Clues for the word "RESISTANCE"
We've had 22 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 41 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on February 24, 2025.
Definition of resistance
- n. - The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
- n. - The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.
- n. - A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
- n. - A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.
Referring Clues
- Freedom fighters
- Underground activity
- There's none in superconductivity
- Denominator of Ohm's law
- Unwilling to move
- Unwillingness
- Opposition
- Insects are developing immunity
- Underground movement providing opposition
- Underground sites camouflaged in leaderless France
- Rise awkwardly to position of defiance
- Organised covert opposition to an occupying power
- Opposition to sister converting to an Anglican
- Stand in as secret is out
- Opposition to mixed ancestries ___
- Opposition rise in rebellion over policy
- Criminal resents CIA's lack of co-operation
- Work in secret as an underground movement
- Bearing canisters to explode first underground
- Armed or violent opposition
- Opposing force
- Opposition to the Galactic Empire, in "Star Wars"
Last Seen In
- Daily American - February 24, 2025
- Daily American - December 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 27, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 11, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 25, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 07, 2024
- USA Today - September 06, 2023
- Daily American - February 24, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 29, 2022
- Daily American - December 16, 2022
- Mirror Daily - November 24, 2022
- Mirror Daily - November 13, 2022
- Mirror Daily - July 13, 2022
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 03, 2022
- Mirror Daily - November 12, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - September 11, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 31, 2017
- Daily American - February 24, 2017
- Daily American - December 16, 2016
- Mirror Daily - November 12, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - October 10, 2016
- Guardian Quiptic - June 15, 2015
- Guardian Quiptic - January 19, 2015
- Guardian Quick - October 02, 2012
- Thinks Daily - December 16, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - August 19, 2010
- Thinks Daily - February 08, 2010
- And in 11 more crossword puzzles...