nacelle

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: na=celle

CIDE DICTIONARY

nacelle, n. [F.].

•  A small boat.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A streamlined enclosure on an airplane, as for the engine or for the cargo or passengers; -- formerly used to refer to the boatlike, inclosed body of an airplane which is usually now called the fuselage, and now referring mostly to the enclosure for the engine.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nacelle, n.
1 the outer casing of the engine of an aircraft.
2 the car of an airship.

Etymology

F, f. LL navicella dimin. of L navis ship