Phrase Hound found 29 phrases and 7 compound words that contain vessels. The most common are listed below. Open vessels in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 29
- blood vesselsplural of blood vessel: A component of the circulatory system, such as an artery, capillary, or vein, that carries blood.
- fishing vesselsplural of fishing vessel: A fishing boat, usually a relatively large one.
- pressure vesselsplural of pressure vessel: A container designed to maintain a volume at a significantly different pressure to that of ambient.
- bomb vesselsplural of bomb vessel: A ship armed with high-angle mortars firing explosive or carcass shells, and specialized for shore bombardment.
- broken vesselsplural of broken vessel: A person who is destroyed or forgotten, or who feels flawed or broken.
- great vesselsplural of great vessel: Any of the large vessels that bring blood to and from the heart, i.e. the superior and inferior vena cava, the pulmonary arteries and veins, and the aorta.
- sailing vesselsplural of sailing vessel: A boat or ship powered by wind in its sails; a sailboat or sailing ship.
- communicating vesselsplural of communicating vessel: One vessel in a system of containers filled with a homogeneous fluid, connected at the base and subjected to the same atmospheric pressure.
- lymph vesselsplural of lymph vessel: A thin-walled vessel that carries lymph through the lymphatic system.
- lymphatic vesselsplural of lymphatic vessel: A lymph vessel.
- empty vessels make the most soundTalkative, opinionated people are often ignorant.
- cargo vesselsplural of cargo vessel: Any vessel designed to carry cargo.
- container vesselsplural of container vessel: A cargo vessel designed to carry cargo prepacked into containers, especially shipping containers.
- expansion vesselsplural of expansion vessel: 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.
- motor vesselsplural of motor vessel: A seagoing vessel powered by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel. Compare with steamship.
- reaction vesselsplural of reaction vessel: Any vessel used to contain the reactants taking part in a chemical reaction. Synonym: chemical reactor.
- seed vesselsplural of seed vessel: The ripened and otherwise modified wall of a plant ovary.
- space vesselsplural of space vessel: A spacecraft.
- star vesselsplural of star vessel: A type of spacecraft capable of traveling to the solar systems of other stars.
- supply vesselsplural of supply vessel: A ship used to transport supplies to offshore installations such as oil and gas platforms.
- collateral vesselsplural of collateral vessel: A small blood vessel that connects to a main blood vessel and provides an alternate route of perfusion, and not used by the circulatory system until needed.
- dive support vesselsplural of dive support vessel: A ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects.
- diving support vesselsplural of diving support vessel: A ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects.
- ocean station vesselsplural of ocean station vessel: Synonym of weather ship (“ship for reporting meteorological data”).
- dorsal vesselsplural of dorsal vessel: A central pulsating blood vessel along the back of insects that circulates hemolymph (blood).
Compound words 7
- microvesselsplural of microvessel: A very small blood vessel, such as a capillary or arteriole.
- bloodvesselsplural of bloodvessel: A component of the circulatory system, such as an artery, capillary, or vein, that carries blood.
- cardiovesselsplural of cardiovessel: A cardiac blood vessel
- lightvesselsplural of lightvessel: A vessel with a light as a navigation aid; especially, a lightship.
- macrovesselsplural of macrovessel: Any of the larger blood vessels
- nanovesselsplural of nanovessel: A nanoscale vessel
- neovesselsplural of neovessel: A new blood vessel (formed by neovascularization).