earthward
/ˈəːθwəd
/(also earthwards)
adverb & adjective
Towards the earth: [as adverb]: when his parachute failed to open he fell earthward at 120 mph [as adjective]: the bird’s earthward plummet...
- The ball headed earthward toward me and knocked my cap off back over my head with a quick knock to the bill.
- But as they plummet earthwards, he sees a crowded school playground just next to the barracks.
- Yet as the last colored leaves, varnished with the first rains of winter, fall earthward, the deciduous trees bare their sinewy musculature for all the world to look upon.
- Jack Frost
- jackfruit
- jackhammer
- jackie hangman
- jack-in-office
- jack in (or into)
- jack-in-the-box
- Jack-in-the-pulpit
- jackknife
- jackknife clam
- jackknife fish
- jackleg
- jack light
- Jacklin, Tony
- jack mackerel
- Jack Mormon
- Jack Nohi
- jack of all trades (and master of none)
- jack off
- jack-o'-lantern
- jack pine
- jack plane
- jack plug
- jackpot
- jackrabbit