explosive (n.)
- allophone
- alveolar
- articulation
- aspiration
- assimilation
- bad
- banging
- bilabial
- chancy
- check
- combustible
- consonant
- continuant
- cordite
- cracking
- dental
- diphthong
- dissimilation
- dynamite
- flapping
- gelignite
- glide
- gunpowder
- guttural
- hot
- iffy
- knocking
- labial
- labiodental
- lateral
- lingual
- liquid
- modification
- morphophoneme
- mute
- nasal
- nasty
- nitrocotton
- nitroglycerin
- occlusive
- palatal
- peak
- perilous
- pharyngeal
- phone
- phoneme
- plastic
- plosive
- popping
- powder
- quick
- rapping
- semivowel
- sensitive
- sonant
- sonority
- stop
- surd
- syllable
- tapping
- tense
- ugly
- velar
- vocable
- voice
- voicing
- volatile
- vowel
explosive (adj.)
- alarming
- alveolar
- anxious
- bad
- banging
- bilabial
- blasting
- cacuminal
- cerebral
- chancy
- combustible
- consonant
- continuant
- cracking
- crashing
- critical
- dangerous
- delicate
- dental
- dicey
- edgy
- emotional
- eruptive
- excitable
- fiery
- fraught
- glottal
- guttural
- hasty
- hazardous
- high-spirited
- high-strung
- hot
- hot-tempered
- hotheaded
- iffy
- inflammable
- irascible
- irritable
- knocking
- labial
- laryngeal
- lateral
- lingual
- liquid
- menacing
- mettlesome
- mute
- nasal
- nasty
- nervous
- occlusive
- palatal
- parlous
- passionate
- peppery
- perilous
- perturbable
- pharyngeal
- plastic
- plosive
- popping
- precarious
- prickly
- quick
- quick-tempered
- rapping
- retroflex
- sensitive
- serious
- shaky
- short-tempered
- skittish
- sonant
- spunky
- stop
- surd
- tense
- threatening
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- ugly
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsound
- unstable
- velar
- vocable
- vocalic
- volatile
- volcanic
