flagr- +
(Latin: fire; burn, blaze)
conflagrant
1. Burning intensely; blazing.
2. Burning together in a common flame.
conflagrate
1. To cause to start burning.
2. To start to burn or to burst into flames.
conflagration
1. A large fire that causes a great deal of damage.
2. A very intense and uncontrolled fire.
3. A large and destructive fire; a general burning.
4. A large and violent event; such as, a war involving many people.
5. Something like a conflagration: a conflict; a war.
conflagrative
1. Producing conflagration.
2. Given to burning up.
conflagrator
Someone who sets something on fire.
conflagratory
Inflammatory.
deflagrability
The state or quality of being deflagrable.
deflagrable
1. Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion; such as, niter; hence, slightly explosive.
2. Liable to snap and crackle when heated; such as, salt.
deflagrate, deflagrates; deflagrated
1. To burn violently, or to make something burn violently.
2. To burn or cause to burn with great heat and intense light.
deflagration
1. Combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat.
2. A process of subsonic combustion that usually propagates through thermal conductivity (hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it).
deflagrator
A galvanic instrument for producing combustion, particularly the combustion of metallic substances.
flagrancy
1. Very obvious and contrary to standards of conduct or morality.
2. Shocking because of being so obvious.
3. A burning; great heat; inflammation.
4. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.
flagrant
1. Shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: "He made a flagrant error in his presentation."
2. Notorious; scandalous: "It was a flagrant crime committed by a flagrant offender."
3. Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.
4. Archaic: blazing, burning, or glowing.
flagrante delicto
1. With the crime blazing.
2. A legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offense.
The phrases: "caught red-handed" or "caught in the act" are English equivalents.
flagrantly
Ardently; notoriously.
Cross references of word groups that are related, directly, indirectly, or partly to: "fire, burn, glow, or ashes":
ars-, ard-;
cand-, cend-;
caust-, caut-;
crema-;
ciner-;
ether-;
flam-;
focus, foci-;
fulg-;
gehenna-;
ign-;
phleg-;
phlog-;
pyreto-, -pyrexia;
pyr-;
spod- (ashes; waste);
volcan-.
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