Anagrams of DEFENSIVE

• intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack

• an attitude of defensiveness

• attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

• (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

• a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

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

• a person who buys

• determine the essential quality of

• give a definition for the meaning of a word

• determine the nature of

• show the form or outline of

• decide upon or fix definitely

• To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp).

• widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched

• variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges

• the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

• a team that plays basketball

• a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips

• being one more than four

• determine the essential quality of

• give a definition for the meaning of a word

• determine the nature of

• show the form or outline of

• decide upon or fix definitely