|
|
Reverse Search
Reverse Search allows you to search within the full text of dictionary entries for words, word parts, and phrases.
Search for entries that contain:
Exact matches of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or the word "orange."
Any form of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or "apples" or "orange" or "oranges."
Exact matches of all of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" and the word "orange."
The exact sequence of words and/or characters entered in the search box (for example, a fragment of a word, a single word, multiple words, or even a phrase containing punctuation)
Example: Searching for "a variety of apple" identifies all entries that contain that phrase. Searching for "app" identifies all entries that contain the letters "app," such as occurrences of "apple," "application," and "apply."
Search within these fields:
Optional:
Limit by part of speech:
| anthracite |
a hard, shiny coal that burns cleanly with little flame. |
| Argand burner |
an oil or gas burner having a metal tube inside a cylindrical wick, through which air is conducted directly to the flame. |
| bituminous coal |
a mineral coal that yields pitch and tar and has a yellow smoky flame when it burns; soft coal. |
| blaze1 |
an intense flame or light. [1/6 definitions] |
| blowpipe |
a metal tube through which air or gas is forced in a controlled flow into a flame to concentrate and intensify its heat. [1/3 definitions] |
| blowtorch |
a portable oil-burning or gas-burning device producing an intense, localized flame suitable for melting or cutting metal. |
| Bunsen burner |
a cylindrical burner, used in laboratories, that has holes at the bottom where air enters, mixes with gas, and produces a hot blue flame. |
| burn |
to injure or damage by excessive exposure to heat, as from flame or sunlight. [1/14 definitions] |
| burner |
the part of a furnace, water heater, stove, or other appliance that emits heat or flame. [1/2 definitions] |
| chimney |
a glass tube that surrounds the flame of a lamp and serves to ventilate and protect the flame. [1/2 definitions] |
| cinder |
a small piece of partially burned wood, coal, or the like that can burn further but without a flame. [1/4 definitions] |
| douse1 |
to turn off or extinguish (a light or flame). [1/4 definitions] |
| extinguish |
to put out (a fire, flame, or light). [1/4 definitions] |
| flame |
anything that resembles a flame in its shape, color, brilliance, or the like. [2/9 definitions] |
| flaming |
like a flame in color or brilliance. [1/4 definitions] |
| flaring |
of a flame, increasing suddenly and briefly in intensity. [1/2 definitions] |
| gas jet |
a flame of burning gas from such a fitting. [1/2 definitions] |
| gas mantle |
an incombustible meshwork hood for a gas jet or kerosene wick that gives off a brilliant incandescent light when a flame is lit within it. |
| lambent |
flickering or playing lightly over a surface, as light or flame. [1/3 definitions] |
| magnesium |
a highly reactive chemical element of the alkaline-earth group that has twelve protons in each nucleus and that occurs naturally only in compounds, but that can be isolated as a divalent ion essential in plant and animal nutrition, or as alight, ductile, silver-white solid that bursts into a bright flame when heated above room temperature, used for flares, fireworks, and the like. (symbol: Mg) |
| napalm |
a highly flammable jelly containing aluminum soaps and gasoline, used in flame throwers and fire bombs. [1/2 definitions] |
|
|