

• move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

• the property of favoring one eye over the other (as in taking aim)