Anagrams of: DEFENSEMEN

• In ice hockey and lacrosse, a player position with a primary responsibility to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals; same as defender in many other ballgames.

• (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

• extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

• territory over which rule or control is exercised

• a dealer in seeds

• make improvements or corrections to

• food for domestic livestock

• provide as food

• give food to

• feed into; supply

• introduce continuously

• support or promote

• take in food; used of animals only

• serve as food for; be the food for

• move along, of liquids

• profit from in an exploitatory manner

• gratify

• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

• (sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person.

• A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl.

• A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.

• A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.

• try to manage without help

• withstand the force of something