Air chamber () A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. |
Air chamber () A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine. |
Almond furnace () A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. |
Ash-furnace (n.) Alt. of Ash-oven |
Boiler (n.) One who boils. |
Boiler (n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled. |
Boiler (n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes. |
Chamber (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping |
Chamber (n.) Apartments in a lodging house. |
Chamber (n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets |
Chamber (n.) A legislative or judicial body |
Chamber (n.) A compartment or cell |
Chamber (n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business |
Chamber (n.) A chamber pot. |
Chamber (n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore |
Chamber (n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder. |
Chamber (n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades. |
Chamber (v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. |
Chamber (v. i.) To be lascivious. |
Chamber (v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber. |
Chamber (v. t.) To furnish with a chamber |
Combustion (n.) The state of burning. |
Combustion (n.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. |
Combustion (n.) Violent agitation |
Furnace (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc. |
Furnace (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial |
Furnace (n.) To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace |
Lacashire boiler () A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end. |
Pernot furnace () A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel. |
Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses |
burning combustion | the act of burning something, the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance |
anechoic chamber | a chamber having very little reverberation |
auxiliary boiler donkey boiler | (nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port) |
bedroom sleeping room sleeping accommodation chamber bedchamber | a room used primarily for sleeping |
blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
boardroom council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
boiler steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |
boron chamber | an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons |
bubble chamber | an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles |
burial chamber sepulcher sepulchre sepulture | a chamber that is used as a grave |
chamber | a natural or artificial enclosed space |
chamber | a room where a judge transacts business |
cloud chamber Wilson cloud chamber | apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor, each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track |
crematory crematorium cremation chamber | a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes |
cylinder piston chamber | a chamber within which piston moves |
double boiler double saucepan | two saucepans, one fitting inside the other |
echo chamber | an enclosed space for producing reverberation of a sound |
electric furnace | any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current |
firing chamber gun chamber | chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge |
furnace | an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. |
furnace lining refractory | lining consisting of material with a high melting point, used to line the inside walls of a furnace |
furnace room | a room (usually in the basement of a building) that contains a furnace for heating the building |
gas chamber death chamber | instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced, used to kill people or animals |
gas furnace | a furnace that burns gas |
hyperbaric chamber | a large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere, used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning |
ionization chamber ionization tube | a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation |
kettle boiler | a metal pot for stewing or boiling, usually has a lid |
lock lock chamber | enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level, used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it |
oil burner oil furnace | a furnace that burns oil |
open-hearth furnace | a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it |
presence chamber | room in which a monarch or other great person receives guests, assemblies, etc. |
resonator cavity resonator resonating chamber | a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves |
reverberatory furnace | a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace |
solar dish solar collector solar furnace | a concave mirror that concentrates the rays of the sun, can produce high temperatures |
spark chamber spark counter | an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles |
Stassano furnace electric-arc furnace | an electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel |
supply chamber | a mechanical device for holding something and supplying it as needed |
tank furnace | furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained |
torture chamber | a room in which torture is inflicted |
vacuum chamber | a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed |
chamber | an enclosed volume in the body, the chambers of his heart were healthy |
chamber music | serious music performed by a small group of musicians |
chamber orchestra | small orchestra, usually plays classical music |
chamber | a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly, the upper chamber is the senate |
chamber of commerce | an association of businessmen to protect and promote business interests |
Star Chamber | a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments |
combustion burning | a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light |
internal combustion | the combustion of fuel inside a cylinder (as in an internalombustion engine) |
spontaneous combustion | ignition of a substance (as oily rags) resulting from an internal oxidation process |
combustion | a state of violent disturbance and excitement, combustion grew until revolt was unavoidable |