Propellant

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  propellant
       adj : tending to or capable of propelling; "propellant fuel for
             submarines"; "the faster a jet plane goes the greater
             its propulsive efficiency"; "universities...the seats
             of propulsive thought" [syn: {propellent}, {propelling},
              {propulsive}]


       n : something that propels [syn: {propellent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "propellant":
     active, airscrew, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane,
     carbon, catalyst, charcoal, charge, coal, coke, combustible, dope,
     driver, driving, ethane, ethanol, exhaust, fan, fireball, firing,
     flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas,
     gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, impeller, impelling,
     impetus, impulse, in motion, incentive, incitation, inflammable,
     inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, jet propulsion,
     kerosene, liquid oxygen, methane, methanol, mobile, motile,
     motivation, motivational, motive, motor, moving, natural gas,
     octane, oil, paddle wheel, paraffin, peat, pentane, piston, prop,
     propane, propeller, propelling, propulsion charge, propulsive,
     propulsor, propulsory, provocative, pulsive, pushing,
     reaction propulsion, rocket fuel, rocket propulsion, rotor, screw,
     screw propeller, shoving, spur, stimulant, stirring, thrust,
     transitional, traveling, turbine, turf, twin screws, wheel