incalescence†, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic.
phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze;
bonfire; firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny†; wildfire; sheet of fire,
lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy†; recalescence [Phys.].
summer, dog days; canicular days†; baking &c 384; heat, white heat,
tropical heat, Afric heat†, Bengal heat†, summer heat, blood heat;
sirocco, simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming &c 384.
sun &c (luminary) 423.
[Science of heat] pyrology†; thermology†, thermotics†,
thermodynamics; thermometer &c 389.
[thermal units] calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie; kilocalorie,
kilogram calorie, large calorie; British Thermal Unit, B.T.U.; therm,
quad.
[units of temperature] degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees
centigrade, degrees Celsius; degrees Fahrenheit.
V. be hot &c adj.; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek,
stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame;
smolder; parch, fume, pant.
heat &c (make hot) 384; recalesce†; thaw, give.
Adj. hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal,
thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.
sunny, torrid, tropical, estival†, canicular†, steamy; close,
sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking &c v.;
baking &c 384.
red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning &c v.. hot, piping hot;
like a furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot
enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg.
fiery; incandescent, incalescent†; candent†, ebullient, glowing,
smoking; live; on fire; dazzling &c v.; in flames, blazing, in a blaze;
alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished†; smoldering; in a
heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific†;
sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as
wool.
volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal†, isothermic†, isotheral†.
Phr. not a breath of air; whirlwinds of tempestuous fire [Paradise
Lost].