anti-takeover defense | resistance to or defense against a hostile takeover |
anti-war movement | a campaign against entering or continuing a war |
air-to-air missile | a missile designed to be launched from one airplane at another |
air-to-ground missile air-to-surface missile | a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground |
antiballistic missile ABM | a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks placed limits on the deployment of ABMs |
anti-G suit G suit | worn by fliers and astronauts to counteract the forces of gravity and acceleration |
anti-inflammatory anti-inflammatory drug | a medicine intended to reduce inflammation |
anti-submarine rocket | a shipboard system to fire rockets at submarines |
anti-TNF compound | a class of drugs that block the action of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), used in cases of rheumatoid arthritis because TNF instigates inflammation of the joints |
ballistic galvanometer | a movingoil galvanometer that measures electric charge |
ballistic missile | a missile that is guided in the first part of its flight but falls freely as it approaches target |
ballistic pendulum | a physical pendulum consisting of a large mass suspended from a rod, when it is struck by a projectile its displacement is used to measure the projectile's velocity |
basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
cruise missile | an unmanned aircraft that is a selfontained bomb |
destroyer guided missile destroyer | a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship |
fleet ballistic missile submarine | a submarine carrying ballistic missiles |
fragmentation bomb antipersonnel bomb anti-personnel bomb daisy cutter | a bomb with onlytoper cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments, most effective against troops and vehicles |
guided missile | a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices |
guided missile cruiser | a cruiser that carries guided missiles |
guided missile frigate | a frigate that carries guided missiles |
heat-seeking missile | a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine) |
intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM | a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another |
missile | a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives, may be ballistic or directed by remote control |
missile defense system missile defence system | naval weaponry providing a defense system |
naval missile | naval weaponry consisting of a missile carried on a warship |
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug NSAID | an anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids, NSAIDs inhibit the activity of both Cox- and Cox- enzymes |
projectile missile | a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled |
spacecraft ballistic capsule space vehicle | a craft capable of traveling in outer space, technically, a satellite around the sun |
stabilizer bar anti-sway bar | a rigid metal bar between the front suspensions and between the rear suspensions of cars and trucks, serves to stabilize the chassis |
surface-to-air missile SAM | a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target |
surface-to-air missile system | the shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraft |
tail rotor anti-torque rotor | rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a singleotor helicopter, keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor |
virility drug anti-impotence drug | drug to treat impotence attributable to erectile dysfunction |
anti-Semitism antisemitism | the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people |
anti-Catholicism | a religious orientation opposed to Catholicism |
ballistic identification ballistic fingerprinting bullet fingerprinting | identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it |
anti-drug law | a law forbidding the sale or use of narcotic drugs |
anti-virus program | a computer program that checks a computer for viruses and prevents their spread |
Japanese Red Army JRA Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
Anti-Masonic Party | a former political party in the United States, founded in in opposition to Freemasonry in public affairs |
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization BMDO | an agency in the Department of Defense that is responsible for making ballistic missile defense a reality |
anti | a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.), the antis smelled victory after a long battle |
anti-American | a person who is opposed to the United States and its policies |
anti-Semite Jew-baiter | someone who hates and would persecute Jews |
philistine anti-intellectual lowbrow | a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits |
ballistics ballistic trajectory | the trajectory of an object in free flight |
anti-dumping duty | a tariff imposed to prevent dumping |
e flip one's lid blow up throw a fit hit the roof hit the ceiling have kittens have a fit combust blow one's stack fly off the handle flip one's wig lose one's temper blow a fuse go ballistic | get very angry and fly into a rage, The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question, Spam makes me go ballistic |
racist antiblack anti-Semite(a) | discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion |
anti-intellectual philistine | smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values |