part of speech: adjective

Thundering; crackling; detonating; hurling menaces or censures. Fulminating powder, an explosive compound of nitre, carbonate of potash, and sulphur.

part of speech: noun

Thundering; exploding with a crack and flash.

The fulminating order, which is going to crush you, is in the pocket of the exempt, who feels a degree of pleasure in the exercise of his dreadful functions. "Paris As It Was and As It Is", Francis W. Blagdon.

Then, however, he feared only that he had not accurately loaded the cartridge, or that the damp had spoiled the fulminating mixture inside its cap; and his fingers were woodenly steady as they tightened on the gun. "The League of the Leopard", Harold Bindloss.

Magyari continued his fulminating discourse from the pulpit. "The Slaves of the Padishah", Mór Jókai.

The hunting of wild beasts as ferocious as those that infested the mountains of Asia is a very dangerous amusement even at the present day, notwithstanding the advantage which the huntsman derives from the use of gunpowder, and rifled barrels, and fulminating bullets. "Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series", Jacob Abbott.