filibuster

filibuster
    n 1: a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay
         or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes [syn:
         {filibuster}, {filibusterer}]
    2: (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by
       making long speeches
    v 1: obstruct deliberately by delaying
    

Filibuster \Fil"i*bus`ter\, n. [Sp. flibuster, flibustero,
   corrupted fr. E. freebooter. See {Freebooter}.]
   A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of
   plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers
   infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into
   common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his
   expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his
   expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
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Filibuster \Fil"i*bus*ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fillibustered};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Filibustering}.]
   1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
      --Bartlett.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other
      artifices. [political cant or slang, U.S.] --Bartlett.
      [1913 Webster]
    

111 Moby Thesaurus words for "filibuster":
      address, after-dinner speech, allocution, be dilatory, chalk talk,
      cloture, committee consideration, constitute, debate, declamation,
      decree, deliberation, diatribe, division, enact, enact laws,
      eulogy, exhortation, filibusterer, filibustering, filing,
      first reading, forensic, forensic address, formal speech,
      frustrater, funeral oration, gain time, get the floor, hang,
      hang back, hang fire, harangue, have the floor, hesitate, hinderer,
      hold off, hortatory address, impeder, inaugural, inaugural address,
      introduction, invective, jeremiad, kill, legislate, lobby through,
      logroll, logrolling, make time, marplot, negativist, obstructer,
      obstructionist, oration, ordain, outlast, outspeak, outtalk, pass,
      pep talk, peroration, philippic, pigeonhole, pitch, play for time,
      pocket, prepared speech, prepared text, procrastinate,
      public speech, put in force, put through, railroad through,
      reading, recital, recitation, roll call, roll logs, sales talk,
      salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, second reading,
      set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, stall,
      stall for time, stall off, steamroller methods, stooge around,
      table, tabling, take the floor, talk, talk against time, talk down,
      talkathon, temporize, third reading, thwarter, tirade, valediction,
      valedictory, valedictory address, veto, vote, yield the floor