AIRCRAFT Synonyms

• an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

• a steerable self-propelled aircraft

• large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air

• small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck

• ride in a hot-air balloon

• become inflated

• a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon

• any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)

• a steerable self-propelled aircraft

• capable of being steered or directed

• stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

• an unchanging intonation

• someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

• an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control

• a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

• make a monotonous low dull sound

• talk in a monotonous voice

• aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces

• an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades

• an airplane powered by one or more jet engines

• the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

• a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation

• atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward

• street names for ketamine

• an artificially produced flow of water

• of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

• issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth

• fly a jet plane

• an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

• (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

• a level of existence or development

• a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

• a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood

• having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

• cut or remove with or as if with a plane

• travel on the surface of water

• make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane

• any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine

• a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

• erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

• propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

• sends a firework display high into the sky

• shoot up abruptly, like a rocket

• propel with a rocket

• badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

• public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points

• bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads

• travel back and forth between two points

• a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun

• a large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs

• German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)