Words and phrases whose definition contains action:  (858 results)
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, slapstick, smokescreen, smoke screen, sortie, spirit, springlike, 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, 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, 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, offensive, opsonin, opsonize, oscillate, passive voice, past perfect, paying back, penalty, perfective, perfect tense, persuasion, persuasive, perversion, plow ahead, pluperfect, policy, portrayal, postponement, 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, sedition, seditious, seductive, semitrance, set about, short-stop bath, silver star, slide action, soft money, soft pedal, solution, spirited, sprightliness, 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, civil action, co-defendant, codefendant, collision course, 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, 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, galvanism, galvanizer, germicidal, getting even, 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, 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, premeditate, preparation, preparedness, present perfect, profanity, progressive tense, prohibition, propositus, provocation, putrefaction, pyrolysis, rabble-rousing, receivership, repercussion, repossession, rough-and-tumble, rustication, self-directed, self-reliant, sequestration, shillyshally, social control, stage director, step to the fore, stimulation, stupefaction, system command, thyroprotein, transcendental, unitary, unwearying, vacillating, vacillation, vitriolic, xerox machine, zero hour

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