Explosive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPLOSIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something that will explode
• a substance which can be made to explode, especially any of those used in bombs or shells
• An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.
• A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. [See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã 155-7, 184.]
• a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
• substance that causes explosions
ADJECTIVE:
• tending to explode
• able or likely to shatter violently or burst apart
• (of a vocal sound) produced with a sharp release of air
• likely to cause an outburst of anger or controversy
• (of an increase) sudden and dramatic
• Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
• serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst
• liable to lead to sudden change or violence
• sudden and loud
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• relating to, characterized by, or operated by explosion; resulting from or as if from an explosion

Words related to EXPLOSIVE

ammonal11 explosively26 explosiveness25 explosives22

Words that contain EXPLOSIVE

explosives22 explosively26 nonexplosive24 explosiveness25 nonexplosives25 explosivenesses27

How to use EXPLOSIVE in a sentence

• In that instant of unutterable surprise the two great forces of his life and personality met together with an explosive violence wholly beyond his power to control.
• Does he insist upon preparing the explosive in secret and does he intend to keep the formula thereof to himself? I should not wonder.
• The effects of the explosive surpass anything that could have been imagined.
• But, in reality, the explosive did no harm outside the area intended, although sixteen acres of rock had been mined and only the supporting walls and pillars had been left intact.
• When I told him that the explosive would arrive too late, he said I should use it to smash these walls and find another tomb.
• He himself disappeared, and when I questioned his men they told me the explosive would be brought in hidden under fruit in baskets.
• He derived immense gratification and enjoyment at the ensuing searches he had to undergo, and the explosive German that followed the diving of a hand into the barbed-wire pocket.
• Several Questions regarding an explosive magazine at Dinas Mawddwy have lately been addressed to the Ministry of Munitions.
• Even as he spoke we could see a liquid explosive being poured into a sort of cup, and electric wires connected.
• On that patch of ground at the lowest estimate 3,500 cases of explosive iron have been hurled at high velocity, not counting an incalculable number of the best rifle bullets.
• The soft explosive force within was at work so strongly that the eye could watch its operation.
• At his place he takes off his waistcoat and hangs it up and in the pocket, just separated from the explosive by the lining of the waistcoat, he places, secretly, the tube.
• The first Ken hit over the eye with a very small potato, which popped like an explosive bullet and flew into bits.
• I would say that ten high explosive shells in Quebec and about twenty in Montreal would do the trick.
• They are explosive coal-beds, which you pay a high annual rent for.
• But in flying over cities or forts, explosive bombs can be dropped very nicely.
• The powder should be a low explosive, like black or Judson powder or other explosives which act slowly.
• As to Frank, he is not backward with explosive English whenever the subject is mentioned, and no amount of persuasion could ever reconcile Cato to the station-room.
• Not the explosive vigour of the north-born, but that which would quietly meet physical hardships and bear them triumphantly.
• I ran out and was in time to see the fall of the water sent up by the explosive.
• Nitro-starch has also been used for the manufacture of an explosive.
• This rendered the use of gun-cotton very much safer for use as a military or mining explosive.
• It is a very safe explosive to use, being little susceptible to either blows or friction.
• In the top of this cylinder is a cavity to hold the charge of explosive.
• The results are only comparable if made with the same class of explosive.
• The exclamation was explosive enough to catch the ear of an extremely pretty young woman who stood near by with her hands in her pockets.

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