Phrase Hound found 45 phrases and 6 compound words that contain angels. The most common are listed below. Open angels in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 45
- City of AngelsNickname for Los Angeles: a major city in California, United States.
- better angelsMorally upright or otherwise positive attributes of human character.
- angels' shareThe portion of a wine, whiskey or other alcoholic spirit's volume that is lost to evaporation during aging, particularly while it matures in barrels (and evaporates through the porous wood).
- Angels CampA city in Calaveras County, California, United States.
- angels of deathplural of angel of death: A personification of death in fiction, art, mythology, or religion.
- blue angelsplural of blue angel: A blue flame produced by lighting one's flatus.
- death angelsplural of death angel: Synonym of destroying angel (“a type of mushroom”).
- guardian angelsplural of guardian angel: A tutelary angel watching over a particular person (and sometimes rescuing them) in monotheistic contexts.
- sea angelsplural of sea angel: An angelfish.
- snow angelsplural of snow angel: A design made in fresh snow by lying on one's back and moving the arms up and down and the legs from side to side.
- shoulder angelsplural of shoulder angel: An angel representing a person's conscience in works of fiction, portrayed as sitting on one shoulder while a shoulder devil occupies the other.
- fallen angelsplural of fallen angel: An angel who rebelled against God and was exiled from heaven.
- angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pinAdjectival or attributive form of angels dancing on the head of a pin.
- angels on horsebackA dish of bacon-wrapped oysters, commonly served as an hors d'œuvre or canapé.
- angels of mercyplural of angel of mercy: A person who provides succour.
- destroying angelsplural of destroying angel: Any of a group of four deadly toxic mushrooms in the Amanita genus: Amanita bisporigera, Amanita ocreata, Amanita verna, and Amanita virosa.
- swamp angelsplural of swamp angel: A mosquito.
- weeping angelsplural of weeping angel: A being that can only move when not being watched by a person, usually hostile and depicted as a statue or other humanoid inanimate object.
- Fuzzy Wuzzy Angelsplural of Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel: One of the native people of Papua New Guinea who, during the Second World War, helped escort or stretcher wounded Australian soldiers to field hospitals.
- on the side of the angelsFighting for or supporting that which is good, just, or benevolent.
- angels moving the furnitureAn explanation for a crash of thunder.
- business angelsplural of business angel: An investor to a start-up, especially one who invests very early or during the company's initial forming, often with a slim chance of a return on investment.
- half-angelsplural of half-angel: A hybrid of an angel and a creature that is not an angel.
- high angelsplural of high angel: Archangel.
- recording angelsplural of recording angel: An angel that records the events and actions of each individual human. This includes bad sins and good deeds.
Compound words 6
- archangelsplural of archangel: A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity, and often seen as belonging to a particular archangelical rank or order within a greater hierarchy of angels. (Judeo-Christian examples …
- angelsharkAlternative spelling of angel shark: A member of the unusual genus Squatina of sharks with flattened bodies and broad pectoral fins resembling skates or rays. There are approximately 16 known species, which are the only members of their …
- nonangelsplural of nonangel: Someone who is not an angel.
- sunangelsplural of sunangel: A South American hummingbird of genus Heliangelus.
- entangelsthird-person singular simple present indicative of entangel: To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
- halfangelsplural of halfangel: Rare spelling of half-angel.