w.m.d.

Questions about w.m.d.

What does w.m.d. mean?

w.m.d. means "a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons)".

How many syllables are in w.m.d.?

w.m.d. has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for w.m.d.?

Close synonyms include weapon of mass destruction, WMD. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is w.m.d. a common word?

w.m.d. is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.