The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CANNONS which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2003.
Howitzers crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CANNONS | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Howitzers
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- trench mortar
- mortar
- bombs
- shells
- howitz
- artillery
- field artillery
- artillerymen
- cannons
- artillery fire
- muskets
- mortars
Crossword Answer definitions
CANNONS noun- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- A cannon bit.
- A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- A carom.
- The arm of a player that can throw well.
- A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- (Chinese chess) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
- To bombard with cannons.
- To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
- To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
- To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
- A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.
- A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- A carom.
- A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.
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