Synonyms of the word

missile

• n. Any object used as a weapon to hit the enemy or prey through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
• n. (military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after having been launched.

arm

• n. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
• n. (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
• n. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
• n. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object,…
• n. (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
• n. A branch of an organization.
• n. (figuratively) Power; might; strength; support.
• n. (baseball, slang) A pitcher.
• n. (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
• n. A group of patients in a medical trial.
• v. To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
• v. To supply with arms or limbs.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
• n. (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
• n. (in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia.
• v. To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
• v. To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
• v. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
• v. (figuratively) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
• v. To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

projectile

• n. an object intended to be or having been fired from a weapon.
• n. (physics) any object propelled through space by the application of a force.
• adj. Projecting or impelling forward.
• adj. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward.

rocket

• n. A rocket engine.
• n. (military) A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
• n. A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
• n. A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket.
• n. (slang) An ace (the playing card).
• n. (military slang) An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.
• n. A blunt lance head used in jousting.
• n. (figuratively) Something that shoots high in the air.
• v. To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
• v. To fly vertically.
• v. To rise or soar rapidly.
• v. To carry something in a rocket.
• v. To attack something with rockets.
• n. The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
• n. rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis).

weapon

• n. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
• n. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
• n. (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.