intumescent
Meaning of intumescent
noun
- Any substance that swells on exposure to heat, thus increasing in volume and decreasing in density.
Intumescents are used in some fire protection systems.
adjective
That becomes swollen, especially upon exposure to heat
Information about intumescent
Hyphenation of intumescent
in-tu-mes-cent
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- intumescent is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
intumescent synonyms
Meaning bloated:
bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid
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