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Yes. The word nacelle is a Scrabble US word. The word nacelle is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word nacelle is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

NACELLE,

6-letter words (4 found)

CALLEE,CELLAE,ELANCE,ENLACE,

5-letter words (6 found)

ALLEE,ANCLE,ANELE,CELLA,CLEAN,LANCE,

4-letter words (15 found)

ACNE,ALEC,ALEE,ANCE,CALL,CANE,CELL,CLAN,EALE,ELAN,LACE,LANE,LEAL,LEAN,NEAL,

3-letter words (18 found)

ACE,ALE,ALL,ANE,CAL,CAN,CEE,CEL,EAN,EEL,EEN,ELL,ENE,LAC,LEA,LEE,NAE,NEE,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AL,AN,EA,EE,EL,EN,LA,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 55 words from nacelle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of nacelle

nacelle

Etymology

Borrowed from French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”), Middle French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff”), from Old French nacele, from Late Latin naucella, nāvicella (“small boat or ship”), from Latin nāvis (“a ship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“a boat”)) + -ella (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /nəˈsɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Hyphenation: na‧celle

Noun

nacelle (plural nacelles)

  1. (aviation)
    2. The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
    4. A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
    5. (archaic) The cockpit of an aircraft.
  2. (by extension)
    1. A hollow boat-shaped structure.
    2. An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
    4. (electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
    5. (nautical) The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
    7. (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle.

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Further reading

  • nacelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • nacelle (wind turbine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French nacele (“small boat”), from Late Latin navicella, diminutive of Latin navis (“boat”). Doublet of navicelle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na.sɛl/

Noun

nacelle f (plural nacelles)

  1. (literary) skiff
  2. gondola (of hot-air balloon etc.)
  3. pod (of spacecraft)
  4. cradle

Derived terms

  • nacelle élévatrice

Related terms

  • naval
  • navire
  • nef

Further reading

  • “nacelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org