Term: excuse: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: dotard: an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: hysteresis: the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: hiv: infection by the human immunodeficiency virus
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: substrate: a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: black rat: common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: fractal: (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: common kingsnake: widespread in United States except northern regions; black or brown with yellow bands
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: hawaii time: standard time in the 10th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 150th meridian west; used in Hawaii and the western Aleutian Islands
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: south southwest: the compass point midway between south and southwest
Broader: defense: the justification for some act or belief | Unrelated: protactinium: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead