Synonyms of the word

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).

arise

• v. To come up from a lower to a higher position.
• v. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
• v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin…

arugula

• n. One of three yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herbs of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often…

firework

• n. A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames,…

herb

• n. Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
• n. Plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
• n. (slang, euphemistic) Marijuana.
• n. (botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
• n. (obsolete) Grass; herbage.

impel

• v. (transitive) To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast…
• v. (transitive) To drive forward; to propel an object.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

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.

propel

• v. To cause to move in a certain direction.
• v. To make to arrive to a certain situation or result.

pyrotechnic

• adj. Of or relating to fireworks.
• adj. Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
• adj. Resembling fireworks.
• adj. Of or relating to pyrotechny.

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

roquette

• n. A herb of the mustard family, with pungently flavored leaves often eaten in salads.

skyrocket

• n. A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety…
• n. (by extension) A rebuke, a scolding.
• n. (Britain, Australia, rhyming slang) Pocket.
• v. To increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.

uprise

• v. (archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
• v. (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination.
• v. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
• n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

vehicle

• n. A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.
• n. A medium for expression of talent or views.
• n. A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint. (FM 55-501).
• n. (pharmaceuticals) The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.
• n. An entity to achieve an end.
• n. (Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.
• n. (Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits.