Nouns denoting acts or actions
- occupation
- the act of occupying or taking possession of a building
- deportation
- the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien
- air reconnaissance
- reconnaissance either by visual observation from the air or through the use of airborne sensors
- liner
- (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter
- electrification
- the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group
- motion-picture photography
- the act of making a film
- raise
- increasing the size of a bet (as in poker)
- waxing
- the application of wax to a surface
- capacity
- a specified function
- brainwashing
- forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs
- deprecation
- the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)
- onanism
- manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure
- battle of Cynoscephalae
- the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece
- baseball swing
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- thanks
- with the help of or owing to
- wash
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- track and field
- participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it
- brushing
- the act of brushing your teeth
- Metaurus River
- a battle during the second Punic War (207 BC); Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy
- incumbency
- a duty that is incumbent upon you
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