The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word FRIGATE , but the solution may also be WARSHIP which is one of the most recent solution (2007 in Newsday).
Combat vessel crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| FRIGATE | 50 % | 7 |
| WARSHIP | 50 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Combat vessel
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- warship
- battleship
- cruiser
- destroyer
- frigate
- corvette
- monitor
- raider
- titanic
- inconvenient
- isobel
- open circuit
Crossword Answer definitions
FRIGATE noun- An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle.
- A 19th-century warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam-propelled iron battleship.
- A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose.
- A frigatebird.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result FRIGATE
- Naval vessel equipped for combat
- The U.S.S. Constitution, notably
- Medium-sized warship
- Fast 18th-19th C. warship
- Navy warship
- *Patriot Navy vessel
- Old warship
- Warship of yore
- What the Chesapeake was.
- Chesapeake or Constitution.