missile

IPA: mˈɪsʌɫ

Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
(military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Examples of "missile" in Sentences

I wonder if each hellfire missile is emblazoned with the Nobel Peace Prize medal.
– “Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta” missile is approaching meteor on the radar screen “Ta Ta … Teeee”.
Use Arabic numerals and capitalize the proper name, but not the word missile: Titan 2 missile.
A short-range missile is test-launched during war games in Qom, Iran, south of Tehran, on Sunday.
Cornelio also cautioned the use of the term missile, saying that word suggests the launch of a weapon, which can't be confirmed.
A "missile" is a projectile, powered during flight by either solid of liquid-fueled engines, with a weaponized payload of some kind (example: SCUDs, 'Katyushas').
STARR: Well, to be clear, what U.S. officials are saying across the administration is when they look at the imagery now, they see what they call a missile body, the Typo Dong II.
The United States is pursuing plans to build a radar base in the Czec Republic and install interceptor missiles in Poland to counter what it describes as a missile threat from "rogue states" such as Iran.
Those reports included an analysis of Soviet missile strength that contradicted John F. Kennedys missile gap rhetoric or the debunking of Lyndon Johnsons assumptions about the effectiveness of bombing in Vietnam.