Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A part of the armament system in the forward part of a projectile, such as a guided missile, rocket, torpedo, bomb, or other munition, that contains either a nuclear or thermonuclear system, a high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage on a target.
Wiktionary
- n. The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear or thermonuclear system, high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
Examples
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“The Obama administration protested that the program should fund rockets, too, as a warhead is useless without a delivery mechanism.”
“Although RN ships where lost in the Falklands conflict, the warhead is so sml on the exocet, its not immediate and if you have a look at the ships which where sunk they were neither equipped for the roll, or placed in the right spot or where due for upgrades which had to be postponed when the conflict started.”
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“The decision to use nuclear weapons, regardless of the size of the warhead, is always a political one.”
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“As an Iranian government minister, are you willing to be responsible for the millions and millions of deaths that sending one nuclear warhead is going to lead to?”
“The physicists who had developed these devices understood the potential for miniaturization and a simultaneous escalation in warhead yields, past the twenty-two kilotons of Nagasaki and indeed past a thousand kilotons, into the multimegaton range — the realm, when multiplied, of global suicide.”
“The Army's new version of the multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) warhead is supposed to have nearly twice the range (37 miles vs. 20) of existing rockets.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘warhead’.
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SEDE - weapons
ammunition, anti-aircraft mac..., anti-vehicle mine, automatic machine..., ballistic missile..., bazooka, biological weapons, booby trap, bunker-busting bomb, chemical weapons, cluster bomb, light battleship and 218 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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nonhead heads
figuratively named things with head
goathead, deadhead, arrowhead, warhead, airhead, cathead, bubblehead, egghead, hogshead, railhead, Tallulah Bankhead, bridgehead and 53 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
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Reverse Dictionary Chain
I am finding use for the 'reverse dictionary" by seeing how long my reverse dictionary chain will survive.
truth, abstract, synopsis, table, billiards, cannon, splint, immobilize, wrestling, preliminary, preamble, whereas and 77 more...
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Military Words
strafing, thermonuclear, airburst, neutron bomb, armament, soft target, sortie, surgical strike, warhead, artillerist, bombardment, searching fire and 46 more...
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A companion list to Name Suggestions for Ultra-Compact Cars. :-) Sounds best when you preface each word with "the."behemoth, monstrosity, leviathan, goliath, colossus, brute, giant, mammoth, brobdingnagian, jumbo, bulk, elephant and 69 more...
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