fuel

Roget category 388

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#388. Fuel

noun

fuel, firing, combustible.
[solid fuels] coal, wallsend^†, anthracite, culm^†, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale — turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log — cinder etc. (products of combustion) 384 — ingle, tinder, touchwood — sulphur, brimstone — incense — port-fire — fire-barrel, fireball, brand — amadou^†, bavin^† — blind coal, glance coal — German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge [U.S.] — solid fueled rocket.
[fuels for candles and lamps] wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil — lamp oil, whale oil.
[liquid fuels] oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice [Coll.], gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha — rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.
[gaseous fuels] natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane, butane, hydrogen.
brand, torch, fuse — wick — spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve^†, vesuvian, vesta^†, fusee, locofoco^† — linstock^†.
candle etc. (luminary) 423 — oil etc. (grease) 356.

adjective

carbonaceous — combustible, inflammable — high octane, high specific impulse — heat of combustion,

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