Definitions for warheads

warheads war·head

Spelling: [wawr-hed]
IPA: /ˈwɔrˌhɛd/

Warheads is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in warheads (aadehrsw).

Definitions for warheads

noun

  1. the forward section of a self-propelled missile, bomb, torpedo, or the like, containing the explosive, chemical, or atomic charge.

Origin of warheads

First recorded in 1895-1900; war1 + head

Examples for warheads

“Many of my South Korean colleagues argue they can put a warhead on a missile and may have done so already,” Bennett says.

He decided that the most likely event was that the warhead was hidden by one of the other fragments.

Those teams would try to dispose of the stocks of chemical agent before they were poured into a warhead or artillery shell.

Had the enemy camouflaged the warhead so that it looked like a section of the missile's skin?

Moving the lever, he caused the cross hairs to center on the warhead.

Would he have had the courage to drive the satelloid into the warhead?

In this way the missile does not need pinpoint accuracy: widely spread supersonic shrapnel from the warhead is deadly.

That about a kilo is at issue in Moldova makes talk of a warhead far off, but it is hardly harmless.

As the missile closes on its target the warhead explodes before the missile strikes the airplane.

Its irregularity weighed against its containing the warhead.

Word Value for warheads
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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