Phrase Hound found 57 phrases and 19 compound words that contain miles. The most common are listed below. Open miles in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 57
- miles awayNot paying attention; distracted or daydreaming.
- square milesplural of square mile: A unit of area equal to that in a square with 1 mile sides, equivalent to 2.59 km².
- Two Miles
- Five miles
- Miles Long
- food milesThe number of miles a particular item of food travels from its source of production to its place of retail or consumption, used as a measure of the environmental impact in the global food trade.
- nautical milesplural of nautical mile: A unit of length corresponding approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. By international agreement it is exactly 1,852 metres (approximately 6,076 feet or 1.151 statute mile).
- Miles CityAn unincorporated community in Collier County, Florida, United States, named after Miles Collier, son of landowner Barron Collier.
- Miles' lawAn aphorism stating that "where you stand depends on where you sit", i.e. one's position in an organization dictates one's stance on an issue.
- Hundred Miles
- Thousand Miles
- Ten Miles
- Million Miles
- Eight Miles
- air milesplural of air mile: A unit of distance for air transport; equal to a nautical mile.
- first milesplural of first mile: The initial stage of delivery of goods, etc., from the seller or producer to a distribution centre, often involving greater effort or expense.
- sea milesplural of sea mile: Synonym of nautical mile, a unit of distance now equal to exactly 1852 meters
- Irish milesplural of Irish mile: A unit of distance equal to 2240 yards.
- car milesplural of car mile: A mile travelled by a single railway car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.
- country milesplural of country mile: A long way, a great distance.
- international milesplural of international mile: The present formal value of the mile as precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers, as opposed to other historic or informal values.
- land milesplural of land mile: Any of the various miles used to measure length on land, as opposed to the nautical mile.
- last milesplural of last mile: The final stage of delivery of goods, etc., from a distribution centre to the consumer, often involving greater effort or expense.
- light-milesplural of light-mile: The time taken for light to travel one mile: approximately five microseconds.
- Miles CoveA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Compound words 19
- milestonesplural of milestone: A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.
- Milesiana native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Miletus in Asia Minor.
- besmilesthird-person singular simple present indicative of besmile: To smile at; give or show a smile to.
- camomilesplural of camomile: An asteracean plant with a fragrance reminiscent of apples:
- countersmilesplural of countersmile: A smile in response to another person's smile.
- milesimaAn old Spanish coin worth one thousandth of the escudo.
- Mileskisplural of Mileski: A surname from Macedonian.
- milestonedsimple past and past participle of milestone
- milestoningpresent participle and gerund of milestone
- negamilesplural of negamile: A proposed unit of saved travel, equivalent to one mile not travelled.