combustible

combustible
    adj 1: capable of igniting and burning [ant: {incombustible},
           {noncombustible}]
    n 1: a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power
         [syn: {combustible}, {combustible material}]
    

Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, a. [Cf. F. combustible.]
   1. Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire;
      inflammable.
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            Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
                                                  --South.
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   2. Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
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            Arnold was a combustible character.   --W. Irving.
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Combustible \Com*bus"ti*ble\, n.
   A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to
   take fire and burn.
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         All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common
         use go under the name of fuel.           --Ure.
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55 Moby Thesaurus words for "combustible":
      accendible, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon,
      charcoal, coal, coke, dope, ethane, ethanol, explosive, fiery,
      fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel,
      fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, hasty,
      heptane, hexane, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, inflammable,
      inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane,
      methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, passionate, peat,
      pentane, peppery, propane, propellant, quick, quick-tempered,
      rocket fuel, short-tempered, spunky, turf, volcanic