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Combustible :: Combustible (a.) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.

Cymene :: Cymene (n.) A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen..

Ignite :: Ignite (v. t.) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum..

Fireprrofing :: Fireprrofing (n.) The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process..

Amadou :: Amadou (n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter..

Incombustible :: Incombustible (a.) Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas..

Asbestine :: Asbestine (a.) Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic..

Cresset :: Cresset (n.) An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions..

Carcass :: Carcass (n.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc..

Octylene :: Octylene (n.) Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids..

Coal :: Coal (n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter..

Combustibility :: Combustibility (n.) The quality of being combustible.

Cinder :: Cinder (n.) Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct..

Oil :: Oil (n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol..

Producer :: Producer (n.) A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel.

Coal :: Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal..

Priming :: Priming (n.) The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm..

Bavin :: Bavin (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood..

Combustible :: Combustible (n.) A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn..

Empyrical :: Empyrical (a.) Containing the combustible principle of coal.

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