antimissile missile

noun

: a missile for intercepting another missile in flight

especially : antiballistic missile

Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for antimissile missile

• abyssal
• dismissal
• epistle
• bristle
• fissile
• gristle
• missal
• nissl
• thistle
• whistle