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1. gunpowder
noun. ['ˈgʌnˌpaʊdɝ'] a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks.
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Rhymes with Gunpowder
- adder
- ader
- adusdur
- alder
- aleksander
- aleksander
- aleksandr
- aleksandr
- alexander
- alexander
- alexandre
- allender
- allinder
- ambassador
- amdur
- ander
- anreder
- ardor
- asunder
- attainder
Sentences with gunpowder
1. Noun, singular or mass
The first fire extinguisher used a blast of gunpowder to send water exploding over a fire.
Quotes about gunpowder
1. Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones
- Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
2. The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s going to be a reckoning eventually.
- Colleen Houck
3. Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
- Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop
