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 |
booster booster rocket
booster unit
takeoff booster
takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
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 |
| nuclear rocket | a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant |
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 |
skyrocket
rocket | sends a firework display high into the sky |
| 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 |
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 |
| rocket-propelled | propelled by (or as if propelled by) a rocket engine |