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Able to be lit
Answer for the clue "Able to be lit ", 9 letters:
ignitable
Alternative clues for the word ignitable
Word definitions for ignitable in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s; see ignite + -able .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Capable of being ignited; able to burn.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. possible to burn [syn: burnable , flammable , ignitible , inflammable ]
Usage examples of ignitable.
However, to keep it that way in the face of both increasing urbanization (the number of shantytowns has tripled in twenty years to 370) and foreign cultural influences—evinced by the profusion of television antennas that beam in not just Moslem sermons but Western-style soap operas— requires an increasingly conservative social glue, which, in turn, can provide an ignitable surface for the spread of Islamic radicalism.