Incombustible

Definition: Incombustible

Incombustible

Adjective

1. Not capable of igniting and burning.

Date "incombustible" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Etymology: Incombustible \In`com*bus"ti*ble\, adjective. [Prefix in- not combustible: compare to the French expression incombustible.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	Applies to substances that will not burn. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. Applies to substances that will not burn b. Any building material that contains no matter subject to rapid oxidation within the temperature limits of a standard fire test of not less than 2"-h duration. Materials that continue to burn after this time period are termed combustible. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Incombustible

Synonym: noncombustible (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: combustible (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insulation, Fire extinction	Adjective: incombustible; nonflammable, uninflammable, unflammable; fireproof.
	{ant. of } insulation, incombustible material, noncombustible material; fire retardant, flame retardant; fire wall, fire door.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incombustible

English words defined with "incombustible": Apyrous, Asbestine ♦ cinder, clinker ♦ Fire annihilator, Fireprrofing ♦ Incombustibility, Incombustible cloth. (references)

Specialty definitions using "incombustible": explosibility curves ♦ low-temperature incineration method ♦ noncoal mine ♦ organic ash ♦ pneumatic injection. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Incombustible" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (incombustible, non-combustible), Spanish (fireproof, incombustible, non-combustible).

"Incombustible" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incombustible" 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)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	3	202,518

Expressions using "incombustible": Incombustible cloth ♦ noncombustible vs combustible incombustible. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "incombustible"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i padjegshëm (fire proof, flameproof), zjarrdurues (fire proof, flame-resistant, refractory). (various references)

Arabic		‏لا يحترق, ‏غير قابل للإحتراق. (various references)

Bulgarian		огнеупорен (fireproof, infusible, refractory), невъзпламеняем. (various references)

Chinese		不燃烧. (various references)

Czech		nehořlavý (flame-proof, non flammable, nonflammable). (various references)

Danish		ubrændbar. (various references)

Farsi		نسوز, نسوختنی , غیرقابل احتراق . (various references)

French		incombustible. (various references)

German		unverbrennbar. (various references)

Greek		άφλεκτοσ (fireproof, non flammable). (various references)

Hebrew		בלתי �"ליק. (various references)

Hungarian		nem gyulladó, éghetetlen (non flammable). (various references)

Italian		incombustibile (fireproof). (various references)

Korean		불연성. (various references)

Manx		neuvoaddagh, neuloshtagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		incombustibleay

Portuguese		incombustível (apyrous, fireproof). (various references)

Romanian		neinflamabil (fire proof), necombustibil, care nu arde. (various references)

Russian		негорючий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nezapaljiv (nonflammable), negorljiv. (various references)

Spanish		incombustible (fireproof, non-combustible). (various references)

Swedish		inte brännbar, eldfast (fireproof, infusible). (various references)

Turkish		yanmaz (fireproof, flame-proof, nonflammable, noninflammable, non-inflammable), tutuşmaz (non-inflammable). (various references)

Ukranian		вогнестійкий (non-ignitable, ovenproof), неспаленна речовина, негорючий (asbestine, non-combustible, non-flam). (various references)

Vietnamese		không cháy được. (various references)

Welsh		anllosgadwy (inflammable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incombustible": incombustibles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incombustible" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: uncombustible. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-o-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: combustible.
	-3 letters: columbines, columbites, licentious.
	-4 letters: bisection, bounciest, buncombes, clubbiest, columbine, columbite, columnist, limonites, limousine, miniscule, nobeliums, nubbliest, outclimbs, semitonic.
	-5 letters: bibelots, binocles, bitumens, bombesin, botulins, botulism, bounties, bulimics, buncombe, bustline, centimos, ciboules, cobbiest, coliseum, colistin, combines, comities, counties, cutinise, cutlines, elutions, emulsion, isocline, lections, lemnisci, limbiest, limnetic, limonite, linecuts, linocuts, luminist, minciest, misbuilt, miscible, miscount, mobilise, monistic, mutinies, nelumbos, nimblest, niobiums, nobbiest, nobelium, noctules, nomistic, nubbiest, nubilose, outclimb, outlines, outsmile, semiotic, silicone, subtilin, subtonic, telsonic, tunicles.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-c-e-i-i-l-m-n-o-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: incombustibles.
	+5 letters: incombustibilities.
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