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(n)
A sudden bright light.
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A ball of fire, especially one associated with an explosion, or (fiction, mythology) thrown as a weapon.
The initiation of combustion.
A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
(adj)
Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
(uncountable) The condition of being flammable.
A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
A fiery pain.
A hot meal, usually in the phrase "three hots" (i.e. three hot meals per day) or derivations such as three hots and a cot.
A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire, resulting from an electrical surge or excessive heat created by friction.
One who welds, that is, unites pieces of steel, aluminum, or other metals by welding.
(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
(countable, uncountable) The process by which something is loaded.
(physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light.
The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
(uncountable) The state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
A cry or shout.
(telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
(often in combination) Something that serves to retard (slow down) the action of something.
An adulterous relationship, chiefly of a married person. (from affaire de cœur, affair of the heart).
A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.
(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
(nonstandard, rare) A deaf person.
(uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.
A musician who plays a pipe.
A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
Someone who throws.
A diminutive of the female given name Shulamith, from Hebrew.
A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
(v)
(intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
(intransitive) To emit heat and light without a flame.
(chemistry) The act or process of burning.
A large fire; a conflagration.
(archaic) incandescence
(transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
(physics) the emission of visible light by a hot body
(uncountable) Thermal energy.
Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
The degree of being retardant
The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash.
Obsolete form of fiery. [Of or relating to fire.]
Of or relating to fire.
(informal) An electrician, specifically, the radio operator on a ship of the merchant marine.
An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
US standard spelling of smouldering. [(sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.]
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
A small flame.
(Australia, colloquial) A firefighter.
That does not emit flames.
Resembling a flame or its colour.
(transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)
Without fire.
(sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.
A short, uncertain burst.
A German surname.
An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.
The act of covering or dressing with soot.
Of tremendous intensity, heat (thermal energy) or fervor; white-hot.
Robert Burns, Scottish writer.
Any device that is used to ignite something, especially a fuel mixture, or a charge of explosive
(obsolete) smoke; smother
The act of smoldering or something that smolders.
(drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
(chemistry) A potentially explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen
(informal, uncountable) Pyrotechnics.
(transitive) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
The process by which something is extinguished.
In flames, on fire, flaming, with flames coming from it.
An incandescent lamp or bulb.
A person experiencing pyromania.
That cannot be quenched; unquenchable.
British standard spelling of vapor.
A burner that burns a fuel in air to produce a hot flame; a blowtorch
(ambitransitive, literal, figurative) To increase in heat; make or become hotter
Incapable of being extinguished, not extinguishable.
(organic chemistry) A mixture of oxygen and acetylene, which burns at a high temperature and is used for cutting and welding metals.
A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.
A pot used to hold or carry fire.
A burning torch, especially one carried in procession.