Noun: missile
| Singular | missile |
| Plural | missiles |
Sample Sentences
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The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
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And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken. [1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:]
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Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns, but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other missiles. [2012, Paragraph 24, R v Blackshaw (2012) WLR 1126]
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That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
Nouns inflected like missile
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin missile (“thrown weapon, projectile”), neuter of missilis (“throwable, capable of being thrown”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636. See: Latin Nouns '
missile'.
Verbs referencing "missile"
Danish Nouns
missil, Catalan Nouns
míssil.