Crossword-Solution: COMBUSTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Combustion | n. | The state of burning. |
| Combustion | n. | The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. |
| Combustion | n. | Violent agitation; confusion; tumult. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “COMBUSTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Act of burning | 1 answer |
| a state of violent disturbance and excitement | 1 answer |
| PHLOGISTON Theory, subject of | 1 answer |
| OXIDATION of organic material | 1 answer |
| LIGHT and heat accompanying chemical combination, development of | 1 answer |
| It's often spontaneous | 1 answer |
| It may be spontaneous | 1 answer |
| CONSUMPTION by fire | 1 answer |
| CHEMICAL reaction with the liberation of heat | 1 answer |
| DESTRUCTION by fire | 2 answers |
| COMBUSTION engine cycle of operation | 4 answers |
| A PROCESS IN WHICH A SUBSTANCE REACTS WITH OXYGEN TO GIVE HEAT AND LIGHT | 11 answers |
| incineration | 24 answers |
| Firing | 26 answers |
| Ignition | 26 answers |
| bombardment | 29 answers |
| Flame | 42 answers |
| blaze | 57 answers |
| eruption | 77 answers |
| Agitation | 85 answers |
| Heat | 97 answers |
| Fire | 120 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with COMBUSTION (5)
Him the Almighty Power Hurld headlong flaming from th’ Ethereal Skie With hideous ruine and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defie th’ Omnipotent to Arms.
However, a hay or a wheat-rick, well put together, will resist combustion for a length of time, if it begins on the outside.
That our principal movements were known to the First Born I could not have doubted, in view of the attack of the fleet upon us the day before, nor could the stopping of the pumps of Omean at the psychological moment have been due to chance, nor the starting of a chemical combustion within the one corridor through which we were advancing upon the Temple of Issus been due to aught than well-calculated design.
Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan vat, of a combination of delirium tremens and spontaneous combustion.
The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.
Quotes with COMBUSTION (3)
The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal, a man, a civilization, a soul. They've all got to burn sometime. The warmth made by their passing may be the salvation of others. The ultimate value of the Bible, the Constitution, or any work of literature, really, is that they all burn very well, and for a while they keep back the cold.
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.
I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1975–2017).