Answer to "Volatile" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word MERCURIAL , but the solution may also be EXPLOSIVE which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in Chronicle of Higher Education).

Volatile crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
MERCURIAL	25 %	9
UNSTABLE	25 %	8
EXPLOSIVE	25 %	9
IGNESCENT	25 %	9

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Volatile

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• vaporific
• volatilizable
• evaporable
• vaporizable
• explosive
• changeful
• changeable
• fickle
• unstable
• inconstant
• ignescent
• combustible

Crossword Answer definitions

MERCURIAL noun

1. Any of the plants known as mercury, especially the annual mercury or French mercury (Mercurialis annua).
2. A person born under the influence of the planet Mercury; hence, a person having an animated, lively, quick-witted or volatile character.
3. A chemical compound containing mercury.
4. A preparation of mercury, especially as a treatment for syphilis.

MERCURIAL adjective

1. Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.
2. Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mercury; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see adjective sense 1).
3. Pertaining to the planet Mercury.
4. Of or pertaining to the element mercury or quicksilver; containing mercury.
5. Caused by the action of mercury or a mercury compound.
6. Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence , money-making; crafty.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result MERCURIAL

• Fickle
• Volatile.
• *Capricious

More clues leading to the result UNSTABLE

• Not fixed
• Far from firmly fixed
• Shaky
• Not firmly fixed
• Tottering
• Subject to change.
• Variable.
• Fickle
• Like nitroglycerin
• Volatile

More clues leading to the result EXPLOSIVE

• Volatile
• Critically unstable.
• Nitroglycerin or dynamite
• Volatile, as a situation

More clues leading to the result IGNESCENT

• Bursting into flame.
• Scintillating.
• Volatile