Fire-retardant

Domain	Definitions
Nuclear Energy & Physics	Suppressing, reducing or delaying markedly the combustion of certain materials. Source: European Union. (references)
Public Administration	Property of an element of a structure to be able to resist the effects of fire through-out a certain time. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fire-retardant

Synonyms: fire-resistant (adj), fire-resisting (adj), fire-resistive (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: fire retardant (public administrationpublic administration, food & agriculturemechanical engineering, meteorology & standardschemical industry, industry), fire-resistant (public administration, engineering & technology), fire-retarding agent (building & civil engineering, industry).

Usage Frequency: Fire-retardant

"Fire-retardant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fire-retardant" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Fire-retardant

Language		Translations for "fire-retardant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		brandimprægneringsmiddel (fire-retarding agent). (various references)

Dutch		brandvertragend middel (fire-retarding agent). (various references)

Finnish		palosuoja-aine (fire-retarding agent). (various references)

French		produit ignifuge (fire-retarding agent), agent ignifuge (fire-retarding agent). (various references)

German		Feuerschutzmittel (fire resisting, fire-proof, fire-retarding agent). (various references)

Greek		πυρίμαχο μέσο (fire-retarding agent), πυρίμαχο προϊόν (fire-retarding agent). (various references)

Italian		sostanza ignifugante (fire-retarding agent), prodotto ignifugo (fire-retarding agent). (various references)

Pig Latin		ire-retardantfay

Portuguese		produto retardador da propagação do fogo (fire-retarding agent), produto ignífugo (fire-retarding agent, slurry). (various references)

Spanish		sustancia retardadora de la combustión (fire-retarding agent), sustancia ignifuga (fire-retarding agent). (various references)

Swedish		brandskyddsmedel (fire-retarding agent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Fire-retardant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-f-i-n-r-r-r-t-t"
	-3 letters: reattained.
	-4 letters: antidraft, attainder, frittered, fritterer, intreated, irredenta, refrained, reradiate, retardant, retardate, retrained.
	-5 letters: anteater, antedate, attained, attainer, attender, detainer, draftier, drearier, eradiate, fattened, fattener, feterita, frettier, inferred, inferrer, infrared, interred, iterated, narrated, narrater, nattered, nitrated, raftered, rarefied, rarefier, rattened, rattener, reattain, refitted, retained, retainer, retarder, retinted, retirant, terraria, trendier.
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