basal body temperature method of family planning basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
coal car | freight car with fixed sides and no roof, for transporting coal |
coal chute | a chute for coal |
coal house | a shed for storing coal |
coal mine coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
coal shovel | a hand shovel for shoveling coal |
fire tongs coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
temperature | the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) |
absolute temperature | temperature measured on the absolute scale |
Curie temperature Curie point | the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic |
room temperature | the normal temperature of room in which people live |
basal body temperature basal temperature | body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything |
body temperature blood heat | temperature of the body, normally . F or C in humans, usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health |
coldness cold low temperature frigidity frigidness | the absence of heat, the coldness made our breath visible, come in out of the cold, cold is a vasoconstrictor |
hotness heat high temperature | the presence of heat |
temperature | the somatic sensation of cold or heat |
coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
coal seam | a seam of coal |
ember coal | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering |
coal miner collier pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
carbonization carbonisation | the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) |
cooling chilling temperature reduction | the process of becoming cooler, a falling temperature |
temperature change | a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes |
temperature unit | a unit of measurement for temperature |
standard temperature | exactly zero degrees centigrade |
temperature scale | a system of measuring temperature |
temperature gradient | change in temperature as a function of distance (especially altitude) |
anthracosis black lung black lung disease coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
charcoal wood coal | a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
coal gas | gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting |
kerosene kerosine lamp oil coal oil | a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
cannel coal | a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame |
coal | fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period |
anthracite anthracite coal hard coal | a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat |
bituminous coal soft coal | rich in tarry hydrocarbons, burns readily with a smoky yellow flame |
lignite brown coal wood coal | intermediate between peat and bituminous coal |
sea coal | pulverized bituminous coal, used as a foundry facing |
steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
creosote coal-tar creosote | a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar, used as a preservative for wood |
coal tar | a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal, coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds |
coal | take in coal, The big ship coaled |
coal | supply with coal |
char coal | burn to charcoal, Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything |
coal-black jet jet-black pitchy sooty | of the blackest black, similar to the color of jet or coal |
coal-fired coal-burning | fueled by burning coal, a coal-fired ship |