Pyrotechnics

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

pyrotechnics
    n 1: (music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of
         music)
    2: the craft of making fireworks [syn: {pyrotechnics},
       {pyrotechny}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pyrotechnics \Pyr`o*tech"nics\, n.
   The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of
   fireworks; pyrotechny.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "pyrotechnics":
      calorimetry, debating, declamation, demagogism, elocution,
      eloquence, firework, fireworks, forensics, homiletics, lecturing,
      oratory, platform oratory, public speaking, pyrotechnic,
      pyrotechny, rabble-rousing, rhetoric, speaking, speechcraft,
      speechification, speeching, speechmaking, stump speaking,
      thermochemistry, thermodynamics, thermotics, wordcraft

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