Phrase Hound found 36 phrases and 6 compound words that contain rockets. The most common are listed below. Open rockets in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 36
- bottle rocketsplural of bottle rocket: A small skyrocket that can be launched from an empty bottle.
- ghost rocketsplural of ghost rocket: Any of the rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.
- nuclear rocketsplural of nuclear rocket: A rocket with a nuclear reactor aboard.
- pocket rocketsA pair of aces as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- retro rocketsplural of retro rocket: A small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft, designed to slow or reverse its motion.
- sounding rocketsplural of sounding rocket: A suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes.
- space rocketsplural of space rocket: A rocket vehicle capable of reaching space (typically from the ground).
- water rocketsplural of water rocket: A rocket that uses water as a propellant, which is forced out of the rocket by compressed air or other gas.
- Congreve rocketsplural of Congreve rocket: A kind of military rocket.
- chemical rocketsplural of chemical rocket: a rocket that uses a chemical reaction of its propellants to generate its gaseous exhaust
- fusion rocketsplural of fusion rocket: a rocket engine that uses nuclear fusion reactions for propulsive force
- hash rocketsplural of hash rocket: The operator =>, used in the Ruby programming language to create hashes.
- hybrid rocketsplural of hybrid rocket: a bipropellant rocket engine (rocket motor) which uses propellants that are in two different states, typically liquid and solid, which when reacted, create exhaust gases suitable for rocket propulsion.
- life rocketsplural of life rocket: A rocket for carrying a line from the shore to a ship in distress.
- liquid rocketsplural of liquid rocket: A rocket that uses liquid propellants.
- London rocketsplural of London rocket: A cabbage-family plant (Sisymbrium irio), native to areas around the Mediterranean, that flourished in London after the Great Fire of London of 1666.
- moon rocketsplural of moon rocket: A ground-launched rocket-propelled vehicle that delivers a payload to orbit or land on the moon
- red rocketsplural of red rocket: Any of the red-painted electrical streetcars and subway trams operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Canada, especially the classic models used during the early and mid-20th century.
- rice rocketsplural of rice rocket: A Japanese high-performance sport motorcycle or street-racing car.
- rockets upthird-person singular simple present indicative of rocket up: To grow or increase sharply.
- sea rocketsplural of sea rocket: Any of various flowering plants in the genus Cakile
- solid rocketsplural of solid rocket: A rocket engine (rocket motor) that uses a solid propellant that, when combusted, generates gases which are used for rocket propulsion.
- step rocketsplural of step rocket: A multistage rocket.
- thermal rocketsplural of thermal rocket: a rocket that is powered by a thermal source, such as a nuclear-thermal rocket or a solar-thermal rocket or a rocket powered by an energy beam such as a laser or microwave beam
- wall-rocketsplural of wall-rocket: Diplotaxis (can refer both to the genus and specific species), native to the western Mediterranean and adjoining regions, used as a leaf vegetable.
Compound words 6
- skyrocketsplural of skyrocket: A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc.
- retrorocketsplural of retrorocket: A small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft, designed to slow or reverse its motion.
- rocketshipsplural of rocketship: A rocket-powered spacecraft.
- searocketsplural of searocket: Any of various flowering plants in the genus Cakile
- turborocketsplural of turborocket: A jet engine where the turbine that turns the inlet compressor is powered by a rocket engine.
- wallrocketsplural of wallrocket: Diplotaxis (can refer both to the genus and specific species), native to the western Mediterranean and adjoining regions, used as a leaf vegetable.