Phrase Hound found 87 phrases and 127 compound words that contain wings. The most common are listed below. Open wings in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 87
- angel wingsplural of angel wing: A kind of mollusk; a piddock.
- chicken-wingsplural of chicken-wing
- bingo wingsFatty, loose flaps of skin hanging from the upper arms.
- red wingsAn instance of a male getting menstrual fluid on his face while performing cunnilingus.
- blood wingsRed wings.
- waiting in the wingspresent participle and gerund of wait in the wings
- rats with wingsplural of rat with wings: A pigeon.
- buffalo wingsplural of buffalo wing: A snack made of an unbreaded, fried chicken wing coated in spicy sauce.
- cross-wingsplural of cross-wing: A wing attached to a main or original house block, its axis at right angles to the original block, and often gabled.
- delta wingsplural of delta wing: An aircraft wing having a swept-back shape in the form of an isosceles triangle; used mostly on supersonic aircraft
- green-wingsplural of green-wing: A common and widespread duck in North America, Anas carolinensis or Anas crecca carolinensis.
- hot wingsplural of hot wing: A piece of chicken coated in a spicy sauce.
- ring wingsplural of ring wing: A wing having a closed circular shape.
- water wingsplural of water wing: One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
- wait in the wingsTo be about to become important or central.
- bat wingsplural of bat wing: The wing of a bat, or its shape.
- rat with wingsA pigeon.
- swept wingsplural of swept wing: A wing that is angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from its point of attachment to the fuselage, so that the wingtip is located further aft or forward than the wing root.
- spread one's wingsTo experiment in life; to find out what one is capable of; to try new things or activities.
- head wingsplural of head wing; where the hair on the sides of the head stick straight out rather than laying flat.
- clip someone's wingsTo restrict someone's freedom.
- bat's wingsplural of bat's wing: The wing of a bat, or its shape.
- air wingsplural of air wing: A military or police unit that is equipped with aircraft
- flying wingsplural of flying wing: A tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage
- front wingsplural of front wing: The section in the front of a Formula One vehicle which deflects the turbulent air that is generated on the sides of the wheels so that it does not disturb the rest of the vehicle.
Compound words 127
- gaywingsPolygala paucifolia, a perennial flowering plant with pink and white flowers.
- rattlewingsThe goldeneye (duck)
- drawingsplural of drawing: present participle and gerund of draw
- showingsplural of showing: present participle and gerund of show
- viewingsplural of viewing: present participle and gerund of view
- redwingsplural of redwing: A small thrush, Turdus iliacus, native to Eurasia, with a white eye stripe and red under-wing feathers.
- waxwingsplural of waxwing: Any of several songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, and red tips to the wings.
- lacewingsplural of lacewing: Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera.
- angelwingsplural of angelwing: A kind of mollusk; a piddock.
- forewingsplural of forewing: Of an insect, either member of the pair of wings closest to the head.