internal-combustion

[ in-tur-nl-kuh m-buhs-chuh n ]

/ ɪnˈtɜr nl kəmˈbʌs tʃən /

of or relating to an internal-combustion engine.

Origin of internal-combustion

First recorded in 1880–85

She was the first submarine to be operated successfully with an internal-combustion engine.

The Submarine in War and Peace |Simon Lake
The tool has come, the internal-combustion engine is altering the face of the marine world.

Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highway Transport Committee Council of National Defence |US Government
The stillness of just-before-dawn was broken by the distant rumble of an internal-combustion engine.

Operation Terror |William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Shouts were heard, mingled with the puffing and spluttering of internal-combustion engines.

The Blocking of Zeebrugge |Alfred F. B. Carpenter

I was the first to use successfully an internal-combustion engine in a submarine boat, the Argonaut.

The Submarine in War and Peace |Simon Lake