All steam synonyms
steam
S s noun steam
- muscularity β of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- oppressiveness β burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- force β physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- dankness β unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.
- briskness β quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- miasma β noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- dampness β Dampness is moisture in the air, or on the surface of something.
- leg up β either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- operativeness β (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- exudation β The act of exuding.
- oomph β energy; vitality; enthusiasm.
- dynamism β The quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress.
- dewiness β The state or quality of being dewy.
- indistinctness β not distinct; not clearly marked or defined: indistinct markings.
- diaphoresis β a technical name for sweating
- conductivity β the property of transmitting heat, electricity, or sound
- nebulosity β nebulous or nebular matter.
- beef β Beef is the meat of a cow, bull, or ox.
- energy β The strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.
- wellbeing β a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity; welfare: to influence the well-being of the nation and its people.
- lustiness β The property of having or experiencing lust, of being lusty.
- haze β vagueness or obscurity, as of the mind or perception; confused or vague thoughts, feelings, etc.: The victims were still in a haze and couldn't describe the accident.
- imperia β a seaport in NW Italy.
- impellent β impelling: an impellent power; an impellent cause.
- wattage β power, as measured in watts.
- qualifiedness β The property of being qualified (restricted or limited by conditions).
- humectation β A moistening.
- beefiness β The characteristic of being beefy.
- horsepower β a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
verb steam
- mist β a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- look daggers β to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- decocted β Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
- heat β the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- boil over β When a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises and flows over the edge of the container.
- let out β (of fur) processed by cutting parallel diagonal slashes into the pelt and sewing the slashed edges together to lengthen the pelt and to improve the appearance of the fur.
- distil β (transitive) Subject a substance to distillation; .
- browning β a substance used to darken soups, gravies, etc
- get one's goat β any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- deviling β Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- lay β to bring about or affect by lying (often used reflexively): to lie oneself out of a difficulty; accustomed to lying his way out of difficulties.
- distill β to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
- massed β a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size: a mass of dough.
- escallop β A scallop shell as a charge.
- iron β Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20Β°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- hazed β an aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors.
- braise β When you braise meat or a vegetable, you fry it quickly and then cook it slowly in a covered dish with a small amount of liquid.
- bummed β depressed, upset, distressed, annoyed, etc.
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- in flames β to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).