Phrase Hound found 143 phrases and 36 compound words that contain bombs. The most common are listed below. Open bombs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 143
- bombs awaySaid after a projectile is unleashed.
- atom bombsplural of atom bomb: A nuclear weapon that obtains its destructive energy from nuclear fission.
- atomic bombsplural of atomic bomb: A nuclear weapon that obtains its destructive energy from nuclear fission.
- barrel bombsplural of barrel bomb: A barrel filled with explosives, used as an improvised unguided bomb and dropped from a helicopter or airplane.
- bug bombsplural of bug bomb: An aerosol bomb filled with insecticide.
- car bombsplural of car bomb: An automobile laden with a large amount of explosives, and used as a bomb primarily in order to cause external damage.
- cherry bombsplural of cherry bomb: In the four square ball game, the act of spiking the ball or slamming it down with a great force to make it difficult for a person to retrieve it in order to stay in the game.
- clean bombsplural of clean bomb: An atomic bomb which leaves little to no radioactive contamination.
- cluster bombsplural of cluster bomb: An explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.
- dirty bombsplural of dirty bomb: A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area.
- email bombsplural of email bomb: A form of online abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox or the server.
- f-bombsplural of f-bomb: The word fuck.
- flying bombsplural of flying bomb: Any early guided missile, but especially the V-1.
- fusion bombsplural of fusion bomb: An atomic bomb that uses nuclear fusion as a source of energy; a hydrogen bomb
- Google bombsplural of Google bomb: An attempt to influence the ranking of a web page within the Google search engine by linking to it from many other pages.
- gravity bombsplural of gravity bomb: An unguided, freefall aerial bomb that follows a ballistic trajectory determined solely by gravity, without a guidance system.
- H-bombsplural of H-bomb: A thermonuclear bomb that derives its destructive power from the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium).
- hydrogen bombsplural of hydrogen bomb: A thermonuclear bomb that derives its destructive power from the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium).
- letter bombsplural of letter bomb: An explosive device sent through the post, triggered to explode when the letter or packet is opened.
- liquid bombsplural of liquid bomb: Any bomb disguised as a harmless bottle of soft drink, milk, medicine etc.
- Mills bombsplural of Mills bomb: Any of a series of British fragmentation hand grenades.
- nuclear bombsplural of nuclear bomb: A nuclear weapon.
- pipe bombsplural of pipe bomb: An improvised explosive device consisting of blasting powder or other explosive material encased in a metal pipe to increase the blast effect.
- review bombsplural of review bomb: A deluge of negative user reviews.
- smart bombsplural of smart bomb: A kind of guided missile.
Compound words 36
- bombshellsplural of bombshell: Any grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell (hollow metal object) containing a charge that can explode.
- firebombsplural of firebomb: A weapon that causes fire; an incendiary weapon.
- airbombsplural of airbomb: A firework consisting of flash powder in a paper case, ejected into the air with a black powder lifting charge ignited by a fuse, and producing a loud bang and bright flash.
- bathbombsplural of bathbomb: A hard-packed mixture of chemicals which effervesces when wet, used to add scent and colour to bathwater.
- bombsitesplural of bombsite: A place where a bomb has exploded.
- candlebombsplural of candlebomb: A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.
- clusterbombsplural of clusterbomb: An explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.
- divebombsplural of divebomb: The rapid lowering of the pitch of a note on the guitar by means of the whammy bar.
- dotbombsplural of dotbomb: A failed dot-com company.
- forkbombsplural of forkbomb: A program that creates a large number of self-replicating tasks or processes in a computer system in order to cause a denial of service.