Phrase Hound found 35 phrases and 10 compound words that contain railroad. The most common are listed below. Open railroad in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 35
- railroad carAny railway vehicle or rolling stock.
- railroad tracksplural of railroad track: A pair of formed steel rails, separated and supported usually on wooden or concrete ties or sleepers, forming a track along which flange-wheeled railroad vehicles may travel.
- railroad tieA heavy, preserved piece of hewn timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad or a member of similar shape and function of another material such as concrete.
- Underground RailroadThe pre-American Civil War anti-slavery resistance movement dedicated to helping escaped slaves to reach safe territory.
- railroad trackA pair of formed steel rails, separated and supported usually on wooden or concrete ties or sleepers, forming a track along which flange-wheeled railroad vehicles may travel.
- railroad diagramA type of diagram used to visualize context-free grammars.
- logging railroadA railroad built for the purpose of transporting logs out of a forest.
- railroad carsplural of railroad car: Any railway vehicle or rolling stock.
- railroad crossingAn area on a road where a train crosses.
- railroad diseaseSynonym of transport tetany: An often fatal disease of livestock, caused by the stress of prolonged transport in hot and crowded vehicles, and characterized by restlessness, excitement, trismus, tooth-grinding, staggering, etc.
- railroad engineerA trained professional who operates a train to transport passengers or cargo.
- railroad engineersplural of railroad engineer: A trained professional who operates a train to transport passengers or cargo.
- railroad guna railway gun
- railroad lineSynonym of railway line: A railway track; a pair of rails on which a railway train runs.
- railroad stationA place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
- railroad stationsplural of railroad station: A place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
- railroad switchA set of points.
- railroad switchesplural of railroad switch: A set of points.
- railroad tiesplural of railroad tie: A heavy, preserved piece of hewn timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad or a member of similar shape and function of another material such as concrete.
- railroad truckA chassis or framework-like structure underneath a railroad car to which wheel axles (and, hence, wheels) are attached through bearings. (Not to be confused with railway truck or railtruck, which are British English synonyms of railroad …
- railroad wormA larva or larviform female adult of a beetle of the genus Phrixothrix, characterized by two different colours of bioluminescence, red and green, like railroad signals.
- railroad spikeA type of large nail that fixes a railway line to a sleeper.
- railroad diagramsplural of railroad diagram: A type of diagram used to visualize context-free grammars.
- railroad stripeSynonym of seersucker: A thin, all-cotton fabric, commonly striped, used to make clothing for summer wear.
- railroad sicknessSynonym of transport tetany: An often fatal disease of livestock, caused by the stress of prolonged transport in hot and crowded vehicles, and characterized by restlessness, excitement, trismus, tooth-grinding, staggering, etc.
Compound words 10
- railroadishResembling or characteristic of a railroad.
- antirailroadOpposed to a railroad or railroads.
- nonrailroadNot of or pertaining to a railroad.
- prerailroadBefore the development of a railroad, or railroads in general.
- prorailroadIn favour of a railroad.
- railroadianaRailwayana.
- railroadersplural of railroader: One who works for a railroad company.
- monorailroadSynonym of monorail (“railroad system where trains run on one rail”).
- railroadanaAlternative form of railroadiana: Railwayana.
- railroadingsplural of railroading: present participle and gerund of railroad