Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun propellant_explosive

1 sense of propellant explosive

Sense 1
propellant explosive, impulse explosive -- (an explosive that is used to propel projectiles from guns or to propel rockets and missiles or to launch torpedos and depth charges)
       => explosive -- (a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck)