Dictionary Entry
rocket
rocket is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
- 2noun
Damewort.
- 3noun
Rocket larkspur. See below.
- 4noun
An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
- 5noun
A blunt lance head used in the joust.
- 6intransitive verb
To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
- 7noun
a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
- 8noun
any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
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- 9noun
sends a firework display high into the sky
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- 10noun
propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
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- 11noun
erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
- 12verb
propel with a rocket
- 13verb
shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
"prices skyrocketed"
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