Term: department of defense: the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: bookishness: exaggerated studiousness
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: rough bindweed: creeping or climbing evergreen having spiny zigzag stems with shiny leaves and racemes of pale-green flowers; Canary Islands to southern Europe and Ethiopia and India
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: gauss: a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: double cross: an act of betrayal
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: latchkey: key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: indoctrination: teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: bilateral descent: line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: cocktail party: an afternoon party at which cocktails are served
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: shamelessness: behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame
Broader: federal department: a department of the federal government of the United States | Unrelated: security intelligence: intelligence on the identity and capability and intentions of hostile individuals or organizations that may be engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism