flashpoint
/ˈflaʃpɔɪnt
/noun
1A place, event, or time at which violence or hostility flares up: the conflict reached a flashpoint last year...
- The season's main violence flashpoints were before, during and after games against Hartlepool, Bury, and Carlisle.
- Politics here have long been a flashpoint for violence.
- Christmas is often a flashpoint for domestic violence due to increased drinking, tension over money and contact with family members.
2 Chemistry The temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapour to ignite in air: this particular resin is very volatile and has a fairly low flashpoint...
- They had routinely heated paraffin oil with a flashpoint of 175 degrees centigrade in its baking tins to stop pies sticking.
Rhymes
- do-little
- D'Oliveira, Basil
- doll
- dollar
- dollar area
- dollarbird
- dollar diplomacy
- dollar gap
- dollarisation
- dollarization
- dollar mark
- dollar sign
- dollars to doughnuts
- Dollfuss, Engelbert
- dollhouse
- dollop
- doll's house
- Doll, Sir Richard
- dolly
- dolly bird
- dolly mixtures
- dolly switch
- dolly tub
- Dolly Varden
- Dolly Varden hat