Much of its combustive energy is lost as heat.

The mass is so great that no possible chemical combustive agent they can have could combine with it.

A tough, smart man, thoroughly at home in the combustive Harlem of the time.

The couple do not seem concerned about the potentially combustive proximity of children and expensive artwork.

Their reconciliation, starting with a sitting dance on two stools, is combustive and sweet.

E.V. day is known for mixing fashion and gender politics, often to combustive effect.

The moment Burkhart had put his combustive charges in place, time had run out.

She sent him a demure smile that caused a combustive reaction in his groin.

Her eyes glow red and she has combustive powers in addition to her original abilities.

The comparatively quiet examples selected for this show only hint at such combustive energies.

They have an incandescent, almost combustive visionary energy.

Copra has been classed as a dangerous good due to its spontaneously combustive nature.

What you don't get, unfortunately, is any combustive chemistry between the title characters, although they do seem to have a good time beating each other up.

The more pistons there are pumping, the more combustive events are taking place during any given moment.

There was a detonation-a flash, a thunderclap-with the combustive power of eight hundred Hiroshima bombs.

By limiting the amount of deceleration, temperatures within the engine are kept at a tolerable level, from both a material and combustive standpoint.

In aircraft, redundancy is the prime consideration, but in other vehicles combustive efficiency is the target.

The sabot soaked up combustive energy as the projectile flew up the space-cannon's sixteen-inch, 118-ft long barrel.

They were like combustive sparks of danger, those lights, and as night fell he came into Thackery at a sizzling burst of speed, heads on full.

Omoultakos, at this point, chose in interrupt my efforts by inserting the agile tip of his combustive tail between myself and the face of Kalilah.

An MSR run this way is about 30% better in thermal efficiency than common thermal plants, whether combustive or traditional solid-fuelled nuclear.

Vibrant watercolor and ink works on paper at Luise Ross have a playful, almost combustive visionary energy (Ken Johnson).

The time is October 2007, and America is in anguish, rent by the war in Iraq and by a combustive restiveness at home.