Term: preventive strike: a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: earnestness: an earnest and sincere feeling
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: european hornbeam: medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: selector: a switch that is used to select among alternatives
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: polysemy: the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: jerusalem artichoke: edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: broad buckler-fern: European shield fern
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: mosaicism: the condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: megadermatidae: Old World false vampire bats
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: backfire: a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
Broader: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Unrelated: white dogtooth violet: North American dogtooth having solitary white flowers with yellow centers and blue or pink exteriors