Term: rearguard: a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: etiolation: a pale and sickly appearance
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: intergalactic space: the space between galaxies
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: halocarpus: dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: movement: the act of changing the location of something
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: spank: a slap with the flat of the hand
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: blood blister: blister containing blood or bloody serum usually caused by an injury
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: gynecocracy: a political system governed by a woman
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: semester: one of two divisions of an academic year
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: polemoniaceae: a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers
Broader: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition | Unrelated: deflection: a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting