White companions deserted force in conflicts (6)
I believe the answer is:
dwarfs
'white companions' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'deserted force in conflicts' is the wordplay.
'deserted' becomes 'd'.
'force' becomes 'F' (symbol used in Physics e.g. f=ma).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'conflicts' becomes 'wars' (war is a kind of conflict).
'f' placed inside 'wars' is 'warfs'.
'd'+'warfs'='DWARFS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dwarfs that I've seen before include "Short mythical creatures" , "Small people like Snow white's" , "Snow-white had seven of these companions" , "Dominates" , "Mythical short beings" .)