The word game!!

line

infantry

crushed

dreams

sleep

recovery

.
rehabilitation
.

restore

.
backup
.

copy

.
cope
.

stress

test

:viking:~:handball:~:cheers:~:confused: rain

Coat

jacket

metal (as in full)

steel

Tea-leaf ~:mad (tea-leaf is cockney rhyming slang for thief - who steals of course for you confused people)

predict

(steel tea-leaf?) o_O

.
forecast
.

weather

(Weather) gage

measure

.
sextant
.

Mural

.
(Tristan) Murail
.

Spectral

ectoplasm

.
endoplasm
.