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.
Definitions
- noun. A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
- noun. Damewort.
- noun. Rocket larkspur. See below.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A blunt lance head used in the joust.
- intransitive verb. To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
- noun. a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
- noun. any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
- noun. sends a firework display high into the sky
- noun. propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
- noun. erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
- verb. propel with a rocket
- verb. shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
"prices skyrocketed"
Synonyms
projectile, skyrocket, arugula, roquette
Common word forms
rockets, rocketed, rocketer, rocketing
Words from these letters
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