rocket firing
rocket launching | the launching of a rocket or missile under its own power |
| anti-submarine rocket | a shipboard system to fire rockets at submarines |
| bazooka | a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon |
booster booster rocket
booster unit
takeoff booster
takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
| grenade | a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile |
| hand grenade | a grenade designed to be thrown by hand |
jet
jet plane
jet-propelled plane | an airplane powered by one or more jet engines |
launcher
rocket launcher | armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket |
multistage rocket
step rocket | a rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhausted |
nautilus
nuclear submarine
nuclear-powered submarine | a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power |
| nuclear-powered ship | ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor |
| nuclear rocket | a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant |
| rifle grenade | a grenade that is thrown from a launching device attached to the barrel of a rifle |
rocket
rocket engine | a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion |
| rocket projectile | any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine |
| rocket base | a military base for rocket missiles |
| rocket range | a firing range for rocket missiles |
| self-propelled vehicle | a wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsion |
skyrocket
rocket | sends a firework display high into the sky |
smoke bomb
smoke grenade | a bomb that gives off thick smoke when it explodes, used to make a smoke screen or to mark a position |
| sounding rocket | a research rocket used to obtain information about the atmosphere at various altitudes |
| space rocket | a rocket powerful enough to travel into outer space |
test rocket
research rocket
test instrument vehicle | a rocket fired for test purposes |
| rocket skyrocket | propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon |
grenadier
grenade thrower | an infantryman equipped with grenades |
rocket engineer
rocket scientist | an engineer who builds and tests rockets |
| rocket scientist | a clever thinker, you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out |
| rocket propulsion | reaction propulsion using stored oxygen for combustion, used where there is insufficient atmospheric oxygen |
rocket larkspur
Consolida ambigua
Delphinium ajacis | commonly cultivated larkspur of southern Europe having unbranched spikelike racemes of blue or sometimes purplish or pinkish flowers, sometime placed in genus Delphinium |
yellow rocket
rockcress rocket cress
Barbarea vulgaris
Sisymbrium barbarea | noxious cress with yellow flowers, sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium |
| prairie rocket | any of several western American plants of the genus Cheiranthus having large yellow flowers |
wall rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
Diplotaxis tenuifolia | yellow-flowered European plant that grows on old walls and in waste places, an adventive weed in North America |
white rocket
Diplotaxis erucoides | from Mediterranean region, a naturalized weed throughout southern Europe |
rocket
roquette
garden rocket
rocket salad
arugula
Eruca sativa
Eruca vesicaria sativa | erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender |
| prairie rocket | any of several North American plants of the genus Erysimum having large yellow flowers |
damask violet
Dame's violet
sweet rocket
Hesperis matronalis | long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening, naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America |
tansy-leaved rocket
Hugueninia tanacetifolia
Sisymbrium tanacetifolia | perennial stellate and hairy herb with small yellow flowers of mountains of southern Europe, sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium |
dyer's rocket
dyer's mignonette
weld
Reseda luteola | European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye, naturalized in North America |
rocket fuel
rocket propellant
rocket propellent | an explosive charge that propels a rocket |
| rocket | propel with a rocket |
rocket
skyrocket | shoot up abruptly, like a rocket, prices skyrocketed |
high-octane
high-powered
high-power
high-voltage
high-energy | vigorously energetic or forceful, a high-octane sales manager, a high-octane marketing plan, high-powered executives, a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur |
self-propelled
self-propelling | moved forward by its own force or momentum, a self-propelled egotist, the arms program is now self-propelled |
automotive
self-propelled
self-propelling | containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement, a self-propelled vehicle |
| low-powered | having little power to do work, a low-powered engine |
| powered | (often used in combination) having or using or propelled by means of power or power of a specified kind, powered flight, kerosine-powered jet engines |
| battery-powered | powered by one or more electric batteries, a battery-powered radio |
| high-powered | (used of microscopes) capable of a high degree of magnification, a high-powered microscope |
| steam-powered | powered by a steam engine, a steam-powered locomotive |
| jet-propelled | propelled by (or as if propelled by) a jet engine |