Definitions for tankers

tankers tank·er

Spelling: [tang-ker]
IPA: /ˈtæŋ kər/

Tankers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 281 anagrams from letters in tankers (aeknrst).

Definitions for tankers

noun

  1. a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
  2. a tank trailer or tank truck.

verb (used with object)

  1. to transport by tanker.

Origin of tankers

First recorded in 1895-1900; tank + -er1

Examples for tankers

It was a long way around to the tanker Vern was on, hopping from deck to deck, detouring around open stretches.

For the time, at least, the tanker and its priceless cargo were saved.

They pump their haul of diluted bitumen into tanker cars in the terminal's loading yard, thick with the smell of petroleum.

Surprisingly, though, he did find a tanker with a full load, the very next day.

There is a ship out yonder, but its a tanker or a freighter.

tanker Ike, who was riding ahead, suddenly leaped off his horse.

The tanker at the back of the convoy and to the right was slipping behind.

"They got a Danish tanker somewhere off Nantucket," he continued impotently.

The tanker reported a damaged rudder and a destroyer went to her aid.

Meanwhile, tanker Ike had been anxiously  scanning the horizon.

Word Value for tankers
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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