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nacelle

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7 lettersPronunciation /nəˈsɛl/Part of speech nounSorted aceellnStarts with NEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine

Word origin

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).

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