Definitions for armor-piercing

armor-piercing ar·mor-pierc·ing

Spelling: [ahr-mer-peer-sing]
IPA: /ˈɑr mərˌpɪər sɪŋ/

Armor-Piercing is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 1174 anagrams from letters in armor-piercing (-acegiimnoprrr).

Definitions for armor-piercing

adjective

  1. (of bullets, artillery shells, etc.) designed especially for piercing armor.

Origin of armor-piercing

First recorded in 1895-1900

Examples for armor-piercing

Just where would an armor-piercing steel bullet do the most harm?

Evidence of execution-style gunshots with armor-piercing bullets has emerged.

Equally interesting was the construction of the armor-piercing bullet.

Tell how to distinguish from the painting of projectiles used, its kind, armor-piercing quality, and nature of bursting charge.

Thus, the proportions of the shrapnel gun will be intermediate between those of the armor-piercing gun and the shell gun.

Then an artillery officer said, dreamily, "The armor-piercing shells the railroad guns use have lead caps."

They were proof against the ordinary bullet but not against the armor-piercing.

And nobody needs a 30-round clip of high-velocity, steel-jacketed, armor-piercing ordnance for target shooting.

It is an armor-piercing shell for a 12-inch gun; it is made of forged steel, and is filled with explosive "D."

Furthermore, the cannon and armor-piercing bombs of Shturmovik ground-attack aircraft posed a mortal peril for the German tanks.

Word Value for armor-piercing
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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