tankfuls

Containers filled completely

Tankfuls is the plural of tankful—the amount a tank can hold.

A tankful usually refers to a vehicle's fuel capacity: We burned through three tankfuls driving across Texas.

The word applies to any tank: several tankfuls of water, two tankfuls of propane.

fuel

gasoline

Refined petroleum vehicle fuel

liters · fill-up · refueling · pump · nozzle · octane · ethanol · biofuel · combustion · hydrocarbons

volume

capacity

Maximum amount containable

barrels · containers · reservoirs · cisterns · vessels · buckets · measurement · fluid · liquid · holding

abundance

overflowing

Exceeding capacity, spilling out

  • brimmingFull to the top
  • plentySufficient quantity, and then some
  • ampleFully sufficient, even excessive

copious · generous · surplus · excess · multiple · numerous · repeated · successive · several · countless

Opposites
quantity/fullness

tankfulsdrops

Descends or releases

droplets · thimblefuls · fumes · dribbles · trickles

Family

tankful

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G