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Answer for the clue "Related to fireworks ", 11 letters:
pyrotechnic

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Word definitions for pyrotechnic in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to fireworks. 2 Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy. 3 Resembling fireworks. 4 Of or relating to pyrotechny.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1704, "of or pertaining to fire;" 1825, "of or pertaining to fireworks," from pyro- + Greek tekhnikos "made by art," from tekhne "art" (see techno- ). Figurative use attested from 1847. Related: Pyrotechnical (1610s, from pyrotechny "use of gunpowder," ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to the craft of making fireworks; "pyrotechnic smokes" [syn: pyrotechnical ] suggestive of fireworks; "pyrotechnic keyboard virtuosity"; "a pyrotechnic wit"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pyrotechnic \Pyr`o*tech"nic\, Pyrotechnical \Pyr`o*tech"nic*al\, a. [Pyro- + technic, technical: cf. F. pyrotechnique. See Fire , Technical .] Of or pertaining to fireworks, or the art of forming them. Pyrotechnical sponge . See under Sponge .

Usage examples of pyrotechnic.

Telepathy, clairvoyance, pyrotechnic, telekinesis, precognition, transmutation and the hundreds of psi-skill variants that defied easy classification?

The mountain range was flanked and fronted by holopromos and subliminal pulsers, pyrotechnic flashers and computer-generated dramatizations of selected passages.

Rimward, local space was a pyrotechnic welter of laser beams, radiant projectiles, fusial thrusters, and blossoming explosions.

Center in Providence, in concave recesses along the Pizzitola tunnels between special entrance and Visitors' locker room, even in a specially enlarged and sensually-appointed locker next to the power forward's locker in the VLR, all prepared like the Brown cheerleaders and Pep Squad, who've been induced to do the game pantyless, electrolysized and splits-prone to help lend a pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere to the power forward's whole playing-environment prepared to make the penultimate sacrifice for squad, school, and influential members of the Brown Alumni Bruins Boosters Assoc.

Center in Providence, in concave recesses along the Pizzitola tunnels between special entrance and Visitors' locker room, even in a specially enlarged and sensually-appointed locker next to the power forward's locker in the VLR, all prepared like the Brown cheerleaders and Pep Squad, who've been induced to do the game pantyless, electrolysized and splits-prone to help lend a pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere to the power forward's whole playing-environment prepared to make the penultimate sacrifice for squad, school, and influential members of the Brown Alumni Bruins Boosters Assoc. So that Gwendine O'Shay then switches back to Fackelmann and OKs the mammoth bet and point-spread, as like who wouldn't, with that kind of mole-reported fix in the works.

Even pyrotechnic Marco acknowledged their relationship by accord-ing Bragi a grudging respect.

Pyrotechnic lights rise over stage with reeling effect and fade gradually as smoke clears to reveal the body of one SOLDIER draped over an inclined cannon barrel and three or four figures flung still at downstage left.

He had covered half the return journey when a crackling, rending noise, loud even above the roar of the flames, made him break step and halt just in time as several blazing, smoking timbers from the roof crashed to the ground in a pyrotechnic eruption of flying sparks and red-hot embers not three feet from where he stood.

Or else he would have dropped in a flare, a splendid but transitory pyrotechnic display.

Pyrotechnic guillotines were blowing away the nuts, bolts, wires, and water hoses connecting the upper and lower stages of the MEM.

The polycell structure of the decamole was an excellent insulator-a fact they gave thanks for during the next hour or so, when a pyrotechnic display of stunning violence seemed to shake the massif to its roots.

Nevertheless, unlike the pyrotechnic poppers, which had cost one of Lee's assistants the tip of two fingers, the caps could be handled with no special training, and the test cycle shortened by half.

Gerry's talents ran more toward pyrotechnic pranks, booby traps and practical jokes.

The package was x-rayed immediately and found to contain a battery and some wires, plus a semi-opaque rectangle that collectively represented a pyrotechnic device.

I told you so was as dangerous as defusing any other pyrotechnic device.