battleships
Armored sea fortresses
Battleships are heavily armored warships with large-caliber guns, the most powerful class of naval vessel from the late 19th century until aircraft carriers made them obsolete after World War II.
The word also names a guessing game where players try to locate and sink each other's hidden fleet on a grid: We played battleships on the long car ride.
Heavily armored warship type
- ironcladImpossible to dispute
- BismarckPrussia's unifying statesman
- YamatoHistoric Japanese cultural core
- PotemkinFalsely impressive display
Monitor · Merrimack · man-of-war · Jutland · Trafalgar · Midway · Guadalcanal
Vehicles under unified command
- destroyerOne that ruins completely
- cruiserVehicle for extended patrol
- carrierOne that transports
- submarineUnderwater naval craft
frigate · corvette · gunboat · torpedo · mine · radar · sonar · admiral
Outer covering or frame
- turretProtruding fortified structure
- gunneryScience of heavy weaponry
- platingSurface metal application
- citadelFortified urban stronghold
bulkhead · barbette · casemate · superstructure · deck · steel · reinforced · ballistic
dreadnought
Heavily armored warship type
- ironcladImpossible to dispute
- BismarckPrussia's unifying statesman
- YamatoHistoric Japanese cultural core
Potemkin · Monitor · Merrimack · man-of-war · Jutland · Trafalgar · Midway · Guadalcanal
fleet
Vehicles under unified command
submarine · frigate · corvette · gunboat · torpedo · mine · radar · sonar · admiral · captain
hull
Outer covering or frame
- turretProtruding fortified structure
- gunneryScience of heavy weaponry
- platingSurface metal application
citadel · bulkhead · barbette · casemate · superstructure · deck · steel · reinforced · ballistic · penetration
grid
Framework of intersecting lines
- coordinatesLocation-specifying number pairs
- hitSuccessful contact or strike
- missFail to reach
sink · peg · guessing · turn-based · strategy · salvo · players · fleet · destroyer · carrier
formation
Creation or arrangement
engagement · bombardment · targeting · evasion · pursuit · blockade · escort · screening · column · deployment
- naval historynaval battles, naval history, admiral, navies, admirals
- 1898 AmericaSpanish-American War, USS Maine, McKinley, Rough Riders, Cuba
- Asian NaviesPLAN, destroyers, frigates, submarines, submarine
- nautical printsseascapes, harbor views, naval battles, sea battles, naval vessels
- Russian Navynavy, fleet, Pacific Fleet, destroyers, submarine
- Civil War Navalgunboat, Union blockade, blockade runners, blockade running, naval guns
battleshipssubmarines
Underwater naval vessels
aircraft carriers · patrol boats · hospital ships · merchant ships · fishing boats
battleshipsbombers
Aircraft designed for airstrikes
fighter jets · tanks · infantry · artillery · ground forces