Phrase Hound found 135 phrases and 34 compound words that contain snakes. The most common are listed below. Open snakes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 135
- snakes and laddersA children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.
- beer snakesplural of beer snake: A long, flexible construction of stacked, empty plastic beer cups, made by the crowd at long sporting fixtures (especially cricket matches)
- black snakesplural of black snake: Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
- blind snakesplural of blind snake: Any snake of the infraorder Scolecophidia
- brown snakesplural of brown snake: Any of certain snakes that are brown in color of species:
- carpet snakesplural of carpet snake: A harmless snake found in New Guinea and Australia, the carpet python (Morelia spilota) and its six to eight subspecies.
- coral snakesplural of coral snake: Any of various venomous snakes of six genera in family Elapidae, many displaying distinctive color bands.
- corn snakesplural of corn snake: A species of rat snake, Pantherophis guttatus (syn. Elaphe guttata).
- dice snakesplural of dice snake: Natrix tessellata, a European non-venomous snake belonging to the family of Colubridae, subfamily Natricinae.
- dragon snakesplural of dragon snake: A small non-venomous, semi-fossorial snake of species Xenodermus javanicus, with unusual dorsal scales
- fierce snakesplural of fierce snake: A highly venomous snake, Oxyuranus microlepidotus.
- flying snakesplural of flying snake: Any of the genus Chrysopelea of midly-venomous colubrid snakes that glide between trees.
- grass snakesplural of grass snake: A nonvenomous snake of species Natrix natrix, native to Europe, with a yellow collar.
- indigo snakesplural of indigo snake: A snake of the genus Drymarchon, species of which are found the southeastern US, Texas, and northern South America.
- king snakesplural of king snake: Any of various colubrid snakes of the genus Lampropeltis.
- milk snakesplural of milk snake: Any of various snakes, Lampropeltis triangulum, with smooth and shiny scales and typically a pattern of colours that runs red-black-yellow or white-black-red.
- plumbing snakesplural of plumbing snake: A long, flexible tool, often with rotating blades at its forward end, which is inserted into a plumbing pipe system and used to remove clogs or other obstructions.
- rat snakesplural of rat snake: Any of many medium to large colubrid constrictors of a kind found through a great portion of the Northern Hemisphere, primarily feeding on rodents and birds.
- sand snakesplural of sand snake: Any snake in the genus Psammophis
- sea snakesplural of sea snake: Any of several snakes, of the subfamily Hydrophiinae, that live in the waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
- smooth snakesplural of smooth snake: Any of species Coronella austriaca of nonvenomous snakes, native to Eurasia.
- thread snakesplural of thread snake: Any of the fossorial snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.
- water snakesplural of water snake: A snake that resides in, or spends a lot of time in, fresh water.
- rattle snakesplural of rattle snake: Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
- garter snakesplural of garter snake: Any of various species of nonvenomous snakes of the genus Thamnophis, native to America, with longitudinal stripes.
Compound words 34
- rattlesnakesplural of rattlesnake: Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
- beadsnakesplural of beadsnake: A small poisonous snake of North America, banded with yellow, red, and black: the eastern coral snake, Micrurus fulvius.
- blacksnakesplural of blacksnake: Alternative form of black snake: any of several relatively harmless North American snakes.
- blindsnakesplural of blindsnake: Any snake of the infraorder Scolecophidia
- bullsnakesplural of bullsnake: Pituophis catenifer sayi, a large non-venomous colubrid snake endemic to the central United States, northern Mexico, and southwestern Canada.
- coralsnakesplural of coralsnake: Any of various venomous snakes of six genera in family Elapidae, many displaying distinctive color bands.
- filesnakesplural of filesnake: Any of various snakes resembling a file in texture or appearance, especially a wart snake or a non-venomous South African snake of the genus Mehelya.
- flowsnakesplural of flowsnake: The Gosper curve.
- foxsnakesplural of foxsnake: Common name of three North American rat snakes of genus Pantherophis.
- gartersnakesplural of gartersnake: Any of various species of nonvenomous snakes of the genus Thamnophis, native to America, with longitudinal stripes.