Definitions for tornado

tornado tor·na·do

Spelling: [tawr-ney-doh]
IPA: /tɔrˈneɪ doʊ/

Tornado is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in tornado (adnoort).

Definitions for tornado

noun

  1. a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
  2. a violent squall or whirlwind of small extent, as one of those occurring during the summer on the west coast of Africa.
  3. a violent outburst, as of emotion or activity.
  4. (initial capital letter) Military. a supersonic, two-seat, multipurpose military aircraft produced jointly by West Germany, Britain, and Italy and capable of flying in darkness and bad weather.

Origin of tornado

1550-60; apparently by metathesis Spanish tronada thunderstorm, noun use of feminine of tronado, past participle of tronar Latin tonāre to thunder; replacing 16th-century ternado, with unexpl

Examples for tornado

Yes,” said Mills thoughtfully, “you are not a leaf, you might have been a tornado yourself.

The classic film that opens with a tornado sweeping through a Kansas farm made its debut 75 years ago in 1939.

Nothing is said of the occurrence of a tornado in northern Europe, in January, 1686.

About 9:30 p.m. on Palm Sunday in 1965, a tornado struck Toledo, Ohio.

As easy to strive with the tornado as with this wind of pain and death!

It lasted two and a half hours, that tornado, and it never relaxed in intensity.

And the town of Moore was no longer known just for the tornado that devastated it a year ago.

At the time, sirens were not yet standard in tornado country.

The tornado, overpassing river and plain, burst on the southern hills.

Fallin has received high marks for her leadership after a tornado devastated the town of Moore.

Word Value for tornado
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8

Words with friends

9

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