What it means
- (noun) An underground or underwater passage.
- (noun) A passage through or under some obstacle.
- (noun) A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- (noun) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- (noun) A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- (noun) The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (noun) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- (verb) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (verb) To dig a tunnel.
- (verb) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).
- (verb) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (verb) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
Letter analysis
- Tunnel contains 6 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 4 consonant(s).
- It uses 5 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 2.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 6.
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Words starting with TUN
- tun
- tuna
- tunas
- tundra
- tundras
- tune
- tuned
- tuneful
- tunefully
- tuneless
- tunelessly
- tuner
- tuners
- tunes
- tungsten
- tunic
- tunics
- tuning
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Common questions
What does Tunnel mean?
An underground or underwater passage.
How many letters are in Tunnel?
Tunnel has 6 letters.
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