Phrase Hound found 59 phrases and 17 compound words that contain carriers. The most common are listed below. Open carriers in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 59
- air carriersplural of air carrier: A company in the business of providing air transport to cargo, passengers, or both.
- Insurance carriers
- aircraft carriersplural of aircraft carrier: A warship designed to carry aircraft, serving as a seagoing air base, with a deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed.
- Wireless carriers
- bulk carriersplural of bulk carrier: Any ocean-going cargo vessel (merchant ship) designed to carry unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils and cement, in its holds.
- charge carriersplural of charge carrier: A free particle carrying an electric charge.
- common carriersplural of common carrier: A person or company that undertakes to transport goods for the general public or passengers on regular routes at agreed rates.
- flag carriersplural of flag carrier: A person carrying a standard or flag, usually at sporting events and parades, previously on the battlefield.
- letter carriersplural of letter carrier: An employee of the post office who delivers mail (post) to, and collects it from, a residence or business, or from public mailboxes.
- escort carriersplural of escort carrier: A small and slower type of aircraft carrier used by several navies in World War II.
- helicopter carriersplural of helicopter carrier: A category of aircraft carrier designed to operate helicopters
- local exchange carriersplural of local exchange carrier: A company "that is engaged in the provision of telephone exchange service or exchange access" (except for wireless carriers, unless the FCC determines that the wireless carrier is to be included in the …
- low cost carriersplural of low cost carrier: An airline that sells very inexpensive tickets but which does not provide (or charges for) typical services like meals or the carriage of baggage.
- armored personnel carriersplural of armored personnel carrier: An armored vehicle for carrying infantry soldiers in combat.
- ultra large crude carriersplural of ultra large crude carrier: a type of supertanker, the largest class of crude carrier or oil tanker, having a capacity of 320,000–550,000 DWT
- very large crude carriersplural of very large crude carrier: a type of supertanker, the second largest class of crude carrier or oil tanker, having a capacity of 160,000–320,000 DWT
- armoured personnel carriersplural of armoured personnel carrier: An armored vehicle for carrying infantry soldiers in combat.
- baby carriersplural of baby carrier: Synonym of child carrier, especially a baby sling.
- bag-carriersplural of bag-carrier: A person who carries someone's bags
- ball carriersplural of ball carrier: A player who carries the football.
- banner carriersplural of banner carrier: A person who carries a banner in a procession
- car carriersplural of car carrier: A special ship that transports cars in a garage with ambient control and ventilation.
- cash carriersplural of cash carrier: Any of various mechanical assemblies used in large shops to carry customers' payments from the sales assistant to the cashier and to carry the change and receipt back again.
- child carriersplural of child carrier: A device used to carry a child, particularly one holding the child attached to the torso of an adult.
- energy carriersplural of energy carrier: A substance or phenomenon that can be used to produce mechanical work or heat or to operate chemical or physical processes (ISO 13600).
Compound words 17
- subcarriersplural of subcarrier: A separate signal carried on a main radio transmission, often carrying additional information such as voice or data.
- biocarriersplural of biocarrier: A plastic former, of an intricate shape, that holds biological agents in water-purification plants.
- ballcarriersplural of ballcarrier: A player who carries the football.
- battlecarriersplural of battlecarrier: A hybrid between a battleship and an aircraft carrier, with both one or more heavy gun turrets and a large aircraft hangar and flight deck.
- carriershipsplural of carriership: The role or occupation of a carrier.
- immunocarriersplural of immunocarrier: An immunological carrier
- macrocarriersplural of macrocarrier: The structure that contains the microparticles in a gene gun
- megacarriersplural of megacarrier: A very large certified airline.
- microcarriersplural of microcarrier: Small, bead-like material used to immobilize biocatalysts, or to anchor growing cells
- nanocarriersplural of nanocarrier: A nanoscale carrier (of drugs or biomolecules)