pocket
air pocket
air hole
wing in ground effect
running load
offwing
washout
dihedral
Cooper vane
anhedral
upwing
ground effect
landing flap
Kármán line
droop
buffet
pullout
flight ceiling
elevator
Chinese landing
atmospheric pressure
airfoil
flap
wing loading
wingtip
bank
compartment pressure
wing
coaltitude
aerodyne
heavier-than-air
adverse yaw
oblique plane
overwing
wheelbarrow
sweptwing
onwing
span loading
wingover
wing bar
spoil
stall
vertical bank
dip
rudder
sesquiplane
eggbeater
spoiler
whirlybird
current of air
Immelmann turn
air current
wind
helicopter
sweep
compressed air
chopper
transition layer
tailslide
wheelbarrowing
tailspin
absolute ceiling
flare
spin
aircraft attitude
sweptback
contour chase
nosedive
decalage
nose dive
dive
sideslip
hip
break ground
lighter-than-air
ornithopter
undershoot
absolute altitude
takeoff
movement
service ceiling
swingtail
combat ceiling
belly
tiltwing
minimum descent altitude
approach
toboggan
x-wing
runway
aircraft movement
wingspread
peplosphere
offwing
upwing
heavier-than-air
overwing
sweptwing
onwing
sweptback
lighter-than-air
pocket
air pocket
air hole
wing in ground effect
running load
washout
dihedral
Cooper vane
anhedral
ground effect
landing flap
Kármán line
droop
buffet
pullout
flight ceiling
elevator
Chinese landing
atmospheric pressure
airfoil
flap
wing loading
wingtip
bank
compartment pressure
wing
coaltitude
aerodyne
adverse yaw
oblique plane
span loading
wingover
wing bar
stall
vertical bank
rudder
sesquiplane
eggbeater
spoiler
whirlybird
current of air
Immelmann turn
air current
wind
helicopter
sweep
compressed air
chopper
transition layer
tailslide
wheelbarrowing
tailspin
absolute ceiling
spin
aircraft attitude
nosedive
decalage
nose dive
dive
flare
sideslip
hip
ornithopter
absolute altitude
takeoff
movement
service ceiling
swingtail
combat ceiling
belly
tiltwing
minimum descent altitude
approach
x-wing
runway
aircraft movement
wingspread
peplosphere
wheelbarrow
spoil
dip
flare
contour chase
break ground
undershoot
toboggan
noun
- a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
- a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
- an enclosed space
- a supply of money
- (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a small isolated group of people
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
verb
noun
- The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- An appliance designed to wash something out.
- The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
- The cleaning of the inside of a (locomotive) boiler to remove scale (limescale).
- A breach in a road or railway caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
- A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
- A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
- The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
- A sporting fixture or other event that could not be completed because of rain.
noun
- The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
- Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
- A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
- A small low stool; a hassock.
- A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
verb
noun
- The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
- The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the board into or over the back of a wave.
- The coitus interruptus method of birth control.
- An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
- A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
- Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”)
- An area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities.
noun
- A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
- A side fin of a ray.
- A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- A hinged leaf.
- The labia, the vulva.
- A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
verb
noun
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- The ground at the top of a shaft.
- A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- Money; profit.
- An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- An incline, a hill.
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- A branch office of such an institution.
- A device used to store coins or currency.
- An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
- The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
verb
- To put into a bank.
- To arrange or order in a row.
- To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
noun
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- Human arm.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A háček.
verb
noun
- A support strut on for the wing of an airplane.
- A sand bar or spit at the side of a river, bay, or harbor.
- One of two shallow bars on either side of the flue of a small boiler, designed to fill the space resulting from the extreme curvature of the flue.
- A band of contrasting color or of feathers with a distinct appearance that crosses a bird's wing.
verb
- To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
- To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
- To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
- Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
- To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
noun
noun
- Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- The space left by excavation between pillars.
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
verb
- To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- To come to a standstill.
- To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- To employ delaying tactics against.
verb
- To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- To lower into a liquid.
- To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- To immerse for baptism.
- To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
- To leave.
- To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- To lower a light's beam.
- To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
noun
- A diplomat.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The moist form of snuff tobacco.
- A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- Fried bread.
- A foolish person.
- A dip stick.
- A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A sauce for dipping.
- The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
noun
- a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag
- a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning
- someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
- someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence
- an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds
noun
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- a tendency or force that influences events
- breath
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
noun
verb
verb
noun
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
verb
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
verb
- To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
- To open outward in shape.
- To blaze brightly.
- To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- To suddenly happen or intensify.
- To suddenly erupt in anger.
- To cause inflammation; to inflame.
noun
- The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- Bell-bottom trousers.
- A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- A sudden bright light.
noun
- The difference in angle of incidence of the two wings of a biplane.
- The angle between two geometric lines that define an aerofoil.
- The difference in angle of incidence between the main wing and horizontal stabilizer, or between the canard and main wing, of an airplane.
- In Piagetian developmental psychology, the inability to apply a learned function across all problems (horizontal decalage) or across different developmental stages (vertical decalage).
noun
- A flight maneuver to rapidly lose speed and/or altitude whilst not altering the aircraft's ground track.
- A flight condition where an aircraft's longitudinal axis is not aligned with its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
- A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.
- The angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
verb
noun
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- The fruit of a rose.
- The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
adj
intj
verb
- To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
- To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- To use one's hips to bump into someone.
- To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
noun
- An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
- An act of emptying the bowels.
- Physical motion between points in space.
- A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
- A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
- The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
- A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
- A large division of a larger composition.
- The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
noun
- The lower fuselage of an airplane.
- The stomach.
- The main curved portion of a knife blade.
- The abdomen, especially a fat one.
- The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
- The womb.
- The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
verb
noun
- The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
- An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
- An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
- The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
- A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
- A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
- An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
- A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
verb
- To play an approach shot.
- To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
- Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
- To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
- Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
- To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
- To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
- To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
- To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
verb
- To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft.
- To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.
- To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object.
noun
- A long sled without runners, with the front end curled upwards, which may be pulled across snow by a cord or used to coast down hills.
- Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.
- A knit cap, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
- A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo.
noun
noun
- a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a chute down which logs can slide
- a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc.
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