| search and rescue mission | a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them |
| suicide pill | a poison pill with potentially catastrophic implications for the company it is intended to protect |
suicide
self-destruction
self-annihilation | the act of killing yourself, it is a crime to commit suicide |
| assisted suicide | suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible |
| physician-assisted suicide | assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician |
suicide squeeze play
suicide squeeze | the runner on third base starts home as the pitcher delivers the ball |
| mission missionary work | the organized work of a religious missionary |
mission
charge commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group, a confidential mission to London, his charge was deliver a message |
| mission impossible | an extremely dangerous or difficult mission |
suicide mission
martyr operation
sacrifice operation | killing or injuring others while annihilating yourself, usually accomplished with a bomb |
terrorism
act of terrorism
terrorist act | the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature, this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear |
bioterrorism
biological terrorism | terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare |
| chemical terrorism | terrorism using the chemical agents of chemical warfare, can undermine the personal security of citizens, a good agent for chemical terrorism should be colorless and odorless and inexpensive and readily available and not detectable until symptoms are experienced |
cyber-terrorism
cyberwar | an assault on electronic communication networks |
| domestic terrorism | terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people, the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City was an instance of domestic terrorism |
ecoterrorism
ecological terrorism
eco-warfare
ecological warfare | violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists |
| international terrorism | terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country |
| nuclear terrorism | the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials, assaults on nuclear power plants is one form of nuclear terrorism |
| state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
| mission military mission | an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters, the planes were on a bombing mission |
| combat mission | a mission to capture or defend something |
| search mission | a mission to discover something |
| search and destroy mission | an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam, troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them |
| suicide bombing | a terrorist bombing carried out by someone who does not hope to survive it |
peacekeeping
peacekeeping mission
peacekeeping operation | the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) |
| reconnaissance reconnaissance mission | the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy), an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission |
| suicide pact | an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time, the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact |
deputation
commission delegation
delegacy
mission | a group of representatives or delegates |
| diplomatic mission | a mission serving diplomatic ends |
legation
foreign mission | a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister |
mission missionary post
missionary station
foreign mission | an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work |
suicide
felo-de-se | a person who kills himself intentionally |
| suicide bomber | a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people |
mission bells rice-grain fritillary
Fritillaria affinis
Fritillaria lanceolata
Fritillaria mutica | herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell-shaped flowers |
mission bells black fritillary
Fritillaria biflora | herb of southwestern United States having dark purple bell-shaped flowers mottled with green |
| commit suicide | kill oneself, the terminally ill patient committed suicide |