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Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.

Lamp :: Lamp (n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light..

Deflagrator :: Deflagrator (n.) A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion..

Fire :: Fire (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace..

Gaslight :: Gaslight (n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

Fume :: Fume (n.) To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor..

Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal..

Blaze :: Blaze (n.) A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

Cineration :: Cineration (n.) The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

Pyrothonide :: Pyrothonide (n.) A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent..

Detonation :: Detonation (n.) An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton..

Firework :: Firework (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocke

Combustion :: Combustion (n.) The state of burning.

Fire :: Fire (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

Caloric :: Caloric (n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat..

Deflagrate :: Deflagrate (v. i.) To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt..

Deflector :: Deflector (n.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion)..

Stinker :: Stinkball (n.) A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.

Calx :: Calx (n.) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder..

Chimney :: Chimney (n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion..

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