Definition of fuel

"fuel" in the noun sense

1. fuel

a substance that can be consumed to produce energy

"more fuel is needed during the winter months"

"they developed alternative fuels for aircraft"

"fuel" in the verb sense

1. fuel

provide with a combustible substance that provides energy

"fuel aircraft, ships, and cars"

2. fuel, fire

provide with fuel

"Oil fires the furnace"

3. fuel

take in fuel, as of a ship

"The tanker fueled in Bahrain"

4. fuel

stimulate

"fuel the debate on creationism"

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Quotations for fuel

Take away fuel, and you take away fire. [ Proverb ]

He's gone, and who knows how he may report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? [ Milton ]

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. [ Emerson ]

You are like fig-tree fuel, much smoke and little fire. [ Proverb ]

Truth, and a soul that is ready for truth, meet like the fuel and the flame. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. [ Lord Bacon ]

Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]

If all fools had baubles* we should want fuel. (*The fool or jester carried in his hand a wooden sceptre called a bauble. It was a short stick ornamented at the end with the figure of a fool's head, or with that of a puppet or doll. Jesters were still retained in Herbert's day.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. [ Carlyle ]

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise. [ Whipple ]

fuel in Scrabble®

The word fuel is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters fuel:

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fuel in Words With Friends™

The word fuel is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters fuel:

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FLUE
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Word Growth involving fuel

Shorter words in fuel

el

Longer words containing fuel

biofuel biofueled

biofuel biofuels

defuel defueled

defuel defueling

defuel defuelled

defuel defuelling

fueled biofueled

fueled defueled

fueled misfueled

fueled nonfueled

fueled refueled unrefueled

fueled unfueled

fueler fuelers

fueling defueling

fueling misfueling

fueling refueling nonrefueling

fueliser fuelisers

fuelizer fuelizers

fuelled defuelled

fuelled misfuelled

fuelled refuelled unrefuelled

fueller fuellers

fuelling defuelling

fuelling misfuelling

fuelling refuelling nonrefuelling

fuels biofuels

fuels misfuels

fuels refuels

misfuel misfueled

misfuel misfueling

misfuel misfuelled

misfuel misfuelling

misfuel misfuels

refuel refuelable

refuel refueled unrefueled

refuel refueling nonrefueling

refuel refuellable

refuel refuelled unrefuelled

refuel refuelling nonrefuelling

refuel refuels