torches
nounHow to pronounce torches:
Definition of torches:
- torches (noun):
- a small portable electric lamp powered by batteries
- a burning stick of resinous wood or twist of tow used to give light and usually carried in the hand flambeau
Synonyms for torches:
aaron's rod
arsonists
beacon
blowlamp
blowtorch
common mullein
firebugs
flannel mullein
flashlight
great mullein
igniters
ignitors
incendiaries
lamp
light
pyromaniacs
torch
verbascum thapsus
woolly mullein
Antonyms for torches:
douses
dowses
extinguishes
puts out
quenches
snuffs out
Other 2-syllable words like torches
Here are some other common words that have 2 syllables, like torches does.
- torre
- torward
- toshie
- toti
- tottered
- touchwood
- tourists
- toussaint
- towards
- toweled
- towels
- townes
- townsman
- trackless
- tractors
- traer
- transact
- transfer
- transferred
- transit
- transplant
- trapping
- trascan
- travis
- travois
- trawler
- treason
- treatise
- treatment
- trekking
- trestle
- tributes
- tricia
- trickly
- tricorn
- triduum
- trimly
- trimming
- trisha
- trolling
- trooly
- trotter
- trotting
- troweled
- trudges
- truncate
- trustee
- truthful
- tua
- tuan
- … more
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