Crossword-Solution: COMBUSTIBLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Combustible | a. | Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. |
| Combustible | a. | Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible. |
| Combustible | n. | A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “COMBUSTIBLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | 1 answer |
| Liable to catch fire | 1 answer |
| Able to catch fire and burn easily | 1 answer |
| CAPABLE OF IGNITING AND BURNING | 11 answers |
| Oxygen | 16 answers |
| Ignitable | 25 answers |
| infuriating | 26 answers |
| fomenter | 26 answers |
| flammable | 26 answers |
| enraging | 27 answers |
| burnable | 27 answers |
| maddening | 30 answers |
| iconoclast | 32 answers |
| inflammatory | 35 answers |
| inflammable | 35 answers |
| gaseous | 36 answers |
| Incendiary | 38 answers |
| Reactionary | 48 answers |
| aggravating | 52 answers |
| fuel | 61 answers |
| Fiery | 66 answers |
| Agitator | 70 answers |
| Hazardous | 72 answers |
| Burning | 72 answers |
| excitable | 73 answers |
| Gas | 74 answers |
| Explosive | 74 answers |
| Volatile | 76 answers |
| choleric | 78 answers |
| Radical | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with COMBUSTIBLE (5)
Whatever is combustible flashes into flame at its touch, lead runs like water, it softens iron, cracks and melts glass, and when it falls upon water, incontinently that explodes into steam.
When I burn this combustible for the manufacture of sodium, the smoke, escaping from the crater of the mountain, gives it the appearance of a still-active volcano.” “And we shall see your companions at work?” “No; not this time at least; for I am in a hurry to continue our submarine tour of the earth.
Like the fires of the prairie, once lighted, they are at the mercy of every wind, and must burn, till they have consumed all that is combustible within their remorseless grasp.
The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.
When this combustible mass was set on fire, it was necessary to stand at a distance of 8 or 10 yards to avoid the heat.
Quotes with COMBUSTIBLE (3)
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.
The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. Civilization was not in the natural order but was some wort of willed invention held taut like a fabric or a sail against the chaos of the winds. And why we had invented it, or how we knew to invent it, was beyond him. Newmann had seen some truth that was …
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1972).