Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| accend | (Obs.) to kindle. |
| accension | the act of kindling or the state of being kindled. |
| aizle | (Scots) hot ashes. |
| ardency | a burning quality; fig. warmth of feeling or desire, ardour. |
| ardent | characterized by intense emotion. |
| ardently | (Adv.) ARDENT, characterized by intense emotion. |
| ash | the dust or remains of anything burnt (verb) to convert something into ash |
| backburn | to set a fire in order to halt the spread of another fire. |
| balefire | a bonfire or beacon-fire. |
| batswing | shaped like a bat's wing, eg the flame of a gas-burner. |
| bescorch | to scorch thoroughly. |
| birsle | to scorch, toast. |
| blaze | to burn brightly. |
| blazingly | (Adv.) BLAZING, burning brightly. |
| bonfire | an open fire. |
| bren | (Arch.) to burn. |
| brenne | (Arch.) to burn. |
| burn | a hurt or mark due to burning; (verb) to consume or injure by fire or great heat ) YBRENT. |
| burnable | able to be burned; (noun) something combustible. |
| burner | one that burns. |
| burningly | (Adv.) BURNING. very hot. |
| bushfire | a fire in the bush, esp in Australia. |
| calcine | to burn so as to drive out water and carbon dioxide. |
| campfire | a fire to sit round at camp. |
| cauterise | to burn or sear with heat or a caustic substance, esp in surgical operations. |
| cauterize | to burn or sear with heat or a caustic substance, esp in surgical operations. |
| char | a substance resulting from charring (verb) to burn slightly |
| chark | to burn wood etc. to charcoal. |
| charry | pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities. |
| cinder | the refuse of burned coals (verb) to burn to a cinder |
| cinderous | having the nature of cinders. |
| cindery | having the nature of cinders > CINDERIER, CINDERIEST. |
| cineration | the reducing of anything to ashes by combustion. |
| cinerator | an incinerator at a crematorium. |
| coctile | baked, hardened by fire. |
| combust | to burn. |
| combustibility | the state of being combustible. |
| combustible | able to be burned; (noun) something able to be burned. |
| combustibleness | the state of being combustible. |
| combustibly | (Adv.) COMBUSTIBLE, able to be burned. |
| combustion | an act or instance of burning. |
| combustious | (Shakesp.) combustible. |
| combustive | capable of catching fire; (noun) something capable of catching fire. |
| concremation | complete burning. |
| conflagrant | burning. |
| conflagrate | to burn. |
| conflagration | a large fire. |
| conflagrative | of or like a conflagration. |
| cremate | to reduce to ashes by burning. |
| cremation | the burning of corpses. |
| cremator | one who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes. |
| deflagrable | which deflagrates; deflagrating readily. |
| deflagrate | to burn suddenly, generally with flame and crackling noise. |
| deflagration | the rapid burning away of anything in a destructive fire. |
| deflagrator | an apparatus for deflagration. |
| dephlogisticate | to make something fireproof. |
| easle | (Scots) hot ashes. |
| enfire | (Spenser) to set on fire. |
| enflame | (Obs.) to inflame. |
| enkindle | to set on fire; to kindle. |
| enkindler | one who enkindles. |
| fierily | (Adv.) FIERY, like fire. |
| fieriness | the state of being fiery. |
| fiery | like fire. |
| fire | the heat and light of burning; (verb) to project by discharging from a gun. |
| firebrand | a flaming stick; a hot-tempered person. |
| firefang | to scorch; to damage (esp barley, oats) by overheating. |
| firelight | the light of a (usually domestic) fire. |
| firelighter | a piece of readily flammable material or other means of lighting a fire. |
| firelit | illuminated by fire. |
| firepit | a depression dug in the ground in which a fire is made. |
| firestorm | a huge blaze (especially a result of heavy bombing) which fans its own flames by creating its own draught. |
| firetrap | a building that is likely to catch on fire. |
| flagrance | a burning; notoriety. |
| flagrancy | a burning; notoriety. |
| flame | the visible stream produced by gases undergoing combustion (verb) to burn brightly |
| flamelet | a small flame. |
| flamingly | (Adv.) FLAMING, burning brightly. |
| flammability | the ability to support combustion. |
| flammable | easily able to catch fire; (noun) something flammable. |
| flammiferous | producing flame. |
| flammule | a little flame. |
| flamy | flaming; composed of flame. |
| flare | a sudden unsteady flame (verb) to burn with a bright, wavering light |
| flaringly | (Adv.) FLARING. |
| foment | to bathe in heat; to stir up eg rebellion. |
| gleed | a hot coal, a burning ember. |
| hydronic | pertaining to heating and cooled by water. |
| hydronically | (Adv.) HYDRONIC, pertaining to heating and cooled by water. |
| ignescent | capable of emitting sparks; (noun) an ignescent substance. |
| ignify | to burn. |
| ignitable | that can be ignited. |
| ignite | to set on fire. |
| igniter | someone who or something that ignites, eg an apparatus for firing an explosive or explosive mixture. |
| ignitibility | the state of being ignitible. |
| ignitible | that can be ignited. |
| ignition | the act of igniting. |
| inburning | (Spenser) burning within. |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes. |
| incineration | the act of incinerating. |
| incinerator | one that incinerates. |
| incremate | (Obs.) to cremate. |
| incremation | the act of incremating. |
| inferno | (Ital.) a blaze, a great fire. |
| inflamable | (Obs.) inflammable. |
| inflame | to set on fire. |
| inflamingly | (Adv.) INFLAMING. |
| inflammable | easily able to catch fire (noun) something inflammable |
| inflammably | (Adv.) INFLAMMABLE, easily able to catch fire. |
| inust | (Obs.) burnt in. |
| inustion | burning in; cauterization. |
| kindle | to cause to burn. |
| kindler | one who kindles. |
| lunt | (Scots) a slow match; a sudden flame; (verb) to kindle. |
| mangal | (Turkish) a brazier. |
| moorburn | the seasonal burning of heather on moorland to promote new growth. |
| muirburn | the seasonal burning of heather on moorland to promote new growth. |
| nightfire | a fire burning at night; a will-o'-the-wisp. |
| nonburnable | that cannot be burnt. |
| outblaze | to surpass in blazing. |
| outburn | to exceed in burning. |
| overburn | to burn too much; to be overzealous. |
| phlogistic | of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence. |
| phlogiston | (Greek) the hypothetical principle of fire regarded formerly as a material substance. |
| portfire | a slow-burning fuse used for firing rockets and fireworks. |
| postburn | following a burn. |
| postfire | after a fire. |
| prefire | to fire in advance. |
| preflame | preceding a flame. |
| pyral | of or pertaining to a pyre. |
| pyre | a pile of combustible material. |
| pyric | pertaining to burning. |
| pyroligneous | produced by the action of heat on wood. |
| pyrolignic | produced by the action of heat on wood. |
| pyrophoric | spontaneously igniting in air. |
| pyroxylic | produced by the action of heat on wood. |
| refire | to fire again. |
| reignite | to ignite again. |
| rekindle | to kindle again. |
| rekindling | the act of kindling again. |
| relume | (Arch.) to light up again. |
| relumine | (Arch.) to light up again. |
| scald | to burn (a body surface) by direct exposure to very hot liquid or steam. |
| scalder | one who scalds. |
| scaud | (Scots) to scald. |
| scorch | to burn slightly so as to alter the color or taste. |
| scorchingly | (Adv.) SCORCHING. |
| scouther | (Scots) a scorch, burn (verb) to scorch, singe |
| scouthery | scorching, singeing. |
| scowder | (Scots) a scorch, burn; (verb) to scorch, singe. |
| scowther | (Scots) a scorch, burn; (verb) to scorch, singe. |
| sear | scorched, withered (noun) the catch that holds a gun at cock or half-cock; (verb) to burn |
| searingly | (Adv.) SEARING, burning. |
| searness | the state of being sear, withered. |
| singe | to burn slightly. |
| smeech | (Dial.) to smoke. |
| smeek | (Scots) to smoke. |
| smolder | to burn slowly. |
| smoulder | a slow smothered burning (verb) to burn slowly |
| smoulderingly | (Adv.) SMOULDERING. |
| smouldry | (Spenser) smouldering. |
| spark | a small fiery particle (verb) to give off sparks |
| sparklet | a small spark. |
| spunkie | (Scots) an ignis fatuus. |
| stokehole | the area round the mouth of a furnace. |
| swayl | to scorch, singe. |
| swayling | a scorching. |
| teend | to kindle, burn. |
| thawy | liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing. |
| tind | to kindle; to burn. |
| torrefy | to scorch or parch; to dry or roast with heat. |
| torrify | to scorch or parch; to dry or roast with heat. |
| transcalency | perviosity to heat. |
| transcalent | pervious to or allowing the passage of heat. |
| unburnt | not burnt. |
| unkindled | not kindled. |
| unscorched | not scorched. |
| upburning | flaming upwards. |
| urent | burning; stinging. |
| ustion | (Obs.) the act of burning, or the state of being burned. |
| ustulate | scorched or discolored from prolonged exposure to heat; (verb) to give a charred appearance to. |
| ustulation | burning; roasting. |
| wildfire | destructive or uncontrollable fire; a conflagration. |
| woodsmoke | smoke produced from burning wood. |
| woodstove | a stove that burns wood. |