hot
small
bright
dancing, flickering, leaping
naked (BrE), open (AmE)
pork cooked over an open flame
Never smoke near a naked flame.

candle, gas
Olympic

ball, sheet, tongue
The plane crashed in a ball of flames.
Sheets of flame shot into the air.

ignite, light, spark (often figurative)
His childhood interest in the game had ignited a flame of passion for football.

rekindle (often figurative)
They tried to rekindle the flames of romance.

blow out, extinguish, snuff, snuff out
feel (often figurative)
She felt a flame of anger flicker and grow.

burn, crackle
The flame burned brightly.

grow
die, go out
The candle flame flickered and went out.

leap, rise, shoot
Flames leaped from the burning house.
Flames shot high into the air.

lick (sth)
Orange flames were already licking around the foot of the stairs.

dance, flicker
Flames danced in the gas lantern.

the crackle of flames

blazing, burning, crackling, roaring
intense

be engulfed in
go up in
All the historical records have gone up in flames (= have been destroyed by fire).

burst into, erupt in, explode in, explode into
The helicopter burst into flames.

fuel (often figurative)
Ethnic tensions helped fuel the flames of civil war.
Oxygen tanks helped fuel the flames.

fan, feed, stoke
Winds fanned the flames.

fight
He fought the flames for two hours.

control
Firefighters have been trying to control the flames.

douse, extinguish, put out, quench, smother
Men came with buckets of water and began to douse the flames.

be beaten back by
They tried to get into to the house but were beaten back by the flames.

roar
die down
spread, sweep through sth
They watched the flames sweep through the old wooden barn.

burst from sth, erupt from sth
consume sth, engulf sth
The flames quickly spread and engulfed their home.

light sth, light sth up
The flames lit up the skyline.

in flames
A large part of the building was in flames.
The aircraft was shot down in flames.