| green tea |
tea made from leaves that were not allowed to ferment before being heated. |
| griddle |
a flat pan or flat heated surface used in cooking. [1/2 definitions] |
| hardboard |
construction board made of wood chips that have been heated and compressed. |
| hotbed |
a bed of soil, usu. heated by fermenting manure and covered by glass, used to protect sensitive plants or to grow plants out of season. [1/2 definitions] |
| hothouse |
a heated glass building used to grow plants that require a constant warm temperature. [1/2 definitions] |
| incandescence |
the giving off of light by an object or substance heated to a high degree. [1/2 definitions] |
| iron |
a heavy appliance with a flat surface that is heated to press wrinkles out of clothes, linens, and the like. [3/16 definitions] |
| jet1 |
an airplane powered by engines discharging a backward flow of heated gases to create forward propulsion. [1/5 definitions] |
| limelight |
formerly, a strong theater spotlight that used lime heated until it shone, or the light produced by this device. [1/2 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) |
| mangle2 |
a machine that presses cloth between heated rollers, used chiefly in commercial laundries for ironing linens. [1/2 definitions] |
| martensite |
a hard brittle solid solution of iron and a small portion of carbon which is the main constituent of various carbon steels and is produced by chilling heated steel. |
| oven |
a compartment, as in a stove, that can be heated for baking or roasting food or the like. |
| plage |
an area of cool or heated gas on the surface of the sun that appears as a dark or light patch on an image produced by a spectroheliograph. |
| polyurethane |
any of various synthetic resins that can become flexible or set when heated and that are used for coatings, padding, insulation, and adhesives. |
| popcorn |
any of several varieties of corn whose kernels pop open into crunchy puffs when heated. [1/2 definitions] |
| poultice |
a soft, usu. heated mass of moist meal, leaves, or the like that is spread on a cloth and applied to a sore or inflamed area of the body as a therapy. [1/2 definitions] |
| processed cheese |
a combination of cheeses heated and blended together with an emulsifier. |
| pyrography |
the art, practice, or process of burning designs on wood, leather, or the like with a heated tool or a flame. [1/2 definitions] |
| register |
a gratelike opening, often in the floor, through which a room can be heated or cooled. [1/15 definitions] |
| retort2 |
a large vessel in which ore is heated to extract metal, or any similar large industrial heating vessel. [1/2 definitions] |