Crossword-Solution: PISTON 6 letters, 64 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Piston n. A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against,
fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within
a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used
in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to
transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.

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Word Anagrams
PISTON anagram INSPOT, NOTIPS, OPTSIN, PINOTS, PINTOS, PITONS, POINTS, POSTIN, SPINTO, SPITON, STOPIN

We have 64 clues for the answer “PISTON”

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Moving part in an engine 1 answer
Detroit NBAer 1 answer
Detroit baller 1 answer
Detroit hoopster 1 answer
Detroit pro player 1 answer
Gasoline engine rod 1 answer
Grant Hill, for one 1 answer
Isiah Thomas, once 1 answer
It may be moved by gas expansion 1 answer
It's in a cylinder 1 answer
Kind of rod or ring 1 answer
Motor City hoopster 1 answer
Motor City pro 1 answer
Motown pro 1 answer
Moving engine part 1 answer
Detroit cager 1 answer
One moving through a cylinder 1 answer
One of eight in a V8 1 answer
One of six in a V-6 engine 1 answer
One of the eight in a V-8 1 answer
PLUG fitting bore of hollow cylinder 1 answer
Part of a car's engine 1 answer
Part of internal combustion engine 1 answer
Plunging device 1 answer
Slide valve. 1 answer
Slide whistle part 1 answer
Tesla's lack 1 answer
United States neoclassical composer 1 answer
cylindrical part in an engine that slides to and fro in a cylinder 1 answer
sliding valve 1 answer
Cylinder part 1 answer
Cylinder occupant 1 answer
Cornet valve 1 answer
Compressor component 1 answer
Center of Detroit, e.g. 1 answer
CYLINDER, moving part of 1 answer
CAR cylinder disk 1 answer
Brass instrument valve 1 answer
Block sliding in a hollow cylinder 1 answer
Any of the "Bad Boys" in the 1980s-'90s N.B.A. 1 answer
Detroit N.B.A. player 1 answer
mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion 2 answers
Detroit player 2 answers
Machine rod. 2 answers
Sliding machine part 2 answers
ENGINE component 3 answers
Detroit pro 3 answers
Motor part 4 answers
COMPRESSOR part 5 answers
MUSICAL instrument part 5 answers
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Sentences with PISTON (5)

Atmospheric engine, a steam engine whose piston descends by the pressure of the atmosphere, when the steam which raised it is condensed within the cylinder.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
The official put forward his face to reply when Cullingworth drove his fist through the little hole with the force of a piston.
The Stark Munro Letters J. Stark Munro 1995
And with her eyes on that spot barely two inches to the side of the chin she brought her right arm down, slowly, slowly, fist doubled, and then up like a piston--snap! His teeth came together with a sharp little crack.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
The piston could not be kept steam tight, notwithstanding the various expedients which were adopted of stuffing it with paper, cork, putty, pasteboard, and old hat.
Industrial Biography Samuel Smiles 2008
The slender expressive fingers, forever active, forever striving to conceal themselves in his pockets or behind his back, came forth and became the piston rods of his machinery of expression.
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 1996

Quotes with PISTON (3)

That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action. There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thin gray ghosts, in a good cause;…
Cornell Woolrich
Most of the machinery of modern language is labour-saving machinery; and it saves mental labour very much more than it ought. Scientific phrases are used like scientific wheels and piston-rods to make swifter and smoother yet the path of the comfortable. Long words go rattling by us like long railway trains. We know they are carrying thousands who are too tired or too indolent to walk and think for themselves. It is a good exercise to try for once in a way to express any opin…
G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy
Does it stand, but not straight enough? Is there a bend in the tool? Leaning left like the Marxist-Leninist Party? To the right, like the Jan Sangh fascists? Or wobbling mindlessly in the middle, like the Congress Party? Fear not, for it can be straightened! Does it refuse to harden even with rubbing and massage? Then try my ointment, and it will become hard as the government's heart! All your troubles will vanish with this amazing ointment made from the organs of these wild …
Rohinton Mistry
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 62 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).