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Index — Chapter Words Relating to Matter (Part 8 of 24)

    Boiling, coction, ebullition, simmering, scalding, decoction, smelting.

    Ignition, inflammation, setting fire to, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, arson, incendiarism, auto da fé.

    Inflammability, combustibility; incendiary.

    Transmission of heat, diathermancy.

    (Verbs). To heat, warm, mull, chafe, fire, set fire to, set on fire, kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, damp down.

    (Phrases). To stir the fire; blow the fire; fan the flame; apply a match to; make a bonfire of; to take the chill off.

    To melt, thaw, fuse, liquefy.

    To burn, inflame, roast, toast, broil, fry, grill, singe, parch, sweal, scorch, brand, scorify, torrify, bake, cauterise, sear, char, carbonise, calcine, incinerate, smelt, reduce to ashes, to burn to a cinder.

    To boil, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer.

    To take fire, catch fire, kindle, light, ignite.

    (Adjectives). Combustible, heating, etc., heated, warmed, melted, molten, unfrozen, boiled, stewed, sodden, adust.

  • Refrigeration (Substantives), infrigidation, reduction of temperature, cooling, freezing, congealing, congelation, glaciation.
  • (Verbs). To cool, refrigerate, congeal, freeze, glaciate, benumb, refresh, damp, slack, quench, put out, blow out, extinguish, starve, pinch, pierce, cut.

    To go out.

    (Adjectives). Cooled, frozen, benumbed, etc., shivery, frigorific, refrigerant.

  • Furnace (Substantives), stove, kiln, oven, bake-house, hot - house, conservatory, fire-place, grate, register, reverberatory, range, athanor, hypocaust, fiery furnace, crematorium, incinerator, blast-furnace, brasier, salamander, geyser, heater, warming-pan, stew-pan, boiler, cauldron, kettle, chafing-dish, gridiron, frying- pan; sudatorium, sudatory, Turkish bath, hammam.
  • Refrigeratory (Substantives), refrigerator, ice-house, freezing-mixture, cooler, freezer.
  • Fuel (Substantives), firing, coal, anthracite, coke, charcoal, asbestos, peat, combustible, tinder, touchwood.
  • Lucifer, ingle, brand, match, vesuvian, vesta, safety-match, embers, faggot, firebrand, incendiary, port- fire, fire-ball, fire-barrel.

  • Thermometer (Substantives), pyrometer, calorimeter, thermoscope, thermograph, thermostat, thermopile.
  • Thermometry, therm, Thermodynamics.

    3. Taste

  • Taste (Substantives), flavour, gust, gusto, savour, sapor, tang, twang, smack, aftertaste, smatch, sapidity.
  • Tasting, gustation, degustation.

    Palate, tongue, tooth, sweet tooth, stomach.

    (Verbs). To taste, savour, smack, smatch, flavour, twang.

    (Phrase). To smack the lips.