The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STRINGS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1986.
NAVAL GROUNDINGS crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STRINGS | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: NAVAL GROUNDINGS
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- reef
- grounding
- moorings
- sass
- sod
- affirmations
- antitheses
- conundrums
- discourses
- foundations
- frameworks
Crossword Answer definitions
STRINGS noun- A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
- (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
- A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
- An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
- A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
- A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- Such a structure considered as a substance.
- Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
- A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
- A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- A series of items or events.
- The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- A stringed instrument.
- (usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- Cannabis or marijuana.
- Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- (by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
- The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
- A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
- An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- A stringcourse.
- A hoax; a fake story.
- To put (items) on a string.
- To put strings on (something).
- To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
- Collectively, the stringed instruments in an orchestra.
- Conditions, especially undesirable ones.
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