Heat
Nouns
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heat, caloric
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temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity
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incalescence, incandescence
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glow, flush
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fever, hectic. phlogiston
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fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze
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bonfire
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firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny
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wildfire
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sheet of fire, lambent flame
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devouring element
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adiathermancy
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recalescence [Phys.]. summer, dog days
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canicular days
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baking etc. Calefaction
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heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat
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sirocco, simoom
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broiling sun
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insolation
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warming etc. Calefaction. sun etc. (luminary) [Source of light, self-luminous body.] Luminary. [Science of heat] pyrology
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thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics
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thermometer etc. Thermometer. [thermal units] calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie
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kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie
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British Thermal Unit, B.T.U.
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therm, quad. [units of temperature] degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius
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degrees Fahrenheit.
Verbs
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be hot etc. adj.
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glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame
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smolder
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parch, fume, pant. heat etc. (make hot) Calefaction
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recalesce
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thaw, give.
Adjectives
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hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen
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thermal, thermic
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calorific
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fervent, fervid
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ardent
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aglow. sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy
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close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive
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reeking etc. v.
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baking etc. Calefaction. red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning etc. v.. hot, piping hot
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like a furnace, like an oven
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burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper
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hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg. fiery
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incandescent, incalescent
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candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking
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live
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on fire
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dazzling etc. v.
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in flames, blazing, in a blaze
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alight, afire, ablaze
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unquenched, unextinguished
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smoldering
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in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat
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sudorific
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sweltering, sweltered
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blood hot, blood warm
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warm as a toast, warm as wool. volcanic, plutonic, igneous
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isothermal, isothermic, isotheral.
Phrases
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not a breath of air
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whirlwinds of tempestuous fire" [Paradise Lost].