Definitions for nacelles

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nacelles na·celle

Spelling: [nuh-sel]

IPA: /nəˈsɛl/

Nacelles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in nacelles (aceellns).

Definitions for nacelles

noun

1. the enclosed part of an airplane, dirigible, etc., in which the engine is housed or in which cargo or passengers are carried.
2. the car of a balloon.

Origin of nacelles

1475-85; French: a small boat Late Latin nāvicella, for Latin nāvicula, equivalent to nāvi(s) ship (see nave) + -cula -cule¹

Examples for nacelles

nacelle—That part of an aeroplane containing the engine and pilot and passenger, and to which the tail plane is not fixed.

The blood from his wound spurted all over the nacelle, obscuring the instruments, and in addition his machine caught fire.

Then his glances fell upon the aviator just on the point of stepping from the nacelle, or cockpit.

The point C is the centre of the propeller, or, in the case of a "pusher" aeroplane, the centre of the nacelle.