Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 11 compound words that contain explosion. The most common are listed below. Open explosion in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- Cambrian explosionThe relatively rapid appearance, during the Cambrian Period around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla, as demonstrated in the fossil record.
- smoke explosionAn explosion of flue gases accumulated inside a burning building.
- principle of explosionThe principle or axiom of classical logic and some other logical systems stating that if a contradiction or a false proposition is proven to be true, then it proves that everything is true. In symbols: ⊥→P
- controlled explosionThe explosion of a small explosive charge, either to destroy a suspect package or unexploded ordinance, or to gain access to a locked enclosure that may be booby-trapped.
- explosion shipSynonym of hellburner: A fireship designed to explode devastatingly.
- explosion-proofDesigned and constructed to withstand or minimize damage from an internal or external explosion.
- nuclear explosionThe explosion of a nuclear bomb.
- bacon explosionA food made from bacon wrapped around a filling of spiced sausage and crumbled bacon, then smoked or baked.
- Coulomb explosionThe effect of a molecule moving at high speed striking a solid; binding electrons being torn off, and the resulting charged constituents separating due to Coulomb repulsion.
- explosion shipsplural of explosion ship: A fireship designed to explode devastatingly.
- explosion shotA powerful stroke that blasts the ball out of a bunker.
- explosion shotsplural of explosion shot: A powerful stroke that blasts the ball out of a bunker.
- like an explosion in a paint factoryRiotously colorful.
- hyper explosionAlternative form of hyperexplosion: An extremely severe explosion; a superexplosion.
Compound words 11
- explosionyFull of explosions.
- superexplosionA particularly large or intense explosion (in any sense).
- nonexplosionThe absence of combinatorial explosion
- counterexplosionAn explosion triggered by, or in response to, another explosion.
- cryptoexplosionAn unexplained explosion
- explosionlikeResembling or characteristic of an explosion.
- explosionproofAlternative form of explosion-proof: Designed and constructed to withstand or minimize damage from an internal or external explosion.
- hyperexplosionAn extremely severe explosion; a superexplosion.
- poopsplosionSynonym of poonami: An act of defecation in which an infant produces a large amount of excrement, especially one that causes a nappy or diaper to overflow; a blowout.
- poosplosionSynonym of poonami: An act of defecation in which an infant produces a large amount of excrement, especially one that causes a nappy or diaper to overflow; a blowout.