ecoterrorism ecological terrorism eco-warfare ecological warfare | violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists |
psychological warfare war of nerves | the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale |
electronic warfare EW | military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum |
class struggle class war class warfare | conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) |
trench warfare | a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other, instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare |
chemical warfare chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
biological warfare BW biological attack biologic attack bioattack | the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food |
biological warfare defense biological warfare defence BW defense BW defence | defense against biological warfare |
war warfare | the waging of armed conflict against an enemy, thousands of people were killed in the war |
electronic warfare-support measures ESM | electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition |
germ warfare bacteriological warfare | the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon |
information warfare IW | the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries, not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare |
war warfare | an active struggle between competing entities, a price war, a war of wits, diplomatic warfare |
trench warfare | a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win, the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare |
approach trench communication trench | a trench that provides protected passage between the rear and front lines of a defensive position |
fire trench | a trench especially constructed for the delivery of small-arms fire |
mortar howitzer trench mortar | a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range |
slit trench | narrow trench for shelter in battle |
trench | a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth |
trench | any long ditch cut in the ground |
trench coat | a military style raincoat, belted with deep pockets |
trench knife | a knife with a double-edged blade for hand-to-hand fighting |
Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division NAWCWPNS | the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems |
Naval Special Warfare NSW | the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare |
Naval Surface Warfare Center NSWC | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare |
Naval Underwater Warfare Center NUWC | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems |
Atacama Trench | a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile |
Bougainville Trench | a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands |
Japan Trench | a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Japan that reaches depths of , feet |
trench deep oceanic abyss | a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor |
Vincent's angina Vincent's infection trench mouth | an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane |
trench fever | marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice |
trench foot immersion foot | resembling frostbite but without freezing, resulting from exposure to cold and wet |
trench | dig a trench or trenches, The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench |
trench ditch | cut a trench in, as for drainage, ditch the land to drain it, trench the fields |
trench | set, plant, or bury in a trench, trench the fallen soldiers, trench the vegetables |
trench | cut or carve deeply into, letters trenched into the stone |
trench | fortify by surrounding with trenches, He trenched his military camp |
impinge a encroach a entrench trench | impinge or infringe upon, This impinges on my rights as an individual, This matter entrenches on other domains |