Nouns denoting acts or actions
- blitz
- (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line
- dropkick
- (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground
- lockdown
- the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot)
- khanate
- the position of a khan
- protest march
- occasion when you can express opposition by marching (usually on some government institution) without a license
- preventive medicine
- the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease
- primateship
- the office of primate
- active air defense
- air defense by the use aircraft or missiles or artillery or electronic countermeasures
- combination
- the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
- Stanford-Binet test
- revision of the Binet-Simon Scale
- gore
- the shedding of blood resulting in murder
- jackstraws
- a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
- keratotomy
- surgical incision into the cornea
- Iran-Iraq War
- a dispute over control of the waterway between Iraq and Iran broke out into open fighting in 1980 and continued until 1988, when they accepted a UN cease-fire resolution
- roulette
- a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
- culdoscopy
- endoscopic examination of a woman's pelvic organs by the insertion of a culdoscope through the vagina
- banzai charge
- a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties; originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai'
- stenography
- the act or art of writing in shorthand
- forgery
- criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
- geotropism
- an orienting response to gravity
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