Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Fuel

Nouns
  • 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) Calefaction
  • 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 Inexistence oil, number Unsubstantiality 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) [Source of light, self-luminous body.] Luminary
  • oil etc. (grease) Oil.
Adjectives
  • carbonaceous
  • combustible, inflammable
  • high octane, high specific impulse
  • heat of combustion