💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Gunpowder plot"
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| gunpowder treason daynoun | (UK, historical) Synonym of Guy Fawkes Day. |
| gunpowder treasonnoun | Synonym of Gunpowder Plot. |
| powdernoun | The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust. |
| pyrotechnynoun | The manufacture and use of fireworks. |
| fireworks nightnoun | (British) Bonfire Night. |
| powder burnnoun | A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm. |
| fireworknoun | A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration. |
| gunfirenoun | Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report. |
| st. bartholomew's day massacrenoun | (history) A massacre of French Huguenots in 1572 by a Roman Catholic mob. |
| powder-burnnoun | Alternative form of powder burn. [A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm.] |
| fire-raisernoun | (British) An arsonist. |
| powder kegnoun | (figuratively) An explosive or otherwise volatile situation. |
| firearmnoun | A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead. |
| boston tea partynoun | (historical) A political protest that took place in Boston Harbour in 1773, in which demonstrators, in defiance of the Tea Act, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company |
| black actnoun | (UK, historical) An act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1723 in response to a series of raids by two groups of poachers, known as the Blacks. It greatly strengthened the criminal code and specified over 200 capital crimes. |
| firelocknoun | (by extension, historical) A firearm using such a gunlock. |
| torchmakingnoun | (Sussex) The communal work carried out by bonfire society members in September, October and early November to prepare for Bonfire Night, especially by making torches. |
| proof chargenoun | (electrostatics) A small charge used to test or measure the electric field created by other charges. |
| false firenoun | (historical) A combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly for signalling, but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy. |
| firenoun | (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering. |
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