Phrase Hound found 110 phrases and 4 compound words that contain engines. The most common are listed below. Open engines in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 110
- search enginesplural of search engine: An application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words.
- diesel enginesplural of diesel engine: An internal combustion engine of piston engine type that operates using the Diesel cycle, with diesel fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression …
- combustion enginesplural of combustion engine: An engine that uses the combustion of fuel to produce work (movement).
- internal combustion enginesplural of internal combustion engine: A piston or a rotary heat engine directly powered by the products of intermittent combustion of a fuel.
- electric enginesplural of electric engine: A locomotive with its motors powered by electricity from overhead lines or (less commonly) from a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor.
- fire enginesplural of fire engine: A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply.
- game enginesplural of game engine: A video game's software engine, which executes the core functionality of the game. It may also include the graphics engine.
- gas enginesplural of gas engine: An internal combustion engine that runs on a fuel gas (a gaseous fuel) such as natural gas or producer gas; especially, a reciprocating one, typically a large stationary engine in power plant or industrial use.
- heat enginesplural of heat engine: Any device which converts heat energy into mechanical work, by moving heat from a source to a sink.
- marine enginesplural of marine engine: An engine for marine use, installed inboard on a boat or ship. For small vessels, these are usually adapted automotive engines; for large vessels they are specially built for the purpose.
- storage enginesplural of storage engine: The underlying component that a database management system uses to create, retrieve, update and delete data.
- V enginesplural of V engine: An internal combustion engine configuration consisting of two cylinder banks—usually with the same number of cylinders in each bank—connected to a common crankshaft, and arranged at an angle to each other so as to form …
- aircraft enginesplural of aircraft engine: Any engine used to propel an aircraft, including jet engines and rocket engines etc.
- tank enginesplural of tank engine: A steam locomotive that carries its fuel and water containers on the locomotive frames rather than in a separate tender.
- beer enginesplural of beer engine: A device for pumping beer from a cask in a pub's cellar.
- reaction enginesplural of reaction engine: Any engine that generates thrust by expelling matter, especially hot gases produced by igniting a fuel; either a rocket engine or several types of jet engine.
- jet enginesplural of jet engine: An engine that obtains thrust by taking in air at the front, using it to burn fuel, then ejecting the hot combustion products at the rear through a propulsive nozzle.
- ion enginesplural of ion engine: a type of spacecraft propulsion, whereby electric fields accelerate ions out the exhaust to provide motive force
- steam enginesplural of steam engine: Any heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work.
- compound enginesplural of compound engine: A condensing engine in which the mechanical action of the steam begins in one cylinder and ends in a larger cylinder.
- chess enginesplural of chess engine: Software that plays chess autonomously, i.e. without human guidance.
- inline enginesplural of inline engine: An engine that has all cylinders in one line or row.
- rocket enginesplural of rocket engine: A reaction engine that obtains thrust by jet propulsion which forms its jet exclusively from propellant.
- rotary enginesplural of rotary engine: Any of several types of internal combustion engine in which the power output is directly rotational.
- stationary enginesplural of stationary engine: An engine that remains in a fixed position, and is not part of a moving object.
Compound words 4
- aeroenginesplural of aeroengine: An aircraft engine.
- microenginesplural of microengine: A very small engine
- multienginesplural of multiengine: Having more than one engine.
- retroenginesplural of retroengine: retrorocket