Combustibility

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COMBUSTIBILITY, n. The quality of taking fire and burning; the quality of a substance which admits the action of fire upon it; capacity of being burnt, or combined with oxygen.
The quality of throwing out heat and light, in the rapid combination of its substance with another body.

combustibility appears in definitions for these words:
Deflagrability Sulphore

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