face-off

n. a confrontation. (From hockey.) The face-off continued for a few moments till both of them realized that there was no point in fighting.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Farley	FAHR-lee	English (Rare)
Yoana	-	Bulgarian
Meshulam	-	Hebrew
Andrei	ahn-DRYAY (Russian)	Romanian, Russian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic
Pruitt	['pru:it]
Matija	MAH-tee-yah (Croatian, Serbian)	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian