Definitions for high-explosive

high-explosive high explosive

High-Explosive is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 516 anagrams from letters in high-explosive (-eeghhiilopsvx).

Definitions for high-explosive

noun

  1. a class of explosive, as TNT, in which the reaction is so rapid as to be practically instantaneous, used in shells and bombs.

Origin of high-explosive

First recorded in 1875-80

Examples for high-explosive

The production of high explosive in 1914 was almost negligible.

“You need to drill a hole in the side of a high explosive rocket and suck the stuff out,” Kaszeta said.

In its place he put his precious packet, which was a charge of high explosive.

What the Turks want is a gift, not of ground but of high explosive shell.

The wood was raked with more than 5,000 high explosive and gas shells.

That high explosive shell had obviously not come from the fort; where, then, had it come from?

Shells of all calibers, high explosive and gas, came down in droves.

Smokeless gunpowder is actually but a modified form of high explosive.

Into that softness he had come with a high explosive and an aim.

The main charge is some high explosive, usually of the dynamite type.

Word Value for high-explosive
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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