All pyre synonyms

noun pyre

• feu de joie — a salute of musketry fired successively by each man in turn along a line and back
• fire — combustion
• boiler — A boiler is a device which burns gas, oil, electricity, or coal in order to provide hot water, especially for the central heating in a building.
• incremation — Burning; especially, the act of burning a dead body; cremation.
• incineration — to burn or reduce to ashes; cremate.
• incinerator — a furnace or apparatus for burning trash, garbage, etc., to ashes.
• bier — a platform or stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse rests before burial
• campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
• cinerator — an incinerator.
• hearse — a vehicle for conveying a dead person to the place of burial.
• incandescence — the emission of visible light by a body, caused by its high temperature. Compare luminescence.
• cineration — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
• cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
• crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
• bonfire — A bonfire is a fire that is made outdoors, usually to burn rubbish. Bonfires are also sometimes lit as part of a celebration.