| hydrosphere |
collectively, all bodies and forms of water on or around the earth's surface, including vapor and clouds in the atmosphere. |
| inhalator |
an apparatus that helps one to inhale oxygen, medicine, or the like by producing a vapor or vaporizing the substance to be inhaled. |
| inhaler |
an apparatus that helps in inhaling medicinal vapor, oxygen, or the like; inhalator; respirator. [1/2 definitions] |
| miasma |
a thick, obscuring vapor. [1/3 definitions] |
| mist |
water vapor that clouds a surface. [1/7 definitions] |
| moisture |
a small amount of diffused or condensed liquid, esp. water, felt as vapor in the air or as dampness on surfaces. |
| precipitate |
to cause (moisture) to be transformed from vapor into snow, rain, or the like. [1/11 definitions] |
| puff |
a brief, forceful emission of breath, air, or vapor. [1/16 definitions] |
| quartz lamp |
a mercury-vapor lamp, enclosed within transparent quartz, that emits ultraviolet rays when an electric current is passed through it. |
| rain |
water vapor in the atmosphere that condenses and falls from the sky to earth. [1/8 definitions] |
| scrub1 |
to remove contaminants from (a gas or vapor). [1/6 definitions] |
| skywriting |
the act, process, or method of tracing words or designs in the sky with a visible chemical vapor released from an airplane in flight. [1/2 definitions] |
| smoke |
the visible, usu. black or gray gases or vapor emitted by a burning or smoldering substance. [3/12 definitions] |
| steam |
water vapor, esp. that formed by boiling. [3/11 definitions] |
| stoma |
any of various microscopic openings in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor are exchanged. [1/2 definitions] |
| superheat |
to heat (a vapor or gas) to such a high temperature that a decrease in temperature or increase in pressure will not result in conversion to liquid. [1/3 definitions] |
| sweat |
to collect moisture by causing condensation of surrounding water vapor. [1/18 definitions] |
| tonometer |
an instrument that measure fluid or vapor pressure. [1/3 definitions] |
| transpire |
to give off wastes from the surface in the form of vapor, as plants. (See perspire.) [1/3 definitions] |
| vapor |
to cause to rise or diffuse as a vapor; vaporize; evaporate. [3/7 definitions] |
| vaporize |
to cause to become or diffuse as a vapor or gas; atomize; evaporate. [2 definitions] |