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

• a Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary guerrilla force from 1979 to 1990; it opposed a left-wing government, with support from the United States

• 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

• the quantity contained in a carton

• a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top

• a positively charged ion

• brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak

• any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent

• a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body; similar to a sextant but with 45 degree calibration