Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 2 compound words that contain wrenches. The most common are listed below. Open wrenches in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- adjustable wrenchesplural of adjustable wrench: An adjustable hand tool for tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.
- socket wrenchesplural of socket wrench: A type of wrench (spanner) featuring multiple removable and interchangeable socket heads (sockets), each designed to fit a particular size of bolt head or other fastener, which can be attached by the drive to a …
- torque wrenchesplural of torque wrench: A workshop tool used to precisely apply a specific torque to a fastener such as a nut or bolt; it is a wrench equipped with a torque indicator.
- plier wrenchesAn adjustable hand tool with a sliding mechanism, that combines a tongue-and-groove pliers / water pump pliers with an adjustable spanner. It is a water pump pliers with a flat head.
- Allen wrenchesplural of Allen wrench: A screwdriver with a hexagonal head, usually in the form of a handle and head at right angles with both ends offering a hexagonal end.
- alligator wrenchesplural of alligator wrench: A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.
- bed wrenchesplural of bed wrench: A bedkey
- hook wrenchesplural of hook wrench: A wrench or spanner with a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.
- key wrenchesplural of key wrench: An adjustable wrench in which the movable jaw is made fast by a key.
- monkey wrenchesplural of monkey wrench: A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw.
- nut wrenchesplural of nut wrench: An instrument for fixing on nuts or removing them from screws.
- pipe wrenchesplural of pipe wrench: An adjustable wrench (British spanner) with a toothed jaw for gripping pipe, frequently used by a plumber or pipe fitter, to loosen and tighten pipes with threaded connections.
- plumber wrenchesplural of plumber wrench: Other type of pipe wrench used to rotate plumbing pipes.
- ratchet wrenchesplural of ratchet wrench: A wrench, implementing a ratchet mechanism, usually used with a set of sockets to engage the head of a bolt or similar.
- ring wrenchesplural of ring wrench: a wrench with a ring-shaped jaw with internal serrations which grip onto a nut or bolt.
- screw wrenchesplural of screw wrench: A tool for grasping the flat sides of the heads of large screws.
- smoke wrenchesplural of smoke wrench: A blowtorch, usually an acetylene torch.
- spoke wrenchesplural of spoke wrench: A wrench or tool used to adjust the tension in the spokes of a tension-spoked wheel, such as a typical bicycle wheel.
- Swedish wrenchesplural of Swedish wrench: Other type of pipe wrench used to rotate plumbing pipes.
- tension wrenchesplural of tension wrench: A torsion wrench, an L-shaped lockpicking tool.
- torsion wrenchesplural of torsion wrench: An L-shaped tool used in lock picking to apply torsion to the inner cylinder of a lock, in order to hold any picked pins in place, while the other pins are shifted, and then to turn the inner cylinder and open the …
- tuning wrenchesplural of tuning wrench: A specialized socket wrench used to tune stringed instruments that have strings wrapped around tuning pins.
- spanner wrenchesplural of spanner wrench: A type of wrench whose end is not adjustable for different sizes of nuts and bolts, commonly used when precision is needed in tight spaces.
- hex head wrenchesplural of hex head wrench: A screwdriver with a hexagonal head, usually in the form of a handle and head at right angles with both ends offering a hexagonal end.
- left-handed monkey wrenchesplural of left-handed monkey wrench: A fictional item, the subject of a fool's errand.
Compound words 2
- monkeywrenchesplural of monkeywrench: A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw.
- outwrenchesthird-person singular simple present indicative of outwrench: To wrench out or outward.