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TANKER

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

TANKER is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

TANKERS-s 5
noun
  1. A tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of fluid.
  2. UKUSA motor truck (lorry) with a tank to hold bulk liquid (with or without internal baffles): a fuel tanker (lorry), petrol tanker, road tanker.
  3. usuallyAn aircraft carrying a large supply of jet fuel or avgas for aerial refueling of other aircraft, plus equipment allowing the in-air transfer of fuel.
    • Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.
  4. An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.
    • While our ground teams cut firebreaks in the brush, the tankers kept the fire in the mountains at bay with frequent drops of water and retardant.
  5. A tank car (tank wagon).
  6. Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
  7. An airman who serves on the crew of an aerial refueling tanker aircraft.
  8. slangA longboard.
    • I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip.
verb
  1. transitiveTo transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
  2. To carry more fuel than necessary for a flight, in order to avoid having to refuel at a destination where fuel is more expensive or in short supply.