Phrase Hound found 47 phrases and 23 compound words that contain tanks. The most common are listed below. Open tanks in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 47
- Storage Tanks
- think-tanksplural of think-tank: A group of people who collectively perform research and develop reports and recommendations on topics relating to strategic planning or public policy, and which is usually funded by corporate, government, or special …
- fuel tanksplural of fuel tank: A container of fuel, especially one for motor fuel inside a vehicle.
- water tanksplural of water tank: A tank (type of large container) used to store water.
- septic tanksplural of septic tank: A small-scale watertight treatment system for domestic sewage in which the flow is slowed to allow sedimentation and sludge digestion by bacteria to take place.
- battle tanksplural of battle tank: Ellipsis of main battle tank.
- drop tanksplural of drop tank: An expendable external fuel tank on an aircraft.
- drunk tanksplural of drunk tank: A cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober.
- fish tanksplural of fish tank: A container, usually made out of glass or acrylic, specifically designed for holding water and marine life.
- heavy tanksplural of heavy tank: A large tank with heavy armor and firepower, but typically with relatively low speed and maneuverability.
- oxygen tanksplural of oxygen tank: A metal cylinder holding compressed oxygen.
- cruiser tanksplural of cruiser tank: One of a British class of fast, lightly armoured and lightly armed tanks of the 1930s and 1940s designed for flanking and manoeuvring to attack the enemy rear and supply lines.
- main battle tanksplural of main battle tank: The primary tank of a country or armed forces.
- ballast tanksplural of ballast tank: One of several external or internal tanks fitted in submarines; when filled with seawater they allow the boat to submerge; when emptied using compressed air buoyancy is restored and the vessel rises towards the …
- pannier tanksplural of pannier tank: A type of tank fitted to both sides of the boiler of a tank locomotive.
- expansion tanksplural of expansion tank: A small tank that is partially filled with air to protect closed water heating systems (not open to atmospheric pressure) and domestic hot-water systems from excessive pressure.
- face tanksthird-person singular simple present indicative of face tank: To absorb damage directly, especially in an unsophisticated or unskillful way.
- female tanksplural of female tank: an armoured fighting vehicle on caterpillar tracks equipped with machine guns but no cannon.
- gas tanksplural of gas tank: A fuel tank for gasoline built into equipment, especially vehicles.
- header tanksPlural of header tank: A reservoir or tank that maintains a gravity feed or a static fluid pressure; a raised tank of water maintaining pressure in a plumbing system.
- holding tanksplural of holding tank: A container for storage toilet waste in a vehicle
- male tanksplural of male tank: an armoured fighting vehicle on caterpillar tracks equipped with cannon.
- retention tanksplural of retention tank: A tank for the retention of toilet waste, e.g. on a train.
- settlement tanksplural of settlement tank: a container in which sediment or other denser materials in water settle on the bottom
- tanks upthird-person singular simple present indicative of tank up: To fill up (for example, a tank in a vehicle with gas, petrol, etc.).
Compound words 23
- thinktanksplural of thinktank, an alternative form of think tank.
- TanksleyA surname.
- chatanksplural of chatank: A unit of mass or volume, one 16th of a sihr.
- Choptanksplural of Choptank: A member of an Algonquian-speaking Native American people historically inhabiting the Eastern Shore of Maryland on the Delmarva Peninsula.
- cryotanksplural of cryotank: An insulated tank used for the storage of cryogenic liquids
- facetanksthird-person singular simple present indicative of facetank: To absorb damage directly, especially in an unsophisticated or unskillful way.
- fishtanksplural of fishtank: A container, usually made out of glass or acrylic, specifically designed for holding water and marine life.
- flexitanksplural of flexitank: A liquid storage container made from flexible material such as polyurethane.
- hydrotanksplural of hydrotank: A tank in which the patient is immersed in hydrotherapy.
- intertanksplural of intertank: A structure in between the stacked tanks of a rocket body, where one tank is arranged above/below another, in the vertical body.