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Noun
S: (n) fire (the event of something burning (often destructive)) "they lost everything in the fire"
S: (n) fire, firing (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy) "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
S: (n) fire, flame, flaming (the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke) "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
S: (n) combustion, burning (a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light)
S: (n) oxidation, oxidization, oxidisation (the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction)
S: (n) chemical reaction, reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others) "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water"
S: (n) process, physical process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states) "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
S: (n) phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)
S: (n) chelation ((medicine) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning)
S: (n) dealignment (a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties)
S: (n) degeneration, devolution (the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality)
S: (n) development, evolution (a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)) "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
S: (n) economic process (any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth)
S: (n) increase, increment, growth (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important) "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
S: (n) industrial process (a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something)
S: (n) iteration, looping ((computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained) "the solution is obtained by iteration"
S: (n) iteration, loop ((computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated) "the solution took hundreds of iterations"
S: (n) operation, functioning, performance (process or manner of functioning or operating) "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
S: (n) photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)
S: (n) processing (preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure) "the processing of newly arrived immigrants"; "the processing of ore to obtain minerals"
S: (n) reversible process (any process in which a system can be made to pass through the same states in the reverse order when the process is reversed)
S: (n) sensitization, sensitisation ((psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations))
S: (n) fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy) "more fuel is needed during the winter months"; "they developed alternative fuels for aircraft"
S: (n) biomass (plant materials and animal waste used as fuel)
S: (n) butane (occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels)
S: (n) charcoal, wood coal (a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air)
S: (n) coal gas (gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting)
S: (n) coke (carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal)
S: (n) gasohol (a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn)
S: (n) gasoline, gasolene, gas, petrol (a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines)
S: (n) fire, attack, flak, flack, blast (intense adverse criticism) "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"