inflammability

  • 61inflammableness — n. See inflammability …

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  • 62emotionalism — n 1. sentimentality, gushiness, mawkishness, maudlinism, maudlinness, play on or appeal to one s emotions, emotiveness, emotivity; melodrama, melodramatics, dramatics, theatrics, playacting, tears and laughter; sensationalism, showiness,… …

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  • 63irritability — n 1. testiness, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, prickliness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness. 2. grouchiness, crankiness, grumpiness, cantanker… …

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  • 64testiness — n irritability, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, tetchiness, prickliness; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; grouchiness, crankiness, crabbedness,… …

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  • 65touchiness — adj 1. tetchiness, testiness, irritability, edginess, snappishness, nervousness; irascibility, cholericness, petulance, Rare. petulancy; grouchiness, grumpiness, crankiness, crabbiness, crotchetiness, crossness, crabbedness; churlishness,… …

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  • 66phlogiston — phlo•gis•ton [[t]floʊˈdʒɪs tɒn, tən[/t]] n. chem. a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion • Etymology: 1720–30; < NL: inflammability, n. use of Gk phlogistón, neut. of… …

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  • 67inflammable — /ɪnˈflæməbəl / (say in flamuhbuhl) adjective 1. capable of being set on fire; combustible. Compare flammable. 2. easily roused to passion; excitable: *Sunday drivers responded … to the fierce, dry wind with feverish irritation and inflammable… …

  • 68flammable — meaning ‘easily set on fire’, was revived in modern use (in BrE by the British Standards Institution) and used together with the noun flammability in place of inflammable and inflammability (which have the same meaning) in order to avoid the… …

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  • 69Brennbarkeit — degumas statusas T sritis Standartizacija ir metrologija apibrėžtis Medžiagos gebėjimas degti normaliomis sąlygomis. atitikmenys: angl. combustibility; inflammability vok. Brennbarkeit, f rus. горючесть, f; способность гореть, f pranc.… …

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  • 70combustibility — degumas statusas T sritis Standartizacija ir metrologija apibrėžtis Medžiagos gebėjimas degti normaliomis sąlygomis. atitikmenys: angl. combustibility; inflammability vok. Brennbarkeit, f rus. горючесть, f; способность гореть, f pranc.… …

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