Word: fireships
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: fi
re
ships
Definition: Plural of fireship. A sailing ship that has been set alight and left to drift into an opposing fleet. Famously used by Englishman Sir Francis Drake when fighting the Spanish Armada of 1588.
Morphemes:
Affix: fire
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
Affix: ship
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form regular plurals of nouns.