All coal synonyms
coal
C c noun coal
- slack β not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- smut β a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- char β If food chars or if you char it, it burns slightly and turns black as it is cooking.
- stoke β to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).
- carbon β Carbon is a chemical element that diamonds and coal are made up of.
- fuel β combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- cinder β a piece of incombustible material left after the combustion of coal, coke, etc; clinker
- spark β Muriel (Sarah) (Camberg) 1918β2006, British novelist and writer, born in Scotland.
- charcoal β Charcoal is a black substance obtained by burning wood without much air. It can be burned as a fuel, and small sticks of it are used for drawing with.
- culm β coal-mine waste
- scoria β Metallurgy. the refuse, dross, or slag left after melting or smelting metal; scum.
- ash β Ash is the grey or black powdery substance that is left after something is burnt. You can also refer to this substance as ashes.
- anthracite β Anthracite is a type of very hard coal which burns slowly, producing a lot of heat and very little smoke.
- bitumen β Bitumen is a black sticky substance which is obtained from tar or petrol and is used in making roads.
adjective coal
- pitch-dark β dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- black β lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- starless β any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- stygian β of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
- sloe β the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- sombre β gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- obsidian β a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- coaler β a ship, train, etc, used to carry or supply coal
- slater β Samuel, 1768β1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
- atramentous β similar to or as black as ink
- ink β a fluid or viscous substance used for writing or printing.
- pitchy β full of or abounding in pitch.
- piceous β of, relating to, or resembling pitch.
- onyx β Mineralogy. a variety of chalcedony having straight parallel bands of alternating colors. Compare Mexican onyx.
- melanoid β of or characterized by melanosis.
- ebon β ebony (def 6).
- swart β swarthy.
- pitch-black β extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
- raven β a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.