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W.W. II aircraft carrier
Answer for the clue "W.W. II aircraft carrier ", 6 letters:
hornet
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Word definitions for hornet in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a wasps'/hornets' nest ▪ a wasps' nest in the attic EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A hornet arrived the following morning, loose-jointed, like a gunslinger. ▪ But what about the bees and hornets? ▪ Finally, doctors hit the right ...
Usage examples of hornet.
The RTAF Hueys and the Marine helos on loan to the Thai airmobile forces lifted from the jungle clearing at almost the same moment that the American Hornets were hitting SAM sites at U Feng and along the Taeng River Valley.
Many glanced, spun ricochetting into the sea, and with a venomous buzzing like huge, angry hornets, lost themselves in quick, white spurts of foam.
For fifteen months it lasted, the French remaining neutral, selling provisions to both sides, Gladwin defiant inside his palisades, the Indians persistent as enraged hornets.
Jake DeS hazer recalled that he was asked specifically about the aircraft carrier Hornet and about Doolittle.
Such places were likely to harbor rats, as well as hornets and wasps, and Jennet kept her distance from them.
Hornets off the Jefferson to hit the Kerch airfield and various military facilities all over the eastern end of the peninsula.
The hornets and wasps were antipathetical, and it was possible to use one or the other, but not both simultaneously.
Mahnmut guided the hornet down toward Mars, Olympos, and the Brane Hole.
It sounded wrong, and Marghe realized she had been expecting the drone of hornets or bees.
The Wasp, an American sloop of war, defeated the Frolic, the Hornet sank the Peacock, and in a letter to Adams, Jefferson generously gave credit where credit was due.
Hornet was jinking around the sky, weaving and bobbing as it tried to evade the antiair fire while still remaining on course and on time for its mission.
They swooped down like big metal hornets: a nastier breed of botfly, faces bristling with needles and taser nodes, bellies distended with superconducting ground-effectors that could lift a man right off his feet.
If you are a math genius whose primary language is Malayalam and whose main enthusiasm is wave-particle duality, you stand out on the net like a buzzing hornet in a spiderweb.
While the reduced weight gave the Hornet added maneuverability, the constant whining of Hornet pilots for tankers was a standing joke that the Tomcat drivers invariably found hysterically funny.
By the time the second section of Hornets launched, there were no more Migs to deal with.