spontaneous human combustion
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
39
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The supposed spontaneous combustion of a human being without an apparent external source of ignition.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Winter is the season in which spontaneous human combustion most frequently occurs; because cold air, which is a bad conductor of electricity, favors the ideo-electric state of th animal body."
- "Remember the strange case of "spontaneous human combustion", in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1951? Mrs. Mary H. Reeser, 67, was discovered in her apartment where she was almost completely destroyed by fire. Yet, the apartment itself wasn’t damaged and newspapers near the chair in which she was cremated weren’t even scorched! Scientists said it would take unbelievable temperatures to destroy her body so completely, and the fact that nothing else was damaged in the room didn’t make sense at all."