Definitions for ordnance

ordnance ord·nance

Spelling: [awrd-nuh ns]
IPA: /ˈɔrd nəns/

Ordnance is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 318 anagrams from letters in ordnance (acdennor).

Definitions for ordnance

noun

  1. cannon or artillery.
  2. military weapons with their equipment, ammunition, etc.
  3. the branch of an army that procures, stores, and issues, weapons, munitions, and combat vehicles and maintains arsenals for their development and testing.

Origin of ordnance

First recorded in 1620-30; syncopated variant of ordinance

Examples for ordnance

It could have closed off the school until another international organization with ordnance disposal skills secured the area.

Methinks I see the breastplates of horse over there, and some sign of ordnance too.

Soon afterward, officials reported back to the president that even a surgical strike would require a large amount of ordnance.

He said that by end of his tour he felt like the Iraqi insurgency was more sophisticated but simply running out of ordnance.

This time there was no defect in the ordnance or the gunnery of the American ship.

If the ordnance officer wanted it, let him come himself and get it!

But the ordnance of both was light, so that the combat was greatly prolonged.

It 's not a very comely piece of ordnance, but it is very true and easy to carry.

Provisions, ordnance, ammunition, and recruits were expected from St. Louis.

The American ordnance crew that had explored it estimated the mine contained 400,000 tons of explosives.

Word Value for ordnance
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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