forestalling (n.)

• agape
• agog
• anticipant
• avoidance
• circumvention
• debarment
• determent
• deterrence
• deterrent
• discouragement
• dodge
• duck
• eager
• elusion
• elusiveness
• equivocation
• escape
• estoppel
• evasion
• evasiveness
• forbearance
• forbiddance
• forbidding
• foreclosure
• halt
• hopeful
• neutrality
• nonintervention
• obviation
• preclusion
• preventative
• prevention
• preventive
• prohibition
• prophylactic
• ready
• sanguine
• shunning
• shy
• sidestep
• slip
• stay
• stop
• stoppage
• stopping
• sure
• waiting
• zigzag