Caliber is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CALIBER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the diameter of a gun barrel, also CALIBRE
• the standard reached by something
• the internal diameter or bore of a gun barrel
• the diameter of a bullet, shell, or rocket.
• the diameter of a body of circular section, such as a tube, blood vessel, or fibre
• Alt. of Calibre
• a degree or grade of excellence or worth
• diameter of a tube or gun barrel
• the quality of someone's character or the level of their ability
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• same as calibre

Words related to CALIBER

calibered14 calibers12 calibre11

Words that contain CALIBER

calibers12 calibered14 subcaliber16

How to use CALIBER in a sentence

• Then behind, through the gaps in the trees, big, whining, screeching swarms of another caliber shells fly over the wall of blue.
• We may credit him with loving Louise as intensely as a man of his caliber can love anyone.
• She was, in fact, a very ordinary woman, her caliber a little less than that of Frances.
• The principle was formerly admitted, it says, that a shell should by right have a thickness equal to its caliber.
• If there were, French industry would be capable of producing weapons of any caliber desired.
• There were plenty of small chances there for men of his caliber.
• Our large caliber guns had advanced and were skillfully brought into position to fire upon the important lines at Montmedy, Longuyon, and Conflans.
• Other coast defenses are permitted, but the number and caliber of the guns must not be increased.
• The large caliber howitzers and mortars throw shells containing huge charges of explosives, and are more adaptable in their application than the ordinary siege guns or cannons.
• The grave-making went speedily on, while the burial party argued in whispers as to the caliber of the guns.
• He had only a small caliber rifle, but he gave it to the bear at once.
• It was estimated that on January 1, 1862, there were fifteen hundred seacoast-guns of various caliber in position from Evansport, on the Potomac, to Fort Brown, on the Rio Grande.
• And near them I saw a man of higher caliber standing on tiptoe to look through the dark curtain into the future.
• Somehow he secured a small 22-caliber rook rifle and a couple of cartridges.
• So I found myself with four, all the same caliber of course, but of different style and finish.
• This could not, then, be a military ambuscade, as the ball was not of the regular caliber.
• But the officer in command of the British was not of the caliber to surrender.
• It must be added that his technique was more careless than an artist of anything like his caliber would have permitted himself to-day.
• The infantry arms are about 32,000, the greater part Mauser model 1895, caliber 28, and the others Remingtons, model 1889, caliber 43.
• The field artillery consists of about twelve breech-loading steel guns, caliber 3 5-10 inches, and ten breech-loading mountain guns, caliber 3 2-10 inches.
• They are of iron, from 140 to 200 tons each, are armed with one breech-loading rifle, caliber 3 6-10 inches, and two to four machine guns, each caliber 44-100 to 1 inch.
• Comstock was mounted on his favorite horse, and carried a Henry rifle of large caliber.
• Platitudes as Platitudes may constantly afford even considerable interest, but Platitudes do not make ideal husbands for women of my peculiar temperament and mental caliber.
• As for the possible influence of Pratinas in court, it seemed to her incredible that a man of his caliber could work her any injury, save by the dagger and poison cup.
• Upon the platform of this tower they placed sixteen cannon, of the largest caliber, which were worked by the most skillful gunners.
• Then it was that he went quietly to his luxurious state-room with its brass bed and crimson hangings, and took a forty-two caliber revolver from his steamer trunk.
• The guns will probably be of 15 inches caliber and fire a projectile that will carry a charge each of about 500 pounds of explosive gelatine with full-caliber projectiles.

Similar words containing CALIB without suffix er

calibre11 calibers12 calibred13 calibres12 calibered14 calibrate13 calibrated15 calibrater14 calibrates14 calibrator14 subcaliber16 subcalibre16 calibraters15 calibrating16 calibration15 calibrators15 recalibrate15 calibrations16 recalibrated17 recalibrates16 uncalibrated17 recalibrating18 recalibration17 recalibrations18 intercalibratio19 intercalibration20 intercalibrations21

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