Using ideas of burning velocity dependence on the adiabatic flame temperature at any mixture ratio (equivalence ratio), and the behavior of pressure and initial temperature dependences, simple correlations have been obtained for hydrocarbons and alcohols, hydrogen air as well as syngas compositions. These exploit simple behavior of the burning velocities with adiabatic flame temperature with equivalence ratio, and for a combination of equivalence ratio and a specific compositional parameter and the pressure dependence is taken with the pressure exponent as −0.3 for hydrocarbon-air and 0 for hydrogen air compositions in a mean sense since the dependence varies slightly over the other parameters like equivalence ratio and initial temperature. Observed behavior also brings out limited universality in the behavior. In the case of syngas compositions, a parameter that depends on the mixture composition that treats even carbon dioxide as an inert seems to provide reasonable predictions for a wide range of compositions. One anomaly that comes up is that methyl alcohol appears distinctly more reactive (by 15%) than methane and deserves examination since the results at higher initial temperatures seem to follow the trend noted in the general correlation.