pyrophore
/ˈpʌɪrəfɔː/(also pyrophor) rare
noun
Any substance capable of igniting spontaneously on contact with air or water; = pyrophorus. Now historical.
Origin
Late 18th century. From French pyrophore substance capable of igniting spontaneously on contact with air or water from post-classical Latin pyrophorus.
- teachable moment
- teachableness
- teacher
- teacherage
- teacherly
- teachers college
- tea chest
- teach-in
- teaching
- teaching fellow
- teaching hospital
- teaching machine
- teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
- teach school
- teach someone a lesson
- Teachta Dála
- tea cloth
- death knell
- deathless
- deathlessness
- death light
- deathlike
- deathliness
- deathling
- deathly