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Words and phrases whose definition contains action:   (912 results)

act, aim, balk, barred, baulk, block, break, build, burst, catch, change, charm, check, checked, choke, clock, coil, course, cry, cue, curb, curbed, deal, do, drag, draw, drive, earned, eat, fault, feint, field, flip, flux, force, fruit, get, go, ground, hate, hold, keep, lay, lead, league, let, life, mode, mood, move, need, nudge, patch, pause, pay, piece, pinch, pitch, plan, play, plead, poised, pro, probe, prompt, push, qualm, ram, rot, rule, rust, scene, scheme, shot, siege, spare, spell, spook, squish, stall, start, stay, still, strain, strength, sweep, swing, switch, tack, take, teach, tempt, thing, time, tort, touch, trance, trick, true, turn, twist, verb, voice, wait, while, why, wick, will, word

abound, active, act out, adroit, advice, alert, allow, amount, anti, aroused, aspect, away, bank run, bear on, begin, bouncing, bouncy, bridle, bring round, bristle, builder, buy time, cacoethes, cap off, caustic, centrist, change state, changing, chorus, click off, closeness, closing, cold feet, combine, come out, commence, compact, confer, control, corrode, counsel, counselling, cover, cut-in, defence, defense, delay, denounce, deplore, digest, direct, disbar, dispose, dissent, ditto, docket, drag in, driven, duty, embroil, error, escape, expose, express, extract, fallback, fast one, fibrin, flip-flop, flying, forceful, gallant, get by, get down, get off, get out, glider, green light, grievance, guidance, guideline, gunlock, handling, hatred, hindrance, hobble, hornfels, hornstone, hover, idle, impel, impelled, incite, incline, input, insert, labor, libel, lip sync, lip synch, locale, lockout, locus, lotion, lynching, manoeuvre, marshal, missing, mistake, mop up, motile, motion, motive, motor, negate, non pros, observe, offence, offense, open, opsin, ozone, passion, passive, peppy, perfect, perform, permit, persuade, plaintiff, planning, playing, plotter, practice, praxis, prescript, preset, pressing, press out, process, propel, protest, ptomain, ptomaine, pullout, question, qui vive, ravage, ready, reason, rebel, red flag, reflect, replay, resist, return, revenge, reward, road map, rotting, rousing, sailplane, sally, schemer, scrambled, scruple, septic, sequence, set out, short-stop, signal, siphon, slag code, slapstick, smokescreen, smoke screen, sortie, spirit, springlike, stand-down, standdown, startle, start out, stative, step in, step up, stirring, stop bath, stricken, strike out, suasion, summon, suspect, sweep up, synapse, take-up, tangle, taper, tension, test case, test suit, thwarter, time lag, title, treated, trespass, undo, unlaced, urgent, venue, vibrate, weather, wherefore, windup, xerox, zippy

ablative, achievement, active voice, actuate, adjuvant, adornment, advantage, agency, aggression, allegiance, alternate, ambages, amora, aorist, appearance, appearing, autoclave, backgrounder, bacterise, bacterize, bare-knuckle, bare-knuckled, behavior, behaviour, besieging, be active, be after, blind alley, blockaded, bring around, bring oneself, broadening, centrism, change of shape, civil wrong, come forward, commitment, committed, complainant, completion, concerted, concordat, confident, confining, constraining, constriction, constrictive, construction, contusion, corrective, corroding, corrosion, corrosive, counseling, counterclaim, covenant, croton oil, cunctation, defendant, deterrent, digestion, direction, director, disable, dissuasion, dissuasive, dynamic, elements, emphatic, enactment, enfolding, eosin, erosion, erosive, evasive, eviction, execute, exposure, faltering, fence mending, firing line, follow up, forbiddance, galvanic, galvanise, galvanize, get away, glucagon, go ahead, greek chorus, group action, handicap, haphazard, harmony, imperfect, inactive, incitement, incitive, indifferent, indirect, industry, influence, ingenious, innervate, inspirer, instancy, instrument, insufflate, interchange, interfere, intermit, interplay, interpose, intervene, inventive, irritate, job action, land reform, latitude, limiting, liveliness, locative, logic bomb, loyalty, make as if, maneuver, mania, maverick, meat grinder, mechanic, mifepristone, mingling, misgiving, mobilise, mobilize, motivate, musical, naltrexone, neon lamp, neon tube, neutralise, neutralize, nitrify, obstructed, obstructer, obstructor, offensive, opsonin, opsonize, orphan site, oscillate, passive voice, past perfect, paying back, penalty, perfective, perfect tense, persuasion, persuasive, perversion, plow ahead, pluperfect, policy, portrayal, postponement, power trip, prescription, proactive, procedure, procession, progressive, prosecute, pump action, purple heart, reaction, readiness, reflexive, reformist, repressing, repressive, reprisal, resistance, resister, resonance, restricting, retinal, retinene, rubber stamp, ruinous, ruthlessly, satisfice, sedition, seditious, seductive, semitrance, set about, sherrington, short-stop bath, silver star, slide action, soft money, soft pedal, solution, spirited, sprightliness, state of flux, step forward, stimulant, stimulus, strategic, strategy, succession, surefooted, synchronise, synchronize, temporal, tidal zone, tireless, torrential, tradition, transfusion, transgression, tyramine, unbuttoned, unchanging, unenforced, unflagging, unhampered, unstated, urgency, vacillant, vacillate, vigorous, voltaic, wake-up call, waterwheel, waterworn, water wheel, wavering, work to rule, wrongful death

ablative case, abortion pill, accidental, accomplishment, actionable, action replay, activism, actuated, actuator, adrenalin, adrenaline, adrenergic, advisable, aggravation, anastalsis, antitrust case, application, associate, attestation, autonomous, bakke decision, barricaded, beleaguering, bromeosin, capillary, catapultic, chukaku-ha, civil action, co-defendant, codefendant, collision course, combat pilot, come to the fore, consociate, convolution, coordinate, copper sulfate, copper sulphate, counteraction, counteractive, countermeasure, course of action, crenelation, crenellation, culmination, cupric sulfate, cupric sulphate, custody case, dedication, delayed-action, depredation, developing, direct action, direct object, discouraging, disenable, disengagement, disinfectant, disobliging, diuresis, dynamical, effectual, emergency, enlightening, epinephrin, epinephrine, ever-changing, exemplary, exhortation, exigency, future perfect, galvaniser, galvanism, galvanizer, germicidal, getting even, glaciated, glaciation, hesitation, honorable, hostility, impediment, imperative, imperfective, imperfect tense, inadvertent, incitation, incompetent, incurvation, indecision, indication, indirection, inhibition, inspiration, instigative, instigator, integrating, integration, interaction, interjection, involution, labor movement, locative role, manufacture, melodrama, modality, moderation, motivated, motivating, motivation, newton's third law, obligation, obstructionist, opposition, past perfect tense, past progressive, peremptory, perfective tense, personation, persuasiveness, pluferfect tense, police action, predigested, premeditate, preparation, preparedness, present perfect, profanity, progressive tense, prohibition, propositus, provocation, putrefaction, pyrolysis, rabble-rousing, receivership, reflexive verb, reform-minded, repercussion, repossession, rough-and-tumble, rustication, self-directed, self-reliant, sequestration, shillyshally, social control, stage director, step to the fore, stimulation, stupefaction, system command, temporal role, thyroprotein, transcendental, unitary, unwearying, vacillating, vacillation, vitriolic, xerox machine, zero hour

abomination, alienation, antagonism, antagonistic, armchair liberal, bacteria bed, bactericidal, calcium lactate, capillary tube, carcinogenic, catalytically, coming into court, continuous tense, cooperation, decomposition, defensive measure, deliberateness, deliberation, desegregation, detergent builder, dilatory plea, drumhead court-martial, evasive action, exacerbation, facilitation, fibrinopeptide, future perfect tense, future progressive, galvanisation, galvanization, gastric digestion, harmoniousness, hydrogen fluoride, imaginative, immediacy, immediateness, immunoassay, inadvisable, incapacitate, incendiary, indecisiveness, indirect object, inflammatory, inhibitory, initiator, instrumental role, interpellation, interpolation, interposition, irresolution, justification, letter of intent, manipulation, material breach, medal of honor, middle-of-the-road, mobilisation, mobilization, moderatism, musical drama, nationalisation, neutralisation, neutralization, nitrogen oxide, non prosequitur, object of the verb, past participle, past progressive tense, penicillin o, penicillin v, perfective aspect, photochemistry, piano action, present perfect tense, present progressive, probabilism, procrastination, progressive aspect, reciprocity, recommendation, reflexive pronoun, retaliation, reverberation, silver star medal, socialisation, socialization, special court-martial, third law of motion, trade union movement, trespass on the case, typification, ultracentrifuge, xerography

affirmative action, amphibious landing, anticholinergic, beatification, capillary tubing, characterization, clear and present danger, constructive eviction, decolonisation, decolonization, democratisation, democratization, destabilisation, destabilization, electrochemistry, electronic warfare, firing mechanism, future progressive tense, imperfective aspect, inchoative aspect, incidental music, incompetent person, indefatigable, individualist, instantaneousness, intensification, interpenetration, lip synchronisation, lip synchronization, military blockade, musical comedy, musical theater, nationalization, neon induction lamp, perfect participle, pharmacokinetics, present participle, present progressive tense, reciprocality, reciprocal pronoun, responsibility, retarded depression, self-determination, sir charles scott sherrington, surveillance of disease, sympathomimetic, theater director, theatre director

angiocardiogram, antagonistic muscle, anticholinergic drug, distinguished service order, electrodeposition, newton's third law of motion, order of the purple heart, photochemical exchange, photosensitivity, posthypnotic suggestion, statute of limitations, xerographic copier

amphibious demonstration, immunochemical assay, law of action and reaction, phenoxymethyl penicillin, photochemical reaction, radiosensitivity

congressional medal of honor, hypothetical imperative, reverse transcriptase inhibitor, trespass de bonis asportatis

monoamine oxidase inhibitor


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