preventer
/prɪˈvɛntə
/noun
1A person or thing that prevents something: a power-surge preventer...
- On the other hand, birth control pills are an effective preventer of pregnancy, which is in turn a powerful risk factor for thrombosis.
- Preventive war rests on the premise that the preventer has accurate and reliable knowledge about the evil enemy's capabilities and intentions.
- There are two main kinds of asthma medicine, both of which involve inhalers - relievers and preventers.
1.1 Sailing An extra line or wire rigged to support a piece of rigging under strain, or to hold the boom and prevent it from gybing.
Rhymes
- palagonite tuff
- palagonitic
- palagonitisation
- palagonitised
- palagonitization
- palagonitized
- Palaic
- Palaiologan
- Palaiologian
- palais
- palais de danse
- Palais de Justice
- Palais de l'Elysée
- palais glide
- Aegipan
- aegirine
- aegirite
- aegis
- Aegisthus
- aegithognathism
- aegithognathous
- aegophonic
- aegophony
- aegrotat
- Aegyptopithecus