Words Containing: A,S,T,I,O,N

• a group that defends a principle

• a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle

• projecting part of a rampart or other fortification

• something done (usually as opposed to something said)

• the state of being active

• a military engagement

• a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

• the series of events that form a plot

• the trait of being active and energetic and forceful

• the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

• a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

• an act by a government body or supranational organization

• the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field

• In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• put in effect

• come into possession of

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• be valid, applicable, or true

• a positively charged ion

• the principal character in a work of fiction

• someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon)

• a muscle that contracts while another relaxes

• (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction