Definitions for battleship

battleship bat·tle·ship

Spelling: [bat-l-ship]
IPA: /ˈbæt lˌʃɪp/

Battleship is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 818 anagrams from letters in battleship (abehilpstt).

Definitions for battleship

noun

  1. any of a class of warships that are the most heavily armored and are equipped with the most powerful armament.
  2. ship of the line.

Origin of battleship

An Americanism dating back to 1785-95; battle1 + ship1

Examples for battleship

It was so huge and vast that even the crew of the battleship burst into a cheer.

The leading-man roles followed in the back-to-back 2012 blockbusters John Carter and battleship.

It was the solemn note of a battleship destroyed by its own magazines.

A battleship should be at least twice as long as a torpedo-boat destroyer.

France had accepted the verdict; but now a second battleship was gone.

A view of the battleship as it will look in the water is shown in Fig. 31.

Using skewers/tooth picks, attach monkey bread, Cinnabons, and churros to battleship.

Additional film credits include The Rundown, The Kingdom, Hancock, battleship, and the upcoming Cocaine Cowboys.

As a member of the Royal Navy, he was in charge of operating the searchlights on a battleship called the Valiant.

Sober and muted colors including shades of gray, one described in a local paper as ‘battleship,’ were prevalent.

Word Value for battleship
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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