Phrase Hound found 23 phrases and 15 compound words that contain flights. The most common are listed below. Open flights in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 23
- Cheap flights
- Charter flights
- International flights
- flights of fancyplural of flight of fancy: An idea, narrative, suggestion, etc., which is extremely imaginative and which appears to be entirely unrealistic, untrue, or impractical; thinking which is very speculative.
- direct flightsplural of direct flight: A flight in which the passenger makes intermediate stops but does not change aircraft.
- space flightsplural of space flight: Flight into, from or through space.
- ghost flightsplural of ghost flight: An empty or near-empty flight run by an airline to fulfill contractual obligations.
- flights of beerplural of flight of beer: A selection of beers, in small glasses, for tasting.
- red-eye flightsplural of red-eye flight: Synonym of red eye (“overnight airplane flight or train trip”).
- maiden flightsplural of maiden flight: The first flight of an airplane or other airborne vehicle, usually used to test or demonstrate the functions of the systems.
- dark flightsplural of dark flight: The portion of the flight of a meteor, after its incandescent fireball phase, when the space rock has cooled down and slowed down, so that it is no longer glowing, but still in flight, and yet to crash onto the …
- first flightsplural of first flight: The first competitor to finish in a footrace or horse race, in a foxhunt, etc.
- life-flightsthird-person singular simple present indicative of life-flight: To transport (a patient) by air ambulance.
- test flightsplural of test flight: a proving flight; usually of a prototype of a new aircraft design before it goes into production.
- top flightsplural of top flight: Of the highest rank, or peak of excellence.
- wine flightsplural of wine flight: A series of glasses of wine, either as a tasting or to accompany a multi-course meal.
- flights of beersplural of flight of beers: A selection of beers, in small glasses, for tasting.
- beer flightsplural of beer flight: A selection of beers, in small glasses, for tasting.
- bus-stop flightsplural of bus-stop flight: A regular short-haul flight that carries passengers.
- Lévy flightsplural of Lévy flight: A type of random walk in which the increments are distributed according to a “heavy-tailed” distribution i.e. there are a significant number of large increments.
- Pindaric flightsplural of Pindaric flight: A literary passage that has no logical connection to the surrounding work, or is a long digression that becomes less and less related to the original passage.
- death flightsplural of death flight: A form of extrajudicial killing done by military, in which victims are dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters into oceans, large rivers or mountains.
- controlled flights into terrainplural of controlled flight into terrain: A usually-unintentional crash of an aircraft in which the aircraft flies into the ground while under full control by its pilots or autopilot.
Compound words 15
- overflightsplural of overflight: The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.
- rooflightsplural of rooflight: A window (or set of windows) set into a roof of a buildig in order to admit light
- flightseerA person who sightsees from an aircraft.
- foreflightsplural of foreflight: A flight made before the expected time; a previous or prior flight
- hydroflightsplural of hydroflight: A method of tethered flight using an umbilicus to provide power and reaction mass via a hydrojet supplied from a surface pump on a body of water.
- joyflightsplural of joyflight: A flight in an aerial vehicle taken for enjoyment.
- moonflightsplural of moonflight: Space flight to a moon.
- nonflightsplural of nonflight: Something that is not a flight
- outflightsplural of outflight: The act or process of flying out.
- paraflightsplural of paraflight: An instance of paraflying