Term: detente: the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations)
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: carpenter's hammer: a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: hairspring: a fine spiral spring that regulates the movement of the balance wheel in a timepiece
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: congo red: a red-brown azo dye especially as a chemical pH indicator (congo red is red in basic and blue in acidic solutions)
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: lomatia: any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus Lomatia having attractive fragrant flowers
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: blood vessel: a vessel in which blood circulates
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: shumard oak: large deciduous red oak of southern and eastern United States having large seven-lobed to nine-lobed elliptical leaves, large acorns and medium hard coarse-grained wood
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: decomposition: the analysis of a vector field
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: wildfowl: flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: sand spurry: prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: beak: a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures